Chapter 341: Drifting and Drifting!
Drift~
Drift, drift~~~
Thud—!
"Ah, that hurts…"
Edelweiss glanced at Luke, who had bumped into her, and said irritably,
"Drift a little that way. You hit me!"
At this moment, Luke and Edelweiss were quietly floating on the water.
The two of them, who no longer had the strength to move even a little, slowly drifted like two floating corpses at the center of the small lake created by Luke's final sword technique.
Feeling that Luke showed no sign of moving away and was instead drifting closer with his entire body, Edelweiss silently sighed.
She barely managed to turn her head a little and shifted her gaze onto Luke before speaking.
"I told you to drift a little to the side. Don't come closer. My wound still hurts."
"Honestly, the battle is already over. Can't you behave yourself? Are you planning to come over and finish me off?"
Luke, who was being lectured by Edelweiss, was actually quite innocent.
After all…
"…It's not like I'm controlling the drifting."
Just like Edelweiss, Luke, who was completely exhausted, was merely floating quietly on the water.
The reason he had bumped into her was purely because of the current.
As for finishing her off…
Don't joke around.
It was already good enough that he had not been finished off. How could he go finish someone else off?
Although the final strike, Azure Great Waterfall, had successfully defeated Edelweiss and left a huge wound on her body, when it came to their conditions, the two of them were honestly half a catty against eight ounces.
Unable to move and unwilling to move, Luke and Edelweiss simply drifted while chatting.
"Speaking of which, if you can control the direction you drift, can't you just move aside yourself?"
"And you're calling me restless…"
"You only have one wound. Can it hurt more than mine? Honestly."
"…If I could control my direction, would I need to tell you to drift away?"
Edelweiss rolled her eyes at Luke.
After hearing his explanation, Edelweiss gave up on the idea of making Luke move away.
After all, she really could not move right now, and Luke, who was more heavily injured, was probably in a similar state.
However, the instant she gave up on that thought—
Drift~
Along with the current, Edelweiss drifted to the side.
"…"
"…"
"You say one thing and do another. Hypocrite!"
"!!! It wasn't me! I didn't!"
"Heh. Women."
"…!"
Seeing the contemptuous look Luke cast at her, Edelweiss instantly felt an indescribable grievance.
However, she had no way to explain.
For a while, the atmosphere became awkward.
Drift, drift~~~
"…"
"When is this water going to recede?"
After drifting for so long that it became rather boring, Edelweiss gave up on sulking and began speaking to Luke.
"…I don't know either."
Actually, Luke happened to be thinking about the same question, but he had not reached any result.
"This is an effect caused by your own sword technique. How could you not know?"
"This is also my first time using this move… or rather, it's a sword technique I literally just created. I really don't know the specific effects."
"Then how long are we going to drift here?"
"I don't know…"
"If we keep floating like this without even a place to stand, forget resting, we can't even treat our wounds, can we?"
"…Even if you say that, I don't have any solution."
Luke was also very helpless.
Just as Edelweiss said, the two of them could not do anything while drifting like this.
At first, their thoughts had actually been exactly the same.
One reason was that the battle had just ended, and they really did not want to move.
Also, both of them were injured badly, so if they could avoid moving, they would avoid moving as much as possible.
The other reason was that they were waiting for the water level of this temporary lake to drop.
Otherwise, they would not even have a place to stand and treat their wounds.
However, as they drifted, Luke and Edelweiss discovered that something was wrong.
The water level did not seem to be changing at all.
"…Why hasn't it changed at all? Does the water brought by your sword technique have some other ability?"
Edelweiss asked Luke in confusion.
Luke also knew absolutely nothing about what she was asking.
However…
He had roughly guessed why the water level would not drop.
"The water level probably won't go down in a short time…"
"Why? The battlefield I chose should have been an open space."
"Leaving aside the accumulated water, theoretically speaking, a lake this large shouldn't be able to form. Even if the water you summoned was excessive, it shouldn't be able to last for too long."
Feeling Edelweiss's suspicious gaze, Luke smiled helplessly.
"It's exactly because it was flat ground that the water can't go down."
"Imagine what the original flat ground would become after being washed by the aftermath of our battle."
At first, Edelweiss did not react.
Because after reaching her level, she rarely fought people anymore.
Using aura was enough to deal with everything.
The terror of Desperado power was something ordinary Blazers could not imagine.
Not everyone could be like Luke and possess enough talent in swordsmanship to move even the world's strongest swordsman.
After so many years, Luke was the first person Edelweiss could respect as an equal swordsman.
As for the other challengers, when facing Desperado Edelweiss, forget exchanging blows.
A single look from her could kill them.
Because of that, Edelweiss, who normally caused no environmental destruction at all, did not fully understand her own destructive power.
But she soon reacted.
This was not the first time the two of them had fought.
Edelweiss still clearly remembered the scenery after their last battle.
The small mountain that had originally stood there had been flattened and turned into a miserable, desolate ruin.
If a mountain peak could be beaten into flat ground, then what about ground that had originally been flat?
Edelweiss's expression changed, and in the end, it became the same helpless look as Luke's.
That was right.
It was not as she had previously imagined, where the water level refused to drop because Luke's Azure Great Waterfall had produced too much water.
Instead, it was because…
This place had already been blasted into a basin by the two of them.
When the rain had fallen, it had not felt like anything.
But after Luke used his sword technique to gather a massive amount of water from nearby and from the sky, it became different.
With the giant crater filled with water, and with the help of the continuing rain, it would not disappear unless an external force interfered.
Otherwise…
"You go deal with the water…"
"No. You go deal with it."
"Can't you be a little more considerate toward a woman?"
"Tch. I'm much more heavily injured than you."
"…You won the battle. Aren't you in a hurry to go back and help your friends?"
"Hmph. What about you? Now that the plan failed, aren't you in a hurry to report the result?"
"…"
"…"
Drift, drift~~~
Thud—!
"Ah, that hurts…"
"Why did you bump into me again?! Go that way!"
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