Iridescent Spirit - Chapter 54 Paint Tricks

“How dare you hurt my Bridget!”

Natalie Blois shouted after entering the ruined alleyway.

After ignoring Jae’s words, she dashed into the city to find her best friend. With the loud explosions that occurred within the area, it was no wonder how Natalie was able to discover Bridget’s location.

“N..ata…lie?” Bridget squeezed out a whimper as she heard a familiar deep voice.

A girl with a lower body of a spider’s groaned. Several of her legs were either fractured or lopped off at the tip. Her freckled face winced at the pain of being choked at the neck. And, her long hair was cut short.

“You.”

Natalie’s indigo irises shone in the dark.

“R..un!” Bridget cried.

The antelope mask turned toward the source of the voice. Tossing the limp arachnid away, the antelope mask formed a javelin out of mana in one hand with holding a spear in the other.

He shot the javelin at the merwoman as it pierced through her.

“N-Natalie!” Bridget struggled to stand up while pounding on her thighs, “Please move! I have to help her! Why can’t I move!”

However, the figure that was penetrated through was not Natalie. Like water, the figure melted into a puddle and slid on the ground toward Bridget.

The antelope mask threw a javelin into the puddle, but it was not affected. Splitting into three blobs of different colors, the paint stained the floor as it crept closer. However, the paint dried up before it could reach the arachnid.

Seeing how the paint was no longer moving, the antelope mask aimed his weapon at Bridget herself to finish her.

But, behind the man was a single blue puddle.

“Ugh,” the man convulsed in pain as he turned to look at his wound. The merwoman from earlier had emerged from the paint and stabbed through the man’s back.

While her paint art could basically control any paint, Natalie could enter a single color that matches the color of her body for less than a minute. Earlier, she had produced a paint clone from diluted paints and water, which would easily fall apart.

If one had observed closely, then they would have noticed that the clone looked nothing like Natalie. It was simply water with a blue tint trying to imitate Natalie’s figure.

Although Natalie was one of Ath’s races, mermen could only obtain a boost in their physical abilities in enough water. A meager puddle of paint was not enough to raise her physique from a child’s strength.

Clenching onto Natalie’s spear, the antelope masked man wrenched the weapon out of his back and pried it away from Natalie’s grasp. Black blood spurt from his wound, but he did not mind.

Natalie was exposed to the antelope mask. While she could reenter the puddle in a flash, she would be ejected from it after thirty seconds.

As the antelope mask’s spear descended upon Natalie, she completely jumped out of the blue puddle and chucked the last of her paint into the antelope mask’s eye openings.

Because he was blinded, the antelope mask tried detect Natalie’s presence through scanning for her aura.

But, he soon realized that her aura was in several distinct places a short distance from one another.

“Impossible!” He muttered. There should be no way for any humanoid race, not to mention mermen, to split into multiple bodies. Furthermore, with their insufficient magic capacities, mermen should not be able to use magic.

However, the antelope man sensed Natalie’s body in different areas at once.

Using this opportunity, Natalie scrambled to Bridget. Defeating the masked man was secondary. She had to save her friend first!

Tracing the sound of Natalie’s footsteps, the antelope mask hurled his projectile. Natalie bent down as the pointed weapon grazed her shoulder.

The antelope masked man took off his mask, revealing the face a grey skinned demon. Rubbing the paint off his eyes, the man identified Natalie and Bridget struggling away from the alleyway.

“Stop right there,” the demon demanded. From the corner of her vision, Natalie could see a single eye with dual pupils under his hood.

The demon crushed his antelope skull mask to dust. From the dust emerged a spear constructed of bone.

Spinning the spear around once, the demon rushed at duo. In a split second, Natalie pushed Bridget away and narrowly avoided the demon’s thrust.

“Natalie!”

As she tumbled over, a familar voice sounded in the distance.

“Jae!” She replied with renewed vigor.

However instead of a boy with silver eyes, what she saw was a bipedal cow with the wings of a angel holding a cymbal.

“W-what?”

“Melody, what the hell are they seeing?” The cow sighed. Judging by the reactions and faces of everyone around him, the illusion Melody covered him with was probably something absurd. Since he himself could not visualize the illusion, he could only guess what they witnessed him as.

“You said I could turn you into anything!” Melody retorted. Honestly, she was fed up with having to run around the city and decided to take her frustrations out on Jae.

“What are you two like talking about?” Lucy tilted her head. Melody made it so her illusion could not be seen by Lucy.

“Tch, I’m outnumbered,” the single-eyed demon prepared to escape. Two insect-like wings protruded from his back.

“We’re not letting you run,” Jae equipped his mace while advancing toward the demon.

Inching as close as he could to the demon, Jae made a wide swing. However, the demon easily sidestepped that slow mace.

Only to be pierced by Lucy’s metal pole right into his open wound.

“When did she appear there?” The demon’s eyes seemed to express. Coughing blood, the demon was struck down by Jae’s second swing.

Lucy planted her hand within her chest and drew out a golden ring. Adding mana into the ring, it activated and wrapped around the fallen demon.

Touching the demon’s forehead, Lucy chanted a spell, which put the demon into a deep slumber.

“I’m going to take custody of this demon. We’re going to try interrogating this baby,” Lucy slung the demon over her shoulder effortlessly. Despite her thin and feminine appearance, her robust physique as a subordinate of the church was no joke.

“B-Bridget! Are you a-alright?” Natalie staggered toward the trembling arachnid.

“Yeah, somehow,” Bridget replied. With a few broken spider legs and bruises all over her body, the current state of her body was poor.

“She’s an arachnid?” Lucy crouched over her after laying the demon down next to a half crumbled wall.

Bridget had to toss her robe away to run faster than the paladin and now, her entire lower body was revealed. Furthermore, her mask had fallen off at some point, revealing a delicate freckled face with eight red eyes.

“Oh, don’t like worry. The Church of Unity doesn’t discriminate against arachnids or demons and the like, but not everyone accepts undead. That’s like around where the bottom line is,” Lucy explained while placing her hand between her breasts.

From there, a bottle of medical ointment appeared. Lucy tenderly applied the medicine onto Bridget’s bruises and legs as they gradually healed.

“This medicinal paste won’t regrow your legs, but after you shed, it should grow back if I’m not wrong,” Lucy rustled Bridget’s hair, “It’s not so bad having short hair. Just think of it as a new look, plus hair grows quickly.”

“Thanks,” Bridget nodded.

Without waiting any longer, Natalie embraced Bridget tightly.

“Natalie?” Bridget asked.

“I w-was so worried that I would lose you. W-when I noticed those explosions, I th-thought something bad h-happened to you. T-there was a ch-chance you had died from yet another explosion,” she trembled, “I-I was so scared.”

Natalie’s eyes reddened and tiny droplets flowed out from them.

Bridget smiled exhaustedly as she stroked Natalie’s hair.

“Don’t worry, I won’t die an untimely death again. Not without aging for another fifty years,” Bridget consoled.

Natalie nodded within her sniffles.

She did not want Bridget to suffer anymore.

Not this time.

“Groan.”

The paladin, who everyone believed to be a dead carcass, stirred.

“What? Isn’t that Brandur? Hahaha! He looks so pathetic right now!” Lucy laughed at the twitching paladin.

“Is that Lucy I hear?” Brandur grimaced. His childhood bully just had to recognize him in this sorry state.

“Dang, you’re like so weakened right now!” Lucy opened the container for the medicine and simply dumped it all over Brandur.

Compared to how gently she treated Bridget, the way she handled Brandur was savage.

“It stings and itches!” Brandur flinched. With that much paste, the acceleration of his body’s natural healing would increase rapidly, leading to extreme pain.

Lucy roared in laughter. That prideful paladin who gallantly rode to war was squirming under her. If he did not head to war all those years ago, then Lucy would have cucked the man by now.

“Wait, where’s the demon?” Melody asked in shock.

“What?”

While Lucy was administering medicine to the injured, Jae and Melody kept watch over the demon. However, the demon had disappeared into the shadows right under their noses.

“Sh*t.”
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