I Became a Stalker in a Yandere Dating Sim

16. Bad Guy

At that instant, countless metallic sparks rampaged in the darkness.

The shadow-like, incomparably sharp dagger split the void as if seeping in its edges.

Chachachak-!! Almost simultaneously with the sound, the metallic vibration from intercepting it resonated piercingly through the air.

“hahahahaha!! My judgement is indeed flawless!!”

The likeminded villain admired as he watched his hand, undoubtedly dense in the properties of metal.

It was a claw that cuts through not only average attacks but magic and psychic powers too.

Yet, his skin felt thorny and his bones ached as if they had been slashed deep within.

“You’ve got fine eyes!!!”

The villain’s claws, praising her in front of Rika’s murderous dead eyes, clashed several times with her shadow dagger in no time.

Paajijik-! Along with the black sparks, continued collisions of magic and shadows occurred.

Due to this, the movement speed of the villain, who had a hard time avoiding even the electric magic, significantly slowed down.

At this moment, Erin, who didn’t miss the opportunity, summoned metals created through alchemy around her.

Through the magnifying metals prepared while Rika was stopping time, she combined electro and fire magic.

“What judgment!!! Eat this-!!!”

Erin, full of anger, stabbed her azure staff into the ground with sharp words.

Blue lightning and flame rampaged as they fused between the metals.

Overwhelmed, the villain was enveloped by the blue shock, as if a surrounding cage.

“Oing!?”

Attack taking advantage of the gap when Villain slowed down while dealing with Rika.

The electric sphere became an intensely burning fireball and exploded.

“Kyahahahahaha!! So thrilling! It’s boiling hot!!”

Erin trapped the villain with her averaging-release power attack.

Rika charged in like the shadow of an owl preying on night creatures, extending her shadow dagger a little longer.

“Die!!!”

In an instant, the villain’s body was slashed heavily in an X by the shadow dagger.

“Kuk-!?!”

Villain’s outfit, which blocks an average force, was overshadowed, causing an internal injury.

The excellent combination of Rika and Erin.

It seemed that their combined power continued to win the fight, but…

“That’s it!!! This is what I wanted!!!”

In an instant, power burst out of the villain’s body like a black, metallic spark.

“Eek!?!!”

“Er, Erin!!”

To save Erin, who almost got involved in the aftermath, Rika covered her.

“I admit you outperform my expectation based on your age and experience!! Youngsters!! I am ‘Zerul’, the sixth-grade assassin of the ‘Dishonored’ Guild, specializing in assassination and massacre!! “

Inebriated by the fight, the villain revealed himself to be a member of one of the worst villain groups, the ‘Dishonored’ villain guild.

Despite being ranked lower among the assassins ranging from scores of first-grade down to ninth-grade.

A villain named Zerul, demonstrating insane battle strength.

A member of the ‘Dishonored’ guild that brings Masha worshippers on his back to harness magic, he brandished a long blade, sharply protruding from his forearm, presuming to rush straight in.

Having the power to protect the world but.

The ones using it for their selfish goals and trampling the world are called villains.

Villain Zerul pointed his blade at them.

“Kuuk…!!”

“Ri, Rika are you okay? “

Rika, who was staggering with a large wound on her back due to being scorched by magic sparks while protecting Erin in the face of the villain’s blade, barely held onto her shadow dagger, ready to block.

Erin, whose azure staff was shattered due to the aftershock, casted a healing spell on Rika.

The villain spread his arms spreading an insidious laughter.

“Kyahahahahaha!! Tragic!! It’s just tragic!! If you kept using a dagger instead of that bow, you could have held on!!”

Rika, her face streaked with blood from her forehead, gritted her teeth and bit her lip at the villain’s self-satisfied chatter.

“You have no right to prattle on!!”

Rage and resentment filled her voice as she shouted at the villain, who shrugged with a mocking smile.

“Then try to withstand it!! If you can’t bear it even a little, I’ll skip over you and start slicing from the guys at the back~!! You were holding a dagger earlier when I said this, so, what do you think? Can you withstand it?”

The villain provocatively taunted Rika with an infuriating tone, enough to drive anyone mad.

Apparently, he was mocking her for recalling how the black-haired woman had unsheathed her dagger when he threatened her like this before.

‘If I can’t stop that guy, then Lockser…!’

Rika’s hand, clutching her dagger, trembled violently.

If she couldn’t stop that villain here and now, he would undoubtedly harm Lockser, who was just beginning to recover from trauma and awaken.

“Good!! Very good!! Those are just the eyes I was looking for!! Are you really one of us? Right?? You can say it plainly, cahahahaha!!!”

Momentarily, predator-like, Rika’s cold eyes met the villain’s.

Always protecting Lockser from afar, just like the arrows she shot.

The villain’s attack abruptly halted right before her sight.

Rika, who normally handles dual daggers flawerlessly, narrowly avoided the slashing attack that came horizontally at her, her body seemingly laid flat in mid-air.

In the meantime, she pulled Eirin towards her and pushed her to the back to avoid getting caught in the melee.

In the empty air, Rika’s blood and few strands of her hair fluttered down, severed by the attack.

“What’s so important behind you that you behave so desperately!?! Kyahahahahaha!!”

“…Shut up!!!”

Behind the wounded Rika was Lockser, the one who made a promise with her in their childhood.

While falling backwards, Rika twisted her body and aimed her dagger with all her strength at the villain’s neck.

“Danger! Danger! Kyaya~ Looks like there really is something important, huh~?”

The villain, amazed by Rika’s faster movements than before, rapidly retreated while further provoking her.

Rika gnashed her teeth at that comment.

She kicked the ground with the hand opposite the one swinging the dagger, unsteadily standing on her two feet again.

Despite looking as if she would collapse at any moment, her black eyes flashed with determined intent as she drew breath raggedly.

‘…Yeah, there’s someone I can’t hand you over to.’

Rika charged, thinking of Lockser, who was precious to her, even more than life, the one who saved her when she was young.

“You’re running straight in with that body? Excellent!”

The villain blocked Rika’s sharper dagger with blade-like arms and gave a sinister laugh.

“I will never let you have him…!”

The clash of blades and shadow daggers occurred behind wide-eyed Rika.

She couldn’t just stand by and watch Lockser, who lost his family in an accident orchestrated by the villain when they were children, die at the hands of the villain.

Lockser, who lost his family to villains, often said he heard strange voices due to after-effects.

The boy who used to comfort her warmly could only hide his tears, crying that he didn’t want to lose himself.

Owing to an incurable mental affliction,

The boy Rika knew was no longer there.

The villains who ruined everything were to blame for the situation.

“I will… definitely… at least you bastards…!!!”

Rika couldn’t afford to lose another precious person to the villains who took away what was precious to her.

– “I will always protect you from losing you, always by your side.”

To keep her promise with the unrestrainedly weeping Lockser until the end, she had to put down the battle bow which she always used to guard and protect Lockser from a distance.

Rika, gripping a pair of daggers, could never let go of the promise she gripped tightly.

“Ahkh!?!!”

Suddenly, the shadows that flared like flames bombarded the villain.

Furious, Rika drove the villain back fiercely with her flurry attack that shone like a black beam.

Rika, who had no family, had reached out to Lockser, who was always brightly smiling. Now, she was reaching out to him.

Rika extended the hand of death to the villain who aimed to harm Lockser.

The one stroke, surpassing the villain’s reaction speed, grazed dangerously against the villain’s neck.

“Kahahahaha!! Excellent!! The best!!! I quite like it!!! But it’s over now!!!”

Sensing the danger of being on the receiving end, the villain exploded with magic energy, sharp like blades, all over his body.

“Cough–!!”

Rica was scattered by a shock wave that goes Kwaaa–!!! For a moment, her vision white with shock.

A bitter taste like iron filled her mouth as an intense pain swept over her from head to toe.

A wave of blood burst forth due to the shock of the explosion.

-“I…! I will protect you too…! Rica!”

The promise of the crying child… the young Loxer promised to protect her even if he lost himself. It has risen in her mind.

Although they had promised to protect each other.

Even after the crying Loxer had stopped and began to change weirdly, she followed and protected him as promised.

Even if Loxer had turned into a malicious stalker… she always stayed by his side and protected him under the guise of regulation to not cross any lines.

Even while he stalked other girls, it was as if he remembered their childhood promise.

She always protected her annoyingly whenever she was in trouble.

Loxer, who now had changed to seem like he didn’t need her protection anymore.

Becoming good at the combat he always hated, not stalking like before, not causing trouble, not crossing the line.

He even forgot the promise to protect each other.

And the guy who tries so hard not to be caught forgetting such a precious promise…

“…Bad guy.”

Why was this bad guy coming to mind until the end?

Rica, falling through the air, spit out dry laughter with her blood scattering into thin air.

Rather than him stalking girls like he used to…

‘I’m really stupid.’

…how nice it would be if he showed up in front of her in that annoying manner.

This boy who reached out to her who had no family… as if Rica was holding onto the hand Loxer had extended.

Rica, with a faintly moving gesture, as if reminiscing about the warmth of that time.

She fell to the ground, waving at his receding figure…

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“…Why, why did you come here, you idiot…”

Rica, her right eye covered in blood, closed.

Loxer, who had appeared under her falling spot and caught her, was carefully holding her in his arms as she exhaled.

On Rica’s battered body, she felt the warmth from when she first met Loxer.

Loxer’s stern face reflected in Rica’s slightly opened red eyes as he saw her in her terrible state.

Loxer, surrounded by a blue crack and a purple and violet spider network intermingling, opened his mouth.

“…I repay my debts.”

Loxer, holding her in his arms, his heart rate surged.