"Shoot, shoot! Shoot me. Yeah. Yeah!

The roar goes off.

Tanks and helicopters lined the 'safe zone' boundary line of City Hall - modern weapons held by militias were constantly shelling.

"That's a hell of a sight, this..."

Fujita stares at the sight in front of her as she sweats cold.

That was just a rolling sight.

A tree monster that is bigger than a mountain. militia and dragons (dragons) in the face of it.

Monster Movies - What a cheesy expression, but that's exactly what the sight plays out in front of you.

A modern weapon that wields fierceness.

Each shot, even if it did not extend to the dragon's (dragon's) brace, had enough firepower to activate 'automatic defense' on Peony.

That's not just the performance I originally had.

This is the result of a "modification" by the "arms maker" of Ichinose.

(Really skill is a ton of demo...)

Because of my ability to move shadows, I was able to travel safely to my neighbor town.

The fact that we had an item box allowed us to bring these weapons in from the next town.

We were able to fight because we had the skills to repair and improve that weapon.

Besides, it was a high school student who thought about this operation.

Isn't it too good at all to have adult standing?

(Well, that's why we shouldn't waste that hard work. Wow)

We have to do our best to meet their hard work.

That's why Towada and other militia members stood up to overcome the trauma.

"Don't loosen your hands on the attack! You're gonna shoot me anyway!

"" Copy that. ""

He regained his temper and Fujita skipped the instructions again.

At the same time, within City Hall...

"Please don't panic! Please do not disturb the line and act calmly!

Kazuto's colleague, Shimizu and Article II, were hitting on the evacuee's guide.

Though the 'enchantment' of the ten incenses of Fifty Storms has some effect, some confusion nevertheless arises.

It was the task given to them to calm it down and direct the inhabitants to a specific location.

"Mr. Shimizu, we're all here"

"This way, too. All you have to do is wait for the other one to be ready..."

An explosion sounding intermittently pricks my skin.

Fresh water shudders unexpectedly at the oddity and explosion of Peonie, which sounds loud.

"Really...... does it work?

"It's okay, I'm sure..."

He holds the shoulders of two stripes trembling anxiously, and fresh water tells him so.

Nevertheless, the inner mind is not calm.

Honestly, when I heard the full story of this operation, I doubted my sanity.

(If you don't do all that, you can't win... I know that...)

When I heard Nishino's contemplated operation, she and the mayor were the first to disagree.

Whatever it was, it was an operation that you couldn't do without throwing away everything you had built up.

Risk too high. But it was also true that there was no other way.

Ultimately, both she and the mayor broke, and the operation is thus decided.

(... I regret my powerlessness...)

If we had more power, there might have been another way.

But that makes no sense.

Even though I can't help thinking about it, it really leaves me in a corner of my head.

"- Kudo, Nishino, Fujita, everyone... please"

Please survive safely.

I want no one to die, no sacrifice to survive.

Even though I knew it was a painting, it was fresh water that I couldn't help but pray for.

And over...

- All right, Fujita and the others joined the fight in earnest.

Let's move on to our next move.

"Sola, get down there for once."

"Gasolint Yaraha, Moosaki End Wattanoka?

"No, I still have the tank, but I'll use that when I get down there"

I still have the recovered fuel tank, but I can't run out of it all right now.

Let's use it in conjunction with Sola's braces in the future.

"When I get down there, it's another air battle with Peonie. I asked for it."

"Humph, minute cuttail. You Lacoso, Zhenli Fall to Salernayo!

"Oh, I know."

"Ha, ha."

Nodding me, Nishino replies with a slight fright.

And another sudden descent.

The feeling of fluttering guts strikes us.

It's a super fast freefall.

Concentrate on the sight in front of you, connecting consciousness diligently.

- They're coming.

"Minutes Cutteil!

Upon some steep descent, Peony's tentacles immediately struck.

"Guiaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"

Sora responds instantly with a brace.

Me and Nishino will also do their utmost to support Sora's attack in the Item Box and 'Orders'.

(... roughly twenty minutes after the battle begins)

I still don't see 'change' in Peony.

I don't even have any emails from Ichinose or Roppo.

After all, isn't it enough yet......

"Sola, get close."

"Minute Cutter"

Sora follows my instructions and approaches Peonie.

The number of roots and bamboos attacked is higher than earlier.

(You're clearly after us' just '...)

While eating militia shelling, Peony's 'consciousness' is directed solely at us.

Well, you do. Only Sola's braces can cause clear damage to Peonie.

In the first place, the militia is attacking from within the 'Safe Zone', so for Peony, they don't have the means to attack.

It would be natural to concentrate on us alone.

But...

"-" The Art of Huge ""

At that moment when the attack is about to arrive, I activate Ninja.

Peony's tentacles tried to strike us suddenly stopped moving and turned his goal into the giant amount of body that appeared over our heads.

(Even in this situation, take more body than your enemies...)

No matter how much you eat, you will never be filled.

Can't you even see that behavior is strangling you?

No, I guess you don't get it.

Either way, it's convenient for us.

"Sola, now!

"Aah!"

On my signal, Sola releases her braces.

At the same time, I unleashed an 'object' in front of Peonie.

Sole is crushed by Peonie's 'Automatic Defense' the moment he is released from the item box.

At that moment, Bushu and the 'gas' inside overflowed.

"Guaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"

Sora's braces burst.

Before it reached Peonie, it ignited the surrounding 'gas', causing a huge explosion.

"~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~!?"

Huge fireballs embody.

What Peonie has crushed now is the 'gas tank' I recovered in the harbor.

Just like fuel tanks, it is super dangerous with excellent firepower.

"Nuo......!

The blast and black smoke suddenly covered the suburbs where Peonie was. We swallow our breath at the sight.

"And that's a hell of a power..."

"Yeah, no way, I don't know..."

It's this hot air, even if it's more than a few hundred meters away.

Had it not been for Aka's suit, she would have burned.

"And will City Hall be all right?

"No problem."

The 'Safe Zone', which is centered around City Hall, is quite far from the outskirts where Peonie is located, and is situated on the wind. No hot air or smoke has arrived.

"More than that, let's focus right now in front of you"

Nishino, who is hacked by my words and turns in the direction of black smoke.

The smoke doesn't clear, but the signs of Peonie are still coming through clearly.

After all, is that explosion still not finished?

But...

"Huh! Is this...?

Signs of peonies felt from the midst of black smoke.

There was a clear 'change' there.

It was also the moment we finally waited for.

Meanwhile, Rokuka Aisaka was a little far from the militia.

"Shiba, there's been a change over there -?

"No, not at all. Cut it or not, it plays right away."

The Rokkas silently continued the task of slashing the end of Peony, which was stranded against the invisible wall of the 'Safe Zone'.

That's not only for the three days of the prep period, but long after this battle begins.

(I wonder if it's really okay to keep doing this...?

Rokka is not good at thinking.

I am not dissatisfied with the operations set up by Nishino, but this is how I get a little anxious when I keep working unchanged all the time.

Are you sure this is a good idea?

I keep working on it, and the rush to see if it's really good springs up a little bit.

(- No, you can't think about that. Believe me)

Dismiss the rising suspicions and anxieties, and Rokka moves her hands.

Who says we don't believe and we believe Nishino?

Isn't that what you've always done?

Cut, cut, cut.

Anyway, the Rokkas keep cutting the end of Peony.

And - "then" came.

Zudong!! and a loud explosion sounded.

"hey what!? explosion now!?"

"Isn't that a militia missile?

"No... I'm not. Maybe it's the attack between you and Sola."

Too powerful for militia attacks.

Probably a combo attack of flammable gas and braces I was hearing about beforehand.

(Nissy, I wonder if you're okay)

It doesn't look like a boulder from here, but Nishino should be on Sola's back with Kudo.

In a way, the safest and most dangerous place.

I know we take care not to cause damage to ourselves, but I still get anxious when I see this many explosions.

"- Hmm?"

At that time, Roppo accidentally noticed the "change" of the chopped bamboo.

"... not healed?

Cross section cut by six flowers.

That's what's left of it.

Until now, even if I cut it, I was starting to regenerate it immediately, but I can't see any signs of it.

That was a different obvious' change 'than before.

"What is this... no way"

Six flowers soon mutilated another.

Then the reaction is the same as earlier.

- I don't play it.

That's not all.

Aren't the ends of the peonies that were stuck on the invisible walls successively withered and peeled off?

To the sight, not only she, but everyone on the spot takes a breath.

"Shiba, what is this?"

"Oh, it's just what Nishino expected. Hey, somebody get 'Email' quick! Contact Nishino!

"Ri, roger!

Immediately an unavailable person sends an 'email'.

The news will soon reach them.

- Rokka and the others contacted me.

"Mr. Kudo, this is-"

"Yeah, definitely"

After all, our predictions were right.

Email from the Rokkas, and signs of peonies I feel from across the smoke.

That was above all eloquently telling the current state of Peonie.

"-... ugh."

All carbide, the crown part continues to burn, and the burnt branches fall to the ground one after the other.

An unprecedented blow.

And above all, a clear change - 'regeneration' has not taken place.

"You finally see, the breakthrough..."

Sola's braces, militia modern weapons, detonation by fuel tanks and gas tanks.

Looks like we finally got there by pounding them intensively into this short time.

- to Peony's 'Playback Limits'.

Even Peony's 'regeneration' is not infinite.

It's threatening, but it should be consuming more 'something' than it is a skill.

I didn't know if that was MP, nutrition to consume from the outside, sunlight or the earth's nutrients again, but because of his behavior so far, and his unusual appetite, we anticipated that external intake by 'predation' was a source of energy for 'regeneration'.

That's why we've been thoroughly obstructing Peonie's 'predation' with 'The Art of Huge' and Sola's braces since this battle began.

He turned down his opponent's energy source, and in the meantime he hit the attack with all his might, letting Peony continue to use 'regeneration'.

As a result, he depleted the energy needed to 'regenerate'.

- Short-term intensive showdown.

Long-term battles are unwinnable against peony opponents who boast threatening regeneration and defense.

Temporarily depletes his regenerative energy by concentrating fire on overwhelming firepower for a very short time.

That's what we're after.

The reading was brilliantly centered.

And the fact that "regeneration" has reached its limit reveals another Peonie's "weakness".

It's an organism - no, it's the position of the biggest steeple 'nucleus' in a monster.

uneven regeneration speeds, and the position Peonie was protecting as a priority in his previous offense.

"- The fundamental, the central part."

There is Peony's 'nucleus'.

Once you know where it is, all you have to do is focus on it.

Besides, it's time for the first 'planting'.

"Sola, I asked you!

"Respond to Tommo!

Run.

In the rising black smoke, Sola flies at full speed toward Peonie.

Focus.

"Right!

"- Ah."

The black smoke shakes slightly.

The next moment, Peonie's tentacles hit us with smoke breaking through from the right.

Sora dodges this by the hair.

"Left! Up, right! Front! Diagonal rear right!

"Chi!!

Avoid, evade, evade.

Sora keeps avoiding Peonie's constant attacks.

"- 'Don't move'!

"Kew!

Nishino, your orders, Kiki's "reflex".

Sewing that gap, Sola approaches Peonie.

(Almost... Almost there)

Focus.

In time for Sola's braces to maximize their power.

If we get that close, it should arrive now - in Peony's 'nucleus'.

Until that moment, never get distracted.

A few dozen more meters...... a little more - here!

"-Sola! Now!

"Aaah."

It arrived.

In time for Sola. For maximum attack range of braces.

I can't get my hair in, and Sora releases a brace.

"Guiaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"

I guess I was hoarding my strength in advance.

Sola's unleashed braces were by far the most powerful.

It breaks through Peony's 'Automatic Defense' and reaches its roots without weakening its power.

Keep piercing his core.

"-Da."

Hmm?

What is it?

"- No, Da."

Is this... a voice?

No way. Peonie's?

"- No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!

"- Huh!?"

I got chilly.

Something's coming!

Something terrible!

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!"

At the next moment, countless' something 'was released from Peony.