Campione Lord of Realms Vol 3 Chapter 5 (Patreon)

Chapter 5 – God and Child of Fate and Godslayer, Concluding the Complicated Battle

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Part 1

Sacred flame, pure and clear──.

The purifying flame that originated from the divine bird Yatagarasu  was unleashed from Ren’s index fingertip. It rushed toward his  terrifying enemy Alexander Gascoigne.

He mentioned that he couldn’t use that godspeed anymore after exploding his authority Black Lightning as an destructive attack.

The extremely troublesome untouchable man should finally get burned  to ash by the bluish white raging flame until nothing remained. That  should be the case.

However, an unexpected phenomenon occurred.

The launched purifying flame returned toward Ren’s finger just before it reached Alec’s body…….

「Eh──!?」

Ren got dumbfounded.

Alec must have used some kind of authority.

However this didn’t feel like his attack got reflected back. The  purifying flame was returning to his finger like when a film got  rewound.

And then the flame didn’t burn Ren’s hand. It got sucked into his finger again.

By the way Alec immediately moved his right hand just before he got  bathed in the purifying flame. His index finger drew something on air as  though to give some kind of signal…….

「What was that just now……what did you do?」

「What. It’s just as you see.」

Alec spoke casually. With a composed face that was filled with thickening smugness more and more.

「Actually during this time, after I encountered you──I was a bit  surprised to learn that there is someone with the same authority to  manipulate time like me.」

「In other words that was……」

「Yeah. I reversed the flow of time and rewound it.」

Alec stared at Ren who had faintly guessed it and confessed it carelessly.

「It looks like your magic eye was usurped from a god with very  complicated history, but mine is extremely simple. I received it from  Goddess Lachesis who govern the past.」

「Past──and so you got “rewind” from that huh.」

「She is one of the three goddesses of fate from Greek mythology.  Lachesis who govern over the past, Clotho who govern over the present,  Atropos who govern over the future……. If I can defeat all of those three  goddesses, then I too will introduce myself as a godslayer of anti  fate.」

Alec grinned. Perhaps he was joking.

Ren raised both his hands as a surrendering gesture.

「I give up. That’s an absurd ace up your sleeve there. I’m completely  beaten──but. You kept that in reserve until this last hour, in other  words, you can easily use it over and over aren’t you?」

Ren tried to probe while winking cutely.

The authority was really convenient. If it could be abused, then surely Alec would have done so.

In the end he must be right. Alec didn’t answer the question. In exchange he revealed an even more shocking truth.

「I’ll leave that to your imagination, but I can also do something like this.」

「────!」

Ren was astonished.

The place they were in was battered, whether it was the wall,  ceiling, or the floor, they had been completely destroyed by the Black  Lightning. Then black sparks started to crackle from the rubbles all  over the place.

It wasn’t just one. Countless sparks scorched this room’s air──

「Time, return. Regain the beautiful past.」

Alec chanted and drew 『△』 with his index finger.

Immediately──the countless sparks became black lightning that rushed toward Alexander Gascoigne’s tall and lean body.

However, the lightning didn’t batter Alec.

It was the same like Ren’s purifying fire. The countless black  lightning only got absorbed into the Black Prince’s flesh. If this was  also the authority of Time Reverse Flow──

「Could it be, you rewind your state to before you fire that electric shock just now!?」

「Correct. Watch.」

Alec waved his left hand in front of the astonished Ren.

He lost the shape of his arm from the elbow below and that part  became a gathering of lightning. It was still maintaining the shape of  an arm after a fashion, so perhaps it should be called as lightning  body.

──In other words, his godspeed was restored!

Ren quickly used his magic eye to stop Alec’s time.

「This isn’t funny! There is no need to stay any longer here after seeing that!」

Alec heightened his magical power to dispel the time stop.

Using that opening, Ren used the wings of Yatagarasu/Riona. He  floated lightly to the air using the power of flight that he had also  shown just now and flew away from Alec.

Regardless of how he was going to fight, he didn’t want to get into the fight in the opponent’s ring anymore.

Ren opened up enough distance from the Campione of godspeed──at a corner somewhere in the labyrinth and began to chant.

「The abrupt darkness of heaven──. The golden spirit of black kite  come and the imperial bow stopped it. That black kite is shining bright,  like a lightning stream……!」

As expected, it was the trump card of Toba Riona and Yatagarasu.

Golden light burst out from Ren’s whole body.

It was the destruction magic to unleash the sun’s heat and radiance  as laser beam. It became a thick and majestic towering pillar of light,  piercing the great labyrinth’s ceiling and floor of many layers over and  over, melting them into muddy magma, before finally arriving to the  surface──

It became a pillar that connected the bottom of earth with the sky.

Ren’s body stopped firing laser. He immediately flew up and his body  rapidly ascended the hole that was gouged through the great labyrinth.

「Whoohoo! Escape successful!」

He sprang out to under the blue sky.

The ancient ruin and the desert of ruin. He could look down at the  hole from above the sand. Rokuhara Ren had finally returned to the  surface.

Furthermore, a blue bird came flying from the direction of the ruin.

「I have been waiting, Goshujin-sama!」

「Riona!」

He had also finally linked up with his reliable partner.

Riona landed on Ren’s right shoulder in her blue bird form and rested her wings.

「What about Yukino?」

「She is also in the middle of her own fight right now with an amazing  war god──a god with the alias Kushanagi Godo. Somehow she leveled up  quickly without any hitch, and now she can even be compared equally to  gods or Rokuhara-san and others.」

Ren’s eyes widened like a saucer hearing the report from Yatagarasu’s reincarnation.

「That’s awesome!」

「Well, her stupid girl attribute is still like before though, or  rather there is a sign that attribute is strengthening instead, so I  think we can still maintain our current relationship with her. That’s  why, I judged that I should assist Rokuhara-san here instead of Yukino!」

「Thanks. Let’s do something about Alec together!」

The partner duo was revived after so long.

Ren got down on the ground with the blue bird Riona on his right shoulder.

That was because he could see lightning gushed out with a crackle  from the labyrinth’s hole. That flash was of course Alec who transformed  into the godspeed lightning.

Ren and Riona landed near the hole.

Sure enough, Alec was waiting for them there in his black suit and coat.

「Eh, you already stop changing into lightning?」

「Naturally. It’ll get sealed immediately in front of you anyway.」

Alec was grinning.

They had gotten into a battle of tactics with the underground  labyrinth as the stage. Through that they had seen almost all of each  other’s hands and trump cards.

「Haaa……. So Black Prince-sama is that kind of tricky person……」

The blue bird on Ren’s right shoulder nodded.

The effect of authority Oath of Wings had been restored. What Ren  experienced in the underground had also gotten transferred to Riona. She  spoke with deep emotion.

「The possibility is big that we will get the rug pulled from under us  if we get dragged into his pace. Carelessness is forbidden okay,  Goshujin-sama!」

「Roger. It finally feels like the do-or-die situation.」

Ren faced Alec once more.

The godspeed Campione and time stopping Campione. The former was  giving a composed smile as befitting a senior godslayer, while the  latter was as usual aiming for a giant-killing leisurely.

Both of them had an insolent side to them and both sides also manipulated time. Those were their common points.

「In a sense you and me are cut from the same cloth.」

Alec suddenly spoke.

「Because of that, it feels like this will become a really unpredictable battle.」

「Isn’t that fine. Leaving matter to chance based on my mood is just how I like it. That’s not the case with you Alec?」

「Bluntly speaking it’s not to my liking. I respect elaborate and  beautiful plan above all else. ……But, well, I don’t really hate playing  things by ear.」

Alec responded to Ren’s friendly talk with a wicked smile.

「There is no way I’ll lose to you in a game of chance.」

The confrontation between fellow Campiones was entering the endgame.

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Part 2

The hero that was chosen by fate and the warrior of anti fate, the fight here was also at its climax.

With the black steel bow in his hand, young man Kushanagi Godo murmured.

「I learned by hearsay that it was actually lightning god Indra who  bequeathed this bow to Prince Rama. He is a god that also has some  amount of connection with me. What a strange coincidence……」

「Indra──wait, you mean Taishakuten-sama!」

For Yukino who was a god’s descendant of Japan, that name was a name she was extremely familiar with.

「As expected from sensei, he is even favored by that kind of amazing  god! Eh? Wait, what kind of connection a warrior of anti fate like you  have with Taishakuten-sama……?」

Yukino was careless and didn’t notice but, the young man before him was a god.

Also, Riona-oneesama who told her that wasn’t here anymore.

Right after Kushanagi Godo summoned the bow and quiver, she transformed into blue bird and flew away to somewhere.

『I’m leaving for a bit! It seems that Rokuhara-san is also in a pinch!』

She only said those words before leaving.

Of course Yukino called 『Onee-sama!』 to stop her, but Onee-sama left  without even giving another look at her. She left her even though she  was fighting a war god this powerful.

The opponent in question smiled faintly at the question that Yukino whispered.

「Fu……. The birthplaces of that lightning god and me are close. In my  homeland, I will come up when talking about divinity that is the equal  of God Indra there.」

「Y-you say that you’re the equal of Taishakuten-sama!?」

Born and raised in Shibamata, Katsushika, given my first bath as a baby in Taishakuten temple──. (TN: A well known opening line for one of Japans longest running movie series: Otoko wa tsurai yo – also known as the Tora-san series.)

In a sense that was the signature phrase of a movie series. Actually  that movie series was Yukino ‘s favorite, one that she liked as much as  yakuza movie.

Thanks to that she felt attachment to that god’s name. This war god  in the form of you man boasted that he had an equal status with that  god.

Yukino unconsciously got a startled look. While she was doing that, the young man finally nocked a new arrow on the bow.

「And so, this steel bow is no different than a familiar weapon for me. If its current owner can’t completely master it──」

This time the chosen arrow had crimson arrow feathers.

The bow string was drawn to the limit before the young man’s fingers suddenly let go of the feathers.

「Then perhaps, it’s fine for me to use it like this!」

「Kuh────!」

Yukino cut down the small arrowhead of the arrow flying toward her from a standard kendo stance.

It was a superhuman feat that was unique to a reincarnation of a  sword god. However, the moment the divine sword of salvation collided  with the arrowhead *kin!*, an explosion occurred.

「Kyaaaaaaaaah!?」

「You have good aptitude. But, you are still green!」

「Uuuu, I’m not going to lose like this-!」

Yukino howled at the powerful enemy who was looking down on her.

She didn’t flinch or even took a step back from the point-blank range  explosion. She was also still holding the divine sword in a firm  stance.

Her body that had obtained the toughness of steel was also only  injured lightly. The damage on her was only a little bit of blister.

If it was Yukino in the past, that explosion would send her flying helplessly.

Three more arrows came flying to attack the heaven sent child of sword god further while her attacking posture was broken.

「Ei-! Yaah! Tou-!」

Yukino let out her fighting spirit with yells and executed three slashes.

She targeted the arrows flying at her again and the divine sword of  salvation flashed three times from her kendo stance. She splendidly cut  only the small arrowhead parts.

All of them were arrows with crimson feathers. As expected three explosions burst out.

Even so Yukino didn’t break her stance. She planned to close the  distance in one breath and rained down sword slashes on Kushanagi Godo  if an opening presented itself.

However, no matter how many arrows Yukino cut down with the smallest and shortest movement──

「Fufufufu. Splendid, splendid. A good girl, really you are a good girl!」

The youthful god quickly called arrow after arrow from the quivers and nock them on his bow.

The stunning bow handling sent a shudder through Yukino.

Originally swinging a sword was absolutely faster than firing a bow.  After all in the case of bow, the attack’s preparation consisted of  taking the arrow, nocking it on the bow, drawing the string, and finally  the arrow could be fired. And yet, Kushanagi Godo was constantly faster  than Yukino.

(──I’m inferior even in martial art competency!?)

She continued cutting down the endlessly coming crimson arrows while faintly realizing that.

Mononobe Yukino was a swordsman without peer in her home world, but  here she kept encountering opponent who surpassed her in martial arts.  Truly the heroic world Hyperborea was a terrifying place.

Yukino shuddered in fear from the bottom of her heart. But at the same time she was also excited.

「My pride as woman will be sullied if I’m not fired up from this!」

She was already──couldn’t stay just taking down the arrows one by one patiently like this.

「Hiyaaaaaaaaah!」

She let out a piercing yell of fighting spirit and took the stance of fire where she raised the divine sword over her head.

Yukino radiated countless lightning sparks from her whole body while  charging straight toward the youthful god who was firing arrows at her.

She resolved herself to deflect the fired crimson arrow with her body that had obtained the hardness of steel.

「Here──I come!」

「Then, how about this」

Yukino opened her eyes wide in amazement. She looked at Kushanagi Godo’s hands.

The arrow his right hand was holding. The color of the arrow feathers  instantly changed from crimson to deep green. And then it was fired.

The deep green arrow hit Yukino’s torso.

*Kiin!* The sound of metal clashing against metal reverberated.

The arrow didn’t stab Yukino’s body. There was also no explosion.

──But, a repellent force like when magnets with the same pole  clinging on each other was formed. Yukino couldn’t endure it and she was  sent flying.

「Kyaaaaaah!」

「When facing a hard steel, you don’t need to try to hit it head on  every time. This kind of surprise move is also available. As expected  you’re still very green.」

Kushanagi Godo spoke like a grandfather even though he was just a young man.

Most likely it was an arrow that manipulated magnetic force. He  picked that arrow instantly, switched the arrow feathers with a sleight  of hand until just a moment before shooting, and then he fired it.

It was a way of fighting that could only be called as experienced.

Yukino who was shown the difference in experience looked up to the blue sky as she lied down on the ground.

She was simply sent flying. But, the impact from that time was really hard. Her whole body was beaten up greatly.

A dull pain throbbed painfully through her whole back.

Her head also felt hazy. The back of her head also got smashed hard on the ground that it felt like she got concussion.

Even so she thought that she had to stand back up. As she thought that,

「Ah────」

She suddenly recalled something. Furthermore it was a very important fact.

「P-perhaps it’s better instead that Onee-sama isn’t here-」

Yukino unconsciously felt relieved.

She could immediately imagine what Riona would say to her if she was here.

『You only recall such important matter after your head got  beaten……Yukino’s head structure is completely crude isn’t it? You’re  really a stupid girl──』

She would say that kind of thing with a look of exasperation.

Yukino thanked Riona’s absence while getting back on her feet.

She used the divine sword of salvation as a cane and stood up  unsteadily. She looked really pathetic as the hero of devil king  extermination. Kushanagi Godo aimed his bow and arrow toward her in such  state.

「Now then. Perhaps I should finish you off with the arrow that was also used by your teacher.」

「Still not yet……! Thinking back I──」

Yukino stored the divine sword into her left hand and became bare handed.

「Also received a lot of other weapons from sensei other than the bow and arrows!」

「What did you say!?」

She should also be able to release those weapons too now that she could use the bow and quiver.

She had forgotten it all this time because at the beginning she was  in a lot of hardship because she couldn’t even draw out the divine sword  of salvation.

Also, Kushanagi Godo stared at Yukino with a face of both surprise and exasperation. He then murmured.

「I don’t know what to say. For you to forget such important matter  completely from your mind──. If I have to put it in a positive way, you  are really a girl with great caliber!」

「Thank you. I’ll show you sensei’s presents to me as my thanks!」

Although Yukino wondered if perhaps the youthful god was speaking in  sarcasm to her, she put her dubiousness aside and thought of her  beautiful teacher.

「Weapons of salvation──come here under the heroic name of my teacher Rama!」

Numerous weapons came down from the sky.

A treasured sword that clearly had long history behind it just from a  glance. A long spear with thick red handle. Bulky double edged axe.  Iron staff that was decorated with magnificent engraving. Cord with  ornament attached. Rectangular stone that looked like a brick. Metal  ring. Throwing stars of various types. A knife in the shape of  pentagram. Etc, etc──.

Around a hundred weapons of various types were coming down.

They fell around Yukino and stabbed into the ground. Yukino could  procure any weapon right away if she reached out with her hand.

For now Yukino pulled out a double edged axe. However.

「Ah──I never used axe before.」

She noticed right away.

At that time Kushanagi Godo already drew the string of his bow to fire a blue arrow. Yukino reflexively moved her body.

The double edged axe was heavy and somewhat large──she threw it with one hand.

The axe rotated through the air like a light hand axe toward the youthful god.

Furthermore the axe started to spark while flying. At the end it  became an electric attack. The lightning that was the transformed axe  and the arrow that was just fired collided on the air.

*DAaaaAAAAAAANnnn!*

The roar of the thunder reverberated fiercely.

Yukino’s lightning and the arrow that Kushanagi Godo fired were annihilated together.

「Fumu, so you can unleash the lightning of salvation now……」

「It looks like there is no need to think so hard about it!」

Yukino’s fierce attack began from here.

She took any weapons stabbed on the ground that were within her reach  and threw them. She kept repeating the action of taking and throwing.  The weapons immediately turned into powerful lightning attack that  assaulted the youthful god.

Kushanagi Godo fired his arrows busily to annihilate the lightnings.

If that the case, Yukino threw a weapon while,

「Please! I don’t have enough time throwing, so can you all just go on your own!?」

She threw a glance.

In respond to that eye contact, one long weapon that was stabbed  outside of her reach floated up by itself and flew toward Kushanagi  Godo. It transformed into lightning midway.

The other weapons also did the same thing. As expected they also moved automatically.

Thus──

Yukino used her hands and eyes to continue attacking fiercely like a surging wave.

The nearby weapons that she threw would become lightning, while the  slightly far away weapons would also become lightning when she glanced  at them.

「It’s getting really busy now──!」

Kushanagi Godou murmured fearlessly while also continuing to fire his arrows.

He didn’t fire the arrows one by one anymore. He put multiple arrows  between his five fingers and astonishingly fired four arrows for each  shot to face the raging waves of lightning attacks.

The lightnings got annihilated one after another. The youthful god’s body was still not harmed at all.

However, the weapon that became the origin of the annihilated  lightning attack──would come down from the sky again and stabbed on the  ground near Yukino.

With that Yukino could reuse them and continue attacking without running out.

This was exactly like Seishuuin Ena “prophesized” before the resumption of battle.

『No no, that kind of kid will instead ──become stronger than they usually are when getting carried away.』

And then, the fierceness of the lightning attacks was getting increasingly greater. Right at that moment.

The steel bow vanished from Kushanagi Godo’s hand. The quiver near his feet also vanished.

「You finally feel like surrendering now!? I don’t mind it if you want to do that!」

「No. I’m simply acknowledging that you are a hero.」

Yukino was getting enthusiastic. In contrast Kushanagi Godo was calm.

Even though numerous lightnings were approaching him even now, he  calmly put on an archaic smile on his lips and murmured solemnly.

「Fear me. Weapons of King Rama. Fear my true name and──the golden sword.」

The war god in the form of young man, a shining sword suddenly appeared in his right hand.

Its blade was golden and slim. Kushanagi Godo raised the long sword  that looked like an ornament high toward the sky and chanted sonorously.

「Fear my true name Verethragna and the might of the war god of the  east! I am the one smashing through all the enemies in my way, the one  wielding the sword of wisdom. Whether it’s the powerful or the immoral,  none can hope to defeat me! Make way, weapons that were presented from  Sage Visvamitra!」

「Eh──?」

Yukino was astonished.

Because all the lightnings that rushed at the young man vanished  together. Even though he was just pointing the tip of the golden sword  toward the sky.

Furthermore unlike before, the weapons didn’t come down from the sky anymore.

Even though her teacher’s weapons would come down to her again unscratched each time the lightning attack got erased.

「When the hero Ramachandra was young, his teacher the spiritual  hermit and the gods bestowed a mountain of weapons to him, becoming a  part of his martial virtue. However, Prince Rama was outstanding──. He  declared that a hero can’t be worthy as a hero just from presents. In  the end it’s one own skill and wisdom that decide one’s worthiness. The  assistance and service of those who looked up to him. That was a power  that surpassed the might of million of weapons!」

Kushanagi Godo’s voice spoke of the tale of hero Rama.

Those words were words of power. The source that heightened the  brilliant radiance of the golden sword. And then, bathed under this  light──

The weapons of Rama that Yukino called for were all annihilated.

「W-what’s going on!?」

Yukino broke into a run instinctually even while she was feeling bewildered.

Kushanagi Godo (no, what was the true name that he introduced himself  as?) was currently using a terrible power. That instinct instigated her  to move. Yukino slashed with her sword.

She had to defeat Kushanagi Godo even for a second faster.

But, she was just a bit too late──

「O innocent girl. O hero of devil king extermination, the reincarnation of sword god Take Mikadzuchi.」

Kushanagi Godo whispered.

There was one more golden sword held in the grasp of his left hand.  It was a two sword style with the shining long sword held in his both  hands.

*Shun!* There was the sound of the golden blade tearing apart the air.

Kushanagi Godo sharply swung the sword in his left hand to the side. It deflected Yukino’s rushing attack.

「At the island country of the farthest east……that country’s father  wield a divine sword and murdered the god of fire. The god that was born  from the blood that was stuck on the blade was Take Mikadzuchi. It was  also said that he assisted a king when incarnating into the blade Futsu  no Mitama no Tsurugi and accomplished supremacy──」

「I-it’s just as you say but, I’m amazed you know that……」

「Fuh──. It’s a triviality for one who unsheathed the sword of wisdom.」

The young man put on a faint smile with his left and right hands holding one sword each.

He proudly announced to the dumbfounded Yukino.

「With this sword in hand, the words of power of I, Verethragna……shed  light to the history of the gods and made it clear. The words that are  filled with wisdom become a blade that tore apart god. These time I hold  two swords, one is the blade that cut King Rama’s divinity. While the  other one is for severing this Take Mikadzuchi god──」

Mononobe Yukino was the reincarnation of sword god Take Mikadzuchi.

The divine sword of salvation was also a part of her herself. When  she heard that her own divinity was severed, she dropped her gaze and  felt shocked at that moment.

Furthermore this was the greatest shock that she had every felt since coming to Hyperborea.

「The divine sword of salvation is──cut!?」

Right now, Yukino’s divine sword that was swept aside by the young man’s sword.

The length near the tip had been cleanly severed. The divine blade  that should exist for the sake of carrying out devil king extermination,  the ultimate holy sword was-!

「I shall recite my true name once more. I am Verethragna, the victorious.」

The war god in the form of young man spoke solemnly.

「I have a strange connection with the godslayers. This time I tried  to fill the role as the shadow double of Kushanagi Godo. Before my sword  of wisdom, any kind of divine power shall be cut down in vain. Only  defeat await. Of course, you too are not an exception.」

「No way──!?」

War god Verethragna smiled heroically. In front of that, Yukino felt a bottomless terror.

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Part 3

「Now then. You are a man with a very thick mask of a fool but……」

Alec suddenly said.

He was full of confidence despite losing his encampment the great  labyrinth that he had meticulously prepared. And yet he wasn’t  displaying any blatant fighting spirit and kept a cynical look that was  unchanging from before.

Such man stared at Rokuhara Ren rudely and grinned.

「From my experience last time and this time……I have roughly grasped  your true character. An authority to stop time. An authority to borrow  item or ability from somewhere. And then, that bird──that’s a  tremendously powerful partner. She isn’t in the level of a subordinate  or manifestation anymore.」

「You know it. You have good eye paying attention to the greatest assistance that can ever be, this me!」

The blue bird who perched on Ren’s right shoulder puffed up her chest.

Then Alec nodded.

「Not only you employ the firebird, you can even borrow her ability as  your own. That’s a very unique relationship. What’s more Rokuhara  Ren──you yourself don’t have that much attack potential. That was why  you were hiding your true identity until now.」

「Hahaha, a part of it is also because being his majesty the king simply doesn’t fit my nature.」

Ren smiled bitterly from Alec’s right guess.

Since he lost his first authority the Retributive Justice, his attack  power and finishing power were drastically reduced. His partner Riona  also got transformed into a small bird.

There he adopted a plan of desperation to do everything he could to not expose the fact that he was a Campione.

「Well, thanks to that we can have Yukino to accompany us though.」

「I too wish for a bomb like you to continue lurking at the side of  the hero of devil king extermination because there will be a use for you  when the time come. But, before that──let’s have a settlement with the  quarrel between you and me.」

Alec suddenly began to chant after declaring that.

「……Hear me, daughters of the night. Fighting evil with evil, shedding blood for blood, thus vengeance begins.」

「That chant──Rokuhara-san, that’s the spell words of revenge!」

「Eh? Is that, the counter ability from before!?」

Ren was surprised by what Riona pointed out.

Counter punch was effective as well as powerful because it was  launched the instant or right after the opponent attacked. Ren  understood as a fellow user of the same technique.

Alexander Gascoigne purposefully used that authority right now.

Above the head as well as the left and right sides of the tall and  handsome princely young man──the three goddesses with snake hair that he  also caught a glimpse of before this appeared.

「Now──I have finished with my preparation. I shall yield the first move to you.」

「Wait, so that’s your plan!」

He blatantly put the Goddesses of Revenge in standby and invited Ren to attack.

That was an appeal that he could return back the attack to him  anytime. This made it harder for him to attack instead. His mind was  filled with what would happen if he attacked.

Ren hurriedly thought.

(If I try time stop and it get reflected, it will be my time that get stopped instead.)

(No wait, my magic eye might win against Alec’s counter. But, he is just going to use that black sparks in that case huh……)

(That lightning is the only thing that I can’t freeze.)

(Uwaa. It will be checkmate no matter what I do, it’s really hard to attack……)

(And most of all Alec also has that rewind trick──)

Alec was constantly in the possession of the initiative during this confrontation.

It couldn’t be helped by the time he got dropped in that great labyrinth that was riddled with traps.

But, the initiative was still at the other side even now that he had escaped from the labyrinth.

Ren was splendidly being led around by the nose with Alec  intentionally displaying the Goddesses of Revenge that he had kept  hidden and should be used in critical time as trap.

This time Ren was locked inside the labyrinth of his own mind and fell silent.

(I’m bad with this kind of chess move prediction……)

(To be honest, me too. This Campione-sama is really a peculiar one.)

Riona who perched on his shoulder as a blue bird sent her thought to him.

(It feels like we will fall a step behind somewhere no matter what  kind of attack we use. To be honest, this person is too bold that it’s  hard to have a go at him.)

(So Riona also think so.)

Ren grumbled.

Taking each other’s chess piece while trying to put the enemy’s king in check.

When he was thinking what to do in that kind of term, he felt that no  matter what he still needed one more authority or tool that was  effective against Alec.

(I already borrowed Thor’s hammer……)

Certainly, Ren’s Circle of Friendship had been powered up.

But, he couldn’t beg to borrow from the same person consecutively. It  would be no good unless there was a gap of one day at least.

(A friend who has power or weapon that can be effective against Alec……friend……)

Unfortunately, nobody came into mind──

「Ah」

「Hou. Did you find a solution?」

Alec called out seeing Ren arrived at an idea.

The three goddesses were still protecting him like before while  waiting for Ren to make his move. Even though he was at the defensive,  he was perfectly making Rokuhara Ren dancing on the top of his palm.

It was clear that it was completely hopeless for Ren to match Alec in  the intelligence and power of observation for predicting ahead.

In that case──Ren grinned easygoingly.

「Yep. The key for this battle is the degree of just how much I’m loved!」

「What a strange thing to say……but, the bunch called Campione are all  oddball without exception. What you thought up just now must be  something not decent anyway. Just give it your best try.」

「I’ll do just that. But」

Ren intentionally mad a cute smile and winked.

「Those words just now are really persuasive when said by a really eccentric person like Alec.」

「The other guys are all no better than animals……don’t group me together with them!」

The Black Prince was offended. Ren stuck out his tongue to make fun of him.

He had been the one getting toyed with from start to end, but he  finally could reply in kind after so long. However, he had to surpass  him in the actual battle too, not just in battle of words.

「It’s like that so, I’m counting on you Riona!」

「Roger! It’s always like this every time but, it’s the usual sink or swim gamble isn’t it!」

The blue bird Riona replied from his right shoulder.

Ren’s motive that could be said as reckless was already told to her  through telepathy. She didn’t voice any objection because she painfully  realized that they were facing a formidable enemy that they couldn’t  beat unless they went that far.

Riona suddenly began chanting.

「The abrupt darkness of heaven──. The golden spirit of black kite  come and the imperial bow stopped it. That black kite is shining bright,  like a lightning stream……!」

The esoteric ritual, the Great Purification of the Golden Kite──.

It was the technique to ire sunlight with the divine might of the spirit of fire and sun Yatagarasu.

However although Riona was the one chanting, in the end it was  something that Ren would fire using the power of Yatagarasu that he  borrowed from her.

Because of his immense magical power as a Campione, the technique’s  power was increased greatly compared to when its original user used  it──.

Ren pressed his right hand’s index finger and middle finger together and thrust them toward Alec.

「For now, let’s try with this first!」

Dazzling light became a torrent that was fired from the pressed fingers.

As expected Alec ordered the Goddesses of Revenge.

「Now is the time for revenge! Do it!」

「As expected, a counter is coming……time stoppp-!」

The flash that should burn Alec to ash changed trajectory before it could hit due to the three goddesses.

It was then reflected back toward Ren. Ren used the magic eye of time  stop in a flash. His left eye was filled with a rainbow luster and  radiated a wave of curse.

It was the curse of freezing, to stop time──.

It was for the sake of stopping the Black Prince Alec and the  goddesses of revenge, and most of all the reflected light of  purification.

Bathed in the rainbow light, all of them were frozen. Even the flash  that should keep going without end was splendidly stopped in its track.

It was a very strange and magical sight.

But, however, there was just one thing that still kept moving.

「You took an option that is simpler than I expected. Then, with this it’s checkmate……!」

Alec naturally wrapped himself in countless black sparks.

The godspeed authority Lightning Speed. Its attack mode was called  Black Lightning. Seeing the activation of the terrifying trump card,  Ren──

Stared at the cord around his left wrist, Stella’s belt.

The divine tool was emitting rose colored radiance. He spoke with a low voice into it as though whispering to a lover.

「……Please. You are still inside me right? I want you to lend me your power again.」

Ren pressed his left hand on his heart and closed his eyes.

「Nemesis shall hands down the divine punishment to misdeed that harm life……」

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He noticed the sign after visiting Hyperborea for the second time.

In order to save their world, Ren fought Athena who transformed into  the goddess of the end and lost his first authority Retributive Justice.  Right after that.

He suddenly thought as he aimlessly wandered through the heroic world.

「Eh? Was my body really this agile?」

From the start his athletic ability was extremely good. His physical ability was also high.

But, even so, he didn’t think that it was to the degree that would  cause Riona to stare fixedly at him and said 「Your movement is so good  that it looks disgusting instead」…….

He could run around, jump, and do acrobat like an anime character.

Right now his body’s lightness, nimbleness, his athletic ability felt somewhat unreal.

However, it was also something deeply familiar for Ren.

──In the past his authority Retributive Justice wasn’t just a counter attack.

It was an authority to dodge repeatedly with acrobatic movement using  godspeed escape, stocking the numerous attacks he received, and  liberated them when he needed it at critical time.

The authority originated from the myth of Goddess Nemesis running around to escape from the courting of the chief god Zeus.

The godspeed escape also was a great help for Ren.

From that, perhaps──

「Perhaps Nemesis-san’s authority is simply sealed and it’s still more or less inside me?」

And then perhaps even now it was still continuing to stay inside  Rokuhara Ren as 『agility and quickness that was just a bit outside of  human territory』.

Ren came to think like that.

That was why now he pleaded in front of Alec’s Black Lightning.

「If you still haven’t left me because you’re already fed up with  me──if you still think that I’m really not so bad, then please help me  Nemesis-san!」

Ren opened his closed right eye and thrust his right hand toward Alec.

This time he also pressed his index finger and middle finger  together. He always did this when using his authority Retributive  Justice.

And then Ren──got on all fours and broke into a run with godspeed.

The black lightning became countless spears and rushed toward him. He lowered his stance in order to weave his way through them.

Because he was on all four, he ran on all fours exactly like a leopard or cheetah.

He headed toward Black Prince Alec’s front. He was astounded of Ren’s  sudden appearance before him where right now he struck the Black  Lightning with counter from point blank range!

「I ask for the judgment of justice right here──!」

「Time, return! Regain the beautiful past!」

It happened at the same time.

The black light surged from the two fingers that Ren thrust out and Alec’s yell──. And then, time was rewinding.

The lightning returned to the index finger and middle finger. Ren  reverse ran with godspeed while still on all fours back to his original  position.

Thus, Black Prince Alec successfully protected himself.

Ren was amazed. There was no way Alec could make it in time unless he  had made his decision right before he started moving with godspeed to  use Time Reversal──.

It was a terrifying battle sense and decisiveness.

「You’re amazing Alec. I can’t believe that you made it in time……」

「That was because your eyes……those were the eyes unique to Campione  who is just a moment away from successfully winning a stupid bet. I also  immediately reacted because of that────uh!」

The man who rewound time again suddenly pressed his hand on his chest.

His complexion was bad and greasy sweat also trickled down on his  cheek. He clearly looked unwell and finally he fell on his knee.

He wasn’t in a state to fight anymore like that.

「Rokuhara-san! That’s the side effect of rewinding time, I think!」

The blue bird Riona on his right shoulder spoke rapidly.

「It’s a super amazing power to reset anything-. In exchange, as  expected the burden of using it consecutively must be great-. This is  already the third time after all!」

「So it’s like that……」

Right now, the hero of devil king extermination was roaming the heroic world Hyperborea.

Reducing the number of Campiones in such situation couldn’t be good  by any means. Finishing off someone beaten also didn’t suit his  character.

That was why imitating the method that the hero used was also on the menu──Ren opened his mouth.

「Say Riona. Using your onmyoudo thing or Yatagarasu’s power, can you do something like sealing Alec? Just like what Yukino did.」

Ren tried suggesting that the moment he thought it.

「You can use my power just like usual.」

「If I can receive Rokuhara-asn’s magic power, then it’s not impossible. Certainly, he can’t resist if it’s now……」

Riona fell into thought for a bit before she continued.

「Master Luo Hao is also sealed in the ground, so let’s do something like that.」

「Don’t have that kind of strange discussion openly while taking  advantage of my inability to move! Shit, to think that you’re also  hiding an authority of retribution!」

「I’m not actually hiding it. I just borrowed it for a bit from a good person in the past.」

Alec relinquished his usual calmness and cursed.

Ren who was able to confirm that he was still 『loved』 was smiling  with composure. He didn’t even give a pip that this was actually a  narrow victory that came from a sink or swim gamble.

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Part 4

Kushanagi Godo was a false name.

The youthful god revealed that his real name was War God Verethragna. Each of his hands was holding a golden sword.

The right sword cut apart Hero Rama’s divinity, the left sword was a blade to cut Take Mikadzuchi’s divinity.

「I can’t believe──that even my divine sword of salvation got cut……」

Yukino groaned.

Her beloved sword that got severed near its tip was shining radiantly  in platinum color even now. Its divine aura was still going strong. It  wasn’t defeated by any means.

But, Yukino instinctually felt it.

If she got hit by the sword in the young man’s left hand, her body would easily get cut.

Even though after awakening Take Mikadzuchi’s divinity, Mononobe  Yukino’s flesh body had gained the hardness and toughness that was like  super metal alloy!

Yukino trembled in fear. Verethragna briskly stepped toward her.

It was a casual walk. However, Yukino understood to a painful degree  that there was not a single pointlessness in that movement because he  had mastered martial art to the extreme limit.

Perhaps he was a martial artist who was equal, no, superior to that sect founder Luo Hao──.

「Kuh……!」

「Fufu. You’re quick, miss hero.」

Verethragna’s left hand thrust out *su-* with his sword.

The movement was so lighthearted that no sign of attack could be  sensed at all from it beforehand──even a swordsman of Yukino’s level  failed to react for an instant.

Even so, she somehow leaped away to dodge.

Usually Mononobe Yukino always thoroughly displayed the essence of  Japan’s swordsmanship like Go no Sen (striking the opponent  right after  defending an incoming attack) or Tai no Sen (striking the opponent  while defending from their attack) and engulfed the opponent’s attack  with counterattack, obtaining a certain victory with a single stroke.  And yet now she was being overwhelmed like this!

As Yukino lost her calm, Verethragna slashed at her for the second and third time.

Against these she also dodged to the left and right with desperate defensive movement and barely got away.

「Hmm. Looks like I won’t be able to reach you unless I do this seriously……」

The golden sword in Verethragna’s right hand vanished into thin air.

He judged that the sword to cut down Hero Rama wasn’t needed anymore.  He focused in using only one sword to accurately corner the running  around prey.

Yukino realized that she was drenched in cold sweat while muttering.

「I can’t believe that you are more troublesome in a head on battle  using sword against sword rather than when you repeatedly transformed……」

But thinking back, this was the worthiest battle for a reincarnation of sword god.

A duel with sword in hand was what she was made of, so she should persist with herself till the end and surpassed her limit!

Yukino turned defiant and raised her divine sword to an overhead stance.

「Entrusting everything to a single stroke is the essence of sword  that is imprinted into my body! Mister war god with complicated name, as  the heaven sent child of the sword god representing Japan, I challenge  you!」

「Hohou. Well well……」

Yukino’s stance discarded any thought of defense. Verethranga narrowed his almond eyes.

「What a resolute girl. I don’t dislike that kind of spirit. Very well, let’s have a fair and square fight!」

「That’s just what I want!」

Yukino roared with overflowing fighting spirit.

In contrast to her overhead stance, Verethragna casually lifted the  sword in his left hand and pointed the tip at Yukino’s chest.

They would be in each other’s range just by taking one step forward. The two great warriors stepped forward in the same timing──

They both swung down their beloved sword head on!

*Giin* Such metallic sound loudly resounded. Yukino doubted her own eyes.

「Ah──no way-!?」

「I praise your resoluteness. But, as expected this is what happened  when you only have spirit. I told you that my sword shall cut apart your  divinity.」

Verethragna spoke dispassionately.

The two’s slashes clashed head on. As the result Verethragna’s sword slashed through the divine sword of salvation.

The divine sword’s blade was severed near the guard and it flew off to somewhere.

Yukino who lost her weapon quickly backed away to keep her distance  from Verethragna. It wasn’t an action that she took after thinking it.

Her martial art that was permeating her body──moved her legs on her own.

Seeing that, War God Verethragna put on an archaic smile.

「Well, certainly the way you don’t think of any pointless thing is your characteristic quality though……」

「Uuuuu. My strategy is juuust a bit of a miss this time……」

As expected even Yukino was greatly troubled.

The divine sword of salvation that she held with both hands, it had lost almost all of its blade.

As she was at a loss wondering if she was in a hopeless pinch right  now──the voice that she had been waiting impatiently for flew into  Yukino’s ear.

「Looks like you’re in a pinch here, Yukino!」

「Onee-sama!?」

Riona flew toward her fast in her blue bird form──

Without stopping she entered into Yukino’s chest.

It was the unification that they had experienced many times. The  divine bird Yatagarasu and the sword god’s reincarnation, the two souls  blended into one inside Yukino’s body and achieved a union.

And then impressive spiritual power welled up copiously from the pit of her stomach!

「Onee-sama, this is that──」

『Yes. The Super Saiyan mode is also back now, let’s begin from fresh start again!』

Riona’s thought flowed into her.

Yukino rapidly got fired up as though her courage had become one hundred times greater.

As the result of achieving awakening as the sword god, Yukino was  already containing spiritual power in the amount that wasn’t inferior  even compared to the war god Verethragna.

It heightened even more with Riona’s assistance.

It was to a degree that surpassed even a true god like Verethragna──.

「This is amazing power! With this what happened just now won’t happen again!」

Yukino clenched her fist. But she suddenly noticed.

「Eh? Come to think of it this time……the Great Law of Covenant wasn’t  working wasn’t it? Even though it activated on its own when we first  arrived here.」

Yes. At that time Yukino certainly felt the presence of three godslayers.

However after she was awakened, she didn’t feel anything when she  returned for a retry of the long awaited battle. The support of Great  Law of Covenant also didn’t appear──.

「That’s strange……」

『Yukino. Right now isn’t the time to think that. Besides apparently  it’s hard for this fate’s corrective force thingy to activate in  Hyperborea, so it won’t be strange even if it’s unstable.』

「That might be so! I’m sorry, I wasted my time talking pointlessly!」

Yukino faced Verethragna once more.

Even when faced with the reincarnation of the sword god who was  backed by overwhelming spiritual power, the youthful god was still  staying nonchalant.

「Fufufufu……. If the enemy surpass me in power, I shall surpass it  with finesse and wisdom. It’s a trifling matter with my ten avatars.」

「I wonder about that!」

Yukino spoke challengingly toward the smiling war god.

「I was completely under the mercy of your avatars but, I realized one thing thanks to that.」

「Hohou, what is it?」

「That the me just now──my resolution to challenge you with Ichi no  tachi wasn’t a mistake. That’s right. No matter how diverse the enemy’s  power and weapon are, as long as I have the ultimate slash……I can cut  away everything and grasp victory!」

「Talk, is cheap.」

Verethragna’s smile changed into a wry smile.

「I can’t believe that you haven’t learned at all from your failure of trying that just now!」

「You’re wrong! Exactly because I had failed once that I realized what I’m lacking. I’ll show you the real thing now!」

Yukino chanted with the divine sword of salvation that had lost most of its blade in her hands.

「Weapons of salvation──appear under the name of my teacher Rama!」

The weapons that had been erased by Verethragna once.

Using the magnified spiritual power, Yukino called them here once  more. More than 100 weapons descended from the sky. They stabbed into  the ground with thudding voice.

Long sword, spear, battle axe, knife, brick, etc──.

The blue bird Riona was shocked seeing the rain of weapons so abruptly.

『Y-Yukino? What in the world are these weapons……?』

「Ah──err, they are parting gifts from Momotarou-sensei!」

Yukino reported as she hid the fact that she forgot they existed.

But, of course she couldn’t use them as they were.

The other golden sword quickly appeared again in War God  Verethragna’s right hand. It was undoubtedly the sword for cutting Hero  Rama.

「I allow you to challenge my twin swords once more girl!」

「Then I’ll use my Ichi no Tachi! Everyone──gather here!」

Yukino raised her divine sword of salvation in the overhead stance once more.

Her beloved sword Take Mikadzuchi had lost almost all of its blade.  And then toward the sword that originally should be shining brilliantly  with platinum color──

Everyone rushed toward it.

The weapons that were entrusted to Yukino from her teacher Momotarou aka the hero Rama.

The sword, spear, axe, every kind of weapon that were stabbed on the  ground floated up on their own power and flew toward Yukino’s hands,  fusing with the divine sword of salvation.

After absorbing all the weapons, the divine sword gave birth to a new blade.

The platinum blade was even more radiant than before──no, the shine could only be described as glaringly dazzling.

『Even though there were that many weapons that looked like they had amazing history behind them!』

The thought of the impressed Riona was flowing into her.

『All of them are combined into a single weapon! That’s a preposterous brute force method!』

「This too is thanks to Onee-sama. Thank you!」

She had awakened, and thanks to Riona, Yukino was dramatically powered up.

That was why this brute force method became possible. Yukino raised  the ultimate sword that she finally obtained overhead and she stepped  forward toward the range of Verethragna.

The divine sword of salvation that even contained the weapons that  her teacher entrusted to her was now stirred up to an unprecedented  degree.

Its sharpness as a sword, its spirit that looked forward to  exterminate all enemies were heightened to the greatest degree. Right  now such sword was in Yukino’s hands to do as she wished!

「HIYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!」

「Good grief! There should be a limit even in being crude, and yet you have perfectly grasped the important point!」

Yukino swung down her sword from overhead as she rushed forward.

Verethragna blocked that by crossing his swords. The two swords that  should be able to cut through the divinity of Hero Rama and the sword  god Take Mikadzuchi.

However, the sword that was born at the end of a fusion between two divinities──didn’t break.

This time it was the divine sword of salvation that conquered its opponent.

The glaringly shining platinum blade cut the twin swords together.  And it didn’t stop there. Verethragna in his youthful form was also cut  diagonally. Wholly.

Yukino felt a feedback from the slash. But she didn’t let her guard down and reformed her posture with a standard kendo stance.

「Splendid! ……But, truly that was a brutish stroke!」

The young man’s body crumbled like sand.

First his feet below became fine sands and crumbled. Then his torso  also lost shape. And at the end his faintly smiling face and head  vanished entirely.

That happened as he finished speaking the words of praise and sarcasm.

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Part 5

After Verethragna’s body crumbled away, there were two items left behind.

They were the black steel bow and quiver of Hero Rama. Yukino  immediately stored the divine sword of salvation into her left hand and  rushed toward her teacher’s weapons.

「Yay! I finally regained them!」

「Uuuuuu……how dare you did that to Kushanagi Godo-sama──」

As Yukino rubbed her face on the bow from the overflowing happiness, she heard a voice of resentment.

When she turned around, the godslayer Madam Aisha had come to Yukino’s side without her realizing it.

Until now she had been staying under the stone stage that became the  duel arena where she had the front-row seat the whole time while  watching the battle. From there sometimes she would,

「There! One more! As expected from Kushanagi Godo-sama!」

She seemed to be sending such passionate cheering.

Yukino completely didn’t hear it because she didn’t have any leeway  at all during the fight. However now she straightened her back from  finally confronting a new godslayer.

「Are you finally going to……face me in battle?」

「Don’t joke like that-. Despite my title I’m a woman who is far from  being good in fighting or battle! If you want to do something like that  please do it on your own!」

「Heh?」

Yukino was dumbfounded by the madam’s energetic refusal.

「H-how did that kind of person manage to kill a god huh!?」

『Haha……this person, she certainly doesn’t look like she has any  authority who is suited for battle you know? And yet it looks like she  has defeated quite the number of gods until now……』

Riona’s exasperated voice flowed into her.

『She has turned strange now but, originally her existence was like  the personification of good will and threat and great nuisance. You  mustn’t underestimate her.』

「I understand Onee-sama.」

For now Yukino kept holding her teacher’s bow in her left hand as she faced the godslayer.

Madam Aisha’s eyes were containing hostility toward her. Furthermore,  she began to run her mouth saying something that couldn’t be  overlooked.

「If it’s like this……I’ll pray for Kusahangi Godo to descend once more  here! War god Verethragna-san, please be a substitute once more!」

「Wait wait. I already defeated him just now you know?」

As expected even Yukino cut in with exasperation.

「You aren’t asking for home delivery from restaurant here but something impossible!」

「And yet surprise! If it’s that god, he will be able to do that!」

『Ah──don’t tell me. Could it be one of his ten avatars thing can……』

Madam Aisha yelled fearlessly. Riona seemed to notice something from that.

Yukino looked puzzled and went 「Hm?」──right after that. An animal  suddenly appeared at the spot where War God Verethragna’s body was  annihilated just now.

「A, a lamb……? Why so suddenly?」

It was a lamb that looked like it had just been born.

Its look was adorable. Its fur looked fluffy. However, that lamb had  beautiful golden fur with a divine presence despite being a baby.

And then the golden lamb rapidly grew bigger and became adult sized.

「I-it grew up!?」

『War God Verethragna from the ancient Persia, one of his avatars is Ram. It’s most likely the symbol of riches and life force──』

Riona raised her voice with an urgent tone.

『In that case, it’s possible enough that this god can also revive from death!』

「I-is that so? Onee-sama, you’re really knowledgeable aren’t you!?」

『An acquaintance Campione also used exactly this same Ten Avatars  authority! I naturally learned it after meeting him several  times──look!』

The golden sheep finally transformed into a fifteen years old handsome young man.

That was definitely Kushanagi Godo aka war god Verethragna. It was the god that Yukino should have defeated with certainty!

「To be summoned continuously like this, what a busy day this is.」

The war god spoke with a sigh. He also looked a bit annoyed.

Madam Aisha pleaded with a lot of zeal toward him who was like that.

「That’s just how important this is-. The situation has become like  this, so how about going further and travel together with me to help  with liberating the world from the yoke of fate──!」

「Hmmm」

Unlike the madam who was overflowing with zeal, the war god’s enthusiasm was extremely cool.

He also looked like he would listen to the suggestion for the time  being. Yukino was in suspense wondering how things would turn out when  Riona’s thought reached her.

『Yukino, Yukino. That god fought you before this in the end only in respond to Aisha-san’s wish so……』

「Ah──that’s true now that you mentioned it Onee-sama.」

Yukino guessed what her travelling partner tried to say and she immediately moved.

She didn’t even need to use the bow in her left hand. Her right hand  turned toward the quiver beside her foot. An arrow came out and she  threw it *shun!* like a throwing star.

The arrow feather had pink color──it was a pink arrow.

It was the arrow of sealing that was the same one with the arrow that sealed sect founder Luo Hao the other day.

The arrow stabbed Madam Aisha’s back accurately. She couldn’t even  defend because she was in the middle of speaking fervently to  Verethragna.

「Oh? Oh my my my my myy──!?」

Madam Aisha was astonished and screamed.

Her body became a light and dispersed to nothing.

The place she was standing on until now got a pentagram burned on it.  It was the symbol of her sealing. And then the war god who had been  watching the scene from start to end grinned.

「Looks like you have taken care a problem of mine. Let me thank you.」

「Your welcome, but……you aren’t angry that I cut you just now?」

Yukino was baffled by the war god’s relaxed attitude even now and asked him.

Even though it didn’t stick, he was still someone that she had  consigned to oblivion once. Shouldn’t he harbor hostility and anger  toward her──Yukino thought, but.

「There is no helping it. Everything is only the necessity of war.」

Verethragna spoke casually and also loudly.

「And now the battle has ended. I am hale and hearty and has enough fun. What need is there for me to be angry to you!」

「…………haa」

It was definitely a life and death battle.

But as expected even Yukino was taken aback when it was talked like a simple recreation. She replied back vacantly.

However, perhaps this was none other than the disposition of a war god whose true essence was battle.

She was still immature──. She had to grow greedily more and more as a hero and as the heaven sent child of a sword god.

Yukino renewed that feeling of hers.

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