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Chapter 565 - 556
Defensive Battle of All Worlds ② She's Already Br*ly
「Ora-Ora-Oraah!!」
Such spirited yell and sounds of blow resounded at the base of the King Tree.
It was Shia.
She was straddling her opponent while raining blows on the opponent's face.
And, as for the opponent who was getting punched――
「!? !!? Aa, aAA!?」
It was Laila. It went without saying, she was the divine spirit and the honored avatar of the King Tree.
Her beautiful black hair and dress that were like the color of the night reproduced were all messed up. Her beautiful legs were jumping *twitch twitch* each time the fist landed.
Watching that sight, was some of the Haurias who had migrated to this forest deep inside the northern part of Britain surrounding the King Tree, aka "the sanctuary" as its "guardians".
Every one of them were covering their mouth with their hands, or reaching out with one hand trying to stop the beat down, or completely getting cold feet, or covering their eyes with their hands, while also goingHawawa, awawawawahin total discomposure.
Of course, among them there was also Shia's father Karm. The one who was reaching out with one hand trying to stop it was actually him. In addition, he was also the person who was getting cold feet by his daughter's extremely lack of mercy.
Please just stop this alreadyyyyy-,he was yelling inside his heart.
「S-Shia! I-it's enou――s-sto-」
「Until you! Return to! Your senses! I won't! Stop hitti――」
「I'm telling you stopppp!!」
Dark colored swords (the tips were blunted though( flew out from the surrounding ground. Naturally, they were aimed toward the thug straddling the avatar.
Shia dodged those by jumping somehow even though she was in the posture of sitting on top of her target's stomach.
Further she rolled midair like a cat and then performed a handstand by using a single fingertip resting on one sword tip.
She then stared at Laila still in that inversed stance.
「You've returned to your senses! Laila-san! I'm so glad!」
Shia grinned cheerfully.
「You're the one who lost your senses! Shia! I'm still a goddess regardless of anything you know!!」
Scary-, this girl, she's scary! And most of all that smile! Or rather, at least she should use slap right!? Why then she used fist!?Laila -san wanted to say that as she yelled.Yeah yeah!Shia's papa & the whole family nodded in agreement.
Laila-sama's cheeks were clearly red & swelling. Her eyes were really teary. The way she was pressing her legs together on the ground while trembling and pressing her hand on her cheek made her looked completely like the victim of a crime.
She dispelled the dark sword field in an instant partly for harassment, but as to be expected. Shia didn't display any unsightliness like losing her balance and hitting the ground.
Shia jumped just a moment before the sword disappeared as though she knew it would happen beforehand. Furthermore she did it with just a single finger. She twisted her body lightly like a cat again and landed beautifully.
There wasn't even a smidgen of shame in her expression. Rather she pointed her finger sharply in reproach.
「It's your fault for losing your senses even though you're a goddess! Desu!」
「I can't even make any excuse for that! My thanks for returning me to my senses!!」
Laila spoke her thanks with an aura of complete desperation. After all she herself also understood that she had committed a blunder that she had no way justify.
This place was the "sanctuary". Naturally, its defense was strong.
It wasn't simply because the protection of Laila who had become the King Tree's avatar. There were also many layers of protection from Hajime's artifacts and the like.
「You weren't actually letting your guard down were you?」
「I swear that I'm not underestimating the enemy or anything.」
Laila's expression became grave. Because that was the truth. Laila didn't let her guard down. She was facing the attacker seriously.
And yet, her mind was eroded when she realized and she lost her senses. She then almost welcomed the foreign enemy.
Not only that, she bared her fang to Shia who came running as reinforcement……
And so things devolved to what happened just now.
The cause of that was naturally the "void god".
「Here is my report. The barriers of the sanctuary were neutralized altogether.」
Laila said that while looking at the sky at the north.
There was darkness there. It was a huge black sphere that could be mistaken as gravity magic. It was the labyrinth prison of darkness that was reinforced by the authority originally possessed by Laila who was a divine spirit governing over the night and darkness, added by the avatar's authority.
The inside was complete darkness. And there it was turned into a maze by the abilities that she obtained after becoming the avatar――spatial expansion, barriers that were constructed intricately, trap of forced teleportation, etc.
「Before I lost my sanity, onlythatsomehow succeeded in holding it back but……」
Shia's ears were twitching. Shia was looking at a different direction. She could hear the sound of fierce fighting when she sharpened her ears.
「Shia, be careful. Those things aren't normal. Half of us won't be here right now if Laila-sama and boss's golems and the treants didn't rush to reinforce us. ……Just retreating was the best we could do.」
「I know. I'm glad Tou-sama and everyone are safe desu. Leave the rest to me.」
Karm's expression twisted in frustration. The other Haurias were the same. Because Shia's words meant none other than telling them to retreat from this "sanctuary".
At the same time, it was also because they understood. After actually facing "void god" personally, they realized that those things were beyond them.
The members patrolling inside the forest managed to survive even after encountering the enemies suddenly were wholly thanks to their real combat experience and the artifacts they were equipped with. And also because Laila immediately noticed and teleported to them.
They at least managed to gather as much information as they could during that short battle. They had also finished telling Shia the information while she was returning Laila to her senses.
「If we fully use the artifacts, we'll be able to manage a weak one somehow. And if it's an enemy a level higher than that we might be able to at least hold it back.」
Among the artifacts supplied to Karm and co, there were also a lot of powerful things that possessed effect at the level of age of god magic. Normally those artifacts were strictly secured in the settlement inside the "sanctuary". That was also the proof of Hajime's trust in them.
That was exactly why they were reluctant to abandon their role as "guardians".
In addition, actually there were multiple types of "void gods" that appeared in the "sanctuary", but to them it looked like there was polarization to their strength.
The most dangerous was the one being captured inside Laila's jail of darkness. The runner-up were the two currently fighting the protectors inside the forest.
Those were golems that weren't filled by demons. That was because Hajime didn't trust the hedonistic demons so much that he would entrust them with the security of the "sanctuary".
They were normal organic golems that were lacking in tactical insight, but they could at least work together with the familiars Aiko prepared like the treants, so they could hold back the enemies. Though judging from the aura, their total number of two hundreds had been reduced to less than fifty.
In addition there was one more being that seemed to be another "void god", but this one was obviously inferior compared to the others.
If against those then even Karm and others should be able to face them. Karm made that suggestion. In respond,
「No, Tou-sama and others should――」
『……no need.』
A voice of rejection spoke in Shia's place.
Actually a palm sized triangle object――something like golden barrier suddenly shined brighter while floating right beside Shia and Laila. Then right after it did that there was a puff.
『……Hell, chibi Yue here.』
「「「「「Cuteee!!」」」」」
The girls reflexively spoke out. A part of the males too.
Ahead of their eyes there was definitely a palm-sized Yue in deformed state. She was in the outfit when she was travelling Tortus with an atmosphere like when she had just met Shia.
Attack power zero. Defense zero. Expressing emotion and complicated movement like Kousuke's clone were also impossible.
This was a super simple clone, no, just a magic that ought to be called as communication magic possessing the main function as a small window that connected two spaces, along with the function to input and output information & knowledge.
Yue was protecting Tortus alone while exchanging information and giving command to her friends in the other worlds. To reduce the burden to Yue's main body as much as possible, she created this clone magic that also ought to be called as specialized magic for multitasking.
Judging on that rooftop at Detroit that there was no time to give detailed command to everyone one by one, she made this chibi Yue to do so in her place.
It was impossible even for Yue to create hundreds or thousands of clones that weren't by any means inferior to the real one like Kousuke, but it wasn't that impossible if the functions were limited.
The magic's name was "spellphone". Apparently it was a pun of cellphone. Because it was similar to one with how it could make a call, or remote confirmation with camera function, and even message function and also information search. Of course, the person behind the naming was Yue-sama.
Yue-sama gave the name with a smug face so it was a name with high sense.
It was high sense because she said so!
Getting back on topic.
『……Karm and others are to go to the towns at the outskirt of "sanctuary". Your opponents are human.』
「! ……I see. "Void god" manipulate people. Humans falling to madness and beckon chaos……so we ought to be wary against fanatics.」
『……Nn. The most troublesome thing they can do is to take hostage. Human for human, and monster for monster you knoow~, it's like that.』
「Yue-san. Are you implying that I'm a monster?」
『That's what I said.』
Shia's lips split into a wide smile.Ah, she's happy……Laila thought with a conflicted expression. Hauria and others looked a bit jealous. Truly Hauria.
『……Shia alone is enough to protect the "sanctuary".』
There was no emotion. There was also no tone. But a firm trust could certainly be felt from those words. She left the protection for the most important place on earth to Shia alone even though there was also the avatar there. That fact was the greatest proof of her trust.
「Right desu! With Laila-san here then it's even more of a sure thing. Besides……I'm also not confident I won't accidentally kill someone if they're nearby while I'm fighting desu!」
「We shall withdraw immediately!!」
Otou-san's decision was quick.
『……Nn. Laila, the current you can open gate anywhere on earth if you use darkness or shadow as medium. Send away Karm and others. And then, focus more on searching "void god" and teleporting the town defense team rather than defending.』
「Understood.」
『……Conversely Shia, never leave the King Tree and Laila's side no matter what happen.』
「Order acknowledged desuu! I'll protect Laila-san! I won't let anyone lay even a finger on her!」
「! R-really Shia what are you saying so loudly……even if you say something like that, you won't steal my heart like Soare you know!!」
「Ah, that's right. I'll give you additional artifact for mental protection so your sanity won't be taken away.」
「A present on top of that!? Kuh, I won't lose!!」
Shia personally put a necklace on Laila. Laila-san's face reddened and she averted her gaze, even so she kept stealing glances while fiddling with her beautiful jet black hair. She didn't look like she was as dissatisfied as she would have others believe.
What're you planning to fight here huh,Karm and others thought but, they somehow understood what was going on so they ignored it.
It was even more so because they felt some kind of monstrous presence leaking out from Shia's ring for some reason.
Or rather, for her to blush red from a kind treatment after a beatdown that severe……
Someone among the Hauria girls mumbled,Domestic violence……
In the end, was Laila the type of person who easily fell for a no good person, or was it Shia who had the talent in being a scumbag male……
Karm papa could only avert his gaze when his clan all turned their gaze at him.
It was then.
The labyrinth prison of darkness that Laila made was rapidly collapsing. In addition, two of the three that the protectors were facing slipped through.
It seemed that the limit of the delaying action had arrived.
Shia and Laila nodded to each other.
Laila lightly waved her hand. The nearby tree's shadow then rippled and expanded like ink dying the ground black.
「Karm, arm everyone sufficiently with the armory at the village. Then head to the nearby town immediately.」
「Yes, Laila-sama. Leave that to us.」
Karm nodded reverently. Then chibi Yue turned toward him and snapped her fingers. *Twinkle-* There was a starry effect and a new golden triangle――a spellphone appeared floating beside Karm.
『……I'm also sending order to Endou. One clone will meet you there.』
「Acknowledged.」
There must be a lot of things he wanted to ask and confirm, but Karm didn't ask anything else and simply saluted. The other Haurias also saluted with perfectly coordinated salute. And then, they immediately flew into the tree's shadow.
「Laila-san just focus on giving support at the defensive battles all over earth. Leave the battle to me!」
「If it's Okaa-sama then she would be able to do both without difficulty but……yes, allow a novice avatar like me to obediently rely on you.」
Laila sent a trusting gaze at Shia. For some reason Shia's ring was shaking in respond. Lila lost her nerve a little seeing that even while vanishing into the darkness forming behind her. She returned to the peak of the King Tree.
「Now then」
Shia saw off Laila before looking away once more.
Two beings were rapidly charging straight through the "sanctuary" that should have been turned into a forest of no return at the same level of Sea of Trees Haltina that had the effect of perception obstruction and confusion.
『……Shia, be careful. The barriers are unable to work well might be because of interference from the "god of gate". I'm attempting to trace his location from it but it'll hard to find him right away.』
「So it's not the work of the "void gods" here?」
『……Maybe. I'm faintly detecting a similar presence to the formula that sealed the "rainbow bridge".』
「I see. I'll be careful against interruption or reinforcement.」
The seconds remaining until contact with enemies. She could feel the forest stirring. No, perhaps she should call it as the forest screaming.
At the sky the darkness prison's collapse felt like it was slightly halting. Laila must be reinforcing it to buy time. Even so, she might only last for several more minutes.
『……Nn. But, don't hold back. You don't need to worry about magic power.』
Chibi Yue sat down snugly on Shia's head. She spread out her arms to grab the rabbit ears at left and right as handrail.
『……Only one order. Go wild.』
Kuhih, a chuckle slipped out. The corner of Shia's lips rose. A fearless and ferocious smile formed.
「Soare! Come out! Desuu!!」
『Finallyyyyyyy!! I, am here!!』
Sunlight flew out from Shia's ring. Dazzling light formed above Shia's head. From inside the divine light the figure of a beautiful goddess――a beautiful goddess……beautiful……
Bloodshot eyes and cheeks that were blushing crimson from excitement and rough breathingHaa Haa……
There was also how she turned toward the King Tree and looked like she wanted to say 「The one Shia chose is, this, me! Thanks for yer damn understandingggg-」with a murderous glare……
A thuggish & degenerate-like woman who made the previous statement had to be retracted, was right there.
Chibi Yue knew. That Shia's rabbit ears had shudder travelling through them from bottom to tip.
However, this small sacrifice was unavoidable. Troublingly, the divine spirit with the best affinity with Shia was none other than "the divine spirit of fire ring Soare".
Yes, it was for the combat technique that also ought to be called as her new secret technique. One that she learned even knowing that it was a danger to her life.
The body strengthening Level X might be the plateau for pure power output of her body. After that the only thing she could do might be simply polishing her technique.
But she and everyone else had made a promise, to diligently devote themselves to even more training so they could wipe away Hajime's worry even if just a little. And so Shia was secretly worrying, resulting in her reaching her hand toward a new territory, a possibility that she unexpectedly came to learn.
After she first unveiled it at the "miniature garden", she improved and trained with it even more until it was completed to a level that she could be proud of.
――Shia Style – Ultimate Combat Rabbits Skill
「Body strengtheniiing~~ Level X!! And~ thee~nn~~ magic power in the right hand-, spirit power in the left handdd!!」
『I'm now, one with Shia!! AHAH』
Tremendous magic power gathered in the right hand.
Soare hung over Shia from behind with a lovestruck face! Yue-sama who was watching through chibi Yue almost used "Angel's Golden Stair" reflexively on her!I have to protect Shia from a degenerate!was her thought. Of course, she held herself back though.
Soare overlapped with Shia. Light flooded out from Shia like sunlight. It was mixing with the faint blue magic power.
A mass of immense spirit power gathered on her left hand.
「Fusion!!」
A clap of the hands. *PAANN* A beautiful sound resounded inside the forest of "sanctuary".
Instantly, "power" exploded.
The trees at the surrounding radius were blown away by the roots. The ground was sunk deeply.
The center of the explosion was filled with violently bright light that prevented anyone from seeing what happened.
Nothing was visible, but such thing didn't matter.
For the "void god" who arrived there the fastest.
――GIIIIIIIIIH
Ghastly shriek that made one wanted to cover one's ears resounded.
Appearing at the sky was a creature that looked like an ant or bee about three meters long with dragon-like wings growing from it. Legs with sharp talons attached grew from the spots that looked like shoulders and abdomen. It had skin with texture that looked like human skin and things like black fuzzes growing on its body.
Its mouth that looked like a beak or a crocodile's jaw split wide open to left and right. There was a tongue that looked like snake inside with its own jaw opening wide.
The monster that sucked in blood along with soul dived down toward the center of the light without slowing down at all.
And then,
「Fuhn」
Unbelievable explosion sound roared. At the same time a small scale earthquake occurred. The ground was shaking fiercely, and the crater that was just created before became deepened even more. It could be seen from it that a shockwave had just spread through the surrounding radius.
The empty circle that had been formed from the surrounding forest getting blown away was widened even more from that.
「? You're brittle aren't you.」
The light rapidly settled down.
There at the center, was Shia who was in a stance of having finished swinging down her fist, along with the miserable figure of the "void god" that had been transformed into a stain on the ground.
What was strange, was that even though it should be shot down by Shia's fist, the whole body that was about three meters long was flattened uniformly.
It was as though it had gotten hit by gravity magic.
And then, there was one more strange point.
『……Shia, sparkly. Pretty.』
「Fufuhn, thank you very much!」
When Shia unveiled "Ultimate Combat Rabbits Skill", the aura of magic power enveloping Shia was faintly black. Like there were impurities mixing in and muddying Shia's pretty light blue aura.
But what about now.
The radiance was exceedingly close to pure white. It looked like it was faintly bluish or perhaps silverish. Like the coloring of snow that was cold and sharpened to the limit.
Her outfit was also changing from her outfit during the trip.
If it was described concisely then it was a no sleeve & mini skirt Japanese clothes with base colors of blue and white. However, her legs that were enveloped in knee high socks were equipped with rugged and thick-soled boots that could be considered as military boots regardless of their cute coloring and ornament. Her arms were also equipped with gauntlets that covered the back of her hands and wrists. Her long hair was also bundled with an ornamental hairpin.
Naturally those were new combat attire prepared for Shia.
Shia puffed out her chest to flaunt in a good mood.
「The radiance of the completed Combat Rabbits Skill! The perfect fusion of magic power and spirit power! I name it――Bunny Power! Dessu!!」
『……Wouldn't it be better to call it something shorter?』
Something like chibi Yue's tsukkomi didn't enter Shia's ear. Somehow, she thought that this was fine.
Besides, there was also no time for argument.
Wind blew through the clearing that was turned into an empty lot with a radius around twenty meters due to the wave from the activation of Ultimate Combat Rabbits Skill and the shockwave of a single punch.
Immediately the ground made a cracking sound and started to freeze. The trees at the front were also freezing like it was winter.
The temperature was rapidly declining. The environment was changing in the blink of eye like a land in the middle of coldest season.
「I see. This one is in different level than the previous one. The protectors deserve praise for managing to buy time against this desu. Hajime-san awesome!」
『……Praising Hajime everytime there's a chance. I don't hate that style.』
Shia had such conversation with a composed expression. Even though the temperature had become extremely low that denied any survival of living thing, and furthermore she was wearing thin clothing, she didn't look concerned at all.
And then,
――※※※ッッッ
Seeping out from inside the frozen trees, the "void god" towered over the surroundings in excitement.
That monster had the form of a shadow with human outline. It must be thirty meters in size. It had eyes that looked like blood condensed.
「Nuhn」
With a single grunt and a single attack――it was blown away.
The sound came a beat later. Thunderous roar like the air was bursting and shockwave that shook the ground spread out.
A stance of right fist held up forward. There was even beauty that could be felt from that unmoving picture.
In front of that fist, there was nothing. Anything there before was erased.
Not only the giant that looked like a silhouette of shadow was gone, but everything on a straight line. The whole line was spotless. It was like an extremely intense laser cannon had passed through just now.
『……This, in an instant? Is the output even greater than when you showed it before?』
『……Even though the ground and forest can be regenerated……this will be a bit hard to fix……』
Was it chibi Yue, or the main body that talked? Either way, Yue-san & Laila-san who must be watching the going on here seemed to tremble a little.
The technique's activation, and just two attacks. Just from those a part of the forest were erased thoroughly.
But, she was told to do as she like, so Shia-chan paid them no mind!
「O~ne!」
*BAM* Her jump left the ground shaking.
「Two~o!」
The labyrinth prison of darkness in the sky was starting to collapse once more. Shia twisted her body above it and drew back her right fist.
「And!」
*BAAM* The darkness labyrinth jail burst as though it ruptured from the inside. The imprisoned monster radiated the strongest power. The "void god" that took away the sanity of even the avatar Laila was finally freed.
It was a perfect timing.
As though, Shia had known the timing of its liberation from the start.
「Three!」
It was invisible. Just, Shia's fist was swung down, which generated some kind of mighty power like a downburst, and faster before the enemy's figure could be seen, and also faster than the enemy was able to sense Shia, it poured down in the radius of more than a hundred meters of diameter.
Grand destruction that was incomparable than previously manifested.
The ground was turned up. There was earthquake that could be felt until the town a hundred kilometers away. The large trees that were thrown up by the recoil were dancing in the air like the content of crackers that got fired all at the same time.
The crushed portion pushed the surrounding ground which caused protuberances around.
A very deep big hole was formed. The bottom had the shape of a gigantic fist.
Any sign of "void god"……was gone. That foreign presence was vanishing.
「Yosh! It's great that the new technique is working properly!!」
Shia made guts pose in the air.
『Is this a dream……? That thing……in one hit? Eew, this girl is scary-』
『U, uu~n……』
Honest feeling tumbled out from Laila's mouth. Normally Yue would swiftly object 「Shia is cute!」 but even she couldn't help but to be vague.
Because, the current Shia was so crazy dangerous that it made even Yue felt 「Scaryyy」.
What was brought about by the impossible phenomenon of the fusion of two unique energies was an explosive increase of energy. Shifting that into spec increase was the Ultimate Combat Rabbits Skill. The effect itself was the same like "Limit Break" or sublimation magic.
Of course, the increase rate was staggering. Furthermore, that increase rate was combined with body strengthening Level X so even calling it fiendish wasn't enough. And further, "Limit Break" and sublimation magic could also be used at the same time with it through artifact.
But, the power of the perfected version of Combat Rabbits Skill didn't stop at just a simple increase of specs anymore.
The perfected Combat Rabbits Skill that through training had been thoroughly polished, refined, and optimized to Shia's body and soul to be compatible for her was entering into a territory that was above that right now.
That was "the manipulation of Bunny Power's nature".
Yes, the current Shia was able to freely transform the nature of the fused energy that she named "Bunny Power".
If she compressed and enveloped herself with it, she could change it into invisible armor that surpassed the magic power defensive skill "Vajra" that Hajime used.
Its defensive power was extraordinary. Most likely it wasn't only because of simple compression, but because Shia molded the energy to have the structure of hardness that was peculiar of crystal. That was Hajime's diagnosis.
After all, it was so hard that she was fine even after receiving a direct hit from pile bunker. She was unharmed even against spatial crushing that Yue casted quite seriously although without any special strengthening.
In addition, it didn't only have overwhelming defensive power that was indiscriminate whether it was against physical or magical attack, its ability to protect the user in abnormal environment was also of the highest rank.
Extreme cold was meaningless. Even magma was reduced into mere swimming pool that she could enter without concern. Even staying inside the super water pressure of deep sea wouldn't be a problem for her.
Of course, it also explosively grew her conventional resistance.
Even if super gravity was applied on her she could generally neutralize it. Spatial vibration also posed no problem unless it was at the level of Yue. Defense against mental interference type attack also went without saying. Forced change to body? Useless uselessss!
Even if an attack could slip through all those and reached her body, that body itself couldn't be scratched by the average attack, and the average wound would immediately heal.
Furthermore, the magic power consumption rate of "Future Sight" also got optimized. And when it came to "Divine Oracle" that enabled her to see several seconds ahead in the future, in this state she became able to see until ten seconds ahead.
She was able to attack in perfect timing was also due to that.
The strengthening in the offensive aspect also went without saying.
Being able to freely change the nature of Bunny Power meant being able to create a type of reinforced armor.
That included creating countless giant invisible fists.
And also wrapping her arm in giant sword and swinging it to cut something with her hand chop.
And also generating shockwave through super vibration, and conversely using the reinforced as shield was also possible.
Even simply increasing the number of her hands and controlling them to become like the thousand-armed Kannon was also possible.
And the most brutal thing from it was, that all those were unleashed with Shia's physical strength. Using soul magic at the same time to punch soul or magic, or the conventional technique of using space magic at the same time that could interfere even with spatial isolation barrier, they could also be granted to this reinforcement armor of Bunny Power.
The powerful "void god" got sent to heaven with one hit wasn't solely because of stupidly powerful physical destructive power. It was because its soul also got hit with that power.
Even the technique's sole weak point which was its heavy burden to the user had been drastically reduced due to Soare's love (direct quote from the person herself), her peak possession technique (limited to Shia), and the optimization and healing ability of Bunny Power to Shia.
「This technique's only fault is that I can't stop after I start fighting but, all those times I fought Hidzuki-san aren't in vain.」
That was exactly what became a great hint for the new technique. The mock battles that Hidzuki kept insistently asked from Shia was too serious when they got into it.
Shia went along with Hidzuki many times, but would it be acceptable if it ended with Hidzuki feeling satisfied one-sidedly?
There was no way that was acceptable. The bugged rabbit was like the heaven-sent child of battle who became stronger the more she fought. There was no way she didn't learn anything from her fights against that seasoned fierce god.
No wonder that Yue too entrusted her with this.
That Shia alone would be enough for the King Tree's protection.
The bugged rabbit had genuinely reached the stage of a bugged being.
That bugged rabbit's face snapped toward the direction far away.
「Mu? It's running away?」
『『That's smart of it.』』
Chibi Yue and Laila's trembling voices overlapped.
It seemed, the remaining "void god" had started to retreat. That foreign presence suddenly vanished.
『Did it escape with teleportation……? I'll search for it just in case.』
「No, it's fine desu!」
Shia somersaulted. Immediately after her feet stepped in the air, then her feet slowly moved backward as she pushed in.
This time it was slightly visible. Centered under Shia's feet, there was a long snow colored light forming an arc. Abendthat resembled a bow's string, or perhaps a slingshot's rubber could be seen.
A beat passed.
「GOOO! Desuu!」
The sound of air bursting roared once more. With a step that would definitely form a crater if she did it on the ground, the bowstring of Bunny Power that had accumulated abnormal amount of tension flung Shia away.
Shia flew cutting through the sky like an arrow fired from a ballista. The sound of air bursting resounded. She instantly entered the domain of supersonic speed.
Without slowing down at the slightest, she landed in the middle of forest several kilometers away where there was nothing.
She impacted the ground like a real missile. The trees around were blown away, and a crater was also formed on the ground.Have more sympathy! Treasure the earth!If the earth could talk then it might say that in protest.
What came out from Shia's mouth in the place of apology for the trees was,
「Where are you saying you're going desu?」
――!!?
――!!?
The muddy snow whirled like whirlwind. At the center, there was a creature that looked like sea anemone around a meter long. Countless tentacles and wings were growing from its flesh body that had texture like human skin. What looked like human mouth was attached at the tip of all those tentacles and wings. Those mouths were making crying and screaming voices incessantly.
If she wasn't hallucinating, it looked like its form overlapped. Like its real body and spiritual body were overlapping.
And, it looked somewhat scared. In fact, it was backing away a little.
Chibi Yue and Laila thought that it couldn't be helped.
Because, its presence was completely nonexistent. It was the characteristic of "void god" which was "a state that couldn't be detected".
And yet this rabbit, she circled around on the route of the "void god" who was doing everything it could to escape. By transforming into a human missile.
It was plain horror.
「Don't think that you can run away from my evolved Future Sight desu.」
What she did was simple. She only asked "What will happen if I mow down the whole area in this direction?". She directed that power of "hypothesis future" to all directions.
And then she simply had to run straight at the place where the future showed any reaction including battle.
It was impossible to escape from Shia Hauria!
That's just horror though……chibi Yue and Laila thought.
The sea anemone monster screamed. Or perhaps it was a shriek of terror. Right after that, its figure split like a vegetable that got finely chopped.
Apparently this was the ability of the "void god".
The ability to get scattered to pieces no matter what kind of attack hit it to neutralize the force, and being able to possess the opponent right away as long as it came into contact with them. A heinous ability.
It was like virus with its own will riding on the wind to enter into the target's body. Not only that it even had the power to pass through barrier with its spiritual body thing.
Naturally, Shia didn't know anything about such troublesome ability.
She didn't know but, her instinct whispered to her that it was bad news somehow. So,
「Suu~~」
She spread out her arms widely while inhaling. She hadn't moved since impacting the ground and still crouching down, so her stance looked like she was going to try catching a large ball coming her way.
The fragmented "void god" became a gust of wind approaching her.
Instantly,
「Sei-」
*BAAM* A clean sound of a clap resounded. Shia had just closed her two spread hands to clap powerfully.
At the same time the space before her burst. The space around fifty meters in height and also depth before her became dotted with black spots. It was like a wall with dots. From Shia's perspective, it was a thin and long line that had depth.
She created giant palms of Bunny Power, to wrap and crush it. Just like crushing a fly.
「WRYYYYYYY!! Great – Vic – Toryy!! Desu!!」
They could see it. The sight of sparkling snow-colored giant arms making double peace pose. Of course, Shia was also doing it. With a smug face.
Brute force from start to end.
Power is Justice.
「As I thought it's power(violence)! Overwhelming power(violence) can solve ninety percent of your problems!!」
Chibi Yue aka Yue-sama thought,This girl, feels like she can pulverize even my "Angel's Golden Stair" while yelling something like「Powaaaaaahh!!」……
And then, Laila also thought,Thaa~ank goddess that Okaa-sama was hit when it was before this girl awakened to her current strength.If she got careless and blundered with her strength control then it would be a nightmare.
In any case, the threat was gone for the time being.
With that, Laila was about to call out at Shia once again, but before she could.
「!」
Shia jumped up without any preliminary movement. At the same time she summoned the huge Warhammer Vire Drucken to the sky.
The hammer's side for hitting was facing the front. She caught it with underhand grip like she was going to throw a spear.
Before chibi Yue and Laila could say anything, *Zun-*.
Shia didn't need the boots that were enchanted with "Air Force" anymore. She formed a foothold by compressing her own Bunny Power in the air, stepped with a force that almost broke even that, and with an ideal form,
「Seeeiii!!」
Made a throw with seriousness that was filled with the greatest fighting spirit she had mustered today.
Toward the King Tree.
The Warhammer was thrown with supersonic speed like it was only natural. The distance between it and the King Tree was erased in the blink of eye.
And then,
「!!? Hii!?」
It gazed above Laila's head while passing through the peak of the King Tree.
――※※※ッ＊＊＃＊ッッ!!?
It went through something that made a scream.
Laia was too terrified that she reflexively crouched midair with both her hands holding her head――she performed the so-called Charism* Guard. But she then gasped when she heard that scream that rubbed her nerves the wrong way and lifted up her head.
There was something just a few dozen meters ahead of there.
No, she knew it.
There was no way she could forget. Because it was the existence that Laila herself who locked it inside the darkness labyrinth prison, the one that should have been crushed by Shia just now.
『Laila-san!』
「! Shia!」
The voice felt like it slapped her on the face and she returned to her senses with a gasp. She quickly created a sphere that was like condensed darkness beside her. Shia leaped out from there. It was teleportation that used darkness and shadow as medium.
「Mu? Did I fail to finish it off?」
The something that was dispersed was converging again.
It was hard to describe it. Perhaps it ought to be described like a super localized mirage that was about as big as a human. The space wavered and warping strangely.
The surrounding looked like grey colored air swiveling around.
A "void god" with no clear form. And there was light that they couldn't differentiate whether it was yellow or green swaying like an aurora, which was just barely visible to them. It felt like it was wearing a transparent colored raincoat.
「Shia. That thing can confuse not only your sanity but also your five senses. And above all pay attention to the grey wind. It seems to have the power to break down anything it touch. The detail of the effect and its principle are unclear.」
「I see desu.」
Right after that, *GOO-* wind blew. The grey colored wind blew violently around the King Tree all of a sudden.
It was just as Laila warned. The trees on the ground were rotting and breaking down in the blink of eye.
That wind was also moving to blow toward Shia and Laila. Shia held her hand forward as though she had known beforehand.
――＃＃＃＊※※ッ!!?
This time Vire Drucken struck through the "void god" from behind and returned to her.
Shia caught it easily despite its unbelievable momentum. Without a pause she swung it with a flowing movement. The hammer moved from bottom to above like a pendulum as though to finish a rotation.
In the process the hammer's head passed through a green magic circle that was floating in the air. It clung on like a stamp.
Violent wind started blowing from Vire Drucken that was lifted up toward the sky.
The weapon had been improved so the star spirit world's divine spirit ability could be activated even when the divine spirit wasn't nearby. A part of the power to control air which was the authority of the divine spirit of flowing sky Enti blew out wind that was clad in beautiful green radiance.
It strongly whirled in the blink of eye, becoming a violent tornado that connected the heaven and earth.
「Laila-san, its wind is gathered with this.」
「Wonderful work, Shia.」
Laila and the King Tree also got enveloped in light. At the same time the radiance of night sky was infused into the greenly tinged tornado. It was purifying the void god with the avatar's authority.
As expected, it seemed that it wouldn't die just with mere physical impact, or rather it seemed to lack a corporeal body, so the "void god" of wind immediately returned back to normal and began to make grey wind blew violently.
Shia and Laila's combined technique sucked it in and purified it in place.
「Laila-san, how about its attack against the mind and senses?」
「I feel it. But, the additional talisman and your armor――」
「Bunny Power」
「Nn, thanks to the Bunny Power it looks like it won't pose any problem.」
Shia nodded and immediately stopped attacking to observe. She did so also to convey information to Yue through chibi Yue.
「Before, I definitely felt that I finished it off. Did it get at my senses?」
Was she tricked? Or perhaps it was a type of clone? Or perhaps something else at play?
She thought that doubt shouldn't be disregarded.
『……If you thought that you had killed it Shia, then you should believe that.』
「But, Yue-san. Right now it's not getting damaged.」
『……Nn』
Chibi Yue pointed sharply with a single finger.
『……It's the assumption that a "void god" is a powerful being from a parallel world. In addition, a parallel world is a world that follow a different history, not a different world. In other words, there's the same person.』
「In that case there's also "the same void god" in the parallel world.」
『……Nn. I don't know the probability of them arriving at the same world. Perhaps the probability is astronomically low. But, if they are formerly the same person with the same power, the possibility cannot be discounted for the probability to converge to some degree because of that.』
「I see desu. In short, you're telling me don't let my guard down even after I defeat them.」
『……Nn. Additionally, it'll be better if you don't think of them as completely the same. The difference in the history they lived might possibly lead to difference in ability.』
「Even though they're powerful being that can even cross parallel world, there's individual difference in their strength might also because of that kind of reason isn't it.」
「……Small difference lead to the difference in ability after their "void god transformation" then.」
There might be case of beings that managed to survive but became greatly weakened in the process, or conversely they managed to keep most of their power.
Or there might be case where the source of their strength required serious calculation ability, so even though they managed to preserve their ability enough it became like pearls thrown before swine for them and so they were practically weakened.
Conversely, there might be case where limitation that was there because they were human was gone because of their transformation, and so they became an even stronger being.
『……Yes. When dealing with "void god", keep in mind that "anything is possible" as you face them.』
Subjective impression that something should work like this would be the most dangerous thing to think in battle against void gods. Yue communicated that to the all the worlds.
Shia and Laila tightened their expression again and nodded. Right after that, a difference quickly appeared.
――＊＊＝＃＃＃＊※※※ッッッ!!
It was a bit different from a shriek. The voice still sounded like it was shaving off one's sanity, but it definitely sounded like words, no, like a chanting.
Sure enough, a phenomenon that was in a different nature than when it relied on its ability occurred.
Wind blew far above in the sky. Several whirling grey winds were giving form to several hundreds.
「Are those gates……」
Appearing from them were monsters that had been exterminated. That winged "void god" that was like a combination of ant and reptile, "void god" that was like a giant phantom that controlled wind of extremely low temperature, and then, the sea anemone "void god" that had the ability to divide and infect like virus.
『……Another possibility, of why similar specimens gathered other than simply because of a coincidence of them arriving in the same world.』
Chibi Yue spoke with a calm voice.
『……It's the case of, a powerful specimen that succeeded in crossing to parallel world multiple times, subduing different specimen in each of the parallel world.』
I see,Shia nodded. On the other hand Laila's face went stiff from the sense of urgency.
「In other words, this one is like the tempered monsters in a certain hunting game isn't it. Kuku, I can't ask more from an opponent!」
Shia was burning in high spirits. It wasn't an idiom. Thre was really heat flickering up around her body like it was her fighting spirit!
Laila reflexively muttered 「Hot-」 and took a step back.
「Soare, this is enough test run isn't it? Let's increase the voltage desuu!」
『That's what I'm waiting for, Shia! Do as you likee! Mess me uuup!』
She must be mistakenly referring to herself when it actually should be the enemy. Her excitement somehow felt really similar with Tio but, who knew what would happen if she was questioned further about it so everyone ignored it.
Shia flew above.
「HAAAAAAAAAA!!」
A yell of fighting spirit. At the same time tremendous heat of light was radiating from Shia.
The aura of Bunny Power was faintly enveloping Shia in the air. And then, reinforcement armor that ought to be called as Bunny Power body formed behind Shia like the thousand-armed Kannon.
All those were reddening and bursting up intensely.
The surge of power grew stronger by a stage.
This was exactly the reason why it was Soare who claimed that she had the best affinity. The nature of the divine spirit of fire wheel――the light and heat that brought about blessing to the earth, that was to say the power of invigoration pushed up Shia's power even further by a level.
In addition, if they were in a place where sunlight reached, it was also possible to absorb that light and heat energy to be converted into strengthening and recovery.
The result, was entering the domain of body strengthening that had never be explored by anyone else in history.
「――Level XI」
Soare's invigoration power and, body strengthening level that climbed even further.
Vire Drucken was quietly lowered to diagonally below.
「Fly awaaaaaaaaaayyy」
Vast amount of energy burst up. It converged into Drucken.
Laila started to panic.
The "void god" of wind was trying to do something.
But, the emitted torrent of power blew away the wind void god. It lost any hope to try anything.
「Till the suuuuuuuunn!! Desuu!!」
The process of the warhammer swinging couldn't be seen.
They could only see the atmosphere above rippling and the void god getting blown away to the sky.
A super-super-super wide ranged attack of pure shockwave and heat wave became a tsunami that rose to the sky.
The monsters started moving.
But too late.
The impact arrived. The void gods in its range crumbled like they were crushed by super vibration as they got blown away.
「Shiaaaaaa, please use your brain a little! There's a layer of atmosphere that is there to protect the planet from the outer space you know!!」
「I leave that to you!」
「Idiooot!」
The tsunami of shockwave reached until outside earth's atmosphere. It wasn't the time to cheer seeing the monsters got routed.
Laila-sama fully operated her authority as the protector goddess of earth! She cried a little!
「Now, next is you!」
Shia pointed Vire Drucken toward the wind void god.
Behind her the monsters who were turned into dust got swept away by wind and fluttered in the air. The sun was brilliantly illuminating the ground.
The girl who was said to be like the sun, was no shining bright like the sun, having the sun herself as her ally.
The monster that was clad in wind of destruction was surely a seasoned void god that had survived through many parallel worlds. Such being unconsciously backed away.
Seeing that,
「Don't you think it'll be better if this girl is taught about restraining herself soon!?」
『Uu…..I, I'll consider it.』
The bugged rabbit who might destroy earth with power.
As expected even Yue was at a loss of words about that.
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AN: Thank you very much for reading this every time.
Thank you very much too for the thoughts, opinions, and reports about misspelling and omitted words.
※Meme introduction
– Already Broly
From Broly of [Dragon Ball]. The Broly of Arifureta world is Shia. Perhaps she even ought to be called as Super Haurian…to be honest, I think that I'm overdoing this a little but it was fun writing it so please forgive me. Also, Broly is a character that appeared in the movie. The impression he gave was amazing. Anyone who hasn't watched it please watch!
– Can't stop punching
From Jonathan of [Jojo's Bizarre Adventure].
– Monster for monster
From Tokiwa of [Sadako VS Kayako].
– Where are you saying you're going
From Muska of [Laputa: Castle in the Sky].
– Charisma Guard
From Remilia of [Touhou Project].
– A certain hunting game
From [Monster Hunter].
– Finallyyy
Apparently it originated from the line of Suzumi Tamao from [Strawberry Panic].
– The image model of each "void god"
The [wind void god] is Hastur. [Cold void god] is Ithaqua. [Sea anemone void god] is Lloigor and Zhar. [Winged void god] is Byakhee. Though in the end those were just for image models.