My youth story cannot be a knight war

[“So——get ready, Zaimokuza.”]

[Zizzizi——]

As the sudden roar descended, Kousaka Kyosuke's GO armor suddenly erupted with blue flames from the jet ports all over its body. Blue-white electricity flowed along the armor and spread to the greatsword in his hand.

[——Full load mode, start! ]

[——Demon Slayer, extreme power drive! ]

[The so-called full-load mode is to close the safety valve of the GO system, causing the power supply to accelerate to the limit in a short period of time. At the cost of consuming a large amount of energy, in exchange for an exponential increase in combat effectiveness.]

To put it bluntly, this means that this α armor will completely disable all the restrictive systems set after the transformation, allowing it to return to its pre-transformation power level, which is the level of power that Kousaka Kyousuke had when he first used GO without any restrictions, or even better.

[But this will inevitably place a huge burden on the wearer, so in order to prevent Kousaka Kyousuke from messing around in battle and causing himself irreparable damage, the right to use this switch has always been in the hands of Ebina Hime, who controls it remotely to decide whether to use it based on the situation.]

[So what Kousaka Kyousuke said just now was not just for Zaimokuza alone, but was also said to Ebina Hime who was far away in the control room through the communication system in the helmet. Through analysis, she understood how serious the current situation was.]

[After a moment of silence, she made her choice.]

At this moment, the red compound eyes of the GO helmet flashed with an incomparably bright light. Kousaka Kyosuke bent his knees and took off, charging towards the split body at an extremely fast speed. Wrapped in lightning, he resembled Sleipnir, the mount ridden by Odin in mythology. Every step he took was accompanied by wind, thunder, and flames!

[He swung his sword and slashed fiercely, cutting the split body in front of him in half from the left shoulder to the waist, and then shouted angrily without even turning his head! ]

[“Now, charge!”]

[What responded to him was not words, but a sudden burst of red flames.]

【Zaimokuza tried hard not to look at Kousaka Kyosuke who was charging into a group of enemies, his hands tightly grasping the spirit stone at his waist, scorching flames gushing out from the spinning Yamadam, wrapping around his blue body.】

[“Super Transformation!”]

【Om—】

[The blue water-flowing cape gradually ignites flames from the tail, and finally forms a scarf woven with flames. The flames spreading from Zaimokuza as the center burn the tentacles that are piercing him to ashes.]

A molten-golden "flame" totem appeared beneath his standing feet. Zaimokuza tilted his head forward, his fiery red eyes piercing through the tentacles that were ignited like spider webs, and gazed upon Ginoga's gigantic, alien form.

[Kuga·Almighty Form·Elemental Awakening (Flame).]

[“This power is the same as mine, and is also the power of ‘Him’!? How is that possible!”]

For the first time, Ginoga's voice lost its calm and frivolous tone. He gazed at Zaimokuza, engulfed in flames, his voice filled with disbelief.

【But Zaimokuza didn't care whether it was surprised or not. The totem on the ground had already floated and turned into a red stream of light, flowing into the pearls inlaid in his raised right hand and lowered right leg.】

[“——What the hell!”]

[When the light completely sank into the two pearls, Zaimokuza suddenly raised his right hand, roared, and punched the ground in front of him.]

【Almighty Awakening·Knight Fist.】

[Instantly, the crimson ripples spread out from Zaimokuza's right fist to the surroundings, encompassing everything within a diameter of several hundred meters.]

【"What!?"】

As Ginoga spoke incredulously, a giant "flame" symbol appeared above the ground where its body was rooted, completely enveloping the plant.

【--boom!!!!!!】

The crimson totem suddenly lit up with a dazzling light, then transformed into a massive pillar of fire that shot up from the ground into the sky, completely engulfing Ginoga's massive body!

[“Uhhhhhhh!!!!!!”]

The blazing flames, as hot as a steel furnace, completely engulfed Ginoga in the blink of an eye. The intense heat burned every corner of the plant, causing it to scream uncontrollably in excruciating pain.

【“——”】

[As the main body was engulfed by flames, all the clones that were besieging Kousaka Kyosuke stopped their previous actions, and then their bodies began to twitch abnormally. ]

[——Sure enough, my guess was right.]

Glancing out of the corner of his eye at Ginoga being engulfed in flames, and then seeing all the clones before him cease their attacks, Kousaka Kyousuke confirmed his suspicions—if anything were to happen to the original, all of the clones would be affected.

[Although he was thinking, Kousaka Kyosuke's hands did not stop moving at all. He took advantage of this opportunity to swing his sword continuously, slicing the split bodies one by one without any resistance.]

[Clang! 】

[The greatsword wrapped in thunder used a "Karatake" to cut the last split body in half from head to toe like cutting tofu. Kousaka Kyosuke stopped his movements in the flying phosphorus powder, inserted the greatsword into the ground, and gasped violently. ]

【boom--】

The blue flame at the nozzle also began to dim and weaken, just like the arcs on the armor that no longer danced and slowly disappeared. The GO's operating power was returning to its normal frequency.

[“Hoo…Hoo…Hoo…”]

[Kousaka Kyosuke leaned on his sword and half-knelt on the ground, panting. In this short period of time, he felt that all the muscles in his body were sore as if they were pulled by a tractor, and his physical energy consumption was ridiculously great, comparable to a non-stop 50-kilometer marathon.]

[This made him extremely helpless. This mode could only be used as a trump card. Not only was the burst time extremely short, but the sequelae were also not at a level that a normal person could withstand.]

[“But…luckily it’s all over.”]

[Kousaka Kyosuke let out a long sigh, and looked back at the scene on the other side with a somewhat tired look. The end was also approaching there.]

[On the other side, countless tentacles slapped everything around them frantically because of the pain. The brutal violence destroyed and damaged the things created by humans with the most primitive violence. However, no matter how it struggled, it could not extinguish the flames wrapped around its body. The power of the fire element, dancing wildly like an evil dragon, spread along the direction of the tentacles and ignited them one by one.]

[“How is it possible—I—I—Ahhh!!!”]

Ginoga's body slowly "melted" in the flames. When the flames completely died out, the towering, demonic plant had been burned to tatters, and its waving tentacles fell to the ground, motionless.

【"Uh...KU...KUUGA!"]

[At the top of the plant, a huge hole was burned in the mushroom's cap by the blow, and a low hum full of resentment came out from the hole.]

Through the shattered hole, one could see countless interconnected mycelium-like structures within. Ginoga, at the very center of these structures, struggled to raise his head and gaze at Zaimokuza directly below. It looked exactly the same as before its enhanced form was activated, the only difference being a crimson flame totem on its chest.

【"I see."】

After adjusting his viewing distance through the camera in his helmet, Kousaka Kyosuke also saw Ginoga, entangled in countless mycelium in the center of the hole, and narrowed his eyes slightly.

[“It seems that it did not really transform its body into such a huge size, but relied on secreting those mycelium tissues from its body, and then used the high temperature of the fire elemental power to ripen and grow these tissues, constructing this huge body with itself as the center, and then using itself as the core to control every move of this body.”]

[“But in essence, he is just a guy with nothing but a facade——huh???”]

[His voice suddenly paused, and Kousaka Kyosuke turned to stare at the roots of the plant.]

[At the root of the plant, which was also the first part hit by Zaimokuza's attack, there are countless holes, and purple gas is constantly escaping from those holes.]

[“…What is that!?”]

[The supercomputer in the control room automatically collects and analyzes the information of the escaping gases captured by the camera, and then analyzes it. In a very short time, the results of the analysis are projected on the screen in the form of data based on the electrical signal in the perspective of Kousaka Kyosuke's helmet.]

[Looking at the analysis results of these gases on the screen in the lower left corner of his field of vision, Kousaka Kyousuke's expression suddenly changed drastically. ]

……

【It's now! 】

Meanwhile, Zaimokuza Ginoga showed no mercy at this moment's plight. Adhering to the spirit of beating the downtrodden, he lowered his body and took a stance, and the bottom of his right foot exploded with fiery red stardust.

【"drink!"】

[With both feet together, Zaimokuza jumped high in the air. The powerful strength granted by the awakening mode allowed him to easily surpass the original jumping limit of the almighty form and leap to a height of dozens of meters.]

He leaned forward and rolled over, kicking out with his right foot at Ginoga, who was now beneath him. The surging power of the fire element gathered at the bottom of his foot, forming a fireball as blazing and dazzling as the sun.

[“Oh my god!!!”]

Amid Zaimokuza's roar, which resounded through the heavens, he descended straight towards the massive black plant below, like a meteorite falling from the sky. His target was none other than Ginoga, who was enveloped in the mycelium within the hole.

["——Stop it, Zaimuzao!!!!!!"]

[But just before the outcome was decided, a hoarse roar caused the roulette wheel, which was about to stop spinning, to start spinning again.]

["Mr. Kousaka!?"]

[Zaimokuza turned his head subconsciously upon hearing this familiar voice, and looked at Kousaka Kyosuke below and said in astonishment. ]

【——At this time, Zaimokuza made a huge mistake. 】

[The battlefield is always changing rapidly. Any moment of distraction or loss of attention is enough to completely change the outcome that was about to be decided.]

【“——”】

[Just as Zaimokuza tilted his head, Ginoga, who had been lowering his head, suddenly raised it, enveloped by countless mycelium.]

[Its originally pitch-black eyes were now flashing with two dark purple rays of light that looked like a cross. Red cracks were scattered around the cross, making it look alluring and charming, with an indescribable strange beauty.]

[But hidden beneath this beauty is an extremely terrifying murderous intent. ]

【boom--】

The next moment, Ginoga's eyeballs suddenly "bloomed" like petals, and two purple rays of light shot out from the center of the pistil.

[——shoot straight at Zaimokuza who is turning his head!]

【“!!!”】

[A huge sense of crisis surged from the bottom of his heart like a raging wave, and Zaimokuza immediately turned back to look in the original direction. 】

[But what was reflected in his pair of red compound eyes was a seductive purple light that illuminated his entire face.]

……

[Countless high-rise buildings together make up Tokyo, Japan's number one city, where the buildings are intertwined and the buildings are distributed in an orderly manner. ]

[If you stand on the top of Tokyo Tower and look down, you can see densely packed buildings starting from your feet and spreading to the end of your vision until you reach the end of the horizon. ]

[This is enough to show how vast the city of Tokyo is. The title of Asia's first city is not just a unilateral boast from Japan, but an international consensus on this city.]

【But at this moment, no matter where people are in Tokyo, as long as they look up, they can see a small but conspicuous purple "line" flying towards the sky from the direction of Shinjuku District. Its trajectory as it passes across the sky looks like a wound torn through the sky itself.】

[Finally, this purple light sank vertically into the depths of the clouds and disappeared without a trace.]

【Shocking, yet short-lived, this is the impression this ray of light leaves on people.】

[But slowly, the clouds in that area began to spread out in all directions, with the location hit by the light as the center, leaving an irreparable hole.]

[Finally, the cloud dissipated under the sky with the hole as its center.]

9. A tragic defeat (two in one)

[Patter! 】

A red meteor crashed to the ground, flames spreading in all directions along with the shockwave. The solid asphalt road cracked and gradually melted from the heat and impact.

[The flame scarf dancing in the wind slowly dissipates from the tail end, turning into stardust that shatters in the air, along with a layer of flames burning on the surface of Zaimokuza.]

[…Uh…Hmm…]

[Zaimokuza bent over and half-knelt, his movements were stiff, and his palms that supported the ground slowly moved towards his neck and stroked his neck.]

[The black palm spread out before my eyes, and the palm was covered with a moist black liquid that was even more turbid than the pitch black.]

[——There were two transparent wounds piercing Zaimokuza’s neck, and the scenery on the other side could be clearly seen through the wounds.]

[Not only that, black blood, different from the normal red blood, was constantly flowing out from the two wounds, staining the red muscles of his chest with a layer of black turbidity, and dripping onto the ground under his feet.]

[Zizzizi——]

[When the blood dripped onto the ground, a white mist mixed with heat and stench floated upwards, obscuring the red outline of Zaimokuza's body. His shape and color also changed in the mist.]

[The red reinforced muscles turned pure white like a faded ink painting, and the sharp golden horns became short and tender. Zaimokuza spread his hands in front of himself with trembling movements.]

[Looking at the black blood on the palms of his hands, the metal mouthparts moved slightly as if they wanted to say something.]

【"--puff."】

[The final word that replaced words was the fiery blood that gushed out of his mouth.]

【Plop.】

[Dense, foamy black blood spurted out from his open mouth, and Zaimokuza fell forward helplessly, clutching his neck. He curled up in his newborn form, trembling and convulsing violently.]

[Pitch-black blood spread out beneath him, flowing across the asphalt road at an extremely fast speed.]

【“——”】

[Hina Ebina, who was far away in the control room, looked at the scene displayed on the screen, and her mind suddenly went blank. Her moist lips also quickly faded and became extremely pale, just like Zaimokuza who had returned to his newborn form.]

【"righteous--"】

[Her lips trembled slightly, and before she could say Zaimokuza's name, another urgent voice from the speaker interrupted Ebina Hime's words.]

【"——Taimu Seat!!!!!!"】