CH 110

I jumped out to the surface from the hole the giant snake opened.

「Kaーsama!」

Around me is……the giant snake’s body has become a little larger.

That is to say that it’s finally serious is it.

The bodily section has broken free of the volcanic crater.

The ends of the tails are……they’re connected to another dimension or something so they’re blurred and I can’t see them.

I assume it can probably freely manifest its tails, if its within the area to a certain degree.

――Suddenly, like when it swallowed Rin-chan.

「Kaーsama……?」

「Please fall back.」

I held back Lumina-chan with my hand when she approached.

「Bu, but, I can also fight――」

「――Please fall back.」

Turning my face to her, Lumina-chan nodded like she was afraid.

After seeing off the girlLumina as she trudged while falling back to the rear, my eyes moved to the giant snake with its face turned to the sky as if doing a stretch.

Now then……Yamata no Orochi is it.

Mythical class legendary monster.

As a monstrosity with 8 heads and 8 tails, it has a legend of the sort of eating daughters.

「……I’ll change it, did you not say that.」

Is this truly, the future you wished for?

If your own world’s future won’t change anymore, do the act of saving another world’s me and gain comfort on the path to Yomi.

Can such a thing, be that which is a happy end.

Handing it all over when it’s halfway done, this side’s chest feels like it’s about to break open you know.

Until the end of the end, you should have looked after me until the Yamata no Orochi was beaten……!

「――I’m coming, legend. If you want to arrogantly continue chatting, please at least surpass my phantasmdream!!」

I rain down thunder, merely as a preliminary trial.

The extent of the effect was shallow but, its animosity turned to me again.

Starting anew, commence――battle!

Something like poison is against the rules so, I won’t fall anymore.

Multitudes of snake heads, came rushing in to eat me.

You simple idiot, I’ll start by crushing the lead head!

Without holding back, blast it away by beating it from the side with my full power punch loaded with lightning.

I over enthusiastically sent it flying in a thousand shreds.

Naturally, you won’t flinch at this level legendary beast.

Like 2 arrows, 3 arrows, the heads and tails went flying one after another.

Evade, crush, evade, crush……I see, certainly with this it means I’ll give in first.

The Yamata no Orochi’s attacks are simple, but there’s no end.

If it doesn’t even know fatigue, it’ll quickly recover if it’s just damage.

――As expected.

In order to totally defeat it, there’s nothing but betting on my full power in an instant.

It’s probably impossible with my left hand’s high rank magic.

My injuries have already healed and my magic power has also come back but, I think I simply have insufficient force.

「――Dangerous!」

I instantaneously turn my body.

Perhaps it used its head a little, or perhaps it’s finally truly woken up.

A tail snake that seems like it’s connected to another dimension or something, manifested directly in front of my eyes.

The attack pierced the void.

I dodged with a rushed spinal reflex via my lightning magic’s support.

――Even so, from there I can’t continue to dodge as it coils around me.

「Kaーsama!」

「Oii!」

A tense voice came up, from the 2 people of the rear guard.

That’s reasonable.

If I’m ensnared by such a massive snake, at that point this’ll end in one step!

「Such, shit!!」

I resist with lightning’s magnetism.

The incredible magic power emission from a magnetic field to the limits of my capabilities and, the power of the snake coiling around me struggled.

With that aftermath, the earth was literally gouged out.

It didn’t move, it didn’t move but――the opponent is sprouting countless heads.

While I grapple with 1 head, a thousand other heads close in from the heavens to swallow me whole while I can’t move.

――Like how it ate Makina.

「――Don’t mess with me!! Lightning!!」

Separate from the Thunder my body is clad in, I counterattack with Double Cast.

As much as it’s reluctant to yield victory, the opponent isn’t naive either.

More importantly, something like an endurance battle is the height of stupidity.

「U, AAAAa!!」

――Silver magic.

The area of effect isn’t worth displaying, it’s just merely my own surroundings.

It’s not even like anything theatrical happened, it’s not like it beckons the reformation of the world either.

There’s only the development of silver particles that seemed to envelope my body.

A tiny tiny door of dreams.

Connecting with numerous worlds, a tiny tiny infinite corridor.

Therefore, the transformation isn’t external.

If something changed――――it was only me!

「――」

My thoughts are clear.

To the current me, there is nothing I cannot do――!*

「Cast release」

Cladding my right hand in flame, I jump into the giant snake’s body.

「Flare・Impact!」

Start out by relying on magic powerpower and pounding that attack in.

Conveying the power of the flame that was directly pounded in to the giant snake without anything in excess, 8 heads raised a howl together.

Match your breathing.

Perceive the breath of death.

Ascertain the gap where the next attack should be pounded in.

「Cast release――Ice・ Impact!!」

Pound in yet one more hand.

Even the magma starts to freeze, water vapor rises from the volcanic crater due to the abrupt change in temperature.

The giant snake’s movements grew dull in that momentary gap as it couldn’t do anything but howl.

――The match is already decided here.

The depths of this technique is truly nothing but 2 attacks.

After that――there’s only striking in with full power.

I raise my magic power by passing it through the ring on my left hand.

「――Oh ray of light, blade descended from heaven, become my sword and rend darkness! Lightning――Impact!!」

Sure enough――that attack shot through everything.

Nay――it broke through.

As if perhaps its cells are disintegrating, the giant snake’s body began to crumble.

An ultimate destructive technique that, doesn’t even allow the agony of death.

A miraculous act interweaving human technique and fantasy’s magic powerdream.

Calling the person who devised that a genius is, too light.

The miracle that talent itself arrived at.

The culmination of the fusion of martial technique and magic power is itself, the technique’s true form.

Truly, it’s nothing but a hidden technique with an extensive amount of time devoted to it.

「――I won’t forgive you, human.」

「Makina!!」

From within the body crumbling down toward the volcanic crater, that girl with snake eyes came to show herself.

That body is――battered by the damage from my magic.

Before a hidden technique that conveys damage all the way to the inner parts without anything in excess, clearing that without consequences is preposterous.

「……What of it, you speak like a poor loser.」

――Makina answered while, expressing a soft smile.

「Incredible……Even though I didn’t deliver such a phantasm, Alice-san is, truly……the strongest aren’t you.」

……To begin with, why did the snake’s movements dull to the extent that they weren’t a problem?

There’s a large wound that isn’t something I created, on Makina’s chest, blood is still pouring out.

There is her immortality but, damage is damage.

By hurting the core called that girl, it’s certain that its movements will dull.

「……Nee Rin-chan? Using something like Alice-san, that’s unduly distant you know?」

「Haha……Because, since to me 『this』 Alice-san really is, Alice-san……」

I shook my head at such a sad statement.

「――No, I am your Alice you see.」

「……Eh?」

「To be precise, I’m 『also』 your Alice, something in that area I guess.」

I mischievously show her a smile.

It’s still incomplete but, while noting that――

「Phantasmal magic, Resonance World……it’s one part of that power.」

「Resonance……world……connect……? It, can’t be……」

Makina’s eyes opened wide, as if maybe she’d seen a ghost.

「……Nee, Rin-chan? It truly has been a while hasn’t it. You’ve become big.」

「Such a thing, impossible……」

I smile bitterly at Makina as she continues to shake her head with it can’t be.

「Something like it can’t be, can’t be. That’s that which is my magic.」