This is not the date I wanted.

Mana gritted her teeth in a dilemma. If it was a one-on-one fight, Mana would certainly not be afraid of "Nibelcol", but it was different in a one-on-many situation. It was simply impossible to stop Alan, who was stronger than herself, with dozens of "Nibelcol" blocking her.

(what to do?)

"Raphael (Hurricane Knight) - El Re'em (The Penetrator)!"

Just when Mana was at a loss, a loud shout rang out, attracting everyone's attention.

At the same time, Ellen saw a huge assault rifle flying straight towards her.

Swinging her beloved sword, Allen deflected the assault rifle. However, the attack was not over yet. Even though she blocked the angel's direct attack, the strong wind pressure still pushed her body backwards.

"Raphael (Hurricane Knight) - El Nahash (The Binder)."

Just when everyone's attention was attracted by the changes on Allen's side, Yui Xian came to Mana's side at some point, swung the silver chain like a whip, and a tornado suddenly rose, blowing away the origami and "Nibelcol" flying around.

If you look from a distance, the clouds in the sky have turned into a rather interesting scroll shape.

"Well done! You are indeed my compatriot!"

"Praise. Yakushiya was a great shot."

Afterwards, Yakushi flew in front of Yui, the two smiled at each other, and clapped their hands in tacit understanding.

"Um...if I remember correctly, you are Miss Yui and Miss Yakuya."

Mana spoke with some doubt.

"Kuku - that's it! The sky is shaking, the earth is trembling, and the wind is dancing among the people! We are the two-in-one son of the hurricane - Yamai!"

Yakuya struck a cool pose and recited some second-year lines with a self-satisfied look.

"Concerned. Mana-chan, you're not hurt, right?"

Ignoring Yakuya's self-congratulation, Yui asked with concern.

"Yeah, I'm fine." Mana nodded to indicate that she was fine, then asked in confusion, "But why are you two here?"

"They are the support I have invited. They are the support I have called for."

Hearing the unpleasant voice coming from behind, the corners of Mana's mouth twitched slightly.

"Nightmare."

Turning around, he saw that, as expected, several "Tokisaki Kurumi" dressed in black and red spiritual outfits were standing behind him.

"Alala, please don't show your disgust so blatantly, okay? I'm so scared."

As she spoke, "Kyouzo" looked at "Nibelcol" in the distance, with a terrifying smile on her lips.

"What is that? They all look the same. So scary."

"It seems that we have no right to say anything about them."

"Hehe, this way the advantage in numbers is even."

"Tsk! Not only Berserk, but also Nightmare has appeared."

Seeing the increasing number of opponents hindering him, Allen gritted his teeth in annoyance.

"It looks like the mission can't be completed... That's perfect. Since you guys want to fight me so much, I'll play with you."

"Alala, what a terrible murderous aura."

After exclaiming in surprise, Kurumi looked at Mana and said.

"Ms. Mana, now we have partners in a common enemy, why don't we put aside our past hatred and get along well."

"...I don't recall ever working with you."

After glancing at Kurumi with disgust, Mana looked in the direction of Alan and raised the laser sword "wolf-tail" again.

"Once we have dealt with all the enemies, we will kill you right away."

07 Attack and Defense (Medium)

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Tiangong City, the shrine is eight thousand meters above the sky.

Artemisia was speeding through the clouds dyed red by the sunset. Around her, dozens of "Nightmare" clones were chasing her and attacking her continuously.

"whee--!"

"Die! Die!"

"I will never let you escape!"

Using the Random Field to open a protective shield to block the dense bullets, Artemisia remained calm in the face of the enemy's murderous attack.

"Aroundight (The indestructible lake light)!"

Artemisia took out her double-edged laser sword from the unit and stopped running away. She turned around and suddenly accelerated, rushing into the elf's clone like a catapult, brandishing her sword.

As fast as the wind and as changeable as flowing water, the sword light swung out a gorgeous trajectory in an instant, as beautiful as a flower.

However, under that graceful sword dance, all of Nightmare's clones had their bodies shattered like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, and bright red blood bloomed like fireworks.

Watching everything she did without changing her expression, Artemisia looked at the remaining Kurumi. The blood on the blade turned into mist and dissipated in the blink of an eye under the high temperature.

"Eight have been dealt with, leaving twenty-three... No, is it thirty-one?"

Artemisia counted the number of enemies and made corrections midway, noticing that the number of the elves did not decrease as she attacked.

"It seems that it will be impossible to reduce it unless the main body is dealt with."

After coming to this conclusion, Artemisia put the "Unbroken Lake Light" back into the scabbard and took out the page that could summon "Nibelcol".

Her current mission is not to deal with "Nightmare". Considering the time required to find the real body, the obstacle caused by "quantity" should be left to "quantity" to solve.

After noticing each other's actions, the "Tokisaki Kurumi"s all smiled at the same time.

"Humph, as expected, she also has the pages of 'Divine Eclipse' here."

"If we lose our advantage in numbers, we won't be able to hold her back."

"Well, since reinforcements are coming soon, let's just withdraw now."

"Hehe, that's true. It would be bad if the attack also locked onto us."

Having said that, "Tokisaki Kurumi" disappeared into the dark shadows of the clouds amidst a burst of laughter.

"Retreating?"

Seeing Nightmare's sudden retreat, Artemisia showed some confusion in her eyes.

However, before she could figure out the connection, she suddenly found that several leaf-shaped machines had appeared around her and surrounded her.

Feeling something was wrong, Artemisia immediately accelerated, trying to fly out of the mechanical encirclement. However, halfway through the flight, she inexplicably felt a strong resistance, as if she had hit an invisible wall and could not move forward at all.

"This is... a restrictive and arbitrary field, and its strength is at the battleship level..."

As if realizing something, Artemisia looked up at the empty sky and switched her visual detection to magic detection - as expected, she discovered a considerable scale of magic source reaction.

"Fraxinus..."

Artemisia's expression was somewhat solemn. It seemed that the other party used optical camouflage to hide the hull and quietly approached when she was not paying attention.

If you think about it carefully, it's not surprising. Although it avoided the surveillance range, "Nightmare" used his spiritual power so recklessly, so Fraxinus must have detected the other party's spiritual power and reacted to investigate.

(Have you been set up?)

Artemisia was secretly surprised, for she had not expected that this elf not only knew her waiting location in advance to ambush her, but also used her as bait to lure Ratatoskr's people over.

[…Ah…did you hear that, Artemisia?]

Just when Artemisia was wondering how to break through this predicament, the communication device that had originally malfunctioned seemed to respond.

"Lord Westcott?"

Artemisia's eyes widened in surprise when she heard the voice coming from the communicator.

[Hmm, it seems that I heard it. I'm sorry, but because the "Divine Eclipse" was scribbled, it took a little time to break the communication barrier. Please report the situation to me.]

——Artemisia Bell Ashcroft. You have been surrounded by us, please disarm and surrender, so that we can guarantee your personal safety——

At this moment, a warning sound suddenly echoed over Artemisia.

[Is this the voice of Fraxinus's commander, Miss Gokawa? Hahaha——Artemisia, it looks like you're not in a good condition right now. ]

There was a laugh from the other end of the communicator, Artemisia exhaled and said with some shame.

"I'm very sorry, Lord Westcott, it seems that I can't continue to complete the mission."

[Haha, don't worry about it. After all, there are many more unexpected factors this time than expected, so failure is no big deal. But you, don't commit suicide just because you think you will be caught. I don't want to lose my excellent subordinates who are hard to get. ]

"…Um, Lord Westcott, I wouldn't do it even if you didn't tell me. Please don't bring up the ninja and samurai characters from the Japanese period dramas you watched in the office into me, okay?"

Artemisia said helplessly.

[Well, enough joking. I'll tell you the weakness of the random area, so retreat quickly.]

"learn."

Exhaling softly, Artemisia pressed her fingers together into a claw, concentrating all her magic power into it.

"——Redshire Cat!"

——————————————I am the dividing line for shifting perspectives——————————————

"I'm sorry Commander, I let him escape."

Noticing that the other party had broken through the casual domain of the "Leaves of the World Tree", Kannazuki lowered his head in shame.

[It seems that the weapon has been strengthened with armor-piercing ability, and the attack position happened to be the weakest point of magic distribution, so it was lucky enough to break through. 】

Ju Ya added his analysis.

"Tsk, lucky guy."

Watching the other person escape from her grasp, Qin Li gritted her teeth somewhat unwillingly.

"Want to catch up?"

“…No, forget it.”

In response to the crew's proposal, Kotori hesitated for a moment and shook her head.

"Shidou is still in a coma, and it's too dangerous to be with Kurumi. Even if Origami and Tohka are still in school, we can't leave too far."

[Kotori, on the other side, detected a spiritual reaction. At this time, Yui, Yakuya, Mana, and Kurumi's clone were fighting with Alan Mathers of DEM. ]

After hearing Maria's report, Kotori was stunned.

"Why are the three of them there? Ah - never mind! Send someone to help immediately!"

"learn."

After issuing orders to her subordinates, Kotori couldn't help but hold her forehead with a headache.

But soon, she received a report that Alan seemed to have suddenly retreated for some reason, and it turned out that they were not seriously injured.

"Great."

Hearing this news, Kotori couldn't help but relax her shoulders and let out a long breath.

Then, Kotori turned her attention back to the main screen - the rooftop of Raizen High School.

The footage captured by the surveillance camera showed that at this time, her brother Gokawa Shidao was resting his head on Tokisaki Kurumi's thigh, enjoying his sleep on her lap.

(Even though the enemies are coming, I am so relaxed...)

Kotori sighed helplessly. To be honest, when she saw Shidou lose consciousness at first, Kotori was really panicked and almost contacted Origami and Tohka for support.

However, what surprised Kotori was that facing Shidou who had no ability to resist, Kurumi not only did not take the opportunity to devour Shidou, but instead took care of Shidou very attentively.

(The spiritual power reaction just now was also like deliberately reminding us of the appearance of DEM...)

Kotori couldn't help but frown as she stirred the lollipop in her mouth. No matter how hard she thought about it, she couldn't understand the meaning of Kurumi's series of abnormal actions.

"Tokisaki Kurumi...what are you planning to do?"

08 Attack and Defense (Part )

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