137 – Academy Competition_23
It didn’t take long for the news that Ella, an island in the sky, was crashing to spread throughout downtown Los Angeles.
[Emergency evacuation, the crash of Ella, an island in the sky, is imminent…]
[LA, people within a 100km radius…]
[The 3rd Princess of America’s Holy Empire Information Department… An unprecedented catastrophe is approaching.]
[Worry about the biggest disaster since the Great War.]
[All heroes will do their best to protect citizens.]
[The evacuation site is…]
[This happened because of a biller organization? How many people will die if these crazy bastards fall into it…]
[Bastards!!!!!!!!!!!]
[Despair came. All death…]
[Paladin…]
Since evacuation broadcasts have been broadcast and only Internet broadcasts on all kinds of Internet sites and newspapers are talking about it, anyone familiar with modern culture has no choice but to know what to do from now on, even if they don’t know what happened.
So, Thompson, who lived in the suburbs of LA, also heard that Ella, an island in the sky, was going to crash, so he packed up his things and immediately started running away to prepare for what might happen.
“Get out of the way and die like this, you bastards.”
“What are you doing in front of me!!!”
“Throw it away, it’s impossible in this state.”
“Dog f*cking villains.”
“Paladin please…”
At first, I came out with a car, but there seemed to be many people who thought the same as him, and the road was blocked by cars and crawled like slugs.
-Kung Woo Woo Woo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From far away, a boulder hit the ground.
The islands floating in the sky were ruptured and some of them fell due to gravity.
Feeling cold.
Thompson put his head on the steering wheel and pondered.
“…Damn it.”
After a while, Thompson decided to abandon the car and run away.
Although cars and luggage are important, they are not more precious than life.
But after a while he gasped.
Basically, everyone born after the Cataclysm is born with mana, whether small or large, but not all are born with the same talent.
Those who went to the academy and received proper training were rare, and most were not much different from those before the cataclysm.
So it was close to impossible to traverse LA barefoot in a short amount of time.
“No…No…”
The size of the island is much larger than most cities.
The estimated time remaining until it crashes is approximately 1 hour.
That time was only possible because Paladin-sama was blocking it.
If you make a mistake…
Despair hung over Thompson’s brain.
-Kuuu!!!!!
Continuous rain of stones and soil.
It could still be heard from far away, but it kept getting closer.
“Kyaaa!!”
“Ugh uh uh uh…”
The roadside is full of people who have abandoned their cars and run away.
People were confused and full of despair.
“Damn it!!”
Thompson gritted his teeth.
You can still move your body.
If you don’t want to die, you have to move.
That’s why.
I stepped out.
It was then.
“It’s to get my memories back… so…”
A voice filled with fear was heard.
A red-haired woman reflected in the field of vision.
Thompson felt dizzy.
No matter what happened to Thompson so obviously, those around him didn’t realize it and looked up at the sky, getting tangled up and tangled up in confusion.
**
Paladins cannot go beyond a certain range.
A paladin cannot use more than a certain amount of power.
A paladin must have a part of its body touching the ground somehow.
A paladin is…
If you don’t keep the conditions, the Sky Island Ella will crash.
Until all the people were evacuated, Paladins had no choice but to accept all the unfavorable conditions.
If he was a villain, not a hero, if he put his own life ahead of the lives of others. If so, the story could have been different.
But that’s what if. He was a hero and a human who put the lives of others ahead of his own.
Confirmed information, near-convincing predictions.
The past was a tool to see people’s thoughts and thoughts very well.
Even so, I am not completely at an advantage.
I won’t deny the advantage, but it was about 55 to 45 in terms of Yu Bully.
The current situation is a tightrope walk.
At first glance, Paladin only showed a physical aspect or a very simple appearance of pressing down with mana, so we know that he looks like a martial arts fighter, but he is not a martial arts fighter.
He is a healer. In other words, it was said that it was specialized in enduring.
It’s enough to treat minor wounds by yourself.
Even if his arm is cut off or his leg is cut off, he can attach and regenerate like an alien with antenna somewhere.
It would have been impossible for an ordinary person with mana abilities or a regular hero, but he is an S-class and ranked 12th in the hero ranking, Paladin. The third sword of the Holy Empire.
Because most people fall into the category of monsters that cannot be judged.
The current situation was nothing more than lowering a monster to a human level.
In other words, this is a race against time.
Whether the paladin can hold out until the evacuation is complete.
Or it’s a game whether I can successfully attack the paladin’s body and heal and subdue him.
After time passes and the evacuation is complete, he will be free and I will be defeated in the end.
Of course, even if you lose, it’s okay to run away with teleportation. There was no return for the time and effort invested.
Knowing that fact better than anyone else, I did my best to attack.
“Is that enough?”
“Haa…”
And the result was as follows.
Even though the ground turned upside down, trees and rocks shattered and covered the ground, and dust covered the view, the paladin was fine.
Actually, I was wounded and had a hole in my body, or my shoulder was cut in half, and my arm was almost cut off, but after recovering as if time was going back, I just glared at me.
If my strength wasn’t limited, if my movements weren’t limited, I wonder if I would have been overpowered.
In other words, the first battle with Paladin was my defeat.
Even though I wasn’t seriously hurt, if I simply spent time like this, the defeat was certain.
In fact, even during Ines, he used various traps such as poison bombs. By holding what she holds dear as her hostage. She almost lost because she couldn’t overcome it with all her strength even after putting in everything she had prepared for months. It was only natural that similar results would come out for Paladins, who are similar to the top S class.
Even if I became stronger than then, it was because I was not prepared enough.
“You are amazing.”
“You are more insincere than you look.”
“Is that so? I thought I was smart, but I must have gotten older too.”
False daring.
Paladins can’t get out of a certain distance, and I only open my mouth small as if teasing outside that distance.
“Well, I will be younger than you, so I, a young man, have to work hard. Isn’t there a saying that it’s the blood of a young day?”
“Blood? Ha, isn’t that reckless?”
“Reckless? It’s an effort. After all, isn’t there a saying that hard work is the privilege of young people? My junior is working hard like this. How would you like to back off a bit?”
“You pack a garbage story with garbage actions.”
The paladin looked at me with a puzzled look.
“Is it trash? It’s my own effort and struggle. Do you want to do this because you want to be me? Society has driven me to do this. Ah, although your generation, where everyone was happy and could do anything if they worked hard, probably didn’t know.”
She shrugged her shoulders, talking bullsh*t in her own way, and the paladin grimaceed her slightly angrily.
“Bussing.”
“Wow, the old man’s mouth is really rough.”
“Did you even wish for a good word on the subject of trash walking an affair?”
“Not really. Rather than that, you talk really well with garbage. Did you want to drag that much time?”
“…”
How could a paladin not know that procrastinating time is an advantage?
If it was natural, it was a natural thing to do.
It’s a race against time.
“Seeing that you didn’t get an answer, it seems like it’s the right track. Selling me as garbage and carrying out such a delaying operation… Isn’t a hero supposed to be fair?”
“Are you talking about the f*cking villain party?”
“It’s a villain. In fact, underneath this mask, there might be a hero’s face that is respected by everyone, but you’re selling it like that. My junior is heartbroken.”
“How dare you speak of a hero with a rotten mouth!”
I made a gentle provocation, and the Paladin, who couldn’t hold back his anger, attacked.
Since they couldn’t get away from a certain distance, they flew about 100 rounds of mana-made bullets, but they were all attacks that had the power to break trees and pierce stones.
“You must love nature. These days, countries also live with eco-friendliness in their mouths. To think that a first-generation hero, who is at the forefront of justice, would do something like this…”
I dodged the attack lightly and spat out a moderate joke.
“It will be solved if I just look for you.”
“Yes? Ah… I got it. Are you saying that killing people is truly eco-friendly?”
“…”
“Then, if you release the mana you are pouring in and reduce the number of people a little, how about a completely eco-friendly environment? Relax for a while…”
– Bang!
The paladin’s attack continued as if he didn’t like the joke.
Since Ange didn’t have access, I couldn’t read the foreshadowing of the attack, but since it wasn’t a very strong attack, I let it go lightly and scratched his head.
“That’s great. Isn’t it dangerous I was simply giving light advice on what eco-friendliness is.”
“…”
But there was no answer.
Looks like he didn’t like the fact that it was getting on his nerves.
There must have been a time when it took time. He seemed to think he didn’t even need it.
‘It’s time…’
It is at a disadvantage.
I was clearly aware of that too.
“Didn’t we share good wishes just a while ago?”
“…”
“Are you tired of talking? Then there is nothing you can do.”
So please don’t call this cowardly.
Shouldn’t I win too?
If people get a happy ending because I lose, it’s true that I get a happy ending because I win.
“I didn’t want to write this number because I thought it was cowardly. Isn’t it inevitable that you stubbornly refuse to solve the situation through dialogue?”
I let out a small sigh and stretched out my right hand.
And the finger snap that followed.
Originally, this kind of directing was not necessary, but it was the most efficient way to mislead people into thinking that this kind of action was necessary to do this kind of thing.
“─!!”
“$#@$#!”
At the same time as the light gathered in front of me, about 10 civilians who had been subdued with ropes and muzzles appeared.
Rei Hozumi below had kidnapped and subdued some of the people who were eagerly evacuating, and sent them up by teleportation.
“Then, shall we start the game?”
The paladin’s face began to harden.
As I looked at him, I smiled a little.
It was the beginning of a race against time that had no choice but to win even if they lost.