Vol 2 Chapter 5 (2/2)
She was fairly light, so that alone would not have been an issue However, the unexpected landing position surprised her, so her feet slipped and she fell into a sitting position
“Ngaaahhh! Why youuuuuuu!”
“Wabh!? Ange!? I can’t see!”
She clung to the boy’s head to hold on
However, the boy began to panic as she clung to his head with her thighs on his shoulders
His face was sticking right up her skirt and he could not see the road ahead
“Kh! Why you! Deeeryaaaaaaahhh!”
While clinging to his head, the girl soiant sword and drive back the crane game’s fierce attack
“Um, um…”
As the battle grew ainst her spats
He could feel the soft squishi+ness below and s scent of sweat
The girl attacked with all her ht and swept aside the crane machine’s arm
“You’re miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine!”
This was the perfect chance to slice its body in half
“I can’t see!!”
“…Ahhn!”
However, Mutsuki’s shout sent a tingle through the base of her thighs and her strength left her
Her weakened sword strike was deflected by the ame escaped
“Gh… Stupid Mutsuki! That wasyour face, you pervert!?”
“You landed on top of me!”
“Shut up, shut up, shut uuuuuuuuuup! You pervert! You butt devil!”
“This has nothing to do with your butt! …Wah!?’
They did not have tiue A hole suddenly appeared in the road and he frantically swerved They just about toppled over
The hole had been created by an unpleasantly shi+ny projectile: a bowling ball
“————”
The other Springloaded had caught up The bowlingits balls into the air like a cannon They did not actually hit, but they created plenty of holes in the road up ahead
“So they’ve switched over to long-range attacks Mutsuki! Don’t let us fall over!”
“I-I’ll do my best”
The token exchange machine opened its mouth(?) wide and fired countless tokens as bullets
However, that was no reason to worry The girl climbed back down onto the back wheel and brushed up her ponytail
“Corona!!”
Her blue wings surrounded the two of them in a thin field of flae in air pressure made by the intense flames, and they were either swept upwards or created holes in the ground And…
“Helio!!”
The blue fla Springloaded
The balls of light only reached a few hundred degrees and could not pierce the metal bodies, but…
“Grl!? Gbhhhhbhhbhhh!!”
The token eheat bent its ejector and caused its bullets to tear through its own body
Even if she was poorlyto her lack of footing and the intruding wind Anyone with an understanding of combat would have trembled in fear at her combat instincts
She had taken out thich left five
“Capture of…fleeing target…deemed difficult…positive”
The archery s
Arrows fired from all twelve bows The tips were dulled since they were h the human body at that speed But…
“It’s no use! Corona! …!?”
The angel created another shi+eld, but she had et The arrows fle and were not aimed at her
The shi+eld of flames was concentrated around her and Mutsuki, so it eaker elsewhere The tips of the twelve arrows ht toward the motorcycle’s back wheel
“Trying to take out our means of transportation? Don’t underestimate me!”
She i her divine sword and swept all twelve arrows out of the way, but…
“Wah, ah, wah! What, what, what!?”
One of thee’s footing sank down and she had to quickly escape to the seat the boy was sitting on
“What just happened? …Wah!”
Mutsuki paled when he looked back The cover fraainst the back wheel
“Wait…is this thing broken!? Are we in trouble!?”
“Um, I think we’re fine It only shi+fted position”
If they continued like this, the frictional heat could destroy the engine, but Ange ed to pry it back up Three of the four frame supports still existed, so it was fine once they were unbent, but…
“I can’t stand on this anymore Mutsuki, scoot forward”
“S-sure”
He e stood on the back half
Her butt was squishi+ng against the back of his head, so he leaned forward too
“Target speed lowered”
“Operation completion possible…positive”
Two Springloaded charged forward to take advantage of the lost speed caused by the back wheel’s dae The roulette wheel used its entire disk-like body as a tire and the horse-shaped horse-riding game ran on its own as the only one not to absorb a car
Ange desperately swung her tords to fight back fro
Unlike the previous two, these two fortunately had no weapons The horse-riding ga of fighting under these circumstances
“Too slow!!”
She had no reason to fear these opponents Her giant sword opened a hole in the roulette wheel’s guts…and the force of her attack sent her butt back into Mutsuki’s head
“Gh…zh…”
The disk groaned in agony and Ange began to attack the horse-riding game
“Operation…complete…positive”
“Eh!?”
Only then did she catch on
So on the inside of the roulette wheel as it rotated at 250 kph A red ball was rolling along the inside edge of the rotating disk
As soon as it fell over into the proper orientation for a roulette wheel, the ball hopped out using the sword embedded in the middle It followed the blade, the arm, and…
“Kfh…”
It collided with the girl’s slender stomach
The treel out for a small fraction of a second She was unable to support her small body and she pitched forward
The next thing she knew, the gray road was right in front of her eyes
She was falling She was going to slam into that asphalt
“~~~~~~~~~!?”
But it was not her adorable face that contacted that rough surface It was her long hair, tied into a ponytail
That red hair scattered about as it caught on small pebbles
“Nn…gah!”
The very next moment, she had pulled herself back up onto the seat
An arht off guard and her heart skipped a beat
“Watch out! If you fell off, you’d…uet hurt!”
After seeing that she had recovered, Mutsuki grabbed tightly onto the handlebar that had started rattling even though he had only let go for a few seconds with just one hand
The girl was briefly left in a daze, but then…
“Not bad”
She pressed her forehead against his back
“Let’s try this again!”
“Please no…”
She heard a pathetic complaint, but she did not aht off
She ended up leaning too far forward again, but she did not care
“Fwaaaaah! …Oh, honestly! I said watch out!”
After all, Mutsuki’s arm would wrap around her if she was about to fall
The boy pulled her close as if e her She let him do as he wished, so they swapped out as in front and as in back and her butt landed on top of his lap
This was the most stable position with only the one seat to ith She did feel a little too close to hih
“…”
She said nothing as she stared at his face
He had a look of extreme focus as he drove aforced to handle an unruly girl The hints of tears re in the corners of his eyes were a little pathetic, but he did not look too bad
Mutsuki had noticed her gaze, but he did not have ti at 280 kph A slight lapse in attention and they would crash into the other cars that were essentially stationary obstacles at this point
Meanwhile, the three reloaded had been unable to keep up since they had passed 250 kph Due to the heavy arcade gaines
Still sitting on the boy’s lap, Ange realized they were pulling away froh of relief But then…
“~~~~!?”
The look on her face changed when the destroyed roulette wheel and horse-riding gaht up with those other three
“Um, Mutsuki?”
“Yes?”
“Umm, about that romance of men you mentioned”
“The giant robots?”
“…”
“————!?”
Mutsuki looked over his shoulder and noticed what has happening
As the destroyed two caught up to the other three, their various parts intertwined, transforiant body The cars that were sla on their brakes also had pieces taken to create an even larger and more complete form
“…”
“Romance?”
“For today, I’ll find a new hobby”
It was a giantover twenty meters tall
The upper body was humanoid, one hand held a crane, and the other held a roulette wheel
It had four legs to support its incredible weight It had the long, s of a horse, wheels spun on its torso, and twelve arroere drawn
Ange looked back toward the dull sound of the arrohizzing through the wind and her eyes opened wide
“Stop, Mutsuki! No, wait, don’t stop!”
“Eh!? …Fwah!”
Ange forcibly twisted the accelerator grip The burden shi+fted to the back wheel, but Mutsuki so a wheelie
A moment later, the barely passable road dropped by about a meter
“Its size has only made it crazier!”
The twelve bows fired twelve bowling balls connected by wires
Each ball was large enough to break a hole in the ground, so a horizontal line of theh to split the road itself in two
Shocked into a daze, the boy’s face paled
Even Ange looked troubled She could fight back as long as the car chase continued, so destroying the road necessary for the chase felt like cheating
They had miraculously avoided that one, but who could say about the next one In fact, the enee’s supports, causing it all to collapse
“~~”
Ange wrinkled her brow and glanced up at Mutsuki
“…? What is it?”
He was on the verge of tears again now that the eneive up and continued operating the radually grow accustomed to this insane race
His tear ducts were still loose, but he uy
The girl smiled, pulled out her phone, and placed it in his pocket
“Afterwards, call Micha for help”
“Eh?”
“Make sure you escape If you’re captured, I’ll have failed as a bodyguard”
“Ange!?”
Before he could turn around, she had jumped down from the motorcycle
They were already travelling at more than 300 kph, so her short redheaded form vanished in an instant
“Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!”
With a blade in each hand, Ange slipped past the arrows fired by the twelve bows and attacked the twenty iant
Blue wings of fire appeared and she used the air pressure they created as footing to jump up to her enemy’s head
“Haaaahhhh!!!!!!”
She recoht down at the top of its head, but…
“Lithography…excellent No errors in anti-angel tools”
She sliced through thesound, but it ienerated
(This really isn’t easy)
She ht while on theright into their hand
All Springloaded could regenerate their own functions by copying their seraphy, so the only way to defeat the it time to make a new copy
With a body this big, nore was unlikely to have e to destroy it in a single strike would be difficult
(This ht come down to a tie)
The best she could do here was to draw their attention and buy enough tiet to escape
The Springloaded had learned just how el, was, so they were forced to stop and face her even if it gave Mutsuki, their final objective, a chance to escape
FeTUS would also want to avoid having their super-technology on public display for long Once people gathered, this operation would be called off, so…
“I’ll take you on until then! Daaaaaaaahhh!!”
She deflected the extended crane and dodged the wheel ha doard her
It was quite fast for its size, but a natural fighter like Ange could easily follow its movements
(Where’s Mutsuki? Did he get away?)
For a brief second, she shi+fted her attention toward the motorcycle
“!?”
And that proved a fatal mistake
She had been so focused on the attacks frorabbed at her leg
“Kh…!”
If she had simply tripped, she could have easily recovered with her reflexes, but this grabbed at her leg and pulled her down
It was an arrabbed her ankle
(A Springloaded? Oh, no!)
Ibekusa Machina’s face flashed through her ht her this
Three Springloaded had co controlled by one or two The re to the road and turned the surface itself into a Springloaded
Ange sliced through the concrete arm with her sword, but by that time…
“Anti-angel extermination simulation…complete”
“Ahh…”
The giant wheel ha down
It covered tooonto her butt
She was going to be crushed
“Checkmate”
“~~~~!”
“…………nge!!”
She heard the engine before the voice
She looked up
She should have been angry She had told hinored her instructions andhim was her responsibility
However, she formed a smile instead of her usual lopsided frown
Smoke rose from the motorcycles tires and he reached a hand toward her with tears in his eyes
She would never have admitted it, but he seemed reliable for the second time that day
Mutsuki leaned over so far his shoulder nearly scraped the road and he caught the girl
Ange flipped up and over him to pull in the opposite direction If she had not, he would have fallen over
S, but its inertia pulled it just barely past the hae As soon as the blue sky caiant’s hah for the surface to cave in
Thanks to the girl’s support, theas it came to a stop
The boy’s e He see to ask her if she was okay, but the words would not come out
“Yes, I’h”
“…” (Flapping mouth)
“Wipe away those tears”
“…” (Nodding)
As she watched the boy wipe at his eyes, the bodyguard girl checked on their surroundings
After the hit froloaded in the road seemed unable to move That meant escape was an option, but she was still afraid of those twelve bows
Which meant…
“Hey, Mutsuki”
She whispered into his ear
After he heard her plan, he grew pale and shook his head, but…
“Beginning capture of Serpent’s Eye holder…positive”
“We don’t have time to hesitate!”
The crane arrab the stopped motorcycle
“Do we have to?” he silently asked with his pathetic, teary look
“Yes! We do!” she silently replied with her lopsided frown
“Fine then!”
The boy spun the accelerator grip
The engine sounded like it was going to explode Mutsuki had gradually gotten used to driving the thing, so he quickly shi+fted up to top gear
It tore into the crane as it raced up the Springloaded’s arm
“Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!”
It was a slope of rees Even the off-road ed while driving for his very first tiained an excellent sense of balance fro it, though
The engine was incredibly powerful and its speed did not waver Also…
“I’e! Hold on!”
He bent the accelerator grip
The end of the grip was actually a cover for a small button He had seen Micha use it once before and had feared for his life when she had
The Springloaded tried to brush off the object cli its arm, but it was too late Once Mutsuki pressed the button, the engine roared so loudly it spewed flames and the motorcycle accelerated with nearly twice the speed
Si onto the handlebars was the e, but…
“Tell this to whoever made you”
The strongest guardian angel lightly raised her sword and the ht toward the chest of the mechanical soldier protected by twelve bows
“The crane is too slow”
“I’ain”
“Huh? But what about our rematch?”
“Not even at the arcade I’ain”
“So you’re going to quit while you’re ahead?”
“I’ it! I really did cry!”
The two of theloaded crumbled behind them with a hole in its chest
Ange was of course exhausted and Mutsuki’s legs were giving out due to fear, so they both crouched down for a short break
“Is it…over?”
“Yes It looks like they’ve stopped We defeated all the Springloaded”
Ange tapped the ground with her heel
Mutsuki breathed a sigh of wholehearted relief, but…
“But only the Springloaded”
The girl’s tone of voice dropped and he re skirmish
They both stood back up and faced the pile of Springloaded wreckage when they heard the ringing of a bell
“That was a wonderful battle”
Black Cat gave a round of light applause and Ange drew her divine sword once more
“But…ein Unglück kommt selten allein”
The beauty in black clasped her hands behind her back, spread her feet to shoulder width, and tightly arched her back as if to say she was most comfortable like this With her bulky hel down on people As she stuck out her skinny chin, her long braided hair swayed like a tail
She was FeTUS Witches Miss C, aka Black Cat According to Ibekusa Machina, she was one of the witches ere loaded
“I should apologize, Jiyuuni Ange I underestimated you”
Her round feline eyes narrowed behind her glasses
As the corners of her eyes narrowed, a horribly repulsive olden eyes
“To be honest, I was disappointed when you showed up at the loaded as a lookout and ended up sending eight of them after you”
Her apparent intelligence and calerous Mutsuki was unfa, but even he could sense the threat in her eyes
“According to our calculations, eight cutting-edge Springloaded is enough to defeat one hundred angels However…”
Her eyes narrowed even further
“You ed to defeat all of them and destroyed a total of seven …Heh heh heh”
The next thing Mutsuki knew, an insane smile had appeared on her lips
“It’s been a while…”
“—————!?”
“…since I ca opponyent♡”
She unclasped the hands behind her
The backs of her slender hands were hidden by tight gloves On both hands, glittering metallic claere attached to the base of the second, third, and fourth fingers
“Shaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!”
The bewitching cat appeared in front of the angel’s eyes too quickly for her to even be caught off guard She had approached so quickly that she had seemed to disappear and reappear to Mutsuki
“~~~~ Prominence – Loop!!”
Ange prepared her tords The cat instantly used the centrifugal force of a spin to attack the angel’s windpipe with her three claws Ange pulled her body back and used a sword as a shi+eld
“Heh heh… Heh hee hee…hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee!”
The spinning black object released a faint, crazed laugh as she sent out her other three claws
The girl soainst this attack too, but the later attack had al force behind it and it launched her backwards She flew through the air, bounced a few ti Micha’s motorcycle
“Heh heh heh heh hee hee! What’s wrong? You’re slow, slow, slow! Nya ha ha!”
Black Cat’s pretty face twisted into so as hideous as a deep sea fish and she crouched down She stood on all fours with her arht
It was the pose of an aniht
The vertical slits of her pupils tightened in even further Her braided hair bounced on her round butt like a tail
“Grrrrrrrrr!! Let me enjoy thiiiiiiiiissssssss!!”
She tore through the concrete ground as she raced forward
“Ange!” shouted Mutsuki
“…”
Ange had finally gotten back to her feet, but she did not have time to prepare her sword
“Corona!!!”
“Nyah!?”
But she protected herself with the flames emitted from her back
However, she was not targeting Black Cat She sent them toward Micha’s motorcycle
“Vnyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!”
The gasoline ignited and exploded The motorcycle’s parts scattered every which way and the hellfire scored a direct hit on Black Cat as she passed above it
The sticky gasoline stuck to her and set her ablaze
“…”
Mutsuki frowned Even if she was their enemy, he did not want to see someone on fire
Ange, on the other hand, showed no an her next action The enemy ide op