My mother's love song

"So... I won't let you escape this time."

Scathach walked to Rhodes with a brisk pace and raised her hand.

With a "click" sound, the handcuffs woven with magic connected Rhodes' left wrist and Scathach's right wrist together.

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"Are you kidding..."

Rhodes sat on the ground, pulling hard at the shackles in his hands.

But even though he exerted enough strength to easily shatter the city wall, the handcuffs that locked him and Scathach together remained motionless in the face of such power.

The Queen of Shadow Kingdom stood aside with a sly smile on her face, watching Rhodes anxiously destroying the shackles.

Scathach said condescendingly: "It's useless, even you can't break these handcuffs.

The reason is that this chain was forged based on the gate of the Kingdom of Shadows, embodying the concept of a gate.

If you want to destroy these shackles, you can’t even use your hands to tear them apart, or even use an anti-fortress Noble Phantasm to do so.”

"So what should we do?"

Can it be used against a city? Can it be used against a border?

"To destroy the gate of the Shadow Kingdom is equivalent to destroying the Shadow Kingdom itself. In other words, it requires at least a blow strong enough to destroy the outer world."

Rhodes twitched his lips: "Are you serious?"

"Of course." Scathach nodded seriously.

"ok, I get it."

Rhode took a deep breath, then gathered his magic power, turned his right hand into a sharp knife, and stabbed the handcuffs.

No, he chopped off the handcuffed wrists!

""

The knife pierced through the wrist like a mirage.

"Hey?"

Admiring the confused Rhodes, Scathach raised the corner of her mouth happily: "It's useless. Your cleverness won't work in the Shadow Kingdom."

She knew exactly what kind of person Rhodes was.

Scathach said calmly: "However, there is a shortcut."

"Tell me."

Rhode looked at the woman's arrogant expression, as if she had everything under control, and felt that it was definitely not a good thing, but he still asked unhappily.

Scathach said: "Well, although it is difficult to destroy the Shadow Kingdom or the Gate, killing the Queen or the Gatekeeper of the Shadow Kingdom can have the same effect."

"Oh, just kill me."

Rhodes spread his arms and legs, lay on the ground and closed his eyes.

“I have no complaints even if you kill me, Master. I know I broke my promise to you before, so I have no complaints even if you kill me.

Come on! Kill me! From now on we are even! You crazy woman! "

At this moment, a strong magical force whistled across the boy's face.

"I'm so great, you really want to kill me!"

Rhodes yelled and rolled over, narrowly avoiding the weapon that was shot at his chest.

"It's not me, see clearly."

Scathach raised her chin and pointed not far away.

Rhode looked in the direction she pointed, and saw a dark mass of blurry-looking monsters gathered there.

It looks very similar to the beast formed by a high concentration of curse seen in Shiro Amakusa's inherent barrier.

However, they are not in the form of wild beasts, but more like human beings.

Dark and shapeless, it moved with extreme murderous intent.

"That's a 'demon', a demon that hasn't yet taken shape," Scathach explained.

"Is this kind of thing common in the Shadow Kingdom?" Rhodes asked.

After all, he had lived in the Shadow Kingdom for three months before, but he had never seen any monsters invade the Shadow Kingdom, let alone invade Scathach's royal city.

"No... There are only dead souls in my kingdom, how can there be such a thing? I want to ask you what's going on...

Well, these guys are probably the foreign objects that came in when I opened the gate to the Kingdom of Shadows and pulled you in."

As she spoke, Scathach suddenly raised her left wrist and used the handcuffs to pull Rhodes up from the ground.

"Prepare for battle, it's time to clean up."

"Why do I have to protect the Shadow Kingdom for the guy who imprisoned me? No, no."

Rhodes put his hands on his hips and turned around with a look of resistance.

He and Scathach are now handcuffed together with a shared destiny, so if Rhodes refuses to fight, no matter how brave Scathach is, she will not be able to move freely and can only let these monsters wreak havoc in the Shadow Kingdom.

It would be fine if it was an ordinary monster, but demons are spiritual beings that can possess humans and also pollute the undead.

"Get your gun out, Rod. Let me see if your skills are getting rusty."

Scathach did not look at Rhodes either. She just stared at the black monsters that were gathering more and more. A hint of anxiety appeared on her beautiful face that always remained cool and confident.

Rhode crossed his arms and said in a serious tone, "I refuse. If you want to fight, go ahead. Of course, you have to remove the handcuffs first."

In an instant, he thought of using foreign enemies to force the Queen of the Shadow Kingdom to give up herself.

Okay, Scathach... open the handcuffs quickly! Otherwise, the country you cherish will be ravaged by monsters, okay?

"I see, so that's what you were thinking about... As expected of you."

Scathach raised an eyebrow, her crimson eyes flickering.

Rhode looked into the distance and muttered with his back to her, "If you don't hurry up, your Shadow Kingdom will be in trouble, Queen."

"Let's fight together, Rhodes."

Scathach's voice floated over, and at the same time, Rhodes' handcuffed left hand was gently held.

"Rod, my lovely disciple, my destined warrior... Fight with me. I need your strength."

Chapter 501 The old woman is relying on me!

"Let's fight together, Rhodes."

Scathach held Rhodes' hand with her slender hand wrapped in purple silk and said with a charming smile.

"Rod, my lovely disciple, my destined warrior... Fight with me. I need your strength."

"……Aha?"

Rhodes turned his stunned face away and wondered what the woman was talking about.

Scathach raised her beautiful eyebrows with a smug look on her face: "It is only natural that a disciple and a master should live and die together, right?"

"Didn't you refuse to acknowledge that I was your disciple just a few seconds ago?" Rhodes muttered.

She was clearly so opposed to the master-disciple relationship between her and me just now, but now she has changed her mind. I really don't understand the thoughts of older women.

"Rod, are you thinking about something very rude?"

Scathach's eyes sharpened.

"You were so opposed to our master-disciple relationship just now, but now you change your mind. I really don't understand the thoughts of young girls." Rhodes said slowly.

"Hmm."

Scathach maintained a cold expression and brushed her purple hair: "You are so nagging."

After saying that, she turned her face away.

Are you laughing secretly?

"Okay. Let's not worry about the details. Is my disciple such a narrow-minded man?"

"Yes, I am a man who is always nitpicking. I'm sorry."

Rhodes walked to the side, but Scathach pulled the handcuffs and pulled him back: "Don't act like a spoiled child. Get ready, Rhodes."

“That’s unreasonable.”

"When it comes to being unreasonable, we're the same, right?" Scathach stared into his eyes and said with a smile.

"……makes sense."

Rhodes also laughed.

The noisy cries and hot breath coming from the monsters in the distance made people feel uncomfortable.

Obviously, it would be better if the Shadow Kingdom could just remain as cold and quiet as it is now.

Rhodes stretched out his five fingers, and the magic power slowly flowed out from his palm to form the Scarlet Spear [Gae Bolg]

This is the treasure he obtained from Scathach when he broke into the Kingdom of Shadows a thousand years ago.

The cursed spear was given to a warrior destined to kill the queen, not as a disciple born into the world.

"Do you still keep this?" Scathach asked.

"Of course it can be used as a clothesline," Rhodes replied frivolously.

They looked at each other with hostile eyes.

Then, the two people who were handcuffed together suddenly kicked off the ground at the same time and leaped towards the monsters at the same speed.

Then, the solid ground they were standing on collapsed, and the force of the impact was so great that it shook the entire Shadow City.

"Don't hold me back, old woman."

"That's what I'm saying... Wait, what did you just say?"

"Up!"

In the shadow city stained with darkness by the devil, the trajectory of the gun is like a large number of red spider lilies blooming.

The two who had been praised as godslayers since the distant Age of the Gods wielded their red spears and began to slaughter the monsters in unison.

The cursed fangs devoured the monster.

The tip of the magic spear pierced the heart and head accurately and quickly.

The sweep of the red spear was like a dragon's claw, blowing the monster's head off.

That is a martial art that has been honed through thousands of times and engraved into the soul, and the gun has become an extension of the arm.

There is no need to think, and the most perfect offensive choice is made purely based on instinct.

Even though they were surrounded by a horde of demons that was equivalent to the planet's curse itself, Rod and Scathach's momentum was obviously much greater, as if the god of death had arrived.

What is most surprising is not their martial arts itself, but the tacit understanding between the boy and the queen.

Each of the two people had one hand handcuffed, and this should have been a scene where they were holding each other back, but such a scene did not happen.

Rhodes and Scathach were like a whole. Their integrated footwork and gun-wielding postures were like a dance, a waltz performed by the two.

The shadows of the spears were dazzling, and the high-pitched crashing sounds echoed throughout the Kingdom of Shadows.

The flash of light and the sound of steel formed a chain reaction, rolling up the evaporation of heat and the cutting of air, and two shadows that were close yet distant flew across the battlefield at a dazzling speed.

With beautiful and refined movements and awe-inspiring fighting spirit, Rhodes and Scathach sometimes stood back to back and sometimes looked at each other over their shoulders, and the cursed spears they swung drew scarlet tracks in the wind.

The black monsters that continue to appear in the Queen's City cannot even keep up with their consumption rate.

Under the perfect combination of the boy and the queen, the cursed spirits were harvested one after another without any resistance.

"Hmph. Your gun doesn't look rusty at all."

As she slaughtered the monsters, a smile spread across Scathach's beautiful face.