Just as Kenichi and Mirajane were about to reach the Lacrima island, the captain of the Royal Army's 1st Magic War Division, Panther Lily, suddenly blocked their path.
Looking at Panther Lily before him, Kenichi prepared to act, but Mirajane beside him suddenly channeled her magical power.
"Take Over!"
Mirajane waved her fair hand.
In the next second, a dazzling light erupted from her body.
When the light dissipated, the gentle and humble Mirajane was gone, replaced by the cold and ruthless Demon Mirajane.
"Satan Soul!"
Seeing the change in Mirajane, Lily's expression changed immediately.
And Mirajane curled her lips into a mocking curve, speaking to Kenichi in a cold and domineering tone: "Kenichi, leave this to me. You go take the Lacrima!"
Although Kenichi had seen Mirajane in this form once during the guild civil war, this was the first time he had spoken to Mirajane in this form.
Hearing Mirajane's cold and domineering voice, he raised an eyebrow slightly.
"Then I'll leave it to you!"
With that, Kenichi moved his feet and leaped directly towards the Lacrima island.
"I see, you're after the Lacrima?"
"Then I can't let you succeed!"
Lily, seeing Kenichi charging towards the Lacrima island, didn't hesitate at all. He swung a large sword directly at Kenichi.
However, before the large sword could get close to Kenichi, Mirajane's figure transformed into a black shadow, instantly moving in front of Kenichi, and caught the large sword with her bare hand.
"She actually caught my sword with her bare hand?"
Lily, seeing Mirajane catch his full-force strike with her palm, spoke with astonishment.
Perhaps others didn't know the power of this sword strike, but Lily himself knew.
First, this sword of his could cut through iron like mud… it was extremely sharp.
Secondly, this strike of his could even split an island.
But now, this woman of unknown origin had caught his sword with her bare hand.
Naturally, Lily was quite shocked.
While Lily was shocked, Mirajane grabbed the great sword with both hands and violently flung it. Lily, along with the great sword, was directly thrown into the sky.
At this point, Kenichi's figure had already landed on the Lacrima island.
"Command T!"
Kenichi didn't hesitate at all. He directly spread his palm and activated Command T on the Lacrima before him.
Bzzzt-
In just the blink of an eye, the Lacrima, which was as large as an iceberg, along with the island beneath it, was shrunk to the size of a ping-pong ball.
"The island disappeared?"
Lily, while being flung back, saw the Lacrima island disappear and was immediately shocked.
But soon, Lily discovered that the Lacrima island hadn't disappeared… it had been shrunk and was now held in Kenichi's hand.
Witnessing this scene, Lily's shock deepened.
"Such a huge Lacrima, shrunk so small in an instant!"
"Just who is this guy...?"
Although Lily was very shocked by Kenichi's method, he didn't give up.
The flung-back Lily violently flapped the wings on his back, stabilizing his figure immediately.
Then, he flew towards Kenichi again.
His posture seemed to indicate he intended to snatch the Lacrima back from Kenichi.
Whoosh-
However, before Lily could get close to Kenichi, Mirajane, with astonishing speed, blocked Lily's path.
"Your opponent is me!"
Mirajane curled her lips into a curve and made a grabbing motion towards Lily through the air.
Bzzzt-
Instantly, a purple-brown magic circle appeared in the air.
"Darkness Stream!"
Immediately, a huge claw formed of condensed dark energy shot out from the magic circle and swept towards Lily.
As the energy claw flew, it split into three slender claws.
Under Mirajane's control, the three slender energy claws, as if alive, grabbed towards Lily.
However, Lily's reaction was quite fast.
His figure darted left and right, avoiding all three energy claws.
After creating some distance from the energy claws, Lily, with a world-splitting momentum, directly severed the pursuing energy claws with the large sword in his hand.
But before Lily could even catch his breath, Mirajane, with astonishing speed, circled around to behind Lily.
"So fast!"
Looking at the mocking Mirajane behind him, Lily's expression changed dramatically.
Then Mirajane kicked Lily.
Bam-
The heavily struck Lily, along with his sword, plummeted towards the ground below like a cannonball amidst a loud bang.
Whoosh-
In just an instant, Lily's body crashed onto the ground.
For a moment, dust flew everywhere, and spiderweb-like cracks appeared on the ground.
'As expected of Mira!'
Seeing Mirajane take care of Lily, Kenichi also praised her inwardly.
At this point, Mirajane looked over with a sharp gaze.
Then, flapping the demonic wings on her back, her figure shot directly towards Kenichi.
For a moment, Kenichi thought Mirajane had lost control and was going to attack him.
However, when Mirajane reached Kenichi, the Satan Soul on her body dissipated at a visible rate.
Soon, Mirajane returned to her usual form and began to fall.
Kenichi casually caught Mirajane.
After Mirajane steadied herself on the beast's forehead, she asked Kenichi in a gentle voice: "Kenichi, where is everyone?"
"Right here."
Kenichi spread his palm.
On his palm lay the shrunken Lacrima island.
"Attack! Those two stole our Lacrima!"
While Kenichi and Mirajane were talking, the soldiers assembled below suddenly launched an attack against them.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh-
For a moment, a large number of magic bullets swept towards Kenichi and Mirajane like a storm of bullets.
Kenichi manipulated the flying beast to continuously weave through the bullet storm.
And Mirajane held onto Kenichi tightly.
After avoiding a series of attacks, Kenichi directly channeled his magical power.
"Falling Thunder!"
He flipped his palm.
A golden beam of lightning crashed onto the ground.
At that moment, the hundreds of royal soldiers assembled on the plaza were instantly struck by lightning and finally collapsed onto the ground.
"He actually took down so many people in an instant?!"
Lily, who had just climbed out of the deep crater, saw all the royal soldiers on the plaza fall in an instant, and his expression became exceptionally grave.