[!!!]
Watching the silver arrow rush toward Origami, Shido's heart clenched hard.
Even so, he chose to trust Mikoto.
No matter what she was planning to do, it would certainly be for the sake of saving Origami.
However, in the next instant, several wings gathered together and transford into a shield, blocking the arrow's path.
"This is bad… ugh!"
Shido raised Sandalphon, intending to clear the path for the arrow.
But intense pain surged through his entire body. Having overused Angels far too much, Shido loosened his grip on the sword hilt.
And so, he could only watch as the arrow struck the "shield", then passed through it.
"Huh?"
No, it had not passed through.
In Shido's eyes, the terrifying Demon King wings transford into silver particles the instant they touched the arrow, dispersing into the air.
The arrow continued without losing montum, rushing toward Origami.
Perhaps sensing the threat, Origami began moving to evade the arrow's trajectory.
"Sandalphon!"
"Gabriel—Rondo!"
However, Tohka and Miku pinned her in place.
And so, the arrow pierced through Origami's body.
In that instant, the pitch-black Astral Dress on the girl's body began to disintegrate, then vanished.
As if her strength had left her, Origami fell from the sky and was caught by Natsumi, who rushed over to her.
"That's… impossible…"
To Shido, everything seed fantastical.
But Ellen, seated within the airship, understood exactly what that Angel had done.
"The inversed spirit… was purified…"
According to the airship's analysis , Origami's spiritual wavelength had already changed from Category E back to its normal state.
Mikoto's Yata no Kagami originally had the ability to purify and reflect the enemy's energy attacks.
And Exorcism Arrow (Yata no kagami) was an arrow that descended from the sacred body to purify everything, abandoning reflection and pursuing the greatest possible purification of the enemy's power.
[This is bad!]
Because Ellen had been too shocked, by the ti she reacted, the arrow was already approaching Goetia.
The enemy intended to wipe out both herself and the inversed one in a single stroke.
Ellen imdiately understood the enemy's objective.
[An attack of this level…]
Although Exorcism Arrow's ability was extrely unfair, her opponent was a highly mobile airship. To the strongest Wizard on Earth, as long as it did not hit, it did not matter.
"No… you're not escaping…"
"Kukuku, quite bold of you to forget our existence."
"Binding. We will not let you escape."
However, a storm wrapped in freezing cold slowed Goetia's speed.
"As if this level of restraint—could possibly work!"
All of the Realizers generated enormous magic power at once, pushing the airship away from the arrow's trajectory.
Even so, the silver storm stirred up by the Exorcism Arrow still grazed Goetia.
For a mont, alarms blared throughout the airship.
"Damn it…"
Just from being grazed by the aftershock, thirty percent of the territory covering the exterior was purified into unusable spiritual power. Even two large Realizers had been paralyzed as a result.
[If this continues…]
Ellen's heart filled with rage.
Although she wanted to counterattack, the inverse one had now been purified, and the freed Spirits were beginning to close in on the airship.
At this rate, she would have to face the encirclent of six Spirits at once—Princess, Hermit, Berserk, Diva, and Witch.....
And—
[If I'm pinned down, the next arrow will probably…]
If Exorcism Arrow landed, Goetia's magic power would be completely purified. The airship, having lost propulsion, would fall straight down. Even her own CR-Unit might beco unable to operate.
Although it would not cause direct physical damage, the effect attached to that arrow would drastically weaken her combat ability.
After making that judgnt, Ellen clenched her teeth and drove Goetia away from the area before the Spirits could complete their encirclent.
"She got away… Well, that's fine too."
Watching the platinum airship grow more and more distant, Mikoto lowered the bow in her hand.
Although she had indeed intended to wipe the enemy out in one go, putting aside how much damage that ship crashing into Tengu City would cause, the Spirits no longer had the strength to keep their opponent here.
"At least we saved Origami and escaped danger."
She looked at Origami, who was still unconscious.
Although Exorcism Arrow had undone her inversion, as long as Origami's heart remained unchanged, she would eventually return to her previous state.
However…
"Well… as long as Shido is here, it should be fine."
Looking at Shido, who held the girl in his arms, Mikoto believed that Origami would no longer beco that terrifying Spirit hunter.
November 12th, Sunday.
"Hah…"
Shido rolled over, sat up, and rubbed his eyes. He opened the curtains and looked outside. Although a terrifying battle had taken place yesterday, fortunately, the location had been High Platform Park near the edge of Tengu City. The city itself had not suffered especially devastating damage.
One could call that a blessing amid misfortune.
"Right… I need to make breakfast…"
Although Mikoto had originally been in charge of breakfast, because Mikoto's emotional state had been very poor lately, the Itsuka household's kitchen had returned to Shido's hands.
"Good morning, Shido."
"Good morning, Kotori. What's wrong? Why are you looking at like that?"
When he went downstairs, he saw his little sister staring at him with a serious expression.
"Let ask you, Shido. Do you rember what happened yesterday?"
Kotori looked as tense as if she were heading into battle.
"Even if you ask that, how could I forget?"
Ellen's assault, Origami's inversion, and then Mikoto's inversion right after that.
It was one wave after another without a mont's peace. Even if he wanted to forget, he could not.
"Hah… thank goodness."
Hearing Shido's answer, Kotori let out a long breath of relief.
"What's going on? You're acting strange, Kotori."
"What do you an, what's going on? Today is the second day after you used the Twelfth Bullet. Based on the previous example, there was a chance you might forget everything that happened over these past few days again. We finally raised Mikoto's affection level. If you forgot everything, wouldn't we have to start all over again?"
Kotori said irritably.
She had truly been afraid that Shido's first reaction after waking up would be sothing like—
"Ah, Tengu City wasn't burned to ash. Looks like changing history succeeded! But what happened these past few days? I have no idea!"
"Ugh, I guess you're right. Anyway, I haven't forgotten."
Shido was a little startled too.
Based on what happened before, what Kotori said had been very possible.
[Co to think of it, why do I still rember… the things from before the world changed?]
Puzzled, Shido picked up an apron, tied it around himself, and entered the kitchen.
[Yakumo-senpai's mood is still bad. I'll make sothing she likes today.]
Shido looked through the refrigerator and thought about breakfast.
[Food that senpai likes… first of all, it needs to have an adult flavor…]
He picked up a jar of chili pepper, then smiled wryly and put it back.
[No matter how you look at it, eating spicy food for breakfast is too much. I'll think of sothing else.]
He sighed and stared at the ingredients in the refrigerator, lost in thought.
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