Chapter 479

Chapter 214 Battlefield Both Sides • Erika

“Hyah——”

Erika, with a battle cry, exerted all her strength. The rapid punches accompanied by powerful high kicks aimed at both sides turned into lingering shadows that engulfed Spider Gaki. However, there came a barrage of “bing-bang” sounds as he easily parried her attacks just by swinging his saber.

“Useless, useless, useless! It’s useless!”

Injected with intense dark energy, one of his fists struck Erika’s hurried defense right in the heart. The force was so great that she screamed in pain. Her flying body backward continuously tore through several steel barricades behind her one after another.

“Wah——it hurts!”

Like a meteor, she crashed to the ground, finally sliding out a long pit similar to some Yamucha’s pose. Erika grimaced, holding her bottom as she stood up. Looking down, she saw the hole in her white stocking, and reluctantly pulled at the damaged battle clothes on her body.

It’s so painful….. Even compared to Ash that bastard, this doesn’t seem so bad. But honestly, men who think only about fighting are so annoying. Such an invincible and cute girl like me Erika deserves some more loving treatment, doesn’t she?

“The end is upon us!” At this moment, Spider Gaki raised his saber and pursued forward from the opening he made. Unprepared for the enemy’s swift arrival, Erika hastily defended herself.

Instinctively closing her eyes, she did not feel the anticipated pain. Looking again, she witnessed her familiar partner Caffrey clinging onto the man’s face, obstructing his attack.

“You mustn’t hurt Erika!”

“Get off, you worthless insect!”

Hurriedly grabbing the flailing fairy, Erika could not help but feel upset. “You really messed up. What were you thinking?”

“As long as it would help Erika, I would do anything!”

“Hmph, how presumptuous of a fairy with no combat abilities to interrupt such a sacred fight between warriors!” The man’s sword pointed towards the fairy clutched in the girl’s arms, and his murderous intent overflowed like a flood. “You shall die for your insolence!”

“Marine!”

The sword, ready to slice through Caffrey along with her scream, was firmly pinned mid-air by pressing forces from both sides.

“It can’t be—” With all his might unable to move his sword, Spider Gaki’s face filled with disbelief. “Empty-handed disarmament?!”

With his fists clamping the sword stuck above him and blue hair getting cut by the blade, Erika gritted her teeth, pulling and twisting it apart, turning the man’s sword into scattered shards.

“What kind of power—?! Urgh?!”

Feeling an arm sting, the man misinterpreted it as a follow-up attack from the girl. Astonished, he realized it was she who had bit his arm out of shamelessness, and black blood trickling from under her white teeth.

She actually bit me?!

“Boring, too boring!” Unable to bear the insult, rage surged in Spider Gaki. Throwing the teen away, he lost balance. “Cure Marine…. This fight for Earth’s destiny, I’m trying my best!”

The sudden surge of energy blew the girl away with a fierce gust.

“And you dare mock me! Where is your sense of honor and strength as a warrior?!” Concentrating darkness into a cannon-like punch, he swung it fiercely toward Erika.

“Ah—cough cough—” Amid the massive dust cloud kicked up by the collision of the dark blast and the ground, Erika, her battle clothes torn and her accessories missing, emerged awkwardly on all fours.

“Steady, Caffrey!” Grabbing her fairy, Erika bent forward like a sprinter and charged towards Spider Gaki.

At the moment of collision, they exchanged ferocious blows. Legs smashed against the steel plates shattered them like explosions.

Inches away, their relentless attacks left no space untouched, stirring up a whirlwind that swept the steel around them.

This time, Erika seized the opponent’s weakness, using one swift hand change to grip his wrist, pulling him down and slamming him to the ground.

“Always talking about strength, but true strength comes from protecting the weak, forging paths amid darkness.”

“Well,” mimicking Ash’s cool line from his manga collection, “true strength lies in the willingness to pay any price to protect someone dear.”

And you, obsessed only with your own growth, have become just like Ash—hollow.

What fills such an empty heart?

“No way!” Despite his wounds, Spider Gaki rushed headfirst, battling against powerful sea winds. “I don’t accept it!”

Facing Spider Gaki’s charge, Erika effortlessly drew her Ocean Magic Wand. Twirling its crystal on the handle,

“This arrogance—it’s too much even for me, whose heart is wider than the ocean!”

With a sharp ring, the crystal’s tip pressed against the man’s chest—

“Pretty Cure Blue Forte Wave!”

And then, everything grew hazy.

A seasoned as a warrior as myself, defeated by such a young girl?

In his final moments, Spider Gaki recalled Timons’ wisdom:

“…purely chasing purity only leads to impurity. Isn’t it just tedious?”

Closing his eyes, facing the giant blue flower core, he sighed,

Friend, you’re right. It’s indeed… so tedious…

…

End of translation.