Female Leads Obsess Over a Counter-Attack Character with Narrow Eyes

Crash!

I shattered the beautiful bead in my hand. Then a message voice echoed in my head.

[You have acquired Cognitive Acceleration (one-time use)]

After quickly scanning the achievement shop while talking to Letios, I purchased the most useful trait available among those I could afford.

Namely, Thought Acceleration, which as the name suggests, allows me to think at a faster speed for a short time.

One might wonder why I didn’t purchase an attack trait, but I have my own plan.

First, provoke Letios so she unleashes a magic attack with her full power.

Second, use Thought Acceleration the moment Letios uses her magic, then place my hand on the scabbard at my waist and wait for the right moment.

Third, activate Counter Attack at the perfect timing and send it back at her.

Letios is an elite monster with low defense but high charm and magical power.
In other words, she’s one of the rarest glass cannons out there.

If the counter hits properly, she will surely perish.

‘Of course, if I fail, I’ll be the one perishing.’

I’ll certainly face death if I fail, but this is the only way to survive.

After all, it’s impossible to kill Letios with the traits purchasable with just 300 achievement points.

Since I’d end up dying within days even if I became a Ma’in, shouldn’t I at least take a gamble?

I cleared my throat and continued to run my mouth.

“Now it’s shattered. The bead that boasted beautiful beauty is now gone. Is there any difference between your beauty and these fragmented bead pieces? Yes! Of course there is! These bead fragments are hundreds of times more beautiful than you. At least in my eyes.”

“This… this…!”

“Of~ course, this is just my personal opinion, so please don’t worry too much. Isn’t it best if you think you’re beautiful yourself? Haha. I’ll support you.”

Forgetting to manage her expression, Letios scrunched her face and clenched her fist, creating a huge fireball.

The heat that reached me vividly despite being about 15 meters away from her.
How many living beings could survive a direct hit from that hot magic?

But it’s still not enough.
I can’t take down Letios with just that magic.

“This, I think I’ve overestimated you too much. If that’s your full power, you should really think once more about whether to attack.”

I looked at her fireball and subtly sneered while advising her.

“No matter how insignificant the fangs you bare, once you show them, I have no choice but to live up to your expectations.”

And, I opened my eyes.

Letios’s complexion grew increasingly pale.

“…What are you?”

“Me? I’m just an ordinary student at Luin Academy. Didn’t you already know that?”

It was just that my usually closed eyes were now open, but it was enough to instill caution in her.

With a hardened expression, she arranged her magical power again.
She created an even hotter, more fierce sphere of flames.

“You… are a dangerous one. You need to die now.”

It seems the provocation was successful, judging by her immense misunderstanding.

The rest now depends entirely on me.

[Main Character — Letios feels a slight fear of you]
[You receive 500 points as a reward]

Some text appeared, but I ignored it lightly. I need to focus.

I composed myself and stared ahead while maintaining a deliberately casual expression.

Rumble!!!!

Letios staggered from excessive use of magical power, and simultaneously, hellfire rushed towards me.

Right after that, I used Cognitive Acceleration.
The flow of the world as I perceive it slows down significantly.

The sound of my heart beating rapidly, even the sweat running down Letios’s cheek, everything approaches slowly.

I concentrate my senses.

I focus only on that disaster approaching me, erasing all other elements from my mind.

I hold my breath and grip the handle of the sword in my waist scabbard with all my might, as if it were my lifeline.

Here it comes.

5
4
3
2
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Now!

Enduring the hot heat of the hellfire with gritted teeth, I drew my sword from its slumbering scabbard.

And activated Counter Attack.

Then.

Clang!!!

“Oops~!”

A uniquely refreshing sound echoed.

My feeble sword met the hellfire, and as if it were a lie, it deflected that terrible disaster back to its owner.

Perfect timing.

“…!”

I can see Letios’s trembling eyes.

“Impossible…!”

Boom!!!

The hellfire collided with the protective barrier Letios created by squeezing out all her remaining magical power.

Crash!!

The barrier immediately broke without resistance.

The magic she created to destroy her enemy led to her own destruction.

“Ah….”

Whoosh!

The terrible flames mercilessly devoured Letios’s beautiful body.
All that remained of her was dark ashes still burning.

As she died, the black space surrounding me flowed away like melting snow.

“…Did I get her?”

Just to be sure, I even tried an incantation for revival, but Letios did not rise again.

“Phew, I almost died— urgh.”

A sudden groan escaped my mouth as I was letting out a sigh of relief.

“Gugh….”

Terrible pain is felt throughout my body.
My body trembles involuntarily.

I checked my right hand, which was in the most pain.

“Hmm… it’s my hand but it looks terribly disfigured. Sss, it hurts.”

The back of my hand had its skin completely peeled off due to burns, and even my wrist, which was in slightly better condition, was covered in blisters.

“If I don’t get first aid quickly, this won’t end well.”

In contrast to my seemingly relaxed words, my arm and entire body were shaking extremely.
This is truly excruciating pain, almost enough to kill.
I need treatment quickly, but the problem is I can’t move properly because of the pain.

Would someone come if I screamed?

“Help…! Oh?”

Before my survival-instinct-filled distress signal could fully leave my vocal cords, text that looked familiar appeared before my eyes.

[…Detected elimination of high-level monster Letios before reaching 2-star level, abnormal task completion detected. Calculating rewards]
[Reward calculation complete for performed task. Rewards will be distributed]
[Rewards — Evolution of possessed trait, 5000 achievement points, Title (Mouth of Destruction)]

This seems to be the reward given to me for defeating Letios earlier.

“5000 achievement points is quite a lot… I’m lucky.”

It seems I’ve been given such a reward for defeating an opponent overwhelmingly stronger than my level.

Well, whatever, good is good.

Opening the achievement shop, I immediately purchased two vials of intermediate healing potion for 200 points each.

Using my left hand, which was in slightly better condition, I gulped down one and poured the other over my right arm, which had the worst injuries.

“Ugh… I can’t even pretend this doesn’t hurt…!”

New flesh slowly began to grow from the wounded areas. The process was terribly painful, but I couldn’t leave the wounds untreated, so I continued the treatment with tears barely held back.

After soaking my right arm with the potion, I bought one more and carefully applied it to other burning areas.

As time passed like living hell, when the wounds had regenerated to some extent, the pain began to subside.

“I almost got recorded as someone who died of shock while administering first aid.”

With all the energy drained from my body, I leaned against the wall and stared blankly at the empty space for a moment.

Ah, breathing is enjoyable.

Too many things happened in a short time. I needed some time to stabilize.

So, I was slowly being devoured by sleep as I personally experienced the joy of doing nothing…

“Hmm, I’m tired, but it’s too early to fall asleep.”

I shook my head vigorously from side to side to drive away sleep.

“I’m sure I remember receiving other rewards besides achievement points.”

To check directly, I opened the status window.

Character: Sion Frelia

Title Equipped — Mouth of Destruction

Achievement Points – 4900

Special Qualities
[Counterforce — Heroic(0.0%)]
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[Deceiver – Heroic]
Adept at deceiving and tricking opponents. Can hide your true self and show a fabricated appearance in any situation.

First, my eyes were drawn to that title at the top, ‘Mouth of Destruction’.

“There was such a title?”

This is an unfamiliar title even to me, who has enjoyed Grand Fantasia for a long time. The sound of it isn’t exactly pretty, but I wonder how it performs.

[Mouth of Destruction — Easily excites opponents during combat dialogue]

An honorable qualification granted only to those who make beings far stronger than themselves grab the back of their necks in frustration. Probably not something you’d proudly boast about elsewhere.

“Oh… this title is a perfect match for me!”

It’s a very useful title for me, who only has counterattack as an offensive means.
If the enemy gets excited, I can use counterattacks more efficiently.

“First gift is a hit. Then what about the second gift?”

Next, I turned my attention to the changed trait.
First, Poker Face had evolved into Deceiver.

“A Heroic-grade trait… my heart is racing!”

Grand Fantasia’s traits are divided into a total of 5 ranks.

Common < Rare < Heroic < Legendary < Mythic

Among these, Heroic is the third rank.

It’s a rank that requires a considerable level of prior understanding of the game and luck, definitely not something easily obtained.

But now it’s in my hands. And I have two of them.

[Counterforce — Heroic(0.0%)]
Counterattack against an opponent’s attack. You can choose one of three counterattack forms to counter with. (All counterattack forms share cooldowns)

Weak Strike — Can counterattack with 0.5 times the damage of the opponent’s attack (Cooldown — 2 seconds)

Medium Strike — Can counterattack with 1 time the damage of the opponent’s attack, ignores a certain amount of stiffness (Cooldown — 10 seconds)

Strong Strike — Can counterattack with 2 times the damage of the opponent’s attack, emits a sword energy forward after counterattacking that makes surrounding enemies unable to act for a short time. Resists all damage (Cooldown – 50 seconds)

Counter Attack evolved into Counterforce.
As it grew to Heroic rank, the damage and versatility improved, and above all…

“A growth-type trait!”

Literally, it’s a trait that grows the more you use it.
Growth-type skills are already famously difficult to obtain, but to start at Heroic rank? Kheu.

“One day it might grow into a Legendary, or even beyond that, a Mythic trait!”

Ugh, my chest hurts from pounding so hard.
I might die from this.

“Whew, I was so happy I didn’t even notice the time passing.”

Suppressing my excited heart, I looked at the clock and saw it was already pointing to 12:30.

Normally, I would be vigorously playing games while having a late-night snack, but now I’m extremely tired.

“No matter what, I can’t just lie down on the floor and fall asleep.”

With my heavy body, I struggled to get up and moved to find Sion’s room, which had now become my room.

However, if there was one fact I overlooked.

“Isn’t this place… too big!!”

The mansion was larger than I had imagined.