Facing Tohka's question, which was filled with wariness and anger, the "Heavenly Judgment" in the air merely swept back her long white hair with a lazy gesture, her golden eyes full of disdain and mockery.
"Hmph~☆"
She let out a contemptuous snort, looking down at Tohka with a condescending gaze.
"A mere half-baked existence whose own stance is wavering has no right to question this King!~☆"
She seemed to have completely lost patience, or perhaps the desire for destruction had gained the upper hand. She elegantly raised her right hand and snapped her fingers with a crisp sound.
"Now is the time for—Judgment~☆!"
As her voice fell, the large expanse of air behind her suddenly twisted. Several spatial gates, their edges flickering with ominous purple lightning, abruptly opened like the pupils of a demon!
Inside the gates, raging thunder and the energy of twisted space violently converged and compressed, emitting a heart-pounding wave of destruction, aimed directly at the immobilized AST members below and the ready Tohka!
If this strike were to land, the consequences would be unimaginable!
Tohka's pupils constricted. She tightly gripped Sandalphon, preparing to resist with her life.
However, just as that destructive energy was about to burst forth—
The arrogant and cruel expression on the face of the "Heavenly Judgment" in the air suddenly froze, as if a program had encountered an incomprehensible error.
The arm she had raised, which was about to swing down to command the attack, suddenly became extremely uncoordinated and began to tremble violently, as if being pulled by invisible threads.
Immediately following that, under the astonished gaze of everyone, those spatial gates, which were fully charged and ready, were forcibly twisted by an invisible hand, uniformly shifting ninety degrees!
"Rumble—!!!"
The destructive energy torrent that was supposed to shoot toward the ground now fiercely erupted into the empty sky like an out-of-control fireworks display!
The violent energy exploded in the night sky, transforming into a brilliant yet death-filled light pollution that illuminated the entirety of Amamiya City as if it were daytime...
Inside the inner world, in the otaku's room.
The World Ender Consciousness was comfortably slumped in the gaming chair, her long, black-stockinged legs crossed and propped up on the desk, skillfully operating a game controller in her hand.
The computer screen in front of her was broadcasting everything happening in the outside world in real-time first-person perspective, clearly treating the body outside as a controllable character.
"Yes, yes, yes~☆ That's the way! First, say something harsh, then use the ultimate move to wipe them out~☆ This King is truly too cool!"
She smugly swung her feet, about to press a certain "ultimate move button" on the controller.
"Stop it, you idiot!!!"
Chinatsu's consciousness was so terrified her soul nearly flew away when she saw the preview of the next step on the screen!
She lunged forward fiercely, like a hungry tiger pouncing on its prey, desperately trying to snatch the controller that determined life and death in the outside world!
"Hmm?! What are you trying to do?! Weak Goodness, don't interfere with this King's execution of justice (destruction)!~☆"
The "Heavenly Judgment" clearly hadn't anticipated the main consciousness would suddenly "revolt." She gripped the controller tightly, shocked and angry, refusing to let go.
"Justice my foot! That's the target my brother needs to save (flirt with)! And we can't kill all those AST members either! It will cause a world war! Let go of it!"
"Hmph! Coward! They bullied you, so it is only right and proper for this King to crush them for you! Let go! Let this King complete this magnificent performance~☆!"
"Performance your head! You're committing mass murder! Give me back control!"
"No! This King is the strongest! Get out of the way!"
For a moment, in this inner room filled with secondary element aesthetics, the two "beautiful girls"—who looked exactly alike, both with long white hair and black-stockinged long legs—were wrestling together without any regard for their image.
They had only one target: the seemingly ordinary game controller that was connected to the power of destruction outside.
They snatched and pulled, intertwining their white hair. Their black-stockinged beautiful legs rubbed against each other during the struggle, occasionally accompanied by shouts like, "Ouch!", "You're pulling my hair!", and "Let go, you idiot!"—domestic squabbles that were completely out of place with the murderous atmosphere outside.
The powerful Herrscher on the outside was rigid in the air, her arm twitching bizarrely, as the two inner consciousnesses fiercely fought for control of the "controller." The spatial gates behind her flickered on and off, and the energy flow pulsed with extreme instability, like a television screen with poor signal.
This extremely bizarre scene plunged Tohka and the AST members below, who had just narrowly escaped death, as well as the observers aboard the Fraxinus, into even deeper confusion and perplexity.
(What... what is happening now?!)
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Just as everyone was stunned by this strange turn of events, the body of the "Heavenly Judgment" in the air changed again!
Her violently trembling arm suddenly swung downwards, as if breaking free from some restraint, but the movement was full of uncoordinated, jerky pauses.
The spatial gates behind her, which had been aimed at the sky, abruptly closed and vanished. However, new, smaller spatial ripples constantly flashed and annihilated around her, erratically spitting out fragmented arcs of electricity and spatial debris with extreme instability.
"D-damn it...! B-behave yourself... for this King!~☆"
She gritted her teeth and roared in a low voice, which was filled with obvious static and breaks, like a radio with a bad signal.
Clearly, the internal struggle had not ended; instead, it had escalated into a fierce battle due to Chinatsu's intense resistance.
"Hooah—!"
Although Tohka below did not understand the reason, she keenly caught the "flaw" exposed by the powerful enemy in the air.
The instinct to protect herself and her companions overcame her confusion about the unknown situation. She let out a battle cry, violently pushed off the ground, and, holding Sandalphon, shot toward the sky like a purple meteor, slashing straight at the stiffened "Heavenly Judgment"!
"Hmph! How dare an ant be so presumptuous!~☆"
Facing Tohka's sudden attack, the "Heavenly Judgment" consciousness forcefully suppressed the internal interference, and a vicious glint flashed in her golden eyes.
She didn't even use a complex Authority, merely raising her left hand casually. An instant later, a transparent shield composed of hexagonal energy lattices, flashing with lightning, was constructed right in front of her palm—
"Clang!!!"
Sandalphon's blade struck the lightning shield fiercely, erupting with an ear-piercing roar and scattering energy shockwaves! Tohka's full-strength blow was blocked so effortlessly!
"So annoying... like a fly! I'll just smash this bothersome bug first!~☆"
Her golden eyes locked onto Tohka below, and several small spatial gates opened again behind her, pouring down a dense rain of purple lightning arrows!
However, this time, Tohka chose not to take the hit head-on. During that strange pause earlier, she had keenly sensed the enemy's instability.
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