High School Hack and Slash Chapter 70 Part 3
「Kkeaaa!」
Closing in on her head-on, I drive my held up left blow into her.
The deployed mandala formation (Dingil Meram) scatters phosphorescence, visualizing a separator between me and the goddess.
The Holy Brilliance (Dingil Meram), which can be confirmed through the Interface, is five layered.
Of the maximum of seven Divine Gears, two must have been lent to 『Huwawa』 and 『Sacred Beast-senpai』.
The strength is not exceptional, but it seems to be an automatically deployable reactive armor that can regenerate at super speed.
Most likely it cancels out any kind of force, reducing it to zero and destroying itself.
Instant anti-one-shot absolute defense armor.
I think that’s the characteristic of this magic item.
Most troubling of all is its super-fast regeneration ability.
Last time, I got too heated up and wound up becoming obsessed with destroying the Divine Gears until I ran out of steam.
I can tell that the goddess – who is laughing at the creaking, clashing stone fists and the field from beyond it – has flipped the switch from the pleasures of the flesh to the pleasures of strife.
「The god Ishtar is said to be an ancient goddess of many different divinities. However, her root is ultimately that of an 『Uninhibited Whore』 …. Much less to say, now that she has lost much of her divinity (skill), she should not be able to muster the power of the God of War!」
As expected, it seems that Shizuka can make more effective use of the Interface than me.
*Grin* The goddess, with the corners of her mouth moving up, holds out her fingertip.
「לְהִשְׁתַחֲווֹת」
Suddenly, I’m seized by an invisible weight, as if I were being held down from the sky.
The cobblestones of the shrine beneath my feet crack.
「Tou…」
「Stay away from me!」
Using my words of warning to Shizuka, who fortunately seems to be out of range, as the trigger words, I awaken 『Stressor Armor』.
No, perhaps it’s a single target gravity attack to begin with.
Using the armor’s reverse gravity effect, I resist the force that binds me, which seems to be telling me to prostrate myself.
As if dragging myself, I take a step, and then another step forward.
The Goddess, completely underestimating me, looks down at me with an arrogant smile.
It is not the eyes of someone looking at an enemy, but the cold eyes of someone looking at a pig in a pig farm.
「Kaaah!」
Lifting my left hand, which seems to have ended up turning from stone to lead, I struck a blow with all my might.
One piece of Holy Brilliance (Dingil Meram), which is shattered with a snap, is reconstituted in an instant.
As expected, it’s a repeat of the last time.
No matter how much power I put into it, it would end up being canceled out and negated.
It’s vexing, but I guess I won’t be able to break through this Divine Gear armor with my power.
Yes, if it’s just my power.
I thrust my right fist at the goddess, whose face is distorted by the pleasure of the overwhelmingly strong.
I press the hand-guard heavy armor (shield gauntlet) against the barrier of Holy Brilliance (Dingil Meram) that is deployed at a measured maai.
「… Don’t underestimate humans. Whore (Babylon).」
Clenching my petrified right hand, I release the seal (safety lock) on the hand-guard heavy armor (shield gauntlet).
Raising a clanking sound, the shield part of the casket splits to both sides.
On the core inside, a forged and honed, hard, sharp, shiny black iron pile is set.
A masterpiece that incorporates a pile bunker mechanism into the hand-guard heavy armor (shield gauntlet) that was in the process of being created.
This is the battle mode of the Mechanical Armament (Gimmick Arms) 『Gaki Lord War Casket (Over-Greed Gear)』, the new form of the Gaki Lord Metal Rod (Over-greed Gear) that Mikan-senpai reforged.
The cylindrical seven-row cartridge rotates and excites the metal fiber (bio metal) muscles that are the interlocking gimmick.
「Blast it out! Over-Greed Geaaarrrr!!」
Hot power is surging into the fist of my right hand.
The recoil, which threatens to blow off even my shoulder, is a chain bombardment of the seven-sequential cylinder cartridges, catapult-shot by the metal fiber muscles connected to a crossbow-shaped iron pile.
The power source boost used to fire the pile bunker is the flame and wind elemental crystals enclosed in the cylinder cartridges.
Making the two types of elemental crystals react and explode in the chamber, it’s utilized as the firing power.
A flashy muzzle flash spews out the explosive flame from the butt of the shield.
The chain timing through the sequential cartridges is almost zero interval.
It’s an armament designed to destroy seven Divine Gears simultaneously.
Much less to say, it’s more than enough to penetrate the Holy Brilliance (Dingil Meram) which is deployed only in five layers.
「…?」
The god Ishtar, who has forfeited her name, looks down at the pile bunker that is penetrating her solar plexus all the way to her back with eyes of someone looking at something they don’t understand.
Literally zero distance.
Pushing down the goddess, who opens her mouth wide and is about to let out a scream, I nail her to the ground.
It seems that when you’re in the state of contact, the Holy Brilliance (Dingil Meram) doesn’t work.
「…! …! …!?」
The pile that pierces the goddess is in a position that breaks her airway.
As is, I’m not going to let her get away.
No matter how beautiful of a woman figure she has, there is no mercy for a wretch who deserves death.
Straddling her in a mounting position, I lock her with my legs.
Purging the Gaki Lord War Pile Casket (Over-Greed Gear) sewn to the ground, I swing both of my freed hands.
「Kaaaaaa!!」
Whether the countdown will end first, or I’ll knock you down first.
Now, let the sanction begin.
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「… It was a total splatter, wasn’t it?」
Shizuka, with eyes of someone looking into a faraway place, quietly mutters as such.
How should I put it, a red carpet is spread across the cracked altar.
The self-regeneration ability of the god or whatever she was called was amazing.
「I think it was a fitting end for an uncouth, pathetic whore. To proclaim herself a god without giving any regards to Touma-san, there’s a limit of how presumptuous she could be.」
「No, that logic is not right.」
Well, I may not look the part, but I’m a sexist abolitionist (feminist).
When it comes to enemies, I recognize the 『equal right to be smashed』 without discriminating between men and women.
I think being considerate of them or giving them special treatment just because they are woman would be a discrimination.
Free and equal rights also mean that you have to pay the due of your own mistakes.
「Kaoru-chan, Kaoru-chan!
Unlike me, who has only dyed one part of the shrine a little red, Doggy-senpai and the others’ large monster battle has splendidly destroyed the surrounding area.
With the stone pillars and the likes having been mowed down, the view has become very clear.
I think it was probably Doggy-senpai, but in the middle of the crater that had been created as she spat out some kind of beam from her mouth, the small Doggy-san who has returned to normal is flailing about in a fluster.
It seems that at the same time as I finished off the goddess, Kaoru-senpai, who had turned into a lion monster, also returned to normal.
At the same time, the hostility, or rather the pressure that had filled the dungeon has also vanished.
It feels like it has returned to being a normal dungeon again.
「Ah~, senpai, senpai. You’re shaking him so much that his head might come off, though.」
「Kaoru-chan is just a sleepyhead. Open your eyes and get up at once. Otherwise…. Otherwise.」
Straddling Kaoru-senpai on top of him, Doggy-senpai bends down on the face.
From the onlooker’s point of view, the scene is of a small wolf trying to assist feeding Muscle Guy-san, who is completely naked.
「… What a face you’ve got there. No matter the time, a girl must never forget to smile, you know? Asura-chan….」
「Ka, Kaoru-chan…. Ah, ah…. Uaaaan!」
As his hand is gently stretched toward her face, Doggy-senpai, tail puffed out, hugs him and ends up bursting into tears.
「Geez, good graciousness it is.」
Crawling out of the crater, Seiichi pats his dusty uniform.
It seems that he was desperately running around trying to escape from the kaiju battle that threatened to turn him into a splatter if he were to get stepped on.
「No, it wasn’t a battle I could physically handle, was it….」
「All’s well that ends well.」
We exchange high fives simultaneously.
The sense of friendship that is being understood feels nice.
Shizuka-san is breathing roughly as she makes her student notebook flash, taking SS photos.
「Looks like the petrification has been undone. I just hope the Black Honey members are also safely revived.」
「Rather, I get the feeling that the logout time has already passed, but….」
Come to think of it, in what way are ordinary people notified, I wonder?
In my case, a countdown display pops up in the Interface.
Well, how should I put it, it ends up overflowing, though.
I wonder if it’s buggy again.
「Well, for the time being, let’s go back to the base and meet up with everyone. I’m worried about the others, after all.」
Rather than worried, I get the feeling that everyone would be laughing boisterously on top of the prey they have vanquished.
I look back at the shrine, which has been mowed down and reduced to ruins.
The meaningless decorations, the buildings, and the orchestra of stone statues have all been smashed and turned into trash.
That’s just fine, so I thought.
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