[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want-":3,"chapter-my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--chapter-42":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","My Streaming Life With SSS-Rank Girls With Want My Kids",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1457662,1905,"Chapter 42: Vampire vs. Wolf","my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--chapter-42",42,"\u003Cp>Serah attacked first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not with technique — with everything she had.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her primordial aura expanded at the moment of impact and the entire chamber shook.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira didn’t retreat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She absorbed the blow with a blood magic field she materialized at the last second — not a solid shield, something more like a fluid, the kind that yields and recovers instead of resisting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah tore through it anyway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira stepped back two paces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first two steps she’d taken back since emerging from the darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She looked at them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Good,\" she said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah didn’t answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She launched primordial ice — not the speed lance she’d used in training with Kai, but something broader.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A wave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira flew to the ceiling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ice hit the back wall and coated it completely — the catacomb stone vanishing under a layer of white that wasn’t normal ice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was denser.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More still.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The kind that doesn’t melt at room temperature but waits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira, from the ceiling, looked down at her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Always so direct,\" she said. \"How boring.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah looked up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Come down.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No.\" Lira moved across the ceiling with the same ease the S-rank vampires used on the walls — as if gravity were an opinion. \"I’m still assessing.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’ve been assessing for four hundred years.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And you’ve been a block of ice that hits things for four hundred years.\" Lira tilted her head. \"Neither of us has changed much.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira came down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not directly — in a spiral, using the ceiling and walls in the descent, the kind of movement that has no clear point of origin and therefore no predictable point of arrival.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah turned with her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira materialized blood magic in the air — not from her hands, from the space around her. Small spheres of condensed dark liquid that floated in specific patterns before launching.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not all at once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In sequence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One, pause, two, long pause, three in a row.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The irregular rhythm made dodging the first useless if you didn’t calculate when the second was coming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah didn’t dodge the first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She froze it in midair with a touch of aura.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blood sphere solidified — suspended, motionless, glowing the dark red of something that should be flowing and wasn’t.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira looked at it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Interesting.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Am I still boring?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A little less.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The second sphere came from the flank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah froze that one too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The third, fourth, and fifth came in a rapid burst — too fast to freeze one by one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah didn’t try.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She generated a temperature field in a two-meter radius around her — not directed, ambient, the kind that affected anything entering the radius regardless of direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All five spheres solidified at the same moment they crossed the edge of the field.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Five fixed red points in the air around Serah.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira landed in front of her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She looked at them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You didn’t do that before.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I learned.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"From whom?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah didn’t answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira noticed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her eyes moved briefly toward the hallway where Eris and Kai were still fighting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then back to Serah.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ah,\" she said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They lunged at the same time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not like the start — no assessment, no probing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Direct.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah with partially transformed claws and speed that compressed the air between them before impact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira with blood magic active in both hands — not spheres, currents, the kind that wrapped around the target instead of hitting head-on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first exchange lasted a second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The result: Serah with a red line on her forearm where the blood magic had grazed before freezing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira with a silver mark on her shoulder where the primordial aura had struck through her field.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They separated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They lunged again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The second exchange lasted three seconds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah tried to circle Lira — the circular movement predators use to destabilize their opponent, forcing them to turn constantly and lose their axis.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira didn’t turn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She generated a blood magic field in the radius around her position — dense, almost solid — and made it rotate in the opposite direction to Serah.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two fields spinning in opposite directions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah’s field struck Lira’s and the two partially canceled each other out — enough that Serah’s next blow lost a third of its force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira took advantage of that third.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood current straight to Serah’s neck — not to cut, to wrap around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah’s silver markings flared and froze the current before it closed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira looked at her from behind the dissolved field.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’re still slow at processing area magic,\" she said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It was always your weak point.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah turned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And you still talk too much.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s a charming trait.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s not.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Third exchange.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira changed tactics completely — she stopped using area magic and concentrated all her blood magic into a single point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her right hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Condensed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The kind of concentration that can’t be sustained long but while it lasts turns the hand into something that can pierce things normally impervious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She launched a single current — thin, fast, the kind that doesn’t take up enough space for primordial aura to detect before it arrives.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah detected it anyway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But late.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The current struck her right shoulder and coiled before freezing, leaving a red mark deeper than the previous ones, the kind that doesn’t fade for hours.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah felt her shoulder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She moved it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It responded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With effort.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira saw it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"First real damage,\" she said, with the specific tone of someone who’s been waiting for that moment a long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah didn’t respond.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The shoulder responds but not at a hundred percent, she thought. The concentrated current pierces the aura if it’s thin enough. I need to anticipate before it enters the radius, not when it’s already inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How do you anticipate something that doesn’t take up visible space?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She thought of Kai.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of what Kai had said about the memory room in the dungeon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Control starts before contact. Not during.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira prepared another concentrated current.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah saw it the moment the magic began to condense — before it took shape, in the instant the air around Lira’s hand changed temperature from the concentration of energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She expanded the ambient temperature field.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not to two meters — to four. Thinner, less dense, but enough that anything entering the radius lost temperature before arriving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira’s current entered the field.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It slowed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Didn’t stop — but slowed enough for Serah to read it and move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah moved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And counterattacked with her good shoulder — direct hit, no additional magic, pure weight and primordial speed concentrated at the point of impact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira took it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time she staggered back three steps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two looked at the space between them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first exchange where neither had a clear advantage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira wiped the corner of her mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She looked at what was on her hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not blood from a wound — blood from the magic, the physical cost of maintaining concentrated currents for too long. The body collected that eventually.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She looked at it with the same expression she’d had when she looked at the cut in her dress when Vayne struck her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then she looked at Serah.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You learned from him,\" she said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not like before — as an accusation, as an insult.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How much?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah didn’t answer right away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She thought of the treacherous floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of the memory room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of the training session where Kai had corrected her stance sixteen times without losing patience.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Enough that this won’t be as easy as you thought,\" she said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira looked at her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I didn’t think it would be easy,\" she said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It was never easy with you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A pause.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s what I liked about it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They lunged again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without the weight of the previous words. Just the combat — which after four hundred years without seeing each other and hours in the catacombs, still had no clear victor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The chamber kept shaking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ice on the walls expanded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blood in the air solidified and dissolved and solidified again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And in the side hallway, the sounds of the fight between Kai and Eris continued — slower now, heavier, the rhythm of something reaching its endpoint.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the fight in the main chamber wasn’t over yet.\u003C\u002Fp>",1369,"2026-06-06T02:17:06.772Z",1,"novelbin.me","54d4a7cb3497cbf8492b36c41f862d8c5446fe66dd8f71db5648e3bdb3988693","my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--chapter-43","my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--chapter-41",110,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmy-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--cover.jpg"]