Countless fire feathers fell from the sky; even with the shielding of the [erosion domain], they still illuminated the night sky.
Countless pieces of information began to run wild on the internet.
[Tokyo metropolitan area].
[Aberrant] war.
A world shrouded in false peace for too long.
On this night, it recalled the taste of iron and blood once again.
It was as if countless pairs of eyes wanted to gaze here, curious, prying... wondering how exactly the [Aberrant] bypassed [Saint Michael]'s protection to invade the [Tokyo metropolitan area].
At the same time, they were even more curious... who exactly was fighting that [Aberrant], who was infinitely close to the [Fourth Sequence] and about to enter another world?
Was it the [Absolute Blade] from back then?
[The Empire's Hound]?
Or perhaps... that girl from the [Sakura family].
This battle between [Su Yuzu] and [Raven] was destined to no longer be glossed over with flimsy excuses like a gas explosion.
This was [Raven]'s objective.
This was [Mountain]'s desire.
The world ought to remember her name, regardless... of whether she is the brave hero who slays the Demon King, or the Demon King who ascends the [Throne].
"Caw—"
Amidst the falling flames, the corners of the young girl's lips curved upward in a near-mad smile.
Short strands of hair rose in the shockwaves of the explosions; those [crimson eyes] were even more blazing and red than the flames of [Raven]'s demise.
Wind-cyan eyes silently recorded everything.
"How can this be..." The woman dressed as a researcher looked at the young girl wielding a giant shield.
"Clearly..."
"Clearly, she is only [First Sequence]."
"Is that so?"
The asphalt highway seemed to be melting and burning. The girl stomped on the road surface, leaving a distinct shoe print, followed by an expanding explosion... caused by the shockwave left behind by high-speed movement.
[Holy Relic - Immaculate Pure Land] allowed [Su Yuzu] to isolate herself from all external filth.
When sleeping in the rough outdoors, it was very useful for a girl who liked cleanliness.
She could also actively manipulate [Immaculate Pure Land] for a short period.
Actively repelling the mire beneath her feet, the asphalt... and even lakes, allowing the girl to fight in all difficult environments as if walking on flat ground as much as possible.
"You are clearly a researcher of [Epiphany Manufacture]."
"Do you not understand that [Sequences] and such are not insurmountable chasms?"
On the contrary—
[Sequences]... can actually be transcended.
Although it is difficult.
Very difficult.
But... it is merely difficult, that's all.
In the dark red world that resembled doomsday, the young girl wielding the giant shield had already appeared less than ten meters in front of [Raven], looking majestic yet cold and ruthless.
Her speed was fast, like a crimson comet streaming across the sky.
The fire feathers falling all over the sky did not seem to be unavoidable to her.
Clearly, just a single fire feather hitting [Su Yuzu] would be enough to inflict heavy damage on the girl.
But... she perfectly evaded all the falling meteors, just like challenging a Boss that manipulates stars in a game.
"Release—"
As the young girl's voice fell, the [Behemoth] in her hand suddenly disintegrated and began to change.
The spot where she gripped to draw the blade looked just like the handle of the giant shield.
Now—
Completely opposite to [Su Yuzu]'s movement of drawing a naginata, it was as if the giant shield was being stripped away from the blade.
But... the stripped-away giant shield jammed tight at the very last moment.
The shield face rotated and separated, fracturing into a dark red giant sword that smashed viciously toward [Raven].
The woman stood in place, looking straight at [Su Yuzu].
The raven perched on her arm suddenly spread its wings.
"Caw—"
Then, the entire flock of ravens seemed to hear a command, diving and crashing down around [Su Yuzu].
The entire sky was about to fall!!!
The instantaneous explosions and roaring sounds... almost lit up the entire night sky of the [Tokyo metropolitan area]; the earth was churning and trembling.
The intensity of the earthquake was in no way inferior to that day... the prelude before the [Aberrants] invaded.
Even with [Soga Ishikawa Irube]'s formidable defensive power, he wouldn't dare guarantee that he could survive such an explosion that had no blind spots and seemed as if it would overturn the entire earth.
"As expected—"
"W... What...?" [Raven] heard the girl's weary, panting voice.
Right behind her.
She could feel blood continuously spurting out, soaking her back.
Because... that blazing, scalding... girl who seemed to have walked out of hell was, at this very moment, gently embracing her from behind.
"You can't manipulate those ravens at all."
"They are just instinctively protecting you—"
"According to your command... attacking the person you want to attack."
The girl panted raspily, seemingly trying to press her entire weight onto the woman.
"When you encounter life-threatening danger... those ravens will try to protect you without holding anything back—"
"But they also have no experience in group combat."
"When they all crash down..."
"It's just like a pile of gunpowder barrels gathered together."
Boom.
[Raven] lowered her head, looking at her feet, at the blood dripping down from the girl.
Clearly within the dark red [erosion domain], yet that crimson blood... was so glaring.
More glaring than the flames of the explosion.
"From the moment you swung your sword... you were already prepared for all this?"
"Even when not swinging the sword, I am indeed using my full strength." A lion uses full strength even when hunting a rabbit, let alone... before the [Third Sequence] [Raven], perhaps [Su Yuzu] was the rabbit.
If not full strength, how could she force that sky-filling flock of ravens to fall?
"Are you... not afraid of death?" [Raven] suddenly went silent.
If she was using full strength from that moment.
It meant... the [Su Yuzu] of that time had already prepared herself to be bombed by the flock of ravens.
Actually, she had wanted to ask this question ever since [Su Yuzu] came to the appointment alone with a single blade.
The girl didn't seem like the type of guy who was reckless to a fault.
[Dai Ling] and the others had actually made preparations... if [Soga Yura] and the rest appeared, on how to separate the battlefield.
Preparations to hand the stage entirely over to [Su Yuzu] and [Raven].
[Raven] asked this... because she was a person who would say "no one truly likes death, even [Aberrants] are the same."
As a human, she didn't want to die.
As an [Aberrant], she didn't want to die.
She didn't know what kind of resolve the girl held when she swung that sword.
At least when swinging that sword, she viewed death as a return home.
Pfft—
She suddenly heard the girl behind her laughing.
Very arrogant... a very arrogant laugh.
"I am afraid."
"I am more afraid of death than anyone."
"If I die... who will take care of [Sister] for me?"
"She loves to cry so much."
"But..."
"Who do you think you are?"
The girl tilted her head and laughed softly.
She laughed wantonly.
The girl's smile was devastatingly beautiful, arrogant, and confident.
Those eyes, reflected red by the raging, burning flames.
It was just like... a Demon King sitting upon the [Throne], holding authority, looking down upon heaven and earth.
[Su Yuzu] had been [Su Yuzu] from the very beginning.
And was only... [Su Yuzu].
The last raven in [Raven]'s embrace tried to spread its wings.
The woman's eyes suddenly held some terror.
Because that was not her will.
Instead... at this very moment, the movement was being manipulated by another person.
But—
The raven spread its wings, yet it did not explode.
The black raven, seemingly born from a scorching hell, suddenly reflected a pair of blazing [crimson eyes] in its [dark golden vertical pupils].
Blood-stained flower branches extended and bloomed.
She said:
"Kneel!"
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