One-way traffic

Kanzaki's hand, gripping the Nanatsuki Blade, clenched so tightly that it bled.

"Just for such a ridiculous reason, just to satisfy your own thirst for battle! You're going to drag so many innocent lives into mountains of corpses and seas of blood?!"

She completely lost control of herself.

The Amakusa-style female pope, whose core ideology was to save the innocent and not to wield her sword against the weak, had forgotten the power gap between herself and the two men, and was now solely controlled by pure rage.

Due to the brief period of unconsciousness, the body has recovered some strength during this time.

and so.

Even though she knew she couldn't possibly defeat her opponent, she still unleashed her fury.

"Uwaa ...

Only Flash.

Transform all grief and resentment into motivation, combine all possible techniques, and unleash a final, powerful strike.

It charged straight at the two people in front of it, attacking head-on.

boom! ! !

Kanzaki's Yuiseki transformed into a giant blade of light, shimmering with star-like purple light, and with a slashing sword aura that was a hundred meters long, it instantly bombarded the two of them.

despite this.

"We did it? It seems you've got it completely wrong, little girl?"

After the smoke and dust caused by the destructive power of the Flash dissipated, what appeared before them was a red-clad man who had withstood all these attacks with his bare body.

He appears to identify himself as Dante.

There were real bloodstains on his chest, seemingly piercing his heart, but he remained unmoved, not even blinking. There were even several marks on his head that pierced his brain, yet he still didn't die.

This didn't seem to be a major concern for him.

Dante, hands on his hips, spoke nonchalantly.

"Don't always say that bad things are done by others. After all, before doing anything, you should first understand the cause and effect."

"What…?"

“I’m here to stop this guy from starting another riot. If that’s my intention, then what reason do I have to start new riots around me? Wouldn’t that just make me the target of my own attacks?”

Are you trying to say that none of this was done by you?

Dante did not answer Kanzaki's astonishment.

He simply pointed to the distance with his thumb.

Following the direction he pointed, Kanzaki looked over as well, and then…

—She witnessed a scene she could hardly believe.

"—Huh?"

In the sky, on the ground.

It is constantly releasing countless monsters in all directions, far exceeding the total population of the world.

They launched a full-scale attack on Earth with an offensive of a scale completely different from anything seen before.

It happened within ten minutes of Kanzaki falling into a coma.

…Countless countries on Earth have already perished as a result.

Magic and science are useless against these things; only a very few people with truly great power can contend with them.

But having developed to this point, they can no longer even handle something as basic as resisting.

why?

"You seem confused about how these small fry managed to invade this Earth, right?"

Dante scratched his head and casually pulled the two pistols from his waist.

"Let me show you with my actions."

Bang——! !

Not far away, about a dozen monsters appeared on the street.

Some of them look like lizards, some resemble crocodiles, and some even look like extinct pterosaurs.

Some of them destroyed buildings, while others attacked the remaining civilians in the distance.

"Danger!"

Before that, some people had already taken action.

First, seven unseen rays of light twisted and came at an extreme speed.

This is Kanzaki Kaori's Seven Flashes, her ultimate move.

With enough power to kill an enemy seven times in an instant, countless invisible steel wires were constructed at an extraordinary speed, sweeping across the monsters' bodies head-on.

ended.

Kanzaki Kaori had long been an enemy of these guys. Not to mention the two people in front of her, even the enemy who called himself Kamen Rider Solomon was much stronger than them. Kanzaki Kaori alone could easily take down hundreds or thousands of them.

It was an extremely easy thing.

…That's how it should be.

boom! !

Just as Kanzaki finished doing all this and was about to leave, she was attacked.

'Huh?!'

A completely unexpected attack from an unknown angle.

The pope, with eyes wide open, was slammed onto the building by the enormous black hand that had extended from it.

In that instant, the building turned to ashes, and Kanzaki's body was buried under the rubble.

boom! !

But a sage is not someone who can be defeated so easily.

Kanzaki gathered immense power again, drew the Seven Days Seven Blades from their sheaths, and sliced ​​through the building's wreckage at an even faster speed just before it was about to collapse.

Its body detached instantly.

A fatal blow shattered the monster in front of him into pieces in a fraction of a second.

boom! !

Then, completely unharmed, it launched another attack on Kanzaki.

"Varied--?!"

This time, I was completely shocked.

Kanzaki Kaori did not hesitate to use her blade to block the monster's arm.

Clang! A tremendous force followed.

However, the opponent's strength had not increased much. Although it was indeed stronger than when they met before, it was still no match for the strength of a saint.

With a sharp whooshing sound, Kanzaki kicked the monster in front of her away with a single blow.

Roar…

The monster landed on the ground and slid along the ground for about fifty meters.

It was unscathed.

An enemy that should be so fragile.

Why? Why am I still alive even though I used a deadly technique like the Flash?!

Under Kanzaki's utterly bewildered gaze, dozens of monsters of equal strength pounced upon her.

boom--

Then, dozens of deafening whistling sounds came crashing down.

"Now you understand what I mean."

Dante, approaching from a distance, calmly spoke, holding two black and white pistols still emitting smoke from their muzzles.

"Do you still think these guys are just simple small fry?"

There's simply no way to make an evaluation.

In Kanzaki's view, those monsters were merely enemies that were somewhat difficult to deal with in terms of numbers. They were beings that she could easily defeat on her own, both in terms of defense and strength.

What on earth happened?!

Roar--! ! !

In the brief moment that Kanzaki was stunned, the remaining monsters behind her pounced on her once again.

——Bang! ! !

Then, a shadowy figure blasted them all to smithereens with the mere aftershock of a punch.

Although, like Dante's dual pistols, the attack just now completely wiped out these monsters, their remains recovered in an instant, even shorter than an instant, as soon as they hit the ground.

No.

Even if you cut them down to the point where not a single elementary particle remains, or even if they lose all conceptual meaning, they can still be resurrected.

This has nothing to do with immortality or regeneration.

That's right.

In any case, there is no way to kill it.

…This is it.

The real apocalypse.

"That's it."

Boros stood casually in place, calmly watching the monsters that were closing in again.

"No matter how much power you use to attack them, these guys can never be killed. Even if this planet is destroyed, they will still survive."

"Ha! So that's what you call an indestructible punching bag?"

"But these sandbags are too boring. If they weren't disrupting the battle between you and me, I wouldn't have bothered with them at all."

After listening to Boros and Dante's conversation, Kanzaki Kaori immediately realized that something was wrong.

"Wait... so that means during this period—?!"

"Ah, that's exactly what I mean, little girl."

Dante chuckled jokingly, twirled his twin pistols, and flung them back.

“We two went to great lengths to contain these guys’ destruction while you able-bodied people were unconscious, and you’re so heartless as to think we’re the ones who turned this city into this? That’s incredibly hurtful.”

"Or rather, how many places on this planet are still untouched by destruction?"

Their words completely silenced Kanzaki Kaori.

It's simply unimaginable what the world has become like now.

"What about the people behind the water..."

"The three of them woke up earlier than you and have already gone to other areas to evacuate and suppress the fighting."

Even with the deployment of three beings as powerful as Kanzaki Kaori, it was still impossible to prevent a disaster of this magnitude from occurring.

As she saw it, London was destroyed.

But without the help of these people, when she woke up, it would probably not just be London that was destroyed, but the whole of Britain.

"...How is Her Majesty the Queen doing?"

"What, Your Majesty? I'm not your nanny, how could I possibly know what's going on here?"

Dante said this half-jokingly.

Even though the whole world was in a devastating crisis, this man's face still showed no sign of panic.