The Villainous Noble Who Kept Rewinding After Death: The Story Somehow Changed When I Committed Suicide

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The Villainous Noble Who Kept Rewinding After Death: The Story Somehow Changed When I Committed Suicide

Episode 119: Evolution

“It’s a waste to even use magic power for so many layers of barrier spells.”

Lewis returned from Shuvina’s side to just near the poisonous mist of the Hydra, reducing the barrier magic he had cast on himself to just one. He used fire magic to cauterize the torn section of his left arm, where blood continued to flow.

“This should do for now.”

Confirming that the bleeding in his left arm had stopped, Lewis slowly walked towards the mist.

“The poison is seeping into the barrier even more than before. This certainly isn’t going to hold long. But… that’s great!!”

Despite his body being even more poisoned than before, Lewis smiled cheerfully and charged straight towards the Hydra without hesitation.

Seeing Lewis appear before it, the Hydra glared at him as an enemy and attempted to attack him with poisonous spheres and bites.

“Ha ha!! I saw that one before!”

However, since Lewis had chosen to engage the Hydra in a war of attrition, the Hydra’s attacks, which lacked variety, were perfectly read by Lewis.

Nevertheless, the Hydra, bearing the pride of a monster, relentlessly attacked Lewis using its many heads, giving him no chance to rest, while Lewis’s body rapidly eroded from the poison within.

“Cough…”

Lewis, whose lungs were mostly invaded by poison, inadvertently coughed up blood but continued to dodge the Hydra’s attacks without stopping.

“Tsk. I can’t get close like this. It can’t be helped. ‘Acceleration!'”

Realizing he would die if things continued like this, Lewis used space-time magic to instantly move right in front of the Hydra.

“Ha!”

Startled by Lewis suddenly appearing before it, the Hydra froze in surprise, and Lewis swung down his Ignido with all his might using one hand.

“Gyaaa!!”

“Ha ha!! How about that! My space-time magic! Are you surprised?!”

The “acceleration” Lewis used wasn’t like a physical enhancement that increases muscle strength and speed; it actually intervened with time itself, making it so that it was not Lewis who was accelerating, but time itself. To the opponent, it felt as if time had jumped forward by several seconds.

However, the effect of the acceleration was immense but came at a cost, placing a heavy burden on the brain. Depending on how long or frequently it was used, there was a high risk of the brain being unable to handle it and dying.

“My vision is looking a bit red.”

Lewis said, placing a hand on his cheek, realizing that blood from his eye was trickling down.

“Tsk. Even just those few seconds, my brain couldn’t completely process it.”

Lewis grasped the current situation accurately but had no intention of stopping the use of acceleration. He continued to use it multiple times to inflict damage on the Hydra.

“Ha, ha… cough! cough!”

But it was Lewis who first dropped to a knee. His body, already in tatters due to the toxic mist and the burden from the space-time magic, was in a state so precarious it was a miracle he was still alive.

“Damn it. I wanted to enjoy this more.”

With the Hydra’s magical power also diminishing, it was already fully committed to killing Lewis, and its body was covered with scales torn away, with cuts and burns making it far from the confident creature it once was.

And then, the Hydra, still towering over the kneeling Lewis, opened its mouth wide, preparing to deliver a death blow by biting down hard.

“Ugh! …Fiera?”

However, just as Lewis was about to be bitten to death by the Hydra, Fiera, who had been supporting Lewis by throwing rocks and such, dashed in and pulled him away from the poisonous mist, bringing him close to Shuvina.

“Fiera! What was that unnecessary move!?”

Though Lewis was grateful for Fiera’s rescue, his anger flared because the fight against the Hydra had been interrupted, leading him to unintentionally yell at her.

“Lewis. You can’t die now. If you die now, you’ll miss the last chance to achieve your goal. Are you okay with that?”

“What are you talking about…?”

When Lewis calmed down enough to look at Fiera, he noticed that her usually purple eyes had turned golden, radiating an almost divine pressure.

“No way, it’s… Aurience.”

“Yes. But there’s no time for details, so I’ll be brief. I won’t stop you from fighting without fearing death and enjoying the battle itself.

But if you truly die, you’ll miss the last chance to break away from your current fate, and you will never be able to die again.

It might be a harsh reality for someone who enjoys the thrill of possibly dying, but you can’t die yet. You have to survive the impending times first. Then, your wishes will be granted.”

“What is this impending time you speak of?”

“I’m not allowed to say yet. After you enter the academy, make sure to visit the great cathedral in the Holy Nation. I’ll tell you then. Ugh… It seems I’m reaching my limit.

Lastly, I know everything about your past. I know how deeply you’ve been hurt… but please, just believe in this girl. She’s here for you…”

“…Huh? What do you mean by that?”

“Hehe. You’ll understand soon enough. Now, Lewis, take care. See you again.”

With those words, Aurience seemed to depart from Fiera’s body, causing her to slump weakly towards Lewis.

“Fiera is dead? What does that mean?”

Lewis reflected on Aurience’s final words as he gazed at the collapsed figure of Fiera.

“No, thinking about that now isn’t going to help. I need to figure out the Hydra.”

“Lewis! Is Fiera okay?!”

Lewis laid Fiera down on the ground and turned to Shuvina, who had approached them, concerned for Fiera.

“Fiera is fine. More importantly, I have a request.”

“A request?”

“Yeah. When I give the signal, use Dōna’s power to stop the Hydra’s movements. In that time, I’ll finish it off.”

“…Got it. What’s the signal?”

Lewis was a bit surprised that Shuvina was focused on the signal instead of trying to stop him, and he turned to look at her instead of the Hydra.

“You won’t stop me, then?”

“Is that even a question? No matter how many times you try to stop me, you’d never give up heading into danger, and besides, you look like you’re having too much fun. There’s no way I’d manage to stop you.”

“I see.”

“So, what’s the signal?”

Upon being asked again about the signal, Lewis explained his plan and the signal to Shuvina before racing back toward the Hydra.

“Alright! Hydra! It’s the final showdown!! Let’s enjoy this with everything we’ve got!!”

With that, Lewis shouted at the Hydra and unleashed his attack using only fire magic and Ignido.

The Hydra, attempting again to deliver a decisive blow to Lewis, who looked like he might fall at any moment, retaliated with poisonous breath and stomping.

After several minutes of desperately trying to kill Lewis, the Hydra’s magical power finally ran dry, and its poisonous mist, a racial magic, began to gradually dissipate.

“Now’s the time!”

The moment Lewis saw the Hydra’s body emerge slightly from the mist, he fired a fireball into the air as a signal to Shuvina.

“It’s the signal! Dōna, I don’t mind if you take all my magic power. I’d even offer my life if necessary. So please, make it so that he can land the finishing blow!”

Summoning Dōna, Shuvina poured all her magical power into her, kneeling down with heavy breaths while struggling to maintain consciousness and not pass out.

“I can’t lose consciousness here or Dōna will disappear. I must hold on at all costs.”

With Shuvina pouring a vast amount of magical power into her, Dōna shone brightly, her form larger than normal, and the magic power pouring from her was akin to a high-level spirit.

“Shuvi. I’ll be fine from here. Dōna will help him.”

Dōna, now evolved into a high-level spirit, said and allowed Shuvina to take a break. Then, extending both arms towards the Hydra, she caused remarkably thick and sturdy roots to grow from the ground.

“You shall not continue to do as you please in our forest any longer!!”

Manipulating the roots, Dōna wrapped them tightly around the Hydra’s body and neck, securing it from moving.

“This is the end! ‘Dimension Slash’!!!”

“Gyaaaaaah!!!”

Using space-time magic, Lewis slashed with Ignido, and that single strike transcended dimensions, transforming into ten slashes that cleaved through all of the Hydra’s heads and body, ending its life.

Pant, pant…

Having exhausted his last bit of magical power, Lewis kneeled, using his sword for support, and once he confirmed the Hydra wouldn’t recover, he released his consciousness.

“Hehehe. What an extraordinary battle I witnessed. That boy is dangerous, but his companions will also become a threat to us in the future. Should we take care of them here, then?”

“Hey, demon lord. Do you think Dōna would allow that?”

Wool, who had solely been watching the battle until now and realized the danger presented by Lewis and his group, contemplated delivering the final blow. But first, Dōna used her vines to bind Wool.

“Hehehe. No way, I won’t do that! Spirits are genuinely frightening, aren’t they?”

Wool said that and vanished like mist, escaping the binds, reappearing near the Hydra to conduct some kind of dark task.

“With Hydra’s blood and scales, I’ll have more than enough. Until we meet again.”

With a menacing smile, Wool said that before disappearing, and Dōna’s detection magic lost sight of him as he moved outside of the Elf Nation.

“What a disgusting old man. More importantly, I need to take care of Eir and the others.”

The only one left in this scene, Dōna gathered the unconscious Lewis and the others into one spot and stood watch over them until they regained consciousness.