Chapter 136 – Star (2)

Rather than my will, I strongly thought that this was the way it should be, so my left hand, which moved spontaneously, blocked my eyes, nose, and mouth at once.
Right after that, Esther’s firestorm condensed to the limit melted and shattered the ground with a powerful explosion.
As if they knew where I was, the red flame stopped right in front of me, and the pillar of fire wrapped in black magic overlapped and pierced the ceiling, penetrated deep into the basement, and melted the passageway.

Immediately after the pillar of flame that spewed out like a dragon’s breath disappeared, a scene as if a volcano had erupted from underground spread out before my eyes.
The melted wall surface, shining like glass, drips down little by little.
The soggy hot molten iron burns the walls, and the feet slowly crumble.

“Wow! Evil?!”

At the same time as the soles of my shoes became sticky, the floor disappeared and I, with no place to stand, fell towards the open basement with red lava drops.
My body, which was falling as it was, caught on something while falling and came to a halt.
The collar is pulled roughly, and the sound of the seams bursting is heard from the shoulder blades.

“Ha, ha ha… ! Ha… !”

The ever-increasing surroundings stopped, and the blood cooled with the chilling sensation of the intestines shrinking upwards.
As he hurriedly fills his shrunken lungs with oxygen while falling, his brain wakes up belatedly.
I was about to die.

I feel an excruciating pain in my lungs, which have been slightly ripened by the heat wave.
But right away, I feel the unknown liquid flowing from my left hand filling my blood vessels, and the pain subsides.
I raised my left hand at that strange sensation and lowered my gaze, belatedly reminding myself that I was clinging to something, and slowly raised my head and looked around.

My clothes were caught on Esther’s sharp claws.
When I met Esther’s eyes with her wings spread and felt the blood draining from her face once more, I shivered with chills.
Esther looked at me with sharp eyes and spoke terribly quietly.

“The fan meeting isn’t over yet… Where do you want to go… ?”

Creepy
It looks bizarre and frightening to see it standing still without moving its spread wings, but its burning eyes are more frightening than the lava melting right next to it.
Esther’s blazing eyes stare into my face with complex emotions.

“Huh… ?”

Esther’s eyes, which were still looking at my face, suddenly loosened.
One hand moves along the line of sight fixed somewhere, and is carefully stretched out.
Esther’s hand, approaching, touches my cheek, and I feel pain.

“Aw…”
“… Blood.”

When the subway collapsed, it seems that the cheek was scratched as if it had been lightly brushed by the wreckage.
Esther wiped the droplets of blood from my cheeks with her fingers, then rolled her eyes to avoid looking at him before turning her head away.

“So… You wouldn’t get hurt if you stayed still.”
“No… I wish I was there… I think I must have been hurt more…”
“Under? Are you answering me now?”
“No…”
“Be cheeky.”

Esther turned his head again to stare at me, then stuck out his tongue and licked the blood on his fingers.
Even though I said the right thing, I immediately lowered my tail and dropped my head at Esther, who was frowning and angry.
The fact that Esther is holding me alone like this… What the hell happened to Rapid?
When I looked down with my doubts, I saw a round orb shining below.

“Ha… Ha… Ha…”

It’s rapid
At close range, he fends off Esther’s magic and, as if exhausted, is gasping for her breath.
It seems that a large amount of mana was consumed by blocking the magic from earlier.
On the contrary, Esther is raising her magic power more and more as if she still has some magic power left.

No… Rather than lifting it up, it felt like the original magic power was unnaturally inflated.
Black magic covers Esther’s body like a burning fire and falls to the floor.
Something boiling inside of Esther amplifies her magic power.

“To… Shide…”

Rapid, who was standing on the dark ground as a barrier, reached out his hand above his head and aimed at Esther and me.
As it is, the hand is squeezed and the space is tightened.

“Never, never go!”

Esther’s gaze, which was trying to resist by instantly raising her magic power and burning Rapid’s magic, stayed on me.
As soon as Esther, who had a complex expression on her face, withdrew his mana, the tight space was squeezed more tightly, and Esther’s wings were forcibly folded.
Immediately, Rapid pulls his hand and the squeezed space is dragged underneath.

“This!”

Esther, who was being dragged down at high speed, spread her wings with only her strength and released her magical energy from the tips of her wings, causing a sudden brake in the air.
Then, as if they had been waiting for it, countless sharp vibration waves flew from Rapid, which got closer, tearing through Esther’s wings.

“Kuh… !”

A small flame rises from Esther’s wings and heals her wounds quickly, but it seems to be a little too much to keep her flying, and she falls down more and more.
Rapid’s outstretched hands were squeezed, and a feeling of pressure was transmitted to my body.
He is trying to seize me and Esther separately and separate them.

Rapid’s hand, which had magically gripped the injured wing, was pulled, and a grinding sound escaped from Esther’s mouth.
Esther descended slowly with her wings folded in half in a pillar of light streaming in from a large hole in the ceiling, along with the glistening dust.
Upon reaching the ground, you will see melted railroad tracks, a glass-like surface, and round rocks formed by cooled lava.

“You’re persistent, Rapid? Kill it?”
“I got wings and a tail… Do you think you have become very strong? Are you confident?”

I fixed my gaze on Rapid, which was getting closer and closer, and looked at his condition. I saw that he received the attack right in front of me, and he had a tired look as if he had been in considerable shock.
Even so, Rapid, who met his eyes, showed a slight smile, perhaps trying to reassure me.

“I am what you want! Let him go and fight me!”

Rapid spoke confidently, raising his body and raising his mana.
As if in response, Esther hugged me tightly and let her fiery sword hang down.
Gradually, little by little, the heat of the sword decreases.
The shimmer of the white burning sword gradually diminished.
The blade of the sword became thinner, and the fire was compressed.

“Okay… Kill me, right?”

After seeing Esther’s appearance, Rapid lowered his stance with more tension than before.
I felt that it was unusual for the sword of fire to gradually compress, but I think the rescue was more difficult after seeing me hugging me.
Esther’s sword of fire, which is gradually getting brighter, shines brighter than the pillars of light, illuminating the surroundings like the sun.

While holding Esther, I noticed something strange in my increasingly bright eyes.
I thought that all that melted on the floor was lava… You can see lumps burning with black smoke.
Of course, I thought it was a corpse that had killed infected creatures such as demon dogs and tentacle dogs before escaping upward, but upon closer inspection, it was different.
They are corpses of shapes that are neither human nor beast.

The head of a wolf, the body of a human… There are countless werewolf corpses piled up.
After the terrifying number of werewolf corpses, which were likely to number more than a few dozen or a hundred, were burned away, the corpse of a demon dog was revealed beneath them.
After entering the shelter, no matter how many werewolves appeared, all around were werewolf corpses.

They are all split in half, torn, burst and die.
A road is made along the burnt corpse, and the dark space is getting brighter and brighter.
The strewn corpse becomes firewood and burns more strongly, leading to a path of fire leading to a pile of collapsed rocks.
At that moment, the pile of rocks exploded.

“What?!”

Screams erupted from the rising earth and dust, and cries and magic rippled through the surroundings.
Rapid’s gaze and Esther’s gaze are also fixed in one place.
The amplified mana engulfed the surroundings to the extent that my flesh trembled.

“Why… Why… Why… !”

The mana that flowed down to the floor was pushed by an enormous amount, hitting the floor and rising up.
When the black light’s slimy magic touches your skin, your tactile sense becomes overly sensitive, and you feel pain every time it touches you.
A strange sensation continues in the pain, and I feel the emotion engraved in magic, despair.

The magic power emanating from Grape was oddly familiar.
Blackish, heavy magic that descends from top to bottom…
Right next to it, it was the magic that continued to flow from Esther.
As if they are slightly different, they don’t mix and collide with each other, but the feeling is very similar.

“What… ? Grape… ?”
“Grape?! Why why… ?!”

Esther and Rapid recognized Grape, who had pushed back the brown mist of dirt and dust with their magical powers, and gave out their surprised voices.
Neither was surprised by Grape’s appearance.
I was surprised to feel the magic flowing from Grape.

“Shelter… I, I’m in the shelter… ! Aaaaa… ! Aaaaa!”

A suffocating mana is scratching against my body.
It hurts like being scratched by sand.
At that time, Grape, who dropped his head and trembled with his sword and shield, suddenly froze.
The wave of magical power that had been spewing out like a storm stopped, and the head slowly lifted.

“Ah… Thing… ?”

Grape’s eyes, which met my gaze, were dyed black to the extent of being bizarre, and then slowly returned to the eyes I knew.
Her face turned into a wide smile, then tears fell from her eyes as she was looking at me, and she slowly moved towards Esther.
What the hell is he imagining?

“Aaaaa… ! You… You… You… !”

Grape glared at Esther, squeezed the handle of his sword, and applied his solidified magical power to the blade so that he could see it clearly.
Grape’s feet spurred and crushed the ground after screaming so loudly that it tore the air with anger.
In the blink of an eye, Grape flew like a bullet and attacked Esther like a beast.

“Where are you touching!!”