202 198 掴み取るまでの過程が報われる。 (1/2)

It was a moment of stagnation.

That's when the time began to go out of whack, not to mention no time to look at the clock to see how long it had been since you had been fighting again, fired up and challenged.

The soul of the demon king who had taken over Amelia's body stopped for a moment, maybe less than a blink of an eye, but it certainly did.

!

In a field of vision where every second seems to be stretched into many times more time, my body starts to move as if I didn't even have time to scream, ”This is it!

The moment I saw the opponent stopped, my intuition moved through my body before my mind could even think about it.

I scold my body, which has become dull from fatigue, and introduce the energy I had left like a navel-gazing, instantly recreate the perfect movement, and then move it with the force that removes the limiter in my brain, telling me to break through the limit with a movement without thinking about the rest.

Something inside me screams out that that unnatural movement wasn't a trap, that something was clearly happening, and my teeth clench together.

Teeth clenching, jaw clenching, and I put pressure on my entire body, starting at the point where I put pressure on my jaw.

The other guys watching from afar must have known that.

Was there a murmur, or something else?　I'm going to be able to have a good time with you,” he said, ”and without questioning, take the rest of your magic,” as if to say, ”Take the rest of your magic and shoot it out from behind me.

Kitamiya and Kaido's attack magic collides with the opponent's auto-defense barrier, stopping its function, and the intercepting attack that interferes with me is also stopped by the southern barrier that has been deployed around me.

I hear a shout from behind me, telling me to go.

I trusted my people.

What a puerile line, but I didn't question it and was able to move faster, albeit only for a breath.

I didn't think about what they'd do, so I went on the offensive, and they gave me a situation that allowed me to make the best use of my move.

If they responded to what I did, now I have to do something for them too.

As if to say yes, I will step forward without hesitation.

I'm going to take the best step of the battle toward my opponent.

！！！！

I'm going to take the shortest possible distance, right in front of Amelia, right in time for my attack.

I swing down the mineral tree with all my might, and with a thud, my sword swings down at my opponent, who has stopped moving for a moment as if his batteries were dead, and tries to touch Amelia's body.

”Mr. Valus!

It has no barrier to defend against, no magic to deflect the attack.

If it stays like this, my blade will slice through its body.

That's the moment I've been waiting for.

To touch or not to touch.

Unavoidable, despite the fact that I had activated the magic I had left to summon at such a critical moment.

”Okay, let me do it!

Mr. Vals responded.

A trump card is really something you save for last.

The mineral tree glows so brightly that the word ”pale” will never be used and a white serpent emerges from beyond it.

What a rare taste of space-time bonds, huh?

Its long, serpentine hulking body instantly wrapped itself around Amelia's body, restraining her.

The coiled serpent flicks its tongue around menacingly.

At the snake's head is Mr. Vals, who flaunts his figure with his palm facing Amelia, moving like a kabuki actor.

Well, for me, this is about as good as it gets. Don't think that even the soul of a demon king can be easily escaped?

I'm sure Hoonsu and I are proud of it, but I can't afford to look at it right now.

It's all I can do to thrust the mineral tree into the ground like a wand and lean on it to keep it from falling apart.

No matter how much circulating and pure magic you use, the consumption is not half bad.

The high speed summoning to discard chanting in combat has a price to pay for saving a procedure.

It consumes more magic power than usual, plus it maintains the present world of Ms. Vals.

Thanks to that, the magic inside my body is drying up.

But somehow I managed to prepare it.

”You are very much in good hands, sir.

I'm dizzy, my body says I can't fight anymore.

Yeah, I know, I don't have to tell you.

I breathe slowly and continue to circulate my magic, but my body is not at full strength.

It makes me understand that I'm just that exhausted.

Still, you somehow manage to get up and look around and see Amelia wrapped by a white snake and made into a white cocoon in the middle of the snake, and at some distance, Kaido and the others are sitting on the ground as if their tension is broken.

However, this is not the end of the story.

Originally, the goal was to awaken Amelia's ego by consuming her magic power.

Sealing it with a solid ward would do no good.

This is just a stall to buy time, and you'll drink it to regain some strength by guzzling the potion.

The magic is soaking through your body, the anemic feeling subsides, and you finally find your footing.

Kaido and the others are drinking the potion and trying to relax.

Up in the sky, Himik is fighting, but a long way from here.

A short break on the battlefield.

I used that little time to regain my strength.

Huh?　It's coming down this way.

”Ah?

But it doesn't seem to give us that little bit of time.

Varrus told me to look up and see two lights falling toward us with considerable force.

As they crashed into the canyon wall as if adjusted to fall closer together rather than in different directions, they weakened their light and finally fell from the wall to the ground.

'They are...'

”You look like an angel.

Although from a distance, the figure was recognizable.

It's the twin of the flying fierce angels, although the figure is not moving, as if they were stunned.

And in the sky, Himikku is deploying a large magic circle.

A coup de grace.

Mercy on the battlefield will result in our own strangulation.

I understand that.

So I won't stop Himik's actions.

He is the enemy and must be defeated.

I understand the cruelty of it.

I won't cut this off or make excuses.

I'm just going to accept this outcome to bring us the results we need.

If she comes here, there's a better chance that she can help Amelia.

So I waited for the magic to be released.

What?　HIMIK!

I feel something that sends a chill down my spine, and I scream at Himikku, who would be facing the brunt of it.

I don't tell her to dodge or defend, I just shout her name.