Editing Apocalypse Witch:Volume5 Chapter4 (section)

===Part 5===

It was true Utagai Karuta could not have defeated Transline.

She could supply enough energy to power a total of 300 million Threats, so her power was immense. No human technique could ever hope to defend against that. Even a combination of all the barriers belonging to every last one of Second Grimnoah’s Crystal Magicians would have been pierced through to slice Utagai Karuta apart.

Fighting the normal way would never work.

But he was the world’s strongest. It was wrong to assume he would only fight the normal way.

“Sacri-sama.”

“I…know!”

There had been hints of this already.

Before atmospheric reentry, Crystal Girl Aine had stolen Threat parts to steal their abilities. She had concluded her barrier wasn’t enough and improvised.

She had done it again once on the surface. She had stolen a water bear’s weapon and used the linear cannon to blast a blue-ringed octopus from a distance.

Aine could steal Threat parts and make them her own. She could expand her own functionality.

But was that ''all'' she could do?

What if no such restriction existed?

What if she could steal powers and abilities that didn’t come from the Threat?

Then couldn’t she do this too?

“Omotesandou-san!!”

“Yes, leave it to me. I have the knowledge and techniques of a Regulation 3!!”

Student Council President Omotesandou Kyouka was the only Main Category Regulation 3 still alive. But for some reason, she had lost her ability to use that power after the fall of the first ship.

But that was fine.

Karuta too was a student of the Crystal Magic school.

The older girl smiled thinly.

“We’re both Second Grimnoah Crystal Magicians. I was simply further along in the process, but knowing your skill, I know you would have reached Regulation 3 eventually, Karuta-kun. So what if that happens a little sooner than intended?”

If something could absorb Kyouka’s knowledge and techniques and link them with Karuta’s healthy body, they could reproduce the godlike abilities of a Regulation 3.

They just needed a host to bring together the Four Living Gods.

They just needed to link themselves through Crystal Girl Aine.

“Kh!!”

Karuta felt a hot pain at his chest.

It came from his Crystal Blossom.

He wouldn’t necessarily fully understand just because someone who understood it gave him a quick explanation. To make matters worse, his Crystal Blossom’s original setup had been full of errors. For example, he couldn’t activate any crystal armor and he was forced to share the presets of flight, barrier, and regeneration with Aine. If the way he used his power or the route and strength of that power were well off of average, then what Kyouka taught him might not work.

He grimaced, but another girl stepped up alongside him.

“Don’t worry.”

It was his curly twintails childhood friend – Amaashi Marika.

She lent him the powerful directionality that could send chaotically raging power along a single path.

That was her very nature due to her singlemindedness that could seem downright violent at times.

“I’m the standard version of the strongest, don’t you think? I can help boost your strength, so don’t worry about a thing.”

The pain in his chest vanished.

The power stabilized.

Karuta and Aine stood side by side and shared the same sword like a newlywed couple facing their wedding cake.

They held the sword up toward the heavens.

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“Sacri-sama.”

“Right.”

Of course, Aine’s katana was not meant to be used primarily as a laser sniper rifle. The close-range sword was the main weapon and jitte-like branch was only a support device.

They couldn’t expect to hit a target 36 thousand kilometers away in geosynchronous orbit.

But that didn’t matter.

“This is…''our''…”

Karuta and Aine activated magic so powerful it threatened to shatter the crystal sword from the inside.

It took the reverse route of the blast Transline had launched earlier.

They were the Four Living Gods, so the four of them joined their voices as one.

“…world’s strongesttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt!!!”

Let’s review some definitions.

Regulation 1 could glide over the ground or sea, Regulation 2 could fly high in the sky, and Regulation 3 had the power to manipulate dimensions themselves.

So with the power of a Regulation 3, they could slice through the dimensions to cut down any Threat!!