Chapter 135 – Star (1)

“Space distortion!”

At the same time as Esther’s answer, the magic I had prepared in advance from Rapid’s hand came out and separated Esther and me.
The distorted space creates a thin circular film around me, keeping Esther out of reach.

“Grab Grab!”
“100 million?!”

As Rapid pulls his hand through the air, the invisible hand follows Rapid and pulls my collar.
Esther builds a barrier so she can’t touch it, grabs it with telekinesis and drags it across space.

“Again, to take mine… ?”
“Oh… !”

But before Rapid could take me away, Esther jumped over the space warp with translucent hands and grabbed my body.
I am ignoring the distorted space itself using Eclipse.
My arms, except for the hand that held me, burn the swaying space and remove Rapid’s magic.

“I warn you, I like it when I’m in a good mood… I don’t see you as a friend at all now. I was already an enemy, but… ?”

Esther gritted her sharp teeth and made an unpleasant noise.
Bloody eyes glared at Rapid, and a strong mana burned in front of his eyes.
Around Esther, the air quivered like a wave, tickling her skin.

“Esther… Uh?”

Rapid slowly and cautiously approached Esther, who was gradually increasing her mana.
Instead of walking, it slides as if pushing the ground.
At that time, Rapid’s eyes, which were carefully narrowing the distance while being wary of Esther, met mine.

How would Rapid feel when he saw someone he knew being held captive by a former colleague, Negative Executive?
Seeing a face he had seen before, Rapid’s eyes widened in embarrassment, and his mouth immediately shut.
It seems like he’s trying hard to hide it, but even I, an ordinary person, can feel that he’s nervous.

“Radish… Let the innocent go, Esther… There’s nothing wrong with that person…”
“You’re talking like I’m going to hurt my fans?”
“Pan… ? Hopefully, again… ! Esther… !”

All of Esther’s fans are immediately drawn to Esther and turned into tentacle monsters.
Rapid, who must be aware of that fact, frowns and raises his magic power.
It seizes Esther’s magical powers one by one and prevents her from escaping.

“No more! No more… I can’t take any more!”
“Shut up, Rapid.”
“No more… For you too! I can’t let them take you!”

Rapid’s hand goes towards me, this time pushing Esther away.
At the same time as his hand is squeezed and twisted, the space twists and tries to grab Esther and throw it away.
And Esther is resisting that power, raising her magical power to the point where veins bulge on her forehead.

“Rapid… Rapid… From before, stealing my fans… I didn’t like it… !!”

I feel a strong will to never let go of the hand that carefully grabs my body.
So as not to break, as if holding a very weak egg, the hand tightly wrapped around me pulls me in while applying slight pressure.

“You cat bitch! I know I will be taken away again!!”

Esther flew up with me in her arms and lunged at Rapid.
My vision is stretched and torn, and the blood in my body rushes to my toes.
His sense of direction is lost and his gravity is forgotten as if his head was shaken and thrown into outer space.

“Multiple Barrier!”

The view snaps back to reveal Esther’s sword gripped by Rapid’s barrier.
Rapid put his hands forward and clasped them together as if to shut his mouth, and Esther’s sword is stopped by a number of barriers.
But for a while, Esther’s sword burns white and burns away the magical power that makes up the barrier.

“Wook… !”

The sword that cut through Rapid, freed from its restraints, sent Rapid’s body flying out of the shelter.
The sword struck him for sure, but Rapid was not seriously injured.
The barrier around his body blocked attacks like a monster’s barrier, minimizing my damage.
Just as Esther already knew this would happen, she swung her sword close to Rapid again.

“Die!”
“Rapid!!”

The second sword penetrates the barrier and cuts deep into Rapid’s body.
As soon as Rapid’s blood splattered, the sword that was clearly cut through it burned and evaporated, preparing for the next blow.
And at that moment, Rapid’s hand touched my body.

“Changing Coordinate!”
“Ooh ooh ooh?!”

Along with Esther’s angry voice, my body is pulled somewhere and stretches like clay.
I am thrown into an unknown space and taken out, and the position where I am standing is forcibly changed.

“Rewind!”

My vision, which had been displaced in the blink of an eye, returns to normal with dizziness, and I see Rapid’s skin stitching itself together.
Even the blood that evaporated in the air returns to liquid again and quickly returns to the inside of Rapid, and the tanned skin regains its original color.

The reason why Rapid has a high rescue rate is because of these magics.
It specializes in magic that avoids someone from a dangerous place, changes its position to a safe place, and uses a barrier.
Rapid, who had snatched me from Esther’s hold in an instant, glanced at me once to check my condition, and immediately grabbed Esther.

“Telepo… !”
“This, bitch like a dog!”

The moment she raised her magical power and tried to teleport somewhere with Esther, Esther became translucent and escaped from Rapid’s arms.
But Esther’s translucent ankle, which escaped from her arms, is caught by Rapid’s trembling hand.
To be precise, it wasn’t the hand that was shaking, but the space around Rapid’s hand that was shaking.

“Where!”
“Go away! Shooting Star!”

Esther’s tail is aimed at Rapid and fires small fireworks like shooting stars.
It seems like an insignificant attack, but each of those small sparks is a grenade with high explosive power.

“Sub space!”

Rapid’s mana, which did not deflect all the attacks but opened a small space the size of the palm of his hand and received them all, trembled uneasy.
It looks like magic that swallows the flying magic itself, but Rapid’s complexion suddenly deteriorates, as if the consumption of mana is considerable.
It seems that the reason why it absorbed magic without being deflected by other magic was because I was right behind it.

“Unseen magic… ! Awakening troublesome magic again!”

Esther also stopped the shooting star, perhaps belatedly reminding herself that she might be hit by me.

“Run away! I will hold on to you!”
“Don’t recklessly order my fans!”

Esther spreads her wings and kicks Rapid’s head with her foot as she lifts him into the air.
However, Rapid’s head didn’t shake the slightest as he shouted at me holding my ankle, which seemed to be missing at any moment.
A small barrier that had been unfolded before I knew it was holding Esther’s feet from under her chin.

“Let go!”
“Slow Territory, Distortion!”

Esther’s lower back twisted in the air as one foot was grabbed and the other foot was also pressed by the barrier, and the sword of fire was swung down in an oblique line.
Rapid’s hand placed Esther’s foot, as if she wasn’t confident enough to completely block the ultra-high-temperature sword that was burning bright white.
As it was, the next magic that seemed to have been prepared in advance was fired from Rapid’s hand, which slightly spread the distance.

The space where Esther is is frozen and Rapid’s mana is overlapped and fired.
The rapidly overlapping spaces gradually vibrate, resonate, distort, and come together sharply.
As soon as Esther became translucent in the slowly moving space, the frozen space was released and shaking like a blade quickly flew away.

“Ugh… !”
“Sir, it worked!”

Startled by the bloody energy, Esther twisted her body, and a small amount of dark red blood flowed from Esther’s shoulder and then disappeared.
As if proving that she was no longer a magical girl, her regeneration speed far exceeded that of a magical girl.

“This is the ultra-vibration slashing Vibroblade… ! Really different magic just by applying… !”
“You ash puppet bitch!”
“You can do it! Again, grab the space and adjust the distortion values… !”
“Hee!”

A small space froze in front of Rapid’s hand, and the trembling space shot out in succession and sharply.
Esther’s fiery sword burns and cuts each vibration, and the shelter explodes and collapses.
Standing outside the shelter, I immediately started running with Rapid and Esther on my back.

I hypnotized Esther and Rapid that they couldn’t attack me, but if the subway collapsed due to magic… It’s not a direct attack, so I don’t know what will happen.
Stay here and die.
You have to run away.

“No. 1! Where are you going!”
“I can’t go!”
“Stop! Come stop! Do it!!”
“Huh… ! Heo-eok… ! Omg?!”

Ignoring the screams echoing through the aisle, I quickly run up the stairs and try to escape to the ground, but the light passes in front of me.
Immediately after that, the ground burned and the melted ceiling collapsed as it was cut by the slash.
The passage to escape to the ground was blocked.

“What, what… ?!”

Her left hand throbs, letting her know that the slash just before was done by Esther.
Esther seems to have done something while being caught by Rapid in the shelter.
From the direction where the shelter is, the hot heat pours out more and more strongly.

“Move… Go away… ! Rapid!! Get out of here!”
“This, this… ?! No!!”
“Aaaaa!!”

My left hand stiffened as I heard the evil voice, and I couldn’t move my body.
The magic power, the air fluctuates.
The subway floor heats up and vibrates loudly.

“Corona! Scalpel! Coronal Mass Ejection!!”
“Oops?!”