Reincarnated in a depressing erotic world but living a normal life (right?) Synchronized attack

In the middle of the street, which was sparsely populated at that hour, a silence so dense and uncomfortable settled in that it seed to have physical weight.

(Fiuuuuu...)

The wind blew as the few passersby stopped in their tracks; so pretending to look at shop windows and others simply open-mouthed, observing the bizarre scene unfolding in the middle of the public thoroughfare.

"....."

"....."

In turn, Shija and Boudica remained motionless, like statues of salt. Their gazes were completely lost, fixed on so nonexistent point on the ground, unable to process the humiliation. Their faces, which had faced monsters and mortal dangers, now succumbed to a much more lethal enemy: public sha.

"It's a sin!"

They didn't know what to say, how to move, or much less how to look at the people surrounding them with a mixture of pity and morbid curiosity.

"A cardinal sin! Interfering in a developing romance is like tearing the pages out of a book just before the kiss! I am an entity with principles, and my principles say that the audience must not step onto the stage during the climax!"

In parallel to their paralysis, lioris had completely abandoned her facade of a refined woman. Back to her most childish and shrill tone, she began to flutter in circles over their heads, waving her arms dramatically while shouting what were, to her, absolute truths.

"Developing romance?"

"Poor kids, they look so young..."

In reaction, people began to whisper while lioris, ignoring the chaos she was causing to her forr companions' reputations, continued her childish tantrum, proclaiming to the four winds that her "firing" was, in reality, an act of charity to avoid ruining their "love story."

"..."

"..."

However, the silence did not last much longer.

"Hell, shut up!! / Silence!!"

A fraction of a second in which Shija and Boudica crossed glances was enough for a spark of fury to ignite in both of them, without the need for words, in a mutual understanding born of shared humiliation.

(BOOM!)

Both launched a joint attack fueled purely by sha. Boudica was the first to strike, delivering a devastating blow with enough power to bring down a stone wall.

"The fact that you react like this only proves right~!"

(Snap!)

However, before the impact landed, lioris simply snapped her fingers.

"Argh...!"

An invisible shockwave hit Boudica head-on, neutralizing her strength and sending her flying several ters through the air like a ragdoll.

"I thought you would have learned by this point..."

In parallel, lioris moved with supernatural fluidity, as if space itself folded to make way for her, shaking her head in feigned disappointnt.

(Now!)

Shija seized the opening.

(SHING!)

Taking advantage of the montum, he unsheathed his blade in a blinding motion, executing a lightning-fast strike. The steel sliced through the air with surgical precision, seeking the neck of the small entity.

"Not bad~"

But unfortunately, as was to be expected, lioris avoided the slash with insulting lightness, moving just enough so that the steel brushed the air where she had been a millisecond before.

"¡¿?!"

But what happened next was what truly chilled Shija's blood.

(She vanished!!)

The mont his feet touched the ground to reorient his attack, lioris disappeared.

(Concentrate... Track her flow!)

In response, Shija closed his eyes, concentrating to the maximum to read the energy flow of the environnt, expanding his Ki perception to detect any trace of presence...

"...."

But despite that, sadly...

(I already knew... But... It’s not working...)

The void was absolute. Even with his total concentration, it was as if lioris had never existed in that physical space.

"Kghh...!"

Even so, Shija, maintaining his calm in the midst of the sensory void, gritted his teeth.

(If I can't read her flow...!)

At that mont, Shija knew he couldn't detect lioris directly; she didn't flow like a living being, but was an anomaly in the very fabric of reality.

(Then I will read the environnt's flow!)

However, Shija reasoned quickly: even if she had no Ki, her physical movent still displaced air and altered the surroundings.

(During this long journey... I've been watching you closely... so I understand...)

Knowing lioris's twisted taste for surprises, Shija expanded his consciousness, seeking not a presence, but an absence or a minimal disturbance in the wind currents whistling around him.

"Kyōgetsu Style: Half Moon!!"

And so, just as a shadow seed to project from the most improbable place, Shija noticed a subtle break in the airflow behind his back...

(CLANG!)

Without hesitation, he spun on his heels and took a closed guard stance, intercepting the attack at the very last millisecond.

(!!)

But the impact was so brutal that it sent him flying backward, forcing him to maneuver in mid-air while trying to stabilize his fall to avoid crashing against the volcanic stone walls.

"Oh! What an impressive reaction!"

In response, lioris exclaid from her new position, floating while clapping with genuine enthusiasm.

"Dammit...!"

Shija landed erratically, regaining his balance while panting. His eyes were fixed on the "weapon" that lioris held with total naturalness.

(Such strength!!)

A chill ran through his body as he experienced the force of the impact, feeling a violent numbness spreading from his wrist to his shoulder.

(I almost felt like my arm was being ripped off in a single blow. How is it possible for a simple iron frying pan to have the weight of a mountain?)

The reality was absurd: lioris had attacked him with a kitchen utensil, but in her hands, that mundane object had beco a weapon capable of breaking the bones of a veteran warrior.

(BOOM!) (BOOM!) (BOOM!)

In parallel, the air began to vibrate with the dull thud of consecutive shockwaves.

"A surprise attack?"

Taking advantage of lioris being distracted praising Shija, Boudica launched a flurry of long-range strikes from the rear, projecting the force of her fists through air pressure.

"I'll give you points for using your head!"

But lioris, however, didn't even budge from her spot.

"Out of respect, I'll at least react."

With an agility that bordered on insulting, she tilted her head or moved a shoulder just a few milliters to let the blasts pass by, shattering the windows of nearby buildings.

"Is that all?"

After finishing, lioris asked, turning her head with a carefree smile.

"I HAVEN'T EVEN STARTED!"

In response, Boudica roared with a brutal shout.

(CRASH!)

In this way, instead of attacking lioris directly, Boudica discharged all her power against the volcanic stone ground, delivering an impact so massive that it kicked up a dense cloud of dust, ash, and debris, completely clouding the surrounding vision.

"Look out!"

"Is this madness?!"

"Run!!"

Such an action caused the bystanders, realizing that this was no longer a couple's quarrel but a high-level battlefield, to flee in panic, screaming for their lives.

"Oh, a visual distraction tactic combined with terrain alteration..."

Reacting to the move, lioris evaluated with a clear voice, despite being subrged in the dust.

"It is an excellent maneuver; for a normal opponent, this would an losing track of the target and being vulnerable to an attack from a blind spot. It is an efficient use of the environnt to compensate for the difference in pure speed. However..."

Cutting her words short, lioris began to spin her frying pan with one hand, creating a tallic hum.

"Grow!"

Pronouncing the command with joy, she caused the frying pan to begin its expansion, increasing in size until it beca a giant tallic disc.

"Hurricane!"

Imdiately after, lioris spun it at a dizzying speed on its own axis.

(VROOOOOOO-SHHHHHH-KRAAAAASH!)

The movent generated a sudden tornado with a suction force so powerful that dust, stones, and debris were instantly sucked toward the center of the vortex, clearing the vision in a second and leaving Shija and Boudica exposed before the imnse spinning frying pan that dominated the air.

"GRRRRRRR... KHAAAAA!"

Faced with the sight of the tornado of steel and debris, Boudica did not back down. On the contrary, she planted her feet with such force that the stone beneath her cracked, exhaling hot, almost igneous air as she leaned her body forward.

(VREEEEEEE!)

She thus began to gather all her energy in her right fist, pulling it back as a massive aura-physical pressure concentrated on her knuckles.

(VMMMMMM-FIIIIIIII!)

The air around her hand began to distort and glow with a violent intensity, the culmination of her strength; a full-charge move that bet everything on a single frontal impact.

"GO TO HELL!!"

And so, in that critical situation, Boudica finally let out all her emotions suppressed during their traumatic journey filled with violence against her by lioris, lunging forward with explosive speed.

"Duel accepted!"

Ignoring that shout full of accumulated resentnt, lioris cheered joyfully, responding with a fluid motion of her arm, redirecting the whirlwind's trajectory.

(SHHHHHHHHAAAAAA!)

The giant frying pan, acting as the core of an atmospheric catapult, launched the entire whirlwind of compressed air and volcanic debris directly into Boudica's path.

(BOOOOOOOOOOM!!!)

Causing a sonic collision so powerful it was heard throughout the city of Flambell, shattering the windows of adjacent streets. Boudica's charged fist slamd head-on into lioris's wall of wind and tal.

"HNNNNNNG... YAAAAAAH!"

"You're doing great~!!"

For an instant, the ti seed to stand still at the point of contact: the golden light generated by the collision of the impact blinded the entire surroundings.

(KABOOOOM!!!)

The thunderous roar of the collision between Boudica's fist and lioris's hurricane was deafening, creating a do of pressure that devoured all sound and vision.

(It’s all or nothing!!)

Within that chaos, a much more subtle movent was brewing.

"Kyōgetsu Style..."

Shija, demonstrating a cold mastery, completely masked his presence, manipulating his Ki to blend in with the surrounding turbulence as he dove headlong into the tornado.

"Full Moon!!"

Instead of resisting the suction force, Shija surfed the rotating wind currents, using the debris as invisible stepping stones.

"CUT HER DOWN ALREADY, YOU DAMN SAMURAI!!"

Boudica, noticing her companion's shadow moving on the periphery of the clash, roared with one last bit of strength, pushing her charged strike to keep lioris's attention fixed on the front.

"See now~?"

It was a synchronized movent born from countless battles: she was the shield that blinds, he was the fang that bites.

"I was right!!"

Taking advantage of the path Boudica opened for him, Shija erged from the whirlwind right at lioris's back.

"NOW!!"

Falling from the highest blind spot, Shija brought down his sword with the full weight of his body and will, concentrating his energy into a single descending slash aid at the entity's shoulder.