Vol 1 Chapter 19 (2/2)

But…

…I e estimated the necessary level of acceleration on instinct alone

“Seventeen thousand times acceleration!”

Seventeen thousand steps’ worth of burden was placed on his right leg all at once

A cross-shaped Cadena Fir about the excessive burden It said the administrative church held no liability if the spell was used like this

He ignored it

He heard a snapping sound co

It was the sound of his

It was possible the bones and tendons had been taken out as well

But the limb had not been severed And as proof…

“Ohhh…!!”

Muneshi+ge kicked off the air and accelerated

He leaped while wrapped in the shi+ht

It all occurred in a succession of instants

Muneshi+ge traveled diagonally down and forward He struck the ground and slid across it with hisHis heel struck and dug into the ground and he bent backwards to turn toward Tadakatsu

He was there

Tadakatsu had his back partially turned to Muneshi+ge

The tip of Tonbokiri was pointed the other way

That blade could not reflect Muneshi+ge

Muneshi+ge was convinced he had won

The bottom of Tonbokiri jabbed back toward hiun

Attached to the butt end of the spear was a weapon developed by the Houzouin brand to attack behind oneself while using a spear that could not be turned around quickly It was nothingwith the botto behind the wielder

Hitting soht of the spear into them, so it could easily break bones

And that was now flying toward Muneshi+ge’s face

It flew straight toward his position diagonally down

Tadakatsu had not turned toward hi but experience and prediction However…

…Such accuracy!

He could never have seen that midair acceleration before and yet he had been able to see through how Muneshi+ge would handle the landing

Howlike that?

“Kh”

Muneshi+ge twisted his body and sank down He lowered his hips and his upper body to bring hiround

However, not all of his body lowered The reason for this was readily apparent

…My right leg!?

His right leg would not move He could not even tell if the knee and toes were touching the ground He siht hip

His right leg failed tohis hips properly His body pitched forward

The bottom of the spear was on a direct course for his forehead

And so Muneshi+ge made up his mind

“Left foot acceleration!!”

Because of his atteht leg would not lower, his hips were raised

He was in a crouching start position

And so he shot hi

Before the back of the spear could strike hionally upwards, he slipped below it

The back of the spear suddenly jabbed into the left side of his angled head just above the ear He heard a sound siernails The sound traveled in a straight line to the back of his head and his flesh felt the chill of the air

However, he onally to hiht up to the man

He held Lypē Katathlipsē’s blade in preparation to stab Tadakatsu through the gut

But Muneshi+ge heard a voice

“Bind and cut Tonbokiri”

…What?

Tonbokiri’s blade was not turned toward Muneshi+ge

So as he going to cut?

The answer showed itself before him

Tadakatsu disappeared froe as his eyes opened wide before sensing a presence to his left

Charging at him from that direction, the north, was Tadakatsu with the autoht are wondered when he had moved there, but then the answer came to him

…It can’t be…

“All I did was cut the ‘north’! Lypē Katathlipsē’s tearing can’t do that! Only I can do it with the superior drive of Tonbokiri, the divine weapon of cutting!”

Tonbokiri’s effective range was thirtythe direction of north from his perspective, he could travel the distance he had cut away, 15a phenomenon uses a lot of output But it was necessary, so that’s fine”

…That’s ridiculous!

But it was the truth

The dragonfly-pattern fuel system on the side of Tonbokiri at the base of the blade was almost empty and had lost its color Even with the normal drive, he only had a few uses left

But it was enough

This was the same

That technique had used the special characteristics of the divine weapon Tonbokiri as a Logismoi Óplo prototype and as the possessor of a superior drive And now Tadakatsu charged directly toward Muneshi+ge

“Tonbokiri!”

Sign fra Tonbokiri’s blade

It was targeting Muneshi+ge However, he could avoid it even with just one leg If he took a step with all his strength, he could escape Tonbokiri’s cut

And so Muneshi+ge took that step of acceleration Aout

“Go!”

His body blasted forward

In the next instant, an ie’s entire body

It was too soft to call a strike It wasdirectly into a wall

What happened? he wondered in his shaken head

He turned toward the impact that had struck his entire body And he found…

“This is…?”

It was a wall

A wall had appeared where there had not been one before The as made of the road he stood on

“Tadakatsu-sa her, the autoht hand was pointed toward Muneshi+ge

Her poas gravitational control What she had created was…

“I will surround you!” she shouted just as a doe

A sealed oblong space with no path of escape had been created And piercing through that wall that blocked off even the sky was…

…Tonbokiri’s blade!?

Just as Muneshi+ge realized what it was, he heard a voice It was Tadakatsu’s voice co from the other side of the wall

“Bind!!”

Tadakatsu held Tonbokiri as it stabbed through that oblong doreat strength

This was necessary to pull the blade out of an object

By pushi+ng it in, he would widen the hole in the object enough to easily pull the blade out By doing this, he ensured that he did not bend the blade or bring the stabbed object with the blade When stabbing into flesh or bone, the tension could cause the flesh or bone to constrict, so it was especially necessary in those cases

But Tadakatsu tilted his head before pulling Tonbokiri out

Kazuno nodded slightly in his ar so presumptuous as to interfere”

“That’s a special function ofaround the finished product, after all”

“Judge Itso inferior”

“daht appeared before their eyes

It came from within the wall as if to act as the opposite of Tonbokiri

Kazuno frowned and spoke up

“The virtual cannon of Lypē Katathlipsē’s overdrive!?”

An auto the truth before her eyes as a question because there was so

Kazuno spoke the question even an automaton like her could not determine the answer to

“How did he survive Tonbokiri’s cut!? Was I right and you really did screw it up!?”

“What do you ht!?”

As if in response, the wall collapsed

The wall made from the road peeled apart froth

And Muneshi+ge stood within

However, his body had not been cut anywhere

Instead…

“Tonbokiri’s blade is…”

Muneshi+ge had stabbed Tonbokiri’s blade into the right side of his chest up to the base

Tonbokiri’s cutting power activated when the target was reflected in the blade

Muneshi+ge had used athe blade into his body, it could no longer reflect anything

To drive the entire length of the blade into his body, he had stabbed it in diagonally fro had to have been pierced, but his digestive organs and heart would be fine

“I see So that’s why it felt a bit odd”

As Tadakatsu watched, Lypē Katathlipsē continued its overdrive in Muneshi+ge’s raised right hand

Muneshi+ge’s pale face was turned toward Tadakatsu However…

“He’s unconscious…”

Blood spilled froht chest by the ar before, Tadakatsu had loosened the wound in his chest to pull Tonbokiri out In sync with Muneshi+ge’s pulse, blood spilled froht chest and would not stop However…

“Tadakatsu-sama”

“Yeah,” said Tadakatsu with a nod

Kazuno nodded as well

“Lypē Katathlipsē was fired It ed yet”

“Yeah,” said Tadakatsu again And then, “Judge I suppose so He’s already aireatest output That will destroy the ley line reactor behind us and bring the ley line back under control”

“Could you cut a direction as you did before?”

“Unfortunately, I can’t fire the superior drive again”

“Judge You really are a useless person” Kazuno looked up at Tadakatsu “In that case, we ravitational control in this state is not perfect, so I cannot use the same method as before At the very least, I cannot alter its direction in the tih my arm to my chest So…” Kazuno narrowed her eyes “You know more or less what must be done, do you not?”

Kazuno closed her eyes without waiting for Tadakatsu to answer And she opened her ue out over her lower teeth and toward Tadakatsu’s face

And that exposed a wet artificial tongue with a single blue jewel elanced at the blue jewel

“I ue sure stuck around”

Having said that, he pulled Kazuno toward him He embraced the automaton and their lips ue, pulled back, scraped its moisture off with the back of his teeth, and filled the area below his own tongue with it

As if plucking it off like a fruit, he bit off Kazuno’s jewel

With the sound of fibers breaking, Kazuno’s eyebrows htly and her throat moved once

“…Nn”

Their lips parted and their faces moved back

Kazuno narrowed her eyes Artificial blood flowed froue that was also ith blood Her gazein econo, please ask quickly”

“Just so simple Take care of the last order I left with Kazuno”

“Judge”

The autoe stood there unconscious and row stronger

“Here it co experienced it once, the automaton was able to sense when it would fire

In the very next instant, the automaton released her arms from around Tadakatsu’s neck

At the same time, Tadakatsu took action He threw the automaton into the air

“Tonbokiri!”

As he spoke that word, it ca soundlessness

All that existed was a faint darkness produced fro silence before the crying and tearing

But the autoht hand up toward the muzzle of the virtual cannon

It was in the very next moment that a hole was opened in the palm of that outstretched hand

The autoreat creaking rose from her body

“Tadakatsu-sama!”

In response to the auto it

“Bind!”

Hearing that word, the automaton’s eyes narrowed in a san to perforet

“Once the bullet is contained within the automaton, I cut the automaton with the bullet as a part of her body!”

I power split the automaton in two

Lypē Katathlipsē’s overdrive, that power of tearing, activated over a large area