Reincarnated Young Lady Aims to Be an Adventurer - Volume 8 Chapter 130

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Maribelle sneezed in her customized pink uniform was soaked from head to toe. “W-wait,” she said, “How dare you! Clean! Huh, clean won’t staff was left unused. I guessed it was just for show. While Maribelle was fretting, Eris readied her sword again. 

Dry me off? Useless!”

Her sparkling 

Miyu instantly surrounded Eris in a thin veil of water and wrapped her holy sword with surging water, as well. Eris slashed through the spire of water with her sword tip and brought a razor-sharp blade of water down upon Maribelle and Tarl with pinpoint precision.

“Tarlknight! Protect us!” Maribelle commanded. Tarl advanced in front of Maribelle and defended against the water razor. As always, it held, as an iron wall.

“Lightning should take care of this water! Go!” Maribelle said, firing high-level lightning magic without incantations.

“I won’t be hit with lightning magic from the likes of you!!!” Miyu said. There’s no way Miyu would forget about how Papa Dragon took the same attack. Miyu quickly conjured a wall of water 1 meter thick between herself and Maribelle. 

Maribelle’s lightning attack hit the wall and… conducted into the ground. 

“Why! Why didn’t it pierce through?” Maribelle cried out, bewildered.

“I see.” Lu said to me.

“Lu, can you explain?”

“It’s because that’s pure water. Water like that with no impurities barely conducts electricity.”

“Really?”

“And only holy beasts can make pure water that easily. Standard, commonplace water always has junk dissolved into it, and so conducts electricity well. Miyu has thought this through.”

Amazing, Miyu! Miyu has herself covered in reflective magic, so she should be able to bounce away an attack like that, anyway, but Eris is with her, after all. 

Maribelle was continually conjuring up a high-level fire, earth, and water magic. However, none of it could contend with Miyu’s wall of pure water. The four elemental magics along with healing… she used textbook magic by the book and nothing else. 

She didn’t use any creative magic like anything Schneider and I could come up with. It was evidence that she had lived such a privileged life. She had never experienced desperate situations like we had. 

Miyu exhaled, and blew forth a plume of purple breath! 

“Kyah!” Maribelle yelped and coughed. Tarl was surrounded in a haze, too, and his movement slowed!

Sister Eris suddenly leaped down from above.

With a sword imbued with rapidly swirling water, Eris swung at Tarl’s neck. Tarl, whose head couldn’t move normally because of the poison, retracted it into his shell. Eris’s sword attack took advantage of this moment! Tarl’s legs buckled. He had taken damage.

The returning swing of the blade then slashed at Maribelle! From her right shoulder down to the pit of her stomach!

The attack was, naturally, with the back edge of the sword.

Maribelle crouched. Coughing roughly, she said, “Why, why would an attack even land on me? I’m the country’s best magic student, you know? Why is Tarlknight so weak? This hurts! Crap! …Huh? The pain is gone, but I can’t raise my right arm!?”

Tarl was certainly not weak. The two of them just couldn’t cooperate well. But there was no helping that. Between Maribelle and Tarl, there was no “contract” or even “defined roles”. All there was a request from Schneider to help Maribelle.

But still…

“Is my healing not working?” Maribelle asked.

“No, it’s working,” Miyu replied, “All of your pain and wounds have been fully treated. However, Eris dislocated your shoulder and cut the tendons. That magic… it has the power to heal but doesn’t know how to rebuild. You can use impressive healing magic, but you have a lack of experience. How unfortunate.”

Maribelle went ahead with detoxifying her own body while bickering to herself. She didn’t apply the antidote to Tarl, though… Only herself. This was exactly why she came up short in actual battles.

It’s likely that Tarl has self-restoration powers, but rather than waiting for those to work, it would be more efficient to quickly give him an antidote. After all, leaving the cornerstone of their defense sluggish even for a moment is a fatal mistake, right?

And even more than that, usually, you would heal your teammate if you have the ability to. Isn’t that just common etiquette?

“They aren’t teammates,’ Miyu said, “Maribelle’s relationship to other people is one of herself and her servants. Heroine and minor characters. That’s all.”[Read this novel and other amazing translated novels from the original source at the “Novel Multiverse dot com” website @ novelmultiverse.com]

In contrast, our side’s Sister Eris and Miyu cooperated seamlessly! They don’t have a contract, so they can’t exchange words, you know? Eye contact only. They mutually trusted each other… better yet, you could tell that they loved each other. Without question, these two were allies.

“Would you like to surrender now?” Eris asked, flatly, while walking over to Maribelle.

“I’m a heroine! I literally can’t lose!”

“A legend’s protagonist having setbacks are the spice of a story, no?”

“I’m telling you to act like you’re in ‘Yaba Kimi’!” You’re not even in the Mob!”

Maribelle finally stood up. From her body rose an evil shadow of dark emotion. An evil chill filled the air.

“It’s a curse!” Asu shouted. The holy beasts didn’t let it get near, but Eris!!! Oh no! It was too close to her!

All at once, Eris was consumed by the fiendish shadow.

“Aaggh…” Eris’s face paled and she fell to her knees.

“Eris-san!!!”

“Eris!!!”

“Holy Woman!!!”

“Eris-chan!!!” Miyu’s pupils shined with magic, but she muttered, “What is this curse…too tough…this is bad.”

You could see panic in Miyu. “Damn!” she cried.

Lu was glaring intensely at Maribelle from my shoulder! But…nothing seemed to be changing.

I yelled loudly, “Maribelle! You were the one who called for rules for a safe fight! Are you going to kill her!? We only ever struck with the backs of swords! You’re breaking the rules! Stop this!”

“Shut up!” Maribelle said, “You’re of Mob status! Anyone who gets in my way should obviously be snuffed out!”

Schneider spoke up, “…Maribelle, why don’t we call this a win for you and end this?” 

“What are you talking about?” Maribelle continued, “You’re always talking down at me and whining, whining, whining. They injured my shoulder, you know? That’s clearly unforgivable!”

Eris had a hand to her neck and was panting and coughing with her eyes shut. What do we do?! I can’t undo curses…

“Eris-chan! No!” Miyu said, “Damn it, this curse is too strong!!!”

Eris quietly collapsed.

“Eriiisss!!!” a voice called out.

Suddenly, a pillar of light from beneath Eris shot up towards the heavens!

And there was a pillar of light behind me, too! When I turned around with Lu, I saw the light was coming from… Sasara’s left hand!

Ah… It was Alma’s gold ring!

Eris had fallen to the brink of death. That had been, for Sasara, like nearing the brink of death herself. They were as close as friends could get, after all. Which is why she had taken action.

The two pillars of light rose high into the sky, twisted together, and with an intense speed, came back down to the earth’s surface. It had shaped itself into a massive spear and plummeted straight down at Maribelle!!! Maribelle watched the light coming down on her in a daze.

A blinding flash of light! A thunderous sound of impact!!!

“Gyaaahh!!!” Maribelle cried.

The spear, shining white, pierced through Maribelle and pushed her into the ground. As her body collapsed and her strength gave out… she dispersed into the atmosphere.

“Eris!!!” Sasara ran up from behind me, with a ghastly expression overtaking her face.

Sasara, in defiance of the black curse shrouding Eris, ran through it and picked up Eris, who had fallen face down on the ground, and held her up on her knees.

“Eris! Eris!”

She removed the black cape fastened around Eris’s neck and began pushing on her chest, pumping her breath in and out. Slapping her face, crying, and then caressing her cheek, Sasara hugged her closely. 

“Eris, you fool! Open your eyes!!!” Sasara yelled.

“Noooo! Eris-san!!!” Alma’s agonized screams could be heard in the stands.

“Holy Woman!”

“Eris-sama!”

The battlefield became surrounded by screams.

I made an error of judgment. “What have I… done…” I said aloud.

“Sera…” Lu said.

Even though Maribelle had been red hot in rage. Even though I knew she was unpredictable. Even though I had lost grandmother to Maribelle’s curse!

“Was I yet again… unable to protect a loved one?” I asked.

Why did I let Eris go? I’m the evil young woman! Eris had nothing to do with this! Just because she, just because she involved herself with someone like me! I was the one who meddled in Eris’s fate!

“It’s my… fault…” I said.

I had turned fully arrogant at some point, thinking that I would be able to save her if things started to go wrong. I was convinced that I could intervene in time. I put Eris, who so many people loved, in danger’s way. I took Eris away from all of them.

“It should have been me… who died…” I said. If only I had accepted my fated scenario…[Read this novel and other amazing translated novels from the original source at the “Novel Multiverse dot com” website @ novelmultiverse.com]