Chapter 285: Reunion!
Misogi Utakata looked at Stella and Ikki, then was once again smashed into meat paste by the rock giant.
After reviving and standing up, he gave Stella a helpless shrug.
"Sorry. I can't destroy these two big guys."
"Eh?? Why?!"
Stella asked him in surprise.
Even Ikki beside her could not help looking over in shock.
After all, one second ago, they had still been marveling at how terrifying Misogi Utakata's ability was.
The next second, they were told that even such a terrifying ability could not deal with two rock puppets.
"Ahaha… my ability isn't as convenient as you imagine."
He laughed dryly, then began to explain.
"My ability, 'Fifty-Fifty/Absolute Uncertainty,' can only manipulate outcomes that already exist."
"In other words, as long as there is even the slightest possibility of something happening, I can turn that possibility into one hundred percent."
"Conversely, if something is impossible—put another way, if it is something I cannot accomplish through my own personal ability—then my ability will be completely ineffective."
"I can turn a one percent possibility into one hundred percent, but I can't turn zero into one percent."
Speaking of which, although Misogi Utakata was explaining his ability to Ikki and Stella, and the two of them were indeed listening—
The two rock giants were not idle during this process.
Perhaps because of some fixed operating mechanism that had been set in advance, the two giants lost interest in Ikki and Stella, who were standing still in place.
They focused entirely on hammering Misogi Utakata instead.
Watching this senpai turn into minced meat one moment, then suddenly revive the next, all while explaining in an extremely relaxed tone, Stella and Ikki both felt rather complicated.
Looking at this extremely bizarre scene before them, the two of them did not know whether they should step forward to help or not.
If they helped, they had no real way to deal with the rock giants. Besides, Misogi Utakata looked very relaxed and even seemed to be having a bit of fun.
But if they did not help, Stella and Ikki still felt somewhat guilty.
As the person directly involved, Misogi Utakata did not care about their hesitation. He continued playing around while speaking.
"To me, the way the two of you smash rocks apart with swords is basically like something out of a battle manga."
"For you, maybe it's only natural. But for someone as weak and fragile as me, it's completely beyond common sense. There's no way I could do that."
Perhaps because of the side effect of this terrifying ability, Misogi Utakata, despite being a Blazer, had even worse physical ability than an ordinary person.
It was not that he had never worked hard, but the results had been extremely small.
That caused the range of "impossible" to be very broad for him.
"For me, an opponent I can't beat is someone I absolutely can't beat. This ability is actually pretty cruel."
"If I really could manipulate everything, I would have participated in the representative selection matches long ago."
His words caused Stella and Ikki to fall silent.
They had not expected that even after the reinforcements they had been hoping for arrived, he still would not be able to solve the predicament before them.
Fortunately, the rock giants likewise had no way to do anything to Misogi Utakata in a short period of time.
With the chance to rest a little, Stella and Ikki recovered some stamina, so the difficulty they faced was much smaller than before.
"But are we just going to stay here and waste time with these two big guys?"
"No, of course not."
Faced with Stella's concern, Misogi Utakata gave her a mysterious smile.
"Didn't I just say it? I came to save you."
"However, what I'm responsible for isn't fighting. It's guiding the way."
"In order to make sure she arrives on time one hundred percent, calculating the time, she should be just about here…"
Before he could finish speaking, a flash of lightning suddenly appeared in the air.
Rumble—!
Along with a roaring sound, Todo, wrapped in lightning, instantly appeared beside one of the rock giants.
"Shippu Jinrai" was one of her Noble Arts.
It used the power of lightning to stimulate her body, greatly enhancing her physical ability.
Her speed became as swift as a flash of lightning.
Then…
"Raikiri!"
Boom—!
A blade of lightning was drawn from its sheath in an instant, just like real lightning!
The sword technique carried violent lightning power and directly blasted apart the rock giant in front of her.
At the same time, lightning raged wildly.
After swinging that sword technique, Todo did not stop releasing magic power.
Terrifying arcs of electricity swept through everything around her, blasting the second rock giant into scraps as well.
…
"Why don't the rock puppets that Todo-senpai destroy revive?"
After Todo appeared, the battle came to an end.
A single Raikiri had easily crushed the two rock giants that had forced Stella and Ikki into a hard fight.
Stella could not understand this result.
If they were simply comparing destructive power, she firmly believed that her Noble Arts were not weaker than Raikiri.
Then why were her attacks ineffective, while Todo-senpai's attacks worked?
"That is because I destroyed the magic threads the enemy used to control these puppets."
After putting away her Device, "Narukami," Touka, who had finished the battle, put her glasses back on and explained to Stella.
"This kind of puppeteer usually uses threads formed from magic power to manipulate puppets in battle."
"The advantage of doing so is that the Blazers themselves do not need to appear on the battlefield. They can attack the enemy one-sidedly while avoiding injury themselves."
"However, precisely because of that, as long as the magic threads are destroyed, the puppeteer can no longer control the puppets."
Because the stages set up by the school were open battle arenas without cover, no one would use this kind of fighting method.
Therefore, to student knights, this kind of combat style was quite unfamiliar.
It was no wonder Stella and Ikki had fallen into a hard battle.
However, Touka was different.
Although she was also a student knight, like Toutokubara, she was a Blazer who frequently accepted special summons and participated in real battles.
Having directly confronted all kinds of criminals, she was very familiar with these practical combat techniques.
"All right, now isn't the time to chat."
"Tomaru and Saijou already joined up with me earlier, but the signal in this area has been blocked. I'm a little worried about Toutokubara's situation, so I had them return to the training center first."
"Now that I've found you two as well, that leaves only one person."
Hearing her words, Stella and Ikki's expressions both became somewhat serious.
They knew who she was referring to. As if by prior agreement, several of them looked in a certain direction, which was precisely where Luke was.
The intense clash of aura from earlier had been so clear that even Misogi Utakata, who had never studied martial arts, had sensed it.
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