*RUMBLE!*
The battle between Yuriko and Kurumi in Tokyo's sky still continued. Ear-splitting sounds continuously spread in all directions. The air waves produced even created a hundred-story-high storm on the ground.
Buildings collapsed in disarray, and the ground cracked into thousands of ravines, looking very terrifying.
Birds, beasts, fowl, insects, all trembled and knelt on the ground under the terrifying pressure from the two, releasing emotions of fear instinctively.
At this moment, ordinary people in Tokyo no longer had time to discuss anything. They all fled to shelters, feeling the tremors coming from the earth in fear, and praying in their hearts that the battle between these two powerful people would quickly end.
This was the first time ordinary humans directly experienced what King level was, what Devil King-level powerhouses were.
If the battle between these two people hadn't occurred in the sky, but in the city, the city would have been completely destroyed by the shockwaves produced by their collisions after the battle began.
This was power sufficient to destroy nations and annihilate worlds! Not something that could be opposed by ordinary humans!
Even the strongest technology, in their presence was just a pile of scrap metal, producing no effect whatsoever. Just look at how Japan's high officials didn't even dare issue a statement, that was the best proof.
Never mind Japan's high officials, the Onmyō Agency, Exorcists Group, Exorcist Families, Onmyō Academy...
These human-owned supernatural organizations, even if they all gathered in Tokyo, didn't dare appear and obstruct the battle between those two people, Yuriko and Kurumi, who possessed Denim King-level strength.
The only thing they could do was strengthen their respective barrier defenses, so the shockwaves wouldn't destroy their headquarters.
For the rest, they could only pray in their hearts like ordinary people, hoping the battle between these two major figures would quickly end.
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*BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!*
Yuriko and Kurumi who continued fighting, inevitably became serious.
Kurumi's clones continuously fell from the sky, all dying very miserably. Missing arms and legs were the most common. Chest, head, internal organs... all were pierced and punctured. Some even died directly because the blood in their bodies reversed direction and spurted out when Yuriko touched those clones.
However, even so, Kurumi's Clones seemed endless, continuously summoned from her time in the past. The antique rifles and pistols in their hands also launched attacks as dense as a heaven-and-earth net.
Death and birth continuously revolved in cycles under time's binding by Kurumi.
Compared to Kurumi who only lost clones, Yuriko actually suffered losses to herself, and even experienced quite serious wounds.
After all, no matter how strong Vector Manipulation was, the strength gap between the two was still quite large. At the beginning, Yuriko might be able to match her, but as time went on, the one who would surely win was Kurumi. Moreover, a Spirit who controlled time was no joke.
"Tokisaki Kurumi!!"
Yuriko's face was gloomy looking at Kurumi who seemingly wasn't injured. Her opponent lost time, while she lost spiritual energy. Now she could clearly feel her spiritual energy was almost depleted.
"If it continues like this, my spiritual energy will sooner or later be exhausted by this woman. Can't continue like this."
Yuriko who had already made a decision, prepared to use her newly developed trump card to fight a life-and-death battle with Kurumi.
"Gather!"
Yuriko ran her Vector Manipulation to its maximum limit.
*FWOOOOSHHHH!*
Countless elements between heaven and earth gathered like a devouring sea. Gradually, not only elements, but various matter, space, and even some high-rise buildings in Tokyo also began to decompose and gather through Vector Manipulation.
"It's useless, Yuriko. Attacks of this type, no matter how strong, will only consume more of my time. Shallow and easily understood things like this, Shin should have already taught you well."
Kurumi glanced at the basketball-sized round ball above, which was an aggregate of various elements and matter compressed to the maximum limit by Yuriko, emitting very terrifying pressure. There wasn't the slightest worry on her face.
"Shut up. You have no right to mention Sensei!"
Yuriko shouted angrily, then clenched her hand hard, yelling, "Everything reverse for me!"
In Kurumi's shocked eyes, that basketball-sized aggregate composed of various elements and matter, suddenly began to reverse in a very extraordinary combination method, then, expanded infinitely in a very extraordinary way.
The sky became dark, became completely pitch black. Everything around was thick darkness.
"That's a black hole!!!"
Countless people stared in horror at the only place with a bit of light above their heads. It was a giant black hole large enough to swallow all of Tokyo, emitting very terrifying gravitational pull. The surrounding space and light sources were all swallowed, destroyed, and swept inside.
Something that devoured everything, destroyed everything.
The most terrifying celestial object in the universe, born in Yuriko's hands just like that.
"Not only affecting space, time is also being disturbed!"
Kurumi controlled time to resist the black hole created by Yuriko, but in the face of the black hole's extreme devouring power, time actually showed a slight pause.
This also caused countless clones to be directly swallowed, then destroyed.
"I did underestimate you."
Kurumi's face was no longer as calm as before, becoming serious.
"City of Devouring Time (Toki no Shiro), APPEAR!!!"
A large shadow domain appeared, covering the entire sky.
City of Devouring Time was a barrier Kurumi used to replenish time. Living beings that entered the barrier's range would be forcibly absorbed of their time, and their bodies would become heavy and unable to move. Moreover, City of Devouring Time had another ability, which was storing all the time Kurumi had collected.
Under the buff of this very large amount of time, power would be enhanced to the extreme. With the appearance of City of Devouring Time, it proved that Kurumi would fight with all her might.
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"Are these two really going to completely destroy Tokyo!"
"So terrifying!"
"Who will stop them, whether Devil or God, whatever!"
"...God!"
"...Power like this shouldn't exist..."
"...Where are the Onmyōji, Exorcists? Why don't they appear to protect us!"
"..."
This time, the humans below Tokyo truly panicked. Although they panicked before too, they didn't completely lose reason. Now, everything was truly different. The traces of common sense remaining in people were completely shattered. Or rather, under this equivalent death threat, only a few people could still maintain sanity with strong willpower...
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"Rias, won't anyone stop them, letting them act recklessly." Asuna said with furrowed brows.
"Stop them, how can they be stopped!" Rias shook her head.
Devil King-level powerhouses weren't cabbages that could be found everywhere. Even if there were those who possessed Devil King-level strength, facing those two people in the sky was still very risky.
However, speaking of Devil King-level strength, they did have one here. Rias unconsciously looked toward Enma Ai beside her.
"No need to worry, Sensei has already arrived." Ai said calmly.
Kaguya and the others were shocked.
Teacher?
Could it be Hikaru had arrived.
As if reflecting Ai's words.
*BOOM!*
One beam of light.
A giant beam of light that shook heaven and earth, suddenly gathered in the sky. Then, at lightning speed, before everyone in Tokyo, even Kurumi and Yuriko, two Devil King-level powerhouses, could react, that giant beam of light pierced through the black hole and City of Devouring Time from top to bottom, directly destroying both.
After that, the giant beam of light transformed into a terrifying sword energy wave, forcibly forcing Kurumi and Yuriko to retreat and separate.
"Sensei!"
"...Shin!"
Instantly, Yuriko stared at the young man who appeared between her and Kurumi, Kanzaki Hikaru, with a joyful expression. Meanwhile, compared to Yuriko's joy, Kurumi clearly stared with a somewhat complicated gaze.
"Have you two fought enough? If not enough, I'll fight with you both." Hikaru said coldly.
As soon as this statement came out, even the arrogant Yuriko and the wicked-charactered Kurumi didn't dare speak. Those who knew Hikaru knew that Hikaru was currently somewhat angry.
If they poured oil on the fire, the consequences weren't something Yuriko and Kurumi wanted to see.
"Go!"
After Hikaru finished speaking, he waved his hand, taking Yuriko and Kurumi who offered not the slightest resistance, disappearing from that place.
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After Hikaru left for quite a while.
"That was Kanzaki Hikaru just now, I didn't see wrong, right?"
"Right, that was him!"
"...He's actually that strong?"
"..."
At this moment, never mind ordinary people, even Onmyōji and Exorcists from the Onmyō Agency, Onmyō Academy, Super Disaster Response Room... all found it difficult to believe.
Although they knew that Suzushina Yuriko, first place on the Transcendent List, was Kanzaki Hikaru's disciple, and they knew he definitely wasn't a 'playboy' as rumored, no one ever thought his power would be so strong, easily, in one strike, he broke Kurumi and Yuriko's ultimate moves.
More terrifying than Gods and Devils in mythical legends.
Some supernatural organizations secretly made decisions in their hearts, that in the future, they must not provoke him, otherwise, it would truly bring great disaster.