Her breathing grew heavy, a subtle, almost imperceptible lag appeared in her movements, and the blue light constructing her weapon began to flicker erratically.
After one fierce exchange, Chinatsu seized an opportunity and violently kicked Ellen's chest armor, attempting to use the force to create distance.
This unexpected move, bordering on street fighting, caused Ellen, who was accustomed to precise combat, to pause slightly, the force jarring her backward half a meter.
Chinatsu, using the reactionary force of the kick, was flung backward like a stone thrown by an invisible giant hand, soaring toward the higher, more open sky!
(Enough distance! Time to hit her with a big one!)
"Manifest—in the name of the [Herrscher of Reason]!"
Accompanied by her roar, which sounded like she was screaming out her very soul, a dazzling column of blue light suddenly erupted from her body, shooting straight into the sky!
A gorgeous and intricate, gown-like spirit dress, interwoven with blue and white hues and precise mechanical patterns, instantly replaced her original clothing, covering her body!
A powerful spirit power fluctuation, far grander than before but still revealing its "hollow" nature, swept out from her center like an uncontrolled storm!
Suspended higher in the air, dozens of futuristic-looking floating turrets, flowing with blue energy patterns, were instantly constructed in the void behind her!
Like a loyal swarm, their muzzles immediately lit up, firing dense, rain-like spectral blue energy beams that wove a net of death, overwhelmingly enveloping Ellen, who had just stabilized herself. This saturation attack sought to seal off all her evasion routes, buying a precious moment for the final killing blow!
Simultaneously, Chinatsu clasped her hands in front of her chest. The damaged The core of reason within her began to operate at an unprecedented overload speed. Massive spirit power and the Authorities of "Understanding" and "Reconstruction" furiously converged with unparalleled intensity! The air around her shrieked sharply from the energy overload, and space itself began to subtly warp!
"Erupt in a solar flare~"
High in the sky, the atmosphere let out a mournful, overburdened whine, as if glass were about to shatter!
A gigantic meteor, over a hundred meters in diameter, burning with spectral blue flames and covered in complex geometric light patterns resembling a circuit board, began to rapidly condense and manifest, defying the laws of physics!
It radiated a destructive aura that made the soul tremble, and the shadow it cast instantly enveloped a large area; even light seemed to be swallowed by it!
Under this terrifying pressure, the ground below, already cracked, began to further collapse and sink!
"Collapse fearlessly~"
(Take this! For the next life... Huh?!)
However, just as the meteor was about to fully solidify, in the instant of the wind-up before Chinatsu prepared to smash it down onto Ellen—
"The more it shatters~"
Ellen, who had appeared to be constrained by the dense barrage of floating turrets, merely passively evading and blocking, suddenly flashed a sharp light in her ice-blue eyes, like arctic ice!
"Too slow."
In the next instant, her figure blurred like a phantom, moving at a speed that exceeded the limit of Chinatsu's dynamic visual capture.
As if ignoring the distance of space, she directly and violently pierced through the blazing network of firepower woven by the floating turrets!
All the energy beams exploded fruitlessly behind her, failing to impede her even slightly!
Chinatsu only saw a flash before her eyes; the golden, nightmare-like figure had appeared before her as if teleporting, so close she could almost make out the cold patterns on her body!
The lightsaber in Ellen's hand, at this moment, erupted with an unprecedented, ultimate sharpness that seemed capable of swallowing all light! Carrying the absolute power to tear space and sever laws, it moved without obstruction, precisely—like a hot knife slicing through congealed butter—
It severed Chinatsu's right arm, which was constructing the meteor!
Furthermore, the momentum of the sword did not stop. Following a cruel yet elegant trajectory, it continued downward from her shoulder, diagonally slicing across her chest and abdomen... mercilessly and completely bisecting nearly half of her body, from her right shoulder down to her left thigh!
"The more I look down~"
"Pfft—!"
Boiling hot blood, like a burst dam or a magnificent, tragic red fountain, suddenly sprayed toward the sky from the massive wound!
Under the dim daylight, it traced shocking arcs across the sky.
An indescribable, soul-tearing agony instantly overwhelmed Chinatsu's every nerve and cell, like a tsunami.
The half-formed meteor instantly lost control because its core constructor had suffered such a fatal blow. Its internal stable structure collapsed, and the vast energy began to wildly dissipate and rampage like a runaway horse.
And almost simultaneously, atop a distant skyscraper, the "Creator Reverser," which had been on standby, emitted a low hum again, and a spectral blue beam locked onto the disintegrating meteor for a second time.
There was no deafening explosion, only an eerie silence that made the heart tremble, as if space itself had been erased.
Under the shroud of the spectral blue beam, the massive meteor, containing destructive power, rapidly disintegrated and annihilated from its physical form, like a pencil mark being erased.
It turned into the most primal, most ethereal spirit power dust, silently scattering between heaven and earth, as if it had never existed.
Chinatsu's body, like a puppet with cut strings or a butterfly torn apart by a gale, fell weakly and rigidly from the high altitude she had tried to dominate, carrying that shower of tragic, brilliant blood toward the cold, hard earth.
Her eyes were wide open, fixed fiercely and angrily on the golden, Grim Reaper-like figure in the sky, filled with an undying obsession.
As if she intended to brand her image onto the deepest part of her soul, so that even if she fell into hell, she would crawl back to seek vengeance!
Finally—
"Bang!!!"
A heavy thud, loud enough to stop the heart, sounded.
Her body, like a broken doll, slammed heavily and without any cushioning onto the wreckage-strewn ground below, kicking up a ripple of dust and blood foam. Then, silence.
In the air, fragments of her not-yet-dissipated spirit dress were illuminated by the sunlight that broke through the clouds after the airship passed, mixing with the scattered blue spirit power and falling blood droplets, like the stray feathers of a broken-winged bird.
It was like a tragic, beautiful blood rain, mixed with rust and sorrow, silently and slowly sprinkling toward the cold earth.
It seemed to be mourning the fall of yet another Spirit, or perhaps painting the deepest shade of tragedy onto this unequal war.
Inside the factory, Itsuka Shido, who had been nervously watching the battle outside, witnessed the entire process of Chinatsu being cruelly bisected and falling from the sky.
The massive shock and unspeakable grief instantly struck him, causing him to let out a desperate, soul-rending cry that nearly tore his throat: "Chinatsu-san!!!"
His voice echoed within the empty factory, filled with helplessness and rage.
Meanwhile, Ellen hovered in mid-air, indifferently shaking off non-existent blood from her lightsaber, as if she had just finished a trivial cleanup.
The battlefield seemed to fall into a brief, momentary silence. Only the spirit dress fragments and spirit power motes drifting down from the sky spoke of the short, brutal struggle that had just occurred.
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