Editing Ultimate Antihero:Volume 2 Chapter 3 (section)

===Part 6===

“Hohohoho! Hohohohohoho! I got you, I got you. That’s so easy, good heavens, how simple!”

Lily crumbled down.

Behind her Alfaro clapped his hand loudly and laughed.

Correct, from the start this was his aim.

The greatest weakness of Sumika’s greatest weapon the <Grim Bullet> was the process of manufacturing the bullet.

One should aim at that process if they wanted to destroy this trump card.

However, Sumika also understood that and naturally she had prepared countermeasure.

In the case this time she had <Protection> for that.

While she was invoking the technique, she was protected by an impregnable fortress that shut out attack from all directions.

Normally her binder couldn’t be aimed at.

―But. What if there was an [abnormality]?

For example, right, what if suddenly the friend in front of her eyes became bathed in blood and collapsed?

Obviously, Sumika’s mental condition wouldn’t be able to stay normal.

If her mind was disordered, her <Protection> would be disordered.

Alfaro decided to aim for exactly that instant, and then Sumika’s <Grim Bullet> was destroyed just as he planned.

The binder that stored the grimoire for the sake of <Grim Bullet> was pierced by the spear of light and when it fell to the ground, white flame enveloped it.

It was not a normal flame.

It was the <Holy Art・Megiddo Flame> that only clergyman could handle.

Once something caught fire of that flame of god, the fire wouldn’t extinguish until the target was burned to nothing.

“If the media that is the written copy is gone, you cannot use <Grim Bullet>. With this now you are nothing more than a magician of relatively good quality. There is nothing to be feared from you anymore. Next I alone am enough.”

He said that while the corner of his mouth grinned, then Alfaro slowly walked towards Sumika.

But Sumika didn’t look at him.

She just lifted Lily’s body in her arms and stared at the girl’s face.

She stared at that face which distorted from chagrin and sorrow.

“*Cough*…… Fa, ther……why, did……-“

‘Even though you promised’, while coughing out those words and blood, Lily lost consciousness in Sumika’s arms.

Slowly a glob of tear formed at the corner of Lily’s eyes and dropped down through her cheek.

“<nowiki>~~~~~~</nowiki>-!”

Seeing the glistening of that tear, the expression of regret of Lily, Sumika’s chest grew hot as if she was swallowing fire.

Of course, that heat was rage.

Sumika laid down Lily on that spot and asked the approaching Alfaro with her back still turned on him.

“…This strategy, did Lily know anything about it?”

In response, Alfaro answered without any guilt in him.

“No way. Of course I didn’t tell her anything. After all I don’t think that sister Lily is that much of an actress. It will only make all of this come to nothing using only ham acting.”

“…Lily really believed. To you. To the church. To betray that kind of girl, don’t you have any pang in your conscience?”

“Hohoho. What a strange thing to say. Where is the need to feel pain in my conscience from this? A person that covered for a renegade who turned their back to god is also a renegade. There is no way I who am a <Special Missionary> can forgive such a foolish person. There is no doubt of the fate of the demon and all of you who protected that demon, but I led sister Lily here intending for her to die in this place from the start. Well, the girl didn’t have even a drop of doubt about such―”

“Enough.”

Suddenly, Sumika interrupted Alfaro from continuing his words with a low voice.

“―? What are you saying just now?”

“I’m saying to not open that filthy mouth! You heretic–!”

Expressing her exploding rage, Sumika turned to Alfaro.

Right now the girl understood completely.

That the man in front of her eyes was a heretic that had no difference at all with Typhon and the like.

That he was an evil who stole from other people without any hesitation whatsoever from the utmost selfishness.

“I’ll kill you…! You demon wearing human skin……-!”

Sumika reloaded bullet into the two silver revolvers while grinding her teeth so hard it could break.

Even with <Grim Bullet> destroyed, Sumika was an S-rank magician.

There were many ways she could fight with.

She would immediately take care of this evil in front of her and heal Lily.

Deciding in her heart what she should do, Sumika turned the gun’s nuzzle at Alfaro.

But,

“――Heretic you said?”

Alfaro suddenly stopped his walk in front of such Sumika.

And then, all expression vanished from his inferior Buddha face that kept smiling vulgarly until just now,

“Toward this me that worked his body to the bone for god, this Alfaro who is a <Special Missionary>, the likes of a renegade that conspire with a demon dare to……call me a heretic?”

He whispered with a low voice to himself while his shoulders were trembling,

Then suddenly―

 

“YOU REALLY RUN YOUR MOUTH YOU WHOREEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!”

 

Along with a raging roar that was like a cannon, white light surged out from Alfaro’s body.

“……-!?”

A flash that painted over the whole world with white.

Inside that brightness where there was only radiance, Alfaro’s hair wriggled and his shape changed.

Alfaro’s shadow grew bigger until twice his original size bloatedly.

In proportion with that change, Alfaro’s magic power jumped up to the degree that couldn’t be compared with until now.

Before long when the light stopped, in front of Sumika’s eyes―

“This, is……-“

A body height of around 5 meters, not a human shape but something strange-looking was standing there.

The head was crowned by a ring that shined silver, a large body with a pair of wings at its back.

That form of Alfaro sported a look of rage that made one think that was how Acala must look like, that form was exactly like an angel from inside the legend―in reality, it was a transformation by means of the power of the people that were called angel.

{Witness this divine appearance! This is exactly the power that is only possessed by us, the <Special Missionary>! Our status just cannot be compared to the like of you magicians who can only be possessed by a heroic spirit that was only human in the first place. This holy art where we are possessed by an angel that is the messenger of god, is the greatest proof that we have obtained the acknowledgement of god! Correct, all our actions is by the will of god! Therefore, we, the <Holy Path Church>, are exactly god ourselves! Nevertheless, for the like of a renegade that is supporting a demon to curse us as heretic ―HOW RIDICULOUSSSS!}

Correct. Alfaro was truly possessed by an angel.

Just like how Sumika and other magicians were possessed by heroic spirits.

The executor that moved to execute god’s law and wiped out the insults towards god―

The <Exousiai Power>.

This was exactly the cause why the <Special Missionary> was special, the biggest reason why Homura was alerted by this man.

{The sin of insulting us the agent of god is costly, you little girl. You will not die easily…-! I’ll snap your four limbs one by one, twist them, I’ll grant you every possible kind of pain before killing you…!}

“Kuh…-!”

The large body shook and Alfaro approached Sumika.

On the other hand Sumika was also not just staying quiet and watched.

She wasted no time to return fire with the sorcery of absolute hit, <Quick Draw>. ―But,

All the bullets were slipping through Alfaro’s body.

{Hohoho! Useless, useless-! Cause and effect of absolute hit or whatever you do, it’s only a power of a human in the first place. The <Exousiai Power> that is residing in me is just too different in status compared to that from the start! Just a power of a human cannot even touch the current me-!}

“…-, if that’s so then――-!”

If physical attacks didn’t have any effect, she just needed to use sorcery.

Sumika reprimanded herself and chanted soul of language of spell to compose a sorcery.

“Greedy fang     coarse bloodstained claw      become jet black wind and come here

The falling sky is above thy     the desolate battlefield is for thy sake

Howl     growl      despise     madness and avarice     that group of storm surging as they are

The hungry jaw swallowed whole even the far away sun!”

That soul of language distorted the truth of the world.

Storm blew around the stepping forward Alfaro and cloud of sand danced in the air.

That wind whirled in the blink of an eye, turning into a spiral, rampaging and swallowing Alfaro.

The enemy was carved apart into little pieces by the storm of vacuum that reached until the cloudy sky.

It was a grand technique that could only be chanted by two people among the S-rank magicians, including Sumika.

Wind element fifth rank sorcery―

“<{{furigana|Evil Tempest|Black Dragon’s Sword Wing Storm}}>!!!!”
 

{IMPERTINENTTTTTT!!!!}
 

But, that storm of vacuum was torn apart by the gale that Alfaro’s wings caused.

“Wha……-!”

Sumika was taken aback by the absolute strength of the angel.

Alfaro didn’t overlook that opening of an instant.

He wasted no time to reached out his right arm that had been enlarged by the power of an angel and captured Sumika’s body.

“Damn……!”

{Hohoho, caught you. You are caught now. Hohohohohoho!}

“U, AAaaAAA!”

Sumika was grasped from her chest until her waist and lifted up from the ground.

She rapidly fired <Quick Draw> with both her hands that were the only parts of her body that were still free, she kept resisting but―

{I told you it’s pointless already. By the time you lost the power of <Evil God>, you have no chance to win anymore. And then, now that you are in this situation, you understand what will happen to you right?}

*GUI-*

With his thumb and index finger, Alfaro clutched the right arm of Sumika who was captured in his right hand.

And then, with a careless movement as if playing with a doll,

{First, starting from this annoying right arm――}

With his index finger at the back elbow of Sumika’s thin arm, and the thumb touching the wrist, he put strength in each finger.

Slowly, slowly, in order for tormenting.

“…-!”

Sumika’s elbow that was becoming the fulcrum of the leverage in that position screamed creakingly.

With a frantic look drenched with sweat on her forehead, Sumika fired wildly with the gun in her remaining left hand, yet as expected it was meaningless―the next moment,

*PAKIN*

A dry sound was audible from the breaking of Sumika’s joint. The arm was broken backwards.

“Aa, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!”

{Hohohohoho-! That’s good! It’s truly a pleasant sound just now-!}

“Gh-!? NooOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!”

As if to enjoy the texture of a broken bone by grinding it repeatedly, Alfaro pinched the broken joint and kneaded it with the ball of his finger.

Sumika’s mouth opened until it couldn’t open any further from this cruel act and screamed.

“Le, Leader–!”

It was really a sight that one couldn’t bear to see.

Chikori immediately tried to rush to Sumika and dropped down, but―

“DON’T COMEEE――-!”

It was none other than Sumika that warned her with a voice even louder than her previous scream.

“Right now, Chikori-san must not… leave that spot! The enemy will rush in to Elfiena-san’s location…-!”

“Le, Leader, bu, but-……!”

“Shiori-san is an excellent <Operator>, but her fighting strength is not that high… You really are the last fort protecting them! You cannot come here! This is an order-!”

Sumika ordered so to Chikori even with her face distorted in pain that was difficult to endure.

“…I’m fine. I’ll do something, about this man……!”

She glared at Alfaro.

In that eye, there was not even the slightest fear.

Even in front of the overwhelming power of an angel, Sumika still hadn’t given up yet.

She didn’t have any intention to submit.

Even right now in this moment, she was thinking how to cut her way through this hopeless situation.

Such clear light of courage and intelligence was remaining in her eyes.

(What unpleasant eyes these are-)

Alfaro’s expression changed from looking at that light in Sumika’s eyes.

From joyful expression of tormenting a renegade, into an expression of clear precaution.

He was also a veteran that had been through many adversities in battle, a <Special Missionary>.

Therefore he understood. The fearsomeness of a human with this kind of eyes.

(This girl, if she is let to live here, in the not far away future she will reach the level where my hands cannot reach. She might even possibly become a threat to the <Holy Path Church> like the <Evil God User>…)

It was dangerous. Those eyes were dangerous. That was why―

{I changed my mind.}

―Right here right now, while he could still kill her he had to stop her breath with certainty.

That premonition stopped Alfaro from the tormenting any further,

{After this will also be very busy, so let’s finish this quickly.}

*GUI*, the right hand that grasped Sumika’s body was further enveloped by the left hand, both hands were filled with strength in order to crush Sumika to death.

“Gu, aa……-, AAAAAAAaAAAAAAA……-!”

Even with Sumika also resisting by using the sorcery of <Flesh Hardening> on herself, however in front of the arm strength of <Exousiai Power> that boasted their remarkably strong physical strength even among the angels, it was nothing more than a useless struggle, Sumika’s body squeaked creakingly and cries of pain gradually spilled out,


“STOP IT!!!!”


{-……!?}

But in the next moment, a voice that sharply resounded in the twilight stopped the pressure.

The owner of the voice that stole Alfaro’s gaze could only be one person. Knowing about the dilemma of Sumika and Chikori from Shiori’s battle control, she rushed to this place, the <Fairy Queen> Elfiena.