
A white sword floated by emitting a dazzling light. This dark room became clearer on the objects inside than before. Looking like a legendary weapon with a mind of its own, the sword seemed to look at the four of them furiously. Who would not be angry when awakened from a long deep sleep.
“Alright, I think this is a difficult situation that happened,” muttered Kino.
*sis!*
The pointy end of the sword immediately pointed at them, then it instantly shot out at its full speed regardless of whether or not its opponent could survive.
The purpose of the spirit was indeed to kill the four of them who had disturbed him. He would not care if they could survive or die. That way, this was one of the dangerous situations when they had to fight against a ferocious and powerful spirit. This is different from before, where Ellis did not have the intention to kill Kino in a fight a few CHAPTERS ago.
*black!*
Kino takes this seriously. He took out his percussion revolver, and instantly prepared it to aim at the sword. The speed of his hand was extremely agile as he had trained the ability to pull his weapon every day plus this time he had the effect of increasing the speed from his contract spirit, Legna.
From Kino's past experience, when he fought Ellis, he realized that powerful spirits could not be harmed easily, even when he was seriously using this percussion revolver. Playing around in situations like this is tantamount to looking dead. He needed to bring out the fighting skills he had honed all this time in order to survive, or die.
*trank!*
Kino adds mana or ki to the bullet from his rifle, makes the bullet several times stronger and faster than the original, then gets an increase in strength from Legan. The bullet collided with the blade of the silver-white glowing sword, but the sword defense was very strong, making the bullet not even give a scratch wound.
*blars!*
The sharp tip of the sword hit the floor and gave an impact in the form of cracks.
Fortunately, Kino's previous attack managed to slightly change the attack path of the sword and make it tilted and did not hit the target—Kino—. Such an attack could be imagined what happened when the attack hit the body of the little girl who had no defense. Cheon Bu's External Energy Control from the Three Skills was not that great to make his body harder than steel. After all, he had only learned this one other day. It was strange that he was so strong in just one day, even though his improvement did feel very far now.
*wing!*
The sword continued its attack by slashing a few centimeters above the floor, heading straight for Kino. The neat cut into two top and bottom will be received by Kino's body if the slash he receives raw.
*tap!*
It was fortunate that Kino's agility and reflexes were high enough to make him jump upwards before the sword cut through his body.
*wing!*
Unfortunately, the sword had a fairly quick maneuver, so when he was under Kino's body, he changed the direction of his speed upwards on Kino. It would still cut his body in half.
*Syut!* *syut!* *syut!*
“Don't forget I'm still here!” The twists of the fire whip were tied to the spirit as Claire said out loud.
*trank!* *trank!* *trank!*
Kino again tried to give a wound to the sword using a persuasion revolver through several shots, but the result was the same as before, a scratch wound was not visible on the sword's eye.
‘Aircraft also. The attack could not injure him..’ Inner Kino.
*tap!*
Kino immediately escaped—awaystay away from the sword—as soon as his foot touched the floor.
*glash!* *swing!*
The sword cuts off Claire's whip, then she changes her target from Kino to Claire.
“What!” Claire was astonished to see her fire whip cut.
Claire—'s whipFlame Tongue (/= Tongue of Fire)- is her elemental waffer who is the embodiment of Claire's contracted spirit, Scarlet. The contract spirit belonging to Claire—Scarlet— has the real name Ortlinde which is a high-level fire element spirit. He is the last of the Valkyries series of Spirit Weapons (/= series of Spirit Valkyries Weapons). But because he is currently weakened to only have a cat form, it is not strange if he is easy to lose.
‘From this distance, I can't reach it!’ Kino feels the terror that fills her when this acquaintance of hers is on the edge of death.
He's killed people, he's seen dead people, he's seen the remains of a corpse that only leaves bones. But when his acquaintances and innocent creatures are to be victimized, his conscience can still feel worry and terror. He is still a human being who has feelings after all.
*byur!*
A water shot ensued and pushed the sword away from Claire before piercing her body.
The size of the water ball hitting the sword body was not very large, but the decisive point was the force of the impulse to stop the sword attack. Fortunately, this spirit is not aware of the existence of Miko or this surprise attack will end up free with the sword defending its position. Beginner's luck is creepy!
“Good work, Okuri-san.” Miko smiled slightly as she patted the wolf.
“Woof~,” here is the reply given by the wolf.
The sword floated in the air like it was not restrained by the law of gravity. The pointy end was facing Okuri who had just attacked her.
It seemed very easy to attract the attention of this spirit. Just a little bit of an attack managed to anger him and gain attention from him as the target of the attack. Depending on how to use it, enemies with this attitude can become easier to deal with and easier to trap. Their problem, however, was those who did not have attacks strong enough to injure this spirit.
*wing!* *swing!* *swing!*
Unlike the previous one, the sword this time revolved like a propeller that stood vertically as it targeted Okuri. This type of movement gives the advantage of him who will slash on the path he passes, but his weakness makes him have more wide areas as an attack. But because he spins like a propeller, the hit rate to hit him is low, not to mention his defense that makes the opponent can not hurt him. This sword only needed to be wary of attacks that would change the direction of its attack.
“Kitsuna, Nekoma!” call Miko.
The two contracted spirits of Miko who were in the form of a cat and a fox immediately appeared next to her, right and left.
*wosh!*
A burst of fire and wind was launched, closing the sight of the sword. But regardless of the flames in his path, he continued to dart through the flames and continued to give slashes using his sharp blade that spun in a vertical manner. Later ….
*tank!*
“Feel! Kann Twinkle (/Able to Flicker)!” Rikka Takanashi emerged from the flames. He used his elemental waffe in the form of a hammer to hit hard on the sword.
*Shelf!*
The sword smashed into the wall and formed several small cracks there, before it lost its light and fell. As for the shape of this sword, he did not suffer from any scratches at all and was still intact. It seems he is running out of energy.
“Hehe, did I manage to defeat him?” Rikka rubbed her nose proudly seeing her attack succeed.
‘What the fuck was that? Not only could he realize the elemental waffe, but he could also make such a powerful punch. What an increase this is!’ Keith became a dumbfounded person seeing Rikka's growing speed. “A few days ago, she was just an ordinary chuunibyou girl who was given the chance to go to another world. How could he be this fast in development? Did his chuunibyou talent make him able to control the mana within his body perfectly? It's impossible!”
“A very good attack! I didn't expect you to be able to make such a strong attack!” Claire praised.
“Hmph! This is the true power of me, the evil eye holder, Tyrant Eyes and the queen who will rule the darkness, Rikka!” for some reason he became proud of his one incoming attack.
“Alright, now ...” Claire drew closer to the sword as she continued, “Let's make a contract, Legendary Sword Spirit..” He was quite furious because of the previous fight.
“Wait.” Kino shows up in the lane making him block the way. “You better not make a contract with this sword spirit.”
“Eh? Why!”
“Simple only. This spirit is too wild to be bound by a contract to her. Here alone he had already made a mess, what if he went berserk inside the academy? Have you thought about anyone who would be involved?” kino explained.
It was still fortunate that this spirit was rampaging in a place with few people. If this spirit rampaged within the surroundings of the academy building, then it would definitely cause a huge commotion. Within the academy were indeed some individuals who could resist or curb this spirit, such as the ranks of the Sylphid or Greyworth knights, but would either of them be able to get to the scene in time? They will need time on their journey.
Keep in mind, Kino did not know about the anime, about Kazehaya Kamito who managed to tame this spirit, but this spirit did not rampage inside the academy. In Kino's thinking, he only suspects that these spirits can go berserk after being tamed, whereas indeed spirits have thoughts that mean they can get angry and sulk when in certain situations.
“Truely too, anyway..”.
Claire was a little unwilling to let go of this powerful spirit. The goal requires strength to achieve and the opportunity to make a contract with a legendary powerful spirit does not come every time. It was a tough decision if he had to give up this opportunity.
*cring!*
As they spoke to each other, the sword again emitted a silver-white light and floated back up. The previous attack had only stopped his movements for a while.
“Huh, it turns out to be true, yes. He can still fight again,” said lazy Kino.
“Uh...” Claire prepares to use her whip as Scarlet is paralyzed.
“I can't move..” Rikka's knees fell on the ground with her limp self. His elemental waffe also disappeared with his physique exhausted.
‘One attack took all his mana and stamina, yes. The road is still a long way to be really useful in the fight,’ Inner Keith.
“There is no choice anymore, we have to back off. I'll take Rikka outside. Arriving outside, close back the barrier at the entrance and quickly tell the academy about this spirit.” Kino's expression was very serious when she said this.
“Good!” Claire and Miko answered simultaneously.
Using a combination of wind and fire elements from Kitsuna and Nekomata, Miko made ashes and covered the visuals of these swords, while they ran outside the room. They had to keep running fast because of the pursuit from this sword. At the worst possible time, then they would get a slash from the back and move the world after that.
In their worst case, the barrier at the entrance would be useless against this sword and let the sealed spirits in a berserk state freely roam around and look for prey. If it's just a forest and a fallen tree, at least it's not a big deal. It becomes a big deal if the sword starts killing people.
Actually the Author himself also wondered if Terminus Est had a vision when in the form of a sword or elemental waffe, but for ease just assume he can see like a human.