Editing Failing Witch:Volume3 Episode4 (section)

===Part 4===

He suddenly woke.

Yagoro’s head drooped before jerking back up. He nearly slipped right off the broom handle but somehow managed to stay on.

Viocia, Dorothea, and Melehe didn’t seem to have noticed.

Nor had the assassin.

“Viocia, what’s the situation!?”

“We can’t lose her with speed alone. Now Adelaide is on our tail along with those flying triangles!!”

So the situation could hardly be worse.

A merciless attack flew in.

The beret and glasses woman didn’t simply hold her palm out to launch her cursed spindle magic.

It was much worse.

Light flew in from behind. No, the two isosceles triangle drones were also launching sharp spindles. The magic itself was the same as the beret and glasses woman used, but the quantity was much greater.

They launched more than 5 thousand at once.

Between the two of them, 10 thousand glowing projectiles formed a solid wall rushing toward Viocia and the others.

“Did she amplify – no, mass produce – her magic!?” shouted Melehe, eyes wide.

As long as the assassin had a spell, she could increase its number as much as she wanted while she flew. Unlike air-to-air missiles, it didn’t matter how many she was carrying. This would explain how a single woman mad managed to tear apart a coven’s witch army. She overturned the assumptions of dogfighting on Earth.

“Eep!? W-we can’t last long like this!!”

“Don’t give up. There’s three of us, so we can form a big triangle and boost our own power!”

Viocia was Antiquity, Melehe was Admiration, and Dorothea was Amorality.

The three girls flew in formation while each one took on one of the Three Aspects of witchcraft. That made their mental calculations easier and boosted their willpower – the source of their magic.

This was the same tactic used by the (villainous) friends Arbamini, Holibre, and Lampans.

“Wh-what exactly do we do? Eep.”

“Don’t ask-”

“Hansel and Gretel, the Three Little Pigs…no, let’s go with Snow White! Follow my lead!!”

Viocia was just a bit faster than Melehe.

The incoming wall-like barrage was too dense to slip through, but its distribution suddenly shifted.

ATU 0709, Snow White.

By extracting the text about the seven dwarves, the dense bombardment was rearranged into seven groups, each one clumping together on its own.

The shift in the even distribution reduced the density by one-seventh, creating gaps like in a net.

The three witches rapidly decelerated and slipped through those gaps.

“Eep!?”

Something swirled around them.

The many spindles used themselves to create a single thick beam of light. Once it was released, it shot right past Viocia and the others, passing them.

They would have been killed instantly had it hit.

Even if they had blocked it with defense magic, they would have been knocked from their brooms.

“…!! She’s still more powerful!?”

The assassin herself flew more nimbly with half the wings gone and the wing halves now darted about as flying wing drones.

At first glance, this looked like a three against three situation.

They may have looked even, with each side forming the Three Aspects of witchcraft, but that was inaccurate.

“Eep. Those triangles are flying around like birds, but they’re really being mentally controlled by Adelaide. She’s doing it all on her own.”

“Kh.”

“She’s taking on all three of us like that and still winning. How smart is she?”

They couldn’t win.

Even with three exam students working together, they couldn’t defeat that assassin!