Chapter 138 – Star (4)

Esther, who said it was a skill she already knew, went in and out of the portal Rapid made and attacked Grape, but Grape raised her shield and skilfully deflected the sword.
Immediately, Rapid opened and closed the portal even faster, completely blocking Esther from pursuing her.
When they are blocked from pursuing the portal, Esther shoots a shooting star at Grape, and the shooting star’s bullet is swallowed in a small portal and returned to Esther.

It is a combination that clearly reveals the strengths of Rapid, which specializes in braces and long-distance magic, and Grape, who specializes in close combat.
The moment the distance is properly spread, Rapid’s magic, which unleashes a one-sided attack to the point where there is no answer, and Grape’s fighting style, which persists without collapsing as soon as it gets close, presses Esther.
Grape and Rapid’s movements fit perfectly, as if they hadn’t done it once or twice.

When Esther swings her sword, Rapid slows down Esther’s movement, and when Esther avoids Grape’s attack, a portal is created and Grape is taken out from somewhere else.
When Esther’s sword is blocked by Grape’s shield, Grape swings the sword or Rapid’s magic comes flying.
If you use magic to shoot down Rapid’s magic, Grape attacks that gap, and if you try to drop Grape first, Rapid’s attack can’t be stopped.

I don’t know how I can block it if I hold a sword of fire in both hands, but Esther’s one arm is holding me, so I can’t move freely.
Grape presses and Rapid twists and slows the space so you can’t fly around at will.
If you connect in this way, even if you know what’s coming, you have no choice but to be defeated.

I know it shouldn’t be like this, but my body automatically gets excited about the battle of the real top magical girls who can’t be seen no matter how much I search the majin temple.
The attack speed, quality, power, and breathing are different from those of middle-ranking magical girls.
As Esther tries to get used to the patterns of her attacks, anomalies creep in.

Grape throws his shield into the space that Rapid has twisted, stepping on the shield stopped in mid-air and jumps.
The shield she stepped on is shot like a bullet in a twisted space, hiding behind Grape and aiming at Esther.
When Esther blocks her attempt to jump into the portal with her sword, Grape pulls a wire from her shoulder brace and throws it at the wall, turning in the air to avoid it.
If you run after it, Rapid will open a portal in front of Esther and move her to another place, and her grapes will fall to the place where Esther moved.

It is famous that Rapid and Grape are very close friends among high-ranking magical girls, but this goes beyond being good friends, to the extent that they know each other’s thoughts.
Rapid does what Grape wants, and Grape does what Rapid wants.
Whatever anomaly one of them uses, the other reacts and moves as if it already knew it.
An unbelievably perfect level of connection that keeps the other person from coming to their senses for doing it alone.

“Keugh… !”

In the end, Grape’s sword cut deeply into Esther’s arm.
The arm holding me suddenly loosens.
Esther’s wings immediately support my body, but Rapid’s magic cuts through Esther’s wings.
The tail that urgently grabbed my ankle was cut off by Grape’s sword.

“Uh?”
“No!!”

The eyes are sold on the magic and sword light that sweeps the surroundings, and suddenly a sense of floating comes with the intestines lifted.
Esther’s face, her mouth open in astonishment, suddenly stretches and her vision twists and turns.
At the same time as the surrounding landscape returns to its original state, I fall from a completely different place, and Grape appears next to me and gently embraces me, moving to another place again.

“Grape!!”

Esther, with bubbling inflamed wounds, immediately follows.
Wings are reattached, arms are regenerating, and a new tail is growing.
It is a playback speed far beyond the normal level.

As the vision continues to distort and return, Esther gets further and further away.
Open the portal, let Grape and me in, close the portal and open it again to take Esther out, come out again and confirm that Grape is far away, Esther flies in, escapes, flies in.
Fearing that Esther will fly after me if I take me out immediately, I use a portal to widen the distance.
Dizzy, as dizzy as possible… It disturbs Esther’s gaze.

“Aaaaagh! This garbage… Year of the thief!”

The side chasing and chasing each other, the side attacking and defending changed.
I feel that Grape and Rapid are more skilled than Esther protecting me.
Unlike Esther, who continued to shock me because she was unable to avoid attacks due to being pressured to move, Grape and Rapid use portals and shields appropriately, evading magic and deflecting attacks, widening their distance.

Ever since she was a magical girl, Esther has shown an aggressive side specialized in defeating monsters rather than rescuing her, and now that she has become a negative, that tendency has intensified.
On the other hand, Rapid and Grape are magical girls who are exceptional in rescue, protection, and defense among high-ranking magical girls.
The difference is clearly visible.

An attack that seems impossible to avoid is interrupted by Rapid, and even if the sword tries to reach it, Grape bounces it off with his shield.
If you try to block the front by flying quickly, Rapid will open a portal and change Grape’s location.
It’s hard to attack because the position keeps changing, but it’s not like you can hit it by hitting it.

But that doesn’t mean Esther is far behind the two.
Rapid’s portal magic is a magic that avoids or reverses an opponent’s attack by opening a passage that is not too far from the original entrance and exit.
Esther, knowing that fact, interferes with Grape and Rapid so that they do not get closer.

“Anger… !”

Every time I go in and out of the portal, Grape’s hand examines my body.
I am examining every nook and cranny to see if there are any wounds or abnormalities.
Seeing that there was nothing wrong with her outward appearance, Grape let out a sigh of relief and tightened her arms around me.

“Thank god… Thank god…”

From the moment you hug me, I feel that you are gradually calming down.
The black magic power, the sticky energy that had bubbled up like bubbles, gradually subsided.
It is returning to the original grape.
I held Grape’s arms tightly with both hands while holding him.

“Uh, Grape…”
“Are you sick?! Esther might have already done something… ?!”

When I said it in a trembling voice that anyone who heard it could feel that it hurt somewhere, the startled Grape breathed magic into my body.
It seems to be checking to see if there is any pain somewhere.
The tentacle on the back of the left hand shrank and hid as magic power swept through the body.

Even in the midst of this, the field of view continues to twist, and the earth and sky constantly change and shake.
Every time I dodge Esther’s attack and block it with my shield, my sense of direction is broken and the shock is transmitted.
No more limit

“I feel like throwing up…”

I know this is a really crazy connection… It’s so dizzy.
When I was hugged by Esther, I was still in a position where I was under pressure, so I was less shaken, but now I wonder if it’s a bit too much for an ordinary human to hold on to the arms of a magical girl.
The field of view is crushed, then returned again, distorted, stretched, upside down, shaken, tilted, returned to normal, then quickly shaken and twisted…

“Oops… !”

Upset stomach
It seems that what Grape and Rapid are aiming for is getting close to Rapid by taking advantage of the gap, but since they keep getting in the way, it just keeps messing with their eyes.
The movement is so complex that the intestines cannot stand it.

“Grape! What are you doing to my fans!!”
“Don’t come after me! Can’t you see I’m trying to throw up Anger?!”
“It’s because of you! Let go immediately, you thief!”

As Esther said, after being caught by Grape, he suddenly became dizzy, but it wasn’t Grape’s fault alone.
It’s because Rapid opened the portal, it’s because Grape keeps moving while holding me, and it’s because Esther interferes with getting closer to Rapid.
I feel so dizzy that I wonder if my blood is bubbling while shaking like this.
Grape’s movements suddenly slow, as if he was agitated by Esther’s words and the sight of me about to vomit.

“Rapid!”

My vision changes again in line with the cry of Grape, who stopped holding me tight and dug up the ground with his feet.
The portal that appeared under his feet swallowed Grape and moved him in front of Rapid in an instant.
As soon as Grape let go of my body, I couldn’t stand it even though I knew that Rapid was by my side, so I lowered my head and began to vomit.

“Uweeeeek… !”

I have dizziness even though I am vomiting.
I vomit because I’m dizzy, and because I vomit, I vomit again because I’m even more dizzy.
Even though nothing comes out, he continues to vomit something.

I wouldn’t have been so dizzy if I hadn’t seen any movement so fast that I couldn’t see it, but it’s more dizzy because it’s subtle.
It does not lose consciousness even when shaken or shocked, causing its internal organs to turn over.
Of course, the sense that I shouldn’t be able to endure is barely holding on, so it’s even more painful.

Why do I see magic that shouldn’t be visible, and why do I see the magical girl’s movements, albeit blurry?
What the human eye cannot see, which should be normal, is being seen and recognized by me.
Seeing my eyesight improve and my left hand tingling whenever I feel or see magical powers, I wonder if it has something to do with what Esther planted in me, but I don’t know what the hell is in my left hand to make it possible.

While continuing to vomit and suffer, the back of his left hand suddenly twitched and his arm went cold.
I feel a liquid other than my blood flowing through my body, as if I had been injected with something I was so busy throwing up that I couldn’t even question what it was.
And suddenly the dizziness and nausea disappeared as if erased with an eraser.

“Uh?”

My head is clear as if nothing had happened.
The veins in my left hand twitched, and the flow of something cold gradually diminished.
I don’t know what happened, but I do know that the one planted in my left hand restored me.

It increases the visual acuity of the body, shows mana, and even restores it…
It doesn’t seem to harm me… What the hell is this about?