Japanese Terrorist: What? I'll fight Hellstar!

Amamiya Rin's consciousness was gently pulled from her body and sank into the gem embedded in the center of her breastplate.

Inside the gem was an endless deep blue void, where his consciousness floated, clear, calm, and without any obstruction.

Through the gem, he could perceive every inch of the armor's structure, feel the flow of outside air, and sense the frozen expression on Babirus's face.

His body still stood in the same spot, his flesh and blood still broken, his bones still shattered, but those injuries no longer mattered. The armor covering his body stabilized his form.

This is……

The moment doubt arose, a flood of memories rushed into Amamiya Rin's mind along the nerve lines of [Tomie Network].

That was Blackbird's memory, a memory from five years in the future, a memory spanning hundreds of years.

One day in the future, Amamiya Rin found the Black Bird.

That's right, it's the black bird from Junji Ito's manga "Black Bird" that can travel through time.

In the plot of "Blackbird", the protagonist falls off a cliff and injures his leg, unable to move. A blackbird feeds him every day with its beak, allowing him to survive until rescue. However, the food the blackbird feeds him is actually flesh that a future blackbird bites off from the protagonist, traveling back in time to feed the protagonist of the past.

The future Amamiya Rin captured it and assimilated it into Kawakami Tomie. Kawakami Tomie, in the form of a black bird, possessed the power to travel through the river of time.

Tomie Kawakami has always been willful. With such an ability, she naturally runs around to the past and the future. And once she starts running around, things get messy.

After all, the Cthulhu pantheon exists in this world.

The reckless blackbird Tomie had long been targeted by the hounds of Tindalos, which was why she had not yet returned to this timeline.

Of course, it was also because Amamiya Rin was not in dire straits. Now that Amamiya Rin has suffered a disaster, Tomie Kuroko naturally rushed over and gave Amamiya Rin future equipment - the Soul Gem and the Seven Armor.

That was a creation from twenty years in the future. The Soul Gem is a solid soul excavated from the underworld, from the novel "Black Deception". When struck, the burst of soul power will grant the person who comes into contact with it personalized supernatural abilities.

As for the Seven Armor, it was a product that was updated and replaced ten times fifty years later. After finding the soul gem corresponding to Amamiya Rin, it also usurped the technology of mining and utilizing the energy of the underworld from the Ether Village and created a magical girl transformation device with almost infinite magic power.

Amamiya Rin was reading Kurotori Tomie's memories, but Kurotori Tomie didn't stay there for long. As if sensing something, after dropping the Soul Gem, she suddenly turned her head and looked in an invisible direction outside the tent, her molten gold pupils suddenly contracting.

"Tsk! They're really hot on your heels! That wretched mangy dog!"

Before she finished speaking, her figure began to blur. The cracking sounds of her bones recombining were as dense as popping beans, black feather patterns appeared on her skin, and her shoulders stretched to the sides, transforming into enormous wingspans.

The transformation from human form to giant bird takes only a moment.

The black bird flapped its wings, creating a gust of wind that blew through the tent, swirling scattered debris and melted ice cream into the air. The dark figure soared into the sky, its claws tearing through the space before it, revealing a chaotic and distorted spatial rift.

"Ah Lin, this is all I can do for you! Don't die—!"

A sharp cry pierced the tent, and the giant bird flapped its wings and plunged into the crack, leaving only a few falling black feathers that turned to ashes in mid-air.

The spacetime rift slowly closed, and the cold malice from beyond time also faded away.

Babirus looked up at the increasingly smaller dark figure, then looked down at Amamiya Rin in the center of the stage.

His entire body was covered in silver and red armor, and the gem on his chest gleamed with a deep blue light, like a sleeping heart beating slowly.

"What is this?"

The greed in Babyrus's eyes was replaced by confusion. He could sense that something he couldn't understand was happening inside the body before him.

To put it in the most direct way, he could no longer sense the probability of death from Amamiya Rin.

"interesting."

Babyrus grinned, revealing two rows of overly neat teeth, seemingly smiling, but there was no smile in his eyes, only resolute killing intent.

Although I really want to possess this brilliant soul, too many things have changed. If I don't seize it soon, there might be a lot of trouble.

Even if we can't obtain that brilliant soul by harvesting it now, we can at least reap the value that Amamiya Rin displayed in the face of death.

He raised his hand, his fingertips gently flicking in the air, and the invisible threads of cause and effect trembled once more.

"Cardiac arrest!"

Without warning, Amamiya Rin's heart stopped beating in his chest cavity, and his blood congealed into stagnant water in his blood vessels.

He must be dead; at this moment, Amamiya Rin is no different from a corpse.

However, Amamiya Rin made a move.

Amamiya Rin flexed his fingers, and the armor joints emitted a fine, smooth mechanical clicking sound.

His right hand reached to his waist and drew the Specium sword.

The sword has a slender blade with the subtle curve characteristic of Japanese swords, and pale blue light particles flow slowly along the edge, like a frozen stream. The hilt fits the curve of the palm, providing a solid grip, and is devoid of any unnecessary decoration.

The sound of a sword being drawn is not the sharp friction of metal against metal, but a deep hum, like some ancient energy awakening.

Amamiya Rin raised the tip of his sword, pointing it at Babirus.

The dilapidated tent suddenly fell silent, even the floating dust and the flowing wind seemed to freeze.

Amamiya Rin stood rooted to the spot. His body was completely necrotic, but his soul and will, now freed from his decaying flesh, took over everything.

The ether within the gem permeated Seven's armor and Amamiya Rin's body, merging the two into one. Every movement was driven by the ether and governed by the will of the soul.

The moment he firmly grasped the Specium sword, its tip pointing directly ahead, the entire world seemed to collapse.

Pale blue light particles flowed slowly along the spine of the sword. There was no dazzling light, but it was like a cold magnet, sucking away all the sounds, all the wind, and all the floating dust in the tent.

The smells of blood, ice cream, gunpowder, and rust that had filled the air were all suppressed by the sword's force and buried on the ground, unable to rise.

The air became thick as asphalt, like the force of swords spreading across the entire area.

In an instant, Babyrus's mental world suddenly shattered.

No one wielded a sword, yet countless flashes of blades and shadows filled the void.

The unparalleled speed of the Iai Slash grazed his throat, its sharp edge causing a slight stinging pain.

The heavy, powerful force slammed down on his shoulder, crushing away all the malice within him like a collapsing mountain.

The sharp, pointed dagger locked his brow, sealing off all his thoughts.

The relentless, rotating Eight-Phase Blade Techniques surrounded him layer by layer, the dense, overwhelming killing intent completely locking down all the space around him.

To the naked eye, Amamiya Rin remained motionless, but in Babirus's perception, he was being attacked by hundreds of top-notch sword techniques in turn, a mix of reality and illusion, making it difficult to distinguish between the real and the fake. Every strike was incredibly real, and even Babirus's mind was momentarily dulled.

At that very instant, Amamiya Rin moved.