Xiao Lian, who received the notification of the deceased demon, exhaled and straightened her hunched back in a throwing position. The spear she threw started to turn its trajectory up before it swam back toward Xiao Lian''s ce.


    The wall that was erected in front of her began to crumble and returned to its nature. At the same time, the spear arrived, and Xiao Lian snatched it while still in mid-air. When the spearnded in the master''s hands, its wild energy started to tame, and the water that coiled around the shaft dissipated into thin air.


    "Thank you, Azure Spear".


    "Good job, Xiao Lian".


    Lucy''s tone had lost a bit of its cheer because, for the first time, she witnessed a killing right in front of her eyes. It doesn''t mean she denied killing. Many humans must conduct killing in order to survive. Also, the current world, which is filled with monsters that term was most closed with the Awakeners nature.


    However, as someone who grew up in a loving and saving family, Lucy found that the idea of killing was a distance theory for her.


    "Senior, it''s about time you released this".


    Xiao Lian, unaware of Lucy''s feelings, pointed toward the halo that was still circling her body and made Lucy gasp in panic.


    "Sorry, I will take the blessing first".


    Lucy once more sped her palms together, and the golden glow around her body dissipated, as did the halo on Xiao Lian''s body.


    "Mm?!".


    However, something strange happened. Xiao Lian, who just a moment ago was standing fine, her feet started to tremble, losing their strength, and then her body dropped to the ground facing the blue sky.


    "Fuu, so tired".


    "I''m sorry, it seems for a person who received my blessing for the first time. They will have their body immobilised for an hour".


    "Mm, understood".


    "Ah, but for the second one. You will be fine. I guarantee it".


    Xiao Lian, who saw Lucy''s panicked presentation, cast her gaze to the sky while reminiscent of the battle earlier. "I''m sorry, senior, I probably wouldn''t need something like that ever again, for my goal was not to gain power through borrowing, but gain power that belonged to only me and myself, like Soma".


    She closed her eyes while basking in the afterglow of the battle that took some tool on her body, whispering. "...Hina, I finished my task. The next is yours!".


    ***


    The time reverses back as Hina, who seeds in severing one of the twin wings, is currently chasing the big sister. Using her demon wings, Ca manoeuvred while dodging the iing attack from Hina, who relentlessly chased after her from behind.


    "Hmph, Whirlwind".


    Ca unleashed her intermediate magic, which made the surrounding air turn violent. Hina, who had no experience fighting in the air for the first time, faced a disadvantageous situation where her body got thrown out to each side, for there were four whirlwinds that Ca had unleashed.


    "Kuh, flying is sure hard!".


    Hina tried to let herself follow the flow but realised that would only make her get far away from the target. So, without any other choice, she channelled magic to her palm, ready to unleash her intermediate magic. She learned to burn away the wind that blocked her way.


    "Hmph, fool, trying to burn yourself away. If you want to die, then die peacefully. I have something else I need to do".


    However, the moment Ca intended to chase after Mark, the surrounding wind around her was dispersed forcefully by the iing third party.


    "Why so hurry. Besides, your darling probably had already died by Soma''s hand".


    "Senior Sera".


    Serafina, who surrounds herself with wind, appears behind Ca. Ca, who couldn''t let that vile mouth insult Mark, further unleashed her wind magic, which shed with Serafina, who read her opponent''s moves ahead.


    The two of them release the same spell that produces wind breath, an intermediate Wind Magic, creating a small storm that sted in a straight way like a dragon breath.


    Hina, who witnessed from the side, saw something strange within Serafina''s atmosphere. Her eyes, which usually shone in ck color, now turned red. But she realized that Serafina had still regained her sane mind, so Hina didn''t want to probe further. She slid to Serafina''s side and did some tricks.


    "Senior Sera, keep doing that!".


    With a slight wave of her palm, Hina created a ball of me before she tossed it towards Serafina''s wind breath. The swirling air turned zing orange as the me greedily devoured every oxygen the storm contained.


    Serafina, who saw the iing help, lifted the corner of her mouth, grinning, while on the other hand, Ca, whose wind magic got devoured by the me that ran straight at her, knitted her brown, cursing.


    "Tch, that bitch".


    Ca pped her wings, avoiding the me to the side, but the wind Serafina cast was too fast, and it managed to graze some part of her wings in me, burning it to a crisp as the smell of the charred meat entered her nose.


    "Kuh".


    While the other two were a distance away from her. Ca used the chance to fly far away, searching for Mark, but she felt something thump from her chest. She knows this feeling, for they are ingesting the same demon blood simultaneously, different from her little sister. Ca could feel that Mark was in grave danger.


    "...Mark?!".


    "Got you!".


    With her Katana ready, Hina approached from Ca''s blind spot, but Serafina, who noticed the change in Ca, shouted.


    "Hina, stop!".


    Luckily, Serafina''s warning came in time, and Hina stopped in her advance and leapt back to gain her distance. At the same time, when she leapt pretty far away, Ca''s menacing aura burst forth, her stature erged until she was twice the size earlier.


    Her body bulked, and the red skin around her body turned more sinister; her eyes, which always looked toward Mark''s back, now lost their light along with her reasoning.


    "Kaaaaaaah!".


    Ca, who demonized, unleashed a shockwave that pushed Hina and Serafina back a couple of meters. The aura that surrounded her body condensed, and it d her now erged body. Suddenly, Ca disappears from her ce and appears in front of Hina.


    "Gahak".


    The event was too fast for Hina to follow, as she couldn''t react to Ca''s punch that directly hit her abdomen. Hina got sted downward, mming her body to the ground and raising a cloud of dust.


    "Hina!".


    Serafina, who worried about Hina, couldn''t do anything as she was busy dealing with Ca, who turned mad.


    Ca once again disappears as she appears beside Serafina, but Serafina uses the wind that surrounds her to change the trajectory of her body following the force that was created by Ca swinging her hand.


    Because of that, Serafina managed to dodge a couple of attacks from Ca, but she noticed that every time her attack got deflected, the wind surrounding her got thinned out, which proved fatal if it disappeared.


    With one final push, Serafina forces her body to fall down, pulled by gravity to escape the demon clutch. Once she escaped, Serafina sted herself using wind magic to push her to the ground and activated her flight magic.


    "Seed, Hm?!".


    Demonized Ca; even though she lost her ability to think, her instinct still remained; she cast another wind breath to push Serafina away, who just activated her flight spell.


    With a do-or-die spirit, Serafina crosses her hands, protecting her vital area while concentrating all the wind around her to create a shield.


    "Gakh!".


    However, her attempt ended in failure as her body received the magic first-hand, and she was blown away to the ground. Another person tumbled from the sky as the earlier Hina showed no sign of awakening.


    Ca, who hovered in mid-air, cast her nk gaze toward her surroundings, looking toward many people around who looked toward her in horror; her instinct to destroy red up as she preparedrge-scale magic to erase the frightened students once and for all.


    "Fire Lance!".


    Multiple fire pirs emerged from the ground, which were directed toward Ca. With the blood trace on her corner lips, Hina pointed her katana forward and kept hurling the demon with her magic; even though her attacks were easily dodged, that was more than enough, for she awaited Serafina to awaken.


    "Bah, that feels good; thanks, Hina".


    "Senior Sera,  will you cooperate with me?".


    Ca, who kept dodging the mence, finally could take a clear picture of her enemy who stood in line, Hina in front and Serafina in back repairing her magic.


    A magic circle, three meters in diameter, appears above the girls below, and it spouts a wind breath that leaves a huge gap in the middle, like a tunnel.


    The demon Ca braced for impact, but nothing happened to her; she only felt her body trapped by the swirling wind.


    "ze shield".


    Hina from below invoked her spell, and ayer of transparentpressed me emerged in front of her. She didn''t forget to create a ball of me and throw it toward the storm.


    "Hina, this is crazy".


    "I know. But if we don''t do this much, I believe we can''t defeat that demon".


    "Are you sure about this?".


    "Senior, keep the magic!".


    As she finished with her words, Hina, with help from Hagoromo, jumped toward the zing tunnel that was scorching her skin. The tunnel that shone in bright me began to feel heavy for the burning oxygen that gradually emptied.


    Hina, whose breath had turned rough, kept pushing upward. On the other hand, Ca began to create the same magic to push Hina down.


    "Ha, ha, that''s what I have been waiting for. Tachikaze".


    At the same time, the wind almost pushed Hina. It dismissed its ferocity as it was absorbed by the Katana in her hands.


    Not just the wind from the demon, but the wind around her gradually sucked to the de. The katana began to tremble intensely as itpressed the energy from the absorbed wind. Hina''s hand also turned numb due to the intense vibration it had. But she clenched both her teeth and grip, determined to finish the n she had.


    The demon, who noticed the wind attack had no effect, cancelled its magic and rushed forward and destroyed Hina''s shield in one punch. The fists not only stopped destroying the shield but also pierced through Hina''s left shoulder, destroying it.


    "Aaakh! Ahahahaha, Got you".


    Hina, with her severed hand,ughs maniacally with her pupils dted in madness, trying to hold in the searing agony that is assaulting her nerves.


    "Tachikaze!".


    With a single swing from her Katana, time stilled, and a line formed, separating reality into two; the cloud split into two, and the zing storm around them dispersed into nothingness, leaving two individuals who were pulled by gravity.


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