Chapter 326: 326 - Rematch with Hikari 2
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I can't understand, even if I see it with my eyes. She's back...? After fusing with Himei, I've gotten the rest of Kaori's memories back... All my memories are now in first person, superimposing the fabrications planted in my mind. I guess what I want to say is, I am complete, I've been pretty hardened by my experiences. Reviving once or twice, or maybe infinite more times, it no longer matters, it no longer surprises.
If I was Kaori from a year ago, I would have freaked out pretty badly. But now... It's no longer [I love magical girls], but [I am a magical girl]. In other words, responsibility. As Kaori, I've only wandered with a desultory disposition. The only goal was to live a life without regrets, it was an inchoate way to live, to say the least. It stemmed from way before The Great Disaster. The first year of highschool was spent as a shut in, there was deeply rooted self doubt that crept into every corner of Kaori's psyche.
He didn't hesitate much when he shot down his childhood friend's proposal right after The Great Disaster. He feared being tied down, it was a naive curiosity revolving around The Great Disaster. And when he awakened into a magical girl, it only reinforced his recklessness. Living a life that was as unrestrained as possible, and awakening at such a perfect time made it as if he 'was the protagonist'. Naturally, it brought a lot of hardship. He got way in over his own head.
As such, the difference now was responsibility. No matter how many times Hikari revives from even a state of nothing, even if she were to come back for another battle in the distant future, I'll take responsibility and deal with her for the rest of time. Feel free to come back as much as you want. My mission remains the same.
As a living goddess, as a member of humanity... No, everything else is trivial compared to what was most important, my duty as a magical girl. Maybe I had too much faith, I believed that simply being a magical girl is already fulfilling a deontological duty sufficiently. That being a magical girl is already being inherently righteous towards humanity. That's why I easily forgive magical girls, even if they've committed crimes against humanity like Karell.
Not that it matters much right now, Hikari is not a magical girl. Hikari is a natural disaster hell bent on wiping out humanity. She is a target to be eliminated. When the light faded away, her figure was revealed once more. A final form beyond the mass of flesh that ravaged anything in existence. Having annihilated her destructive non sentient form, it looks like her ego created a new form at the last second. One that was intelligent and might even retain memories of Hikari from before she activated her final skill.
"Did you think returning to the form of a young girl would sway my heart once more?"
"... No. This is a difference in ideology. This form... Is a sentiment that [Hikari] as a natural law of the universe... Is now facing you with all of its strength. " (Hikari)
" I see. Yeah, I knew it wouldn't be so easy. As the one who will cull humanity, you still need to muster up enough force to destroy me right? "
As the natural anti-humanity law geared towards human extermination, it's necessary for her to muster up to equivalent amount of strength, sufficient enough to wipe out humanity. The flesh mass could be likened to something like sleep walking to her. Theoretically, it can kill a god. It could regenerate infinitely, so it could obviously consume endlessly as well.
It always had the necessary power to do this, but it was simply not conscious then. This state of existing as the young girl in front of me was simply her conscious state, all of her infinite strength has now been organised properly and cohesively into a being capable of combat. It's fine, it was weirder that she was unconscious in the first place. Or maybe it was a similar state to when I fought that unicorn demonic heavenly king. She was cornered at the last second. That would at least be flattering.
Well, I'll defeat her by myself anyway. Right now. Let's finally end it. Before anyone's conscious could catch up, our blades have already clashed, my rapier against her slim long sword that looks like a black cross with thorns on the guard and pommel.
The clash generates incomprehensible amounts of energy, sparks are creates then channeled away like a typhoon with us at the centre. The energy blows away our combat dresses. Two wedding dress like combat dresses flutter violently like dragons raging and rebelling against the very skies. Her dress is ascentuated with glossy matt black armour, compared to before, the armour was light and revealing.
Her dress was conservative, with a black collar securing the opening at her neck, her forearms and lower legs wore gauntlets and leg armour respectively. Her dress was short and barely fluttered above the midpoint of her thighs. Black tights lay underneath her skirt to secure her dignity. Her feet and palms were also covered in a pair of metallic shoes and gloves. Her face was revealed, releasing her unrestrained hair. It was coloured ashy crimson on the outside with pure white locks underneath.
Our blades arc leftwards, grinding against one another with a fiery concealed tension accumulating. I stepped my right foot forward and tackle with my entire body weight. She steps to her right and dodges completely, maintaining the tension in our colliding blades. From this distance we could feel each other breaths, not that we were human enough to retain the need to breath at this point. I step left and push onward, constantly putting more strength into my blade and she follows up.
I slide my blade down and jumped backwards, before swinging upwards. As expected, she followed after me as I jumped backwards and swung from an overhead stance, my upwards slash catches it. I input force into my feet and jumped with as much force puncturing the ground as possible. Poised above my head, I slide my blade against hers while encroaching her feet. I let go of my blade to swing a punch at her gut, she let's go of her blade and knees upward, smashing into my jaw.
I smash my knee against her shin and swung my right fist, only to be caught by her left palm before she swung her own right fist. My left arm materialised a blade, but her fist was reinforced not just with her gauntlet but also her magic, my rapier lightly cuts into her right knuckle but it ultimately fends it off without much trouble. I step back immediately, our wounds heal immediately as we readied ourselves in this stare off.
Name: Hikari von Lixia
Title: Divine Demonic emperor, twilight of humanity, eschatos of the primatosphere
Demon God effectiveness level: SS
Perimeters:
- Physical: SS
- endurance: SS
- speed: SS
- will: SS
- well: SS
Without pause, a series of sparks flew as our blades collide at the same speed and strength. Even if it was an ever increasing infinity, our attacks still match up because she was now conscious enough to deliberate over her actions. I swung to the left, smacking her blade to the far left, but she reverses her grip and slices horizontally, which I barely parry right in front of me. I don't need to fear being sliced horizontally. But I should make as little mistakes as possible and fight prudently, who knows what will happen if I got hit by an attack.
Before we agreed on any consensus, we entered the edge of the world. And she opened up her Prava Phantasia. It was a power similar to Oblivion Magia, but instead of enhancing one's skills and eroding a person's magic defence, it operated on the laws of myth. The monster's own myth.
" Prava Phantasia... Ragnarok." (Hikari)
A reddish black hue spreads radially across the land with her feet as the origin. White and reddish black clash in the middle. The difference was that it wouldn't stop at an impasse at the edge of the world, this realm was a 3 dimensional space with no flooring. Meaning that we also had vertical space to work with.
In an instant, I arrived within her territory with a wide swing of my rapier nocked back poised at the ready, then I swung. My blade was promptly met with hers while her Prava Phantasia sets my body alight with purple flames that burned infinitely. Ragnarok, these flames were meant to kill gods and combust the entire universe until it was nothing but dust sparsely floating in the void.
I offset the flames with my own white flames and extended my Oblivion Magia over a small area to block it out. Then I resume the assault, jumping from far distances to swing overhead and deal heavy blows. Mid leap, I smash my rapier into her blade while mid air, then I used the momentum to hop over her head. Subsequently, I attacked from a different angle, naturally she deflected this blow too. As I zoom past her stature continuously, I paint the space in my own colours, surrounding her Prava Phantasia with my Oblivion Magia, isolating the external bits and annexing it into my own.
Reducing her territory was one thing, but I'll have to end this. Same as before, with brute force... I'll subjugate her. Speeding up, I swung my blade from many angles. She skillfully parries every hit from the same position. Turning her waste and twisted her blade while supporting the flat with her other gloved hand. This time each collision resulted in a few chipped parts flying off and dissipating into magical particles.
The air filled with sparkling ephemeral chunks of magical particles, was immediately dyed black with a giant rapier beam, paired with a simultaneous slash attach. This time, Hikari decides to dodge the attack instead. I swing an additional time, catching her off guard as my rapier cleaves through her flesh mid air. Sparks fly off of the exposed parts of her combat dress, even though her torso was completely a white wedding style dress, it had the same amount of hardness that the black glossy armour did.
My wrist numbs and my palms cry out in pain as the tension coursing through my veins strangle my arm muscles to push out even a bit more strength. My shoulders convulse a little at the joint and my entire body's muscles channel their strength in an attempt to contribute all of it into my wrist. My hips twist in an attempt to push and rotate my shoulder, and my legs stabilise and boost my hips in a burst of energy, as I create footholds with my second skill to stand on. I could feel the intricate sensation of her flesh resisting against my blade like a thick layer of clay.
Bisected. Her upper torso flies off, hurled by the momentum of her attempt to back step away from danger. The rapier beam shifts trajectory and swallow her lower half, then attempted to swallow her upper half as well. But her body was completely regenerated and standing a distance away in the next moment.
She managed to accelerate beyond the speed of the attack in the midst of the attack's execution. Essentially, she shifted her position to another location mid attack. I do the same and arrive behind her, creating 5 rapiers to float and slice at the air around me.
I notice she vanished and slashed at the space behind me, before relocating to some distance away. Tracking her with my radar, I teleported in front of her, clashing my rapier against her long sword.
"Move."
I sliced through her blade, and this time her body wasn't left unscarred. After my attack 'moved' through her blade, my sword cut her down, continuously outputting damage, a torrent of slicing strikes ravaged at every cell in her body. A single attack was enough to annihilate her entire body, the damage spread out from the point of bisection. For a second, my vision turned black. It hasn't been long, but my vision has never been obscured since becoming a god magical girl. Even my radar was blot out like an extinguishing star in a void of dead stars. A dead silence fills the space around me, which was otherwise cacophonous with volatile energy and shock waves from our battle.
... I can't use much of the Eye God's skills, the 2nd and 3rd is practically unusable. The first is barely enough to let me glimpse into the future like a video recording of some distant place. But otherwise... With this trait, it should be impossible to obscure my eyes. That means it isn't being obscured. Hikari simply homogenised the dimensional makeup of this entire region... My radar is not faulty, the world is...
I see what you're doing now. I don't need a skill to deduce this. This homogenised matter filling this space is Hikari. In other words, I'm surrounded.
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