I Became the Demon King of Lust

These knives were coming right at me at a speed that was faster than I was moving at.

If I ignored them, they would reach me before I could reach the frail looking young man with glasses.

So in the end, I had no choice but to stop and turn around.

With a flick of my sword, I knocked all of these knives out of the air and they all fell to the ground.

I waited for a second to see if they would move again, but nothing happened.

Only when I was sure that they didn't do anything did I turn around to face the frail looking young man with glasses.

But I turned around to find that he had already run off.

He didn't wait for me to approach and had run away to create more distance between us.

I knitted my brows when I saw this, but I could appreciate this.

This was a smart move since it was clear that I was someone who fought close up.

When he had long range attacks like this and I was someone who fought close range, it was good to keep distance and slowly wear me down.

But his one problem was that he ran too slow to get away.

So I said, "Faster."

This time, I wasn't holding back at all.

This time, I dashed at him much faster than last time and it seemed like I would catch up to him once again.

But when I was about to reach him, the frail looking young man with glasses suddenly turned around and threw more knives at me. These knives came right at my face and they were thrown at close range, so they reached me in an instant.

It was just too bad that my buff wasn't just for my running speed, but my overall speed.

That included my reaction speed.

I was able to react in time and slash out to knock these knives to the ground.

After that slash though, I didn't stop my sword.

I let myself continue into this slash and used the momentum to turn around.

Using this slash, I also cut down the knives that were coming at my back. These were the knives that I had knocked down and had been on the ground.

He had somehow managed to control them to come at my back again…

It seemed that even if I knocked these knives to the ground, they wouldn't remain there.

Since he had already been exposed, the frail looking young man raised his hand and the knives that had been knocked away suddenly floated up into the air again.

But this time, I was completely surrounded.

He had thrown enough knives that I had been completely surrounded by them.

They were just floating there in the air around me, as if they were trapping me.

It was only then that the frail looking young man said, "Please give up. Don't force me to take this further."

But I just said with a smile, "Give up? We're not even close to finishing yet."

The frail looking young man knitted his brows, but then he pulled out even more knives that he threw into the air.

After being thrown into the air, these knives floated just like the rest and formed an even tighter circle around me. It was as if there wasn't a single spot for me to escape from with how the knives surrounded me.

But still, I didn't panic.

I just faced those knives head on and waited for them to come.

Seeing that I wasn't planning on giving up, the frail young man waved his hand and the knives started coming at me.

I just swept my sword out and cut down the knives that were coming at me.

They all dropped to the ground, but they didn't stay there.

Even after cutting them down, they still floated back up into the air after falling to the ground.

I had been able to cut out a path for me to move, but the knives were just chasing after me.

It seemed that no matter which way I went, they still followed me.

It was as if they were determined to chase me to the ends of the Earth.

But how were these knives doing this?

How were they flying and chasing after me?

Just what was this frail young man's power?

As I was running and dodging the knives, I realized that I was in too much of a panic.

I was letting myself get swept up in the situation and that was not helping me.

I needed to calm down and think about this rationally.

So I took a deep breath while running before turning to observe the knives.

I didn't cut them down and just watched as they followed me.

Seeing that I had stopped swinging my sword, the frail young man said, "Are you giving up? If you give up, I'll make them stop right away."

But I just ignored him as I observed the knives.

I couldn't see anything strange about the knives, but I was certain that they were being attracted by something.

In that case, there had to be some kind of setup for his trick that I was missing.

Was there something off about what he had done?

I kept thinking about it until I suddenly remembered something.

That handshake, I couldn't help feeling that something was off about that handshake in the beginning.

Could it be that it was that?

So I looked down at my hand while also making sure that I was still able to dodge the knives coming at me.

After looking for a bit, I finally found what I was looking for.

"So this was it…" I couldn't help saying to myself with a faint smile on my face.

Then I suddenly stopped moving and stood there, facing the knives coming at me.

It was as if I had given up fighting back.

Everyone was shocked as they watched the knives flying at me, coming closer and closer to stabbing me.

Even the frail looking young man couldn't help being caught off guard by how I had suddenly stopped.

He didn't know if he should stop the knives or not until it was too late.

Even if he wanted to stop them, he couldn't stop them in time.

So all he could do was shout, "Move out of the way!"

But I just firmly stood there watching the knives approaching until they were right in front of me.

Then I suddenly flicked my hand out as if I was throwing something.

The knives suddenly turned in a different direction after that.