Chapter 140 – Stars (6)

Esther’s eyes, with her head down, glow red as if they were bloodshot.
In line with the pounding, pounding, fast-beating heart, blood-red mana spreads around and flows down.
The feeling of pressure is completely different from before.

Magical energy pours out and leaks.
The effects and phenomena that appear around a magical girl as she pours her magic are not intentionally caused by herself.
It was close to leaking out and bursting because he couldn’t hold on to too much mana.

The sound of the vision phone suddenly shutting down in your pocket is heard along with a crackling noise.
It means that the machine itself is shutting down beyond the noise phenomenon that occurs when the mechanical device is in contact with magic attribute.
The fact that the vision phone, which is not a product of the generation before the negative appeared and is designed to withstand the noise phenomenon, goes into forced shutdown means that the surrounding magic attribute concentration is at a serious level.

“Ugh… !”

The concentration is so thick that ordinary people cannot even breathe.
His lungs burn, but his left hand gets cold and he recovers again.
The pain disappears at an abnormal speed, and the more you recover, the faster your body’s energy is consumed and you get tired.

The ground, which had been soaked in the black blood of monsters and infected, dried to a crisp and then melted away again.
The heat tickles my throat, and tears do not stop flowing from my eyes.
The field of view is gradually covered with red and white.

“Ahahahaha, ahahaha, ahahahahahaha!!”

My left hand throbs, and I feel that something connected to Esther is suddenly severed.
I hear Esther’s laughter swallowed by something.
The magic that burns black burns Esther.

Even in the midst of being breathless to the point where I can’t think properly, one thought pops into my head clearly.
Die.
He didn’t get attacked by something, he died just by raising his magic power.

“Rapid! Do not write!”
“But, this!”
“I’ll stop everything somehow, so prepare for space transfer!”

As if entering a furnace, the hot wind pouring down with Grape’s voice died down.
The heat also lowered a little, I took a hard breath, and when I opened my eyes, a bizarre sight entered my field of vision.
The black burning sun is crashing against Grape’s shield.

It burns, melts, and chews the shield, threatening Grape.
There are holes here and there in the shield, but Grape’s magic fills the gaps.
It restores the shield faster than Esther burns it.
The magic that is bigger than the shield creates a wall to block Esther’s flames.

Esther’s magical powers are swollen to a frightening level, but Grape’s magical powers are also chasing after them.
They are fighting each other for strength, but Grape is not pushed at all.
It is an unbelievable sight.

How does Grape hold up to all this?
I have to block it, but it’s good to block it, but it’s fortunate that I’m blocking it… It’s strange to block him without backing down even a step, to look able to stop him while struggling.
Even in this situation, Esther’s annoyance comes through her left hand to see if I’m the only one who thinks like that.

“Why are you holding out! Grape!!”
“Ouch… !”
“Let’s hold on! You can’t beat me anyway!”

An enormous amount of light swims out, making you forget that it is underground.
Black fire gnaws at Grape’s shield, and red flames seep out and splatter the ground around Rapid and me into a muddy boil.

“Ahahahahaha!”
“Kuh… !”

Along with the sound of Esther’s laughter, the fire power grows stronger and the sound of leaking wind can be heard between the hot air.
Grape’s feet melted and the ground twisted.
The combat uniform seems to be barely holding up, but I can hear the sound of burning from the side of my feet.

His posture is disturbed, the barrier shakes slightly, and a hot wind blows past him.
At that time, Grape’s hair tie, unable to withstand the heat, snapped and untied, and a small grape decoration fell to the hot ground.
Grape’s bound hair unravels, flinging and swaying in this heat, throwing his headdress over the barrier.

The sight of hair ties adorned with cheap beads melting and burning away comes into view.
At the same time, strangely, Grape’s magical energy began to become stronger and clearer.
The concentration of magic that is so thick that even ordinary people who can’t see magic can see it forms crystals and builds up from the bottom.

“Where… Dangerously! You’re throwing something like fire!”

The surroundings get cold.
The hot wind is gradually blocked, and the floor hardens.
The flame begins to completely block.

“It doesn’t matter if I can’t win… ! I don’t care!”
“What is this… You… !”
“Still… Not as much as this time, no… I can’t lose!”

Grape’s magical power is stronger than Esther’s enveloping her surroundings with her own magical power.
Even if you burn everything around, you can’t burn this.
Raise the frame, set up the pillars, and build a barrier that blocks everything from coming in from the surroundings.

It is different from other magical powers and textures.
If ordinary magical power is water and Esther’s magical power is sticky slime, this is a completely crystallized solid.
It’s not hardened into a solid form, but something more than that.

“Go away!”

A chilling sensation is transmitted from the left hand, and at the same time, the flames burn greatly.
Anger, jealousy, irritation and urgency crawl up your arms and give you a chilling sensation.
Clogged

Inevitably blocked.
This can’t break
It is blocked by something like Grape.

It is stolen by Rapid and Grape.
Hit before
Hit the rapids

“Meteor Javelin!”

The intense light covers her eyes and hides Esther’s figure.
In the light, along with Esther’s voice, you can feel the mana gathering in one place.
Esther, who took the posture of throwing a javelin, immediately throws a huge flame, and her vision is completely blocked.
The magic that completely covers the surroundings paralyzes the five senses.

This is a trick.
The real thing is on the side.
Come.

“Ah… !”

There is no time to speak.
Esther’s magic has already completely filled the surroundings, making it difficult to detect its location.
It uses Eclipse to hide its tracks and moves quickly.

Grape doesn’t even notice it and concentrates the crystallized mana in front to block the magic that was fired.
A sword with condensed scorching flame stabbed in from the side.
Esther’s thoughts come through.

Rapid didn’t notice at all.
Concentrating mana on the front, the sides are weakened.
If you stab it like this, it’s over.

Dozens of thoughts run through my head at the same time.
Esther’s quick approach from the right is so clear.
Enough to cover the surroundings with magic, completely cover the field of view with magic, and create an opening to attack.
This can’t be stopped

Rapid gets hit.
If Rapid gets hit…
Don’t you have to suffer?

No, you shouldn’t get hit.
A strange thought suddenly popped into my head and subsided.
We need to inform Rapid that Esther is attacking.
But how… ?

Esther’s sword is faster than I can move my mouth or speak.
Esther jumps over Grape’s barrier and attacks.
I’m hypnotized so I can’t attack, so I’ll be safe… Rapid is dangerous.

Esther cannot attack me.
It is hypnotized like that.
Therefore… You seem to have been angry before, but you didn’t attack me, right?

Esther cannot attack me.
Can’t attack
However, high-ranking magical girls can resist hypnosis.

Because Grape was able to resist, Esther, who is stronger than Grape, can of course also resist.
The moment you resist, your body flinches or your movements slow down a bit.
Does it slow down the moment it tries to attack me?
The moment I recognized that fact, my body moved on its own.

Throw yourself to the right to block Esther.
It is enough just to get in the gap of the attack.
Hypnosis will block Esther if you block it very briefly, and Rapid will also react if there is a momentary gap.

After my body moves, a sudden question fills my head.
What’s more important than being hypnotized that you can’t attack me… ?
If not being able to attack is an execution blocking command that prevents the start of an action called attack, wouldn’t it have no effect if it was already executed?

Shouldn’t it have been hypnotic that the movement would stop once the attack was executed, in order to stop it after executing the attack?
Would it be okay if I suddenly intervened in an attack that had already begun?
Come to think of it, didn’t I feel like my lungs were burning earlier?

That’s an attack, but why was Esther able to raise her magical powers?
Did you know that my left hand could do something to restore me?
You think it’s not even an attack?

Because you didn’t mean to harm me?
You think Grape will stop you?
Or not… I wasn’t the target of the attack, and I was just caught up in it… ?
… Wouldn’t it?

In a moment of subtle anxiety, Esther’s thoughts flowed back through her left hand.
Almost at the same time as I threw myself, Rapid’s eyes looked at Esther.
Rapid’s magic deals with space.
By sense, it knows the exact location.

Since she acted together since she was a magical girl, Rapid knows Esther as well as Esther knows about other magical girls.
She had already noticed that he was going to attack, blocking her vision with great magic.
Got figured out

While recovering her magic, Rapid, who was secretly preparing her magic, reaches out to her.
Late.
Rapid was not late, Esther was late.

“Spatial Land!”

Space is cut