Haunted

His hand that tried to touch Kanaria's hair with his hand while speaking a tongue twister at high speed was cut off by the sword Kanaria had on her back. The hand fell down on the floor with a splatter. Haunted's disconnected right arm started jumping about on the floor like a fish that was thrown into the land.

"How extreme. Is this the so called "tsun"? I hope you will come to me with "dere" one day."

While Haunted started wiggling his body eerily, the arm that was wriggling on the ground was swallowed by a black swamp that suddenly appeared.

The moment it disappeared, Haunted's right arm was already rejoined in its original position.

[HAND CUT OFF, INSTANTLY REGROWS]
- 6, 4
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Outside of the meeting place, Haunted leaned with his back on the door and heard everything.

A drop of the swamp that was used to recover his arm earlier was left on the floor, and he heard the conversation through that.

"...why is Eliza-san such a snob despite having good appearance and charming moves."

Genuinely regretful Haunted shook his head and left the place.

[CAN SPY THROUGH A DROP OF HIS BELLADONNA GARDEN]
- 6, 4
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The sorcerer who was interrupted looked at Haunted's face in shock.

No one had noticed when the massacre of the Pureblood Party had began. From under the sorcerer's feet black thorns stabbed upwards. The thorns penetrated the sorcerer's bodies and pierced their brains.

Then the thorns have broke out through the mouth and eyes, blooming into flowers of variant.

"...Captain? What happ——?! UWAAAaAaaaa!"

One of the subordinates noticed his superior's ghastly death and started fleeing.

Seeing that, everyone in the surroundings started running and scattered away like little spiders.

"Hihi, hi——hiiiiiiiihahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

Haunted didn't let them escape. The despair's chosen one spread death without discrimination.

A black swamp appeared under a house, and a huge thorn appeared from inside.

The hell of escaping Pureblood Party members began. A scream has covered by another scream, and the residential area was covered with cries of agony. Not a single person escaped, not a single person was left alive, everyone was preyed upon. After swallowing everyone, 《Belladonna Garden》 manifested as a single huge flower.

Haunted went on the flower variant's back, and slowly gliding from the roof he landed on the ground. Then, he slowly walked towards Takeru, swaying.

[Belladona Garden internal attacks, ,killing dozens of mages at once, destroying a house, and ruining a residential area in moments]
- 6, 6
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Takeru thrust his sword at Haunted who approached him from the front. The tip of the sword had definitely pierced through the heart at the center of his body. Haunted didn't even pull out the sword, as if it was natural, he moved forward with his heart still pierced by the sword.

"You can't kill me, nope. This is no good at all!"

"Ghh, what's your goal?! Was there a need to attack them?!"

"Ohhh?! There was a need! A great need!'

Takeru pulled out his sword, and the moment he tried to slice Haunted from his head to chest, Haunted extended his arms and wound them around Takeru's neck.


[Literally just straight up ignores being stabbed through the heart]
- 6, 6
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Takeru pulled out his sword, and the moment he tried to slice Haunted from his head to chest, Haunted extended his arms and wound them around Takeru's neck.

"Guhh...!"

"Yeees, now don't move〜. Even if I look like this I'm really good at playing doctor, I know a lot about human body. Raise your hand if it hurts, okaay—?!"

Heat was released from the hands gripping his neck, an abnormal change occurred inside of Takeru's body.

It was some kind of magic. Takeru struggled trying to escape, but Haunted's arms were stone hard and wouldn't let him go.

However, despite having his neck strangled and raised up, Takeru felt the pain in his body disappear. The wounds done by the sniper bullets also disappeared without trace. When he realized what was being done to him, Takeru's mind was filled with suspicion and anger.

"What's the meaning of this...?!"

"I have recovered you! You were unable to move like that right?"

Haunted released his hands and Takeru fell to the ground pulled by gravity.


[Healing magic, recovering serious wounds from sniper bullets, alongside multiple broken bones and stuff taken earlier in the chapter]
- 6, 6
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After being able to breathe again, he took a deep breath and once again mercilessly cut Haunted.

It was a direct slash straight from the top of his head.

Haunted's body was split in two from his head to his chest.

However, when Haunted hit his head with both his hands, the torn apart body let out a wet sounds and was returned to its original form. Although the bones were a bit slower, they fused after a mere few seconds.

It was appropriate to call him undead.


[Heals from being largely cut in half vertically in seconds]
- 6, 6
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Takeru entered under the enemies, and steadily but consistently slaughtered them.

With the momentum after being parried, spinning round and round like a ballerina Haunted rammed into the enemy army. Ignoring magic bullets aiming for him, he cut up enemies as he pleased.

Even as his body was pierced, or subjected to restraining magic he wasn't bothered. He brushed them off like mosquito bites.

It was as if two tigers were shoot into a flock of fawns.

[SLAUGHTERING DOZENS OF MAGES, IGNORING MAGIC BULLETS AND RESTRAINING MAGIC AS HE DOES SO]
- 6, 6
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Takeru jumped forward by using Soumatou, and closing distance momentarily he cut down two magical swordsmen at once. Haunted created a swamp under the feet of knight in front, and ignoring the armor pierced through him with a thorn.

The two's rampage didn't stop. There was nothing the enemy was able to do against Takeru's speed and Haunted's immortality.

Exploding debris, resounding screams, in the gaps between magic the two performed a mad sword dance.

They cut down everyone who stood in their way, and at the end——they clashed squarely once again.


[Haunted summons thorns ignoring armour and rolls a bunch of metal, superhuman magic knights]
- 6, 6
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Haunted turned his back towards him, and with a smile as great as possible he raised his left arm up.

"Tell Mari-san that I'm sorry and can't meet her. After all, she will surely come here."

"............"

"Now then——let's meet again on the battlefield, Kusanagi Takeru."

A bubbling black swamp appeared under his feet, and Haunted's body slowly sank into it.

Takeru was unable to stop him.

Or rather than being unable to, he didn't even try.

Right now I have no power to fight with that guy, he realized the obvious.


[Teleporation through his swamp]
- 6, 6
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"Your stock of lives increases by the amount of lives you take with magic. There is few data of "Despair" property magic, but seeing as you avoided Nikaido Mari's "Aurora" that deals damage to the soul itself, I was convinced that it's possible to kill you."

Hayato said that while spinning Maximilien on the finger of his left hand.

"Mhm. Perfect answer. This amazing EXE captain disgusts me to the point of barfing. Still, it might be possible to kill me with Mari-san's Aurora magic, but how exactly are you going to kill me? Got a plan?"

"Of course. By the way, Haunted——"

The black and silver steel gave out dull shine.

"——How much lives do you have left in your stock?"

That's what Hayato answered with to Haunted's question.

Haunted covered his face with one hand and stiffed his laughter.

"I see. Dumbass method of brute force, huh. As expected of the great hero who only has being strong going for him. I'm impressed."

[Haunted's immortality works through using the souls of people he has killed as collateral - explicitly stated that Mari's Aurora magic can kill him through this since it targets the soul]
- 12, 3
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Caligula's muzzle was pressed against his forehead.

"——Two thousand and thirty."

The meaning behind that count was the amount of times Hayato had killed Haunted over this short period of time.

At the same time Caligula's hammer was released, Haunted's head burst into atoms.

Losing his head he fell onto his knees and blood gushed from his neck like a fountain.

"Two thousand and thirty one."

Hayato let out a kick on the body right away.

Haunted whose head quickly reappeared was unable to react and received the attack.

He was blasted away from below.

"2032, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37."

Hayato's rapid attacks didn't stop. He continued to kill Haunted without giving him time to recover.

[Throughout his fight with Hayato, Haunted is killed over 2000 times]
- 12, 5
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Sacred Treasure Summoning, just as its name stated, allowed summoning of Sacred Treasures such as Mistilteinn, Lævateinn or Gungnir. While it was impossible to summon a Sacred Treasure completely even at expanse of the entire human race, it was possible if only temporarily.

With that said, although there was a time limit on it, it was said to require over ten thousand souls.

So how did Haunted devote that many sacrifices?

A foolish question.

《"Aaa-ah, you've used it... now there's no going back, Haunted."》

"Nhah! It's fine! I need to pay respect to his anger and respond to it! Whaat, I just won't be able to die any more, that's all!"

[Haunted then uses a summoning that requires a sacrifice of over ten thousand souls from his stock, which bottoms him out (he actually had 2 left at the end for a final fake-out in their fight, but near enough everything was put into it) - This means that Mari's Aurora attacks can do soul damage on the level of over 12,000 souls]
- 12, 5
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THIS IS FOR SCALING KISEKI CASUALLY TANKING ALL OF MARI'S ATTACKS FOR EXTENDED PERIODS