It came from the ground.
More specifically, it came from one of the saw tooth-like cliffs.
To make up for the “magic-like thing” that Kuroyoru Umidori, an esper, had activated, the rejection had appeared in the improvised arm and then spread to the ground beneath it.
As a result, the entire cliff collapsed.
The log house just barely remained behind the line, but everything beyond the line came crashing down. The silver uniformed mercenaries and magicians on that cliff were swallowed up and swept down into the sea down below.
The avalanche was so clear and distinct that it almost looked like some type of thrill ride.
However, that attraction had no safety standards.
“Gah…!?”
“Kuroyoru!!”
Hearing a short scream, Kamijou looked back up from the bottom of the cliff and saw Kuroyoru’s small body trembling. The improvised arm wrapped in duct tape had completely shattered and the skin of her other two slender arms had torn from the inside, revealing the artificial “contents”.
“Tch…It was too much to completely avoid any feedback.”
“Are you insane!? It doesn’t look to me like you can just freely cut off the pain!!”
“…I see. So this is insane, is it? Unfortunately, I had the #1’s offensive thought patterns artificially implanted within me, so I have some inconsistencies at the instinctual level. I sense danger when it comes to little bits of pain, but I have almost no fear of fatal wounds. I simply can’t get used to standard group psychology, so it seems there are some areas where I tend to stand out.”
A medical amateur like Kamijou had no way of knowing if the damage had only affected her mechanical parts. However, he felt it would be too much to ask Kuroyoru to fight any more with how much she was trembling.
And Kuroyoru did not give Kamijou time to think.
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“This is no time to be looking away. The enemy leader is here.”
“!?”
On the lower portion of the top of the cliff, Saronia A. Irivika alone remained. She must have immediately jumped off of the collapsing ground. When she realized all of the PMC soldiers had fallen into the ocean, she gave an order over her radio.
“…to West Napali Coast. I repeat, send reinforcements to Napali Coast! …Dammit, their command cloud has been completely taken out.”
Saronia clicked her tongue, tossed aside the radio, looked at Kamijou, and smiled.
For a moment, all was silent.
They faced off, one on one, as if in the eye of a hurricane.
If Kamijou could defeat Saronia there, he would effectively be destroying Gremlin and Olay Blueshake’s plan.
“Okay, then!! I’ll give you the privilege of playing with me while I wait for my pizza to arrive!!”
“Sorry, but the only thing you’re going to be tasting is defeat!!”
Part 12[edit]