A Shadow Cast in Paradise (23 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 109

Eve exhaled a white puff into the rain and charged once more toward Shade.

Clang! A sharp metallic ring echoed through the air.

Shade’s mind went blank as he parried Eve’s attack.

The child who had once not even known how to hold a sword was now swinging a blade at him.

Just as the corpses beneath the earth had stirred, this little girl too had become Dietrich’s puppet.

Shade could not bring himself to fight back against Eve and was helplessly driven backward.

He couldn’t counterattack, deflect recklessly, or even push her away.

Because he sensed clumsiness in Eve’s sword strikes.

No matter how skillfully Dietrich controlled her, Eve’s untrained body could never land a fatal blow on Shade, hailed as the Empire’s greatest hero.

Yet Shade found himself thrown off balance by the attacks wielded by those tiny hands.

The strength and movements emerging from a three-year-old’s body were simply impossible.

At the very least, they matched those of a squire in their teens—or even beyond.

Though Eve’s physical development was notably advanced for her age, that alone couldn’t explain it.

‘She’s straining her body beyond its limits…!’

While blocking Eve’s strikes, Shade assessed the girl’s condition.

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