This is not the date I wanted.

"cut!"

As if Mengyue had hit a sore spot, Tohka smacked her lips irritably, turned around to glance at Shidou, then raised the Tyrannical Sword and pointed it at Mengyue's face.

“Don’t make a mistake. Even if that guy hadn’t done that, I wouldn’t have been ambushed by that Key Spirit. I don’t owe him any favors! This is my last warning - get out of the way! Otherwise, I will treat you as an enemy and eliminate you.”

"Ah, ah, ah, persuasion failed."

Seeing Tohka's actions, Mengyue sighed helplessly.

"Hey~ Tohka. Boring adults, when they see that the other person has lost his or her usefulness, will arrogantly make the most reasonable choice in their opinion and abandon the other person without hesitation. However, truly excellent adults will choose to give the child another chance."

"What do you want to say?"

There was some doubt in Tohka's eyes.

"This is just time-delaying nonsense~"

Answering Tohka's question in a light tone, Mengyue clapped his hands, making a crisp sound, in front of Tohka's astonished gaze.

Then the next moment, several metal machines like leaves suddenly appeared around the two of them, surrounding Tohka and Mengyue like a birdcage.

"——!?"

After noticing the abnormality around her, Tohka wielded the Tyranny Sword without hesitation and attacked the machines.

However, what Tohka was surprised to see was that the Demon King's slashing blow was blocked by a light curtain of flowing silver flames the moment it touched the leaf devices.

Soon, Tohka discovered that the layer of light curtain was a spiritual barrier made up of extremely high-density spiritual power.

At the same time, an aerial ship also wrapped in silver flames appeared above Tohka.

"Kotori, plan A persuasion failed, please proceed to plan B."

【Ha——I understand.】

Along with a helpless sigh, Kotori's decisive command came through the headphones.

[Attention everyone! Activate the Spiritual Offering System (System.Blót)! ]

Following Kotori's order, the Fraxinus EX in mid-air turned into a silver bullet and disappeared from Tengu City with Tohka and Yumezuki.

In less than a second, the unpleasant feeling of restraint disappeared, and the "leaves of the world tree" surrounding her slowly dissipated. Tohka looked around, and the scenery in front of her had changed from a modern city to a green forest suburb.

"...I see. So, it uses the spirit power of spirits to amplify objects? I don't know how it's done, but it's a really amazing toy."

Looking at Fraxinus EX floating in the air, Tohka was slightly surprised.

"And then? What do you want to do? Use that ship in the sky to attack me together?"

"It's a little different."

Meng Yue shrugged, looked into Shixiang's eyes, and said in a steady but firm tone,

"Yatogami Tohka, if you really want to fight someone so badly, how about fighting me in single combat?"

"what?"

Hearing Mengyue's provocation, Tohka raised her eyebrows in surprise.

[Sister Mengyue!? What are you talking about?!]

Kotori's surprised voice came from the headset, which was not surprising. After all, according to their original agreement, if Yumezuki and Shidou failed to convince Tohka and Rokuko to stop fighting, then Kotori would use the airship to force Tohka out of the city, and then join forces with Yumezuki to hold back the reversing Tohka, giving Shidou time to seal Rokuko's spiritual power.

"The situation has changed. Shidou is in trouble now. You and everyone else should go and help him stop Rokuko. I can handle Tohka by myself."

[Don't be ridiculous! How could I possibly do this! Even if it's Sister Mengyue, it's impossible for her to hold back the reversing elves by herself! ]

"Don't worry, the mountain man has a good plan. I don't think of risking my life like that idiot Shidao did."

With a hearty smile on her lips, Meng Yue gave a thumbs up and said.

"Don't worry. When has your sister Mengyue ever lied to you?"

【……I see. 】

After a brief silence, Kotori on the other end of the phone finally gritted her teeth and chose to compromise.

[Let me make it clear first, if you dare to lie to me, I will hate you, Sister Mengyue, for the rest of my life! ]

"Well, don't worry. You won't."

After leaving this threat, the airship above Mengyue turned around and flew rapidly towards the direction of the city.

"Thank you for being so kind as to let it go."

"Humph, although I really want to split that ship in half, your words are so interesting that I decided to be kind and let it go."

Tohka snorted and looked at Mengyue with interest.

"Are you really ready? Ready to die by my sword?"

Meng Yue shrugged and answered helplessly.

"Well, I'm the type who won't fight unless I have to. But if the problem really needs to be solved by strength, I definitely won't hesitate."

"Hmph. Very good. I hope you won't let me down."

Hearing Mengyue's answer, Tohka couldn't help but smile.

The woman in front of her was not lying. Tohka's sixth sense clearly told her that this woman named Ryougi Yumezuki was seriously planning to fight her one-on-one.

"Ratziel (Sage of the Dawn)!"

Following Mengyue's call, the blue and white electric light materialized into a dark blue mechanical bow in Mengyue's hand. At the same time, the clothes on Mengyue's body also changed into partial spiritual clothes.

Tohka was not in a hurry to launch an attack. If this was Mengyue's full strength, then her so-called one-on-one fight would be no different from committing suicide.

Sure enough, after summoning the spiritual suit and the angel, Meng Yue took out a blue metal nameplate from his pocket and inserted it into the groove of "Sage of Dawn".

[External patch detected - Tactical display unit - Verification code AW214 - Wizard system connection completed - Are you ready?]

The flickering magical light of the "Sage of Dawn" in his hand enveloped Meng Yue like a curtain, and turned into pieces of metal armor with deep halos.

Meng Yue raised his right hand high, then suddenly dropped it, posing the classic pose of Kamen Rider's transformation, and said coolly.

"Transform!"

The shoulder armor, chest armor, waist armor, and hand and foot armor seemed to be floating around Mengyue, like metal attracted by a magnet, fitting tightly and seamlessly on Mengyue's body.

"Ratziel (Sage of the Dawn) - Dual Blade Mode!"

Immediately afterwards, the mechanical bow in Mengyue's hand split into two, transforming into two sharp daggers.

After the arming was completed, Meng Yue suddenly turned into a handsome and mighty melee fighter.

[Arming is complete! Magcial Rider——Th!Th!Th!Th!Th!Thor~~~~]

By the way, the above mechanical sound is completely played in the brain of the "Sage of Dawn" under Mengyue's command, and no one can hear it except himself.

However, Mengyue still expressed satisfaction.

"Are you ready?"

After watching Mengyue's performance with great interest, Tohka asked.

"Well, sorry for keeping you waiting Tohka."

Meng Yue nodded, gripped the two swords tightly, placed one on the shoulder and the other across the chest, and got ready for fighting.

"Hmph, it doesn't matter! Just use whatever tricks you have. I will destroy them all without mercy and use my absolute power to completely crush your dignity!"

While speaking those domineering lines, Tohka clasped her hands together in front of her chest, turned her palms over, and formed a heart shape.

Then--

"Grant you!! The power of magic!!! Become delicious!!!"

She spoke the lines Meng Yue taught her when she played a maid in the cafe. It seemed that she mistook these words for some kind of killer move.

"...Tohka."

After hesitating for a moment, Meng Yue spoke with a strange look on her face.

"Ok?"

"Sure enough, let's not fight. Can I lose this duel?"

The next moment, the pitch-black slash filled Meng Yue's vision.

PS: Please don’t complain about the above, I just finished watching two Kamen Rider series recently and I’ve let myself go! ! ! !

38 Confrontation

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"……call."

Suppressing the destructive impulse that was beginning to surge in her body, Kotori took a deep breath and removed the electrodes connected to her body. Behind the captain's seat, the elves also took their hands off the cylindrical device and stopped the transmission of spiritual power.

Spirit Offering System (System.Blót), Fraxinus EX uses the spiritual power provided by the elves to amplify the random field, thereby greatly improving the performance of the aerial ship in a short period of time.

It was originally a device designed to counter Eren's Goetia, but now it is being used by Kotori to reverse Tohka's forced transfer.

"Thank you, everyone... I can't activate this device with my own spiritual power."

"Ah~ You're too polite, Kotori-chan. What's your relationship with Yoshina? I should do you a small favor, but..."

The rabbit doll Yoshina first answered Kotori with a smile, then looked at Tohka and Yumezuki who were confronting each other on the screen and asked in confusion.

"Tohka-chan's state...has appeared before, right? Is it okay to just leave it to Mengyue-chan?"

As they spoke, everyone couldn't help but look at Kotori with worry, obviously thinking that it was too dangerous to let Mengyue face the reversal of Tohka alone.

"This one……"

Kotori was a little embarrassed for a moment. Obviously, Kotori herself had the same idea. Even if she gave the latest manifestation device to Mengyue, it was indeed too foolish to fight against the reversal elves alone.

"Or I will go too. Tohka is my family member. It would be inappropriate to leave her to one of my compatriots to handle it."

"I second that. If Yakuya wants to go, Yui will naturally accompany him."

The Yamai sisters volunteered to fight.

"I think we should trust Bilijiang."

At this time, Erya put forward his own opinion.

"Although Bili-chan is used to taking on problems by herself, she will never do meaningless bravado at a critical moment. Since she took the initiative to challenge Tohka, she must be confident. Judging from the severity of the problem, perhaps we should concentrate on dealing with the elf named Rokuko... um——"

Noticing that everyone's eyes were focused on him, Erya shrank his neck and said with a wry smile.

"Of course, this is just my subjective opinion as a newcomer, so you don't have to take it seriously."

"No—perhaps you are right."

Kotori let out a light breath with a wry smile, letting her emotions gradually calm down.

It is indeed as Erya said, not lying to family members is Liangyi Mengyue’s creed. Since she said it’s okay, we can only believe her.

"Lingyin, what's the situation in the city?"

"Not so good..." Reine replied in a calm voice, "Hoshimiya Rokuko's mind is in an extremely confused state. Although the reversal has not yet been completed, it is only a matter of time. And just as the boy said, her angel is trying to stop the rotation of the earth."

"Stop the Earth's rotation... Is it really possible?"

Hearing Lingyin's description, the corners of Nanashi's mouth twitched slightly. Although she had heard that this elf angel named Rokuko was very perverted when she arrived, she did not expect that in addition to opening the space-sealed memory, he could even control the rotation of the earth.

"Of course, even Rokuko can't accomplish this in an instant... otherwise we wouldn't be standing here safely now."

As she spoke, Ling Yin tapped on the keyboard, switching the main screen to a map of Tiangong City. On the map, a deep red halo like magma continued to spread outwards like tree roots.

"This is an image obtained after detecting Rokuko's spiritual power... Her spiritual power is now constantly eroding the surface of the earth. Although it won't stop rotating... But if we leave it alone, this joke may become reality."

Nanashi said he couldn't laugh at all.

"So, it's up to us to stop the spiritual power from spreading further..."

Kotori muttered thoughtfully and asked into the microphone.

"Juya, Junai. Can we stop the spread by intercepting the flow of spiritual energy at specific locations?"

[Possibly. If the 'Leaves of the World Tree' are used to increase the spiritual power, even if only a portion of the spiritual equipment is displayed, it will be able to prevent erosion for a while.]

[But it won’t work if you don’t go to the exact location. I’ve marked the coordinates on the map.]

Under the high-speed calculation of artificial intelligence, as soon as Kotori raised the question, Maria and Junai answered it and marked the cursor at six locations on the map.