"Buzz…"
In the next instant, the bloody remains beneath Raize seemed to rewind in time. Shattered flesh rapidly regenerated. After the opponent's hands finished repairing themselves, she immediately swung the blade she had never let go of, slashing fiercely at Raize.
Clang!
A metallic clash rang out. Raize neither dodged nor evaded. Brilliant lightning burst from his body, and the blade was stopped at his side by a barrier of lightning, unable to advance further.
"Tch!"
An annoyed clicking sound came from between Raize's broad fingers. A pair of blood-red, gemstone-like eyes glared viciously at him. Raize, however, maintained his indifferent expression, unaffected by her gaze or killing intent.
He reached out with his free hand, grabbed the wrist holding the blade, and crushed it with a fierce squeeze. Crack— a crisp bone-breaking sound echoed as the weapon fell to the ground.
Still gripping her face, after crushing her wrist he lifted her up, and then—
Zzzzz—!!!
[Eightfold Thunder Annihilation: Heart-Rending Thunder!]
Raize's other free hand flared with blue-white lightning along all five fingers. Dense arcs erupted from his fingertips, spreading out in a fan shape and striking the ground.
Squelch!
Crackling thunder wrapped around Raize's palm as that lightning-charged hand mercilessly pierced straight through Kyoko's chest. Blood sprayed out from her back, splattering more than four or five meters away.
Blood splashed five steps away.
"Y-you bastard…"
The magical armored girl Kyoko was paralyzed inside and out by electricity; even speaking was difficult. Her face twisted grotesquely as she glared at Raize.
Before she could finish her threat, Raize directly increased the output frequency of his lightning.
"Ah…"
Amid the roaring thunder, the girl in front of Raize let out a violent scream.
In an instant, domineering, ferocious lightning coursed through Kyoko's entire body, inside and out. Raize's lightning accumulated at terrifying speed within her small frame, turning her body into a primed bomb within two seconds.
Boom!!!
Violent lightning brutally flooded her body, instantly blowing her apart into dense fragments of flesh. Her petite body burst like popcorn, shredded into countless pieces by the thunder.
Not even the largest piece was bigger than a ping-pong ball. Charred black chunks of flesh scattered everywhere, faint arcs of electricity still flickering across them.
"Hm?"
After killing the opponent with such brutal means, Raize's gaze sharpened. Among the scattered burnt flesh, he saw several marble-sized orbs glowing—eight of them in total.
However, his sharp eyes noticed that two orbs were not glowing. The eight glowing jewels radiated strange light and merged into the flesh fragments.
Realizing something, Raize extended his hand toward the remaining two unlit orbs and released his energy. With a simple gesture, he drew the two orbs into his hand from a distance.
The game appraisal ability granted by the system activated, immediately revealing their secrets.
[Biological Orb]
Quality: A
Type: Artificial Artifact
Effect: A treasure from the magical girl country of Villiers. An Artificial treasure capable of reviving the dead. If used by a living person, it can negate one death.
Note: Biological Orbs are consumed based on the degree of bodily damage. If the body is largely intact, only one orb is required. Severe corpse damage will increase both the number of orbs and the energy consumed.
"Good stuff…"
Raize looked regretfully at the magical armored girl whose body was rapidly reassembling from fragments into human form. He felt some pity for the Biological Beads she had already consumed—these were full HP, full MP revival artifacts.
Having already decided to kill this opponent, Raize raised his hand toward the sky as a precaution. A pale golden radiance spread outward as he directly used the spell taught to him by Sei, deploying a barrier to prevent her from escaping.
"You bastard, give me back the Biological Orbs!!"
Kyoko's face was extremely ugly and twisted. She knew she had run into a real monster this time. Just earlier, Raize had blasted her body into pieces, forcing her to consume eight orbs to recover.
Although the orbs could restore her to full health and full mana, repairing a severely damaged body also required enormous energy. If the injured body wasn't badly damaged, very little energy would be consumed.
But Raize had directly blown her into fragments. The energy required to revive and reconstruct her body was terrifyingly huge, and it had immediately consumed eight orbs.
Now, the remaining two had been taken by him as well. That meant she could no longer revive.
Without the orbs, there was no retreat left. Although her expression was vicious, deep inside she was already drowning in panic and fear. Instinctively, she tried to contact the so-called King of the Night behind her through some means.
Buzz!
A faint golden glow flickered in the surroundings and even in the sky. As this glow appeared, Kyoko's face instantly froze.
Her magical distress signal had been blocked.
"You…" Looking at the cold, sinister smile on Raize's face, her body began to tremble uncontrollably. The fierce look in her eyes was replaced by naked terror.
Watching the magical girl who had reached the end of the road, lightning burst from Raize's body as he began to walk toward her.
"Don't come any closer!!"
Overwhelmed by the fear of imminent death, Kyoko screamed hysterically and waved both hands forward.
Blazing flames, raging winds, descending lightning—various magic attacks all crashed toward Raize.
100%…
200%…
300%…
Knowing she was going to be killed, Kyoko launched her final resistance, recklessly pushing her magic beyond her body's limits. Blood sprayed continuously from her body.
Nearby tombstones were dyed blood-red. The ground was scorched black by flames, cracks torn open everywhere by raging winds.
Ruins and destruction covered the area, making the long-abandoned cemetery look as if a typhoon had swept through it.
Yet in the face of these complex elemental attacks, Raize simply threw a ferocious uppercut.
Clang—!
A clear sword-like ringing echoed. With that single uppercut, all incoming elemental attacks were blown apart. A pillar of blue sword energy appeared alongside Raize's rising fist.
The sword energy pillar tore through Kyoko's final defenses, leaving a deep, bone-revealing wound across her chest before dissipating.
As a magical girl, Kyoko had completely lost the ability to continue fighting.
"Done?"
Raize was uninjured from head to toe. After she exhausted herself, he stood before the powerless Kyoko, who had collapsed to the ground, and looked down at her with icy blue eyes filled with killing intent.
"N-no… don't…" Kyoko helplessly retreated while sitting on the ground. Both her arms had lost layers of flesh, becoming mangled and bloody. Her delicate body trembled as she looked at Raize with fear and pleading, desperately scooting backward.
"I… I don't want to die… please don't kill me…"
"Did the people you killed get to say that?"
Raize stood before Kyoko, who was pressed against a shattered tombstone with nowhere left to retreat. He lowered his head and asked coldly. Faced with her pitiful appearance, his heart showed not the slightest wavering.
This thing absolutely belonged to the kind that deserved to die, unworthy of any sympathy.
The original protagonist might have forgiven her, but to Raize that was completely incomprehensible. Someone who had slaughtered countless innocent people actually ended up with a decent outcome.
That was absurd beyond belief.
Anyone who harbored killing intent toward him and acted on it would never be forgiven by Raize, regardless of whether they were a beautiful girl or not.
If he had still been an ordinary powerless person before, his end would have been far worse.
So Raize left absolutely no possibility for the woman in front of him.
"I'm sure you never showed mercy to the innocent people you butchered. So I won't show you any either."
As his words fell, a pink light suddenly enveloped Raize's body. When the light faded, Kyoko's stiff, terrified face reflected the sight of a cold-faced pink spherical creature standing there.
Despite its cute appearance, the oppressive aura made Kyoko see nothing but a demon.
That pink demon opened its mouth wide at her. A terrifying suction that twisted space itself erupted, instantly locking onto Kyoko. Panicking, she instinctively grabbed a tombstone as her body was pulled uncontrollably toward him.
But the suction was like a black hole. It ripped the tombstone out of the ground, dragging Kyoko along with it straight toward Raize's gaping mouth.
"No—!!!"
Knowing exactly what awaited her, Kyoko stared in horror at the ever-approaching black-hole mouth, where everything that entered vanished without a trace.
"Ahm…"
After swallowing a huge chunk of matter along with a magical girl, Raize's round pink body visibly puffed up by a full circle, his rosy cheeks bulging.
Feeling the extra mass inside his body, Raize immediately activated his digestion ability. In an instant, everything that had entered him was broken down into basic energy and absorbed.
The soul of the murderous magical girl was also used as fuel by the system.
After digesting her, Raize sensed that he had gained some of Kyoko's magical abilities.
Magic originating from Villiers.
By the way, because he absorbed her magic, as long as Raize obtained a magical girl's catalyst weapon, he could also transform into one.
Of course, Raize deeply despised the idea of trading dignity and cross-dressing for power, and would absolutely never use it.
A man who walked the path of brute strength would never rely on such effeminate power.