「Accel !」
Using the ability of the ring I gave, Elsie accelerates towards her younger sister’s position. Towards the downpouring rain of Bo Shurikens, she raises her left hand gauntlet. Due to the wind effect granted by the gauntlet, all the crystal bullets go astray.
「Touya-dono! Using the [Gate], send myself above this fellow!」
「…..! Understood!!」
Though I hesitated for a moment at Yae’s proposal, I opened a [Gate] at her feet as she requested, and sent her several meters in the sky above Manta.
「Prepare yourself ! !」
Yae swung down her katana to drive the mithril blade into the Manta’s back. However, it is far from a fatal damage.
Yae kicks the back of the Manta to jump off. Oioi, if you fall onto the desert from this height…!
「Touya-dono! [Gate] !」
! I, I see !
I invoke [Gate] just under Yae’s feet in the sky, and put the exit beside me, 1 meter from the ground. She disappears into the [Gate] in the air, and lightly lands next to me. Phew.
「Please do not make it bad for my heart…..」
「I’m sorry -degozaru」
However, even Yae’s mithril katana had little effect. How can we even damage this guy!?
Similar to the cricket type from last time, there might be no other choice but to break the core as I thought, but aside from being unable to use [Aport], there are two cores.
The tip of the tail turns this way. Kuu, not again!
「Wind come whirling, storm bulwark, Cyclone Wall! 」
A defensive wall of wind surrounds me and Yae created by the incantation Yumina spoke. The arrows fired by the Manta are swallowed by the swirl and vanish into the sky. We’re saved.
However, when the sandstorm vanished, this fellow jumped in front of our eyes, trying to shoot the ball of light turned this way at this exact moment.
「Ha, Accel ! 」
Holding Yae in my arms, I withdraw from this place with acceleration magic. A large explosion hits behind my back. It was dangerous ! Unexpectedly, this fellow, his head is also good.
「Come forth rock, pulverization crag, Rock Crash !」
Rin’s magic strikes the back of the Manta with a large rock from above, but like Lindsey’s magic from before, it does not seem to be effective.
It’ll be bad if this keeps up… We don’t have a trump card. Sooner or later we’ll be cornered. Then there’s a possibility of someone getting hurt… I can feel cold sweat running down my back.
「Kuu, is there no choice but to draw back temporarily with a [Gate]…. ?」
「Are? When I was wondering who it was, Touya?」
「Eh ?」
While holding Yae in my arms, I unintentionally turn around to the out-of-place voice.
Even though he was amidst a scorching desert, there was a boy with white hair wearing a long white muffler.
「End….. ?」
「Yo」
It was the monotone boy I met in town before, smiling with a raised hand. Why is End in this kind of place? No, before that how did he get here? A while ago there was no one here. It’s just a desert as far as the eye can see, I should have noticed if he came to such a place.
「It has been a while. I came because I detected a sign of Fureizu, but by no means did I expect to meet Touya 」
「End….. You know about Fureizu?」
「Do I know, you ask? Well, there are various reasons for that. Nevertheless, since coming here I encountered up to [Middle Class Kind]. It seems the [Barrier] is at its limit already」
Middle Class Kind? Barrier? What the heck does this boy know ?
「Ma, Wait for bit. First of all, since I will take care of that」
Ma, wait for a bit. For now, since I will take care of that.
「Ha ?」
While smiling and saying so, End walks towards the Fureizu Manta. Aiming at such a guy, crystal arrows start raining relentlessly, but in the next moment, End’s figure disappeared from that place.
「Eeh ! ?」
Looking around the vicinity, End’s figure is nowhere to be found. Is it a transparency magic? No, that magic just deceives the sense of sight, it doesn’t erase the sense of presence.