Episode 158 – Evolving Justice (8)
“Say that again. You’re rambling too much.”
“I’m not rambling! I’m just relaying what I’ve heard!”
Ren snapped at me. But soon cleared his throat and repeated what he had said.
“It’s a critical situation. There are 11, no, 15 magical girl Seirins with four arms each. They are killing everyone who went with them and cornering Aria and Shia with enormous power!”
“It’s hard to understand just from what you’re saying. Four arms? Fifteen of them?”
“Anyway, it sounds really dangerous. You’re the only one who can help them right now. You wouldn’t want them to die, right?!”
Ren, sitting on my head, patted my head in a hurry. It was impressive that he remembered what I said before.
Though it irritated me, I just squeezed him tightly while he screamed, not bothering to argue. Because, in truth, I didn’t want them to die.
“It was fun sneaking around and playing my cheat survival game alone, but now it’s getting ridiculous. I’m starting to get annoyed.”
“Ugh…”
With a stiff face, I dropped Ren, who was twisted like a rag. Until now, it was something I wanted to do, but this time it felt forced.
“Where are you going?”
“To the bathroom. Are you going to follow me while a girl takes a pee?”
“Oh, no, that’s not…”
I dodged the embassy staff who were guarding me and headed to the bathroom. I decided to think positively. There were many annoying investigations and things to do ahead, but I thought I could get that sorted out too.
“Uwaah!”
“Plesea. You should be used to it by now, right?”
I opened a dimension gate in the bathroom and pulled Plesea out. This doppelgänger could be anything, and it looked like he had been having a wild time as a muscle-bound wolf beast with sunglasses.
“D-Demon King.”
“Stay disguised until I return.”
“W-Wait just a moment. Gabi, Urchi, and I are here now. Isn’t it dangerous?”
Plesea, transformed into an identical version of me, grabbed my arm with a panicked expression. Now that I thought about it, I hadn’t sent Urchi back yet.
“…It shouldn’t be a big problem. I’ll send Urchi back now.”
I clicked my tongue. The reason I had to go through such a hassle was because of those angels. If it was a commander-level demon from the Demon Realm, they were definitely keeping an eye on us.
If one or two people left, it wouldn’t be a problem, but if three or more started to go missing, they’d become suspicious.
“Now that I think about it, it’s annoying, right?”
But the saint was out here gallivanting freely, which felt a bit unfair. Sure, I had caused a ruckus until now.
“Anyway, hang in there.”
“…Please come quickly.”
I left Plesea in the bathroom and took off outside, soaring straight up into the sky. In my transformed state, I oriented myself.
The location was, of course, thousands of kilometers away from here, where I felt a weak holy power.
“Can you adjust the timing?!”
“I can’t if I fly. But if I use another method, it might work.”
With the fierce winds slicing through the air, my long hair flew and the uniform fluttered as I opened another dimension gate.
“Demon King is here!”
“What?! Where?!”
“She’s gone again.”
“?!!”
In that brief moment crossing into the Demon Realm, I passed by some fools’ banter and reemerged in the sky over Earth.
After returning to the Demon Realm, I opened a dimension gate again at Earth’s coordinates to shorten the distance. Thanks to the indication of the saint’s holy power, it was a usable method.
“…I can see it.”
After that, I rushed across the night sky straight to a scene where strong magical power and holy power were colliding.
I was aware that a few eyes were on me as I approached. Whether they were enemies, allies, drones, telescopes, magical girls, or monsters, I ignored them. If they dared complain about my actions, they could come out and knock on my door, and it’d be their end.
“I’m coming! Can’t you hurry it up?!”
“Of course not.”
It was truly a critical situation. Aria and Shia were on the brink of decapitation by the enemies. I unleashed the magical power I had been gathering.
Was there a reason to hold back? Those attacking her were enemies. Those ‘dolls’ with the same faces were neither magical girls nor even humans.
But they definitely possessed considerable magical power. No matter how filthy or crude that power was, power was still power. I had to suppress them with overwhelming force to keep them from hopping around.
“You…”
“Interesting. I bet those are weaklings, but pretty strong.”
The horns that sprouted from my head broke through my uniform hat and shot upward. At the same time, the swirling black magic surged toward the ground like a bombardment.
*
“Takilas.”
“It’s Takilas!”
Even those fiercely fighting had to halt at this moment. Chairman Zhao Zhirin, who had been observing the situation, and even Razak couldn’t dare to intervene and kept their mouths shut.
The strongest magical girl that currently existed, an outlier, the true ruler.
Such an entity had barged into this scene.
‘Takilas…’
Even the saint and rookie magical girl, Shia, froze in place.
When she first heard that name, she was suspicious and on guard. She could hardly fathom what a magical girl sharing a name with the Demon King would be like.
But now, seeing the immense power approaching, she couldn’t think of anything else. Could the true power of the Demon King be this intense?
“It’s dangerous!”
In that situation, only Aria, who had been fighting endlessly with Takilas and frankly didn’t find it that daunting anymore, managed to regain her wits and act quickly.
Aria dove to tackle Shia, who was frozen stiff.
“Ugh, wow…”
“Hold on tight.”
Just then, a massive shockwave engulfed the area. The impact alone shattered the asphalt roads and uprooted giant trees, causing sonic booms that felt like hundreds of bombs detonating.
Even S-rank magical girls were tossed about helplessly by the shockwave, struggling to withstand the aftereffects.
‘Those…tentacles.’
While rolling on the ground, entangled together, Aria grimaced at her ringing ears and definitely saw them. Translucent black tentacles filling the dark night sky.
Each of those tentacles, hundreds of meters thick, had devastated the area with a single downward thrust and then quickly vanished.
“There are still a few survivors. Maybe they missed the direct hit.”
And the girl who summoned those gigantic cosmic horror-level tentacles, standing with arms crossed as she slowly descended to the ground, was smirking.
Instinctively biting her lip as she saw most of Seirin’s clones eliminated in a single strike, Aria’s wrist was caught by Shia, who lay beneath her.
“It’s dangerous, Hero! ‘That’ is absolutely…”
“You don’t need to be that scared, Shia. She’s a bit cocky, but at least she hasn’t come to harm us.”
“That’s not it!”
Seeing Takilas for the first time, Shia’s sky-blue eyes widened in horror, and she shook her head desperately. She had insight based on her holy power.
“I can see it. Such an infinitely deep and heavy existence can only be the Demon King…”
“What do you mean?”
But the anxiously shouting Shia suddenly gasped and fell silent.
‘She’s different from the Demon King. Definitely.’
Her eyes trembled in great confusion. It was impossible for the insight of holy power to penetrate the authority of the transcendent Yggdrasil.
The fact that the terrifying tentacle monster had turned into a chic-looking girl wasn’t the only thing that made it feel different from the Demon King they had seen several times.
Shia, having forgotten that she was a saint herself, concluded that as the essence of the Demon King was possessed by a human, it must be fundamentally different from other demons. Thus, it was impossible for her to piece that together.
“But it’s dangerous nonetheless.”
“Right. It is really extremely dangerous. But this I can assure you: the monsters that just attacked us are more dangerous and wicked than Takilas. Trust me.”
Aria gently caressed Shia’s cheek, soothing her as she anxiously guarded against Takilas. She was confident that she could handle Takilas herself.
“Been a while. What are you doing here, senpai?”
“You’re as consistent as ever.”
Takilas smiled with familiarity at Aria, who approached, and at Shia, who was hiding behind her and keeping a wary eye.
“You guys are so weak and pathetic that it’s giving me a hard time.”
“…There are still leftovers.”
“Nope. Not anymore.”
With a gentle smile, Takilas’ nonchalant words made Aria flinch, as she mentioned the few clones that had somehow survived in the utter devastation.
However, as the shadow of Takilas spread out in all directions, the moment she clenched her hand, the presences they had felt vanished all at once.
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