Senpai Ran Off with Fafnir?! / Don't Use a Disgusting Word Like "Gentle" to Describe Me

"Mash, let's finish this in one go."

Bai Ming took out his halberd and prepared the brick to be summoned at any moment. "I said there's a fifty percent chance we can end this exploration directly—"

"With so many people involved... Bai Ming, you're completely messing around!" Roman shouted from the control room, but neither Bai Ming nor Mash paid him any attention.

Mash raised her shield, while Jeanne stared fixedly at the Dragon Witch.

"Really... I never thought, never thought something like this would happen."

The Dragon Witch spoke. "Hey, please, can someone dump a bucket of cold water over Gilles's head? This is terrible, not good at all, I'm really going crazy. Look at that poor little girl. What is she, an earthworm? A rat?"

Unexpectedly, Bai Ming moved first. "Why the hell are you yapping on, you French bastard?"

As Bai Ming charged into their formation, Jeanne never got the chance to ask Jeanne Alter her question, while Mash rushed forward with her shield as well.

Gripping the shaft, Bai Ming wielded his halberd with ferocious force. Lightning ravaged everywhere he passed, forcing the five Servants standing before Jeanne Alter to dodge aside.

Jeanne Alter neither dodged nor retreated, directly receiving Bai Ming's strike. The inhuman force bent the black lance-banner in her hands.

Before Jeanne Alter could react, pain exploded in her abdomen. Her vision blurred, and her expression twisted—Bai Ming had kicked her in the stomach.

Bai Ming pressed forward, leaving Jeanne Alter no choice but to grit her teeth as he suppressed her.

Mash and Jeanne did their utmost to hold back the other Servants, but for Mash, facing a Servant battle for only the second time, holding back one Servant with little will to fight was already her limit.

Jeanne, whose Spirit Origin was already fragile, had exhausted everything just to hold one back.

Two Servants still slipped through, and Bai Ming felt that was just right.

Bai Ming shouted, "Mash, disgust your opponent with Queen Marie Antoinette. There's no such thing as knightly honor in a situation where we outnumber them."

The heroic-looking man and the masked woman who had gotten through shared some of Jeanne Alter's burden.

Even so, Bai Ming relied on his outrageous strength and superb martial skill to suppress all three of them.

"You bastard—"

Once Jeanne Alter realized the other side could not understand French at all, she used the Holy Grail to switch to Bai Ming's language. "Who exactly are you?"

The only answer she received was Bai Ming's utterly cold gaze. "Someone who can't even recognize what they are should figure themselves out first.

Vlad III, Carmilla, Martha, and Chevalier d'Eon. Two of you should never have answered the summons at all. How sad—"

Though he said that, Bai Ming's attacks only grew fiercer. Lightning enveloped Carmilla and Vlad III, while the Jade Purity Supreme Brick flew out at Bai Ming's command, aiming straight for Carmilla's head.

In an instant, Carmilla, trapped by the lightning, had her face twisted by a single brick. Her mask shattered. Then came another brick, which took her head clean off, and she dissolved into specks of spiritual light.

"What a terrifying man—"

Vlad III struggled to use his lance to fend off the lightning Bai Ming unleashed with every swing.

Bai Ming's assault was so fierce and dense that neither Jeanne Alter nor Vlad III, nor even Carmilla before Bai Ming had smashed her head apart with two bricks, had any chance to spare their attention for chanting magecraft.

"But I won't give you time to figure yourself out. I'll call you Jeanne Alter for now, or perhaps Jeanne d'Arc Alter—"

With Carmilla's death, the pressure on Vlad III and Jeanne Alter increased further.

Finally, under Bai Ming's relentless barrage, Vlad III was forced back some distance. Bai Ming did not waste even a few seconds, driving a crushingly powerful halberd strike toward Vlad III's head.

By shifting his grip, Bai Ming exposed a long section of his halberd's shaft, which slammed directly into Jeanne Alter's face as she attempted to attack him from behind.

"Urgh—"

Jeanne Alter immediately covered her face and staggered back several steps. Their height difference had been considerable to begin with, and now that neither Carmilla nor Vlad III could be relied upon, it was only a matter of time before she was beaten to death.

The only reason she could still fight him at all was the Holy Grail's support.

Why hadn't that damned Fafnir flown over yet?

As Jeanne Alter was thinking, Bai Ming had already thrown away his weapon.

Jeanne Alter sneered. "Have you displayed your valor and now wish to make me serve you—"

Before she could finish, Bai Ming's fist, far heavier than his halberd, smashed directly into Jeanne Alter's face. She was sent flying at once, with nothing but French curses left in her mind.

"These fists are what sent Vortigern on his final journey! What makes you think the toy Grandmaster tossed me is stronger than my fists?"

Bai Ming's movements became increasingly violent. If he had still defended a little while wielding a weapon, now he was attacking without any defense whatsoever.

Even so, Jeanne Alter had no opportunity to resist. She found it hard to imagine just how strong this man's body was.

A human body, fighting three Servants head-on.

Vlad III was not in good shape either. Bai Ming's strike sent him rolling several meters across the ground, and just as Vlad III was about to rise, the blade-edge of a cross-shaped round shield smashed into his neck.

Vlad III died on the spot. Mash had already dealt with Chevalier d'Eon and gone to support Jeanne, who had been getting beaten down by Saint Martha.

When Mash saw Bai Ming send Jeanne Alter flying with one punch before rushing in to strike her several more times, she cried out in surprise. "Ah!"

It was not fear or anything of the sort. Galahad, who had not completely run off yet, simply told Mash that this was how Bai Ming had beaten his father at the knightly tournament held by King Arthur in Britain.

Punch after punch, Jeanne Alter could not say anything at all. She could only be driven into the ground, knowing that the sole reason she had not died by now was the Holy Grail desperately keeping her alive.

But speaking of which, was she really Jeanne?

Jeanne Alter endured the pain as she began to think. A being with power beyond that of Servants had no need to lie to her. From the beginning, he had said she could not recognize herself...

Chapter 36: Senpai Ran Off with Fafnir?!

Could it be that she was not Jeanne?

Impossible!

He must have said it deliberately to shake her resolve.

Jeanne Alter quickly rejected the thought that she was not actually Jeanne herself. She was definitely Jeanne. That pathetic little girl in silver-white armor was merely dregs she had discarded. If she was not Jeanne, then why would she seek revenge upon France?

Under the Holy Grail's influence, Jeanne Alter's face shifted back and forth between utterly battered and completely uninjured.

Jeanne Alter wanted to say: Stop hitting my damn face!

Suddenly, a dragon's roar echoed across the heavens. Jeanne Alter felt the weight on her body lessen, and under the Holy Grail's power, her appearance returned to normal. Even her shattered armor was restored.

Saint Martha had also been defeated by Jeanne and Mash working together.

Jeanne Alter could not accept the outcome of this battle at all. The five of them had been wiped out by one man who could fight, one girl who was not good at it, and one pathetic little girl?

Just as she planned to throw out some threats before escaping with Fafnir's help, she heard Bai Ming's slightly excited voice. "That bastard Fafnir finally showed up. I've been holding back for ages. Otherwise, I would've torn out your heart and taken the Holy Grail long ago. Still, keeping you alive has its uses—"

Huh—?

Jeanne Alter's mind stopped working. He knew the Holy Grail was inside her? She was still useful?

"Come on, Fafnir. You black dragon are excellent Magic Material. Speaking of which, Vortigern's corpse materials are still sitting in the system space. I almost forgot—"

Bai Ming grabbed Jeanne Alter, whom he had pounded into the ground, and yanked her up. His tone was hurried and violent. "You were summoned too, right? Looking at those four who died, you should understand that things can be tampered with during a summoning, right? Think carefully about your life before you died. I don't like beating to death someone who doesn't even know what they are."

With that, Jeanne Alter was thrown away, while Bai Ming charged toward Fafnir with a loud cry of WRYYYYY. Fafnir roared, completely unable to understand why this "little ant" had gone mad and was rushing at him.

But when that fist landed on his body, Fafnir's instincts sent him an overwhelming sense of danger. He immediately tried to take flight, only for Bai Ming to move with astonishing speed and cling directly to Fafnir's body.

Fafnir grew increasingly uneasy, immediately flying up and vanishing beyond the horizon, leaving Mash and Jeanne staring at the collapsed Jeanne Alter, who sat on the ground covering her face and contemplating life.

After freezing for two or three seconds, Mash finally realized Fafnir had flown away with her senior. "S-Senpai?! Doctor Roman, Senpai has been taken away by the evil dragon!"

Roman's voice came through. "Ah, ah, I know, I know. The evil dragon doesn't even steal treasure or princesses anymore?"

"Then why are you so calm?!"

"Wouldn't it be fine if he cleared every Singularity by himself? Among Team A's Master candidates, Daybit, Kirschtaria, and Bai Ming were all overwhelmingly powerful even before they came to Chaldea—"

While Roman and Mash discussed the situation and arranged what came next, Jeanne walked toward Jeanne Alter. After Jeanne Alter looked at Jeanne, she asked coldly, "The other me, do you have memories from before you died?"

Bai Ming's words had indeed made Jeanne Alter think about her life before death. Yet no matter how she searched her barren mind, she found no information at all, only the fact that she had been burned alive.

In other words, there really was something wrong with her, wasn't there?

She could not figure it out. She could not figure it out.

Jeanne did not understand why she was asking and answered, "I do."

Jeanne Alter left without a word.

Mash could only continue the journey with Jeanne.

◇ Elsewhere

"You black dragon, get down here!"

On the dragon's back, Bai Ming grabbed a dragon scale with one hand and punched Fafnir's head. Fafnir howled endlessly, throwing himself around in the air.

In an instant, Fafnir's body swayed in midair. Bai Ming laughed. "You've got guts for a good dragon. Let me reward you with a few more punches."

With that, another barrage of punches followed. Fafnir, wracked with pain, became ruthless as well. Bai Ming moved back and forth between his head and neck, leaving Fafnir unable to launch an effective attack against him. Fafnir then flew toward the heights before flipping over with his back facing the ground and plummeting straight down, hoping to kill Bai Ming that way.

Unexpectedly, Bai Ming immediately grinned when he saw Fafnir exposing his belly to the sky. Against the tremendous wind pressure, he connected with the Thought Key Patterns and chanted, "This disciple respectfully invites Marshal Wang Jinlian, who wields a golden whip and rides a fire wheel, to command the Five Thunders and transmit the order..."

As the words left his mouth, dark clouds rolled across the sky and thunder rumbled in waves.

The form of Wang Lingguan, Heavenly General of the Jade Pivot Fire Mansion, appeared high in the sky. He held a golden whip, stood upon fire wheels, and carried a ritual implement known as the Five Thunder Command in his other hand.

These Five Thunders were the thunder of the five directions, encompassing east, south, west, north, and center.

As Bai Ming chanted, Wang Lingguan, Heavenly General of the Jade Pivot Fire Mansion, waved his hand, and lightning from the five directions descended in an instant. Fafnir let out a miserable howl. Wherever the lightning passed, dragon scales shattered and dragon flesh charred.

Bai Ming simply released Fafnir, letting himself fall freely while Fafnir suffered the agony of the Five Thunders striking his head.

"Ah—here's the problem. How am I supposed to land?"

Bai Ming calculated his remaining magical energy, then began searching casually through the privileged domain of the Thought Key Patterns. After searching for a while, he muttered, "Ah, there it is. I don't know whether I have enough magical energy, but it seems this is the only way..."

Among the Thirty-Six Heavenly Transformations and Seventy-Two Earthly Transformations, there was an Earthly Transformation called Cloud Summoning, which summoned a cloud to ride upon and travel through the skies.

Bai Ming immediately formed hand seals and began chanting. A mass of clouds gathered beneath him, catching him and swiftly carrying him away, while Fafnir was struck all the way from the sky to the ground by the lightning of the five directions.

Of course, Bai Ming's landing was not stable. When he was still some distance from the ground, the clouds dispersed because Bai Ming lacked the magical energy to maintain them, sending him straight toward the earth.

After this, my face is definitely going to be ruined.

So Bai Ming invoked Golden Light Body Protection. With a thud, he smashed into the ground, while Fafnir fell from the sky as well. Bai Ming rested for a moment before walking straight toward where the demonic dragon Fafnir had landed.

Fafnir had been blasted to the ground by Bai Ming's absurd remote lightning technique and was barely breathing.

Bai Ming walked toward Fafnir step by step, raising his hand high. "I won, Fafnir—"

Bai Ming took out his halberd and used the Pojun Star Power upon it to sever Fafnir's head amid the dragon's howl. Bathed in dragon blood, he then stuffed Fafnir's entire corpse into the system space.

Afterward, Bai Ming lay down on a grassland whose location he did not even know, resting beneath the azure sky and the enormous band of light overhead.

Chapter 37: Don't Use a Disgusting Word Like "Gentle" to Describe Me

A brisk breeze blew as the wilderness stretched endlessly. Bai Ming lay quietly in the boundless grasslands, completely at ease.

Everything seemed to have stopped. It was as though there was nothing left in Bai Ming's heart. He simply enjoyed the breeze and green grass, feeling only the relaxed comfort after a great victory.

Meanwhile, Mash and Jeanne were searching for Bai Ming under Roman's guidance.

Going out on missions with her senior was, in some ways, a form of torment. At least, that was what Mash thought while searching for Bai Ming. But once she found him, that thought quickly faded.

After searching for a while, Mash and Jeanne found Bai Ming in the endless emerald grasslands, completely relaxed as though he had become one with nature.

Seeing Bai Ming's (?ω?) expression, Mash could not help thinking, Did Senpai come here on vacation?

"Senpai, so you were here. Hurry and get up, we still need to—" Mash looked at Bai Ming's utterly listless appearance and wanted to say something, but Bai Ming interrupted her before she could finish. "Mash, come lie here."

"Huh? But we still need to investigate—"

"Come on, come on. This is a rare chance to relax."

Bai Ming firmly made Mash lie down in the grass, quietly watching the enormous band of light in the sky. "Jeanne, lie down here too and relax for a while... I forgot you can't understand me. Translator Mash, tell Miss Jeanne to lie down here and rest for the moment. I still need some time."

"Roger! Translating now."

After hearing Mash's translation, Jeanne lay down directly on the grass.

Though she currently lacked much information, she could still see some very basic things.

The man before her was short on magical energy and could only maintain the bare minimum Servant connection. That was why he had been lying here quietly, waiting for his magical energy to recover.

Jeanne kindly explained to Mash, "Actually, Mr. Bai Ming is low on magical energy. He can only barely maintain the Servant connection right now. If we move out, it may cause even worse problems."

"Huh? Senpai is low on magical energy?"

Upon hearing that, Mash immediately blushed, unable to stop herself from thinking of the ways Magi rapidly replenished magical energy.