"Yo... Arthas... Shiori, she..."
The girl, who had been running wild, finally calmed down because of this roar, and tears slowly flowed from Tohka's eyes.
The girl was sad and crying, crying for Itsuka Shiori, who had become her friend despite their short time together.
"Rest assured, Shiori can still be saved. Calm down. Have you forgotten what I said? Think about the possible consequences before doing anything. Are you planning to destroy this Tengu City?"
While Arthas was comforting Tohka, Kusakabe Ryouko on the other side of the hillside couldn't help but let out a groan.
"It was... stopped. That monster's strike was actually stopped by him with one hand..."
"Because... he's a real monster... a sky-rending, earth-splitting monster."
Origami Tobiichi muttered to herself in a daze. With Itsuka Shiori's death, the girl seemed to have lost her soul.
"Quickly... quickly leave... I won't be able to control the power of the sword!"
Although she had awakened from her berserk state and the strike had been stopped by Arthas with one hand, that didn't mean that everything was over.
Once she activated her Astral Dress, even Tohka herself couldn't control the rampage of this power. She didn't even know what she would do.
"Rest assured, if it's just this kind of power?"
Sensing the destructive dark purple lightning that was wrapped around the tip of the Final Sword, Arthas just smiled nonchalantly.
"This kind of power... can't hurt me!"
Arthas said this, and then the hand that was gripping the sword's blade began to slowly exert force.
Crack... A crisp sound, and then ferocious cracks began to spread along the tip of the weapon.
"Th-this power is..." Tohka stared blankly as her weapon was crushed to pieces by Arthas.
Staring blankly at the dark purple fragments flying in the sky, her strongest Astral Dress, the Final Sword, had actually been crushed like this?
This was an Astral Dress that even she couldn't perfectly control.
"Tohka, having power is actually a sad thing, especially when that power can't be controlled by yourself, and you yourself will be affected by the power in reverse."
"You can't even get close to your family and friends, because you don't know if doing so will cause them any irreversible harm."
"People will fear you, but they won't respect you, because you're just a monster being manipulated by a powerful force."
"I'm sorry, Arthas, it's all my fault. I shouldn't have... shouldn't have attacked them, but Shiori, she..."
Tohka didn't understand what Arthas was saying, but the girl still felt guilty. Because just like he said, if Shiori could still be saved, then her actions just now would only make things worse.
"Rest assured, I'll guide you, so that you can completely master the power that belongs to you. As for Shiori, rest assured, she's fine. I've temporarily frozen her body."
Arthas said this. He didn't think that Itsuka Shiori would die so easily, because like Tohka, she had a strange power hidden within her body, a power that seemed to be the same as that of a Spirit.
And there was also someone who cared about Itsuka Shiori even more than he did who had been remaining silent, so Arthas didn't believe that Itsuka Shiori had died just like that.
Itsuka Kotori, the commander of 'Fraxinus', Itsuka Shiori's younger sister.
There was no doubt that this mysterious girl knew many, many things, and also possessed a powerful force, otherwise she wouldn't have become the leader of such a large organization.
At the same time, on the bridge of 'Fraxinus' high in the sky.
Completely opposite to Kotori's reaction, the crew members seemed very anxious, unable to understand why Kotori could still be so calm, knowing that her big sister was lying quietly in a pool of blood right now.
"Quiet..." Kotori said to her subordinates, who seemed to be in a mess, while flipping the lollipop in her hand.
On the front display screen of the 'Fraxinus' bridge was the image of Itsuka Shiori, whose body had been pierced through and had fallen down, as well as the subsequent battle of the Spirit Tohka.
Although the situation had deteriorated to the extreme in an instant, it was fortunate that it had been stopped.
Although the spacequake alarm had finally started to sound, they could just start the evacuation work now.
"That Arthas guy... his strength is even more terrifying than I thought. So the question is, what kind of existence is he?"
Why was her commander still so calm? She needed to know that it was her big sister who had died.
"Well, they're really like idiots, clearly both of them are non-human existences, but they still went to seek death for no reason." Licking the lollipop, Kotori suddenly spoke.
The crew members looked at their commander with fearful gazes. She could still say such calm words after her big sister had died.
Except for two people, Murasame Reine and the vice-commander, Kannazuki.
Murasame Reine was still focusing on doing her job, and as for Kannazuki, he was just looking at the screen, his face a little pale.
"Alright... continue with your work. What did you guys think? How could Shiori be finished off just like that?" Smiling lightly, Kotori spoke.
"Co-Commander... what is that?" A confused voice rang out, and Kotori's face showed a smile that said she had everything under control.
Using her tongue to move the lollipop in her mouth to another position, she turned the swivel chair and looked at the big screen again.
"Hmph, it's starting. Dealing with two non-human existences, Shiori naturally has to have some of her own strengths..."
What was reflected on the screen before her eyes was Itsuka Shiori, lying motionless in the park.
But suddenly, the girl's body, which should have lost all signs of life, burst into flames.
The crew members let out surprised voices, because the huge wound on Itsuka Shiori's body was disappearing as it burned.
Then, after being licked by those flames, Itsuka Shiori's completely regenerated body was there.
And then...
"Uwaaaaaah! It's so hot, it's so hot!"
The girl, seeing the flames that were still smoking on her abdomen, jumped up. Then, she frantically patted her abdomen, extinguishing the flames.
"Eh... Huh? What about me?"
Itsuka Shiori's face was full of incomprehension. Her younger sister had blocked the sniper bullet for Tohka, and then half of her body had been blown apart. She should have been dead, but why...?
"Shiori... you're alright, I'm so glad!"
Just as Itsuka Shiori was still stunned, a voice of joy and tears came from beside her. Tohka, who had regained her senses, suddenly pounced over and hugged Itsuka Shiori in her arms.
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