This is not the date I wanted.

But it's not over yet.

Vegetable missiles such as carrots and potatoes that can emit large amounts of hypnotic gas; a sudden mechanical failure that shoots out a large number of small steel balls; an unknown liquid that reduces ground friction to below 0.001; a large herd of cattle that escaped from an unknown farm.

It was as if the entire city was against Origami. Whenever Origami was about to catch up with Mengyue, some inexplicable accidents would happen around him. With this annoying interference, Origami couldn't catch Mengyue at all.

After this chase, Origami not only failed to catch Mengyue, but was also overwhelmed by those messy traps, wasting a lot of useless energy.

Then Meng Yue turned around and disappeared from Origami's sight at a corner leading into the commercial district. When Origami tried to catch up with her again, the corner was blocked by a tall building.

Before he could figure out how to find the lost Meng Yue, Origami was surprised to find that the arrangement of the surrounding buildings had completely changed, and was very different from the roads depicted on the Tiangong City map in his memory.

Origami frowned slightly, as if she had thought of something.

"Dating city..."

According to information from DEM, Dating City is a ground facility built by Fraxinus in Tengu City specifically for the purpose of conquering elves. It can quickly switch scenes by changing the city structure according to different situations, which can not only help with the strategy, but also be used to eliminate interference from external uncertain factors.

I remember that when I was still in AST, I had encountered a similar situation.

As for why Dating City is still functioning? Origami was confused for a moment before she understood and was relieved. Even though the people of Fraxinus were being held back by Alan Mathers, for Mengyue, the most dangerous elf, even acting as Fraxinus's main computer to maintain the operation of the airship was a piece of cake, and controlling Dating City was naturally a piece of cake.

[Hahaha——What's wrong, Origami? Didn't you want to kill me? Why can't you even catch up with me now? ]

"hateful……"

Listening to the mocking laughter coming from the radio, even Origami, who had always been expressionless, couldn't help but clench his teeth in anxiety.

"call……"

Origami exhaled slowly and gradually calmed down.

Needless to say, it was impossible for him to catch Liang Yi Meng Yue now. After all, this dating city was Meng Yue's home turf.

However, the weaknesses of this dating city are also very obvious. The traps here are only harassing, not dangerous at all. It can be used to help Mengyue avoid Origami's pursuit, but it is unrealistic to use it to help Mengyue defeat Origami.

So that's why Liangyi Mengyue didn't fight with me and chose to escape?

After thinking about it for a while, Origami came up with an idea.

Since we can't catch her, let her come out and fight herself.

"Liang Yi Meng Yue, don't you want to know the whereabouts of Shi Dao?"

[Oh? What's wrong? You want to lure me out? What a pity. I'm not that easy to fool.]

"So, what if I say that Shidou has been killed by me?"

Origami exhaled and said in a cold tone.

[Pfft—hahahaha! 】

After hearing what Origami said, there were bursts of laughter over the radio. Origami could imagine the other party holding their stomachs and laughing.

[Don't tease me, Origami. Your lies are not convincing at all. Don't I know what kind of position Shidou holds in your heart? If Shidou is really dead, you won't even have the energy to fight, let alone come after me. ]

Ting Mengyue obviously didn't believe that she had killed Shidao, and Origami was not anxious, but continued:

"I tied up Shidou and beeped."

【…】

"Not only that, I also used the beep to beep Shidou's beep, and then the beep, and the beep, and finally I used the beep from my back to force Shidou's beep."

Listening to Origami speaking a lot of muted lines with a very refreshing and serious expression, Meng Yue's mouth twitched slightly.

I have to say, if it were Origami Tobiichi, she might really do this.

After a moment of silence, Meng Yue chuckled, shrugged and replied:

[So what? Isn't it a good thing? Although I can't help but mourn for Shidao for three seconds because the target is you, it is still a happy thing to be able to graduate with virginity under a beautiful woman. After returning home, I have to prepare red bean rice to celebrate~]

Looking at Meng Yue who remained unmoved, Origami added calmly,

"By the way, during the beep, I made Shidou wear women's clothes."

boom--!

As soon as he finished speaking, an orange-yellow light shot towards Origami at three times the speed of sound. After Origami dodged the railgun with an agile back jump, she looked up along the trajectory of the ballistic missile. Meng Yue was standing on the roof of a building at this time, with a slight smoke coming out of the clamp-type turret fixed in her hand.

"I'm sorry, Kotori-chan...but as a human being, there are boundaries that must never be crossed."

After muttering to herself in an extremely cold tone, Meng Yue looked at Origami, like a Shura from hell, with murderous intent in her eyes.

"Let's duel! Either you die today - or I die!"

Origami: “…”

09 The Limits of Humanity (Part )

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"Let's duel! Either you die today - or I die!"

Like a giant dragon whose reverse scale has been touched, Meng Yue at this moment is completely different from the girl who had been trying to avoid conflict with Tobiichi Origami and running around trying to be clever and looking nondescript a few minutes ago.

The cold and murderous gaze seemed to have a physical body, and even though they were nearly a hundred meters apart, Origami felt a tingling sensation on her skin.

But it also indirectly shows that his lies have successfully angered Meng Yue.

Origami tensed all her nerves, clenched her weapon, and drove the CR-Unit towards Mengyue.

"——Ratziel (Sage of the Dawn)!"

As expected, this time Meng Yue did not turn around and run away. Instead, she took a step forward, jumped from the roof of the building, and kicked the wall hard. While gathering iron sand to gather energy, she rushed towards Origami.

But in just two blinks of an eye, the distance between them was only ten meters.

(Local random field expands - coordinates locked, gravity enhancement begins.)

Seeing the opponent approaching, Origami secretly set up a high-density random field on Mengyue's flight path. Just as the opponent was about to step into his random field, he swung the lightsaber in his hand forward. Part of the light blade separated from the blade and converted into magic shells, attacking Mengyue like a heavy rain.

"Clarente", the main weapon of the DEM company's specially made CR-Unit "Mordred", can change its form in any area, transforming into two forms: a magic cannon and a laser sword.

But in fact, this so-called transformation is just to change the weapon into a form that can better exert its appropriate performance, and its own properties will not change at all.

With origami's precise manipulation of random areas, it is entirely possible to launch an attack while maintaining the form of a laser sword, catching the opponent off guard.

however--

In the next moment, Liang Yi Meng Yue, who was supposed to be trapped in the random field and covered and killed by countless magic bullets, disappeared from Origami's sight out of thin air.

"Optical Shift!"

Origami's pupils suddenly shrank. Soon, she understood the other party's trick and quickly converted the random field around her into biothermal sensing.

Pulling the thrusters hard, the powerful propulsion force combined with the inertial adjustment of the random field allowed Origami to forcefully turn half of her body while flying at high speed, and at the same time, she took advantage of the momentum to tightly grasp the lightsaber in her hand and swept forward.

Clang——!

Sparks flew from the tip of the blade, as if it had hit hard metal. Then, within Origami Tobiichi's sight, she could see the strands of brown hair fluttering in the wind and the pincer-shaped turret that was within reach.

"Railgun."

Then, the Sage of Dawn, who was blocked by the lightsaber, burst out with terrifying power towards Origami's side.

Although this attack did not hurt Origami, the recoil caused by the shooting made Meng Yue quickly escape from the coverage of Origami's random domain. After a few backflips, she landed on the ground.

"Tsk, it's been blocked as expected."

Seeing that her surprise attack didn't work, Meng Yue smacked her tongue in dissatisfaction.

"Ha ha……"

Origami breathed slightly, and she was surprised to find that her forehead was covered with sweat.

If I hadn't discovered it in time, I would have been defeated in the first confrontation.

(I see… Is this the most dangerous spirit that even Alan Mathers finds troublesome?)

Origami had to admit that, even though she had reminded herself several times, at this moment, she still subconsciously underestimated the enemy when she saw that the other party was so easily provoked.

However, even with such a small gap, the opponent did not miss it and bit down like a wolf.

Liangyi Mengyue was indeed irritated by herself, but she did not lose her composure. In other words, she was the type of person who became calmer and more decisive the angrier she got.

Although they are both elves, the sense of pressure caused by the absolute gap in strength that Origami had felt from Tohka and the others before was different. What Origami felt from Mengyue was a subtle but deadly sense of threat.

Not only the power of the elves, but anything that can be used will become Mengyue's weapon. Because of this, although both of them have deployed partial spiritual equipment, the threat of Liangyi Mengyue is much greater than that of other elves.

“But in the end, that’s all it is.”

In just a few breaths, Tobiichi Origami had completely regained her composure.

"Next, I will never lose sight of you again."

Gripping the laser sword tightly in his hand, Origami used the powerful acceleration generated by the thrusters to approach Mengyue and dealt her a heavy blow.

"Goo-"

He raised the Dawn Sage to block the attack, and while absorbing the force, he used Origami's sword momentum to quickly retreat.

But even so, Origami could still keenly see that Mengyue's wrist was trembling slightly.

"As expected... no matter how you try to make up for it from other places, the spirits that have been sealed have indeed become weaker."

"..."

Meng Yue did not make any reply. Instead, she attacked Origami with iron sand whips that looked like giant pythons.

"it's useless."

Origami used the protective shield opened in the random area to isolate the iron sand that was only powerful in name only.

Railgun

Watching the orange-yellow rays approaching quickly, Origami dodged the electromagnetic cannon with the help of the random field. Then, after accelerating, he approached Meng Yue again.

"I'm not a bandersnatch. I won't be induced that easily."

Considering that the opponent could still block her slash, the power and speed of the artillery attack converted from sword form would be reduced, so Origami switched the "Clarente" in her hand to cannon form.

However, just when Meng Yue thought that the other party was about to fire at her face, the other party suddenly took a few steps back and gave up the attack.

"You deliberately tricked me into using the cannon... Your goal was to blow it up, right?"

Origami stared at the weapon in her hand and asked Mordred to scan her.

Sure enough, although he thought he had completely isolated the iron sand, several magic transport routes of "Clarente" had been blocked by a few tiny pieces of iron sand at some point in time.

If he used the high-rate cannon mode, his weapon would probably explode in the next instant like what happened to Alan last time.

"……cut."

Seeing the other party clicking his lips in displeasure, Origami became more certain of her thoughts.

So far, the reason why Meng Yue was able to stalemate with Alan with partial spiritual equipment, or even end up in a situation where both of them suffered losses, was entirely because of this unexpected trick, which caught the opponent off guard.

But after each battle, these strange moves will become obvious moves, and the effects of their use will be greatly reduced.

The whip of iron sand, the thundering force, the real thunderbolt - these truly highly lethal moves, except for the railgun, cannot exert their lethality when the partial spiritual equipment is used.

The optical deviation can be detected by thermal sensing if known. The hacking technology has been cracked by Westcott, and the induced barrel explosion is a tactic that can be easily guarded after being used once.

In other words, Meng Yue has most likely run out of tricks this time.

(But, in the end, it's just a possibility.)

After silently admonishing himself, Origami controlled the random field to eliminate the iron sand from the magic line, remained alert, quickly approached Mengyue, and wielded the laser sword to launch a lightning-fast combo at her.

"Goo-"

Fierce collisions sounded between the two of them one after another. Although it was very embarrassing, facing Origami's tricky and swift slashes, Meng Yue was able to block them with the solidity of the Dawn Sage, and the other missed attacks basically did not cause fatal injuries.

However, even if she used a bow that was obviously disadvantageous in close combat, without any clever tricks, Meng Yue was still able to hold her own in the hands of Origami, a professionally trained magician. Origami couldn't help but sigh that even without the power of the elves, if the other party became a magician as a human, he would probably be an ace.

"—!"

The moment I realized it, I actually thought about the future if the other person was a "human".

"No! No! No!! You are an elf! If you are an elf, you can never forgive me!"

Keeping reminding herself like this, Origami began to tighten her grip on "Clarente".

That's right, no matter whether the elves are good or evil, as long as one is killed, then no matter what kind of elves I face in the future, even if the elf who killed my parents is really innocent or has no choice but to hide her secret, I can chop off her head without hesitation.

If I follow my conscience and justice, my parents might die in vain and all I have done so far might go to waste.