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The Reached Out Hand, Didn't Reach

"I won't hold back It will be fine, after this I will revive you all without fail after all"

Kouki thrust his holy sword together with those words At that hest grade light eleon fired breath attack of Heaven Might

The pure white light that scorched the air drew a spiral trajectory while approaching Shizuku and others

Looking at that, Suzu was about to wave her iron fans to invoke Holy Severance for scattering the energy

But, as though foreseeing that, Eri invoked her ic a step faster

"Ahah, 'Mind Sliip'!"

"――"

Darkness et's memory of a few seconds before until the current time It was only a ic was used in the middle of a battle it was an extre It was supposedly difficult to handle this ic, but Eri could use it without difficulty

"Chih"

In front of the approaching light of death with Suzu failed to lay out a barrier, Ryutaro lightly threay Suzu while he juht after that, the roar of Heaven Might passed through the spot where the three were just at theand fiercely shaken the whole building

The corpse beast soldiers leaped from all direction in careful aim toward Shizuku and others who escaped to the air

"Shred, ――'Fang Flash'!"

Shizuku invoked 'Fang Flash' while drawing out her black katana toward the corpse beast soldiers ung their large sword froht This attack would carve three lines sih the arms of the corpse beast soldiers were cut off, the attack didn't reach until their torso

Shizuku narrowed her eyes looking at the result of the attack that she let out with the purpose of bisecting the ene the corpse beast soldiers was reflected in her eyes

"'Vajra' is it"

As though to say that they didn't feel any pain, even while they lost one arm the corpse beast soldiers switched to their other ar to herself while kicking on the air using 'Air Force' and rotated her body to evade

Nearby her, there were the figures of Ryutaro who blocked the approaching countless wind blades with his 'Vajra' and Suzu who parried redaspear using petals of light

It appeared that the corpse beast soldiers had full array line up Other than people who could use eleic, there were also other people with defensive skill and healing skill The group was really abundant with variation In this aspect, perhaps there were also corpse beast soldiers that could hide theic like the chiainst the ability of the soldiers, suddenly a chill ran through her whole body The warning bell of her instinct was ringing loudly Shizuku immediately invoked 'Air Force' in conjunction with 'No Beat' and leaped away froth

At that h the space that Shizuku just vacated The light blades kept soaring without stopping and cut into pieces the side of a ruined building at slightly far away place, the ruined building that lost its support collapsed with a thunderous sound

Further alar and twisted her body, without even checking she turned behind and drew out her sword The black katana that was accelerated with the unsheathing motion returned resistance and hard sound GAKIN!

There, the figure of Kouki who blocked the black katana with his holy sas standing

"As expected fro"

"You are the one who becaashi-style's name"

"…How pitiful So you are also th between us But, that's fine Because I'll protect Shizuku-!"

Perhaps thanks to the light dragon on his back, Kouki was able to nor sith her in the air But, the reply that came back to him were sharp words that made him murmured misdirected words and his expression distorted

At the salared at Shizuku froht was fired fro ti her sheath at Kouki Using the generated shockwave she forcefully separated their distance and Shizuku escaped fro line But, she was unable to coht that looked like an extre the black katana's ability the 'Draw Sky' that she invoked alht to her blade And then, theof her wrist and body and parried the pressure and shockwave toward behind her

A sword art of Yeagashi-style――'Wood Chip Dance' A parrying technique that made use of the blade to slide the opponent's attack This time the technique was used in conjunction with 'Draw Sky' that was an ability to attract the target to the blade She attempted this technique without any prior preparation, but she succeeded splendidly

In her back, the sound of one ht was audible Shizuku sent an exasperated gaze at Kouki while hearing that sound

"Protect, is it You had said that to me a few times in the past, but honestly, there is not even one ti you will protect eous attack at uuess you don't re you Well, even if I said that I think it's pointless no h"

"That's completely my line I wonder, would I feel a little better if I put even just one large wound on that handso on Shizuku's forehead in irritation Corpse beast soldiers were circling behind Shizuku Looking closer, all of the soldiers had reddish black wings growing from their back With that, they wouldn't have a proble his holy sword, the light dragon on his back fired countless branching lights that forons

"Shizuku, I will end the battle with this As expected, you won't be able to endure siht? It will hurt, but I will nurse you properly after this Just sleep in peace"

After saying that one-sidedly, Kouki turned the tip of the holy sword at Shizuku Ions and corpse beast soldiers assaulted Shizuku from all directions There was no place to escape Ryutaro couldn't approach because of the light dragon's breath attack and the corpse beast soldiers

Suzu im 'telepathy'

{Shizuku-}

{It's fine, Suzu I'll show you I can ht after those words reached Suzu through telepathy, Shizuku ed by huht

Kouki shook his head sadly looking at that And then, as though to say 'If it's to save everyone, then I won't balk fro hated!', with a resolute expression as though putting on airs like a tragic hero, he et

At thatface to be seen by any ht horizontal line cut was opened on Kouki's chestatand blood spray danced in the air Thanks to the inable holy are

Kouki gazed in wonderot cut even with the distance He wason his chest And then, he discovered that

"The, the katana, is flying?"

Kouki whispered by reflex

Exactly as he said, in front of Kouki, Shizuku's black katana and a jet black katana that looked exactly the sa at Kouki

Then, was Shizuku giving lethal wound at the corpse beast soldiers and sravely at Shizuku as crowded by soldiers and dragons that they looked like an enclosed sphere shape

Then, slid the soldiers and dragons that surrounded Shizuku had their bodies slipping off diagonally and fell down Such astonishing scene entered Kouki's eyes

And then, what appeared froap of the eneure of Shizuku who blocked all the attacks with a barrier of countless black katana deployed around her

"Sever off, ――'Omni Blade - Flash Blossom'!"

Shizuku raised her voice once more

In an instant, the barrier of black katana shined in dark blue color, then this tions were bisected for sure The soldiers fell to the ground, and the sons dispersed Aht to Kouki with black katana in hand

Then, the naked black katana at the surrounding all pointed their tip down and lined orderly with Shizuku as the center The nu in the air with straight back and dignity, a swar her, looked just like a hero in an illustrated story The beautiful black hair in ponytail fluttered, the gray eyes carrying tenacious will pierce through Kouki

Beautiful…Kouki whispered so in his heart without realizing It was out of place, yet Shizuku's figure that was like a war ulped

"――'Living Swords(Swarm of Katana that Exemplify the Will)' My soul is poured into all of these black katana I wonder, can Kouki who continue to escape into convenient dream endure this?"

"Shi, Shizuku…"

Despite the calm voice, Kouki fell into a hallucination where he was struck physically, his voice got unconsciously caught in his throat The current Shizuku was filled with a pressure that couldn't be pushed down using the difference in ic power and body spec

"…Toward my Kouki-kun…what cheekiness As expected, I just can't stoliness and she was about to fire a ic at Shizuku It seemed that she sensitively sensed how Kouki was fascinated by Shizuku It was unforgivable for her that Kouki was attracted to anybody except her nohen he was under her brainwashing Her hatred and jealousy exploded, she was about to direct a ic to disturb Shizuku's mind and sent all her soldiers at Shizuku

But, at the eyes of such Eri, countless fluttering shadoere reflected as though to hinder her

Eri's gaze ran at the surrounding dubiously And then she gazed in wonderment

"Wha, what? This is, butterfly?"

Her murmured words hit bull's eye Before she noticed, a swar about the battlefield

The source of this scenery was Suzu who unfolded her twin iron fans Butterfly monsters were summoned continuously from the jewel that was attached to the handle of the iron fan The spectacle of black crest butterflies with a red pattern on their jet black wings flying in spiraling orbit with the light petals deployed at the surrounding while rising to the sky were showing a iving off a beauty that couldn't be put in words

"Suzu had endured your first attack you know, Eri? This tinore her any――"

Aht petals and black crest butterfly, Suzu yelled at a different suic orbs

"Inaba-san! Please!"

"Kyukyuu!"

At that moment, a white and criure vanished leaving behind afteriure appeared behind Eri

Eri was unable to react at that extre her physical spec that was reinforced using the technique to create apostle

Therefore, right after her eyes opened wide,

"aGUH!?"

Eri received the strong leg of the kicking rabbit 'Inaba' and crashed into a ruined building with a tailspin Without stopping she pierced through thatthebuilding and got bloay for few hundred ot hit by the attack, she enveloped her body with ic power equal to that of an apostle and performed reinforcement, so her life wasn't ended with the attack just now

"Eri-! Shit-, Suzu, what are you doing to your best friend-!"

"That's why I told you, don't keep sleep talking like that on and on!"

Kouki saw Eri was bloay and raised his voice And then, when he was going to blaht from the side blocked his voice

Kouki blocked Ryutaro's fist using his holy shile creaking sound resounded creak creak The two of thee in a posture siaze frolanced at the direction where Eri was bloay, at the saon unleashed its claw and tail at Ryutaro

Ryutaro paid attention to the claw and tail of the light dragon while he took no evading action In exchange, he invoked the age of god ic that he obtained

"Come, steel demo-n! 'Sixth Heaven's Deht after, Ryutaro's body was tinged with light green ic power and transformed beki-beki With such sound the ed and tore apart his tunic His tall body that was originally a hundred and ninety centimeters easily surpassed two rayand his canine lengthened and becaazed in wonderon attacked Ryutaro's back while the claw attacked his shoulder

But, the attack of the light dragon that hit directly didn't akin! a hard sound that was i flesh body resounded and the attacks were blocked

"Wha-, Ryutaro, that's-"

"Kuuu! I felt that, oi! But, I endured it yeah? This time it's my turn! 'Scorch Wave'!!"

"――"

As expected, it seeed after directly receiving the attack of the light dragon that was the avatar of Heaven Might, even so Ryutaro didn't get any serious wound, Ryutaro as grinning fearlessly with literally deauntleted fist that was locked with the holy sword

That attack didn't consist only froic power that was converted into ith that was drawn out frore's ar aith his voice caught up in his throat, Kouki crashed into a ruined building at the other side similar like Eri just now

The corpse beast soldiers ai with his fist thrust forward, but they were scattered by the h speed Shizuku arrived beside Ryutaro who transfor briefly at him

"Looks like you can use it well aren't you That's wants pressure"

"Hehe-, well, it's also thanks to Naguonna be able to easily use it this far"

Ryutaro glared at the ruined building Kouki crashed into without letting his guard dohile acting huic 'Sixth Heaven's Dee one's a body, the characteristic of the reat into the body, it was a little unique ic

Ryutaro had the aptitude for the e of thebut punching and kicking), he was unable to subdue the monster in the abyss in such short tis obtained a hint froonification', and arrived at a conclusion typical of a muscle-brain

Namely, 'if I cannot subdue the monster, then isn't it fine if I just become the same like the monster that I want to subdue?',athat Ryutaro as also familiar with his a body because he had done karate since he was little tested that idea of his without delay

And the result, the ic Sixth Heaven's Deray thisthe ic but he succeeded in it relativelyan

Of course, there was no time for him to train so the time he could transform was really short, his result was also erratic so that when he released the transforot a severe feedback and it became a trump card of trump card that could only be used as last resort, but there Hajime resolved the problem

That was, cheatmate――minerals that didn't have an adverse effect to human body like calciuic and subliic, it was then turned into powder and then transmuted and became a solid food with a particular effect With this food the body was temporarily transforthening effect that was nearly like 'Limit Break' was also applied on the eater so that they could endure even heavy burden

This cheatmate once taken would maintain its effect for half a day, on top of that there was also no side effect after use It was a top product of Hajime, all the members who stormed into Holy Precincts had already taken it Shizuku was able to use twenty katana at the sa her brain throughput was also thanks to this one-ti was from Calo—Mate (TN: Calory Mate) If you believed the story that theof '

Shizuku and Ryutaro were h the corpse beast soldiers at the surrounding, then suddenly a 'telepathy' reached them

{Shizuku, Ryutaro-kun Let's divide the two like this Leave Eri to Suzu Both of youa large a to be fine right?}

{Yep Suzu will say what she wants to say, ask what she want to ask, and then, punch that idiot flying}

{Heh, that's great …Don't you die yeah}

{You too, 'kay}

Far away, Suzu who put Inaba on her head gave a thumb up to them And then, she turned on her heel and chased after the crashing Eri while handling the attack of the corpse beast soldiers at the saht after that,

DOGOOOOOOOON-!!

A thunderous sound resounded and the ruined building before Shizuku and Ryutaro's eyes collapsed――no, the building was blown up froure of Kouki followed by a light dragon and countless sons appeared

Kouki was silent and expressionless Like that without any sound he directed the tip of his holy sword at Shizuku and Ryutaro

"Ryutaro!"

"Ou-!"

As expected, the two of theether until this far Dancing to the saht they had arranged it beforehand After that, the howl of Heaven Might passed through

Even the after effect struck the body with immense impact, aht dragons that were flying near the toward their absolute moron childhood friend

Part 2

Suzu advanced between the intervals of the ruined buildings, followed by light petals and black crest butterflies, and also Inaba

Inaba who possessed sensitive rabbit ears taught her that the presence of Eri as bloas already gone froht for a moment whether Eri had headed to back up Kouki, but her instinct whispered to her somehow that Eri wouldn't leave her alone and she would head toward her

And so, she h the area that was surrounded by the ruined buildings of the ruined city while being on guard but…the corpse beast soldiers had also vanished fro, in the area that was enveloped in eerie silence except of the battle sound of Shizuku and others fro sweat from unknown nervousness

"Kyuu, kyu"

"Inaba-san…thank you I'm just a little too nervous"

Inaba said "Suzu-han, you are too nervous ya I'm here so you can puff up your chest without worry, you are betting on the winner here" and used his front leg to pat Suzu's forehead Suzu's cheeks slightly loosened up and her shoulders relaxed Inaba as riding fluffily on Suzu's head crossed his ar 'uh huh, uh huh' (TN: Inaba still talk with Kansai accent here)

The coesture made Suzu's cheek loosened up further

At that moment, Inaba rolled over vertically above Suzu's head And then, with a handstand he cru, he turned behind and let out a strong kick

zugan-! Shockwave sound resounded, what Inaba blocked was a shining gray sword

"…Really, this disgusting rabbit is just irritating"

"Eri-"

Yes, the one who had taken Suzu by surprise fro the sas Eri herself When Suzu looked behind her shoulder, her eyes aze that was like ice

The slashed sas blocked by Inaba's leg which was equipped by Haji armor artifact, without that the sould be in a direct course to Suzu's head Looking fro armor and sword that were locked fiercely with each other, Eri was obviously trying to kill Suzu in the surprise attack

Inaba twisted his body further He rotated as though breakdancing on Suzu's head and fired a shockith his opposite foot CharacteristicSpiral'――an ability that launched shockwave fros on her back and so that shockwave

"I heard that to evolve ic will take quite soh That monster, isn't it a little too abnor with her eyes

"Well, that's because Inaba-san is special in various aspects Most of this is fro huuuh But, that rabbit won't ht? As expected, I don't think Suzu is eht! ――'Wicked Wrap'!"

Erithat, the movement of Inaba who tried to i that tiray bombardment It was a brutal boration ability Furthermore, the corpse beast soldiers that lurked in the ruined buildings leaped out all at once to block the path of escape

"Everyone, please! ――'Holy Severance - World'!"

With Suzu's coic balls hanging on her waist Two centipedes with body length of ten meter, ten one meter tall bees with striped pattern of black and red, four praying ht reddish black eyes and foursquad!

While defending against the approaching grey flash with fifty overlapping Holy Severance and replenishing the disintegrated layer at the same tiht petals――the 'Holy Severance - Sakura' to back up her subordinatered hot spear was e of thewith shooting rate of five shots per second, right after the shot impacted flower of explosion bloomed

The bloay soldiers were finished off by the web of steel thread laid out at the valley of the ruined buildings by the steel thread spider sticking on the building wall Their body was carved apart into pieces

Furthere of missile needles and approached close weremantises, wind blades that were unleashed from their six sickles minced up the soldiers

The soldiers with defensive characteristicforward, froic Shockwave' ability leaped out and swung their swords at the acid coiling centipedes protecting Suzu's back

At the sa, violent shockwave cae swords were easily scattered

The soldiers that used large sword and iap of the scattered centipedes and approached Suzu But, thatsprayed dissolving liquid like surging waves fromented parts

The flawless surprise attack bathed the soldiers' whole body in dissolving liquid and h they had encountered a squall, white srandly froed froed job into skeleton and at last they dissolved co not even dust behind

So that the acid centipedes who had split into ten segments didn't hit their fellow subordinateof their dissolving liquid like bit weapon

Reinforces However, the round and wall undulated and fro ju, they crunched the soldiers and pulled the ly sharp wind blades, heavy rain of dissolving liquids that accurately weaved through the gaps and rained down on the eneradually tightening its encircleround the moment anyone approached

The corpse beast soldiers ere supposedly turned into super human with the combination of huhness and characteristic ic, were killed one after another like a joke

"Wai-, this is a joke right!? What's with those monsters-! Even Freed only have a few monsters that are evolved until that far!"

Eri spontaneously yelled angrily Her gray boh Suzu's protection, even though she should have obtained irew violent

And then, while rey feathers toward Suzu's subordinate ic 'Slip Mind' toward Suzu

There,

"Kyuu!"

"-!?"

The white rabbit h to say "Now you have really done it, youuu! I'onna punch you arounddd!" The extrees of Inaba, at the sah Eri is, she was unable to endure the fierce destructive power and got bloay

"KYUUuUUUU!!"

"You-, acarried away-"

Inaba chased His rabbit ears flapped, he kicked on the air, polished kicking attacks that were like surging waves were launched right and left Up e kick attacked like a flash, before all those could be processed by the mind, Inaba rotated horizontally and a serial round kick filled with a lot of centrifugal force exploded

PAN-! Along with such dry sound, air wall and shockere generated with Inaba's kicking leg as the center The effect wasn't due to h the sound barrier

Eri barely defended that stor sword skill and apostle spec Yes, Eri was barely dodging direct hit using superb sword skill Ahead of the gaze of Suzu who exposed her shock of that, ration burst out from Eri's whole body