4-91: This is How an Evil God Ought to Be (1/5)
The chapel shook as though it had been struck from the side. The tremor so great that the people inside were displaced.
Shinichi and Myuhi imdiately crouched down and shielded the children around them. Then a mont later, Monica and the Sister followed suit did the sa.
However, the tremors did not end with just a single shake. After the first, ca a second, then a third, all of the sa magnitude.
The lights up above swayed wildly, and cracks appeared on the white walls. The children scread, but only three people truly understood what was happening.
Dont worry, itll stop soon! Just stay put for awhile!
Monica probably thought that this was just so common earthquake, but in truth, this was a silent bombardnt.
Shinichi and Myuhi were experienced in combat, and they could tell that much through their five senses. As for the Sister
Ah!
Sister!?
Blood spilled out of her lips.
She held down her mouth while crouched on the floor, but blood still dripped in between her fingers, spilling down onto her chin and then onto the floor.
That was a huge ntal blow to everyone here. And for a mont, the people here forgot about the tremors and went silent. The children cried and clung to her, but the Sister couldnt even react to that and just collapsed. The wimple she wore ac undone, and her faded chestnut hair was set free.
Sister, no!!
Screams resounded abound as the building continued to shake. In this situation where there was no telling what would collapse, where the children couldnt leave, and Myuhi and Monica couldnt easily move
Enough, Sister! You cant handle anymore than this!
Only Shinichi was able to understand why the Sister collapsed, but there was no way for the Sister to hear his voice, and she just continued to hold onto the rosary by her chest as though to offer a prayer.
Ku, thats the fifth blow! Enough, Sister! Release the barrier!!
By the fifth ti that the building shook, Shinichi had already noticed it the aning of the Sisters shock when he had been brought here. That was a shock stemming from the barrier telling her that an enemy had entered.
Right now that barrier was on the verge of collapse. It was doing its best to protect the land and the children, but it was already at its limits.
Damn it! Of all things, it just had to be a holy barrier!
Ironically, that barrier actually prevented him, the strongest weapon they had right now, from making a move.
The Sister was too skilled and her feelings too strong that all that Shinichi could do right now was to cover for the children that were within his reach.
A pressure akin to the gravity being multiplied several tis bore down on him. At the sa ti, headache, ears ringing, dizziness, numbness in the limbs Various symptoms assaulted him.
He could blow the chapel away to break free, of course, but that would co at the cost of the Sister and the barrier. And There would be no guaranteeing the safety of anyone else but himself.
Uu, ah, I-I have to protect them
At this rate, you wont be able to deal with the damage at all! Enough! Soone get the rosary away from her! Its hurting her!
!
There was no one here who was able to completely understand Shinichis words. But when the children heard that their Sister was suffering, they imdiately took the cross from her and threw it away. The Sister was too weak to resist, but with that, the barrier spell lost its point of reference, and the power suppressing Shinichi also disappeared.
Ah, gah, haa
Thats not good! We have to treat her now!
Imdiately after the sixth attack, Shinichi stood up. His head still ached from the lingering effects of the barrier, but regardless, he covered the entire chapel with his own barrier, then he ran for the Sister, but
Fool! Thats the wrong direction!
A voice that he should no longer be able to hear suddenly resounded by his ears. That warmth he shouldnt be able to feel anymore grabbed his arms.
But rather than surprise, happiness, or nostalgia, he understood the aning of that, and as such, felt a chill crawl up his spine instead.
Who is wearing that pendant right now?
Ah, Sister!!
But that montary pause of his was enough to allow Monica to run off on her own.
In her eyes was the impatience and anxiety of seeing ones own relative collapse. Already, she couldnt see anything other than those people she considered her mother and her siblings.
Shinichi had to turn his attention to her.
Huh, wait, let go kyaa!?
Shinichi grabbed Monica by the arms and pulled her to himself, in the process setting free her long, pink hair as he brought her to his chest, then in the next mont, sothing passed through where shed been earlier, and the bench there was crushed. Monica was speechless.
Hah?
Dont dawdle! Its coming again!
HuhHyaah!?
Everything happened too fast for Monica to comprehend. Shinichi jumped with her in his arms, and imdiately after, sothing shot out from the floor they were standing on. Monica paled as the thought of what might have happened were he a mont late crossed her mind. Without intending to, she was holding onto Shinichi for dear life.
W-W-What is that!?
Perhaps, realizing that it missed, that thing floated still in the air. A silvery radiance that resembled either a long bullet or an energy form imitating a thin blade. Like a compass needle, it wavered slightly before pointing at the songstress, accelerating and charging once again. It was like the blade of a death god as it sought to claim her life.
Eek!
Pierce through it!
You dont need to tell twice!
But standing before in its way was the real thing, an evil god. If that thing was ant to pursue its target until it hit, then he would just have to break it. Shinichi covered his free right arm in a layer of mana, then he strengthened it internally and externally via the Magic Raint Battle Law to unleash a powerful strike that brought out his Strength and Resistance. It was a head on clash with the mysterious projectile, but The result was a draw.
What!?
He had barely held back in that attack, yet he failed to destroy it. In fact, he had even been pushed back a little. As though that silver spear could deflect anything, it tore through his layer of mana, his flesh, and made even his bones creak.
Tch.
A-Ahh, your hand! Your hand!?
Monica scread from within his embrace, but he just made her quiet. This was not a normal attack. He had received so much damage, and yet it felt as though he didnt make contact. It felt off, as though hed punched sothing that wasnt there. When he couldnt sense any photons, he anticipated that a different power was at play and prepared a different response, but the quality of mana and existence was just too different. This was not sothing that mana could deal with; however
So thats what you ant!
If so, then he just had to use a power aside from mana. Suddenly, the quality of power that covered his arms transford. To a normal person, it just looked as though a dark-red electricity clad his fist like a gauntlet. Myuhi seed to shrink from fear, but Shinichi didnt have the ti for her right now, and he flicked his finger against the enemy.
Be gone.
!?
As though unwilling to allow even a trace of that existence to remain, Shinichi extinguished it right from its very roots.
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