Like the wind, like lightning.
The Dragon King that became a Dragon Zombie went to intercept the black shadow that ran with a speed that could already be called godspeed. But, with its decayed and degraded abilities and unable to be a satisfactory opponent, the swung down claws and the jaws that bit at him, all of those attacks were unable to capture the black shadow.
But, the black shadow, Yashiro Yuu was also at a loss as to how to continue.
(As I thought, it’s hard!)
Although he was running around and attacking with his two twin swords for dozens of seconds, he was unable to go through the barriers that pile on top of each other to make who knows how many layers.
(Well, I guess that’s how it should be. It gave me a hard time when I was wielding the Sacred Sword after all.)
「He, rooooooooo!!!」
「Yeah, yeah, I’m right here.」
Repelling the swung down claw with a sword as if he were averting it, and passing through the gaps of the claw, Yuu got on top of the Ancient Dragon’s arm and started running.
「『――――!』」
「So it’s coming!」
In an instant, light spread out as if it had exploded, and subsequently converged with an extremely amazing force. At that point of the light’s convergence, pushing out both arms, Kaito yelled.
「『Breath』!!」[2]
Set up in a beat from the convergence of light, a flash containing an enormous amount of heat became a beam of light and was fired at the Ancient Dragon.
Breath. Following that name, it’s the greatest and strongest Drago Roar magic that dragons possess. That flash heat attack boasts a power that is isolated from the magic that humans use, and could even burn through Dragon Scales which was of the same Drago Roar magic!
「――――――ッッ!!??」
The Breath collided with the Dragon Scales, then, after a moment, the Dragon Scale was smashed up and half of the Ancient Dragon’s body was reduced to cinders. Something like dampening due to the barrier couldn’t be seen. That greatest and strongest attack that dragons possessed had gone through the Dragon Scale, which gave even Yuu a hard fight, as if it were making a hole in a wet piece of paper.
「Breath, it’s as terrible as ever……」
While waking up a former memory of that aberrant power, Yuu muttered, and then he stared at the Ancient Dragon’s figure hard enough that he could stare open a hole on it.
(This sensation, he hasn’t been taken down. I thought it might have been possible with this one attack though……)
He didn’t know if it was because pain or something was running through its dead body or if it was because it had enough anger that it overflowed but, it continued to raise a roar loud enough to shake the ground.
Things still hadn’t finished. Within the “silent” world, Yuu had felt as such, and searched for his original goal, the organ that was made to be the heart’s substitute.
And then,
(Is it that!?)
He discovered “something” that was embedded exactly in the center of the Ancient Dragon’s chest.
「Uoooooooohhhh!!!!」
Kicking the ground with enough power that the road that he stepped on had broken, Yuu jumped in a straight line towards the Ancient Dragon as if he were like a missile.
「Zeraaaahh!!」
Changing the deep crimson connected sword into a pair of swords, and taking a stance where the blades were parallel, Yuu swung through with the tips of those two swords.
*Katsun*. Together with a high-pitched sound, the twin swords pierced into the amber something before the Dragon Scales could regenerate and cut them off but, that attack ended with only driving a crack into that “something”.
「Bingo! Mana[3] is spreading out with this as the center!」
While hanging from the thrust in swords, Yuu shouted, then, strongly gripping the handles of the pair of swords, he moved them up and down as if he were opening them.
「Nuh……guh, ……Nuoooooooohhh!!!」
The barrier that piled up on top of one another like scales and raised its strength, the Dragon Scales, had opposed the swords but, Yuu forcibly tore that apart and as he did, he howled.
「Seconddddd!!!」[4]
「Take thisssss!!」
In the small gap of the barrier that Yuu wrenched open, the deep crimson greatsword that Kaito swung pierced through.
「Combustion Sword!!!」
A flash, burst open.