Freya with Pero in her arms flies towards the second-class angel. The other three are already at war as well. And in the distance, the sound of an explosion caused by Erna’s magic echoed.
“Freya-san, throw me to that angel as hard as you can.”
“Okay, be careful.”
Her divine power causes Pero to be ejected like a bullet. In the next moment, Zazi’s scythe and Pero’s fists collided head-on.
“A sacred beast going against the angels. To rebel against God is an act of barbarity!”
“I don’t know that. I’m fighting for myself.”
“Foolish. Forgetting the meaning of your existence and joining the wicked—tsk!”
Zazi shoves Pero and moves backwards. Freya swooped down directly from above and got between Pero and the angel. Immediately after, she grabs Pero with her divine powers.
“We must not listen to the enemy’s words. He intends to confuse and neutralize us.”
“Un, I know. But I want to get some information. If I get close to them, I may find out what they really want to do.”
“I see. Like the saying, if you want treasure, you should jump into the dragon’s den. As expected of Pero-sama. I am impressed by your deep thoughts.”
Freya sighs with a dreamy expression, and Pero went silent with furrowed brows. In this fight in the sky, Freya could only lift him every now and then, so he is bothered by it.
He then mumbles,
“Let’s just keep attacking. Freya-san, I want you to use me to exploit his opening.”
“Understood. Then I will support Pero-sama’s aerial battle.”
The two of them begin to move towards Zazi again.
“Do you really think that I, a second-class angel, will be defeated by you beings who cling to the ground!? Burning Wall!”
When Zazi pointed his left hand to the two of them, a hot, bright red translucent wall appeared. A wall ten meters square and one meter thick went at high speed towards Freya and Pero. The moment the wall passed through them, they were burned by the heat of a thousand degrees Celsius.
“Kuu-, if I hadn’t evolved, I would have died. Pero-sama are you okay?”
“Yes, it is still manageable. This is going to be tough if we get hit by that over and over again.”
Some of Freya’s skin was scorched. But it is Pero who was seriously injured. His beautiful pale fur was darkened, and his skin was burnt. As an ice element user, his resistance to high temperatures was lower than that of Freya’s.
From their appearance, Zazi noticed that it was a weakness, so he fired a series of Burning Walls at the two of them. Freya dodged and fled over and over again while holding Pero with divine power.
“I can’t get close to him with this. What are we going to do, Pero-sama?”
“Throw me right on top of him and Freya-san should approach him at maximum speed.”
“If you’re unlucky, you’ll smash to the ground. It’s too dangerous.”
“It’s okay. I’m prepared for that. Our advantage is in numbers. If we attack together, I’m sure we’ll win.”
Seeing Pero’s serious look, Freya smiled and agreed. She knows he won’t change his decision when his mind is all set. He’s very brave as well. In the end, she agreed. Freya was determined to save him as she threw him straight up with great force.
“Angel, I’ll show you what a homeless knight is capable of.”
With explosive acceleration, Freya began to fly. The second-class angel threw ten layers of Burning Wall at Freya. However, she did not even avoid it. She thrusts through the wall and head straight for Zazi. Even when her body was burned, she did not change her expression and single-mindedly pushed forward in a straight line.
“I’ll commend you for your suicidal thrust. However, I know from the beginning that you’re just a decoy and the other one can’t fly. Burning Wall!”
“Aggh!”
A wall of 20 layers of high heat stopped Freya from moving. White steam from the heat wafts through the burnt skin. Freya went silent on the spot with her face down.
“Fufu, fufufu……”
“What’s funny? Have you finally lost your sanity?”
“No. The decoy is Pero-sama.”
“Wha-? I can’t move my body!?”
Freya, who caught Zazi with her divine powers, laughed out loud. Right at that moment, Pero falls. His claws grabbed Zazi’s shoulder, he quickly bared his fangs and bites his neck.
“Damn it! Let go! You beast!!”
“Grrrrrr! Gauu!”
Pero’s fangs sliced through Zazi’s flesh and reached his spine. Still, Zazi did not stop moving and struggles to shake Pero off.
“Burning Wall!”
Zazi used a five-layer burning wall for himself. Pero falls away from the angel’s body due to his body being burned. And Zazi, as the person who initiated the move, was also deeply damaged.
“Damn it! I’m going to retreat here for the time being. You renegade who defy God. Next time, I’ll gouge out your heart and burn it until there is no ashes left —where is that woman?”
The moment he said that, a spear pierced Zazi’s chest from behind.
“Impossible”, he thought. Even though he had trouble dealing with a beast, as a second-class angel, he is angel with a wide range of senses so he thought he could easily cover his back. He should have been fully aware of her movements.
Freya then speaks to Zazi from behind.
“My secret move is instantaneous movement. Although the distance I can move is short, there is no skill more suitable for getting behind the enemy. I told you in advance that Pero-sama is the decoy.”
“Gopu…… Ugh……”
Freya confirms that he has killed him and then throws Zazi’s corpse away. From there, she swooped down to the ground.
“Pero-sama!”
Pero was lying on the ground. She runs over and pulls out a rainbow mushroom from her bosom. She tried to shove the mushroom into Pero’s mouth, but Pero didn’t move and didn’t show any chewing movements. When she put her ears to his chest, she can’t hear his heart beating.
Freya pressed desperately against Pero’s chest.
It’s not too late. Pero-sama will not die at this level.
With that in mind, she worked hard to resuscitate him.
“cough, cough…cough..cough!”
“Pero-sama! Quickly eat some mushroom!”
When Freya shoved the rainbow mushroom into his mouth, Pero chewed with a dull expression. He could hear the sound of his bones being repaired, his darkened hair regained color, and his skin regenerated in the blink of an eye. Still in a daze, Pero sits up and looks around curiously.
Freya hugged him and cried.
“Thank goodness! I thought Pero-sama is dead!”
“Eh? Was I in danger?”
“Your heart stopped! You were also cold!”
“I’m sorry for worrying you. I’m fine now.”
“No, I still need to check for injuries! I should examine every inch of your body!”
“You just want to snuggle on my fur, don’t you?”
Pero surrendered to Freya, who looked stunned and delighted with tears in his eyes.
◇◇◇
Countless fireballs are unleashed, yet the enemy continues to dodge in a spiral rotation as the fireballs explode. The second-class angel who had escaped seemed to be mocking Erna. He was flying far above with two white tails trailing after him.
“He’s not a hit at all. It’s a bit of an eyesore.”
“You can’t hit him because of your bad control. Rival is to blame, hmph!”
“Hey, which side are you on? Let me tell you, my magic control is perfect!”
“If it’s perfect, you should have already hit him! People call that big mouth you know, rival.”
“Ook! I’m going to punch you!”
Erna and Liz were grabbing each other in mid-air, completely ignoring their enemy. Zazi swoops down and swings his scythe at them.
“Waa! It’s dangerous! Are you going to kill us!?”
“It’s weird for him not to kill us when he saw a chance while we are fighting! What rival is saying is so incoherent.”
“Uh-, annoying! I know! I was just a little surprised!”
After dodging Zazi’s attack, Erna and Liz turned their attention to the angel who was flying at high speed. Their enemy flew in all directions in the sky, and the two of them could barely follow him with their naked eyes.
“It would be easier if you could act as a decoy and attract him.”
“I refuse that. You are going to burn him anyway.”
“…..Let’s do it this way. I’ll build a spell that will kill him in one shot, and you can stop him from moving. That won’t be a problem, right?”
“Understood. But if you attack me, I’ll report you to Oniichan.”
“You don’t trust me huh. It’s true that I like Shinichi, but I don’t think in the slightest that it is okay for my love rival to disappear. After all, we’re friends too….…”
Erna blushes as she looks away. Liz, who was satisfied with the plan, muttered as she turned around.
“If I marry Oniichan, I can make Rival a concubine.”
“Stop kidding me! I’m the main wife. Come back, I’ll blow you up!”
Ignoring Erna’s words, Liz faced the enemy. Seeing her back, Erna immediately went into the magic construction. She uses her imagination to transform her enormous amount of magical power into a blade to defeat the angel. The magic she’s building is not Leo. That spell was powerful, but it was too wide in range, it could even have Liz caught up in it. Therefore, she is trying to create a spell that would only kill the second-class angel.
“A spell that only defeats the angel. This is it.”
Once the image is solidified, the magic power takes shape. As soon as it was activated, a dazzling light was emitted from the staff and enveloped her. Liz, on the other hand, was blindly fighting Zazi. The enemy was overwhelmingly superior in flying speed, and she pondered as she deflect the scythes that were being unleashed with her dagger.
“He’s faster than me and even if I chase him normally, he could just get away. I will not be able to put up a decent fight unless I do something about it.”
“Give up, human. Not to say a third-class angel, even against me, a second-class angel, you got no chance of winning.”
“Oh, I know! I should just catch him! Then, it’s easy.”
When Zazi attacks her again, Liz manipulates the dark cloud she is riding to create a large arm for her. Then the arm firmly caught the enemy.
“W-what’s with this arm!?”
“Dark cloud. My favorite ability.”
The arm gradually strengthened the tightening force. Liz crouched down and looked into the angel’s face.
“Where did the angels come from? What is up in the sky?”
“Ugh……guaaa!?”
“If you don’t say it, you’ll be crushed. Answer my question.”
“It’s heaven…… The planet where the gods live…… the center of the universe.”
“What is the universe? And, how do we get to heaven?”
“That…… there is no way I’ll say it! Don’t get carried away, little girl!!”
Zazi’s torrent of light dissipates the dark cloud and causes Liz to fall.
“What you did to me was a waste of divine energy. You made me use the supreme power given to me by God. This sin deserves a thousand death!”
The angry enemy accelerates downward in pursuit of Liz. Then, when he caught up with her, he swung his scythe down. However, while free-falling, Liz catches the scythe with a dagger.
“Tsk. It takes time to regenerate the cloud. This situation is bad.”
“Hahahaha! I’ll cut off your head before you crash to the ground!”
They cross their blades at close range. Liz’s left arm was severed, causing blood to splatter. Even so, they did not stop attacking each other and continued the battle. The high-pitched metallic sound was drowned out by the sound of the wind passing by their ears, and the ground was getting closer and closer to the two of them.
“Give up and return that soul to samsara!”
“No. I’m not going to die.”
A knife flew out of the tip of Liz’s shoe as she said this. She then kicks her toes into Zazi’s side, splattering fresh blood and slowing his attack. Following that, she thrust a dagger into his abdomen and Zazi stayed in place from the pain.
“It’s good that I pulled away. This is dangerous though.”
The ground was already in front of her. Liz frantically searches her surroundings to save herself.
It was small but it is certainly there. A dark cloud about five centimeters in diameter was hovering next to her face. She instantly grabs the cloud and makes her body float away. A tremendous shock hit her whole body, blood gushed out from her severed arm as she grabbed the cloud, and with severe pain, she managed to avoid crashing down.
There were only five meters left before the collision. She could barely hold on to the cloud anymore, she slowly descended to the ground and soon, her feet touched the ground. Liz took out a rainbow mushroom from her pocket, chewed it and then she collapsed.
At the same time, Zazi was holding his abdomen and enduring the pain. Even though they are angels, they are not immune to pain. Compared to humans, they are much more insensitive to pain, but if their abdomen is punctured, even angels will not be inhibited from acting in pain. It takes about 20 seconds for the wound to heal. Zazi looked like he had crushed a bitter bug.
“Thanks to Liz, I completed it! This is the magic that will take you down!”
Erna showed him a single arrow that shone in silver. Zazi snorts seeing that.
“It seems that you have materialized your magical power, but do you really think that you can defeat me with that level of magic? I thought that elves were a more clever race, but I guess I was wrong.”
“Fufu, you’ll have to see this before saying that!”
Summoning Big tree bow at hand, she pulls an arrow and pulls the string. At that moment, Zazi felt an intense chill and ran away.
“Launch!”
The arrow that was released chased Zazi at breakneck speed. No matter how many times he dodged, the arrow followed his track and continued to go after him.
This is a deadly magic arrow that Erna came up with. It is a tracking magic that will continue to pursue the enemy as long as the arrow does not disappear. On top of that, the magical power contained in the arrow is on par with Leo, and its penetration power is so strong that it can penetrate an armor made of orichalcum. It was a spell created to kill angels.
“It’s not supposed to be like this! I’m going to do as the Lord God says—!?”
An arrow pierced Zazi. A large hole with a diameter of ten centimeters is created in his chest, and the heart of the second-class angel was instantly destroyed. When he fell to the ground, he remained motionless with his eyes wide open.
Erna rushed to Liz and screamed when she saw Liz fell to the ground. She grabbed her shoulders and shake her violently.
“This is a lie, right? Don’t die! Please don’t!”
“…………”
“I thought it would be okay to make you a concubine when I became the main wife! Uwaaaa!”
“No. I’m the main wife.”
Liz sat up and spoke with squinted eyes. Knowing that she was alive, Erna hugs her tightly. The two then smiled and rejoiced at their victory.
This is translated by Yume Neiji. Kindly read at yumeineijiworks.wordpress.com.
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