How To Suck Honey With Extras [EN]: Chapter 164

183. ‘Did you get him?’ is Always Followed by Trouble (2)

“Kyak! Human. You dare crawl all the way in here!”

It cried out in a truly noisy and hideous voice, displaying wariness and hostility.

“Kyak?! You intend to interfere with our long-cherished wish until the very end?”

Sylvester frowned deeply at the words of the unknown bird-headed demon.

“Long-cherished wish?”

What nonsense.

He even suspected that the backlash from forcibly staying on the ground had caused the reversed magic to invade its head.

Or maybe it was just a bird-brain, as it appeared.

However, it might be an opportunity to obtain information.

Suppressing his personal feelings, Sylvester subtly pointed the tip of his sword at the summoning circle.

“A long-cherished wish… are you talking about that summoning circle?”

“Kyak! That is not a place for you to point with your filthy sword! Remove it at once!”

“Aha~ Then I definitely won’t remove it.”

Sylvester sneered and mercilessly extended his sword energy, swinging it towards the demon as if lightly scratching it.

“…Keugh?!”

The demon staggered, unable to properly withstand even the light sword energy, and suffered a sword wound.

‘Its power is nothing special.’

It was probably using a lot of power to maintain the ritual site.

If so, it wouldn’t be difficult.

“Alnix, I’d like you to deal with that demon.”

“I don’t really mind, but is that okay?”

Alnix, who seemed to be itching for action and was seizing the timing to jump in, tilted his head.

“I thought you were the type who wouldn’t yield when it came to killing demons, if nothing else?”

“I will focus on interpreting and destroying the summoning circle.”

Doing both would be challenging.

Judging from the demon’s condition, it was already half-dead, so Alnix alone could handle it.

Meanwhile, Sylvester intended to quickly attempt to destroy the summoning circle.

“Kyak! You think I’ll let you!”

Naturally, the demon reacted nervously and lunged at Sylvester.

However, Sylvester no longer glanced at the demon.

As if there was nothing more for him to be involved in.

Instead, it was Alnix’s solid fist that blocked the demon’s charge.

“Where do you think you’re going? If you have something to say, I’ll listen. Come here!”

Thud!

A heavy fist dug in, crushing half of the demon’s face.

The sound of bones and flesh being crushed overlapped as the demon was sent flying into the wall.

“Oh~ This guy definitely doesn’t seem like much. Weak, weak!”

Alnix dusted off his fist and raised the corner of his lips.

“Well, I don’t particularly have a grudge against demons or anything, but I should probably take care of it properly.”

The smile disappeared, and his eyes turned cold.

He must have decided to deal with it seriously.

“Kyak! How laughable! A mere human!”

The demon trembled with humiliation and spread its wings, charging forward.

“Ha!”

However, its waist was bent by Alnix’s kick, and then an elbow slammed down on its nape.

Crack!

A refreshing sound of something breaking echoed.

The demon had to roll around, making a bizarre screech like a bird screaming.

Even while watching that miserable sight, Alnix frowned.

“If it were a human, those would all be vital points, but they don’t seem to work well on demons. Or maybe they don’t even have the concept of vital points.”

It’s surprisingly not dying.

Then he had no choice but to crush it more thoroughly.

“Is a fist not enough?”

He quickly took out two stick-like objects from his waist and unfolded them as if he was used to it.

The connecting parts meshed together, and the blade unfolded, creating a simple spear.

“Then, I don’t want to, but I’ll have to use this.”

Originally, his family was a prestigious family that produced skilled knights for generations.

Of course, Alnix could handle most swords and weapons.

In fact, he was stronger when he held a weapon.

However, he usually didn’t hold weapons, using his personal preference and resentment towards his family as an excuse.

Alnix decided to put aside that stubbornness for now.

“Where…”

As Alnix’s spear lightly spun one and a half times, the demon’s wings were lightly cut off.

“Good. It seems to listen, even if it’s a demon… It’s a bit tough, though.”

“Kyak! How dare you!”

Perhaps feeling humiliated by those words, magic power rapidly poured out from the demon’s entire body.

This time, the demon used the magic power it emitted to block and push back Alnix’s spear.

It was clearly more powerful than before.

‘Is it a desperate struggle to raise it to the death? Or…’

However, it didn’t seem to be the former, at least.

A strange light of emotion lingered in the demon’s two eyes.

Not resignation, but madness.

That was the look it had when it was about to make a last-ditch effort.

‘It looks like it’s going to do something.’

He had no intention of letting it take out whatever it was.

Alnix tried to charge, but perhaps it was already too late, as the means the demon activated caused a phenomenon first.

The flowing magic power drew a magic circle, and a pure white arm popped out from within and struck Alnix.

Alnix blocked it by raising the spear shaft.

“…Are you planning to play with human bones again? Huh?”

This time, he raised his anger and swung his spear to cut off that arm.

Messily handling a part of the dead was an insult to the deceased.

Even if the opponent was a race that lived by principles different from those of humans, he had no intention of tolerating it.

He would destroy it in one go.

However, the spear that Alnix swung only scratched the surface of that pure white arm.

‘Damn it! What’s so hard about this?!’

And another magic circle unfolded, and a second arm popped out.

“Crap!”

This time, he was hit directly and rolled away.

He quickly rolled and used the momentum to bounce back up and regain his posture, a slight look of bewilderment on his face.

“This is…”

As if he finally realized the identity of the discomfort, he glared at the demon.

The offensive had been reversed.

“Kyak!! Serves you right!”

This time, the demon howled fiercely.

A third and fourth arm popped out in succession from the empty space.

Alnix chose evasion instead of defense.

Having understood that it was not something that could be easily cut or blocked, he had no intention of stubbornly taking it.

Alnix, who had dodged the pouring fists in succession, stretched out his spear again, but as expected, it only created light sparks and a faint scratch.

“…That’s not human bone, at least.”

“Khehehehe! Did you think it was just soft human bone! This is top quality! This is!”

“…Dragon bone.”

A low murmur was heard from behind Alnix, as if interrupting the demon’s words.

Soon, the sword energy that stretched out from behind him collided with the fists that were trying to strike Alnix again, deflecting their trajectory.

It was the sword energy that Sylvester had swung to help his comrade.

“…It’s definitely like a dragon’s bone. It’s not usually this hard.”

Dragon bone.

In other words, a dragon’s bone.

Sylvester mentioned the name of the creature just by the sensation of drawing his sword across it.

“…Dragon bone? Really? That’s it?”

“A long time ago, my master had his disciples try cutting it to show them. At least I remember that feeling.”

Moreover, the demon’s expression was gleaming with joy.

As if Sylvester’s guess was correct, the demon shouted loudly.

“Kyak! Correct! Human! Yes! Dragon bone, dragon booooone! We used materials that can’t even be compared to yours!”

Was it a common feeling for demons and humans alike to want to show off the toys they made?

Perhaps he could get some information, so Sylvester remained silent without deliberately arguing.

Perhaps it thought he was intimidated, the demon laughed even more wildly.

“…Dragon bone. I heard it’s hard to get these days.”

In fact, even in Sylvester’s time, he didn’t see dragons that often.

At best, his master would directly obtain a dragon’s corpse from somewhere to show his disciples the sensation of cutting dragon flesh, scales, and bones.

Moreover, he heard that it was even harder to obtain them in this era.

Although the number of dragons had decreased, they no longer set foot in human territories.

So perhaps dragons lived in the Demon Realm as well?

“Kyak! We haven’t obtained enough materials yet, so we can only make arms, but it’s easy to crush you!”

“…”

“Kyak! Go!”

As the demon flapped its wings, the four dragon arms covered Sylvester and Alnix, as if linked to its will.

The two had to divide the two arms on the left and right sides and face them separately.

“Keugh! It’s damn hard.”

Alnix gritted his teeth after swinging his spear several times.

He had already poured attacks into the same spot several times.

Yet, only faint scratches were appearing.

“…I can’t help it. Alnix, step back. I’ll deal with all of them.”

“Huh? What about the plan?”

“I’m changing it.”

Sylvester repeatedly examined his sword and the dragon bone arms that were attacking, and then gave instructions.

“Ugh?! Is that okay?! Even if it’s troublesome, shouldn’t we divide them up for now…?”

“…Never mind, step back. This requires a bit of finesse.”

In the end, Alnix obediently followed the instructions and jumped back.

The dragon arms chased after him as if they wouldn’t allow it, but they were pushed back by the sword energy that Sylvester swung.

“Kyak! You’re being arrogant! Human! You think you can cut a dragon’s bone?”

“As much as I want.”

Sylvester smiled confidently.

“I’ve been seeing your bottom line.”

It was a bluff.

The demon thought so and gave orders to all four arms at the same time.

“Kyak! Crush them! Dragon arms!”

The arms trembled lightly, as if they each had a will, and then rushed towards Sylvester.

The demon made a clicking sound from its beak, as if it was enjoying itself, and looked forward to the result.

However, it was only a few seconds later that the demon’s eyes shook in shock.

“…Kyak?!”

The dragon arms that had stretched out towards Sylvester were about to crush and tear apart the human.

They possessed such powerful force that even touching them would tear apart the bones of a mere human.

If it was just hard, there would be no need to specifically choose dragon bones to make them.

If it was a material with excellent strength, there would be plenty of others besides dragons.

What he paid attention to was the nature.

He even imbued them with the inherent ferocity they possessed.

However, that ferocious energy never reached Sylvester.

“…Hmph.”

The moment Sylvester took a breath, his sword struck exactly four times.

One strike for each arm.

And when his sword stopped as if there was no need to swing it anymore, the wrists were cut off and sent flying in different directions.

“…They’re more fragile than I thought.”

Sylvester quietly expressed his thoughts.

“I thought the texture was strange, but did you use the bones of a young dragon after all? Well, it would be difficult for someone like you to obtain the bones of a fully grown dragon.”

Even among dragons, the young ones would be relatively easier to deal with.

He was surprised at first, but if he calmly countered, he could manage somehow.

“See, your bottom line is revealed, right?”

As Sylvester pointed out as if he was dumbfounded, the demon screamed strangely and denied it.

“Kyak?! No way! Human! What kind of trick did you use!”

“What trick… I simply know a little finesse.”

Sylvester sighed quietly.

“Every object has a different trick to cutting it. Even if it’s a dragon’s bone, it doesn’t mean there’s no way to cut it.”

Even a single blade of grass has a different feel to cutting it depending on its type.

The sword of someone who does not master that and does not learn the trick will easily break, and their swordsmanship will not be able to overcome a certain wall.

It was the basics of the basics.

“Kyak! Stop talking nonsense! That’s sophistry!”

The demon dismissed Sylvester’s claim as absurd.

It was an absurd insistence.

But in reality, the dragon arms that it had been confident in had been smashed.

Sylvester pointed his sword at the demon, who was sweating after losing its trump card, the dragon arms.

“…What are you going to take out next? I don’t care what it is. Take it out if you can. Well, if you take out a living dragon, it might be a little difficult then.”

“Kyak…”

The demon took a step back.

The meaning of that action was clear.

“You don’t have anything? Then there’s nothing more to see.”

Sylvester raised his sword.

The blue light contained in the blade shone even more strongly.

“It’s over, demon.”

The moment Sylvester struck down, the blow containing that blue and countless sharpness split the demon in two.