15 minutes have passed since the battle began.
“Ahahaha, you can’t defeat me by just running away, you know? Weren’t you going to be the victor?”
“Shut up, will you? I’ll grant your wish soon enough.”
However, all of Kaine’s attacks are blocked by the threads, not getting through at all. Even throwing stones is useless, as they are all repelled by the astonishing thread manipulation ability.
“What the hell is with those threads!”
Even though they’re made of precious metal, they’re far too strong.
“I’m imbuing these threads with Magical Power. That’s why no matter how much you attack, they won’t break easily, you know? You need to attack Magical Power with Magical Power.”
Damn it! If only I had brought my Shield…
No, there’s no point in dwelling on “what ifs.”
“But Kaine-chan, you’re quite resilient… As expected of someone who defeated a member of the Four Heavenly Kings, even if you were at your weakest.”
“You’ll be in for a world of hurt if you think I’m the same as I was back then, you know?”
While saying that, I continue to evade using Shukuchi. I want to get to the main body, but there’s no space around it to use Shukuchi. Shukuchi can’t move to places where matter exists, so I have to do something about these threads first…
“I see. It seems like Tect wouldn’t stand a chance at all. But… how troublesome. Your Shukuchi is special, isn’t it? You can’t normally activate it at that speed. It’s tiring, but… I’ll have to use my Trump Card!”
As he says that, he weaves threads around me, eliminating any escape routes.
“Rat in a Thread Prison!”
“…What’s this?”
The threads don’t attack. They’re just there.
That’s what I thought, but… before I knew it, my right arm was severed.
“Guh!”
“Tch, missed the head, huh… Well, whatever, you won’t be able to fight anymore with this.”
“…What exactly did you do?”
“Fufun, I’ll tell you as a souvenir for the afterlife. I can imbue threads with Magical Power… By imbuing each individual thread with a massive amount of Magical Power, the Magical Power reacts with each other, creating a wall of Magical Power with the threads as a framework. The Magical Power is drawn together to form a wall… but the speed at which the Magical Power moves at that time is something even I can’t handle. There’s absolutely no way you could react after seeing it.”
So, this guy cut me with an invisible blade of Magical Power?
I quickly pick up my severed right arm and reattach it.
“Hah! Your recovery speed is abnormal too, huh?”
In my current state, thanks to my recovery ability, I can reattach severed body parts as long as too much time hasn’t passed.
But, there’s no way I could survive having my head cut off.
This has become a bad situation.
Is there any way to turn the tables?
“You’re full of openings!”
Damn it! I’ve been surrounded by threads again!
This is it… I’ve had a good life…
I started seeing my life flashing before my eyes when,
“Haaaaaaaaaaaa!”
A pillar of flame erupted in front of me.
The Magical Power was neutralized by the flames, and my life was saved.
“What! Who in the world…”
“It’s us!”
Erna and Cliff appeared there.
“You two, why did you come here!”
“Why, you ask… Aren’t we comrades? Or do we need some other reason?”
“…This guy is one of the Four Heavenly Kings. It’s dangerous, so get out of here quick…”
“Then all the more reason we can’t let Kaine-san fight alone. We’ll fight too.”
“It doesn’t seem like I can talk you out of it…”
“Yes, the same goes for you, right?”
“Alright. Just don’t do anything reckless!”
“Yes!”
We fight…
For someone’s sake…
I apologize for the many typos recently.