Several light attacks also came from the direction behind me. “If it’s a light-attribute attack, then leave it to me!”
When I turned around, Irina made lights within her hand. Irina who is a reincarnated angel can use attributes of light. She cancelled the attack of the enemy by using the spear of light. FREEZE-FREEZE! WIND-CUT! The sound of something getting frozen. And also the sound of the wind! Akeno-san released spears of ice towards the light-user without any pause. But the shadow from before stretched and devoured the spears. The ice then comes out from Buchou’s shadow, but Buchou dodged it as if it was nothing. You are so splendid, Buchou! ……Then the shadow appears around the light-user, and started to create a wall. Then many arrows of light come out from the shadow-wall. Also the fire attacks of the flame-user come out from the wall as well! “Haa!”
I, the vanguard, responded and hit away all of the attacks……. So they can even attack from within the shadow, huh. From our eyes, the shadows are so thick and we can’t see the light-user. “Gasper-kun! Did you get the data of it! ?”
Kiba asks without taking his eyes off the enemies. Gasper who is a rearguard and who had been using a ‘device’ for the whole time answers Kiba. “Y-Yesssssss! I-I got it! The flame Sacred Gear is called [Flame Shake]! And the defence-counter type Sacred Gear, [Night Reflection]! Lastly, the light-attack Sacred Gear is [Staring Blue]!”
Gasper has been finding out the Sacred Gears of the enemies by using the device Azazel-sensei created. The Sacred Gear scanner machine created by Azazel-sensei has been very useful lately. It’s very effective in a fight against Sacred Gear possessors. Until now, we got all the information of the Sacred Gears. “Gasper. Once you finish, drink my blood.”
“Y-Yes!”
I had Gasper carry a small bottle with my blood in it. That’s so he can activate his Sacred Gear to stop time anytime he wants to. Normally in a battle inside the town, we make Gasper turn a section of his body into a bat and make it fly around the whole battle area. That’s so we can find if there are enemies hidden. Koneko-chan also uses senjutsu to search for the ‘ki’ in the areas. The two First-years also have the job to search around the area. Gasper’s eyes are indeed powerful, but in the battle against Sacred Gears, it can’t be used that effectively…….. It seems like they know about Gasper’s ability, so when Gasper shows his glowing eyes and tries to face them, a combatant reacts and becomes the shield for the Sacred Gear possessors and keeps them from being ‘stopped’. They know about my powers, and also about Asia’s healing ability. The reason why there is a light-user with them is because they probably predicted that it would be us, the devils, who would come to fight them……. “The stronger we get, the more likely we would become their ‘target,’ and the methods to take us down would be researched thoroughly. Probably something like that, I think.”
Kiba smiles sarcastically. Target……. Methods. And to research…… Then I remembered what Sairaorg-san said. -No matter how much power you have, you will lose if you get trapped. They will aim for the slightest opening with full power. A slight opening. Even though we are overwhelmingly stronger, we don’t know what will happen when we show them a slight opening. First of all, that light-attack is troublesome. We are devils after all. Apart from me, my comrades will be in trouble if they get hit by it head on. It seems like Kiba was thinking about the same thing as me, so he was looking at the light-user who is being protected by the shadow defence-type Sacred Gear. Then the combatants appear in front of the Sacred Gear possessors. Looks like there are still plenty of grunts left. How will we be able to get rid of that shadow? Defeating the possessor must be the best option, but the shadow will most likely stretch and defend him……. And transferring my power to others needs to be thought out thoroughly in these circumstances. Everyone in our group is already strong, so they will turn into a monster of destruction if I transfer my powers. That’s why we can’t do that inside the town. We are invincible if we were allowed to go all out. ………………… There is no use for me to think about the hard things. I am the ‘Pawn’ who is also a vanguard after all. I will just follow Buchou’s orders! Buchou then gave her orders. “I will now give the orders to the vanguard team of Ise, Yuuto, and Xenovia. Ise will take on the flame-user. Yuuto, you aim for the shadow-user! And Xenovia will eliminate the grunts to make a path for the two of them! Middleguard and rearguard will support the vanguard with all their powers! We will eliminate all of the grunts!”
[Roger!] Everyone responded and moved out all at once! Xenovia moved forward and started annihilating the grunts! To be expected from a Power-type! Her power sure is different to others! After the grunts perished, Kiba and I saw our targets! Kiba closed his distance with god-speed and started slashing at the wall protecting the light-user! GULP! The blade of his holy-demonic swords were devoured! After this, the holy-demonic sword should come flying from somewhere! SPIT! It then came out from my shadow when I was heading for the flame user! “Ise! Dodge that and shoot the dragon-shot to the shadow!”
Buchou’s order! I don’t know whether I can but roger that! I dodge the blade of holy-demonic sword! Ha! I’ve seen Kiba’s strike many times and received that with my own body during our training! While dodging it, I shot out a red aura to the shadow! DON! DON! Oh! My demonic-power got sucked in!? I see! So when it lets the attack out of the shadow, that shadow will still be connected! “Yuuto! The shadows are connected so the dragon-shot would come back at you! Cut the dragon-shot in half inside the shadow and make it explode before it appears!”
“Roger that!”
Following Buchou’s order, Kiba wielded his holy-demonic sword within the shadow! DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON! “Guwaa!”
Along with the sound of explosion, there was a scream! When I looked, the shadow-user was blown away! “I tested to see what will happen if the attack explodes inside the shadow, but it seems like he couldn’t take care of it and it returned the explosion back to him. Even though he can change the direction of the attack, it seems he can’t change the impact of the attack.”
Buchou was putting on a smile of victory. What foresight! To be expected from our [King]! While I was admiring her, an arrow of light was flying at me! It’s not blue! It’s a green coloured arrow! “---! ?”
I got shocked at the sudden attack. I somehow dodged it, but another one came from the direction where I don’t sense any enemies from! Everyone was also shocked at the sudden attack. Buchou then looked at the shadow within the factory. “Looks like there is one more enemy. Using the shadow as intermediary, the enemy attacked from outside which is the safe zone.