Chapter 265 – LEAP (4)

The moment the blazing flames were about to slash X, X removed Esther’s gripped arm and blew fire from the cut edge.
A wave like a jet engine rises and pushes X’s body away.
The X, which was shot backward as if it were being thrown out, quickly spread the distance and pressed its back against the wall.

It seems that she tried to get out of the sword’s path quickly, but she couldn’t avoid Esther’s sword completely.
X, who had also cut his other arm, dropped his arm expressionlessly without saying a word.
Then, another arm emerged from the side wall and joined X’s body.

[Individual Identification… Esther, 89% match… Report.]
Hehe?! Uh why?! Why?!]

The moment X hit the wall again and disappeared into the floor and ceiling as if all the surgical instruments around me were hiding, I heard Riff’s scream from the speakers.
Immediately after the sound of a tripping and noise, and the speaker that stopped playing at the end of the unknown sound, X’s movement changed slightly.
A little less like a robot… X, who moved more smoothly like a human, looked at Esther and me and said.

[Autonomous judgment, battle… Activation of temporary manager authority, facility change.]

The walls clatter and they pull out tons of guns, cannons, lasers, circular saws, and the like.
In addition, X’s arms and legs were also covered with something like gloves, making them look like they were ready for battle.
Then, just as the operating table I was lying on was about to go down to the floor, Esther thrust her fiery sword into the floor beneath the operating table.

“Be cheeky… Where to take… ?”

After destroying the operating table, Esther glared at the X beyond the increasing number of weapons that came out one after another and pulled the rings that were restraining me by her tail.
The restraint rings break so easily with a ting-ting sound.
Eventually, the moment all the rings fell off, Esther glanced at me, then immediately turned her head and said,

“… Clothes?”
“Khehe… ! Cool!

I didn’t even know where the clothes were, so I shook my head.
Then Esther clicked her tongue and made a grinding sound, then suddenly hugged me tightly and wrapped one wing around my naked body.
He holds a sword of fire in one hand and me in the other.

I felt that Esther was protecting me, so I clung to Esther with the feeling of relief and the anxiety that I might die if I was hit by the weapons around me.
Esther flinched as he ran as if hugging him.
The moment Esther hugged me tighter as if she were holding me tight, the gun fired.

Esther didn’t even dodge the bullet and was hit right there.
I did move a little sometimes, but that was only when I almost got hit on the toe or head wrapped in wings.
The other bullets didn’t dodge, hit me, and dripped drops of melted metal on my skin.

Even if a laser is fired, it is simply swallowed up with a sword of fire, and when the sword is swung, it is also received with a sword of fire and melted away.
Circular saw blades melted as soon as they approached, and even special metals that seemed difficult to cut melted after receiving the sword a couple of times.
After confirming with my own eyes the difference in power between Esther and X, I felt more relieved and leaned my head on Esther’s shoulder and coughed.

“… Explain the situation.”
“Cool… ! Hook, whoa… ! I kidnapped… Experiment, dissect… Ik, sahak, cool!” “
“Anatomy… ?”
“Point! Number… ! This, left hand… Cool! Because… Esther said, it’s strange… Cool, cool!”
“Ha?”

A cold energy pours over Esther’s head, who gave a bewildered voice.
I recognized that it was liquid nitrogen when I saw that the liquid that was pouring out of Esther’s arms, except for me and Esther, froze in a fog-like smoke.
Esther ignored the liquid nitrogen and let out a cold, angry laugh at X.

“So, I planted a tentacle… Did you try to dissect it?”
[… More than a figure.]
“Even if you know what I planted… Did you touch mine? Is this? Aha, ahahaha! Ahahahahaha!!”

Esther suddenly laughed, put his hand on her forehead, tilted her head and smiled, then suddenly swung her flaming sword.
It melted like jelly, not metal, and the cut weapons flowed sticky and exploded.
Esther threw down the fiery sword and raised one hand above his head to gather his mana.

“You’ve become a lot bolder while I haven’t seen you, Rip? Shouldn’t you reduce your magic power so that you can’t even feel it?”
[… This machine name is X, separate from the creator.]
“Ha?”
“That, yes… That’s not a riff… Robot…”

When I told Esther, who mistook the X for Leaf because it looked almost identical to Leaf, Esther tilted her head to the side and raised the corner of her mouth.
Bloody energy gathers in his hand, forming a diamond-shaped spear of fire.
Esther smiled happily and snapped his fingers.

“Then die.”

The result of Esther’s small movement was great.
The spear in his hand shoots out with a burst of air, knocking over tiles on the ceiling and floor.
The spear fired hit X, destroying both the exposed weapon and the inside of the tile.

[Energy drain activated.]
“That… !”

X immediately opened his body and absorbed Esther’s magic just as he absorbed Ramji’s magic.
To think that she could absorb not only the magic of low-class magical girls, not only lightning magic, but also fire magic.
Unlike the Thunder Cannon, Esther’s magic was a little stronger, so her whole body was scorched and her clothes were on fire, but it did not stop her movement.

“Leaf, did you make a fun toy?”
[Energy… Overcharge…]

X opened his chest down the center, with one side of his face molten, glowing red camera-type eyeballs.
A large but blurry crystal is fixed on one side, and a small but large shining crystal is fixed on the other side.
Following the hot heat rising from the crystal in the center of his chest, the gloves on X’s hands change, creating a cannon with a shield made of light in one hand and a long sword in the other.

[Form change… Number 6, Data Load, Number 4, Number 6.]

Esther slowly moved closer to X, leisurely flicking his hand holding the fiery sword.
The bottom of his feet burns and melts, and the wings on the other side that embraced me spread out.
Licking lips with tongue, wagging tail… Are having fun

“The bitch who used to make training robots!”

Esther approached the sword’s reach and swung her flaming sword down at X.
Surprisingly, X parried the sword with his shield and aimed the cannon at Esther.
Esther was startled for a moment, as if she was surprised by X who took the sword of fire, then immediately raised his tail and fired a shooting star.

“Ha?”

X immediately bent like a sword and caught Esther’s shooting star.
X’s sword, which received all the bullets at an ultra-close distance and sent them away, suddenly turned into a stabbing weapon and aimed at Esther’s forehead like a fired bullet.
Esther murmured, leisurely taking the sword by the horn of his head and turning it to my side.

“… Meteor butterfly sword?”
“What… ?”

I raised my voice in surprise at what I heard from Esther’s arms.
Yuseong Phalaenopsis Sword… Swinging like a butterfly and shooting like a shooting star… One of the most famous sword techniques in this era… The name of a swordsmanship that made a name for itself after being modified to the Great Negative War.
It is the skill of the retired magical girl, Lily.

[W.R.C Number 0, Number 2 active.]

Along with a bloody mechanical sound, the crystal in the center of X’s chest shines.
For some reason, I felt that X’s camera lens was like a sad look.
X maintained his expressionless expression and swung his sword with a very human gesture.

[Battle begins.]
“Huh?”

Esther moved one of her wings out of the way of X’s sword.
As soon as he retreats back a little and opens up some distance, wires snake up from the floor next to X and connect to the cannon-mounted shield.
Immediately after that, the field of vision widened.

“Ha… ?”
“Eww?!”

The moment my vision returned to normal was the moment Esther stopped and blocked X’s laser fire.
Block the bombardment with the fire sword, move again and block the bombardment.
As the process of blocking, moving, and blocking over and over again continued, I noticed something was off.

“Is this a strange toy?”

Chasing all of Esther’s misdeeds… No, it’s attacking as if it noticed the front.
Is it a robot, so it analyzes something and attacks where it predicts?
Shoot as if you knew in advance what you were going to do.

“If you increase the distance, one-sided shooting with the energy of the ground…”

Eyes widen again.
You will see an X right in front of you.
Esther’s sword swings from bottom to top.

“Aha?”

Esther opened his laughing mouth slightly, licked his sharp fangs with the tip of her tongue, and swung her body to kick him.
X immediately raises his arm to block a series of attacks with a charge, sword strike, and kick, and attacks at the same time.
Zero-range bombardment, this is unavoidable.

“Aww!”
“Ahahahaha!”

The moment I screamed, Esther twisted her body so I couldn’t hit her, translucent the area the laser shot hit.
The strike passes through Esther’s body, swinging her arm in the midst of his bombardment.
Before Esther’s sword struck X, as if she knew it would happen, X’s sword blocks Esther’s fiery sword.

A kick that extends forward as if pushing away, and evades by turning to the side.
The shooting star that came out of the tail that was hidden and sent it to the shield.
I avoid the momentary horn stabbing when swords meet, and I bend my neck in a strange way to avoid it.

“Seeing that the sword and shield don’t melt, they must be using fixed magic at least?”
[Positive.]
“It’s a funny toy… You can use magic better than the main body!”

Surprisingly, Esther and X exchanged swords almost on equal footing.
It attacks, dodges, cuts, blocks, dodges, and attacks at tremendous speed, repeating.
Esther, even so, X… It moves so much that I wonder how such a movement is possible even though it is a machine.

The most surprising thing is the occasional, prearranged attacks.
There is no other way to explain it.
Obviously X moves first, but there’s a breathtaking scene where Esther herself moves toward the sword as if she’s bringing herself to the attack.

“But, is that the end?”

However, Esther still has room.
Esther was fighting single-handedly, still holding me in one of his arms.
When Esther laughed at X and swung her sword, X’s sword suddenly pointed at me.

“What?!”

Esther hurriedly twisted his body and caught the sword with his body.
The skin wasn’t burned, but it was important that it was hit.
From that moment on, X started attacking me intensively.

The equilibrium, which had been boiling, tipped toward X in an instant.
Esther only protects and blocks me, while X unilaterally pours the tip of her sword like a heavy rain.
Esther, who had been hit by the sword more and more, frowned and breathed fire between her teeth.

“This bastard… Because you play… On the subject of machines!”
“Wow?!”

Esther untied me from holding her in one hand, wrapped her tail around her, and carried me behind her back.
I held onto Esther’s back and poked my head out beside her head.
Esther spread her wings wide and sharpened a sword of fire in one hand and a nail wrapped in fire in the other.

“Touch what you shouldn’t touch!”
[Evasion… Impossible.]

Muttering as if foreseeing the future, X set his shield in front and crouched down.
Esther violently dealt with X, who went into complete defense.
It’s not about attacking or dealing with it, it’s like handling a toy… Claw claws, sword strikes, kicks, bursts, melts, cuts, crushes, crushes, shatters.

“Die!”

After venting her anger, Esther grabbed the fiery sword with both hands and reduced the size of the sword as if compressing it.
The sword of fire, which was swung as it was, cut cleanly through X’s body like a sharp blade.
Immediately after that, X’s head, which had already become a lump of scrap metal, rolled on the floor.