Editing Rental Magica Volume 1: Chapter 3 (section)

===Part 3===
 
 
The bizarre thing happened at that moment.
 
The black pigeons that had gathered at a single point--the Shax--evaporated.
 
They evaporated.
 
It was a disappearance that could be described with no other word.
 
"Eh..."
 
"Wha..."
 
Honami and Adilisia were at loss for words.
 
Along with that, odd, rainbow-colored ripples began to expand across the ocean surface, and then even into the air, rushing towards Itsuki and Honami's position.
 
"No...  Has it already happened?"
 
Suddenly coming to her senses, Adilisia placed her hand on the pentagram of Solomon on her chest.
 
'''"Marbas! Glasya ・ Bolas!  Eligol!"'''
 
Receiving her call, the three demons moved.
 
The evil spirits of blood and war.  Befitting of their name, they moved as fast as the reverberation of a thunderclap.  In the space of a moment, they stood between Adilisia and the waves and focused their spell power.
 
They were probably all able to wield monstrous spell power.
 
However.
 
That was all a waste.
 
Even faster than they had moved, the rainbow-colored ripples seized them.
 
That was all they had to do.
 
The golden lion, Marbas.
 
The wolf with the wings of an eagle, Glasya ・ Bolas.
 
The silver knight holding the spear and the snake, Eligol.
 
They all vanished in an instant.
 
As if they were statues of sand.  As if they were water balloons crushed in one's hand.  As if they were graffiti being washed away.  It wasn't too fast, but rather an indiscreet way of disappearing.
 
"No way..." Honami whispered.
 
It wasn't magic.
 
It couldn't be magic.
 
If it was magic, then such a ridiculous thing could not have occurred.
 
"The demons' ether bodies were... disintegrated from the inside out...?"
 
"Wh, wha, what?"
 
Unable to grasp the situation, Itsuki clung to the broom.
 
The white cat in his arms raised a stunned voice.
 
{Honami-san--we've done a spell power analysis, and I've got a bit of a bad feeling about this...}
 
"Ye, yeah.  President!  We're getting out of here!" Honami shouted, running her finger along her broom.
 
The broom, receiving its order, whizzed upward in a sudden movement, separating away from the ocean surface.  To the expanding view of the scenery, Itsuki swallowed his breath.
 
"--Honami, what's that?"
 
He pointed.
 
He pointed to the area where the Shax had evaporated before.
 
The disintegrated ether bodies were gathering there.  Not only that, the ocean <Night> seemed to be narrowing into a funnel there.
 
"Impossible... are they being devoured?" Honami said breathing roughly, almost gasping for air.
 
"Even the four demons... no... the whole sea is getting swallowed up...  It's eating all the surrounding spell power... incarnating into... a new form..." she said in blank amazement.
 
Itsuki couldn't pull his eye away from the scene.
 
No.
 
It was different.
 
His ''eye'' wouldn't pull away from the scene.
 
From beneath his eye patch, Itsuki's right eye was supporting his body.  From inside of it, something was determinedly fixed to the funnel in the ocean.
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'''[LOOK]'''
 
 
Creaaaaaak!
 
Something grated inside his head.
 
No, that wasn't the right way to describe it.
 
His right eye ''spoke.''
 
 
'''[LOOK.  LOOK.  LOOK.  THAT...  IS TRUE MAGIC.]'''
 
 
"Wh... what?"
 
He pressed his hand against his eye patch.  He dug into his eye with his fingers.  It was horrifyingly hot.  It throbbed, it felt numb, and it stung.
 
The view before him reflected in his right eye.
 
A definite substance bonded him to the spiraling funnel in the ocean.
 
Devouring the four demons, swallowing the ocean of the <Night>, something with an overwhelming spell power was being born.
 
Only Itsuki's right eye saw this.
 
Itsuki's vision focused entirely on that.
 
 
'''[THAT IS... A SEED OF... ♦↑=...]'''
 
 
"..."
 
{President?}
 
Suddenly, Byakko-kun called out to him.
 
{Huh?}
 
All of a sudden, he had bent over.
 
If he pulled back at that moment, he could have probably returned himself to an upright position.
 
However, as he panicked and tried to regain his grip on the broom, he saw a shadow directly below him, normally, with his left eye.
 
Adilisia was standing completely still in the middle of the ocean.
 
Standing absentmindedly on Forneus' back, she had a face as though she had finally reunited with a long lost lover.
 
Her profile was dyed with rainbow-colored ripples.
 
Consuming the four demons, the ripples stagnated for several moments, and then moved on to pull in the golden-haired girl and the silver chimaera.
 
"Adilisia-san?"
 
At that moment, Itsuki lost his balance.
 
"Ah..."
 
{President!}
 
"President!"
 
Honami threw out her hand.  She was too late.
 
By the time she had realized what was happening, Itsuki had already fallen from the the broom.
 
Itsuki fell upside-down toward the demonic sea of the <Night> and the rainbow-colored ripples.
 
 
Finally,
 
"...  Icchan!"
 
He felt like someone, somewhere was calling out to him with his old nickname.
 
And then everything went dark.
 
Everything except his right eye.
 
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