The exact mont the spacequake was about to drop, Mikoto raised her hand. As if answering the young girl's call, the shrine doors within Tsukuyomi opened, and a glowing mirror flew out, landing squarely in her hand.
Mikoto held the divine mirror, aiming its reflective surface straight at Kurumi. Kurumi, instantly on high alert, raised her dual guns in response. The two stared each other down, bracing for the exact mont the spacequake would detonate.
However...
The air buzzed and vibrated violently, but that was it. The anticipated destruction never ca.
"What exactly did you do?"
Kurumi glared at Mikoto. The spacequake that should have erupted vanished without a trace. The only logical explanation was that Mikoto had done sothing with that mirror.
"I should be asking you that. Don't tell you failed to summon the spacequake?"
Holding the mirror, Mikoto looked equally confused. The spacequake she was bracing for just refused to happen. The only logical explanation was that Kurumi simply failed to summon it.
Just as both of them assud it was the other's fault, a voice echoed from above them.
"Oh my, didn't you know? A spacequake can be canceled out by colliding it with another spacequake of equal magnitude."
Everyone looked up and saw a fiery red sky. It was a scenery far more dazzling than a normal sunset. Hovering in the sky was a young girl wearing a kimono-like Astral Dress, its sleeves fluttering like actual flas. Horns grew from her head, instantly reminding anyone who saw her of an Oni from a fairytale.
A Spirit. Anyone could instantly recognize what she was. But to everyone except Kurumi, this girl had a na they were far more familiar with—Itsuka Kotori, Shido's little sister.
"Ko... tori..."
Shido stared at the girl in the sky and muttered in utter disbelief.
"Mikoto... I leave my idiot Onii-chan in your hands. Right now, Shido can die very easily."
"...I understand."
Mikoto nodded. She had vaguely suspected that Kotori might be a Spirit. Back when they were conquering Yoshino, Kotori had ntioned that Shido's regenerative powers were the effect of Spirit energy. But it wasn't Tohka's Spirit energy, and it wasn't Mikoto's.
When you think about it, why was a middle schooler like Kotori the Commander of Ratatoskr? And how did Ratatoskr know that Shido could seal Spirit energy? If Kotori was a Spirit, the answer was obvious—Shido had sealed Kotori's powers in the past, and that might have been how this all started.
But right now, none of that mattered. Kotori had taken back her Spirit energy and explicitly told her to protect Shido. That ant the current Shido no longer had his superhuman regenerative powers.
"Burn them to ashes, Camael!"
The flas morphed into a massively oversized battleaxe. Having manifested her Angel, Kotori looked down at Kurumi and declared:
"Now then—let our date (war) begin!"
— This is a dividing line —
— This is the dividing line marking the end of the main story chapter —
— This is the dividing line where we break character and enter the Afterword —
"CUT—!!!"
Following a voice coming from who knows where, the girls withdrew their Angels and stood together happily in a harmonious atmosphere.(TL:I...didn't...really....expected this afterword...to go like this..."
Shido: "Good work, everyone. Here are so drinks."
Mikoto: "Oh my, Shido is so considerate."
Tohka: "Umu... Delicious! This is what they an by drinks tasting better after hard work, right, Shido!"
Shido: "Well... that's more or less the idea."
Kotori: "Alright! It's ti for our regular end-of-volu 'Letter from Fraxinus' segnt!"
Kurumi: "Oh my. I don't really mind, but is it really okay to stuff the main story and the afterword into the sa chapter?"(TL:It's not that crazy but got good for a bit)
Kotori: "It can't be helped. We had less than a thousand words of the main story left, and this volu's afterword is less than two thousand words, so we just squished them together."
Mikoto: "Ahaha, the author is really obsessed with hitting that word count, aren't they."
Tohka: "Umu! Anyway, up next is this volu's keyword!"
— TRIPLE-DATING SCUM!!! —
Shido: "Pfft!!!"
Tohka: "Why did Shido suddenly spit blood!? Is he okay? Should we get Reine to look at him?"
Kotori: "It's fine, Tohka. That's just a grudge attack from the readers."
Mikoto: "Mhm, when you get down to it, it really was Shido's fault. A triple date..."
Kotori: "Yeah, yeah. If the people he was dating weren't Spirits, a harem protagonist like Shido would totally deserve a punishnt like Tohno Shiki or Emiya Shirou. A legal harem? A creature lower than a paracium like Shido doesn't deserve one."(TL:Chinese really like Typemoon stuff huh?)
Shido: "So an! And didn't you just randomly drag so weird characters into this!?"
Kotori: "It's decided! The the for this keyword is: 'If it wasn't a legal harem, what kind of punishnt should Shido face?' Let's start with Tohka!"
Tohka: "Punishnt... Umu! Decided! Then Shido's punishnt is that he's not allowed to eat kinako bread for a month!"
Kotori: "That's... a very Tohka punishnt. But that's way too light for Shido..."
Tohka: "Then... how about one strike from Halvanhelev?"
Shido: "I'll die! Even with my healing powers, I'll definitely die!"
Kotori: "Alright, Tohka's punishnt is locked in! Next up is Mikoto!"
Mikoto: "Eh? M-? Then... how about making his breakfast, lunch, and dinner entirely out of ultra spicy food for the next month?"
Shido: "I'll break! My tongue and my stomach will completely break!"
Mikoto: "Fufufu, if you give a 'Shiori-chan Date Ticket' with unlimited uses, I might forgive you."(TL: a certain soone will need it)
Shido: "That's even worse!"
Kurumi: "Ara ara~ Tohka-san and Yakumo-san are far too kind."
Kotori: "So, what is your punishnt, Kurumi?"
Kurumi: "Make Shido-san dress up as Shiori in a cat eared maid outfit, crawl on all fours while I walk him on a leash down the entire shopping district, and then eat him in a dark alley."
Shido: "That's horrible!!! And eating isn't even a punishnt, that's just your ultimate goal!!!"
Kurumi: "Fufufu, you shouldn't take things too seriously, Shido-san."
Kotori: "Alright, with those three punishnts out of the way, let's look at the next keyword!"
— Didn't understand the 'Ti of Madness' chapter —
Mikoto: "Sorry, that's entirely because I transmigrated into a 'New Ga ' tiline."
Kotori: "Well, if you've only watched the ani, haven't read up to Volu 11 of the light novels, or haven't touched the Date A Live franchise at all, it's completely normal to be confused."
Mikoto: "Anyway, even if you don't understand it, that's perfectly fine. Just treat it as a lingering mystery. If this fanfic keeps going, it will be explained in much greater detail when we reach the appropriate arcs."
Kotori: "Then that's all for this volu's keywords! Next volu: Itsuka Sister! Get ready for the loving punishnt ti for Tokisaki Kurumi!"
Kurumi: "Ara ara~ The terrifying Spirit of Fire sure talks a big ga."
Kotori: "Eh~? If you have a problem with it, I can pin you down and spank you right here, right now."
Kurumi: "Kihihihihihi! Just what I wanted. Let teach you a good lesson right here in this Afterword where there's no plot armor to save you."
Shido: "Wait! Don't start fighting in an unofficial setting like this!!!"
As a result, a fierce battle of shadows and flas broke out once again on the rooftop...
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