“How is it? Is there a way?”
“Nn. But it might be overheard. Let’s just run for now.”
Izayoi nodded as he picked up Yō once more. And at his movement, his back was immediately knocked once more by something like a blunt weapon. However, for Izayoi who couldn’t even get hurt from a battle with a Snake God, this was totally not a fatal blow at all.
Using his strength to twist his upper body while lashing out with his foot, he finally kicked something like a blunt weapon.
The Blunt weapon that fell from the Invisible knight was of an alarming size, a metal mallet of the size of a grown man. If it were just Izayoi himself, it wouldn’t be much per say. But that metal mallet should be strong enough to destroy the helmet replica. Picking up the metal mallet, the knight hid his movements once more and continued to pursue Izayoi and Yō.
“Beside the cloisters, wait in the corner. Go.”
Izayoi ran straight for the cloisters located at the West Side of the White Palace before stopping at the destination to place her down.
“Next, just attack the spot that I point to you on my signal.”
“Well, that’s fine by me, but are you able to sense the enemy?”
Yō nodded her head and Izayoi’s expression turned into one of surprise.
The enemy’s elimination of presence was perfect. Izayoi could only think of a be hit and return a hit method but Yō seemed to have a secret counter measure and that made him very interested in her method.
“Very well. Compared to using luck, directly exposing the opponent seems to be more interesting.”
“That’s what I think too—get ready.”
Izayoi faced his back against Kasukabe Yō. Since they were in a corner of the cloisters, the opponent could only launch his attack from either the left, right or front. Izayoi also heightened his senses as he lay in wait.
Just then, Izayoi felt a Tinnitus[2] at his ears. This is because, though Izayoi might not be as good as Yō in terms of hearing but his senses were far better than normal people and that allowed him to recognize that frequency of sound waves.
(That sound wave……Oh, I see, so that’s how it is?)
Seeming to have understood everything, the corners of Izayoi’s lips curved upwards in a slight smile.
—The invisible knight used the Gift of Hades Helmet to completely erase his presence. This Gift, which was created to assassinate the Gods, could hide the user’s heat signature, smell and even sound. Even if up against a visually poor snake that used its sensitive heat probe organ ……it will not be able to capture the user’s location.
(The enemy’s at a position of ten meters away observing the situation, there’s no problem, he doesn’t seem to have taken notice yet.)
However, this Gift of Invisibility had a fatal weakness.
This Gift’s ability was to make one transparent rather than completely permeable.
For example, the sound waves emitted by dolphins or bats and submarines which copy that with a sonar function to rely on the reflected sonar waves to explore the area. That would be able to counter this Gift of Invisibility.
(……! Coming!)[3]
The invisible knight may have thought to directly score a hit as he launched his attack on Yō from the left.
He’s the elite of [Perseus], and was a knight who was strong enough to obtain the legendary Gift. It would seem that he would be the key figure in the prelude of the battle with Laius.
His pace was heavy and fast as he shortened the distance between them in a moment and had raised his mallet up high.
“Left, strike now!”
Kasukabe Yō gave a shout and reacting to her shout, Izayoi released a fist in that direction.
Although there wasn’t any sound from the part that the fist connected with, there was the feeling of something like an armor shattering under the impact, causing Izayoi to be aware of the knight’s presence in that empty space before him.
“Wuo……oh……”
And a painful moan escaped from the empty space. Izayoi jumped onto the Invisible knight and pulled off his helmet.
The Invisible knight was none other than the trusted aide who always stood beside Laius, awaiting orders.
Izayoi spun the helmet while commenting with a smile:
“Oh…..Impressive that you can take that blow. Although I did hold back, it was still supposed to blow you to the end of the horizons.”
“……Hmph. Then, that must be a praise to our armor.”
The trusted male aide’s words were beating around the bush in praise for Izayoi’s fist was just that heavy and violent.
Even though in the face of a knight, who had challenged many Games in his lifetime, a battle seasoned knight, one blow was all it took to make him admit defeat.
“If it were a lucky strike due to randomly thrown punches, it would be a different matter. But this is a strike that defeated the Gift of Invisibility head-on, impressive. You guys do possess the right to challenge Laius-sama.”
The knight sank to his knees and crumpled on the floor. Grabbing the Gifts of Invisibility, Izayoi and the others rushed towards the depths of the Palace.