NOVEL NEXT Chapter 12: chapter 11 Blast to the past part 8
Katsu is surprised how she is here, but seeing her occasionally looking at a viceroy in the noble seat leisurely drinking wine, watching her with a nasty grin, Katsu realizes and commands the Dark Magic Girl to tell Natala Chelsea's situation and go easy on her. Hearing his teacher, he sighed before slowly walking to her. Despite trying her best not to look intimidated, she is still scared and not moving. Her knife has long been dropped to the ground. She wanted to surrender, but something or someone is making her not to. He lowers his voice enough for only her to hear, "If you want to escape your fate, then come with us when the time is right." And with his message converted, he uses the naginata hard spot to knock her out.
The crowd is clearly disappointed that the battle is too easy. Even the viceroy frowns and mumbles something about how unlucky he is not to meet a cruel killer to watch her being tortured.
Next is Cornelia and a young girl with long dark grey hair and lime eyes holding a katana, which Katsu identifies as Taeko, but if she is here, then that woman is here too. Katsu scans the audience and immediately spots the woman who is in her mid-forties and wearing purple clothes and a purple hat, blending in with the crow. here. Taeko has been trained into an assassination when she nfant by a group of hired assassins in Oarburgh. There is no way they will let her go to this place by herself if there isn't any protection, and this place is the best place to find good seeds to train new members for their clan, so they may already have their eyes on his children.
If they are eyeing his children, then they should be ready for their children to be taken.
"I may have to create chaos if I want to bring them safely back home." He sighs before looking at Cornelia's battle with Taeko.
Taeko now has the upper hand since all her techniques are the nemesis of Cornelia, making her completely passive since she can't counterattack. Taeko's ability to completely block Cornelia's ability to fight back made her have a hard time, but she didn't give up as she has another trick that Katsu taught her.
The sudden change in Cornelia's fighting style completely caught her off guard from the usual parry attack she had seen as her attack speed suddenly increased, but her attack didn't do any damage as it lacked power. Taeko is sure that Cornelia did something to her body despite not feeling any pain from her attacks. Every time she attacks, her body becomes even stiffer, almost as if she is slowly paralyzed. Realizing the horror of her opponent, she tries to end her battle fast by utilizing all her tricks.
Their battle becomes more intense as Taeko moves almost instantly to Cornelia's location without leaving a trace and each of her slashes carries gusts of air that sometimes almost slices Cornelia in half if not for her fighting style change to cope with her. Cornelia has her difficulties as not only does she have to defend herself, she also needs to have a lot of focus to completely control her strength so she can use Katsu pressure points. This wears down her mentality and stamina very fast, but thanks to it, Taeko is slowly weakened by her hand. In the end, with many cut marks on Cornelia's body, she succeeded in paralyzing Taeko, but she also fainted because of bleeding too much and consuming too much mental strength.
The result ended with a tie, shocking the audience as a tie rarely happens in a fight and the only person betting on it was Katsu himself.
With a pile of gold coins like a mountain, he may be blocked by the staff when he gets out, but at the moment, they don't have any action as he didn't leave, and they doubt he can even bring all of that money out, but they will regret their decision soon.