Editing Magika No Kenshi To Shoukan Maou:Volume 13 Chapter 1 (section)

===Part 1===

Kazuki immediately performed instant invocation of offense magic――towards Ikousai who was laughing wildly.

It had become an absurd situation. Just when they thought they had finally defeated Fu Xi and the Dragon of Heaven’s Decree, Ikousai who suddenly appeared took advantage of the little opening that was like a needle’s thread and took over the power of that Dragon of Heaven’s Decree.

The was the authority that Japan Mythology’s sub-chief god Susanoo possessed. It was a power that stole the power of the King that was defeated by this power’s possessor.

Before, Ikousai and Susanoo aimed to steal the seat of Japan Mythology’s King with this power, but they were obstructed by Kazuki.

But, Ikousai who was defeated by Kazuki didn’t obediently leave the stage after that, she infiltrated into Atlantis, and then of all things she aimed the point of that power towards the chief god of China.

Thinking normally, it was something overambitious and difficult for the likes of a sub-chief god of the puny Japan Mythology to wish to defeat the Kings and chief gods of grand mythologies that were gathering on this Atlantis. But Ikousai managed that using a tenacious ambush! She performed a terrifying giant killing by snatching the majority of Kazuki’s achievement!

Right now, in front of Kazuki’s eyes the vast power of the Dragon of Heaven’s Decree was residing inside Ikousai and Susanoo! It was the comeback of the loser where everyone could do nothing but be at a lost for words.

――And then the aim of this Ikousai infiltrating this battle where the fate of the world was at stake was undoubtedly only Kazuki. She was here just with the determined purpose of wanting to win against Kazuki.

「Hahahahaha! A―hha-ha-ha!!」

The girl was drunk on an overwhelming power while laughing wildly in front of Kazuki.

She was really a nuisance…….

But how much could she skillfully use that power so suddenly without any test run beforehand?

Kazuki was swift. He would pushed, pushed, and pushed while the opponent hadn’t gotten used to that power yet and shaved off all her magic power! In the first place Ikousai’s magic power amount was average compared to Fu Xi, no matter even if it was the power of the Dragon of Heaven’s Decree that was residing inside her, there was no way she would be able to match that immortal toughness of Fu Xi. Even Kazuki himself was also average, but he could use to his benefit!

「O undying bird that repeated life and death! Liberate thy last flame,  become the sun of the surface……Imitation Flare!!」

He annulled the chanting time by pouring magic power into Zekorbeni and instantly invoked a high level magic.

The avatar of Phoenix that symbolized the sun exploded, and the energy of a solar flare poured onto Ikousai who was in the middle of laughing wildly.

「Hahaha! ……Send defensive magic on me!!」

However, Ikousai yelled like that.

The Red Nopperabou swiftly responded.

Red Nopperabou――they were nothing more than a terminal in a network that was centered on Fu Xi. Even now they obeyed the command that was programmed in them by Fu Xi and semi-automatically performed group magic battle against Japan’s Knight Order.

Several of those nopperabou obeyed the new command from Ikousai, they halted their battle over there and sent defensive magic to Ikousai.

Defensive magic of matched element from several people enveloped Ikousai’s body. That element was cold which directly opposed the heat magic that Kazuki unleashed. It wasn’t a coincidence, it was what Ikousai chose. In the blink of an eye, a thick ice wall was standing up in front of Ikousai.

The ice wall was increasing in thickness. The solar flare was melting that. Torrents of reflected light due to the flame and ice burst out in the middle. Kazuki and Ikousai glared at each other within less than half a second.

……She is seizing the nopperabou. She is already skilled in using the power of heaven’s decree!

『Imitation Flare』 used up all of its strength and vanished. Even though Kazuki managed to discard the chanting time but there was a limit in how much magic power he could pour all at once. A magic at the level of 『Imitation Flare』 couldn’t be fired consecutively without waiting time.

Ikousai grinned at the other side of the ice wall that couldn’t be melted.

「……I see, I can control the nopperabou as though they are my own limbs. It feels like I have several hundred arms and legs. My head will burst if I normally move them one by one, but looks like I can move them instinctively using simple orders and images. ……And then」

Ikousai picked up 『Kyuuryuu Shinkatou』 that fell on the ground. That sacred treasure had still not disappeared because its magic power source had changed to Ikousai. When Ikousai gripped it tightly, its shape was tinged with Susanoo’s magic power and it warped in a transformation.

「It’s an interesting coincidence that Dragon of Heaven’s Decree can use sword magic. This sword is meant to be used, not by this little girl, but by this me……if it’s you, my rival, then you understand, right!?」

It’s annoying to be seen as a rival by you but, I get it…….

「Everyone, defensive magic against flame attack!」

Kazuki yelled driven by a maximum sense of danger.

The fires of war that continuously burned the land of China throughout history, it was compressed into a single blade of a Chinese sword, Kyuuryuu Shinkatou. That shape was changing into a bizarre ancient sword that was divided into eight branches.

――The shape of Susanoo’s beloved sword 『Ama no Habakiri』.

The flame of China resided inside Ama no Habakiri, accomplishing a fusion right here!

Moreover, the sword skill of Fu Xi and Ikousai were on different levels!!

「The phrase giving a metal rod to an ogre is exactly referring to this! ……{{furigana|Tokka Orochi no Shinkatou|Sacred Flame Sword of Ten Snake Bundle}}!」

The ice wall vanished. With that as the signal Ikousai swung that bizarre sword.

That swing was far sharper compared to Fu Xi’s sword swing――it was equally sharp as Kazuki or Kanae’s slash.

Raging flames were gushed out with the swings of Kyuuryuu Shinkatou, but was sword skill expertise unrelated with that effect? ……No, there was no such thing! The power of heaven’s decree responded to the sharpness of Ikousai’s sword flash! The flames were thinned down and compressed into high temperature responding to that sharpness, increasing its fury by several times!

「O rejection of absolute zero, become solitude armor that protect my body! Freeze Barrier!」

Kazuki invoked defensive magic of cold in front of the approaching flame slash. In addition it didn’t stop solely with that single magic, 「Freeze Barrier!」「Freeze Barrier!」, he poured magic power into Zekorbeni and consecutively invoked the magic to form overlapping layers.

「O blizzard of my chest, please shake off the person closing to him……Blizzard Barrier!!」

Koyuki also overlapped a magic of the same type that had been strengthened by her turning into a Chouki magician.

A blizzard was compressing down around Kazuki.

「Emblem in hand, true word in mouth, acceptance in soul……ancient defense of dharma that remove the disaster right here……{{furigana|Onkiri Kakusowaka|Polluting Curse Removal}}!」

Karin also added her defensive magic. Wind of true word that possessed the power to repel disaster was mixing into the winds of the blizzard.

The wind slash of flame of Ikousai struck there. Winds neutralized each other and scattered, and Kazuki staggered from the impact. He couldn’t defend from the attack fully even after going this far.

Without any delay Kazuki unleashed the power of Yasakani no Magatama.

「Shut and seal, ! Kaicho Kaimon――Yamon Shibari!!」<ref>Untie the string and liberate the soul――Eight Gate Binding</ref>

One of the three sacred treasures that was wreathed on his right wrist untied itself as though it had its own will and launched off like a snake flying in the air toward Ikousai. That string of light wrapped over and over on Ikousai’s right hand that was holding the sword and bound her movement.

Ikousai’s movement that was going to slash back Tokka Orochi Shinkatou’s blade stopped for a moment.

「Lend me your strength, Joyeux!!」

Kazuki swung the sword that was entrusted to him from Lancelot with his left hand and struck away Ikousai’s sword. Ikousai whose movement was sealed, on top of that her sword was struck had her posture crumble.

At the same time, Kazuki raised Ame no Murakumo in his right hand. There,

「Burn to ash everything that you touch……with the embrace of a flame without any place to go! Self Burning Embrace!!」

Mio matched her timing from afar and wrapped Kazuki’s whole body with flame. Kazuki quickly concentrated that flame onto his blade using Psychokinesis and turned a defensive magic for attack. It was a polished combination between him and Mio that the two of them were the most familiar with.

Kazuki’s flame blade carved Ikousai.

When Kazuki reversed Joyeux’s blade to add more attack, it was almost at the same time when Ikousai tore off the binding of Yasakani no Magatama.

Kazuki clicked his tongue inside his heart, while giving up adding more attacks with Joyeux. Before Tokka Orochi Shinkatou’s blade could gush out terrific flames once more, he clashed Joyeux against it and brought the fight into a sword locking contest. If the sword couldn’t be swung then it couldn’t create flames. Kazuki restrained the sword using Joyeux while he tried swinging Ame no Murakumo in his right hand.

……But, the pressure was heavy! He couldn’t restrain the sword with just one hand!

Kazuki stepped back in panic.

He quickly crouched his body, and then Tokka Orochi Shinkatou’s flame slash passed through just at a hair’s breadth above his head.

「Fufufu, I have become even stronger.」

Ikousai spoke with a tone that sounded like she was drunk at Kazuki’s attack.

「I also feel even more strength from you……. Each time we fight, both of us are mutually becoming stronger. That is exactly what is called a rival.」

「I don’t want to hear that from the person with more losses than wins. You are just going to continue until you win huh……」

「I’m not going to allow you to quit while you’re ahead just so you know! Hahahahaha!!」

Ikousai didn’t mind at all with Kazuki’s banter. Ikousai laughed with the conviction that she was in the superior position.

「Shit-」

……It wasn’t like Kazuki hated fighting Ikousai. He also didn’t hate to be considered as a rival by her. He even felt admiration that Ikousai powered up by taking up a chance that appeared only within an instant.

But, even so, he wished that she didn’t stand on his way at this kind of timing!

She was a stalker that stood on his way at the worst timing with absurd strength.

She was the strongest stalker in history of all stalkers.

He couldn’t take her on honestly from the front. However, Japan’s Knight Order was still locked in a magic battle against China’s Red Nopperabou even now. It was also not a situation where he could obtain cooperation from Britain or Germany. ……He guessed that they were in a battle against Russia.

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There was no external factor that he could use. There was no room where he could figure out a scheme in his tactic.

Was there no other way then to resign himself and fight her like this from the front?

However, in the end could he win……?

When he thought that, something shuddering ran through Kazuki’s instinct as a swordsman.

As expected, before Kazuki was a King he was a swordsman.

Shit, she is an enormous noisy annoyance but……I’ll keep her company! Kazuki was self-aware with this strange happiness while he took the stance of two-sword style.

But at that time, a beastly howl resounded.

「YOU BASTAAAARRRRDDDDDD! UNFORGIVABLEEEEEEEEEEE!!」

Kazuki and Ikousai simultaneously jumped away from each other.

Pure white flash was swung down at the place where both of them were standing at and the ground was deeply gouged.

The true identity of the pure white flash, was a giant blade.

It was a great soul of martial art that wasn’t inferior even against Kazuki and Ikousai――{{furigana|Seiryuu Engettou|Green Dragon Crescent Blade}}.

Kazuki and Ikousai turned their heads to the side to follow the handle from the blade.

There they saw the contractor of Guan Yu who was turned into a Red Nopperabou.

A nopperabou whose free will was stolen, even though she had no mouth but how did she yell just now?

Kazuki and Ikousai gulped. The smooth face of nopperabou of Guan Yu’s contractor had undulation surfacing on it in the blink of an eye, as though the seal was being undone, eyes, nose, and mouth were created! The face’s color was still bright red――however that color was because of rage.

「<u>Unforgivable……unforgivable! That power……is Fu Xi-sama’s streeeeeenght!!</u>」

「She recovered the ego that she should have lost, with her loyalty to her true master!? Hahahaha!」

Ikousai laughed like a child.

「Are you saying that you won’t be lead astray by this me! Interesting! I too felt my heart dance by the Annals of the Three Kingdoms when I was a child!! 『Guan Yu won’t serve two lords』, that is exactly Guan Yu! That is exactly the hero of China!!」

「<u>That strength, RETURN ITTTTTTTTTTTTT!!</u>」

The contractor of Guan Yu was turning into a giant billowingly like a cumulonimbus cloud.

「Hahahah! Tenro Kaidan!!」

Seiryuu Engettou that was swung around by the giant as though she was trying to cleave even the sky and earth was evaded like a monkey by the laughing Ikousai.

But as though to send flying the jumping around Ikousai from the side, another huge something was flying. To this Ikousai raised a rough voice 「Uwah!」 in panic.

What came flying at her was a staff. And then a familiar voice rang.

「Yai yai yai, this ain’t a joke yeah! You dare make light of us! For someone like you bitch to hold the heaven’s decree of China, this me and Son Goku won’t allow it!!」

The contractor of Son Goku, Son Shouryuu was also recovering his ego with his whole face dyed bright red in rage.

「Who the hell is going to listen to what you say bitch huuuuuh!」

Not only those two. With those two as the beginning, one after another people who recovered their eyes, nose, and mouth were starting to appear one after another. They directed bright red fury straight to Ikousai and attacked!

「Ahahahaha, the heroes of China, every last one of you don’t disappoint! Fine then, as an usurper I’ll take responsibility and savor the delicacy of China altogether!!」

The angry knights violently launched their magic and martial arts like a storm of fury. Amidst that, Ikousai who had the Dragon of Heaven’s Decree residing inside her was laughing wildly while dancing. Her body was light, and her blows were heavy. Ikousai was beautifully turning the table on them. However the knights of China strongly stood up persistently no matter how overwhelming the power that was displayed to them was.

Kazuki witnessed that situation and grasped the circumstances once more. The Nopperabou that betrayed Ikousai was only around thirty percent of the whole. The rest was continuing to fight Japan’s Knight Order. But because of the decrease in their fighting strength, the Red Nopperabou were gradually falling into disadvantage, their formation was starting to unravel.

Could he cooperate with Son Shouryuu and the others in this place to finish off Ikousai……?

He was beginning to think like that, however he immediately understood that it wasn’t possible. When Kazuki tried to approach them by a step, the knights of China would direct bloodshot eyes and magic power towards Kazuki too.

The hostility that told him to not be a nuisance was transmitted. Possibly they would rampage indiscriminately if he dared to interfere.

If he approached carelessly, it would become a chaotic battle where there would be no distinction of ally and enemy.

「Everyone, let’s retreat!」

Like a sportsman Kazuki looked up at his comrades and yelled.

He didn’t just yell that but also used telepathy to broadcast it toward the Chouki magicians that were divided at each unit, allowing Kazuki to permeate his order to the whole Knight Order instantly.

While the rampaging China’s knights were fighting Ikousai, their side would hold their advantage against the remaining seventy percent Nopperabou so they could calmly retreat.

Like a current that was calmly pulling back to the sea, Japan’s Knight Order was continuing to fight back while also withdrawing.

Ikousai went 「Ah!?」 while fighting.

「Kazuki, you want to run away huh!」

「Ridiculous, you think I can keep you company like that!!」

「Tha……that way of speaking is too cruel! Do you know with what kind of feeling I came here!?」

「Who cares! Read the mood idiot!! I’m pulling back!!」

Beside him Kanae was in a daze. 「……It’s rare for Nii-sama to be this badmouthed.」

「Shit-! Hmph, I’ll let you run away for now! But, if you lose to someone else than me by some kind of mistake then I absolutely won’t forgive you!!」

「If you are aiming to be the strongest then there is no need at all to be fixated on me you know!」

「Don’t say something stupid! There is no one stronger than you other than me! Absolutely don’t lose okay―!」

Kazuki was receiving an incomprehensible cheering yell from Ikousai while he was overseeing his comrades drawing back. They were getting farther from the terrific surge of magic power at the other side of the magic power cloud.

「Just what’s with that girl……」

But there wasn’t even a time to sigh in relieve.

『――Kazuki-oniisan!!』

Lotte’s voice resounded inside Kazuki’s head.

Lotte was together with Miyabi-senpai and Yumeno-san in reinforcing their allied country Britain. That was because Britain who was weak in mind magic would need the support of Miyabi-senpai and Yumeno-san in a battle against the enemy army that possessed Nyarlathotep among them. Lotte who could use telepathy because of her positivity level held the communication role.

However it was a seed of anxiety for him that they were at a place where his eyes didn’t reach.

Had something happened?

『Kazuki-oniisan……Miyabi-oneesan and Yumeno-oneesan are!』

『Had something happened to them!?』

Kazuki demanded an answer while feeling something seething inside his head for a moment.