227 – Goal (3)
#5
Here.
There is good news and bad news.
“Ezio! Back! Be careful!”
“…… !”
Chack!
The bad news is, no matter how much you organize it, you can’t really see the end.
The streets and buildings are full of screams and noise. It was like a chorus of ghosts above the graveyard. It seems that each person’s grudge is overflowing. Bombs of different emotions came together and exploded.
I slanted up the back of the neck of the girl I was holding onto and hit it. Shaking the brain with too much force can be dangerous, so be as delicate as possible. The body of the female student who struggled, unable to hold back her anger, drooped. As soon as I laid her on her floor, I turned around on her back and blew her regime. A wild wind pressure exploded with a flash of light.
Saaa—
The shadows were torn apart and disappeared.
I, who was lost in thought for a moment as I watched the dark haze permeate the air,
‘As expected….’
I changed my expectation to half-certainty.
‘I don’t feel anything.’
Shadows cannot be grasped by hand. Just like
If you wrap around the light and burst it, it just disappears, it was no different than tearing through empty air.
In other words.
‘There is no physical force.’
Yes.
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Just as I can’t catch the shadow, the shadow can’t catch me either. I can’t physically interfere with all things, not just me. Therefore, even if the shadow hand grabbed my leg, I would be able to move it without much difficulty. Of course, I’ll blow it up before that, but….
‘It’s not that he doesn’t enjoy unnecessary slaughter. It just can’t. As long as it’s not the main body, it’s certain that it can’t harm people directly.’
If I were a demon, I might have taken advantage of this commotion and started a random massacre. Demons were such a family. Even with this much power, the bloody massacre wasn’t staged right away… It is most likely just the limit of power.
‘Let’s do it. Once.’
Now that you’ve established your hypothesis, it’s time to test it out.
“… Ezio! What are you doing?!”
“It’s okay! I have something to experiment with!”
A person whose eyes are stained black. Host. I ran towards it at once, causing the shadow to come out on its own.
“First place… 1st place… Should be… Mother….”
The blue-haired female student stumbled. She seemed to be muttering something, but her voice was barely audible. If my predictions are correct, the shadows will begin to wriggle soon, and then…….
“Come out. Crappy.”
Poo-Hak-!
As if responding to my call, a shadow rose from the girl’s shadow like a water cannon and rushed toward me.
I didn’t respond and waited.
“Ezio! Hey! Mr. Gee… Are you crazy—!?”
“Even if it’s okay! Do not come!”
I held out my palm to stop Mu’s support.
Wedge juice!
A shadow grabbed my outstretched arm. It rocked and turned around a few times, entwined like a vine, and tightened tightly as if it would never let go.
As expected, there is no sense. Although my head became hot for a while due to the aura of intimacy… Because it was an alter ego, not the main body, the effect was insignificant.
“Huh!”
Pain!
I stretched out the arm that was caught by the shadow. Like shaking off. A shadow followed my swift movement. So even though the shadows were tightening my arms, I was able to exercise power without difficulty.
Kulleok gulleok…
However, the shadow gradually increased the length of its vines, crawling slowly from my arm, trying to devour my entire upper body.
‘End here.’
I can’t allow more than this.
Since the left arm is captured, use the right arm to shake off the shadows. He hit my left arm with a light fist, or to put it more archaically, with a lightning punch. Chow ah! With a sound like a agony, the shadow was torn to pieces. It was the moment when the hypothesis that had only been built in the head became the established theory.
Good.
‘If you do this, you will be able to afford some space… !’
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Just then.
“Hey you crazy bitch! Who are you touching!”
“─?!”
Booooong!
Mew flew like a comet and rotated her body half a turn. And she stomped on Jin-gak and lifted her body up,
“Kwaaagh!”
Casts a flying dropkick, sending her schoolgirl flying to the other side of her. Peruk, not even kwaang! Was I stared blankly at the female student flying away coughing blood with her waist folded in half, then I opened her mouth wide.
‘… Such crazy.’
A cold sweat ran down my back.
I immediately shouted at Mew.
“Hey! I told you to save people. Did I say kill people?! What if I die like that!”
“Because I said that?! What are you doing! Are you crazy?!”
“No, I had something to experiment with!”
“What kind of experiment is an experiment! Fighting is a joke?!”
“No, ha… done! Come here for a second! I have something to tell you!”
This is not the time to raise your voice and argue. I looked over and saw someone running towards the girl who was strewn about in the store stall. It was the priest of the sun who came out for emergency support. She must have broken something, but I hope it’s okay….
“What! What!”
Myu is approaching with strides as if he is angry.
I speak in the most calm tone possible.
“Calm down. Listen carefully. Those shadows can’t hurt us directly. It means you can’t physically interfere. It has no power except to turn people into hosts or run amok.”
“… What was it?”
Mu asked in response while twisting her eyebrows.
“It means that you can afford it relatively. It means that you don’t have to worry about shadows or people. It doesn’t matter if your arms and legs are tied as long as you don’t get swallowed up by the shadows. Don’t panic, just cut it. OK?”
“… Even if I didn’t say it, I would have.”
When it comes to combat, momentary carelessness and gaps determine victory or defeat. There is nothing wrong with knowing this information.
I looked up, down, left and right of my field of vision.
Many bundles of paper fell from the broken windows of the building, and at some point, the screams around them gradually stopped, and more people fell than stood on the ground.
Suddenly, I saw the clouds in the high sky filled with auspicious golden grains. The clouds that had been shining more brilliantly in the sunlight suddenly began to shed golden tears.
Shoot aaa……
It was raining.
Golden Rain.
‘… Is it sacred art?’
The priests of the sun must have taken some action. It didn’t reach the area we were in, but I couldn’t hear people’s screams anymore from the place where the golden rain fell. Over there… You don’t have to worry.
That’s right.
There is still one piece of good news left.
“And, if I’m right….”
Maybe.
You may be able to find the body soon.
… It was then.
Quaang, Quaang!
I saw someone running towards me at high speed, skipping dozens of meters with every step I took.
When it was small as a dot and finally grew big enough to make out a face, it made a final jump in front of us,
Whoops— Kwaaang!
I landed in a low position while bouncing a breaking piece.
Immediately after that, he raised his head and showed a hard expression.
“Woah, junior. Fucked us.”
A woman like a wolf.
It was Elena senior.
“… I know.”
I answered silently.
Elena speaks earnestly when you slap her neck.
“Do you want to jump right now? It’s not like we’ve been given an imperial decree, and even if we don’t have an obligation to take care of the aftermath, it’s a bit scary, right? If things go wrong, I might have to have a thrilling one-on-one audience with His Majesty the Emperor, right? Can you afford that? I can’t. I can’t even die.”
I’m glad it ends at the level of pounding.
Are you going to die of a heart attack?
“When you have time to joke, people quickly….”
“Did it look like a joke? It’s half serious. It’s because you’ve never seen His Majesty the Emperor in person. Honestly, this isn’t something to just ask and end. It’s not just fucking, it’s definitely fucking fucked, well… Don’t do it until here. I’m here to share the situation with you.”
“… ….”
“Just looking at it, this place sucks too. Tsk.”
Elena clicked her tongue.
“So, did you find the body?”
“…… Nope. I can’t see it. What about you?”
“Sir. Would you be doing this if you found it?”
“…… Well, what.”
It is a very hopeless situation. Even senior Elena, who always seemed trustworthy, couldn’t find a way out for her.
“How about that one?”
“Somewhere else? It’s not even a fuss. The festival has already been suspended, and the safety of the students is the top priority by raising the alert level, but… After hearing the news, it seems that your class has also been caught up in it. I heard that some students are running amok and causing a riot.”
“Yes?”
… Epic class too?
So, my friends….
“Things are fine there. Just know that it’s not always safe. If we don’t address this quickly, the situation will only get worse…. Only shitty things happen in your later years.”
She couldn’t afford to smoke, so Elena couldn’t let go of her hand. She then cast her gaze at Mu next to me. The sharp golden eyes became strangely thin.
“You… yes, that, they That bastard….”
“I am a friend.”
“… Yes friend. Was it Mu? I’ve seen it before Why are you here?”
“I was helping Ezio.”
“Help? Then… no, is this okay? Since there was not enough manpower, it worked out better.”
Elena nodded her head coolly.
“Anyway… I slowly.”
“Senior.”
However, I still had something to say to her.
“Why? Tell me quickly I have to go.”
“I have a plan.”
Helena’s complexion changed rapidly.
“…… Plan?”
“Yes.”
“Are you sure?”
If you have to decide whether it’s true or not….
“Not really. Still, it’s worth trying.”
“…… Great. Talk about it Anything is fine.”
So I quickly spread my thoughts.
After a short time has passed.
“… ….”
“… ….”
Mu and Elena.
They just listened to me while standing there.
“No. Ezio. I can’t allow that.”
“… Absolutely insane.”
Each of them expressed their honest impressions.
#6
The moment golden rain poured from the sky.
“… There! Ezio will be there!”
Sensing that something unusual was happening to her, Rubia decided to move towards it.
“What? How do you know that!”
“It just feels like that!”
“It looks dangerous just by looking at it! No!”
Yuri grabbed Rubia’s arm and stopped her.
“So I have to go even more! Idiot!”
“Ba, stupid… ?! You, you… !”
Yuri trembled. Wrong. Rubia was no longer in a state that could be dried. She has become a machine driven by instinct and blindness. She seemed to know roughly what she was feeling, but Yuri was still quite rational.
“… Eh, how are you going?! Too many people! Even the teachers will never let you go!”
She sure did. Everywhere I looked, it was full of people. You have to take the tram to go to another school district, but now the station is full of people, and the tram operation has been temporarily restricted for safety reasons.
But Rubia shouted once more.
“Because there is a way! You stupid!”
“… ! Bar, don’t call me stupid! Idiot! Stupid Rubia! I’m not doing this because I’m just worried… !”
“I know! Still, you have to go! Ezio is in danger!”
“Aren’t we in danger?!”
Brief altercations came and went in her noise. Stella, who had been watching the conversation while contemplating the confusion, carefully brought her words out.
“…… What is the method?”
“… ….”
Rubia caught her breath with her deep breath.
‘…… She has enough mana. Keeping your composure is key. It’s okay to make mistakes when calculating.’
Her heart was pounding like it was going to explode. Anxious future. More anxious than that. It was far from being calm, one of the qualities of a wizard.
Nevertheless, Rubia was recognized for her talent.
Magic is a talent.
‘Ezio.’
Ruvia gazed through the forest of buildings.
Under a golden raining sky.
‘Is he still alive?’
Tadak, tadadak─
Her magic circuit caught fire.
‘I’ll go help you.’
A majestic mana gathered in his heart. Pounding! Every time it pulsated, a lump of magical power gurgled and spread widely through the blood vessels.
The hotter the heart, the faster the blood flow. Concentrated mana spread like a stem to the whole body.
Rubia slowly closed and opened her eyes.
‘I can do it.’
Everything in sight slowed down.
‘I can do it. Rubia.’
However, Rubia’s head was spinning faster than ever. Incredible computational speed. Rubia analyzed the coordinates of the objects she came from, dismantled, and reassembled, trying to reach the point she wanted. She found the only answer.
The whole process was over in just ten seconds.
‘…… I can do it!’
So.
The moment when the world that had slowed down began to breathe again.
uuu!!
In Rubia’s outstretched palm, her space swirled and crumpled like a piece of paper.
The scenery of the city was randomly mixed. It changed from moment to moment as if different paints were mixed. The crumpled space gathered into one point. Then, the space became a pitch-black dot, and as Rubia held her hand and opened it, it tore vertically, and at the same time, an ominous electric current rang out.
Yuri, who had lost her words, muttered quietly.
“Ruvia, you… ….”
The unparalleled magic genius, Rubia.
Her talent is magic itself….
“…… I’ll open the portal. Get ready.”
He was a genius of space magic.