Assault. 16:35

“OAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!”

Eyes bloodshot, letting out a bestial scream beyond all description, the giant woman charged!

Spraying blood from the right arm that 【Black Arms】 had crushed to a pulp earlier, yet paying it no mind at all, she closed in on Emi with her one good left arm raised!

Due to her massive size, every step she took was enormous.

In the blink of an eye, the distance between Emi and the giant woman shrank.

“............”

Emi instantly assessed the situation and moved.

With a hop, she leaped forward.

Rather than putting distance between herself and the giant woman, she dared to close it.

And she dove right beneath the woman's feet.

“AAAAAAAAAH!!?”

Having lost sight of Emi for a moment, the giant woman panicked.

That single moment was fatal.

From under the giant woman's feet, Emi punched her upward with 【Black Arms】!

The power was tremendous; the super-heavy body of the giant woman, who stood over 3 meters tall, was sent flying into the air by the sheer momentum of the blow.

“AH, GAH, AAAAAAAH!!!”

Sailing through the air, the giant woman thrashed desperately.

No matter how superhuman her body was.

No matter how much she boasted of her massive muscles.

If her feet weren't on the ground, she could not wield that violence!

Meanwhile, Emi leaped again, putting distance between herself and the airborne giant woman.

Emi had already confirmed that her 【Black Arms】 possessed enough power to comfortably overcome that giant woman.

But then, why hadn't she finished her off with a single blow? Because she feared some kind of suicide attack.

Any way you looked at it, the giant woman had nothing left to lose.

Clearly, she had understood that her own violence could not reach Emi, yet she had still stood against her.

As for why, Emi had come up with 3 guesses.

Her 1st guess was that the giant woman simply wasn't thinking at all.

That she had followed her fighting instincts and taken Emi on, even while knowing somewhere deep down that she couldn't win.

And her 2nd guess was that she was going for a do-or-die suicide attack.

She might have something like a bomb hidden in that loincloth, meaning to take Emi with her when she died.

Having guessed that much, Emi wanted to kill the giant woman from a little way off.

That was why Emi had launched the giant woman into the air and then stepped back.

“............”

Emi readied 【Black Arms】 once more.

Emi was still learning to control these 【Black Arms】.

Delicate movements were beyond her.

She could only swing them big.

But slugging a big target sailing through the air, as hard as she could?

Emi could manage at least that much!

“RYAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!”

Shouting, Emi fired the drawn-back fist of her 【Black Arms】 at the giant woman in midair with all her might!

As fast as a cannonball, 【Black Arms】 hurtled at the giant woman!

“O”

The giant woman, sailing through the air!

“a”

Twisted her mouth in frustration!

“aaa”

Opened her bloodshot eyes wide!

“AAAAAAAAAAAA”

Let out a bestial scream!

“AH—”

......And, her body blown away by the direct hit from 【Black Arms】, she died!

DOON!!

With a tremendous sound, destroying the cobblestones, the giant woman's corpse rolled across the highway.

Emi watched this with a calm gaze.

There was no sign of an explosion.

Which meant.

Of her guesses, the 3rd, most likely, was the right one.

In other words.

That giant woman was.

A decoy.

The next moment!

Behind Emi came a sound: dosari.

“............”

When Emi slowly turned around, there on the ground lay a stubbled middle-aged man with a large scar on his forehead, cut neatly in two, upper half and lower half.

“Impossible...... Why, no way, this special ability is......”

His mouth flapped, and despite being at death's door, the middle-aged man voiced his shock.

Judging by his tone, it seemed he could deduce exactly what had been done to him.

In preparation for a surprise attack from this middle-aged man, whom she suspected possessed a teleportation ability, Emi had deployed 【Magic Slash Thread】 behind her as a trap, and it had sliced his body in two.

【Magic Slash Thread】 was originally a special ability used by the Founder of a certain cult.

This man might have been acquainted with the original user of this ability.

“And...... the stance, the posture...... just like the ‘Grim Reaper of Ashgo’...... You, just who are you......”

To the very end, the man muttered things that made no sense to Emi, and then he died.

After confirming that the man's heartbeat had stopped and that no more magic power leaks could be observed, Emi glanced at her surroundings.

“............”

No killing intent.

Emi wasn't particularly good at sensing the presence of prey or enemies, but at the very least, it seemed there were no more enemies here who would attack her.

There was no wind.

There was no sound.

The evening sun, sunk now almost below the horizon, lit everything around with its last glow.

The shattered cobblestones, the pools of blood, the things that had been alive now rolling on the ground, and Emi.

Now, in this world.

Everything was simply golden.

Arc 13, complete!! (Just kidding)

【Black Arms】

Acquired in Arc 12.

Created based on the special ability of a certain great sinner.

Murky black, with a rusty red surfacing now and then.

In other words, it is the same color as Emi's soul.

【Magic Slash Thread】

Acquired in Arc 3.

Stolen by watching the special ability of the Founder of a certain cult.

A terrifying special ability that carves up the opponent with transparent threads of magic power.

It is often used as a mid-range attack method or as a trap, but it sometimes doesn't work against powerful enemies.