Chapter 74

1.

'She's persistent. Seriously.'

Having arrived on the island where the Demon King's Castle stood, Lapis promptly cut Iris in half at the waist as she charged at her, then stopped Lily, clad in ivory armor, with a kick.

Opal and Emerald, who had also been waiting for her, spread blobs of water like buckshot and reduced Lapis to bloody pulp in a single blow.

And she repeated that for thirty minutes.

"Keh, ker-hek, ker-hek!"

With her limbs bound, Iris had been left long enough that an ordinary person would have suffocated. Lapis had even tried drowning her for real, but Iris only coughed up water, wheezing, and got back up.

At this point, it was more effective to inflict a grievous but uncertain injury and toss them aside than to kill them. But the witches Peridot had revived weren't merely immortal.

If their arms were cut off, they grew back in less than a second.

Even if their legs were cut off, they kept up the momentum of their kicks and continued kicking...