Gladiato, approaching just above, descends steeply toward the lilies.

Ellea thrust the stubborn Illiteum.

Fong!

Moralta and Vegarta want to kill where they were just now.

The next target is, of course, Illiteum, who has broken legs and is unable to move.

In order to stop it, Ellea needed to somehow turn Ridge's consciousness towards herself.

Tentacles stretched from both hands of Teneritus unravel finely and wrap around the gladiator.

Rikizaki turned to Teneritas, who was only powerful enough to leave as soon as he swung away, but was annoyed by the tentacles that annoyed him.

"Okay."

I'm glad it went well, and I have a voice unexpectedly.

And then there's the battle to see how long we can survive and how much lilies can escape in the meantime.

"Make a disgusting attack!

Gladiato tries to cut off his tentacles and squeezes them off with his left hand Vegarta.

However, the tentacles did not hit because they rapidly returned to the arm.

Then pack the distance and try to turn off the tentacles on your left arm with a moral.

But it was also immediately stored in the body, and the sword never struck.

"Hands and feet made of those tentacles, are they all crops!

"So what?

"That's disgusting, Dharma!

I'm fine with being told that myself, but the way Rikizaki put it, Ellea didn't care.

"It's just not too delicate!

The attack from behind the Arkedia is taken without difficulty by the sword and, on the contrary, is bounced off.

The power is obviously better Gladiato than Spaces.

It's only silly to challenge such an opponent to melee, but you can't help it because it won't hit a ranged weapon.

Most importantly, because if we weren't close, the lilies would be targeted.

"Skill Activated (Boot), Walking Alone (Affection) Huh!

Of course, Lily isn't just watching the fight.

I created a split body and tried to cover it - but my skills wouldn't activate.

"Liar, no MP left!?

Illiteum, who died in the battle with Spaces, is already out of gas.

When you can't move, all you can do is watch the battle.

"Sorry, Ellea, Francus..."

Cursing himself useless at the heart, Lily wished the two of them well.

"I got it. Ahhh!

But there's no way we can beat Gladiato in this cornered situation.

Moralta's slaughter tore Teneritus' abdomen.

"Oh, but... Huh!

"Erleah!

Ellea leaks a sad voice.

A lily who saw it called her by her name desperately.

"Shit, was it shallow?"

Lingzaki tongues.

Sure, the wound wasn't enough to be fatal, but Ellea was experiencing intense pain similar to fever.

Teneritus' belly has a horizontal one-letter scar, which can easily be imagined by itself being bloody if returned to life.

Arkedia, who still had some leeway for HP, had been beaten by Gladiato many times without a glance, but had been blown away each time.

She has less experience fighting than Xynia or Crypt. It's not like I have moves either.

Lily and Ellea likewise had powerful animas, but are not battle geniuses.

These guys can win me - Rikizaki was so sure.

"Ha ha... yes, you do, Orihalcon is great, with this power you can't lose, there's no way you can lose! Just so happens, I was just unlucky!

In self-defense, Gladiato approaches Teneritus, who endures pain while suppressing his abdomen.

"Ha ha, I'll prove it, with this sword! Strength, the beauty of Orihalcon!

We have to run.

Ellea thinks so, but struggles with a body that doesn't move as she wishes.

As it is, you cannot escape.

I don't...

Gladiato rises in the back booster and uses gravity to increase its power over the sword in an attempt to ensure it is finished.

"Ha-ha-ha! Now it's time to die, Dharma woman. Ahhh!

Gladiato, which descends sharply from the air, slashes Teneritus in Moralta.

Teneritus, who was already full of creativity, could not be avoided.

Zach!

The cutting edge slashed her torso deep and deep, from shoulder to flank.

"Erlea...... Erlea aaaaaaa!

Lily screams desperately, but she is also full of creativity.

Neither the hand stretched out nor the desire put in it ever reached Ellea.

Falling Teneritas.

"Yu, Li... Me, Shino... Until... Misaki, and..."

With a fine voice, she entrusted the future with the Cape to Lily - she softly, immobilized.

◇ ◇ ◇

Avaritia and Eela were flirting with the rain of bullets pouring from above.

The opponent is Stoudium, who repeats a ranged attack from above.

The opposing two are Anima users, mainly melee attacks: Axe and Great Sword.

The compatibility sucked.

It's not like there's no ranged attack, but it's been avoided at this distance.

Looking for a way to open it, in an already worn out body, is all an impracticable measure.

"Kissississississi! That's tough, Krypto!

"Sounds like fun for it, you're still a mad dog"

"Do I look that way? Then maybe it is. Yep, I guess it's fun fighting which one dies first, come on!

While the two are desperate to dodge, they don't forget their usual irony.

It's no longer like body stained routine work.

I guess that exchange, and our current relationship, won't change until we die - that's how Xynia thought.

And finally, an inescapable attack looms on her.

"I didn't think the Empire was the place to die."

I thought so because, after all, I thought it was something that killed me on the battlefield by soldiers I didn't know anyone about and died of.

The death of fighting to protect the Imperial capital and being killed by a mighty enemy did not seem too much for Xynia.

But, well, it's too much to be a bad thing.

The impending bullet would penetrate the Avaritian barrier and make a big hole in the torso.

Xynia stopped on the verge of death when she realized she could no longer avoid it.

"Come on, in time. Yeah, yeah!

Desperately trying to shelter herself, I saw Eela.

Xynia, who was not even surprised by her death, was stunned for the first time then.

No way, he thought it would be strange if that crypt, rather, was killed, trying to protect himself, etc.

And he made it, or not.

The bullet hits Ira's right arm as she hugs and pushes down Avaritia's body.

Already Ella's HP is also a wind front light.

The barrier did not prevent that damage, and his right arm blew away with the bursting sound.

"Crypto, you......!

"No, Gu... Ku, Ha... I'm an idiot..."

"Why, why did you protect me?!?

"I don't know why. Even myself...... I don't know. But I didn't expect to lose my right arm... Ha, as a swordsman, it's over. Ha... you can laugh, Xenia...!

"That's funny! That's not funny, huh!?

As a result, both lives were safe with Crypt sheltering them.

But Stoudium is still alive.

Yoshisei slowly pointed the gun at the two overlapping men from above.

◇ ◇ ◇

"Ugh... Ellea, Lily... Huh!

Francus slammed by rubble calls two names in bitterness.

Ellea was already stuck stuck on the ground, and Gladiato was approaching his next prey - the immobile Illiteum.

"Rikizaki-kun..."

"Hey Red Wings, I can't believe the time has come for me to look down on you. Olihulkon, you're so sweet!

"I still can't die......!

"But you're going to die, you came to the empire out of luck. It's a shame there would have been a future where we would have stayed quietly in the kingdom and talked about the excellence of Orihalcon together. Not too bad!

With that said, Riyazaki looks like fun.

I guess I satisfy my self-esteem by gaining overwhelming power and looking down at the lilies that were once in a better position than I was.

Is that really happiness?

Though his personality has already been distorted by Orihalcon and separated from the original.

"Well, so... die, Red Wings"

Lily, too, prepared to die, as did Ellea.

... No, that's a lie.

That's just how I'm strong.

I really don't like it, it's better that way if you don't have to die.

During death, all I can think of is memories with the Cape.

Without coming up with any memories of Hirose that should have overlapped over the years, Lily was reminded how dependent she was.

So I don't like dying extra.

I want to see you.

I want to see you again.

"Cape..."

"Ah, Cape? You mean the white stuff?

"Help me, Cape...... eh"

"I don't know, but you can't have white stuffs coming to places like this. Even if he comes first, he can't help it."

GOOOOOOOO.......

"What is this sound...?

To the unheard sound, Gladiato looked up into the eastern sky.

What I saw at the end of my gaze was a little black dot.

It is gradually getting bigger and obviously closer to the Empire City.

"Ahhh... ahh..."

Lily also looks up at the eastern sky and gives a joyous voice when she sees it.

I can tell even if I'm away, I can tell if it's a lily.

"Cape, no...!

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

The black was approaching the Imperial City at an unusual speed with the roar.

"Anima, is it...?

Rikizaki finally confirmed that was Anima.

Gladiato removed consciousness from Illiteum and set up a pair of swords to wait for the approaching anima.

But the speed - it was far more awesome than he had imagined.

I thought I saw the anima outline, and the next moment it's packed to a distance where I can already hear my voice.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

The moment I could recognize that voice as a beastly roar.

Gago-o-o-o-o-o!

A supersonic knee pierced Gladiato's chest.

Butch, butch, butch!

And Gladiato's upper body is ripped off and only his lower body is left on the spot.

"-?"

Rikizaki didn't understand what had happened.

Why am I dancing in the sky and why am I without a lower body?

And he never understood the answer.

Doddle, doddle, doddle, doddle, doddle!

Gladiato's upper body remains stuck in his knees, smashing through the walls of several buildings with the momentum as it is.

Push through the East End to the Central End.

Make a big hole in the Central District building and head to the West Side.

And at the edge of the West End, hitting the walls of the Imperial City, Ultio (...) finally stopped moving.

By then, Gladiato's upper body no longer retains its shape as a human body.

Already, Riyazaki was doomed.

"Now... Ultio, right"

In the East Side, the lily, left behind with the lower body of Gladiato, looked at the path created by Ultio, in a dismal manner.

"What, is that..."

"Kissississi, it looks like a hell of a lot has come."

Xynia and Krypto, who were poor in the crisis of their lives in the West Side, just had to be shown that.

And Sakase and Yoshisei, who were repeatedly attacking from the sky, also look down at the black anima that pierced the west walls.

I guess I feel instinctively.

That's dangerous.

"While... Ah, uhh... that's right, tough one"

The headland exhaled heavily, paying off debris stuck around the fuselage.

My whole body is swamped.

I meant to understand it before I did it, but when I actually feel it, I find that my whole body is pretty much impossible.

With life skills, love that denies intelligence (romantics), you can draw more mobility than your original performance by ”forcing" the ruling opponent.

Using the newly acquired skill eagle's eye (Claire Boyance) for gaining bird-shaped demons, Cape, who learned of the crisis in Imperial Capital, asked him to apply his skills to his life again.

As a result, he succeeded in dramatically shortening the journey from Eklogy to Imperial City, paying the price of physical depletion.

And then he blew Gladiato on his knees, which was after Lily as he entered the Imperial City - to this day.

"Melting bullet sole!

"... Gravity Bullet Gravedado"

Spaces and Stoudium aim and shoot Ultio from above.

When Cape looks at the impending light and black bullets, he calmly unfolds his armored sword.

"Shivaji Maggia"

A translucent, purple magic sword that extends from your wrist.

Boom!

When I gently snuffed it off - bazily, I left a sound that I could play, and the two bullets disappeared.

"Liar, the power of Orihalcon..."

Too easily erased, Sasakse is baffled.

Ultio kicked and jumped to the ground, moving in an instant to the sight of Stoudium.

"Arachno Iron Maiden"

Then turn your palms and eject a sphere of magic from there.

The sphere spread into a reticulum in front of Stoudium, covering up its fuselage.

Yoshisei, realizing that he had been captured, was desperate, but the net was frightened.

It's enough to beat the feathered Haylos, to the extent that he wore the Orihalcon, he couldn't have resisted the current Ultio.

Eventually countless needles of magic emerge from the inside of the net that binds Stoudium.

That's all there is to name Iron Maiden.

It doesn't just make you unable to move, it stabs through the subject you capture and definitely does damage.

And the cape waves its sword against Stoudium, which sweeps in the air.

Bazi!

Magic nets and magic swords collided, sparks scattered, and enemies were blown every net.

Ultio waves down his sword next as he leads in the blown direction, slamming him down to the ground.

But it leads in the direction of travel before it hits the ground, cutting up and going up again.

The endless, heavenly, and Ultio series of attacks continues even after Yoshisei stops moving.

"Shivaji Touhandet!"

When Ultio lays his hands on top of each other, a pair of armored swords turn into one giant sword.

And at the end of the day, he waved down that sword toward the launched Stoudium - every net, breaking its fuselage.

Sainse shook her voice as she watched her fellow being turned into two pieces and falling to the ground.

"This is crazy, this is crazy. That voice of yours, it's white, right? Why, with Orihalcon's power, we're supposed to be strong! How come you're not stuffed in white?

That said, Spaces shows his back and begins the retreat.

Regardless, I'm not going to let you escape to the Cape.

A chance for revenge because of it, it's a shame that the person is contaminated by Orihalcon, but still has to be killed exactly.

I'm not going to miss it as one.

Ultio generates a black gun in his right hand - Brewnak.

Then he peeled out the chest core, stripped it off, and put it as a bullet in Brewnak.

"Merclius - go"

I can put my strength into the finger I put on the trigger.

Chilli.

The sound of firing is slight.

A core with enormous energy was released from the muzzle and followed Spaces' back.

If you hit it, you would die, it was a saddle that was so ready and desperate to escape, but unexpectedly, Core passed next to Spaces.

I took it off.

If you think so and you're relieved, the core explodes across Sainse's sight.

Kiddie, kiddie, kiddie, kiddie.

Sounds similar to tinnitus.

The energy that could be bounced became white spherical light, covering the sky.

"... that?

I blew it up so far away, that I would never get caught up in it - Sasakse thought, flashing.

If you noticed, the light was looming right in front of Spaces.

"- Hot"

Sasakse raises a loose voice in between.

Eventually, all the sight is wrapped in light, and while the front half of the fuselage is burned, it is blown to shock waves and beaten to the ground.

Speaking of why I didn't hit it directly, the Cape said, "It would be a waste if the body disappeared".

As a result, she succeeded in killing three people as she wished, leaving her flesh behind.

"Well, take"

The pain, which made the muscle pain even worse, was causing all over the cape.

I actually knocked down all three planes, and I wanted to get some rest soon, but I can't say that either.

Ultio moves to Illiteum.

"Lily, Francus, are you okay?

"My body hurts, but it's hedgehog!

"Me too, I managed to be okay. But Ellea..."

The cape was in the mood to scream and do it, but I suppressed it a lot.

Because the scratchy Teneritus had fallen ahead of Illiteum's finger.

I have a reaction to my detection skills, which means I'm not dead yet.

Keep your faces close to each other and call your names to make sure you don't miss a slight voice.

"Ellea, can you hear me?

... No response.

But don't give up, call repeatedly.

"Ellea, it's me. It's the Cape. Answer me if you hear me."

"... no"

"Ellea!

A slightly audible voice.

The Cape furthermore brought Ultio's ears closer to Teneritus' mouth.

"Oh, man... but... no..."

"Don't give up, it doesn't matter yet!

"But..."

In his diminishing consciousness, Ellea manages to spin words.

This could be the end of the day, I'm so desperate because I'm ready.

"You can use your skills to transfer wounds to me. Then Ellea will be saved!

"Then... Mi, Sa... Ki, but..."

"I don't care if I prey! Even wounds heal! Look, there's three planes over there that feed, so there's nothing to worry about. If Ellea dies, I'll regret it. Because I regret that it's better to die, and I keep resenting Ellea. Is that all right with you?

"Damn... Oh, no"

"Then hurry!

The Cape was feeling the lights of Ellea's life fade slightly with her skin.

It's not long anymore, not even a second's worth.

Lost in Cape Passion, Ellea finally consolidates her determination to activate her skills.

"Suki... L, B... T... Angel's (River)... Smile (Sal)"

In a small, plundering voice, the activation of a skill is declared.

When Teneritas and Ultio's bodies were wrapped in light, the wound transplantation began.

The light gathers in the wound, twitching and repairing.

On the other hand, to Ultio, too, the light gathered in exactly the same part as the Teneritus wound, which in turn opened the wound.

Ellea's pain subsides.

Targeted, the cape brain was so sore that it was nauseated, as if it had been open surgery without anesthesia.

"Ugh... Higguuuuuuuuuuu!

There was a sword in front of me, and my brain didn't understand that it would be cut and wounded.

The pain inflicted in such a situation was far more intense than in the former, not knowing when and at what time the belly would be opened.

Ultio, who can't even stand up and remains covered in intact teneritas, is in pain and boredom.

"Oh, oh... Misaki, I'm sorry, I'm just impudent..."

Just because you implanted a wound doesn't make you go back to your lost life force.

There was no strength in Ellea's voice that guided him through the Cape.

"Fine... I want to... uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu! Ahhhhhhh!"

Standing up growling, he repeatedly breathes roughly with his hands hanging out.

To tell the truth, it is unknown whether the wound will heal by preying.

To convince Ellea, it's just a convenience I thought about on the spot.

Indeed, if you prey and have more HP, the barrier will only recover for that matter.

But predation is the act of eating souls and sucking up only power from them.

I'm not taking in the flesh itself.

That's why preying on contaminated individuals at Orihalcon wasn't contaminated, but even though I could understand the rationale for more HP, I didn't think that would lead to physical repair.

Well, anyway, I was going to prey anyway, so I just have to try.

"Skill activated (boot) wo...... haha...... bulimia (gratini) heh!

Focus your consciousness and limit your subject.

Of course we eat - Sasakse, Ridge and Yoshisei.

Gladiato and Studium, broken down, respectively, up, down, left and right, are chewed by the predatory mouth that appears in space, without resistance.

But Sainse - Spaces, although the surface was burnt, still survived in a spicy way.

"Ah, there he is, yes... yah, yah, yah, yah, yah, yah..."

Most of all, it was a scream of lack of energy when it came to severing demons.

Galli, Gollu, Gachi, Guchu, Gollygori......

On a battlefield that's completely quiet, only the chewing noise sounds.

Now, as a result of the capture of three animators, the wounds transplanted from Ellea...

"Oh... I knew it... healed at all..."

It was not healing at all.

Bohoo.

Cape loses consciousness on the spot, as does fatigue caused by the skill of life.

On the brink of this, I also thought about the treatment and left the anima untied.

Now we should manage, perhaps, to survive.

"Masaki, go away!?

"Cape, no! Somebody treat him!

Ellea was half confused, while Illiteum desperately sought help as he dragged his feet.

Then, less, the ambulance arrived, and the body of the headland was taken to the infirmary of the castle, where it was so painfully safe.

Crypt, who lost his right arm, was also rescued, and until he entered the treatment room, Xynia said, was always escorted.

◇ ◇ ◇

Thus, the Empire succeeded in overcoming an unprecedented crisis.

But this is just a prelude to the battle between kingdom and empire yet.

Because tens of thousands of anima users are born in the kingdom, and it's only a matter of time before they all attack the empire.

But it's not a big deal for the Cape.

Whether countries contend with each other, the world perishes, but the priorities of things remain unshakeable.

What matters to her - what method to use to kill the six pathetic sacrifices who entered her own nostalgia for fun and ridicule.

It's just that.

Cape killed six people more than once in his dreams - on the bed, he said, smiling happily, until he regained consciousness in the infirmary.