The Absolute Godspeed of Infinite Worlds

"Saijou?"

Kanata's brows lifted slightly, but her face quickly tensed.

"Watch out—!"

Boom!

The massive zanbatou sword came crashing down.

The unimaginable force shattered the ground instantly, the rocky earth splitting with cracks like leaf veins, as if blasted by a huge amount of TNT.

Eiji sidestepped easily, dodging Ikazuchi Saijou's attack.

"That guy's way too underhanded!"

Kanata was furious.

Not only had he controlled his own comrade, but he had them pretend nothing was happening to sneak attack them.

With a thought, countless invisible specks of light gathered, wrapping around Saijou's whole body.

Saijou's ability was similar to Tomaru Renren's.

But while Renren's power accumulates speed, his power accumulates weight—swinging his zanbatou sword repeatedly lets him build up terrifying weight, reaching a limit of ten tons.

However, abilities that accumulate like this share a common weakness: once accumulation stops, the effect instantly vanishes, and he's back to zero—both twice the speed of sound and the ten-ton weight disappear.

Saijou, who had concentrated all his accumulated power into a single strike, had now lost the strength to resist and was trapped by Kanata's blade fragments coiling around his head.

"I can feel the sensation of cutting…"

Kanata said thoughtfully.

"Ughah…!"

Saijou suddenly gagged.

His face filled with horror and confusion, sweat pouring down his forehead.

Then he slapped his body, came to his senses, and looked surprised.

"I… I've recovered?"

"Did you cut the threads?"

Eiji suddenly understood.

"The threads of magical power can only be broken by an attack containing magic as well. If you coat the blade fragments with magic, it's easy to sever the threads controlling Saijou."

Kanata explained grimly to Eiji.

And since controlling others requires the threads to enter sensory openings like ears or nose, weakening the opponent and slashing near those areas naturally cuts the magic threads.

Though Saijou was freed from control, the fierce winds around them hadn't stopped. Renren kept running around without a hint of stopping.

"So the second control node must be her," Eiji concluded thoughtfully.

"Most likely," Kanata nodded gravely.

"But Renren's speed is extremely fast. Once she stacks her speed to the limit, if she doesn't want to fight, no one can hold her back."

Because the tournament rules required a clear winner and the arena was small, Renren lost to Kanata and Touka in the competition.

If she focused solely on evading, not even Touka could catch her.

"What a pity, no chance to see comrades tear each other apart!"

Renren's voice came from all around as she circled them at such a speed that her figure was nearly a ring of afterimages, her regret audible through the rushing wind.

"You bastard, what exactly is your goal?"

Kanata's sharp eyes widened, her face full of murderous intent as she glared at the enemy.

"Goal? Nothing special!"

Her voice dripped with sarcasm.

"If I had to say, it's just reciprocating a favor to a colleague. They asked me for help, and a caring person like me can't say no!"

"Watch out, I'm going to give this little girl my full power now. Hope you're ready—heeheehee!"

No sooner had she finished speaking than the surrounding gusts suddenly intensified, and the number of afterimages around them surged.

"W-What…? The speed's increased again?"

The violent winds blew straight into Kanata's face, forcing her to shield her eyes.

A storm this strong could probably whip up a sandstorm if it were in the desert!

"Wasn't her limit supposed to be twice the speed of sound?"

Eiji squinted against the fierce particles flying in the air.

Clearly, Renren's speed had skyrocketed again, far surpassing the limit she had shown before.

"Judging by the feeling, if she was twice the speed of sound before, now she's probably close to three times the speed of sound—and still accelerating!"

At this speed, not just Kanata, even Touka wouldn't be able to stop her!

"It should be twice the speed of sound though...!"

Kanata was completely bewildered, silently grinding her teeth.

"Is this what it means to 'use full power'?"

She's even surpassed a limit that Kanata herself hasn't reached? How could there be such a terrifying opponent?

"Look over there!"

Saijou's shocked voice reached their ears.

Following his pointing finger, both of them focused their gaze.

On the ground where Renren ran in circles, there was a long trail of blood. Judging by the scale, she must be bleeding heavily now!

"This is…"

Eiji instantly recalled a very familiar phenomenon when he saw her abnormal speed.

"Breaking survival instincts!"

Exactly.

Just like Ikki's Ittou Shura, Renren at this moment had overridden her own survival instinct, allowing her to continuously break through her own limits!

But she shouldn't have trained for something like this—

"Could it be possible, under control of the brain, to do even that?"

Kanata and Saijou immediately understood the implication in his words, and both felt a chill down their spines.

The Puppet Master had taken over Renren's brain, controlling her actions like a puppet.

But by ravaging her brain, overstimulating her neural field, forcing her to push her Blazer ability beyond its limit—that way, she could surpass her own boundaries!

However, such reckless ravaging would inevitably cause Renren severe damage! One misstep could easily turn her into a vegetable.

If there were no restraints—

"That bastard!"

The usually graceful Kanata finally cursed out loud.

This guy wasn't just a terrorist anymore; he was insane! Pure evil itself!

"Kanata, get down first."

Eiji bent slightly, carefully placing Kanata down from his back.

"Take care of yourself."

"What are you going to do?"

Kanata looked at him in shock after getting down.

"With your magic power, you can't handle such a fast enemy!"

Her abilities were useless right now.

With the hurricane howling, her blade fragments couldn't even get close to Renren, let alone make use of their 30-meter attack range.

Eiji's magic was very limited. According to academy forums, it was impossible to catch such speed.

"We'll have to try to find out."

Eiji shook his head with resolve.

"If we just watch, she'll die, right?"

At least triple the speed of sound, and still accelerating.

He'd never experienced speed like this before.

Could he really pull it off? Could he handle it? He wasn't sure himself.

But now, he had no choice.

Kanata and Saijou couldn't stop Renren now. If Eiji didn't act, she would definitely die!

"Set running speed to surpass Renren. Set self-transformation speed to surpass innate Spirit Armor!"

Fortunately, he had just learned a new technique—

An evolution granted after acquiring a Type-Moon clone. That version of himself had already confirmed it in the battle with Oil of the Moon.

Rumble rumble rumble——————!!

A massive shockwave roared up!

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