Blade Skill Online: With Trash Job ‘Summoner’, Weakest Weapon ‘Bow’, and Rotten Stat ‘Luck’, I Rise

[Ultimate Engagement Ring: Love Blooms After Death]

“Hm…?”

Before we restart our fight. Suddenly, some kind of powder fell from Korin’s neck.

On a closer look, it was her necklace crumbling to dust.

“Ugh, there it goes.”

Korin brushed the bottom of her neck. There I noticed the ring on the middle finger of her right hand.

That diabolic design—it gotta be…!

“‘Cursed Ring’, the accessory that set HP to 1. It’s what you were looking for before.”

I see. Now I knew where she got her extreme speed from.

“You sacrificed your HP to boost your stat, just like I did.”

In this game, there were items with the condition of “Can be activated when HP is below X”.

For instance, the ‘Evil God Contract Necklace’ I was wearing. It was an accessory that tripled Luck when the wearer was at 1 HP.

Another example was ‘Might of Suicidal Fool’, a skill that tripled Strength when the user was at 1 HP. Korin must have boosted her Agility to the extreme using a similar skill or equipment.

…But in that case, she should have died when she got kicked by Maa-kun…

“Oh, I see, it must be that necklace. I’m guessing it had the ability to negate damage, and in exchange, the ring would shatter. Am I right?”

I pointed out, and Korin nodded.

“Yes, you’re right. I drew inspiration from your build and have significantly boosted my Agility to the extreme. Of course, I can’t use ‘Guts’ and ‘Tenacity’ for the obvious reason of my lack of Luck, so I opted for an accessory called ‘Necklace of Sacrifice’ as insurance.”

You can only use it once a day, and it gets destroyed after use—she said with a wry smile.

I see. That gave me a whole new appreciation for my ‘Tenacity’; it was really exceptional.

“Incidentally, the skill is called ‘Swift Overdrive’. It triples your Agility when you’re at 1 HP. It can’t be used along with other tripling-type skills, but it’s incredible, right?”

“Well, I’ve experienced your newfound speed for myself, yeah. So am I right in guessing that Seele got a similar skill that triples her Strength?”

“Yes~!”

Korin grinned widely for some reason. She threw her arm around my former aide’s shoulder and said “Right, Seele-san♪?”

When I took a closer look, I could see that Seele also had a ‘Cursed Ring’ worn on the middle finger of her left hand. Also, her face was bright red for some reason.

“Ugh, stop it, you little kitten! Don’t touch me!”

“Come on, don’t be shy, Seele-san. Tell Yuri-san here your skill name. Say: ‘I have the ‘Might of a Suicidal Fool’.”

“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh?! I told you to never say that dumb skill’s name in front of me again!”

Seele started attacking Korin for real. But with her extreme speed, the cat-eared ninja effortlessly dodged her fists while laughing “Ehehe.”

Ohh… Seele was embarrassed by her skill’s name. Then again, it wasn’t very flattering.

“I see, I see. You used to be capable of explosively increasing your stats by killing your allies with the equipment from Grimm too, but the buff was only temporary.”

But this time her explosive Strength remained even long after she took down Atlach Nacha; it was because of the ‘Might of a Suicidal Fool’.

“Everything clicked now. –So what are you guys scheming?”

““……””

At my question, the two turned serious again.

Staring at me, Korin muttered, “So you’ve caught us.”

Well, it was only natural.

“I told you back at the previous event; there are only two reasons why someone would start blabbing in the middle of a battle–either they are buying time or just a plain idiot.

“…and you guys are my rivals. You are no idiots.”

Besides, the seals from ‘Spirit Sword Futsunomitama’ would come undone in a few minutes.

No way they would waste such precious time for no reason.

“Now, show me the ace up in your sleeve you’ve got to defeat me!”

I readied my bow and arrows.

Then, with a determined look on their faces, the girls’ clasped each other’s hands. The ‘Cursed Rings’ on their middle fingers lay on top of each other.

“Facing a higher-level opponent for more than a minute without separating from your partner—the activation condition has been met. Demon King, keep your eyes open and witness, our ultimate skill.”

“…It was a pure coincidence that we acquired this skill. The acquisition condition is extremely stringent: ‘A very low probability to learn when players with the same ring-type accessory and the same amount of HP killed each other’.”

A change occurred to them.

Starting from their interlinked fingers, a cherry blossom-colored light spread out and enveloped their bodies.

“Hey, hey… what’s happening…?!”

–The power of a skill depended on the strictness of its acquisition and activation condition.

Going by that rule, the skill they were going to activate should be of the strongest class!

““Behold, our full power! Activate ability-sharing skill, ‘Ultimate Engagement Ring: Love Blooms After Death’!””