Volume 5, Chapter 38 – A Slightly Real Loli Warrior?

“Weakening my strength? No… little one, you’re absorbing my power?”

The Fortress Emperor quickly noticed the changes occurring on both his body and Tianyin’s.

“Well, who knows if that’s really the case?”

Indeed, the Fortress Emperor had already guessed that Tianyin was using the power of Original Sin, but out of a mischievous sense of humor, Tianyin did not say out loud that this was the power of the Seven Original Sins. On the contrary, she even tried to fob Fortress Emperor off with ambiguous words.

“Do you think if you don’t admit it I won’t see it? But little one, this ability is indeed terrifying, but there’s no way it can stay effective forever, right?”

“Who can say?”

Tianyin’s purple eyes were wide open, an inexplicable smile on her face.

“Since you’re saying it like that, little one, that means there’s a good chance it does? If that’s the case…”

As his voice fell, the aura around the Fortress Emperor grew even stronger.

“Then I just need to defeat you as fast as possible.”

And as soon as the Fortress Emperor finished speaking, attacks like a raging storm came in succession.

Of course, the Fortress Emperor was not faster than Tianyin, so no matter how violent his stormlike attacks became, Tianyin could still block them with ease.

The problem was that in terms of raw strength as well as combat technique and experience, the Fortress Emperor towered over Tianyin.

So Tianyin, who was being completely crushed in that regard, could block the attacks Fortress Emperor launched, but while enduring those attacks she was also being forced to bear Fortress Emperor’s freakish power.

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“Wuu… I can’t fight him head-on.”

While withstanding the Fortress Emperor’s attacks, Tianyin instantly came to the judgment that she could not match him in a straight fight.

Once that judgment formed, Tianyin also planned to quickly break away from the Fortress Emperor’s assaults.

However, the Fortress Emperor saw through Tianyin’s idea at once.

“Little one, when you’re fighting a powerful enemy you mustn’t let the thought of running away appear.”

“Wuu…”

Even though Tianyin used her speed advantage to pull open the distance between them, the Fortress Emperor clung to her like a shadow and kept right on her heels.

“Aaah… why is he still able to keep chasing me even though I’m faster than him…”

Chased so closely by the Fortress Emperor, Tianyin could not help grumbling in her heart.

「Pfft… Xiaoyin, this isn’t the time for complaining. If you don’t hurry and think of a way, you’re going to lose next~」

『Uu, I-I don’t want that!』

Tianyin knew in her heart the gap between herself and the Fortress Emperor, but even so, she still felt a surge of unwillingness to just accept defeat like this.

While Tianyin’s thoughts were still in turmoil, the Fortress Emperor, who had been pursuing her from behind all along, began guiding thunder power to bombard her.

“Ah… seriously, I’m not afraid of thunder power right now!”

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The method Fortress Emperor used to hinder her left Tianyin a bit helpless. Although thunder power posed almost no threat to someone like her who possessed Gluttony, she was still annoyed, since being obstructed by that thunder power would definitely slow her down.

And once her speed dropped, the Fortress Emperor would naturally be able to catch up.

“Little one, a true warrior has to go through countless brushes with death. If all you ever think about is taking shortcuts instead of facing danger head-on, you’ll never grasp the essence of battle…”

While Tianyin was panicking inside, the Fortress Emperor’s voice suddenly came from behind her.

Hearing the Fortress Emperor’s words, Tianyin’s expression paused for a moment.

“Only after going through situations where you almost die again and again can you be considered a real warrior…”

No one knew whether it was because something came to Tianyin’s mind or because Fortress Emperor’s words took effect, but after she murmured that to herself, her rapidly moving figure slowly came to a halt.

“A real battle… Wuu… so that means I can’t run away…”

“And I can’t back down either.”

In the end, Tianyin, who had stopped running, slowly turned around to face the Fortress Emperor, who had also come to a stop.

“I understand now, I understand… what a real battle is…”

The sword in her hand pointed at the Fortress Emperor, and in his eyes Tianyin’s gaze had become especially firm.

“Interesting…”

The Fortress Emperor let out a low chuckle and in the very next instant Tianyin began swinging her sword at him.

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In the end.

Although in this battle Tianyin learned how to use the Gluttony of the Seven Original Sins to weaken the Fortress Emperor, she was still no match for the battle-hardened Fortress Emperor.

Of course, although Tianyin lost this time, she did at least somewhat understand what the Fortress Emperor truly wanted to teach her.

Battle.

It was not just about thinking up every method to defeat the enemy. At the same time, you had to have a heart that would not retreat and did not fear strong foes.

Fearless, unafraid.

That was what the Fortress Emperor wanted to teach Tianyin.

Well, although this was all just Tianyin’s own guess, she herself felt that what she had grasped was more or less what the Fortress Emperor had been trying to convey…

The Fortress Emperor had no idea that because of his teaching, Tianyin’s fighting style had slowly changed from the timid one that always avoided the enemy’s edge at the slightest disagreement into one that charged straight ahead and went head-on the moment something did not sit right with her.

Of course it was not only her understanding of battle. In this fight Tianyin also, for the first time, truly realized the other uses of the Original Sin power.

For example, Gluttony’s devouring.

『Samael, since Gluttony’s power has the trait of devouring other existences and making them its own, then what kind of traits do the other Original Sin powers have?』

So after the battle, once she discovered the effect Gluttony’s trait had brought her, Tianyin could not wait and immediately asked Samael about the traits of the Original Sin powers.

And faced with Tianyin’s question, Samael had no wish to hide anything from her.

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「As for the traits of the Seven Original Sins, aside from Wrath I only know them in broad strokes, and if it is Original Sin power that does not exist within you, Xiaoyin, since I have never come into contact with it, I am not all that clear either.」

『Eh… so that’s how it is…』

Tianyin was a little disappointed.

『Then at least you have some idea of the traits of the Original Sin powers I currently possess, right, Samael?』

Of course, although Tianyin was disappointed, Samael had not directly said she did not understand the Original Sin powers, so Tianyin still felt a bit of anticipation toward Samael’s next answer.

「Well, it is actually nothing much.」

In her mind, Samael’s voice slowly sounded in response to Tianyin’s question.

「Xiaoyin, as for Wrath I will not bother explaining. In that last battle with the Black Dragon King you understood it well enough, and Gluttony, you more or less have a grasp on it now too… as for Greed…」

At that point Samael’s voice became a little uncertain.

「To be honest I have not figured out what Greed’s power really does… but if I have to force an explanation… it should be… something like the effect of a grievous wound…」

『A grievous wound?』

Tianyin was slightly taken aback.