Editing Hagure Yuusha no Aesthetica:Volume 9 Chapter 1 (section)

===Part 3===
 
Tiana had targeted the side of Kyouya's head. She intended to shock his brain, causing him to lose consciousness. The timing and the attack power were spot on.
 
Still, it wouldn't have been strange for an ordinary person's head to be blown clean off their neck.
 
But -- in spite of such an attack Kyouya didn't fall down.
 
Tiana could only look on helplessly as Kyouya had only raised a single arm to stop the attack.
 
And the next moment,
 
"-?"
 
A bad feeling flashed across her mind, as Tiana subconsciously crossed her arms to protect her face. Simultaneously, an intense explosion occurred in front of her face.
 
"Ku --!"
 
Tiana's whole body was sent backwards, leaving her somewhat confused.
 
...... Just now...... was that an explosion of fire magic?
 
Kyouya's intention wasn't too difficult to understand.
 
If he used a direct attack attack it would have been negated by the absolute barrier. But, if the magic was transformed into some sort of natural phenomenon it would become an indirect attack, and not fall under the influence of an absolute barrier. So, Kyouya's magic must had took advantage of this loophole.
 
If Tiana was even a little slow with her defense, the flash from the explosion would have baked her eyes, and ultra-high temperature of hot air would have caused significant injury to her head.
 
Thus, Kyouya's surprise attack would have definitely been effective.
 
If it was just that much, it wouldn't be specially worth anything to be startled by. However,
 
...... The problem wasn't so simple.
 
Tiana had regained her posture in air, and slid backwards as she landed.
 
And had looked down to see the sleeves of favorite shirt were charred.
 
-- There was no doubt. Kyouya had just used fire magic.
 
Moreover, it was not at a low level.
 
In terms of fire magic, Kyouya's power was in league which couldn't even be compared to Onizuka. Then,
 
"The first job of every COCOON in charge of a Babel is to take a suitable false name in line with that country's values -- or perhaps I should say decide on a code name."
 
Kyouya calmly began to speak, as if seeing through Tiana's confusion.
 
"My name refers to ice, and like you, anyone would misunderstand that I could only be able to manipulate water magic. And in fact within the water magic system -- you previously just thought I could only use ice magic. However, Japanese is interesting. Even if it has the same pronunciation sometimes it can have multiple meanings."
 
For example,
 
"My family name is pronounced HIKAMI, but the characters can be written as "Ice God (ヒカミ)" or "Fire God (永神)."
 
"............"
 
The word play with his surname was not that difficult to understand.
 
However -- being proficient in two magics that were polar opposite would never be conceivable.
 
Fire and water, wind and earth, light and darkness spirits were opposite that rebel, and actually negate each other's power. Thus, by being proficient in one, would inevitably weaken the other.
 
Some residents of a different worlds can from a special contract directly from the spirits allowing them to manipulate magic in such a way, but it only arises in extremely rare cases where a combination of environment and special conditions align.
 
The people in this world were basically limited to one magic be proficient in.
 
Still, the fact was Hikami Kyouya was proficient in water and fire, two polar opposite elemental magics.
 
There were only two possibilities.
 
Hikami Kyouya was a resident from a different world,
 
...... or this was his conceptual ability.
 
The unique special abilities that can awaken after going to another world twice can transcend the usual principles. If Kyouya's conceptual ability that awoke was to be able to master two counter opposite magics then all could be reasonably explained.
 
Of course -- this was probably just the tip of the iceberg for his conceptual ability. This was because an absolute barrier could still block two different systems of normal magic at the same time, the result at best would be to catch someone off guard. But,
 
"I see... ... It is like that."
 
While muttering those words, Tiana made up her mind.
 
Since Kyouya had used his conceptual ability, of course she also had to respond in kind.
 
Her skills up close were slightly better, but,
 
...... The problem still was she was at a small loss at range.
 
As a result, Kyouya had been given a chance to catch his breath. Then,
 
"Oh my... ... by any chance, could you have reached an impasse?"
 
"-- Of course not."
 
Undaunted by Kyouya's sneer, Tiana floated a smiled,
 
"It's only now to just about to begin."
 
She abruptly then concentrated her mind, in response a special magic formation unfolded. Her whole body was wrapped in a blinding light, the next moment -- Tiana's clothes had already been replaced with battle clothes.
 
And sticking out her right hand horizontally, Tiana Randohauzen had materialized her weapon. It was a giant crushing battle axe that was taller than herself. But,
 
"Are you sure? You couldn't touch me with your fists, and now you want to rely on this hulking weapon?"
 
Kyouya could not help laughing. Therefore,
 
"Ah, of course. It is determined with this."
 
And Tiana smiled,
 
"Because --"
 
Only saying that much, Tiana stretched out her left palm towards Kyouya.
 
And immediately --
 
"-?"
 
For the first time Kyouya had gasped in surprise. And already at that time, his body was flying through the air.
 
He was being pulled against his will -- as if he was being drawn to Tiana.
 
"Well, if you want to avoided it you should do it now -- but, I think that is impossible."
 
After Tiana had finished speaking, Kyouya had already been pulled into her range.
 
"-!"
 
Dodging was probably impossible he realized.
 
But, as the last bit of resistance Kyouya unfolded a defense barrier of ice, however Tiana didn't pay it any attention. She just continued on with her axe swing as hard as possible.
 
"--------"
 
Tiana had smashed through the wall of ice -- and it continued on to hit Kyouya.
 
In less than a blink, Kyouya was slammed into the rock wall. He was imprinted into the wall with his arms out like he was crucified (dead).
 
"-- Whoops, not good."
 
Tiana suddenly remembered something, and quickly held out the palm of her hand again.
 
And again, he was being pulled towards Tiana.
 
"I almost forget about what I said before."
 
Tiana inadvertently spoke out,
 
"About hitting you, and there wasn't going to be even a trace left."
 
While Kyouya was flying over in air directly at her, Tiana turned her right shoulder.
 
Next Tiana Randohauzen had threw her right fist into Kyouya.
 
It had the same amount of power she used to destroy the entire rock wall.
 
Kyouya's body resembled a broken kite as he crash into the exactly the same spot on the wall from before.
 
The rock wall was servery fragile from the hit before, and instantly cracks broke out before giving way.
 
And with a large amount noise, numerous boulders and rumble poured down on Kyouya who had fallen to the ground.