Chapter 1205 (2/2)

“Your ability doesn't work oncreatures Heheh, I learned that from Murakami”

Baba Yaga's ignition ability… to be aniccreatures to die in flames, caused her body to instantly reach a teh to melt iron, and then burst

Asagi ie Masher and cast a defensive spell However, even with the latest h defensive spell to block this intense heat in the tinyof time that he had

Without even giving a dying screai was destroyed by the fire, with not even a single fragment of bone left behind

Hiroto's group, who had proceeded to the corridor leading to the room in which Pluto and En the way forward, and Ereshkigal, as guarding it

However, Ereshkigal had simply hidden herself in the barricade and fired her assault rifle at the intruders

It would have been enough of an attack if it were a regular terrorist shooting at an ordinary police squad However, for athe Bravers, it was difficult to even call this an attack

“What is this?” Hiroto said

It was only natural for him to be suspicious He and his companions would be able to easily destroy a crude barricade like this by using ic

“Isn't this just a way to buy tiuard rather than one of their members”

“No, I detected life with my spell Since it's not an Undead, it's some kind of trap We should be careful and think of a plan”

“But if they're buying tierous – !”

At that el The last thing that was sent through the netas a vision filled with flames

“This is…! Asagi…!”

“No way!”

Hiroto's group, having understood that Asagi had died, stoppedlost yet another companion The only one who didn't stop was the 'Avalon' Rikudou Hijiri

“So, it was a mistake to leave him on his own after all If at least Akaki was there, she would have been able to manipulate the heat and save hie Masher If he had used defensive … No, honestly, if he had just run frootten aith just some major burns…” Hijiri said in a matter-of-fact tone

“Hijiri! Don't say such troubleso him

“Oi, cal behind her

“Asagi's dead! And you're telling me to calm down?! How dare you say that!” Akaki shouted

“But there are liht?!”

Iwao tried to cal her increasingly angrier

“It's because we're talking about being careful that we're getting caught in their traps!” Akaki said “nobody would have died if we just went in and killed them all, like this!”

“Wait!” Hiroto said, trying to stop her immediately

But Akaki fired her Ifrit's scorching flames at the barricade “… There was only one, huh How disappointing,” she muttered

Ereshkigal was set afla in She writhed in agony after beco

“Hah!” Akaki shouted triua like this as – huh?”

Before she could finish her sentence, her own body was engulfed in flames

“What?! Hurry up and extinguish the flames!”

“I am, but it's impossible These aren't flauish the flaic

Akaki struggled for a few seconds, as if desiring help, but she quickly collapsed and stoppedas well

During those few seconds, Hijiri and several of the Bravers had tried to extinguish the fla Akaki's body, but their efforts were completely ineffective Despite that, the flames disappeared like an illusion the moment Akaki became a black, burnt corpse

“No way… Akaki-san”

“For Ifrit to be killed by flames…”

Naru in a daze, shocked by the repeated deaths of their companions, who had died in ways beyond their comprehension

“This is… the power of that Eighth Guidance member, huh,” Hijiri murmured

As he said, Akaki had died due to Ereshkigal's power

Ereshkigal had been the queen of the underworld, who had been defeated by Nergal, the God of the sun It was said that she offered her throne in the underworld and begged for her own life, and Nergal became the new God of the underworld

The Eighth Guidance member whose codename was taken from this Goddess possessed the power to inflict the exact same injuries that she herself suffered to her attacker It was a power that was more like a curse, but there wasn't ato take revenge and drag her enemies doith her

That hy Akaki's own body had been set aflaal And the flauish

Because what had burned Akaki was the curse that had activated after she burned Ereshkigal alive

“With that being the case, it can be said that she sacrificed herself to protect us If all of us had fired our ht have all been wiped out,” Hijiri said, analyzing things calmly once more

This time, it ho had tried to stop Akaki, who lashed out at hi at a time like this – ?!”

“Wait!” said Hiroto, interrupting hi with Hijiri's attitude The responsibility for letting Akaki die before our very eyes falls on ht now is some composure like Hijiri's”

Iwao and Narumi immediately tried to object Even those eren't there expressed their agreeel

But Hiroto didn't change his stance “Everyone, we're too delicate to the deaths of our companions Each person's death shakes us; we becoer and lose our corieve our companions' deaths But for ourselves and our companions, we must maintain our composure Please understand”

The Bravers other than Hijiri seemed to have been convinced by Hiroto's words; Iwao reluctantly agreed as well

However, this type of probleain their coht before their eyes

“Iwao, you and the others stay here and keep watch to make sure Tsuchiya, Murakami and the others don't come this way Me, Hijiri and Narumi will deal with Pluto and whoever is in there with her,” Hiroto said

Taking the two members that he trusted themembers, Pluto and Enma

Kouya, when all of this is over, I'll have you tell

Four Bravers had already died during this plan All but two hth Guidance were dead If the soldiers from the various nations were taken into account, there had been countless casualties

The doubt in Kouya, who had said that this was the plan that would produce the least casualties, had already become firm in Hiroto's mind

S down the door, Hiroto took the lead as he and his coed into the command room, ready to unleash their spells or fire their weapons

They were prepared to suppress Pluto and Enma, no matter what traps had been prepared or what tru

However, the sight that greeted them was vastly different from what they had expected

A girl crouched over after having been punched, clutching her face as blood dripped fro a bloody fist, the finger of his other hand wrapped around the trigger of a gun

“Help irl, Pluto, screamed at Hiroto and his companions

Pluto, as supposed to be filled with a desire to kill the them for help Hirotoand his companions hadn't expected this, and they froze

“To beg the Bravers for your life, you shameless bitch!” the boy shouted

“What's so shameless, when you're the ones who threatened e, I just wanted to live a quiet life!”

“You bitch, I'll kill you –”

Pluto and the boy… Enrily at each other Enrily at Pluto, but before he could pull the trigger, a hole appeared in his head

Hijiri had produced a sharp spike with earth-attribute ic that pierced Enma between the brows

“Hijiri!”

“Ihim However, we don't knohat his ability is, so I had no choice And irl,” Hijiri said

Though Enround face-up, Hijiri watched hier had already been on the trigger In order to ensure Pluto's safety, Hijiri had been given no choice but to pierce Enle attack so that he couldn't pull the trigger

“… Sorry It's exactly as you say,” Hiroto said

Hijiri's actions were extremely correct Hiroto realized this and turned around to check on Pluto However, Naru to heal her injury fro punched

At a tiht have been easier for Pluto to calm down if treated by someone of the same sex If possible, Hiroto wanted to hear her story as soon as possible, but –

“shi+t!”

Seeing through Naru, and that Naru able to let out her voice, Hiroto immediately cast an offensive spell

The moment she touched Narumi, who had approached her with a handkerchief to wipe her bleeding nose and apply healing ic, Pluto was certain of her victory

En had paid off

Pluto hadn't hed at; she'd just needed to touch any of the Bravers, even for an instant To think that she had been able to touch the 'Angel' Naruse… Amemiya Narumi, the one she had wanted to kill second most, this could only be described as fortuitous

Now, die!

Pluto poured the 'death' that she had accumulated from countless sick and injured people up until now into Naruulfed all other colors in a picture, it invaded Narumi's life force

Ideally, Aet, but she was killing the wife of the Bravers' leader That was enough

You were too late to realize, weren't you?

Perhaps because of the drugs being secreted in Pluto's brain, the entire world felt like it wasin slow motion She could see Hiroto, who possessed the Chant Revocation ability, casting a spell at her

It seemed that he desperately wished for his wife to not be killed; he was even using Multi-Cast to release multiple spells Pluto knew that she would suffer a fatal wound if any of them were to hit her

But I don'ti taken away from you!

With a great sense of satisfaction, Pluto tried to completely paint over Naru was strange

There was a life existing within Narumi other than her own

This is… She's pregnant?!

Narumi's womb harbored a new life However, it was too sthat hadn't even attached itself to the uterus wall yet

It was such a snancy test or even the life-attribute spell, Investigation

How frustrating… I can't kill her!

Using her own life force as a cost, Pluto began fiercely reabsorbing the 'death' that she had poured into Narumi

Naruasped as the blood instantly returned to her deathly-pale face Meanwhile, Pluto's life force was fading at an astonishi+ng rate

Pluto let out a groan of pain as the ar Narumi was severed by a vacuum blade It was Hiroto's spell Instead of pain, Pluto was assaulted by a sensation of heat, as if ainst her

How frustrating! Why, this woman!

Pluto instinctively extended her other hand towards the severed ar Narumi

And then she used her ability once more A spear of ice pierced her ar her power

Why do I have to be so desperate in saving this woman?!

After feeling several attacks land on her, Pluto's consciousness blacked out for a moment, and then quickly returned

“W-why…?”

The first thing Pluto checked was Narumi's status Narumi had broken out into a cold sweat and had fallen onto her back, but it seemed that all of the death had been sucked out of her

“da…!”

Next, Pluto looked at Ah, he had realized that Pluto had been saving Narumi, but he had been unable to stop the spells that he had already cast

He tried to take steps towards Pluto with an expression of regret on his face, but Rikudou Hijiri stopped him

“Wait, Hiroto She can apparently kill those she touches Don't get close to her,” Hijiri warned

“But –!”

“And it's too late… None of us have the ability to resurrect the dead”

Realizing that she was in an extremely terrible condition, Pluto felt relieved It was unfortunate that A close, but it seemed that she would at least be able to die

The regrettable thing was that the final plan, the self-destruction of the base, could no longer be executed Pluto couldn't take an action that ht take the life of Narumi, the life that she had worked so hard to save

“Why didn't you kill me?” Narumi asked

“We… don't… kill… children…” Pluto gasped with tre lips

With a surprised expression, Narumi placed a hand on her own abdo that Naruer rose within Pluto

But there was so that concerned her more than that

Hoould she apologize to Enma, whom she hadthat all of her co to kill anyone, despite being the leader

It can't be helped, I suppose… Because I wanted to die, I wanted to choose the way my own life ends

And so, just as Gazer had prophesized, Pluto turned a blind eye to two people

Eighth Guidance: Baba Yaga, Ereshkigal, Enma, Pluto, deceased All members annihilated

Muraka

Bravers: The 'Mage Masher' Minai, the 'Ifrit' Akaki, two deceased

Re reincarnated individuals: 83 out of 101

“Now that we've died and our lives have ended, shouldn't we coain with fresh resolutions?! Remember, ere once co each other for the conflicts of our previous lives, and look towards the future!” said Minai in a positive, constructive speech

Indeed, holding onto grudges fro each other would be unproductive

“I'd rather you just keep bla even my ears die!” said the 'Death Scythe' Konoe Miyaji

“What's the point of coether after we've already died?” added the 'Super Sense' Gotouta

It was not only those who had abandoned the Bravers like them

Even the 'Noah' Mao was covering her ears, looking fed up with Asagi's speech “Can you just shut up a little? How can you be so loud even after dying?”

“Ah… I was such an idiot How could I let the blood rush to my head like that?” The 'Ifrit' Akaki, who had died as a result of being angered by Asagi's death, wasn't listening to his speech at all

“What are you guys saying?! At this rate, we'll split up and start killing each other again even in our third lives, just as we did in our second!” Asagi insisted, but nobody was supporting him

“I mean, it's impossible at this point Even my Calculation tells me that we… to be more precise, the ninety-nine of us, have an alether,” said Aran

“Even thoughcompletely serious about this,” Izumi added

The two of the their abilities to consider Asagi's idea, but the ninety-nine reincarnated individuals… the reincarnated individuals excluding Vandalieu and Kanata, whose soul had been broken, had alether

As Asagi said, many of the reincarnated individuals had been students of the same school, but not all of them had been friends with each other And there were people like Aer on that ferry at the ti on the ferry as an employee

It wasn't as if they had all been part of a collective group since they were on Earth

In fact, it could even be considered unnatural that they had been gathered into a single organization called the Bravers in Origin The co reincarnated fro the other reincarnated individuals given to the power and chariss had made that possible

Making the same happen in their third lives was certainly impossible

“For now, let's just keep watching how things unfold Depending on how things turn out, ht die Gazer hasn't come here yet, and it seeood if Rikudou could stay put, though,” said the 'Clairvoyance' Tendou

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