The last time something like this happened was the time when we risked our lives to equip his jewel on your right arm.] He’s referring to the time when I fought Vali for the first time. I broke Vali’s armour back then and equipped a jewel which came out from his armour on my right arm. The masterpiece which I started calling [Dividing Gear] turns the right gauntlet white, and we became capable of using Albion’s power—the power to half. Except, since the requirement and the risk to use it is too hard, I’ve been using it while treating it as something that needs to be sealed. ……This flying object that is about the size of my palm which has the shape of a small Dragon may be related to back then. It seems like an inorganic thing rather than a living thing. I can certainly sense Vali’s aura from these. Ddraig then says. [……It appears like you can control them with your thoughts.] Hmm, and will that use up my lifespan? [No, the strange thing is that it only consumes your stamina and there is no risk for your life to be in danger.] That’s good. So it will depend on my stamina. ……Well, my crimson armour is also extreme in terms of using up my stamina. Anyway, if I can do something about the enemy in front of me, then there’s nothing more to it! Euclid then says. “……Is that the power of Hakuryuukou you stole previously? Speaking of him, I requested Vali Lucifer for a fight just before, but no matter how good our battle became, Vali Lucifer didn’t show me his true strength—the Empireo Juggernaut Overdrive. So I asked him this. Why aren’t you changing into your serious form? Do you know how he replied to me?”
“…………”
I can’t imagine it, but he then says it as if he’s using the exact words Vali said to him. [The only Sekiryuutei I will use Empireo Juggernaut Overdrive against is Hyoudou Issei. My pride won’t allow myself to use it against a fraud Red Dragon such as you. You—are not the Sekiryuutei I want to fight against with everything I have.] —! So he said such things……
My rival, huh. I don’t know why, but I should be feeling down to have a guy say such a thing about me, but I’m a bit happy to hear that, Vali. I don’t want to be treated the same as the guy in front of me after all! Well then, I’ll have myself use the power I stole from him. Though the shape of it changed quite a lot! I start to learn how to use this strength by diving into my Sacred Gear. ……I see, this thing is amazing…… Depending on the way of how I use it, I can be quite a—. Since I learnt how to use this ability, I start to imagine the small White Dragons moving. ……Will this be okay? I imagined them moving in a farfetched way……
[Yeah, give them your order, partner!] Even Ddraig is saying that, so I will allow myself to use this new ability in a real battle immediately! At the same time, the number [X] appears on the jewel of my gauntlet. “Go, my small flying Dragons!”
When I shout, several small White Dragons fly towards Euclid at high velocity! They are much faster than I imagined! This sure is a good miscalculation! The small Dragons that are flying in the sky on their own get deployed as if they are surrounding Euclid. He also looks around him and it seems like he’s observing what the Dragons are going to do. I release my Dragon Shot towards him! “Eat this!”
A huge mass of demonic-power that gets shot from my hand! He dodges it swiftly, but—
[Reflect!] A sound is made when the Dragon Shot hits the White Dragon, and it reflects the mass of demonic-power I shot by creating a wall of light! And the shot that is reflected hits Euclid! Yeah, this is one of its abilities, reflect! It can reflect an attack to a certain degree. And it just showed what will happen with my demonic-power. Well, it won’t be able to reflect attacks with too much destructive force and will break instead……
Euclid who couldn’t see that coming fixes his posture, but I continue to shoot out Dragon Shots at him in random! “Go! Reflect Dragon Shoooooooooooooooot!”
My randomly shot attack heads towards Euclid! He hits them away with his gauntlet after finding the option to dodge them will be a bad idea—. [Reflect!] Without a moment to spare, the small Dragons fly around and start to pick up my Dragon Shots! The Reflected Dragon Shots hit Euclid! The randomly shot Dragon Shots surround Euclid due to being reflected! [Reflect] [Reflect][Reflect][Reflect][Reflect] [Reflect][Reflect]
My Dragon Shots starts to hit him due to the repetition of Reflect! My attacks have been dodged till just before, but he is definitely receiving damage if he is hit by them! It really does! “Ku!”
He can’t withstand it so he stops the option of dodging and hitting them back, and instead he changes his tactics to using his own attack to eliminate my Dragon Shots. Yeah, that must be the best option. But Euclid. There is something I learnt when I fought Cao Cao! So I change the direction—,
“Tuuuuuuuurn!”
—of my Dragon Shots! My shot that is about to hit Euclid starts to evade before hitting Euclid. [Reflect!] And hits him from his back after being reflected! Euclid has red smoke rising from his whole body. His armour is already in a bad state. ……Well, my stamina is also at its limit. And the count that appeared on my jewel is already low. It has reached [II] already. This doesn’t indicate the countdown for how long my armour can last, but instead is the number of times I can use the small Dragons. The more I use it, the smaller the number gets. So it means I can’t use it too many times. So I need to finish this! —Then Euclid’s demonic-power increases to an insane amount. “……Looks like I can’t guard against it. If that’s the case, I will give you another huge one! Unlike your cannon, I don’t need to charge mine after all!”
[BoostBoostBoostBoostBoostBoostBoostBoostBoostBoostBoostBoostBoostBoost]
For the third time, his replica Sacred Gear makes a sound and increases his aura so much. Euclid releases the huge aura without a second to spare—. That’s quite the thing. It will be dangerous being hit by that directly. But—. I give orders to the small Dragons using my brainwaves! Then, they gather in front of me swiftly and line up in a line as if they are going to take that on! Just as his attack is about to hit it. Then—. [Divide!] [Divide!][Divide!][Divide!][Divide!][Divide!][Divide!][Divide!] A sound which signifies the power being halved echoes, and it reduces the demonic-power shot from Euclid head on! His demonic-power gets smaller each time it passes the small Dragons. By the time it reached me, his attack got reduced to a state where I can use my hand to hit it away and demolish it. “…………!”
It seems like Euclid is in a daze after witnessing this. This is the other ability of the small Dragons, Divide. This ability is the original power of Hakuryuukou. The object that can halve the power flies in the air by itself. There isn’t any other way to defend against attacks better than this!