Chapter 284: Absolute Uncertainty!
While Luke and Edelweiss were talking, elsewhere, Ikki and Stella were currently fighting the "giants" that had been the objective for this trip.
However, they were not giant humans or humanoid creatures like everyone had originally imagined.
Nor were they enemy Blazers with armament-type or gigantification abilities.
They were crude rock giants assembled from stones of various sizes.
And there was more than one!
A total of two rock giants, each several meters tall, continuously attacked Ikki and Stella.
"This won't work if it keeps going like this. Ikki, have you still not contacted Luke or Todo-senpai?"
Stella smashed half of one rock giant's body apart with a single strike from Laevateinn. While blocking the attacks from both giants, she asked Ikki behind her without turning back.
"No. I can't reach them at all."
"Not Luke, not Todo-senpai, and not even Toutokubara-senpai, who stayed behind at the training camp."
"The signal was probably blocked in advance."
Ikki put away his student handbook and summoned his Device, "Intetsu," again before joining the battle.
However, compared to Stella, who had an enormous amount of magic power strengthening her, Ikki's magic was too scarce, making it difficult for him to damage these giant puppets made purely of stone.
So he could only play a supporting role and assist Stella in the fight.
Neither of them had any intention of using their Noble Arts.
It was not that they did not want to use them. It was that using them would be meaningless.
Rumble—!
As the ground shook violently, the rock giant whose body had just been half-destroyed by Stella recovered to an undamaged state in the blink of an eye.
For this kind of puppet, as long as there were still stones nearby, it could continuously recover under the effect of magic power.
The battle had already continued for quite a while.
During this time, Stella had tried using Noble Arts to blast the rock giants into ash, but they still returned to their original state the next second.
Left somewhat helpless, she and Ikki could only remain locked in a stalemate with them.
However, unlike tireless puppets, Stella and Ikki were human. Their stamina was limited.
First they had explored the mountains, then they had entered a fierce battle with the rock giants they encountered, and later, it had even begun to rain.
With all these factors stacked together, the two of them were now losing stamina very quickly.
If this continued, they would probably collapse from exhaustion before the enemy's magic power ran out.
Boom—!
After blasting apart a rock giant once more, Stella took advantage of the gap while it was restoring its body and asked Ikki,
"Could Luke and Todo-senpai have been attacked like us?"
"That terrifying aura we felt from far away earlier—could that have been Luke or Todo-senpai fighting someone?"
"That's probably the case."
Ikki frowned and agreed with her guess.
Compared to Stella, he could feel even more clearly how terrifying the clash of sword intent earlier had been.
That overwhelming gap, like a heavenly chasm, was something Ikki, as a fellow "swordsman," could clearly sense even from such a distance.
"What kind of monster did Luke run into?"
Ikki understood very well that among their group, the only person qualified to participate in a battle of that level was Luke.
Not even Todo Touka, the student council president, could do it.
That sword intent soaring into the sky had come and gone quickly. Since the movement from the distant battlefield had disappeared, some time had already passed, and Ikki was genuinely worried that something unexpected might have happened to Luke.
But no matter how worried he was, it was useless.
He and Stella were pinned down by the two rock giants and had no way to break free to support the others.
Just as the two of them were each thinking anxiously about how to break through the situation, a voice suddenly rang out.
"Yo! Juniors, I'm here to save you!"
Misogi Utakata's frivolous tone did not match the battlefield's atmosphere at all.
However, his arrival instantly made Ikki and Stella breathe a sigh of relief.
Although they did not know what his ability was exactly, as the strongest category of Blazer abilities, a causality interference ability should be able to help in battle no matter what.
Yet the instant the two of them thought that—
The rock giant that had climbed up from the ground mercilessly swung its huge fist, directly blasting the head of Misogi Utakata, who had just arrived at the battlefield, into bloody pulp!
Splat—!
It was like a watermelon smashing against the ground.
One moment, he was still smiling and greeting them. The next, his entire head had burst open.
"Misogi-senpai!!!"
Ikki and Stella cried out almost at the same time.
But before the two of them could rush at the monster—
Misogi Utakata, who had just had his head smashed in, suddenly appeared sitting on the shoulder of the very rock giant that had killed him.
"Ahaha, did I scare you?"
The trace of rage that had just begun to rise was instantly snuffed out.
Ikki and Stella stared dumbfounded at Misogi Utakata, who had come back from the dead.
They had both personally witnessed the instant his head was crushed just now. The impact of that horrifying scene was still lingering in their minds.
"Oh dear, looks like I really did scare you?"
He looked at the dazed pair, scratched his head, and said,
"My Noble Art is called 'Fifty-Fifty/Absolute Uncertainty.'"
"It's an ability that can manipulate the outcome of events."
While Misogi Utakata spoke, the two rock giants did not stop attacking him.
Huge, heavy fists smashed down without pause, and every strike landed on him with perfect accuracy.
However, it was useless.
Every time he was crushed to pieces and looked dead beyond doubt, he would inexplicably "come back to life" beside them the next instant.
"I fixed the outcome of the event of these two rock giants attacking me as 'failure.'"
"According to the effect of my ability, no matter what happens in the process, the final moment when the result appears will end in failure."
Listening to his words and watching the two rock giants' futile attacks, Ikki and Stella were shocked.
They had seen many different abilities up to now, but this was the first time they had seen something as unreasonable as Misogi Utakata's ability.
"So this is the true ability of Hagun Academy's student council vice president, 'Fifty-Fifty/Unobservable' Misogi Utakata…"
The two watched him toy with the rock giants while inwardly thinking about how they would fight against such an ability.
But no matter how they thought about it, there was only one conclusion.
They absolutely could not win.
If this ability could be used without any restrictions, then in a certain sense, it was practically invincible.
Fortunately, the one who possessed this ability was on their side. Since it was so amazing, helping them deal with the two rock giants should not be a problem.
Stella thought this, and she said it aloud as well.
"With senpai here, we can easily destroy these two rock giants, right?"
"Senpai, hurry up and take them down. We still need to go find the others."
"The others might have been attacked just like us."
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