Flapping his wings, the two-meter-tall tengu instantly arrived before Maki Zenin, swinging the katana in his hand, the silver-white blade flashing past.
"Thump, crackle..."
The ground cracked, Maki Zenin standing on the ground gritted her teeth and blocked, this guy's strength... was so great.
"Clang, clang, clang, clang..."
The sound of iron clashing echoed, shining sparks flashing, Maki Zenin quickly swung the Soul Liberating Blade in her hand, blood dripping down from her left hand gripping the hilt tightly, scattering all over the ground.
Seeing this scene, the tengu also deeply knew that this guy before him was at most good for a war of attrition, and what he was best at was the war of attrition, but losing three people at once caused him to feel heartache, if he could pull her into his own team...
This unrealistic idea only flashed through the tengu's mind before he quickly eliminated it, forcibly taking her in after three people had died would inevitably cause his position as the leader inside the organization to be unstable in the future, and would be scorned by others...
"Hoo..."
Every time she swung the weapon in her hand, Maki Zenin would gasp for breath, with the loss of blood, her body was also getting weaker and weaker, while the guy before her was still frighteningly strong, it seemed that she was facing a real tengu.
...
"Clang, bang——"
After struggling for tens of minutes, the battle between the two had also arrived at its final chapter, Maki Zenin's hand gripping the sword had already started to tremble, her originally ruddy face turning pale, a sign of excessive blood loss.
And the tengu wasn't feeling good at this moment either, a clear wound having been sliced open on his face, wounds sliced open by the Soul Liberating Blade weren't easy to heal, blood corroding the suit on his body, gasping for breath in his mouth.
He couldn't help but marvel at how outrageous this little girl's endurance was, having fought for so long, he was already tired, but she hadn't fallen yet, if she wasn't injured, he would probably have collapsed long ago, right?
The originally gray-white ground was now stained with Maki Zenin's spilled blood, seeing that the time was ripe, the tengu violently swung the katana in his hand.
"Clang——!"
Maki Zenin, who could no longer grip the sword tightly in her hand, flew backwards, the Soul Liberating Blade falling off, sticking straight into the ground.
"Hoo, hoo..."
Rolling a few times before collapsing on the ground, Maki Zenin gasped for breath, she was already exhausted to the point of collapsing...
But every time she recalled how Yuuki had also been dealing with so many enemies alone in Shibuya, her heart would be filled with strength, because unknowingly, he, who always rushed to the front lines first, had become the object of her admiration...
The tengu, who had swung out this strike, was also standing in place gasping for breath, just as he was preparing to have the underlings, who hadn't obtained any points, end her life, he saw her stand up again as if she was immortal, roaring, "You! Why can you still stand up?!"
"Sorry, but my bones don't agree with me losing, I'll definitely live and get out of here, and then face him head-on."
Maki Zenin, who had gotten up again, picked up the glasses that had fallen on the ground, looking at the cracks on the lenses, raising the corners of her mouth with a smile, moving to pull out the Soul Liberating Blade stuck in the ground, gripping the hilt tightly with both hands, her eyes extraordinarily sharp.
"...I understand her!!"
The tengu, standing in his original location, was now somewhat afraid of this girl, afraid that his head would be chopped off by the sword in her hand if he wasn't careful, after all... he was also very tired.
This girl before him was like a monster who didn't know fatigue, a nameless fear rushing straight into his heart, but reason told him, this guy had already reached her limit, and there were still six people on his side, they could definitely kill her, he... couldn't lose!!
"Boom——!"
The fireball reignited, silver-white iron arrows were placed on the longbow, the two people standing far away were now preparing to use their own advantages to hunt the weakened girl.
And the remaining four people slowly approached while clenching the weapons in their hands, facing a dangerous person, having not undergone training, they struck the attacking stances that they thought were the most reliable.
Tachi Menglong said in a low voice, "She's so weak right now, the cursed energy inside her body must be bottoming out, cover me as I enter within three meters of her and stand in place for about two seconds, I'll strip the last trace of cursed energy from her body, and then she'll be meat on the chopping board, at our mercy."
"Understood, we'll try our best to hold her back."
Mizukawa Ryuuga nodded, that girl had instantly killed three people, even if she was extremely weak right now, she couldn't be underestimated, her strength was probably already one of the best in this Culling Game, but she was only one of the best after all, he had once seen... a woman who could tear apart the sky.
If they were facing that woman, the leader's first reaction would probably be to run.
"Clang!!!"
The sound of weapons colliding echoed, the three people entangled with Maki Zenin.
Visibly, blue cursed energy enveloped the bodies of the three people, who were all using all their abilities to attack the girl before them, Tachi Menglong standing two meters away, his index fingers and thumbs intersecting, as if taking a photo, aiming at Maki Zenin, who was temporarily unable to break free, although there had been apologies not long ago, only the killing instinct of you die or I die existed at this moment.
As blue cursed energy covered Tachi Menglong's hands, an ominous feeling arose, Maki Zenin's green pupils looked at the man, who had been deploying his technique two meters away, wanting to stop him from deploying it, her exhausted body using all its strength to swing the Soul Liberating Blade in her hand, sweeping all three people, who had been suppressing her with all their might, away.
Even if they had awakened their techniques, they had never experienced true slaughter, so they were full of flaws, only because Maki Zenin was currently exhausted from blood loss that they could barely exchange a few moves, if it was normally, the heads of the three people would have been broken along with the weapons in their hands.
"Whoosh—"
A silver-white arrow tore through the air, shooting straight into Maki Zenin's shoulder, who had been preparing to advance, preventing her from disrupting Tachi Menglong's technique that was currently being deployed.
"Die, monster!!!"
Looking at the girl, who had taken a step back instinctively because of the pain in her shoulder, Tachi Menglong roared loudly, "Technique Reversal \[Stripping]!!!"
Without cursed energy, then the guy before him, who was heavily injured but still as strong as a monster, would fall, because there was no cursed energy to stabilize the injuries on his body, this was what Tachi Menglong thought.
At the moment that the technique had been deployed, his tense heart had also been relaxed, because... they had won.
In the next second, a blood-stained blade instantly pierced through his chest, Maki Zenin, who had been gripping the Soul Liberating Blade, asked with doubt, "Just what did you strip from me? I feel that my body has become extraordinarily light."
"Cough..."
In disbelief, looking at the sword stuck in his chest, Tachi Menglong's pupils shrunk, asking with doubt, "I clearly already stripped all of your cursed energy... how is it possible… that you can still move?!"
"Cursed energy... huh."
Maki Zenin pondered for a moment, in the next second, the corners of her mouth raised with a smile, saying, "Then you've still won the grand prize after all, the one in ten million grand prize."
Her exhausted body had been like it had been reborn at this moment, Maki Zenin felt her transformation, her incomplete \[Heavenly Restriction] had been perfected at this moment, because there wasn't a single trace of cursed energy inside her body anymore, her imprisoned body had been liberated, and she would become that second \[Heavenly Tyrant].
If it had been a sorcerer whose cursed energy had been forcibly stripped, they would have been able to clearly sense it, but Maki Zenin, who was no different from an ordinary person, naturally couldn't even understand the form of cursed energy, let alone sense the sudden loss of cursed energy inside her body.
But not all ordinary people whose cursed energy had been completely stripped from their bodies would become \[Heavenly Restriction], because Maki Zenin herself already possessed \[Heavenly Restriction], this was decided from the moment of birth, and couldn't be artificially created later.
The birth of the tyrant, the death of Tachi Menglong, Maki Zenin pulled out the arrow stuck in her shoulder, the wound rapidly healing, solidifying into a conspicuous scar;
Then she aimed at that person, who had ambushed her, in the distance and shot it out, being made of iron in the first place, its own weight wasn't light, so it was naturally like a thrown spear.
Even the person who had made the arrow hadn't imagined that this thing could actually be used to throw...
The arrow that tore through the air instantly pierced through the head of the man gripping the longbow, causing the man, who had been gripping a fireball, on the side to almost piss his pants in fear, his legs starting to tremble instinctively.
Kogane shouted loudly, "Ten points have been added!"
Maki Zenin said in a low voice, "Five, and... five more."
Her cold pupils swept a glance at the tengu, who was still gasping for breath, causing him to instinctively want to run away, just what kind of monster was this guy? Did she not feel fatigue?!
Just as the wings behind him were preparing to flap, Maki Zenin, who had originally been standing five meters away, seemed to have suddenly disappeared, disappearing from his vision, cold sweat instantly flowing down his forehead, he couldn't endure it anymore at this moment... wanting to quickly leave here, he could rebuild the organization or something later, he... couldn't die here.
His wings flapped behind him, but before he had even taken off, a silver-white blade could be seen in his peripheral vision to have flashed past, slicing straight through his neck, that girl who had disappeared had arrived behind him at some point and had successfully chopped off his head...
"Six."
Maki Zenin had whispered, the name of the tyrant would set sail again.
"Five points have been added."
Kogane's shouting had completely shattered the psychological defenses of the people at this moment, the organization's strongest leader had died, and that girl had seemed to have transformed into a different person, her speed so fast that it couldn't be seen with the naked eye at all.
Run!!!
One word had appeared in the minds of the people at this moment, their bodies instinctively wanting to turn around and leave, but Maki Zenin wouldn't allow this kind of thing to happen, and she, who had been in urgent need of points, wouldn't allow even one person on the field to leave.
The ground had been rupturing, and the Soul Liberating Blade in her hand had been swung out, and within ten breaths, the four people, who had wanted to escape, had all been beheaded, and Kogane shouted, "Twenty points have been added!!"
But all that could be heard on the field was only Maki Zenin, who had been preparing to leave, at this moment, and she didn't have any joy, and she had only stuck the Soul Liberating Blade in her hand into the ground and had looked down at her two hands, and her left hand, which had originally been seeping blood, had been re-scarred at this moment, and it had seemed that she had been thanking this transformation, and her body had also become even sturdier, and it had seemed that she possessed inexhaustible strength.
But Maki Zenin knew that this was only a facade of her suddenly becoming too strong, and she would get a lot better once she had gotten used to it, but she still couldn't stand before him with just this, and she had to hunt even stronger people...
Toji Zenin, the first tyrant, who had died for many years, and Maki Zenin had heard about his deeds when she had been young, and he had been famous in the jujutsu world with the title of Sorcerer Killer, and she... also had to reach his level at this moment.
To dominate this Culling Game Barrier was what she had to do at this moment.
And her actions, the large-scale changes of the sorcerers inside the Barrier, and the noises, which had been caused during the battle, had attracted the attention of the other top sorcerers from a hundred years ago.
Above the sky a few kilometers away, a woman, who hadn't been wearing any clothes, had been standing upside down in the sky and had been staring intently at the girl, who had been completing the slaughter, and she had raised the corners of her mouth with a smile and had said, "A truly formidable guy has come inside, and she has the value of being hunted, but that old guy..."
Uro Takahide's eyebrows had been unable to stop themselves from furrowing while looking at the giant shikigami, whose figure had been dozens of meters tall and had still been lying on the ground in the distance, and he hadn't had any reaction at all, or was it that he hadn't noticed the girl, who had suddenly broken into this Culling Game, at all?!
"I don't care about him, and the fourth person has appeared at this moment, and it won't be fun at all to keep maintaining that situation, where we're thinking about each other."
She had been relying on the technique of the sky, and it had been very easy for her to discover the location of the girl, and she had been flying in the sky, and she had been free and uninhibited, and she had been looking down at the world.
"Not bad, and another guy, who is pleasing to the eye, has come inside, and are you preparing to attack? Uro."
On top of the high-rise building below, a man, who had been wearing a suit, had been standing, and two women, whose looks had been of a high quality, had been guarding him by his side.
Louis the Thirteenth had raised his head and had been looking at Uro Takahide, whose graceful figure had been concealed by the sky, and his golden eyes had been very calm.
"The fourth person has appeared, so do you think that the relationship between us will always be equal?"
It was very obvious that Uro Takahide had been seeing that Maki Zenin had been someone at the same level as her, and after all, she was also a woman. Uro Takahide had hated the male-dominant and female-subordinate social atmosphere of a hundred years ago, and she would naturally have to boast about her well after seeing that a person, who was also a woman, had entered this cruel Culling Game.
And Louis the Thirteenth had heard the implied meaning, and Uro Takahide would have directly killed him if she hadn't been thinking about Doluev Lakdawala, who could summon shikigami...
He had raised the corners of his mouth with a smile and had said, "Since you have such a high opinion of her, then I'll kill her before your eyes."
"...Whatever."
Uro Takahide had sneered, and this guy, who had believed himself to be strong, had truly been unable to accept others saying that he was weak in disguise, and rationally speaking, that girl's strength had been relatively ordinary, and although she had directly one-shotted that weakling, who could transform into a tengu, later on, it had been fifty-fifty at first.
But Louis the Thirteenth would take action, so the sleeping Doluev Lakdawala would also take action, and she would kill both of them at that time!!
"Let's go."
Louis the Thirteenth had patted the butts of the two people by his side, and he had then put his arms around their waists and had jumped down from the thirty-meter-tall high-rise building, and he had said in his mouth, "Let's have a vigorous love affair!!"
"You can leave that woman to us, and we'll be fine, Lord Thirteenth."
The two women on the side had been snuggling in Louis the Thirteenth's arms, and their expressions had been revealing a feeling of happiness.
As Louis the Thirteenth had snapped his fingers with his right hand, the space before him had been twisting open in an instant, and it had formed a black hollow, and the three had fallen inside and had disappeared.
Uro Takahide, who had seen Louis the Thirteenth leave, had gathered her line of sight on the girl, who had been searching for enemies, and she had been looking forward to just what kind of secrets were still being hidden on her body.
Just what was she hiding...
She could have directly one-shotted that weakling, but she had still been putting on an act and had been fighting for so long;
With that speed, which was difficult for the naked eye to reach, and the Special Grade cursed tool, which she had been possessing and had possessed a special technique, it could definitely cause that Louis the Thirteenth to have a hard time, and it would be so fun if she had truly killed him in reverse...
...
"Tch, and the feeling of being spied on is truly uncomfortable."
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