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As Alice's words faded.
Boom—!
A massive roar suddenly echoed.
"What!!!" The snow beneath Touko's feet suddenly erupted, and a huge hand shot out, grabbing at her.
"The Giant of the Bridge??! It should have been destroyed by Beo!" Touko stared, dumbfounded, at the approaching giant hand.
The stone hand stirred up a large amount of air, and the howling wind made Touko's brownish-red short hair stand on end.
"It's too late to dodge!" Touko gritted her teeth and revealed her trump card.
Maple-leaf-like wings of light suddenly unfurled from her back and, like a butterfly folding its wings, they wrapped tightly around her body.
The stone arm slammed into the wings of light.
Boom—!
A huge roar, like that of a missile exploding, echoed.
After the roar, a series of cracking sounds slowly echoed. It was the sound of the wings of light protecting her being shattered.
Watching the constantly shattering wings of light before her, Touko, who knew how strong its defense was, clicked her tongue. "Tsk, an iron wall that even a battleship's main cannon couldn't break was shattered in one blow. Are the great witch's secret treasures all such monstrous things? Isn't that a bit too overpowered?"
Touko, who was shocked by the Giant of the Bridge's attack power, didn't notice the white mist that was constantly drifting into the interior from the cracks in the wings of light.
A thick, white mist quickly filled the air around Touko, enveloping her.
"Damn it!!" The abnormality of the white mist made Touko startle.
Countless sharp teeth suddenly appeared from the white mist. The familiar known as the Rose Hound revealed its bloody fangs.
Gnash~ crackle.
The sound of bones and flesh being torn was accompanied by Touko's mournful cries.
"Eek!! Alice, why did you let that disgusting thing out!" Aoko, beside her, quickly covered her eyes and said with a look of disgust.
"A single, fatal blow," Alice explained, her tone impassive.
Clap! Clap! Clap!
The sound of clapping once again echoed, and an unharmed Touko once again walked out of the old school building.
"It's impossible to defend against. As expected of a Witch. I didn't expect you to have already deployed the three great secret treasures," Touko said, a look of admiration on her face as she looked at Alice.
"How many death-substitution tools do you have!!" Aoko said, a look of bewilderment on her face as she looked at the reappeared Touko.
"..." Alice was silent, but from her dark eyes, it was clear that she agreed with Aoko.
To have worked so hard to kill one Touko, only to have another one pop up the next second... this endless scene made them feel an immense pressure.
"This is the last one. Since you've already used all your moves, then I should also show my trump card," Touko said, tilting her head back and looking down on the two, her tone light and cheerful.
"It's your turn, Beo-kun!" Touko lifted her right hand and snapped her fingers.
"Awoooo—!"
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Haru walked along the streets of Misaki Town's old district.
Since today was Christmas Eve, even though it was almost 11 PM, the streets were still filled with a bustling crowd.
Haru's thin figure seemed out of place in the surrounding environment.
This was only natural. Most of the people still wandering the streets were in pairs, a man and a woman, hugging and walking along, spreading dog food everywhere.
After all, Christmas Eve in Japan had long since become a hookup festival. It was normal to see such a scene.
However, to Haru, to be force-fed a mouthful of public display of affection on this festival was enough to cause him some displeasure. An invisible spiritual fluctuation spread out from him, and a grand magic known as 'True Words' was deployed.
A man and a woman walked past him.
"Ryoko, I've already bought the condoms. Let's do it!" a young man said, his arm around his female companion's waist, his tone 'uninhibited.'
What answered him was a resounding slap.
"Are you crazy? It's only our first date!!!" The girl, called Ryoko, slapped the young man with an angry expression and stormed off.
A similar scene began to spread through the bustling crowd.
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"The people these days, why do they have to be so direct? At least go to a hotel to say it."
Haru shook his head and sighed a few times at the decline of public morals, at how shameless people were.
Though he was walking slowly, that was only in his movements.
With each step, the next, he would appear on the street thirty meters away. No one was surprised by this strange scene. Even the passersby who had witnessed the abnormality thought it was a matter of course.
Passing through the noisy crowd, Haru arrived at his destination.
"Is this the place?"
Haru lifted his head and, with an impassive expression, looked at the sign of the shop before him—'Pachinko Parlor.'
Haru stood at the entrance and narrowed his eyes slightly. While sensing the every move of the hundreds of people inside the parlor, he conducted a carpet search of the entire shop's space.
"Found it..."
His deep gray pupils sharpened, and his face suddenly became serious.
The next second, he appeared before a game machine in the shop and looked at the space above it. There, the aura of the 'Law' was slowly dissipating.
In the current Moon world, the only people who could make Haru take them seriously were the five great True Magic Users, the Types of the various planets, and the 'omniscient and omnipotent' Miss Ryougi from the neighboring Kanbuyu City.
The rest, even the Dead Apostle Ancestors, couldn't arouse any of his interest. Of course, beautiful young women were an exception.
"Tsk, an unknown Law. Two, three, and four are ruled out. One is dead. The only one left is five. He's quite capable, that ghost old geezer," Haru grinned, a self-deprecating look on his face.
You know, his God clone had been monitoring the old True Magic User hidden in the timeline in the cave at the center of the ley line twenty-four hours a day.
But even so, that old Aozaki bastard had been able to slip past his perception and return to the present world from the timeline on the outside of the world, and had escaped.
As he thought, even a flawed True Magic User was not to be underestimated.
So, first, he had to determine where that old geezer had run off to. If he let this Fifth True Magic User escape, he really didn't know where to go to catch him.
After all, the Fifth Magic and the passage to the Root that the old True Magic User had sealed were things he was determined to obtain.
"Rewind," Haru whispered.
The surrounding space suddenly froze and then, like a movie being rewound, it began to play in reverse at an extremely fast speed.
The surrounding environment changed. The figures of the players and the parlor waiters, with their backs to him, moved backward, and their words were also reversed.
Time quickly rewound, and everything was like an illusion.
Until time rewound to an hour ago, it suddenly stopped.
Haru looked at the young waiter whose body had been invaded by a spirit with a surprised expression. After a long moment, he frowned slightly.
The rewound time and space quickly began to reverse, and in just a moment, it returned to the normal flow of time.
After confirming his target, Haru immediately turned and left the parlor, walking slowly towards the outskirts of Misaki City.
His magical power began to boil.
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