Crossover Anime: Picking up Medea at the Start

After all, Esdeath has only recently obtained her Imperial Arms and is far from reaching her peak form when the original story unfolded. Moreover, she is not yet one of the Empire's Twin Pillars. Although her military achievements are outstanding enough to warrant being awarded an Imperial Arms, her accomplishments are far less formidable than they will be in the future.

But even with all that, Esdeath still met the requirements.

This made Roland's smile even more pronounced.

Just as he had expected, the Imperial Arms that allowed him to directly drink the Demon God Manifestation and merge with himself not only brought him abilities and improved his physical attributes, but also enhanced Esdeath's potential abilities!

"...I have learned about all the generals in the empire, and I also know about General Bud, but after looking around, I found that only you are qualified and the most suitable."

Ok?

Roland's words left Esdeath somewhat confused.

But what he said next made Esdeath laugh.

"General Esdeath, do you think you are strong enough now?"

"of course."

When faced with Roland's question, Esdeath gave an answer without hesitation.

Upon hearing her answer, Roland nodded, then walked into the training ground and waved to her.

"In that case, please come in. Before I tell you what's next, I think it will make the meeting go more smoothly if we talk to you in this way."

"General Esdeath, how about we have a match?"

Esdeath is undoubtedly a battle maniac.

However, she showed little interest in the battle, and even frowned slightly.

"Your Majesty, swords have no eyes. If I were to fight you, the outcome would not be what you want to see."

Esdeath had tried her best to be tactful, but Roland said what she hadn't said directly.

"You think this fight is boring, or you think it will be troublesome if you hurt me—it's okay. If I die at your hands, it just means I'm nothing special, so don't blame me. So come on without worry."

Even though Roland said that, Esdeath still wanted to refuse.

But before she could even speak, she noticed that Roland's gaze had changed.

Roland ignited his golden eyes, and now that the group of gods had included fourteen people, his strange divinity had also expanded considerably in scale.

Although compared to gods like Ishtar, Roland's divinity was still not great, it was only after merging with the Shadow Wolf that he could barely be considered passable in the eyes of a god of Ishtar's level.

But when you bring it to the world of Kill!, things are different.

Even if divinity is small in scale, it is still divinity!

Moreover, Roland's divinity, though small in scale, is terrifyingly pure.

So in that instant, all the sounds that were around us before—birdsong, insect chirping, even the rustling of leaves in the wind—vanished!

Before this, Esdeath had never imagined the world would be so quiet, so quiet that she could hear her own heartbeat. It was precisely because of this that she was able to notice immediately that her heartbeat had unconsciously quickened.

She seemed to have sunk into the deep sea.

In this quiet world, there was a sense of suffocation.

"I forgive you for your crime. Come, enter the room."

Roland's voice rang out again, and this time Esdeath did not refuse.

She walked up to Roland, and even though she felt immense pressure from him, she still smiled, and even smiled very happily.

Seeing Esdeath so openly radiating killing intent and fighting spirit towards him, Roland still wore a very gentle smile, just like before.

"Let's do it."

boom!

As Roland spoke, a roar resounded throughout the arena, and Esdeath's figure rushed directly in front of Roland!

Holding a weapon, she is the most elite warrior.

And she, unarmed, is a beast that exudes an even stronger sense of oppression than those dangerous creatures!

Seeing Esdeath in this pose reminded Roland of a saying.

Humans are animals too, and are members of a group that humans call beasts!

Esdeath's attacks came at Roland from all sorts of tricky angles.

Roland, on the other hand, maintained his shadow fusion state, trying to fully trust the instincts brought by the Shadow Warrior and using these instincts to resist Esdeath's attacks.

Using Esdeath as a practice target is the most suitable.

After all, Artoria and the others won't go all out like Esdeath—Esdeath fights without restraint, and while she might not kill you, she won't hold back much!

Only such an attack could make Roland more easily sense the Shadow Warrior's fighting instincts.

Moreover, although her physical abilities might be stronger than General Bud's after drinking the Demon God's Manifestation Essence, she is far inferior to Roland in his shadow fusion state.

After being blessed by the gods and upgraded to Lv3, transforming into a god of shadow wolves, and possessing the Shadow Warrior, Roland's physical attributes far surpassed Artoria's, even without transforming into a shadow dragon, activating the wolf blood, or even in a state of only partial fusion.

It's even stronger than Hercules's physical attributes after he went berserk!

This is not something Esdeath can easily pull off now.

So even if her attack hit Roland's vitals, it wouldn't be a big deal. Even if Roland hesitated because he didn't trust his instincts, his speed would allow him to catch up immediately after he reacted.

Roland quickly adapted to the fighting style of relying on the instincts of a shadow warrior under such circumstances, and then he kicked Esdeath away.

"Use the Imperial Arms."

Roland said that first, and then he immediately added something else.

"There's no need to pay attention to the rumor that one of the Imperial Arms users will inevitably die in a battle. Even if it were true, I don't carry any Imperial Arms with me."

Hearing Roland say that, Esdeath didn't feel that Roland looked down on her.

Or rather, in her eyes, this is normal!

After all, given her combat skills, she could just sense that Roland was using her as a practice subject, so it's perfectly normal for him to be bored now and want her to take things seriously!

What right do the weak have to show mercy to the strong?

but...

"Your Majesty, although this training ground is quite large, it is still too small for my Imperial Arms."

Roland raised an eyebrow when he heard Esdeath say that.

"There's not enough space... No problem."

Roland snapped his fingers.

Then, in Esdeath's eyes, the world seemed to evaporate in an instant!

Then darkness became the dominant color of the entire world. There was no sky, no earth, and everything around seemed to have turned into chaos. Only she, Roland opposite her, and Bai Mao watching from the sidelines remained. The three of them stood on the chaos!

"Come on, there's plenty of space here, let's go all out."

All of this was completely incomprehensible to Esdeath.

But this also made her even more excited.

It's good that you can't understand it!

This is exactly the same as when she first learned about the Imperial Arms!

Discover the unknown, understand the unknown, and then... become stronger!

Esdeath always found such things fascinating.

Fighting and torture—that's where her fun lies!

If there's anything else besides that... this is an idea she's only recently had, and that's to try dating.

But she has only recently figured out what kind of romantic partner she needs—mainly struggling with the question of where the other person is from and their age.

Originally, she wanted to find someone on the border of the capital, preferably not someone from the capital itself. However, upon returning this time, she discovered that after Minister Ernest's downfall, the area around the capital was getting better and better, so she deleted that option.

She wanted to find someone younger than herself in terms of age, but after thinking it over, she felt that it was okay if she didn't have that option—after all, she could control the younger one, so why couldn't she control the older one?

You can't be too much bigger than yourself!

So her criteria for choosing a partner were complete.

First, one must have a future, hoping that the other party can train themselves to become a general.

While engaging in this divergent thinking to resist the oppressive feeling emanating from Roland's divinity, Esdeath charged towards Roland once again, and as she launched her charge, a massive glacier rose out of thin air from the chaos.

Esdeath trampled him under her feet, and a long spear made of ice appeared in her hand at some unknown time. With the momentum of a giant land ship, she rammed into Roland!

boom!

Roland raised his hand, and a shadow spear, identical to the one Esdeath had made of ice, appeared in his hand. After he steadied himself, it directly blocked Esdeath's powerful attack.

Then Esdeath leaped high into the air with Roland's help.

Secondly, you must have courage; you must be able to hunt dangerous species with me, even if you're empty-handed!

As Esdeath moved, a huge block of ice instantly condensed in the air, and then Esdeath, who was flying into the air, stepped on the ice meteorite the size of a small mountain and kicked it directly towards Roland's location!

Upon seeing the meteorite, Roland shook his hand, dispelling the shadow spear, and clenched his fist.

In an instant, an aura even more savage, more violent, and with a stronger killing intent and fighting spirit than Esdeath emanated from her.