One-way traffic

The girls, obeying their captain's orders, quickly formed ranks, the formation they had been practicing day and night against the elves on the battlefield.

With this kind of formation, any sudden enemy attack can be easily dealt with.

but.

The white wind of death arrived here in an instant, in a time shorter than a moment.

How many times does this series of actions need to be repeated to barely reach one second?

boom----! ! !

"Waaaaah!!"

The tornado exploded instantly.

The line of girls, which they had painstakingly arranged, was instantly shattered by the fangs of death.

And so, within the boundaries that everyone could see, the figure finally appeared before everyone.

white.

More terrifying than darkness, more despairing than death.

His crimson eyes, a symbol of destruction, were fixed intently on the direction of the girls.

"enemy…!!"

"Is it an elf?!"

"No, this isn't the time to worry about that!"

Everyone immediately raised their weapons and aimed intently at the other side.

But there seems to be a loophole.

Even if humans were capable of pointing guns at monsters, they still wouldn't have the courage to pull the trigger.

An oppressive feeling, enough to fully awaken the instincts of living beings, surrounded all the girls.

“Wow…?”

"What, what is this...?"

"I feel...my body...so heavy!"

The girls pointed their guns at the white monster, but that was the limit; they couldn't do anything further.

The white humanoid monster merely stared in their direction with its blood-red eyes, and even this simple act brought a sense of oppression and suffocation that surpassed all other creatures on Earth.

Even their hands were trembling uncontrollably.

even so.

Bang——! !

The next instant, the sound of something cutting through the air rang out.

The figure who forcibly ignored all of this was the one with the same hair color as the monster.

“Origami!”

Origami Tobiichi was completely unconcerned about her body's instinctive biological reaction.

She forcefully suppressed the trembling that was spreading throughout her body, while simultaneously flicking something out from the front of her arm.

A bright and fiery lightsaber.

After raising the lightsaber to a slightly above her, the silver-haired girl's eyes sharpened, and with a motion as if she wanted to cut through everything in front of her, she slashed down with all her might.

The white figure facing her didn't even make a defensive move, just casually watching Origami Tobiichi's weapon stab towards her.

Everything will end because of this.

Everything should have ended.

click -

Under the girl's direct gaze, the lightsaber shattered.

"—?!"

A situation that is incomprehensible and completely unpredictable.

There was nothing on the opponent's body that could be seen as a protective shield, nor was the spirit armor that a spirit should wear as its main combat attire.

The moment Origami Tobiichi realized this, her body had already flown more than ten meters away.

Origami—!!

Ryoko Kusakabe stared wide-eyed at the white figure in astonishment.

"All personnel! Immediately suppress the target with fire!"

"learn!!"

No one dared to hesitate even a little longer. From the beginning until now, they had witnessed too many incomprehensible situations. If they continued, their minds and bodies would even collapse.

All the team members aimed all their artillery at the enemy and unleashed their full firepower, firing all their artillery and missiles.

An all-around, no-blind-spot attack.

Even elves, faced with such a terrifying attack, would find it impossible to remain calm any longer.

But the affairs of elves belong to the elves.

But the matter of monsters belongs to the monsters themselves.

Then, the wind picked up.

Under the unimaginable gaze of everyone, an even more terrifying scene unfolded.

"...What is that?"

Even Ryoko Kusakabe, the team leader, couldn't help but freeze in place this time.

The white monster raised an arm, and then—

One of the missiles changed shape the moment it touched his fingertip.

It turned into a sphere.

To be precise, it was caused by countless vectors that exploded entirely inwards.

A black and white sphere, large enough to completely engulf the entire city, emerged.

Even the clouds in the sky were swallowed up by it. No, even the weather and the sky changed. It was noon, and the sky, which should have been azure, turned into a blacker than the abyss in an instant because of the appearance of that thing.

The scene at this moment is almost like...

"A black hole...?"

Although Ryoko Kusakabe had never actually seen what a black hole looked like in her life, the phenomenon before her eyes almost instinctively brought the word to mind.

"Don't get it wrong."

Then, the sound came again.

It was a deep, magnetic, and more masculine, manic voice.

"A real black hole is much more powerful than this... this is just a simple toy."

The girls turned their gazes over and saw the figure casually raising an arm as he spoke.

They were using Japanese, which they could all understand.

"Changing a simple vector into absorption is similar to the principle of reflection. It's just that I changed 'reflecting all energy directions' to 'gathering all energy directions.' In the end, the formula used is indeed based on black holes."

"Don't just focus on the surface of things when you look at them, and don't just pay attention to boring things like black holes."

"Although that's what I said, you bunch of tasteless idiots wouldn't understand at all, right? Whatever."

"Anyway, that's all there is to you guys."

then.

The sphere, which had been suspended high in the sky like a black hole, exploded head-on before everyone's eyes.

"Woo——!!"

The girls stepped back in shock once again.

Ryoko Kusakabe couldn't help but swallow hard and shouted loudly.

"Everyone! Activate your Territory immediately! Hurry!!"

Without the slightest hesitation, and without any time for them to hesitate.

The moment those words were spoken, the black and white sphere exploded into hundreds of flashes of light, which rained down on all of them.

What's amazing is that even though there were so many of these light bursts, they moved like drones, bypassing the innocent buildings and heading straight for them.

When they came to their senses, their bodies were already enveloped in a layer of luminous green protective shield.

Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom —

What followed was a barrage of bombings.

The exact duration is unknown; it could be one minute, five minutes, or even longer.

However, when the attack ended, everyone's face turned pale.

creak.

Known as the Territory, it is a protective shield that can be changed at will according to the wishes of these people.

It shattered instantly upon the end of the attack.

So what does all of this really mean?

'...It's almost as if the number of attacks and the timing of their termination were pre-calculated...'

The meaning is actually very simple.

Within the time it took for the other party to first meet them, they had already calculated exactly how long their territory could last, what kind of attacks it could withstand, and to what extent—all this data and information.

Just like a bucket that's completely full, adding even one more drop of water can be the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

Whether it was Ryoko Kusakabe or the other team members, everyone was clearly aware of all of this.

too frightening.

This is not simply a matter of the strength of the enemy, but rather that the enemy had never seen them before, yet they were able to completely ascertain their background in an instant.

This can't even be called a battle.

It evokes the feeling of chasing a rocket ship on foot.

"Tobiichi...? Are you... are you alright?!"

"Ah! Miss Tobiichi just now—it seems she was completely blasted away by that target. Is she alright...?"

Origami Tobiichi, who was on the other side, had also returned to the battlefield.

However, the arm that had been holding the lightsaber was now trembling uncontrollably.

"...Origami, you—"

"I'm fine, Captain."

Even with her arm nearly broken, the silver-haired girl's expression remained unchanged.

Including that extremely sharp gaze that seemed to want to kill its target at all times.

"This battle was due to my carelessness and mistakes."

"But next time, I will definitely kill the target completely."

"I will definitely kill the elf."

Ryoko Kusakabe, who had originally planned to say something, was now at a loss for words.

She held back the words she should have said, looking at the girl in front of her with a complicated expression.

That's it.

The anti-elves unit, AST, was defeated in its battle to kill elves on April 9th ​​of this year.

Ultimately, the target disappeared without a trace.