The instant Yutsuki's words fell, the black and white world began to change.
Like pieces in a ga of Othello being flipped over, so of the pure white squares were dyed pitch black. The once neat and even chessboard beca like a white sheet of paper sared with spilled ink, ssy and chaotic.
And the giant tree behind Mio, the one that supported the world, was now polluted by so kind of impurity. Its crystal-clear trunk was stained into a muddy gray-white.
Noticing the change in Ain Soph, Mio narrowed her eyes.
"Belial... is it?"
That was another true na of Ain Soph, the Angel that governed the laws of the world.
Unlike a Spirit's Inversion, Mio, as the Spirit of Origin, did not originally possess the concept of "Inversion."
Ain Soph and Belial were rely two different nas for the sa existence. Their activation thod, authority, and power were no different.
However, after humans, the primates, were born into this world, the world gained a new standard known as "good and evil."
The good carried out by law was called Ain Soph.
The evil enforced by law was called Belial.
The birth of that concept gave a once singular power control rights split into two.
And right now, through the na Belial, Ryougi Yutsuki had temporarily stolen control of this world of law from Mio.
"The Spirit formula Westcott developed thirty years ago to summon , huh? I'm impressed you even know that magic. Unfortunately, that formula only gathers leylines. It has no invasive function. Otherwise, I would have already lost."
Mio spoke calmly.
If this Spirit formula had been improved, then perhaps not only Ain Soph, but even Ain Soph Aur and Mio's own spirit power would have flowed into Yutsuki beyond her control.
"...Hmph. I told you, this is enough."
Yutsuki answered through clenched teeth.
It hurt.
A tearing pain ran through Yutsuki's heart.
The instant she called out the na Belial, it felt as if sothing precious had slipped from her palm. No matter how desperately she tried to hold on, she could not stop it.
The hole in her heart widened by itself. Endless grief and regret filled her mind.
It felt exactly like the monts when she lost Shido and Tohka.
Given the choice, Yutsuki wanted nothing more than to throw down her weapon and cry. She wanted to abandon this battle, even if that ant letting Mio kill her.
But even covered in wounds, she had to keep fighting.
"Command..."
Slowly loosening her clenched jaw, Yutsuki copied Reine's earlier tone and quietly declared.
At the sa ti, the Demon King known as Belial trembled faintly, as if waiting for the order of its temporary master.
In that brief instant, all information about the Demon King flooded into Yutsuki's mind, and her thoughts began to spin at high speed.
Just as Mio had said, Yutsuki had only temporarily taken control of this world from her. One hundred and eighty-seven seconds after Yutsuki gave her command, Belial would return to Ain Soph and go back to Mio's hands.
And during those one hundred and eighty-seven seconds, she could not manipulate Belial's branches like Mio could. Nor could she freely rewrite the laws of this world as Mio did.
The contents of this first command would decide the result of the battle.
During the previous fight, Mio had shown several signs of using Ain Soph, but the laws had not changed. In other words, the authority to rewrite laws was not absolute. There was a chance it could fail under certain conditions.
And in the end, even if she had stolen control, this was still Mio's authority.
A command that was too greedy would not work.
A command that was too vague would not work.
If she ordered sothing like "make win", she might waste this chance for nothing.
What she needed was not "favor," but "fairness."
It could not strengthen herself.
It could not weaken Mio.
The target of the law she needed to change had to be the "environnt."
An environnt that could ignore the impossible gap between her and Mio, and treat them fairly.
"From now on, injury ans death."
The instant Yutsuki spoke, Belial's darkness swallowed all light in the world.
In the next mont, the darkness faded.
When Mio's vision returned, her expression turned grave.
As the owner of Ain Soph, she naturally understood that Belial had carried out Yutsuki's command.
Injury ans death.
Now, within this field, even the smallest scratch, even a re break in the skin, would lead directly to death.
And the targets affected by this law included Takamiya Mio herself.
By this point, Yutsuki had already vanished from where she stood and silently arrived behind Mio.
"Raphael——El Kanaph."
At a distance of less than one ter from Mio, the bow with the strongest piercing power exploded from the bowstring.
The instant Raphael left the string, Mio reacted a step late. She did not deal with Yutsuki's attack, instead commanding the ribbons of her Astral Dress to strike Yutsuki.
Supported by the storm, the arrow slamd into Mio's Astral Dress, trying to pierce through her defense.
Several seconds passed.
Mio's Astral Dress did not take even the slightest scratch. Instead, Raphael's arrow lost montum and fell toward the ground.
The first strike failed, but Yutsuki did not hesitate.
She retreated while nimbly avoiding the ribbons' attacks.
"tatron——Artelif."
Above Mio, countless wings of light gathered into a massive cannon barrel and brought down a judgnt of light that could destroy everything.
"Ugh——"
Mio was forced into a slightly awkward state.
Although she had absolute confidence in her Astral Dress's defense, facing Yutsuki's relentless assault, she still showed a small sign of weakness and tried to dodge tatron's light cannon.
However, sothing strange happened.
Mio clearly felt that she had already escaped tatron's attack range. But when she ca back to her senses, the torrent of spirit power still struck her body from above.
"What is this?!"
"Is there any need to be so surprised? Isn't this the law you modified yourself?"
Yutsuki appeared in front of Mio once again, pointing Camael's cannon barrel at her face as she calmly explained.
"Gravity is currently 267.4g. The oxygen concentration in the air has increased by sixty percent. The temperature is minus one hundred and fifty degrees Celsius. Air pressure is six hundred and fifty milliters of rcury lower than standard atmospheric pressure. Spatial coordinates are shifted by one hundred and twenty-one ters. The concepts of left and right have been reversed, and so on... Even without Ain Soph Aur, if an ordinary person stepped into this field, they would explode into frozen tomato sauce in less than two seconds."
Even though Belial's control was currently in Yutsuki's hands, the laws modified by Ain Soph were still in effect.
The laws Mio had rewritten to crush Yutsuki had now turned this empty world into a maze that restricted Mio's movents.
"Camael——giddo!"
In the next second, a scorching heat ray surged from the cannon barrel straight toward Mio's face.
"..."
Although the attack was still easily neutralized by her Astral Dress, a trace of impatience finally appeared on Mio's calm expression.
"Ain Soph Aur——Henet (Bud Cannon)."
Mio stretched both hands forward, and palm-sized flower buds appeared from the void.
They were deadly buds. The instant they blood, they fired fatal beams of death toward Yutsuki.
"Zadkiel."
Of course, Yutsuki had not kindly explained the situation to her enemy for free. Using Zadkiel and Camael, she generated a wide area of mist and escaped Mio's sight.
Ain Soph Aur's cannon fire rushed into the mist, but Mio knew without thinking that it had missed.
"...Tch."
Mio clicked her tongue in irritation.
Even though this was an environnt where a single scratch ant death, Yutsuki's movents showed no hesitation or fear. She calmly used Future Calculation to dodge.
In truth, that was not strange.
For Yutsuki, who had been covered by Ain Soph Aur from the start, the law of "injury ans death" barely changed anything.
Only now did Mio have to admit that she had underestimated Ryougi Yutsuki far too much.
Ain Soph Aur, which granted death to all things.
Ain Soph, which rewrote the laws of the world.
And an Astral Dress that could ignore any attack.
Because Mio possessed these cheat-like authorities, even though she had noticed Yutsuki secretly preparing sothing, she had not taken it seriously.
The result was that she had unknowingly stepped into the trap Yutsuki had carefully set, one step at a ti.
She had not shown any sign of defeat yet, but Yutsuki had indeed placed a considerable amount of ntal pressure on her.
(Calm down... calm down...)
Mio warned herself repeatedly in her heart.
Although she had stumbled in the dark, her victory was still unshakable for now.
Injury ans death. That rule sounded terrifying, but in reality, Mio's Astral Dress was the strongest defense representing the root of the world. Unless an attack contained Mio's spirit power, or a power of the sa level, it could not harm her.
Inside Belial's domain, it was difficult for Mio to hit Yutsuki, who possessed Future Calculation. But at the sa ti, with Yutsuki's output, she could not break through Mio's defense.
Moreover, Belial's ti limit was probably putting heavy pressure on Yutsuki too. Otherwise, she would not be attacking so desperately, as if she no longer cared whether she lived or died.
(No. The opponent is Yutsuki. After setting things up to this point, there is no way she would be unprepared for the most important part. Those attacks just now were probably feints ant to guide .)
Throwing away unnecessary arrogance, Mio tightened her nerves and focused all her attention on Yutsuki's movents.
Ti passed quickly.
One hundred and forty one seconds passed.
When Belial had only forty six seconds left, Yutsuki charged in front of Mio again.
However, this ti she was not using Raphael, nor tatron, but her own Ratziel.
"Ratziel——Greatsword Mode!"
"——!?"
Under Mio's surprised gaze, the chanical bow in Yutsuki's hands transford. Its bow arms folded forward and joined into one, becoming a massive two handed sword.
Its shape closely resembled Tohka's Sandalphon.
Just like that, Yutsuki swung the giant sword, which was nearly as tall as she was, and attacked Mio with fierce montum.
However, facing Yutsuki's strike, Mio did not block it with her Astral Dress like before. She simply shifted half a step to the side and dodged the heavy slash by a few milliters.
"I see... A form I have never seen before. Is this the trump card you were hiding?"
Observing the dark blue greatsword at close range, Mio spoke calmly.
"Unfortunately, I have already adapted to the rules of this world."
Hearing that, Yutsuki's pupils shrank. Without hesitation, she turned and retreated.
"Too late."
As Mio spoke, the ribbons that had been lying in wait for a long ti surrounded Yutsuki from every direction.
All escape routes were sealed.
Even Yutsuki, with Future Calculation, could not dodge this killing blow.
And at that mont, Yutsuki's body suddenly released a faint glow.
In the next second, the long haired girl vanished from Mio's sight. In her place stood an unard, ordinary looking blue haired boy.
"Mio... I don't want to die..."
"——!!"
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