Chapter 118 – Assault (6)

The tentacle dogs ran and kept their distance and increased their vigilance, probably surprised by the number of magical girls that were more than expected.
As much as he shared his thoughts with the highly intelligent tentacle monster, it was a move he knew that it was not very good to rush at it like this.
I can feel the contemplation of whether to gather more numbers and attack, or to buy time here and then join the guys following.

“Then you know? Are you going safely?”
“Your senior blocks it, and I attack, right?”
“On Sienna’s side, Rose blocks it, and Sienna attacks. There may be more to come, so hurry up… !”
“Oh, wait.”

Feeling for some reason from the movement of the tentacle dogs that if I left it as it was, it might run away and come back in greater numbers, and stopped Louis from preparing for battle.
Immediately after seeing Sienna and Arna, I instructed them to use magic.

“Sienna, completely lock them up with an ice wall. Louis and Rosé drive them in.”
“Yes? Ah yes!”

I couldn’t figure out my intentions, but because I followed my instructions and nothing bad happened, Rosé and Sienna immediately moved their bodies as I said.
Rosé moves quickly to avoid the tentacles, drawing attention and reducing the number of tentacles that can attack, and Louis is also a little confused, holding up a shield and driving the tentacle dogs to a corner, gradually pressuring them.

“Ice Wall Ice Wall!”
“Oh, I’m not saying to leave one spot, block all of them. Close the lid too.”
“Yes… ? Still, the tentacle dogs were destroyed right away… Yes!”
“Good job.”

After praising Sienna, Rosé, and Louie for successfully trapping the tentacle dogs as I instructed, I turned my gaze to Arna, who was standing blankly, and pointed with her finger at the increasingly cracked ice cube that the tentacle dogs were trapped in.

“Arna, lightning. The cleanest and most penetrating one.”
“Use it, Thunder Thunder!”
“Kiaaaaa!!”
“Kyao Oh Ok !!”
“Are you not dying? Many times.”

You can hear the screams of the tentacle dogs who couldn’t escape from the ice and were electrocuted several times and burned to death.
The tentacles urgently hit the ice to crack it, but there is no power because it is electrocuted and unable to move properly.
While bound in one place, the tentacle dogs eventually couldn’t withstand the attack that poured Arna’s firepower, and all fell silent.

“Uh?”
“It’s not a bad connection, but… What you think is different from reality. It will take a long time.”
“What… ?”
“Sienna, is it hard to tie her feet up by making the ice thicker? Or building an ice wall on top of an ice sheet?”
“Go, I think it’s possible.”
“Okay, what comes next is, then, let’s just tie our feet together and put pressure on Rosé and Louie so they don’t escape. Impeding movement with ice is good, but I think it would be better to restrain them altogether.”

Even though they dealt with the tentacle dogs much easier than expected, the attitude of the magical girls is strangely frozen, as if the absurdity precedes the sense of accomplishment.
Ignoring the reactions of the four of you, I thought about the improvement of the magic linkage that I instructed earlier and told you another way.

“Or Arna paralyzes her and Sienna binds her feet. Then your movements will be more restricted. Louis and Rosé will restrict her movements while tying her feet, and after tying her up, I think we can handle it closely.”
“Krrrr… !”

As I was thinking of another way to catch the tentacle dogs easily, new tentacle dogs appeared vigilantly when they heard the screams of their colleagues.
Six this time.
But this is not the end.
It feels like it’s not the end.
I instructed all four of them, thinking that in order for me to be safe, the magical girls needed to get along better.

“Do it quickly!”
“Yes!”

The tentacle dogs, which were quite difficult to deal with, could easily be caught just by changing their fighting style.
Just by telling each other a little to make sure that each other’s positions and fighting methods are different from when fighting alone, the four people’s breathing gets better and better.
Rather than competing and fighting to deal with each other first, the number of times that each other’s strengths can be revived increases.

Arna and Sienna use magic to hinder the movements of all six animals, but Louis blocks the attacks, while Rose gets closer and deals with them one by one from behind.
Even then, when Louis presses properly and there is a chance to kill several at once, Arna uses powerful magic to destroy two or three at once, and Sienna builds an ice wall to block when there is an attack that Louis cannot block.

Since six appeared, it should be difficult to deal with four magical girls, but the tentacle dogs quickly died and collapsed.
It is so easy to catch that it is said to be easy.
It’s more of a hunt than a battle.

“Uh… ? We… Something…”
“Something isn’t right? This is my first time.”

Louis and Sienna looked at each other and wondered if they felt different from before with just one battle.
As the tentacle dogs fall, the demon dogs, huggers, and bats, who were only looking for an opportunity to fall back and attack the weakened magical girl, come again as if they believed that the tentacle dogs would fight and win.
However, the four magical girls took care of the monsters and infectious agents with ease, taking care of themselves in a completely different way from before.

“What, something easy?!”
“I was worried because Grape wasn’t coming down the subway… If so, can I not call support?”
“I have a feeling four would be enough.”
“I don’t want to notice because a substitute comes from a different district every time…”

Even if bats, demon dogs, huggers, and tentacle dogs come together, they simply deal with it in a way they have already adapted to.
The ice wall is blocking the road, and Arna paralyzes as many of her as possible by lowering the ice wall. After Sienna binds her feet with the ice, Rosé and Louie deal with it in close proximity.
The distribution of mana was clear to each other, and the connection was getting better and better.

“Louis, if you run out of strength when blocking, how about exploding the side of the shield and deflecting it to the side?”
“You mean try parring? To strengthen the power to deflect with explosive power… I’ll give it a try!”
“Rosé, you seem to be more efficient at dealing with the strong ones, so don’t waste your time dealing with the weak ones and prioritize dealing with the ones that look strong.”
“Yes!”
“Sienna keeps the strong-looking kids bound, and kills the weak ones with ice cubes in conjunction with Arna.”
“Ice Prism!”
“Arna mainly paralyzes the whole area, and when the number accumulates, magic!”
“I know!”

Rather than thinking of each other as competitors among the pouring monsters, synergy is created by thinking of the magic of helping each other and working together.
Even though Arna and Louis were in this situation, their expressions gradually softened and they were immersed in a strange pleasure.
In a dark tunnel where corpses are piled up and the smell of blood and acrid smells fills, they become intoxicated by the situation in which each other’s breathing matches.

“The four of them are all good combinations, so if you match them together and don’t make mistakes, you should be able to exert the power of a high-ranking magical girl.”
“Yes!”
“If you see a part that is difficult to block, say it, and Siena hits the ice wall and tears the entry!”

Protected in the center of magical girls who move like one body, watching monsters being torn apart.
Both infected and monsters are feared by the general public, but now they are only prey for magical girls.
The more I follow the instructions, the more I feel that I am getting safer, which gives me a sense of relief.
But that relief soon turned into a sense of crisis.

“Crrrr…”

From a certain moment, I see a tentacle dog watching our side from a distance, carefully avoiding attacks without attacking.
She is trying to figure out why she feels uncomfortable at the situation where four middle-ranking magical girls block them all no matter how many times they come.
And that gaze, the spirit of life, is directed towards me.
I feel it targeting me.

“Kong! Kung!”

The ground trembles minutely, like a train passing by with the sound of a tentacle dog barking.
I don’t know what they did, but at the same time the movements of the infected changed.
Infectious objects that obey monsters higher than themselves, it is thought that they are following the instructions of the tentacle dog due to the characteristics of monsters.
The tentacle dog holding the hugger with its tentacles throws the huggers from a little distance, then runs and attacks the demon dog hanging from its legs.
The bats grab huggers one by one and drop them from the air, pretending to be dead by Arna’s magic, and then suddenly flying in and biting themselves.

“Teacher!”
“That bastard!”

It makes the falling bats alert, while keeping the hugger’s feet from being tied to the ice.
Even if you attack one demon dog, a hugger will follow and attack, and the first tentacle dog you need to kill will keep its distance and observe the situation from afar.
It is a commanding trait that is sometimes seen in tentacles with high intelligence.

If it was a tentacle monster, it would have sent Rosé to hunt it down since it was slow to move, but it is difficult to do that as it has the ability to run away as soon as it is merged with the demon dog.
Things suddenly get difficult with a tentacle dog with commanding abilities.
Right now, even if you are overdoing it for a while, you have to get rid of the commander.

“Sienna, block one side with an ice wall and go with Rose and kill him first!”
“Yes!”

It takes two magical girls to easily deal with one tentacle dog.
Siena, who can block the opponent’s movement, and Rose, who show strong attack power, are the ones that can approach and deal with them the fastest.
I ordered Sienna to block the surroundings with an ice wall, leaving only Arna and Louis to guard her defenses, and instructed Rosé and Sienna to hunt the tentacle dogs watching from a distance.

“Karrrr!”

And at the same time, as if waiting, the tentacle dog howled with a scratching sound on the glass.
The ground beneath my feet suddenly rises up, and the ground explodes as if it were about to explode.
I couldn’t do anything in the sudden situation, and I was frozen, and someone pushed me from the side and I rolled on the floor that turned into black blood.

“Awesome… ! Aagh!”
“Arna!”

What appeared after digging into the ground was Coffin Shell, a monster hidden like a mine in the ground.
The huge clam that attacked Arna closed her hard shell mouth, and Arna put all her strength into her clam shell and prevented it from closing with her two hands.
The large tentacles inside the coffin shell slowly lick Arna’s body as if tasting it, and emit a sticky gas that makes Arna’s mind drowsy.

“Ouch… !”

The gas that causes strong aphrodisiac effects and muscle relaxation in women and abdominal pain, chills, and dizziness in men soaks the surroundings.
I should send Louis right away to rescue Arna, but Louis protects me and doesn’t move.
Arna is immobilized and all her attacks are blocked by Louis alone, leaving her immobilized.

“Eww… ! Poetry, poetry… ! Siraut… !”

She tries to use magic, but every time she does, an aphrodisiac gas is emitted so powerfully that she can see it, completely dissolving it as if it were about to melt Arna’s entire body.
Her tongue loosens and I hear Arna’s weeping voice, which is getting more and more difficult to pronounce.
The tongue of the coffin shell moved slowly to tidy up Arna’s weak body.
She slowly closed her mouth, allowing Arna’s neck to come out through a gap on one side of the shell that allowed the prey to breathe.

“Whoops! Whoa!”

Arna was swallowed whole, with only her head sticking out of her shell.