It Became a Time-Stop Slit-Eye

39. Manhae.

After realizing it, it will become easier.

Every time a semi-circular slash came, Kenichi swung his sword and slashed it.

Then the auror collapsed.

“Please die!!!”

The face of the wolf vengeful spirit, Kaikoku, had no composure, and before he knew it, only screams were filled.

The guy screamed to die and only slashed in place.

Of course, the Auror’s slash was fleeting.

‘That guy, why isn’t he coming?’

It was only natural that this side would be difficult if you came directly.

That guy must have known that too.

Kenichi had a moment of doubt, but he immediately recognized it after seeing the youkai’s desperate expression.

…… That guy was scared.

Again, will he be chained up, locked up in a jet-black coffin, or will he die from a slash that slashes the aura?

You can’t come because of fear.

Even though I knew that this side was tired, I couldn’t move my feet at the thought of ‘just in case’.

‘A coward.’

Kenichi realized that it was the same creature.

His regenerative power was unprecedented, but he was also feared.

Even if the limbs were lightly regenerated, would they not die even if their heads were cut off?

‘I can win.’

Kenichi slashed the flying aura with an expression full of joy.

The slash, which lightly destroyed Eris’s magic, disappears fleetingly with each swing of the sword.

Sento’s sorcery is enough to cut through the skin of an undead.

‘I will kill him.’

A trance.

Fantastically cutting through the aura, Kenichi moved forward.

Forward, forward again.

Fire—!

The flame of the soul burns.

A faint magical aura dwelled in his demonic sword that cuts through aura.

Kenichi, who was slowly closing the distance with the ghost, raised the corner of his mouth.

He was confident that he could cut him down.

He was so ‘misunderstood’.

“…… Uh.”

As before, Kenichi, who had been cutting off the Aura’s slash, suddenly lost his balance.

It was because his head was dizzy for a moment.

He caught his balance right away, but after one bout of dizziness, his whole body started to tremble.

‘…… Ah.’

Kenichi Kitagawa opened his mouth slightly.

Like everyone else, the limit he had been ignoring all along came to him before he knew it.

The price of making fun of the body has come to collect power. In a moment, the grip on the sword became heavy.

…… Damn, it’s heavy.

As Kenichi’s movements became sluggish, the ghost of a wolf must have noticed the change as well, and his hopeless expression gradually began to brighten.

“…… Okay! Die! I mean die!”

He slashed even harder.

Kenichi, who managed to catch it, took a backwards step this time.

After being pushed back, he reached Eris’s side again.

His arm supporting his sword trembled.

I have to move much more busily, but the movement to cut the aura is getting slower.

Then, at some point, it was one beat late.

Ah, I can’t accept it.

“You fool!”

Eris, who had been watching blankly, noticed that and quickly pulled him.

The staggered Kenichi was sucked into the protective barrier, and the blonde wizard took a step forward with his face distorted.

“…… Star, please.”

Fighting the fast-flying aura slash, I poured all my mana into the barrier.

Then, the scarred shield emitted a golden glow according to the owner’s wishes.

Very little, but thick.

Quad de de de de de de deuc——!!!

Soon, an Auror slashed fiercely in all directions.

The unpleasant noise of his fingernails scratching and the barrier rattling as if it were going to break at any moment.

Eris Betelgeuse, the magician of the stars, struggled and grabbed the shield.

And, in the end-

‘I endured.’

The Aura’s slash ran out first.

At the moment Kenichi sighed in relief as he straightened himself, there was the sound of something collapsing.

When he turned his head anxiously, he saw Eris lying down with his eyes tightly closed.

“…… Ughhh.”

Eris scratched the ground and tried to get up, but the limits of her magical power held her back.

Ugh—The barrier that had protected them for a moment faded for a moment and eventually disappeared.

As the greenhouse that divided the inside and outside disappeared, acrid air surrounded them.

“… ….”

Clacking, Kenichi swallowed dry saliva and gripped his sword.

Kai Koku, the vengeful spirit, looked at them with a doubtful expression for a moment, then realized that it was not smoke, and revealed her wide face. She

She clapped her hands and she laughed out loud.

“Puhahahahaha! Yes, you must fall! If you’ve been trying to catch a monster all morning, you’re going to have a hard time! Ha ha ha ha ha!”

“… ….”

“You guys, I will praise you. You really didn’t know that you would drive me this far? I’m serious. Of course, apart from that, you should be punished for bothering the elders, right?”

Kaikoku took a step forward with a smirk and suddenly felt a warm sensation in her feet.

Flame! Her feet burned.

It was a perm flame that contained the power of a ‘god’, separate from sorcery or magic.

“…… All sorts of things bother me-“

Kaikoku frowned at her and she nervously stomped her foot to the ground.

Koo-ung! As he took a strong step, the embers attached to the wolf’s paws were bleakly extinguished.

The vengeful spirit immediately gained momentum and approached the place where Kenichi was.

“──Don’t mess with the kid!!”

The wolf put an aura on his foot and kicked it hard.

Kenichi’s trembling body held onto his sword firmly, but it was not enough.

Quaaang! I turned off the aura, but it was blown away by the original power of the vengeful spirit.

“…… Whoops!”

After Kenichi fell down like that, only one person was left standing.

No, should I call this normal?

Sawamura Sento looked at the monster in front of him with a blank face.

Vengeful spirit Kaikoku looked down at the shaman in the blurry pupil with a satisfied expression.

“Yeah, it doesn’t make sense that I could use magic of that magnitude and still be fine.”

The others were all young and had extraordinary abilities.

But this shaman was different. If you look at it, it’s kind of creepy.

I wanted to play with him because he had a pretty smooth face, but he’s dangerous to keep around for a long time.

‘Someday it will recover its strength and turn into a dagger that will pierce my throat.’

Kai Koku gave up on enjoying her leisure time and she ran her claws at the nape of her neck.

Certainly, she even pulled out a vivid aura to kill. Even if you touch it, it will pierce your breath.

I must have thought so-

───Jing(井), Gui(鬼), Yu(柳), Star(星), Zhang(Zhang), Ik(翼), Jin(軫).

Suddenly, Sento’s brooch flashed.

Seven constellations emerged from the red jewel, and they were soon divided and scattered in all directions, forming the shape of four gods.

The protective shield dyed red, the protection of the god of death protected the shaman from the aura.

“…… What, what?!”

It was at that moment that Kaikoku was startled and Iji returned to Sento’s eyes.

‘Shield?’

Sawamura Sento looked at the brooch on his chest with a puzzled expression.

The red jewel on the brooch sparkled.

Surely, Ichimaru Shiki gave me this item saying that he would definitely save it.

Eris’s shield was also damaged against the aura, but the shield that was spread out now was relaxed and firmly blocked the ghost.

“These damn bastards!!!”

Quang! Quaang! Quaang!

Watching Kaikoku struggle to break through the shield, Sento muttered blankly.

“…… Wasn’t it completely abandoned?”

She suddenly closed her eyes and was lost in thought.

She was touched by complex images.

What is she really afraid of? I questioned in my head what was the priority in life.

‘…… Oh, of course.’

I don’t want to die.

If you don’t want to let the guys behind you die and survive here, there are so many things I want to ask you.

How irresponsible it is to take responsibility and then throw it away at will.

Ichimaru Shiki.

I will definitely face him again and ask him.

Sento Sawamura, who was determined, finally made a decision. She decided to call a monster to chase the wolf.

She said with a smile on her face.

“Yes, welcome.”

Flame! It caught fire.

Sento’s red eyes suddenly became naturalized.

Kaikoku, who was constantly beating her to break her shield, hesitated the moment he met her eyes.

It hardened as if it were stone.

The wolf’s pupils shook violently.

“…… No, that’s nonsense.”

That obviously wasn’t a living human, but a monster’s soul spark.

Like him, the eyes of the youkai.

It was a monster of the highest rank, to the extent that it was too much for me to dare to look at it.

An ancient existence that cannot exist in the present age.

…… That can’t be beat

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…… So, now that all four sides are blocked by the barrier of spirit veins, is there anywhere to run?

Can it survive if it regains its strength?

The wolf youkai, who had been thinking for a moment, closed his eyes and made a decision.

‘…… I have to kill them now!’

Otherwise, this side will die.

Ghost Wolf cried and ate mustard, pouring all his mana into his hands and letting out an aura.

The vengeful spirit, Kaikoku, pierced the protective shield with all his might with the claws of the shape of the aura.

“──Bone and meat massacre!”

Catch up ─!

The aura and the shield of red heat collided with a fierce noise different from before.

Wolf Ghost somehow tried to cut off the sorcerer’s neck, and Sawamura Sento glared at the youkai, emitting strange heat from his pupils.

‘Can I do it?’

…… No, it will definitely be possible.

Until now, I only wished for luck and money, but I can kill someone.

Confident, Sento intended to ask the being inside me to kill the monster in front of me.

The price is fine.

Even if I die a day later, I will somehow survive this moment.

With such a resolution, Sento Sawamura tried to speak out in the true sense of the word.

The monster hiding behind the red eyes revealed its presence.

“──Hey!”

Kaikoku sensed something and let out a more powerful aura.

Have you awakened to the crisis of your life?

The aura that blooms more fiercely than ever before is Kwajik! It seemed to penetrate the protective barrier.

If I had more time, I’d break it through someday.

However, Sento’s mouth moved faster.

The guy right in front of you,

“…… Porridge-“

“Oops, you’re dangerous!”

It was faster for the narrow-eyed man to suddenly appear and grab the wolf’s wrist than to utter a divine word.

An event that happened suddenly without any warning.

Both Sento, who was surrounded by red aura, and Kaikoku, the wolf who was in the middle of his aura, opened their eyes wide.

“…… What?”

The narrow-eyed man, Shiki Ichimaru, said to the youkai Kaikoku with a smile on his face.

“Oh, I’m sorry, but could you please leave the table so I can talk to a friend for a bit?”

“…… What else are you-!”

“Hmm, if you don’t like it, I can’t help it.”

Ichimaru Shiki scratched his cheek with a puzzled expression and muttered quietly.

“Then I have no choice but to be bitten by force.”

Suddenly! Kaikoku suddenly felt the grip of his right hand tearing away.

I would understand if the wrist he was holding was cut off, but before he knew it, it was cut from his shoulder.

The ghost stepped backwards in a daze and saw his right arm being grabbed by the narrow-eyed man.

“Oh, I don’t need this anymore.”

Ichimaru Shiki threw away the wolf’s right arm on the ground and looked at his friends.

Blond little Eris Betelgeuse was on a trip to dreamland before he knew it, and stupid Kenichi shouted with admiration as he lay face down on the ground.

“Shiki!!”

At that fervent call, Ichimarushiki waved his hand once and looked at Sento right in front of him.

Unlike Kenichi, Sawamura Sento was glaring at the man in front of her with a distorted expression and pupils emitting strange red light.

As if she was crying, she swallowed her voice and then asked, holding her trembling lips.

“…… How long have you been here?”

Ichimaru Shiki, whose hair had turned gray before he knew it, spoke in a calm tone.

“Umm, right after Kenichi got hurt? You’ve been there since you called me, right?”

“…… What? Shiki, what kind of hardships did we go through-“

“───But why!!!”

At the sudden outcry, Kenichi, who had been complaining, opened his eyes wide and shut his mouth.

Ichimaru Shiki faced the strange heat he felt in his red pupils.

Sento forcibly caught her swaying expression and asked the man in front of her.

“…… Why didn’t you show up earlier?”

“I guess it’s for the sake of experience and growth. After all, if I intervene, your growth will stop at some point.”

“…… Does that make sense? Why didn’t you show up right away? No, that’s not-“

As she waved her hand in the air, she suddenly wiped my face and seemed to have decided what she wanted to ask.

Sawamura Sento asked with a pitiful expression she encountered on the street one evening.

“…… If you think I’m worthless, will you throw me away?”

At that, Marushiki Ichi brushed her bangs that were covering her eyes for a moment.

After the moment when I couldn’t even see my narrowed eyes, the narrow-eyed man with a smile as always answered succinctly.

“It can’t be. You are all valuable talents who will save the world.”

“…… Ah.”

At the clever answer, Sento put on an indescribable expression.

She closed her eyes tightly and lowered her head, her dusty pink hair falling down with it.

Shortly after that, a small voice came to my ears.

“It’s a little bit, but I’ve heard about it.”

Sento looked up at her blankly.

“Yes, I can’t throw it away after all.”

Unlike usual, Ichimaru Shiki’s twisted smile and turquoise eyes were slightly visible.

The man whose eyes met scratched her white hair, then quickly turned around and looked at the monster.

The vengeful spirit, Kaikoku, was still looking at him with a puzzled expression.

“…… You.”

“hahahaha, thank you so much for waiting! Oh, you were kinder than I thought!”

Ichimaru Shiki laughed and clapped his hands.

“Ah, do you know that? Skills and dialogues that are unsatisfactory when used against a janitor seem to be okay when used against a mid-boss like you.”

“…… What is that-“

The narrow-eyed man showed no negative emotions, only a smile.

“It means thank you in many ways.”

The White Yacha reached out into the air.

“Fully open.”

A night sky with a red full moon in the spirit vein.

Under the strange glow of the full moon, the gray-haired man grabbed the air.

A smile twisted as much as the eyes containing laughter.

With a click, the moment when an intangible sword appeared in the gray world where everything had subsided.

“Manhae (滿解).”

The blade cut through time.

***

Kenichi blankly looked at the scene in front of him.

I was surprised that Shiki suddenly appeared and that Sento screamed, but it wasn’t as much as this.

I’m sure I’m still holding the sword……

“…… Uh?”

At some point, Kaikoku’s head flew off.