"Ah, this feeling... it's Shishou." Sakura, who had been frightened by the tragic state of 'herself', only realized after a long while that these spears came from her teacher.
Then she fell into even greater conflict. Although logically her teacher was helping her, looking at this mangled body turned into a hedgehog by red spears and recalling her teacher's rough behavior during her studies in the Land of Shadows, her childhood memories suddenly didn't seem so beautiful anymore.
Sakura even began to suspect that if she rashly went to the Land of Shadows to find her teacher, she might also be turned into a hedgehog like this.
Jean Stardust didn't expect the girl in his arms to be thinking about so many things; he just assumed she was moved and didn't disturb her. Instead, he reached out to pull a spear and stuffed it into his spatial pouch.
This behavior was clearly noticed by Sakura. After giving him a white eye, Sakura also joined the action of pulling spears, though she stored them in her shadow space instead. Within ten seconds, the two of them simultaneously grabbed the last one.
"This is my teacher's stuff, it should definitely belong to me!"
"Is there anyone who can prove that? Besides, I clearly started picking them up first."
Seeing Sakura's expression like a kitten protecting its food, Jean Stardust eventually gave her the last one. Out of more than 40 spears, taking 20 for himself was enough. Speaking of which, Scáthach actually had so many spears, yet she only gave the Big Dog one.
But considering Sakura already had a dozen or so, it was crystal clear who the idiot disciple was and who the precious darling was.
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Carrying Sakura and flying all the way up, they soon reached the surface. Although the Holy Grail had disappeared, four thick tentacles reached deep into the space, forcibly maintaining the existence of the hole.
Because of this brutal method, the originally perfect circular hole had become a wrinkled opening. In Jean Stardust's eyes, it looked more and more like an anus...
Combined with the black mud constantly flowing out and the giant tower built by unspeakable creations directly below it.
"Blegh..."
Her own association almost made her vomit, so he simply stopped looking at the situation above and prioritized getting Sakura to the ground.
Passing Sakura into Rin's hands, Rin, moved to tears, gave Jean Stardust a kiss right then and there.
Meanwhile, Sakura, who had been happily calling out to her sister, was sandwiched in the middle. Her mouth hung open in shock, wide enough to fit an egg.
Only Medea stood by the side, chuckling at Sakura's expression. Although her body was C-ko's, her personality seemed even more wicked than Medea's adult self.
The two separated, and Rin officially took over Sakura. Just as she was about to say thank you, she was interrupted by Jean Stardust: "No need. Didn't you understand just now? A kiss is much more practical than countless thank-yous. Keep up the good work."
Hearing Jean Stardust's words, Rin recalled what she had done in a moment of excitement, and her face turned red with a 'poof'. She looked very cute.
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After instructing Medea to take the two girls and retreat, Jean Stardust flew into the sky again. The situation now was completely different from before.
Earlier, it was Ai-chan cooperating with BB to intercept XX; now, Ai-chan and XX were fighting Nyarlathotep together.
That's right, BB had now been entirely absorbed into Jean Stardust's system, and Sakura had been rescued. Therefore, the dark-skinned girl flying in the sky could only be Nyarlathotep.
"Hehe, I see. Captured by 'D', was she? No wonder the fellow with countless programs disappeared all at once."
Then Nyarlathotep suddenly burst into laughter:
"Hahahaha, this is truly too interesting! The [Pride] of considering oneself invincible just because one is an AI with countless sub-programs; the [Greed] of wanting to occupy an otherworldly program upon encountering it; the [Ignorance] of intruding into a creation of a higher rank than oneself; and the [Madness] of claiming to observe humanity yet ultimately reaching out to an Evil God. As an AI program, she is more human than the vast majority of humans. This is simply fascinating."
"You are quite interesting too, Mr. Evil God. Your partner has been taken out, so what are you still supporting here?" Jean Stardust asked.
"Since that AI presented me with such an interesting play, I'll just see the drama through to the end. Or rather, what do you plan to do, little one who signed a contract with Cthu-ga?"
When Nyarlathotep spoke Cthugha's name, he used a syllable that was usually difficult to utter, but a word in the middle seemed to be muted, preventing Jean Stardust from hearing Cthugha's full name.
"Close this hole, and please go back to wherever you came from."
Although Jean Stardust really wanted to slash this Nyarlathotep wearing BB's appearance, it would be better to bring some life back to the citizens of Fuyuki and this world line if possible.
But Nyarlathotep clearly had no intention of retreating. This wasn't even an avatar, at most it was remote control, so he could be as reckless as he wanted.
In response, overwhelming tentacles attacked the group. Simultaneously, a large number of tentacles reached deep into the mountain, absorbing the black mud that had already filled the cave and was about to overflow.
Meanwhile, XX looked at Ai-chan and Jean Stardust with an excited face: "Hey, hey, can I finish her off now?"
Ai-chan nodded: "Yeah, just remember not to go too far."
"Don't worry, don't worry, you can trust me." Although XX patted her chest with a confident look, seeing Ai-chan's expression of zero trust made it even more unsettling.
But the battle had to be fought. Jean Stardust immediately entered Burst Mode, and Ai-chan lit up her light sword. The two followed XX, who had already taken the first step, into the battlefield.
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Following the two ahead, Jean Stardust truly felt the gap. Whether it was flying ability or attack power, they were far apart.
Under Ai-chan's light sword and XX's holy spear, these tentacles were easily severed. However, Jean Stardust himself needed to use the highest level of Quick Draw Slash or the energy-storage mode that infused his breath into the blade.
But both of these were extremely energy-consuming.
Flying was purely a matter of technique and output. Jet wind pressure propulsion was indeed much weaker in terms of energy efficiency compared to pure energy propulsion, but more importantly, his output was indeed inferior to the two of them.
Jean Stardust was a contradictory person. If he were the strongest among them, he would naturally be willing to lower his output and slack off. But if he were the weakest, he would only think about catching up.
Now, since internal sources couldn't satisfy the energy consumption, he would look for it externally. The crystals inside the spatial pouch had to be saved for trading, so he should use them as sparingly as possible. Besides, since it was all the Evil God's stuff anyway, Jean Stardust fixed his gaze on a large, plump tentacle.
With a wild smile, he stabbed White Wind into it, absorbing the life force within.
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