[{"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-43":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},1457663,1905,"Chapter 43: A Thousand Years More","my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--chapter-43",43,"\u003Cp>The fourth exchange was different from all the previous ones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira stopped probing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blood currents didn’t come in calculated sequence — they came in layers, one over the other, the kind that doesn’t seek to impact but to saturate. Force Serah to use the ambient temperature field constantly, at a cost that accumulated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah held it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it cost her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira saw it in the silver markings — the glow was the same but the rhythm had changed, a fraction of a second slower between pulses. Enough for someone who had studied her for centuries to notice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Interesting,\" Lira said, dodging a wave of ice without stopping talking. \"It used to last longer.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah didn’t answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is it the shoulder?\" Lira materialized three simultaneous currents from different angles. \"Or have you been thinking too much about how your little piece of trash is doing?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three currents arrived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah froze two.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She dodged the third — but the dodge exposed her right flank for half a second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira didn’t take advantage of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She filed it away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah attacked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Primordial ice concentrated in her right fist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the primordial cold compressed into the area of her fist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira stepped back two paces from the pressure of the aura before the impact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Involuntarily stepped back two paces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Good,\" she said, from those two steps away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah went after her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Combination of right fist to the center, left claw to the side —\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Forcing Lira to commit her defense to two simultaneous points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira defended the center.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dodged the side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah shifted — instead of following through with the left claw to impact, she pulled it back and used the inertia of the withdrawal to load her right elbow from below.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira didn’t anticipate it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The elbow connected with her chin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira went to the ground — not several meters, one meter. She got up in the same motion, already spinning, already positioning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she went to the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira, back on her feet, wiped the corner of her mouth for the second time that night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She looked at what was on her hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then at Serah.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You didn’t do that before.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I told you already.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes.\" A pause. \"But seeing it is different from hearing it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She used her blood magic once more to create a cloud. Dense, low, that spread across the chamber floor in all directions, covering the area around both their feet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah froze it from below — the floor turned white, the cloud solidifying before it could rise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira was already on the ceiling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How long have you gone without sleep?\" she said from above. \"Two days?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s not relevant.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your aura regeneration rhythm says otherwise.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah looked up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Come down.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m still assessing.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You finished assessing half an hour ago.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira looked at her from the ceiling with something that wasn’t exactly amusement but resembled it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"True,\" she said, and came down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah with the temperature field expanded, claws active, her right shoulder compensating for the damaged left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira with currents in both hands, moving without the pattern of the earlier exchanges.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They’d been at it for two minutes when Lira spoke again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’re more skilled than before,\" she said, blocking a wave of ice with a field of condensed blood. \"I admit it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah let out a smile and responded. She attacked. \"You too, you surprised me for a moment...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But you’re still a thousand years short of my level.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira blocked. Counterattacked. \"You decide that now?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your markings decide it.\" Lira dodged the left claw by two centimeters. \"They’ve been slow for twenty minutes now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was true.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah knew it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two days without sleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hours of combat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The shoulder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But you know, it was worth it... It was really good, and I would’ve continued today if you hadn’t shown up.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah found the angle in the sixth exchange.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira launched a concentrated current at the right flank, the one she’d been waiting for the right moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The right moment turned out to be the wrong one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because Serah was expecting it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had waited for Lira to use that filed-away information.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had left the flank deliberately exposed in the last two exchanges, a little more, a little less, calibrating when Lira would consider it safe enough to use.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the current arrived, Serah was no longer on the flank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside Lira’s guard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the space where the currents had no angle of arrival because the target was too close to the source.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her right fist with concentrated primordial ice — everything she had saved, all her weight going straight to the center of Lira’s chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And it stopped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A centimeter away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not because Serah decided to stop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her body stopped on its own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The silver markings stopped pulsing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ice on her fist remained — still, not expanding, not continuing — like something frozen at the exact moment it had decided to move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah looked at it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She couldn’t move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A small, genuine smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time it didn’t disappear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So many years facing each other,\" Lira said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And now that so many have passed without seeing each other...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She leaned slightly toward the frozen fist a centimeter from her chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You forgot something very important.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her red eyes met Serah’s silver ones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don’t play fair.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rank markings on Lira’s hands glowed differently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not the red of hunger or the dark of condensed blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Silver.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blood cloud that had filled the chamber floor at the start of the exchange — the one Serah had frozen from below and forgotten because it was on the floor and the combat had continued upward, toward the ceiling, in all directions except down — wasn’t just blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It carried something mixed in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Invisible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Odorless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No different in temperature from the rest of the magic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Silver powder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Spread across the floor from the very first moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Waiting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Waiting for Serah to move enough, with enough intensity, for the powder to rise from the floor and disperse into the chamber air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What had happened in the sixth exchange when Serah charged forward with all her weight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had breathed it without knowing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah’s knees gave way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ice fist fell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ice dissolved on contact with the floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah was left on her knees, hands on the ground, her silver markings pulsing with the irregular rhythm of something being attacked from within.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Silver didn’t kill primordial wolves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it weakened them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Destabilized them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her right shoulder no longer responded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neither did her left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her claws retracted on their own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira walked toward her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slowly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m still faster than you at strategy,\" she said, looking down at Serah. \"I always was.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah looked up at her from the floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her eyes were still silver — the color hadn’t yielded even if her body had.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The powder,\" Serah said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"From the beginning.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"When.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"When I generated the floor cloud in the fifth exchange.\" Lira stopped in front of her. \"I mixed it in before entering the catacombs. Just in case.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You knew I’d come.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I knew you’d come.\" The correction was minimal but specific. \"That he would come.\" A pause. \"I knew that since I arrived in Valdris and felt your aura in the territory.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira raised her foot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The heel — narrow, metal, the kind that wasn’t decorative — positioned exactly in front of Serah’s face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not on it. In front.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The threat without contact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serah didn’t move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not because she didn’t want to — because she still couldn’t.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The silver powder was still in her system, interrupting the connection between aura and body, and until it dissipated completely, her arms would remain unresponsive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira looked down at her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She opened her mouth to say something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hi.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The voice came from the hallway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Calm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without urgency.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira looked up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai was at the entrance of the hallway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Split lip.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Side with the visible mark of hours of blows even through his clothes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right shoulder at an angle suggesting it had received and resolved something at some point along the way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The knuckles of both hands red — the kind of red that comes from using them too much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Standing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hands in his pockets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at Lira with the expression of someone who’s just arrived at a meeting and is assessing the state of the situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira looked at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looked at the visible state of his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then at the hallway behind him where Eris hadn’t appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Eris,\" Lira said, without taking her eyes off Kai.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"She’s fine,\" Kai said. \"She just needs a while.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira looked at him for a second longer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The little piece of trash,\" she said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Lira,\" said Kai.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pause.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nice catacombs.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[GarcíaFTW: KAI ARRIVED]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[NocheEterna99: \"hi\" \u002F \"nice catacombs\" — KAI WALKING IN WITH THAT ENERGY]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[StreamerHunter: viewers: 6,800,000. ALMOST SEVEN MILLION.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[xSorinx: Lira saw Kai’s state and looked at the hallway for Eris. She processed that Kai beat her right hand.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Pedro_Sierra: ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ KAI ARRIVED ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ WITH ALL THE VISIBLE DAMAGE ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ AND HANDS IN HIS POCKETS ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Deral_Bleattler: \"nice catacombs\" — this man has a split lip, damaged shoulder, bruised side, AND HE’S SIGHTSEEING]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[User_7741: ヽ(°〇°)ﾉ KAI ヽ(°〇°)ﾉ]\u003C\u002Fp>",1546,"2026-06-06T02:17:06.772Z",1,"novelbin.me","51157edcc3317e4a8e81c10711f7db2b516f108718443f54647240bee8532e95","my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--chapter-44","my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--chapter-42",110,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmy-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--cover.jpg"]