Chapter 18 – Tentacle Queen (7) [Content Minor Edits]

Esther immediately ignores Rapid and flies towards me.
I saw Esther flying away with a maniacal smile, and beyond the chills on the back of my neck, I felt the hairs all over her body stand up.

“Space Folding!”

At that moment, Esther, who flew towards me first, was quickly overtaken by Rapid and appeared in front of me.
No, I didn’t overtake it, but it appeared in front of me in an instant, as if the original Rapid was closer.
It feels like the distance itself has instantly become closer to Rapid.
Awareness and understanding do not keep up with reality.

“Barrier!”
“Aha.”

Rapid, with his back to me, stood in front of me with his hips sticking out slightly, as if emphasizing his slim waist and hips.
This is the magic that Rapid uses the most.
It is the simplest magic to protect the surroundings, but also the strongest defense magic.

Esther saw the barrier magic shimmering transparently in front of Rapid’s hand and met eyes with me inside the barrier.
Esther, who did not move for a moment, gave a distorted smile and merged the fiery swords in both hands into one great sword.
As it was, Esther swung her fiery sword like a huge axe.

“Rapid!! Well blocked! Until I use up all my mana!!”
“Aww!!”
“Hold on, hold on, hold on!! Should I protect the citizens? Because you’re a magical girl! Ahahahaha!!”

Hwareuk, Hwareuk, a huge sword of flame swung and hit the barrier, hot heat leaked into the barrier.
You can hear the sound of Rapid’s hands getting cooked, and in an instant, sweat seeps out of his body.

Even in this situation, Rapid smiled and looked back at me.
As soon as you meet his eyes, your sweaty, painful smile changes to a surprised one, and then a wide grin.

“Bye, have you been to the hospital? Nothing… Didn’t you?”
“What… ?”

I remember it.
He remembers me, whom I only met once on the street.
In order to reassure me of remembering me who had secretly cast a spell on me, I asked in a worried voice, then screamed as I frowned at the pain that seemed to burn my hand.

“Aaaaa!!”
“Is it hot? Are you slowly running out of power? Be careful! A citizen is hurt!”

Barrier shakes.
I can see Rapid reaching out again and pouring a huge amount of mana all at once, making the barrier hard again.
But that’s only for a moment.

Rapid is pouring his magic into both the small barriers attacked by the tentacle monsters and the large barriers Esther slams down.
No matter how fast it was, there was no way it could withstand something like this.
The wall overlaid in the air gradually becomes transparent.

“Rapid, tell me you’ll surrender whenever it’s hard! Come on, try it! I will surrender, I will become Esther’s companion!”
“Okay, it’s okay… ! Because I can protect you… !”

Even in this situation, Rapid speaks with a smile to reassure me.
The hand against the barrier is getting cooked and smells like burning.
Rapid’s palms are burning.

Even when Rapid could see his hands gradually changing color, and even when the smell of burning flesh vibrated, he did not lower his hands.
It’s a fact that I can tell that it would be more likely to fight while running away from Esther by abandoning me immediately and taking the barrier, but I don’t budge.
To protect me from Esther.

However, Esther was defeated by Negative and unconditionally won in a hand-to-hand battle with Rapid even before she was dragged away and infected without being rescued.
If we fight over long distances while constantly moving each other, Rapid might win, but… When it comes to a fight to hold on like this, it’s as if the answer has already come out.

Dangerous.
This is really… Unstable.
Rapid will definitely lose if it goes on like this.

If you cast long-distance magic quickly and fluidly and run repeatedly, you will be defeated by an opponent who might have won.
Lose to protect me
I lose to protect everyone I don’t know.

In a very short time, I fell into danger just because there was one person around me who couldn’t be protected by a barrier.
I fell in love with this kind of Rapid… Although this appearance is also the reason why everyone calls her a saint.
This… I know it when I become a party.
Rapid shouldn’t fight like this.
This is not it.

“Haaaaa…”

Then, a sigh sounded inappropriate for this urgent situation.

“Rapid… How many times have I told you not to fight like that?”

Kang, kang and a metal sound resounds.
High heels with sharp blades flashed as they hit the floor.
The moment she heard a tired voice, Esther’s hand that had been lowering the barrier stopped and her hand began to tremble.

“Rod, number 8.”

A magical girl with grayish silver hair and roll hair approaches.
As the clothes in a fancy dress get closer, they disappear into shining dust.
It transforms into a battle suit similar to Rapid, but much sharper.
Slowly starting from the rod, her symbol of magic orb, stretched out in one hand… Slowly…
The red, death light extends out.

[Heat blade auxiliary start, 8 seconds until the proper temperature is fixed]
“Everyone run away!! Hurry!”

Esther exclaims urgently, and her tentacled monsters move with astonishing speed and flee through the portal.
Hot heat leaks out and burns the surroundings, then gradually compresses and gathers, changing from red to blue to white.
In just 8 seconds, the shadow, which had been waiting for countless tentacle monsters to jump in, slowly lifted the white-hot blade after 8 seconds.

“Acceleration assist.”
[Use of NGD-5 crystals, 2, 1 until activation…]

Because the tentacle monster always oozes moist mucus over its slimy tentacles, just getting close to it causes a strong anesthetic and aphrodisiac effect.
The moment it is cut, condensation pours out, and it can also voluntarily spew out condensation.
It is a powerful monster that puts the people around it under the influence of evil juice just by being nearby.

In order not to take any damage from the tentacle monster… There is no choice but to burn and kill even the smell floating in the air.
It sounds absurd, but in theory it really did exist.

“Adonis Adonis.”
[Secondary start]

For an instant, the surroundings turn red.
After the light stopped, the surroundings were filled with the smell of cooking clams and squid at the same time.
The ultra-high-temperature ray blade is swung countless times in the air, drawing out a space other than a line and burning it away.

“Haaa…”

A clump of light that seemed to have been randomly drawn was drawn in the air and burned away without leaving even a single drop of bodily fluid from the blade tentacles. The tentacle monsters that failed to escape within 8 seconds were scorched and burned, unable to regenerate, and vanished in midair without being able to emit secret fluid at the moment they were cut.
A smoky scent that has been burned at a high temperature permeates the strange scent that spreads in the air.

The high heels with sharp blades slowly approached with a bloody sound.
The resilient and ferocious lower body with a sharp and bloody feeling that can be said to be overwhelming hits the floor.
Like Rapid, he has a big chest and a thin waist, but the atmosphere itself is different.
Rather than being a magical girl… She is a slayer

“Are you hurt?”
“Yes…”
“Hand.”

After hearing Ash’s words, Rapid holds out his burnt and discolored hand.
Ash extended his palm over it and used magic.

“Adonis Adonis.”

A healing light lingers on his hand.
The blisters and wounds on Rapid’s hands slowly disappear as if they were wrapped in something.

“Ash…”

Esther, who had been watching him, called out to Ash, shaking his hand holding the fiery sword.
However, Ash seemed to be unable to hear any of Esther’s voices, ignored her as if she were a non-existent person, and spoke as if she were teaching Lapid.

“Combat or rescue, which one is more important?”
“Uh, battle…”
“The reason is?”
“If rescue is scooping water out of a bathtub in the presence of negatives, then combat is turning off a faulty faucet…”
“I know that, but why are you prioritizing rescue again?”

The atmosphere is strange.
I’m sure I was nervous about Esther a little while ago and was wrapped up in fear that I might die… Now it is peaceful as if it came to another world.
But it’s not that it’s not scary.

Until a moment ago, the effect of the condensed liquid remained in the body, and the body was excited on its own, but the moment it saw Ash, the blood cooled and the excitement disappeared.
Just looking at Ash reminds me of what I saw in the video, and I choke.
Could it be that he noticed that he hypnotized Rapid?
Did he come to kill me after realizing that I had been hypnotized by Rapid?

Ash is a magical girl who protects people.
I’ve only hypnotized Rapid once, but I haven’t done anything that leaves a trace or does much damage.
Of course, I must have come to stop Esther, but I saw Ash and felt her fear.
The scene from a moment ago, turning the tentacle monsters into burnt dust in an instant, is stuck in my mind.
I have an ominous feeling that my body will be wrapped around Ash’s sword and turned into her blood mist.

“Ash!!”
“Esther, be quiet.”

Esther called out to Ash again, aiming the fiery sword in her hand.
It seems like he doesn’t even care.
Negative’s executive, Esther, is being treated as if she poses no danger.

“Now, me… Are you ignoring me?”

Seeing Ash’s reaction, Esther bites her lower lip and shakes her body.
As if magic were reacting to Esther’s anger, the fire shimmered and rose, and gradually changed color.
The fire-like red magic that surrounded Esther’s body turns blue and white.
I know this magic.
Magic like the symbol of the magical girl Esther before becoming negative.
It’s a magic that Esther’s View Tube channel once explained that she becomes stronger by instantly exploding her magic power.

“Nova Nova!”

Turning into a fiery demon, Esther raised a sword of fire that shone like the sun above her head and lunged at Ash.
It shoots out its body with hot air and moves at an invisible speed.

“Adonis Adonis.”

Esther, who disappeared without even blinking her eyes once, appears in front of Ash.
What the hell happened? Ash’s high heels are pointed at Esther’s neck, with a sharp blade planted instead of a heel.

“Sheesh!”

Quickly move her body and shoot and move around, just like Esther does when dealing with her grapes.
The sword of fire was swung again and again, but Ash was already standing still everywhere.
Ash is not blocking Esther’s attack.
Esther herself puts her sword where Ash blocks her attack.

Ash, who had been avoiding the place where the sword would arrive beforehand, as if he had fully grasped the movement, swung her symbol, a magical aid shining like a crystal, and a rod, which had blown out of her heatblade, and removed the red-blazing sword blade. He murmured and spat out words that he couldn’t believe were magic spells.

“No.2.”
[Starting the nanomonomer cutter, 2 seconds.]

Its shape changed in an instant, and a trembling sound began to emanate from the sharp blade.
The blade of the sword glowed blue and slowly headed toward the floor.
Just by lightly touching the tip of the sword, the ground it touched was cut away.

“Hey, Eclipses!”

Ash swings his sword, and Esther, who has become translucent again using magic, receives Ash’s sword with her body without avoiding it.
Ash’s sword cuts through Esther’s body as she stands still, as if believing that she would be able to dodge the sword with that alone.
It does not pass as if nothing happened.
It completely cuts through Esther’s body and passes by.

“Kuh… ! Uh, why… ?”

Esther couldn’t believe that her magic didn’t work.
Ash was talking kindly to Rapid, like a teacher teaching students, completely ignoring Esther.

“Rapid, what did I tell you to do when Esther uses Eclipse?”
“It’s a skill that avoids the dimension for a while by applying the car and the dimension gate… Attack without rest, or change the space correction value faster than the magic operation speed with vibration waves…”
“How to send vibration waves without vibration magic?”
“After slowing down the space with Slow Territory, the mana is overlapped and shot to resonate…”
“This Eclipse… How… Do you know It is a magic that has just awakened… ?”

Esther’s eyes widen in astonishment as she hears Lapid and Ash’s conversation.
Rapid hesitates as if he is being scolded by Ash, who is angry inappropriately for the situation.
And Ash looked down at such a rapid and suddenly smiled and said in a kind voice.

“Nice job Rapid, can we do better next time?”
“Eww… Huh…”

Hearing Ash’s words, Rapid, whose voice has dropped as if he’s somehow lost his temper, can be seen gripping the magic wand tightly.

“Why did you move through space?”
“Because Grape asked for support… It’s dangerous…”
“Is that why you wasted your magic power?”
“I’m worried, it will happen… Because we are friends…”
“Haaaaa…”
“Aaaaa!!”

As Ash listened to Rapid’s story, he quickly swung his sword at Esther’s body.
A white vibrating blade is embedded in Esther’s belly, and black and red blood spurts out of the blade like boiling water.
Upon hearing Esther’s scream, Rapid’s face contorts in agony.

“Ah, Ash… You… You…”
“Esther, haven’t you become negative yet?”
“What… ?”
“Revival hard and keep attacking. Next time I will come with wings.”
“Cuck… ! Kahak… !”

Ash’s sword cuts off Esther’s arm.
Fog his legs, stab him in the chest.
One-sidedly attack the helpless Esther.

“See you later.”

Just like that, Ash turned Esther into a mist of blood.
And right after that, an unknown black light appeared in Esther’s bloody mist… The tentacle monsters disappeared as if they were being absorbed into a missing dimension.
The tentacle monster and Esther disappeared on the road, leaving only the women who trembled all over the body in climax when the wind blew.
Ash, who was still looking down at the women with cold eyes, turned his back and spoke to Rapid.

“Rapid, let’s go back.”