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Vol 3 Chapter 6 Part 3
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Part 3
“Grrrrrr… Gaaaaa, aaaaahhh!”
The flaming strange creatures disappear, and the tiger grunts in warning.
“Now the small fries are gone, right?”
“Yes!”
Luna and Tito wipe the sweat from their faces.
The two of them, no matter how extraordinary their fighting power was, could not remain unscathed in the battle with the powerful, strange creatures, and they suffered small wounds. The heat that filled the room further sapped their strength.
Still, the two of them had their reasons for continuing to stand on the front lines.
“Kuh, ugh…! It’s not enough to defeat this thing yet…! I need to increase my dragon power more and more…!”
The two were not even concerned about their own wounds as Luna and Tito braced themselves against the tiger while Xiaolin gritted her teeth and desperately worked on her dragon power.
“Before Xiaolin’s dragon power is ready, we’ll reduce its power as much as possible! We’ll do it all in one fell swoop!”
“I understand!”
Luna and Tito kicked the ground towards the tiger.
However.
“Goaaaaaaaaaaaah!”
A roar of rage, similar to a thunderclap, rumbled through the air.
Their limbs trembled, and the pressure turned into gravity.
“Kuh!? My strength is leaving me…?”
“My legs won’t move…!”
Luna and Tito’s faces contorted.
The other two members, Lexia and Xiaolin, who were standing at a distance, couldn’t help but fall to their knees as well.
“…..! My body is shaking by itself…!”
“So this is the power of the Seven Deadly Sins…!”
“Grrrrrrrrrrrr…!”
The tiger roared as flames swelled in its body.
The burning fury in its eyes was focused on Luna and Tito, whose movements had been stopped.
“Luna, Tito!”
Lexia’s cries were hollow, and the tiger opened its mouth.
“Gaaaahhh!”
“The flames are coming…! I must use my skills against them…!”
“Ugh, not good… I can’t move my body…!”
As the flames were about to engulf Luna and Tito.
“What’s this rage? My beloved friends will not be defeated───!”
A transparent wave spread out with Lexia’s scream.
“Th-this is…?”
“My wounds are… healing…!”
A clear wind blew the flames away, and Luna and Tito, who had been exposed to the waves, opened their eyes.
Their entire bodies were covered with a translucent membrane, and their wounds were healing.
Not only that but their bodies, which should have been drained, were filled with power.
“Lexia-san has this kind of power…!”
“I see, the Breath of Light that Odis-sama was talking about has… awakened…!”
“Goaahhhh!”
The flame tiger was terrified as the flames were scattered and let out a terrifying roar as it jumped.
But,
“Let’s go, Tito! Spiral!”
“Yes! Violent Wind Claws!”
Tito’s technique added a gust of wind to the strings released by Luna, creating a violent wind.
The strings, wrapped in a tempestuous wind, shot the tiger away.
“Gah, aaaaaaah!”
“Amazingly, its attack power has increased! And my body is so light…!”
“Yes, the heat I feel on my skin has also decreased! Is this the true power of Breath Light…?”
Luna and Tito performed move after move, cornering the tiger.
“That’s amazing, Luna, Tito! Xiaolin-sama, do it now!”
“Yes…!”
Xiaolin’s whole body was filled with dragon power, and it was growing.
But Xiaolin bit her lip.
“My dragon power is still imperfect; if I attack half-heartedly, it will be endured again…! It’s not enough just to hit it with dragon power; I need to launch a sharper attack at close range…! But how──!”
As she leaned forward, the bell on her sword rang, and Xiaolin looked up with a start.
“──Yes, that’s right, that performance…──!”
What came to Xiaolin’s mind was the performance of the first emperor, who had an orange cloth wrapped around her sword and fought like a beautiful dancer──the image of Fa Lan, whom she had admired since childhood.
“Fa Lan-sama, who had fought the tiger with her twin dragon power swords… put everything she had into that strike…!”
She drew her twin swords and focused her attention on the hand that held them.
A red light enveloped her body, and soon began to gather around the blade.
The princes and the princess were stunned.
“That is… the sword imbued with dragon power? It’s just like Fa Lan-sama’s…!”
“I… I can’t believe she can control dragon power with such subtlety…!”
“It’s nothing compared to our dragon power…! I can feel its tremendous power…!”
The crimson blade glowed brighter and brighter at the tip of the astonished gaze.
“It’s not enough… stronger…! Sharpen it more…!”
As the power swelled, Xiaolin’s hair turned a fiery crimson.
The princes and princess gasped.
“Xiaolin’s hair is getting redder and redder…!”
“Don’t tell me… that Xiaolin was the red-haired maiden in the lore…?”
“Oh, Xiaolin… I knew it…!”
At the sight of the crimson-clad Xiaolin, Liu Jian’s face twisted in pain.
“Claw Concert・Extreme!”
“Prison!”
“Gruaaaaaah!”
The tiger, who healed its wounds with flames every time Luna and Tito attacked it, stood up again and again and went berserk, spreading flames.
“Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!”
The claw that was unleashed in a sideways slash gouged deep into the pillar.
Boom!
The pillar shattered, and huge fragments were sent flying.
One of them was about to hit Lexia.
“Kyaaaa…!”
“Lexia!”
“Look out…!”
Luna and Tito shouted, and at the same time, Xiaolin moved.
“! I can’t let that happen!”
Xiaolin readied her twin swords and jumped in front of Lexia, trying to cut through the pillar──.
Boom!
A huge roar echoed through the air.
Xiaolin gasped.
“Brother…!”
“Ugh…!
Lu Won caught the flying pillar with his dragon power.
“I’m sorry, Xiaolin. I, we were wrong all along… your dragon power is real…! And the courage to risk your life to protect others, the heart to never give up in the face of difficulty…! You are the Maiden of Lore who will save this land…!”
Next to him, Yue shoots away the falling debris with her dragon power, and Mao makes a giant snake appear to protect Xiaolin from the hot winds and sparks of fire.
“We were too afraid to do anything… You are the one who deserves to be the Emperor’s vessel!”
“You are the only one who can defeat this monster…! Please, Xiaolin, defeat it──defeat the tiger…!”
“…..!”
Xiaolin nodded as she bit her lip and put the last of her strength into the hilt of her hilt.
The twin swords glowed brightly, transforming into crimson blades.
“Luna-san, Tito-san, move away!”
Luna and Tito jumped back at Xiaolin’s signal.
“I’ll finish it all at once…!”
Xiaolin looked at the tiger and kicked the ground hard as she ran.
“Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!”
“Gruaaaaah!”
Perhaps sensing the danger, the tiger spat flames at the ground.
Violent flames erupted in Xiaolin’s path, turning it into a wall.
“Wha! It created a barrier with flames…”
“If she keeps attacking it, Xiaolin will burn to death!”
“Xiaolin-sama, watch out! ──Kyaaa!?”
Lexia tripped over the debris as she tried to rush out.
A magic tool the size of a dagger rolled down from her bag.
“Eh, what’s this? I had something like this?”
She was surprised, then suddenly remembered.
“This──this is the magic gun Noel gave me! I’m sure it’s filled with very powerful magic!”
Without hesitation, Lexia held up the magic gun.
As she poured her magic into it, the barrel of the gun began to glow brightly.
“I will blow down any wall that stands in Xiaolin-sama’s way!”
With a terrifying scream, she pulled the trigger.
A magic-filled bullet was shot out and landed on the wall of flames.
Boom… Baaaangg!
The blast exploded, and the wall of flame was scattered.
“I did it; the tiger is now completely exposed…!”
“I-is that a magic tool? I’ve never seen a magic tool with such tremendous power before…!
“Gaaaahhhh!”
Having lost its wall of flame, the tiger shot a ball of fire at the still-accelerating Xiaolin.
“Hmph!”
The fireballs attacked with tremendous speed, and Xiaolin, remembering her training in the forest, dodged them with great elegance.
“Wha? She dodged all those attacks…?”
“A-amazing… how did that girl become so strong…?”
“What a fight! It’s like Fa Lan-sama really came back to life…!”
Lu Won and the others exclaimed in amazement.
“Vuooooooooo!”
The tiger roared, and countless strange creatures emerged from the sea of flames.
Luna shot away the strange creatures that tried to rush toward Xiaolin, and Tito slashed at them with her claws.
“We’ll take care of them! Xiaolin, take the tiger!”
“It’s okay, Xiaolin-san, you can do it!”
“Don’t lose, Xiaolin-sama…!”
As she ran through the sea of flames, Xiaolin put power into the hand that held the hilt.
“(Lexia-san and the others believed in me. Now it’s my turn to respond… ──!)”
Xiaolin’s dragon power over the twin swords flared red and intense.
“Oh, that was…!”
Liu Jian’s eyes widened.
Xiaolin’s red hair fluttered, and her crimson twin swords were at the ready as she sprinted towards the tiger, overlapping with the first emperor, Fa Lan.
“Gaaaahh…!”
Lexia yelled at the terrified tiger.
“Burn this into your eyes, Flame Tiger! This is the true dragon power, revived after a thousand years of existence!”
Drawing strength from this voice, Xiaolin leaped at the tiger.
“Take it───!”
With a swing of her twin swords, the dazzling crimson power transformed into a raging dragon and approached the tiger.
“Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!”
The tiger spat out searing flames to intercept the crimson dragon.
However, the red dragon even ate the flames and devoured the tiger.
“Guo, oo, oooooooo…!”
The tiger’s throat rumbled with a desperate scream.
“You did it!”
“No, not yet…!”
“Gah, ah, aaaah…!”
In the red light, the flame tiger approached Xiaolin, half turning to dust.
Only the swelling rage and delusion drove the tiger.
“Gaa, aaaaaaaaaaaaa…!”
The tiger roared hoarsely, and Xiaolin brilliantly drew her sword.
“Haahh!
Slash──Rang!
Immediately after, the cool sound of a bell resounded.
A slash of divine speed had dropped the tiger’s head.
“Ga-aaa…”
Stopped by the brilliant swordsmanship, the tiger melted away in a red light.
As the flames died down, Xiaolin sheathed her sword.
“…With all your searing fury, this time sleeps forever.”
The sound of the sword being sheathed echoed in the watery silence.
──The legendary monster, which had been storing up its fury unbeknownst to the public, was crushed by the crimson dragon power that had risen from beyond the millennium.
Lexia jumped at Xiaolin, who had sheathed her sword.
“You did it, Xiaolin-sama!”
“Kyaaa!”
She hugged the surprised Xiaolin and stroked her crimson hair.
“That was amazing, to defeat a monster that even the first emperor couldn’t defeat! That was so cool!”
“Your training has paid off.”
“Xiaolin-san’s dragon power was so beautiful!”
Xiaolin smiled wryly.
“It was all thanks to Lexia-san and the others. Thank you very much.”
Lexia and the others smiled at each other, and the prince and the others approached them.
Lu Won apologized, gritting his teeth.
“I’m sorry, Xiaolin. We were wrong. You were the maiden of the lore.”
Like Lu Won, Yue and Mao bowed deeply.
“I’m so sorry for everything I’ve done! Thank you for protecting this country.”
“I don’t know how to apologize… I will atone for all the sins I’ve done to you; just say whatever you want.”
“Brothers, sister…”
Xiaolin smiled and shook her head.
“That’s fine. I hope that from now on, we can all work together to make the Lianxi Empire a more prosperous country!”
“Xiaolin…”
Xiaolin smiled like a flower, and Lu Won and the others burst into tears.
At that moment, Liu Jian, who was lying down, made a sound of distress.
“Xiao, lin… your power…”
Liu Jian opened his mouth to say something to Xiaolin, but then he collapsed and lost his strength.
“Father!”
Xiaolin turned pale and clung to Liu Jian.
Luna immediately checked Liu Jian’s pulse and checked his condition.
“…He’s fine; he just fainted.”
“Thank goodness… Luna-san and Tito-san gave him first aid.”
“But the sooner we get him treated, the better! Let’s hurry back to the imperial palace!”
Lu Won nodded at Lexia’s words.
“Yes. I’ll take care of the transport.”
Lu Won activated his dragon power arm and lifted the unconscious Liu Jian.
They walked through the hot corridor and went outside.
As soon as the door was opened, a fresh breeze blew through.
“Fuwahh, it was very hot~…!”
“The air is so good.”
“Hmm! Now we’ve passed the three trials!”
After taking a lungful of fresh air, Lexia smiled at Xiaolin.
“Xiaolin-sama, it was truly admirable how you faced the challenge and never gave up, no matter what happened! Your courage and never-giving-up spirit saved many people. Please be confident. I am sure that you can make many people happy, just like Fa Lan-sama. I guarantee it!”
Xiaolin beamed happily.
“Thank you. But the reason I’ve made it this far is because of Lexia-san and the others. You all are the best tutors in the world!”
The four of them laughed like spilling flowers.
And so, having overcome all their trials, the group returned to the imperial capital.