I Parry Everything: Volume 5 [Parts 1 to 8] by Nabeshiki

Author:Nabeshiki
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 98: Sigir’s Twin Blades

Titans of supreme power clashed in the sky above us: Noor, Rala, Ines, and their foe. The incessant, thunderous sounds of their battle shook the earth, creating fissures and cracks with each vibration. But even as our footing came apart beneath us, we desperately continued to fight.

Trapped within walls of stone and facing an infinite horde of monsters that threatened to overwhelm us, we had somehow managed to survive.

“[Hellflare]!”

Lynne hurled a massive fireball, purging a swathe of monsters. She had secured us a short moment to breathe, but nothing more than that; there really was no end to them. Even as we desperately cut into their numbers, each one we killed was replaced just as quickly. In fact, their ranks were swelling—almost as if responding to the emotions of the monstrosity in the sky.

Although the dungeon’s monsters physically resembled those found on the surface, they were creatures of an entirely separate kind. I’d tried to “speak” with them a number of times already, attempting to stop their movements, but they had no “hearts” that I could reach. Even though everyone was putting their all into the fight, my only options were to run and evade. I was still doing everything I could, though, diving into the monsters’ ranks again and again to lure their attention away from Lynne, Miranda, and the others who couldn’t move.

“Hey, kid,” a voice suddenly called out from behind me. “Your movements... What are you trying to accomplish?” It was Sigir of the Twelve Sacred Envoys—one of the people who had stayed to fight with us.

“Huh? I’m...running,” I replied. “Sorry. It’s the most I can do.”

“You’re deliberately charging into the horde, and you call that ‘running’? If you’re going to play the fool, then get to the back and stay there.”

“But...I’m being serious. Besides, I don’t think it’ll make much of a difference where I am.”

In the time we’d stopped to talk, a pack of monsters had come up behind us, ready to strike. I dodged their charge by leaping over them—and while they were focused on me, Sigir decapitated them with the pair of swords he was wielding.

“If you can move like that, kid, then why don’t you fight? Where’s your weapon? Did you lose it?”

“I don’t have one. That is, I can’t use one.”

“What do you mean?”

I rolled my sleeve back, revealing the bandages wrapped around my arm. Here and there, countless scars peeked through the gaps between them, almost forming a pattern.

“Are those...old wounds?”

Sigir seemed to catch on quickly. Because of the torment I’d endured since I was small, the strength in my hands was no better than that of a child. It wasn’t that much of an obstacle in my everyday life, but the old and deep damage done to my muscles meant I couldn’t carry as much weight as a normal person. There wasn’t even a chance that my body would one day recover; according to Sain, the Sovereign of Salvation, it considered its current state to be natural, so trying to heal the damage by force would only make it worse.

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