accomplish something as grand as you are proposing?”
In that case, couldn’t she use a type of supplement?
Instead of using the cycle of oxygen and carbon dioxide to make an enclave out of the local plants over the course of a few days, she could bring in one of the original plants and plant it directly into the soil. That would get rid of the few days of lag. If she also opened cages holding insects and small animals already under the control of that plant, Saronia would indeed have control of the majority of the forest residents.
And as an extra hint, Kamijou Touma had seen someone bring a plant into that area.
“And so I think it is about time I sent the finishing blow to your heart.”
“Saronia…!!”
“If you’re going to make some idealized argument, I wish you would give some strength along with it. After all, that’s what led to us getting trampled on during that war.”
Harzak Lolas.
That large man who was Lindy Blueshake’s guardian. Just before the attack, he had been planting a seedling. Kamijou doubted Harzak was working for Saronia, but all the flower shops or vending machines he might have stopped by to buy the seedling could have been attacked and had the seedlings switched out. That way he would have unwittingly carried out his role.
It was also true that Trident had waited until after he had finished planting the seedling to attack.
In that case, it had to be the origin of Saronia’s magic.
The seedling had been planted in the small garden to the side of the log house!!
“…Ah?” said Saronia A. Irivika questioningly.
She was surprised because Kamijou was still breathing even after she had scattered countless seeds atop him.
And then she realized something.
At some point as Kamijou used only his right hand to drag himself along the ground, he had made it to the garden. And he had used that single usable part of his body to pull out the seedling that had been planted in the soft soil.
That seedling was the origin of the spell that took its name from a fairy that ruled the forest.
Normally, countless such origins would exist within the zone, but that one plant was the core due to that zone’s rushed construction.
And he had pulled it out using that right hand that had an absolute effect on magic.
“Im…possible…”
“…”
Kamijou Touma slowly stood up.
His body was no longer bound by anything. All his limbs moved as he wished them to. He once more had everything necessary to put all his weight behind his fist.
Kamijou spun his right shoulder around to check on his arm and Saronia merely stood watching without attacking due to having lost her absolute trump card. She had developed her special foot techniques based on the assumption that Kamijou would be unable to control his weight due to an unusable left arm.
One had regained his trump card.
The other had lost hers.
“…Sorry, Saronia.”
“Ohh…”
“I’ve caught up to where you stand and I can now see what you see. But if what you say is true, then you are not the one that should be risking your life in this fight.”
“Oooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!?”
After that, primitive sounds of violence continued for a time.