novelStrength, the Time It Should be Shown (2)
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"Kana-shishou, prepare yourself!"
At the same time with the start of the match, Kamiizumi-senpai challenged Kanae.
"Against me, who has been charged with strength from Nii-sama, the likes of you won't stop me!"
Kanae too stood against her right from the front. The white blades clashed, fragments of blue magic power scattered everywhere.
"I'm also going to show my cool side this time for sure! Now the sure kill...TORAZOU SMASH!!"
"I won't let an oily brute like you get near the prince!"
Torazou-san and Kimura-senpai also clashed against each other. The difference in strength between the swordsmen...Kanae & Torazou-san of Team Kaguya-senpai were overwhelmingly superior. However―,
"Howl! Civilization grants destruction to humans! The roar of wisdom scorches thy body, break apart, that dignity is buried beneath the rubble!! Mitrailleuse!"
From the rear, with fast chanting special to Possession SummoningDrive, Lotte created a magic gatling gun. Its body rotated with groans of motor sounds, rapidly scattering dozens of bullets everywhere.
Those bullets accurately obstructed the attack of Kanae and Torazou-san who were leaping close and gave a good timing "Right now's your chance!" for Kamiizumi-senpai and Kimura-senpai. It was exquisite firing support.
Lotte was able to read the situation on the battlefield with her extraordinary ~Telepathy~.
"O will of the God of the whirling heavens! Gather in my hand, grant me the authority of judgment! O light of royalty's divine gift, become the brilliantly dazzling drawn bow! Lightning Line!"
Slightly behind, Hikaru-senpai produced a lightning bow and directed it at Koyuki. Similar with when Kazuki was fighting Kaguya-senpai's team, it seemed they planned to start from Koyuki first.
"O rejection of absolute zero, protect my body and become the armor of isolation! Freeze Barrier!"
Without delay Koyuki pulled out a barrier of icy cold air.
"That Koyuki, she had anticipated that she would be targeted!"
Mio raised a passionate voice to her rival.
"But against a lightning arrow, a cold air barrier wouldn't be sufficiently effective."
Precisely because Kazuki was able to use both [Lightning Line] and [Freeze Barrier], he understood the superiority of elements. The lightning arrow would surely slice apart the cold atmosphere sharply and pour electricity into Koyuki.
"...But that child, too, would surely understand that fact all too well I imagine. ―Look, that child is controlling the cold delicately. As expected from an elf like me."
Miyabi-senpai pointed out with sympathy filled tones.
That observing comment was by no means an overestimation.
A streak of lightning was released from Hikaru-senpai's hands. Facing that attack, Koyuki concentrated the water particles and cold in the air in front of herself for two meters using Psychokinesis, creating a membrane of water.
The moment the arrow of lightning penetrated the insulation of the air while advancing came into contact with the membrane of water, the arrow was unable to pierce it. All of its energy went through the highly conductive water and flowed into the earth.
Hikaru-senpai's expression was colored with disbelief. Just like that, she kept firing the arrows of lightning repeatedly, but Koyuki kept making thin films of water one after another using the cold and water particles that were fixed with Psychokinesis and held out against the barrage.
Koyuki's delicate magic technique, knowledge and quick-wittedness were surpassing Hikaru-senpai.
It was a deadlock of offense and defense that went against Kazuki's predictions― and left Kaguya-senpai alone.
"O shapeless and mute shadow, become the fish that swims in the darkness filled with obstructive thoughts! The origin of nightmares, vicissitudes of materialism, answer to the terror and hope and bite...! Deep Specter!"
Kaguya-senpai, who was outside of the net, indifferently invoked her level 5 magic.
"Everyone, Formation Dark!"
Asmodeus' laughing voice reverberated in the empty sky―from the shadow under Kimura-senpai, a pure black monster rose up. Kamiizumi-senpai came to help; she blocked its big mouth that was lined up with black fangs with her katana.
Using the gap when Kamiizumi-senpai and Kimura-senpai were busy battling the monster, Kanae and Torazou-senpai broke away from that spot and went to slash at Lotte and Hikaru-senpai.
One of the options of Kaguya-senpai's team, ~Formation Dark~ was a plan that created numerical superiority with the shadow monster and directing Kanae and Torazou-senpai to the enemies at the rear.
When Magica Stigma are attacked in the middle of chanting spells, their concentration would fall into disarray and their magic invocation would fail completely.
But...Lotte and Hikaru-senpai were peculiar Magica Stigma that excelled in close-range combat.
"I reach my hand to the height of Babel and become the oppressor! In accordance with my life, O lightning, let us praise the foolhardiness of the human race! Blitzkrieg!!"
An electromagnetic lance was created on Lotte's left hand, she stabbed the spearhead at Torazou-senpai. Torazou-senpai had pride in his strength, but if he clashed with that lance he would surely get electrocuted without even any time for a contest of strength.
"O stream of atmosphere, extend to my hand, become the lance that repelled the resented person! What reaches my hand is the tip of the storm!! Ayamur!!"
A pike with the power of wind residing in it was created inside the hand of Hikaru-senpai too, it was directed at Kanae and swung.
Pike―it was a weapon that could both slash or stab with a double edged blade propped on the end of a long shaft.
On the other half of its possession of long reaches, its attack became completely large swings that made it easy to open a gap in the defense. It was born in ancient times and was one of the foremost weapons in history. But with the advancing of time the [spear] made its entrance as a weapon that specialized in thrusting and was easy to wield even in the close formation of soldier corps, making the pike's figure disappear from history. So to speak a relic of the past, it could be called a defective weapon.
But this pike of mythology, [Ayamur] had the special characteristic of producing raging wind with each attack.
The moment it was swung, a tailwind blew that accelerated the swing. The moment it made contact, a storm was created from the tip of the pike and amplified the destructive power. Even in the case it was evaded, the storm would throw the posture of the enemy out of order and seal their counterattack. Therefore it wouldn't create any gap even if it hit nothing but empty air and it could harass the enemy one-sidedly with its long reach....Even defective goods if traced back in the mythology would become a fearsome weapon for decisive battles.
Things like Hikaru-senpai's swung pike, Kanae could evade it even with her eyes closed. However, even if she evaded it, her small statured body would be blown away from the arising wind and her beginning counterattack would be arrested and taken away.
"...O divine protection of mermaid, stop the steps of the resented enemy, hasten the steps of the chosen person... O ice blade, run! Moves in the Field!"
Unable to just watch the hard fight of the swordsmen, Koyuki froze the surface of the ground. Hikaru-senpai and Lotte slipped down with a slide. Immediately Koyuki equipped both her feet with ice blades and skated and added herself in the close-quarters fight.
"Lightning Line!"
Hikaru-senpai shot lighting arrows at her comrades underfoot without delay. It had a small range but the frozen areas the arrows pierced were melted by the heat of electricity, making it possible for the ground to be stepped on and make their counterattack.
"Five stars that shine in the interstice of life and death, turn, turn, pillaged by the whim of the God of Death, become the miserable and mute mud doll! Near Death Roulette!!"
Even Kaguya-senpai chanted a magic exclusive for close-range and gripped the scythe of the god of death tightly with both hands and launched her attack at Kamiizumi-senpai and Kimura-senpai. There was no Heaven and Earth Formation or anything like that, unexpectedly all eight people were thrown into a melee!
Witnessing the development of a never before seen before match, loud cheers were raised from the stands.
"With this development could Lotte and Hoshikaze-senpai add more reinforcement magic until Kaguya-senpai finished bringing down her two opponents, it's become a match like that huh..."
Mio murmured. Kazuki also had the same opinion. The scythe Kaguya-senpai possessed would steal one of the five senses with each of its attacks and the sixth attack would sever all of the magic power of the opponent. If the swordsmen were attacked from the side with that scythe while they were in the middle of fighting Deep Specter, Kamiizumi-senpai and Kimura-senpai wouldn't last long.
Lotte chanted a spell with a mad rush in her quickness.
"Soaring wings, lording eyes, invading world-destroying conflagaration―manifest the authority of god right here, as the agent of civilization deeper and deeper I advance! Deep Striker!!"
The greatest magic Lotte could use, level 5. Huge thruster units were created on Lotte's small back, the spouting heat of fire pushed her to the sky and she soared.
Lotte who prepared her electromagnetic lance in the sky and fixed her aim looked completely like an eagle that was directing its beak to the prey on the ground. And then she took a nose dive in one beat with recklessly fast speed.
Her aim was Torazou-san. Torazou-san was blown away by Lotte's lance charge unable to do anything, his remaining magic power was lost to dangerous levels.
"Yamada Torazou, that's the end!" The referee gave his verdict of Torazou-san's exit from the stage.
Lotte immediately danced back to the sky again; this time, she aimed at Koyuki and took another nose dive.
Koyuki didn't run. Against Lotte's charge, she thrust out both her hands right from the front.
"Sinking hundred of ships, O threat of the sea lurking in ocean depths! Rise to the surface guided by my singing voice...show that whole story! ...Stab your fangs! Ice Buster!!"
That offensive magic was invoked with great timing for a counter.
Lotte's lance stabbed at Koyuki―at the same time, gigantic icebergs that grew from the ground pierced Lotte. Both of them simultaneously struck each other grandly and were blown away by the recoil.
However the damage was far heavier on Lotte, who was countered right from the front.
Moreover, what Koyuki used was level 6, an offensive magic that had high one-shot power.
All of the armaments on Lotte's body were damaged and scattered sparks everywhere *bachi bachi*. Even so, Lotte operated her thruster unit and took off again to the sky, for a decisive charge against Koyuki who even now was standing up unsteadily.
It was like an attack made by a fool that only knew how to do just one thing, but Koyuki was unable to immediately chant the same magic.
This time for sure a promised sure-kill lance charge was approaching...!
―But just an instant before they crashed, a small shadow sprung out in front of Koyuki.
"Hayashizaki style two swords art, Wind God Instant Positioning!!"
That shadow crossed her two swords and caught the tip of the lance, the long ponytail drew an arc and rotated beautifully. That one attack was parried diagonally below.
The speed of Lotte's nose dive had surpassed even Beatrix's step-in. To splendidly parry it without even taking a simultaneous hit, it was Kanae's divine work that even made the watching Kazuki, who was from the same sword school, have his breath taken away.
Lotte's charging lance pierced the ground *ZUDON!*. The lance that was fixed in her left arm completely stabbed the ground, making Lotte flap her feet *batabata* on the earth uselessly. Cute. But only her appearance.
"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
Koyuki raised a voice filled with fighting spirit that he couldn't even imagine compared to how she usually was. With reaction speed that showed her trust that Kanae would come to help her without fail, she shifted into counterattack.
With the ice blade that was equipped on her right foot, Koyuki treaded through the thruster unit on Lotte's back, it was destroyed in one hit.
With the right foot that was treading on Lotte's back as the axis, Koyuki rotated in a circle. Using the left blade on her left foot she launched an accurate Savateback spinning kick into the chink between Lotte's armor and tore it apart. Keeping the momentum she rotated once, twice, thrice, while spinning like a figure skater she hacked *zutazuta* Lotte to pieces.
When her rotation ended Koyuki lightly leaped to the air and moved to the finishing of the programme.
"O singing voice of mermaid, manifest the freezing thought. Sadness into ice flower, loneliness into light snowfall, cover the world within a freezing vacuum...White Album!"
Like an ice fairy, a silver world was spreading on the surroundings of the dancing Koyuki. Koyuki and Lotte's silhouettes stood out inside that pure white screen, the next moment, it was dyed with the blue flash of Lotte's defensive magic power that was receiving large damage from the cold.
"Charlotte Liebenfrau, that's the end!"
However―because Kanae came to help Koyuki, that person became free to move.
"Lightning fall into my body and I gain lightning thoughts and godspeed...wake up the sleeping lion! Ride Lightning!"
Lightning ran behind Kanae. Hikaru-senpai who scattered sparks from her whole body and having her physical ability elevated electrically, she drew near Kanae's back unnoticed with Ayamur in her hand.
"...Damn it! No, I'm aware of this already, but damn it!!"
If she confronted her from the front, Kanae could still deal with Hikaru-senpai even with her current speed. But having her short opening taken, *DOSU DOSU DOSU!* Kanae was stabbed full of holes with lightning speed. Hikaru-senpai kicked Kanae, then she stabbed Koyuki down with a single blow. Both of them were defeated simultaneously at that spot.
"Hayashizaki Kanae, Hiakari Koyuki, that's the end!"
But, with that Hikaru-senpai's team stood in advantage...was not what happened.
While such events happened―Kaguya-senpai too made both Kamiizumi-senpai and Kimura-senpai leave the stage with [Near Death Roulette]. What remained was a one-on-one fight between the fellow team leaders.
Hikaru-senpai, who had become superhuman, confronted Kaguya-senpai who was accompanied by Deep Spectera shadow monster while holding the god of death's scythe.
"I'm going to win for sure this time against Kaguya, you'll see!" While releasing golden light, Hikaru-senpai proclaimed with fierce dignity.
"...Some nerve you have. I'll make you sing out a pleasant voice again!" Kaguya-senpai laughed sadistically.
In the middle of the cheers from the stands that was heating up to its peak―Hikaru-senpai thrust her spear at Kaguya-senpai.
"Without hesitating that cursing thee also wounded oneself...shared agony is my delight! Cry and shout in the mirror's reflection! Suicide Black!"
Without evading, Kaguya-senpai deployed illusion defensive magic that reflected [the agony that should be produced by the opponent's attack] in full. Kaguya-senpai's body was enveloped by a sinister black haze.
Hikaru-senpai took a deep breath as if hardening her resolve―she thrust her pike at the black haze.
While gritting her teeth and enduring the pain, she kept thrusting her pike no matter how many times powerfully.
"O god of death's whisper waiting impatiently for visitors, resound widely and deeply, let us paint the dream completely with agony! Reverberate the evil sounds of sadism! Ultra Violence!!"
Kaguya-senpai reverberated an evil voice that doubled the sense of pain.
At that time an unimaginable illusionary pain should be generated inside Hikaru-senpai. But even while Hikaru-senpai's expression distorted in anguish, while raising a scream filled with fighting spirit she recklessly continued swinging her pike. Looking at that figure, even Hikaru-senpai's fans in the guest stands were screaming.
Kaguya-senpai also swung down the scythe of the god of death. The scythe that caused fatal destruction of human senses with each of its strikes was evaded by Hikaru-senpai who was desperately keeping her consciousness in the middle of the violent agony, then she was counterattacking once more.
"Otonashi Kaguya is also having an extremely hard time, you know? Because that defensive magic only returned illusionary pain."
Miyabi-senpai cheerfully pointed out. [Suicide Black] didn't reduce the damage from the attack at all.
Right now, Kaguya-senpai was using ~Resist~―without borrowing the power of her Diva but using her own general magic, she was only creating energy of the opposite vector of the thrusts to defend.
She couldn't block the attacks with just that, Kaguya-senpai's magic power too was shaved off in the blink of an eye. In short, this was an intense battle of attrition between Hikaru-senpai's mental strength against Kaguya-senpai's magic power.
The Deep Specter that was still being summoned was also attacking Hikaru-senpai from the side. Hikaru-senpai, who'd been superhumanly strengthened, flicked it away with her pike just as an annoyance in her one-on-one fight.
That one instant where Hikaru-senpai's mind was directed to the shadow monster, was the aim of Kaguya-senpai.
"O desire lurking in the sea of the heart, passing through the sinful flesh reaching out that hand! O embodiment of violation, twine yourself as you desired! Desire Tentacle!"
Countless tentacles were growing out from the ground, twining themselves on Hikaru-senpai's limbs. Hikaru-senpai raised a loud voice while shaking herself free with all her strength, she stabbed. Stabbed. Stabbing with reckless abandon at Kaguya-senpai with her pike.
However Kaguya-senpai too counterattacked using her scythe with first class simultaneous strikes. First hit. Second hit. Third hit.
Already losing her sight and hearing, Hikaru-senpai continued swinging her pike like an automatic doll. But her arms, her legs, were bound firmly by the tentacles. Finally, senpai's movements were completely sealed, Kaguya-senpai's scythe was inflicting the fourth hit, fifth hit―
And then, the sixth hit. Every sense and all of Hikaru-senpai's magic power was stolen, she fell down on that spot.
The golden light was swallowed by the black haze, Kaguya-senpai received the declaration as winner of the match.
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