Even if we took down the shadow-user, looks like the ability will still remain for a short while……”
What! There’s more hidden enemies!? There are two light users then? So the enemy can snipe us through the shadows which we can’t see through! That shadow sure is convenient! Ah, but the shadows perished. Looks like the ability died off because the possessor was defeated. Gasper then says it while looking at the device. “A-Amazing! The data came out just from the attack now! That was the [Staring Green]!”
“I will take care of that one then. Koneko, follow me. You can search the enemies location with the ‘ki’, right?”
“……Yes, Xenovia-senpai.”
Xenovia leaves the factory taking the cat-eared Koneko-chan with her! Oh, I also have to do my job! GOOOOO! I go forward while igniting my booster on the back! “Damn Sekiryuutei! Burn!”
The flame-user creates a powerful fire attack with both his hands, aiming at me! GOOOOOOOO! The fire comes at me……. But. Weak. It’s rather cold instead of hot. Raiser’s flames were hot even with the armour! Comparing it with Old-man Tannin’s fire would be comparing it with a match-stick! “If you want to burn me, then bring a phoenix or a dragon!”
DON! My fist cut through the enemy's fire and then went deeply into his stomach. A direct hit. The same time the flame-user went down, Kiba also defeated the light-user who is a bit away from me. We defeated all of the Sacred Gear possessors. That’s what we thought. “Ngggggggggggggggh!”
The shadow-user who was defeated got up and screamed. Then a black thing started covering his body. The shadow spread even more and it started to cover the whole factory. CHILLS…………. What are these chills I'm feeling…….? I felt a weird power from the shadows. How do I explain it…. I felt like a sudden change from him. Or it seems like he reached to something new….. FLASH! Then a light appeared below the shadow-user’s foot and a magic-circle was formed. It’s a magic-circle I have never seen before. It looks like a transport magic-circle but it’s not that of a devil. It doesn’t have the devils only symbol after all. Fallen-angel types? But I still haven’t seen that before. I have seen the magic-circle Sensei uses quite often, so I’m familiar with the fallen-angel type ones as well. Then the shadow user’s gets enveloped by the light. After the flash, the shadow-user disappeared. “Phew. Looks like it’s finished.”
I took a breath after the battle and removed my armour. “Good job, Ise-san.”
I don’t have any wounds, but I still got healed by Asia. Asia’s aura is warm, and that alone feels like it healed me. The combatants all perished. The remaining ones vanished as soon as the shadow-user disappeared. “Go to sleep~ Go to sleep~”
Gasper moved his fingers in a circle and made the Sacred Gear possessors lose consciousness. It’s a vampire’s power. Gya-kun sure has a cute pose. Buchou and Akeno-san created a magic-circle so they can send the two men captured to the Underworld. All that's left is for Xenovia and Koneko-chan to come back……
“We defeated him. We beat him up quite a bit, but we didn’t kill him.”
Xenovia returns while carrying a man on her shoulder. Koneko-chan is behind her. Oh, so you girls defeated him. As to be expected from Xenovia and Koneko-chan! We also made that man lose consciousness. It’s a shame that we let one of them get away. “Now the transmission to the Underworld is done. Well, we probably won’t get any information this time as well.”
We have been sending Sacred Gear possessors to the Underworld using the magic-circle, but apparently their memories while being in the Hero-faction have been erased. We send them just in case we can have them checked, but I think there is a high probability that we won’t get any new information. It seems like they put a certain kind of technological programme on the Sacred Gear possessor’s memory when they send them to the crucial locations of each faction which deletes their memories. I heard that it is near impossible to retrieve the deleted memories. It’s good that we can send them alive. It’s the basic rule to “Kill terrorists without any exceptions”. Oh yeah. After the incident with Diodora, there was a change to my Sacred Gear. Especially to my Balance-Breaker. It took 120 seconds for activation, but now I can get into Balance-Breaker in 30 seconds. Also the duration I can stay in Balance-Breaker also extended a lot. Now I can wear my armour for 2 hours per day. On good days, Ddraig said I would be able to go up to 3 hours. The limit of one transformation per day is also gone. If it’s within the range of my transformation duration, I would be able to transform as many time as I want. The two things which were weaknesses of mine have been fixed quite a lot. That’s a major improvement. I’m seriously improving…… I heard that this was due to the phenomenon of the so-called [Juggernaut Drive]. But this is still nothing. I still haven’t caught up to Vali yet. “But battling without breaking as much things as possible is something really harsh for our team which is the super-attack type.”
Kiba makes a bitter smile at my comment. “It can’t be helped. We have powerful abilities, so if we don’t fight while suppressing our powers, then this town will collapse.”
Oh, yeah. There are people within the homes, so thinking like that we can’t destroy buildings. Even if this is an unused building, if we destroy it, people might realise about this incident. “If we think of this as a rule for the Rating Game, then it would become a good experience. We did suffer once with this.”
It’s just like Buchou said. If we are going to do Rating Games in the future, then there would be games with different rules. If we get adapted to these types of battles, then it will become useful for the actual game. In reality, I think the experience in the match against Sitri has become useful. I can use the power of the Sekiryuutei to a good degree. “But it certainly has become troublesome.”
Kiba says it while making a sigh. “What do you mean, Kiba?”
“I mean that there are those who use special techniques amongst the Sacred Gear possessors who are sent to us. If we say it in a way of devils, then it means those who specialise in techniques and support-types started showing up. The ones sent first were all either power or wizard types. …… Have they started to grasp hold of our battle styles?”
If you mention it, the battles against the ones that have been sent by the Hero-faction have certainly increased in duration time. Their attacks were simple at first, then they started sending the ones with abilities which I can’t understand clearly about…… This time, the example is the shadow Sacred Gear. “…..Sensei also did say it. That there are many unknown things about Sacred Gears.”
Buchou agrees to Koneko-chan’s comments. “Yes, that’s why they devoured the power of Sekiryuutei and Holy-demonic sword using the ability from just before.