Marian, who was fuming with anger (literally), and Lilia, covered in bloody ice shards, were holding their heads and wailing in pain.
It turned out that Torina’s PvP skills were still sharp.
Even if she was a bit rusty, she could easily defeat the two junior sisters clinging to her.
After just a few exchanges, Torina had already won effortlessly.
“I told you so! Hahaha!” Lanifi laughed heartily.
“Mm-hmm, that’s more like it.”
For some reason, Anna-veil seemed very pleased, though it was unclear why.
The onlookers whistled, all eager spectators who enjoyed the spectacle.
(Keeping it to minor injuries, just painful enough, should be fine, right? Hmm…) Torina scanned the crowd and saw Milora watching, covering her mouth slightly, looking a bit cute.
(Oh right, this is a great opportunity to win Milora’s favor! These two idiots bullied her for so long before, and now they shamelessly come back for more.
I’ll help her vent her anger!) With this thought, she cleared her throat, sheathed her sword, and looked down at the two defeated opponents with her hands on her hips.
“So, do you admit defeat?”
“Ugh…”
“Damn it…”
“Feeling unwilling? Feeling sad? Hahaha! This is karma!”
Her expression and tone perfectly matched the term “villainous,” like an evil stepmother from a fairy tale, very punchable.
“You two! Filthy creatures, even worse than lice, dare to disrespect such a noble and beautiful soul? Mere fireflies challenging the bright moon?”
The “noble and beautiful soul” and “bright moon” referred to Milora, as she was flattering Milora, but to others, it sounded like she was praising herself.
(Villainess…)(Villainess indeed…)(She’s a bad woman…)(And very narcissistic…)(I want to lick her shoes…) The bystanders whispered, but Torina didn’t hear any of it.
She was having a blast with her verbal barrage, and it was even more fun when she was on the moral high ground.
“Trash, trash, filthy trash, go back to your garbage bin.
Don’t let me see you again, and don’t let me hear about you doing bad things again, trash.”
Torina waved her hand, and the cold wind from the ice rune blew them away like garbage, but—
“Ugh—this is too much!!!!”
“Whoa oh oh oh oh oh oh oh!!!!”
At that moment, time seemed to freeze.
Marian and Lilia suddenly let out a protagonist-like roar from a shonen manga, and a Super Saiyan-like aura burst from them! Their power and killing intent skyrocketed, strong, strong, strong, strong, strong!
“…Huh?”
“What’s going on?”
“Wasn’t the fight over?”
“What are they doing…”
The onlookers were baffled, while Marian’s rock magic pulled rocks from the ground, forming armor around her, turning her into a more than three-meter-tall, fierce-looking rock golem! Meanwhile, Lilia, holding dual swords, chanted something, and pure wind elements emanated from her, enveloping her in the golem’s stone armor, combining the two in a comical manga-like way!
The crowd was stunned by this scene.
Although it looked a bit ridiculous, the powerful pressure emanating from the golem was real!
Torina was also dumbfounded.
Then, she quickly realized and thought to herself: (Hey, hey, hey, are they serious!?)
As mentioned before, the original author temporarily gave the original teammates a bunch of enhancement patches to make the protagonist’s return more exciting, and Marian and Lilia were no exception.
Their family inherited a special skill that allowed them to enhance each other in times of crisis, essentially stepping on each other’s feet to reach the sky, in layman’s terms—Fusion! Transformation! Hen! Shin!
This cheat skill was supposed to be used mid-story against the protagonist, but they were using it now!?
““Prepare to die, Torina Deville!!!”” Their voices were completely synchronized!
“Hey, isn’t this cheat supposed to be used against the protagonist when they return to dominate? Why are you using it against me, the team leader!?”
““Fall to our friendship, effort, passion, and bonds!!””
“Do you think you’re in a shonen manga—ah, ouch!?”
The golem struck like lightning, grabbing Torina in one swift move!
(So fast!!)
It was infused with wind elements, completely contradicting its clumsy appearance! The translucent white gauze on Torina’s body burst with dazzling electric light, but the rock was a natural counter to lightning elements, causing almost no damage!
““Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh!!!”” The golem let out a dual-layered roar, charging forward like a rugby player, crashing through the inn, the neighboring pharmacy, the flower bed outside the pharmacy, and then—spinning 360 degrees, throwing Torina like a baseball, crashing into the outer wall of the garden town!
“Gah—”
Torina saw stars.
Her ears were filled with ringing noise.
The massive impacts ravaged her bones and internal organs.
Her clothes, though protected by runes, couldn’t withstand such a battering.
Moreover, her head wasn’t armored, and it wasn’t just a concussion issue; she felt like her skull was shattered, and her brain matter was splattered.
Barely ten days after awakening her past life’s memories, was she going to reincarnate again—
“—Oh, I’m not dead?”
She suddenly came to her senses, crawling out of the rubble of bricks and tiles! The excruciating pain coursed through her nerves, but inexplicably, she wasn’t injured!? Why?
At this moment, the mosaic on the first skill under the “Corporate Slave” section in her job panel disappeared, and she finally saw the skill name.—
(…’Corporate Slave Doesn’t Die from Overtime’?)
What the hell?
““Yeeeeeeeeeart!!!”” The golem’s strange cry interrupted her thoughts, and as she looked up—a descending punch from the golem landed on her! Enough to turn a person into minced meat!
Extremely painful.
But she still didn’t die.
Her health bar didn’t decrease.
What decreased was something called the corporate slave gauge.
““Die, die, die, die, die, die, die!!”” The golem’s next punch sent her airborne, and then it unleashed a merciless aerial combo! Torina fluttered like a willow in the wind, but her health bar didn’t drop; only the corporate slave gauge did!
For some reason, amidst the dizzying blows, Torina heard a mysterious BGM Standing here~ I realize~ You are just like me~
“Die you piece of shit!!!!”
Boom!!!!!!!
A powerful punch sent Torina flying, embedding her into the wall, turning her into a mysterious abstract painting—
Crack!
However, in the blink of an eye, the golem, which had opened its guard due to its stance, realized—Torina’s swift sword was lodged in the crevice of its stone surface.
““What the…?””
And Torina, embedded in the wall, extended her hand and snapped her fingers lightly—
“ᚦᚨᚺᚻᛜᛝ (Ice Thunder Spear)”
The sword glowed with runic light, and frozen lightning erupted from within the golem, spreading like vines and piercing through it.
