Free The Destruction of the World by Fire by Shiden Kanzaki Page B

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    Just as Rentaro thought he saw Tamaki’s body twitch, Tamaki put both hands on the ground to push his face off the floor and drew near Rentaro with an expression of rage. “Bastard! You were seriously trying to kill me with that last hit, weren’t you? If it hadn’t been me, I woulda died, ya know!”
    “What, you’re alive?” drawled Rentaro.
    “Is that bad?”
    Even as he cracked jokes, Rentaro was astonished at Tamaki’s combat abilities. He couldn’t believe he was forced to use his cartridge in public.
    Tamaki Katagiri—putting his low speech and strange actions aside, Rentaro definitely wanted him in his adjuvant.
    “Hey, kid, the girls’ fight looks like it’ll be settled soon, too.”
    Following Tamaki’s gaze, he saw that Tina and Yuzuki’s match was also reaching its climax. Using the high-speed maneuvers characteristic of Initiators, Yuzuki tried to dazzle Tina as she flew,freely turning as she pleased. In contrast, Tina took the stance of an ancient martial arts master and closed her eyes, not moving a muscle. Not paying any attention to Yuzuki’s feints, Tina precisely dodged only the real attacks that occasionally came.
    Rentaro soon noticed the trick of how Tina evaded the attacks. Shenfield, which was spinning as it traced an equilateral triangle above her head, was busily responding to Yuzuki’s high-speed maneuvers with its camera eye. Even with Yuzuki’s speed, three Shenfields locked onto her at the same time made it impossible for her to lose them. Meanwhile, Tina could read Yuzuki’s location coordinates that Shenfield was sending to her wirelessly, and so dodge her attacks with the least amount of movement necessary.
    With that, it was like she had eyes in all directions. No wonder she was able to defeat the Initiator with specialized leg strength, Enju Aihara. It could be said that the godlike Initiator formerly ranked 98th was living up to her reputation.
    “Huh, the fight’s over,” announced Tamaki, grinning mischievously with his arms crossed as he stood next to Rentaro.
    “Tina’s going to win, right?” Rentaro huffed.
    “Idiot. Look at this.”
    Rentaro let out a cry as he looked at the amber world through the cracked sunglasses Tamaki handed him. A vast number of threads were hung throughout the girls’ battlefield. Tina had been forced so far into the middle of the spider web that she barely had room to move. Yuzuki had not been flying around randomly. Every time she kicked the ground or jumped about on the wall, she was expanding her territory, definitely chasing Tina into a corner.
    This was bad.
    Yuzuki seemed to think the time was ripe and made an enormous leap into the air, sticking to the ceiling of the gymnasium that was probably twenty meters high. A spiderweb immediately formed at her feet, and, hanging upside down, she looked down at Tina and yelled, “Hey, you! You’ve realized what my ability is bynow, right? Surrender. You have no chance of winning. Because if you just move your neck a little, you’ll be caught in my net.”
    Looking at Tina holding her stance soundlessly with her eyes closed, Yuzuki revealed her annoyance for the first time. “I see… Then don’t blame me if you get hurt.” Yuzuki’s voice turned cold, and she bent her knees, storing up as much spring as she could. She was filled with a thirst for blood.
    Yuzuki kicked off the ceiling with an explosive sound that made the building tremble. A cannon fast–drop attack using the physical strength of an Initiator with the addition of the acceleration of gravity was heading straight for Tina.
    Instantly, Tina opened a piercing eye and waved the black glove on her right hand. She stuck her left forefinger and middle finger into the metal rings on the glove on her right hand and pulled hard, and threads of some kind came out.
    Piano strings?
Rentaro wondered.
    Tina used her teeth and fingers to form something like a cat’s cradle with the piano strings that had been stored in her