interpretting お前を倒さずして、消滅などできん！


> enemy returns a while after being defeated by the mc
>
> mc「ど、どうしてあなたが……！ この間滅したはずなのに……！？」
>
> enemy「お前を倒さずして、消滅などできん！」
>
> enemy charges....

i will "do it" without beating you, i can't extinguish you, makes no sense in
context.

What is he trying to say?

thank you




> お前を倒さずして、消滅などできん！  
>  I can never vanish without/before defeating you!

  * `未然形 + ずして` is a literary way of saying "without ～ing". It's a literary version of ～ないで or ～ずに. See: [闘わずして勝つ vs. 闘わずに勝つ](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/58817/5010)
  * 消滅する is intransitive.




> お前を倒さずして、消滅などできん！  
>  I can never vanish without/before defeating you!

  * `未然形 + ずして` is a literary way of saying "without ～ing". It's a literary version of ～ないで or ～ずに. See: [闘わずして勝つ vs. 闘わずに勝つ](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/58817/5010)
  * 消滅する is intransitive.

