Apocalypse Witch: To the Strongests of an Age of Plenty
Episode 26's

It all depends on this.

Anastasia had become a yellow and black colored spear determined to pierce through the earth, but then a puzzled look of face appeared on her. The time had come, but it was much different than he had expected.

There's someone in front of him.

"Aiine."

The sound of the ear blaring. The prepared barrier means nothing. The sound sounded like a crystal colliding with another crystal, but the meaning was the sound of impact not damage.

In other words, his attack had been stopped.

Crystal Girl Aine had moved in front of Karuta with her clean white clothes fluttering. He held a transparent modified katana in both hands. Instead of being broken or shattered, the sword managed to stop the maximum speed of the yellow and black Anastasia Blast's attack from the sky.

“What!?”

“We came so far carrying the load of 700 people Grimnoah on our shoulders.”

An ominous whooshing sound was still heard, but this was not over yet. He didn't faint. The target before Anastasia's eyes would not die. Karuta gives a roar while the crystal girl protects him.

“You have every civilization that has ever been destroyed? You have 1056 kinds of havoc? Who cares!? We can handle it without effort!! So what if you had ice ages, floods, eruptions, and even man-made atrocities and wars? It may have been too much in the era before the incident, but that rule no longer applies.”

They stared at each other sharply.

As long as he realized such a simple thing, he could stand on the same level as the strongest in that world that held all kinds of destruction.

"Don't underestimate Magic Crystals. Maybe no one else has ever managed to conquer that wall, but we are different !!"

"Have you forgotten? The destroyed civilization included a school that taught Crystal Magic."

"So you think you can destroy us if you send all five Troubleshooting to fight us? We have defeated four of you!"

People become stronger as they diligently work toward their desired goals.

They can gain the power to overcome the kind of calamity that was once certain to be an inevitable ruin for them.

"So we'll get over this! The destruction of all past civilizations is just an obstacle that we have to cross here!! We have to show you that we have changed, that the older eras are things that have passed, he said, and that we have conquered those things so that you can rest in peace!!"

It is not associated with high and low pressure systems.

This was not the same as using brute strength to grapple with monsters that could create as many cyclone storms as he wanted.

They must figure out how to control a magic user named Anastasia Blast who can be seen as the strongest form of doom in the world. It doesn't matter if it's a cumulonimbus cloud or a bomb cyclone. People have used horoscope charts and calendars to learn the rules necessary to bring disaster to their side. They have learned to store water, farm, sail the seas, and much more. They can't stop just because they don't understand something. They must conquer it.

They had to attack Anastasia Blast and tie her to the rules governing her that even she was unaware of!!

“Man is not a dinosaur that suffered destruction and extinction. We will not just tremble in fear! No matter how stupid, bad, or weak, we know how to learn from mistakes and overcome them!! So we will not let our defeat be the end. Whatever you bring to that ship is a sure destruction, but that is why we must keep fighting so as not to end there!!”

"Kh."

They finally managed to fight.

The sound of evil depicting that childish nature was finally wheezing.

"We can learn from tragedy. Pain drives us to get something bigger in return! The greater the calamity you place before us, the stronger we will grow. From the moment you failed to kill us with your first strike at that school, a small snowball had started rolling down the hill. You can try to stop him now, but we have grown far beyond your expectations!!! So much so that this will not end with the simple revenge we planned at first. !!!!!!"

A crackling sound rang out, but not from Crystal Girl Aine. The voice came from Anastasia who should still be lunging forward.

"Yes, that's right. I want to save everyone, even if I know it's impossible!" Raung the boy. He chanted it directly at the strongest enemy known as the Solution Seeker and one of the strongest in the world. "And not just Gekiha and other crystallized students and teachers. I want to save Marika who is very excited when she sees hope and by the thought of revenge. I want to protect the smile of the Student Council President!"

He knew revenge was the right thing to do, yet there was something that did not make him feel at ease.

He felt strange, but was content when he almost threw away his life to save the ordinary people who participated in the protests in London.

If that was what he really was, then it must have been the driving force that took him so far against Problem Solvers!!

"I want to tell them to stop polluting their hands with revenge!! I want to tell them not to forget who they are in that happy school!! So, I took on as much of that burden as possible to prevent them from stepping over the boundary of the no return point! That might sound like a silly joke to you guys we killed, but I risked my life for it!!!!!!"

All he knew next, sweat soaked his face.

On his face was etched a smile as he uttered his heart.

"Maybe it's true."

However, the strongest in the world remained the strongest until the end.

"But that equation only applies to you; it doesn't apply to the Crystal Blossom which is entirely separate and has no civilization of its own."

"!!!???"

The cracks quickly shifted towards the translucent Aine katana. Those cracks spread through his pale hands and arms like the spread of pressure.

If he was destroyed, Karuta would be powerless.

Then he could not dodge Anastasia's attack, but he doubted Aine could push Anastasia back even if she gave the order now.

What does he need to end this revenge?

He thought about it, came to a conclusion, and raised his voice.

"Come back to me, Aine!!"

Both Anastasia and Aine looked surprised.

Then Aine fell backwards. He slipped into the boy's stomach.

It was clear what would happen once the walls, dams and plugs were removed.

Maximum speed charging is complete.

Anastasia's arm, the yellow and black armor that surrounded her, and the long claw-like object that protruded out from there pierced the side of the boy's body. That single attack was enough to break through the spatial vibration field of his weak protector. He fell down and coughed and bled.

"Bh."

And then Anastasia realized something.

The touch feedback from the punch sent a strange vibration to his spine that was finally successfully pronounced by his brain.

(I miss... her vital organs?)

Those were the words that came to his mind, but his knowledge rejected them. He attacked his vital organs. He has been following a muscle memory that allows him to do just that with his eyes closed. But Utagai Karuta is not dead. There was life in his eyes.

He heard a crack.

He thought it might be the crystal that enveloped him to heal the wound he had just made.

(No, did he intentionally injure himself to produce crystals inside his body that lifted up his organs!? He forcibly rearranged the inside of his own body!?)

"Gh, uh."

Either an attack of Anastasia or the heavy burden she carried herself caused her to cough up large amounts of blood.

But he's smiling.

The boy smiled broadly.

He gathered his strength.

He grabbed Anastasia's outstretched right arm with both hands and gave the order accompanied with more blood.

"Come, Aine!!!!!!"

Yes, as long as the Crystal Blossom is inactive, the invisibility armor will not receive any damage. As long as he was ready to take the blow himself, he could keep his trump card in a completely safe place.

So he had hidden his ultimate weapon inside his body.

He had hidden it and pulled it back.

All of that was so that he could behead Anastasia Blast at that very instant.

"!!!???"

The eyes of the strongest person in this world were wide open.

Perhaps for the first time in his life, he looked like his throat was dry.

It was the same expression that the Problem Solvers carved on the faces of everyone in the Ocean Crystal Magic Academy.

In other words, an expression of fear and terror.

And.

And.

And.

In the few immovable seconds forced upon him by punching his target's stomach, the boy's double-bodied back moved.

Her purple blazer was pulled up.

The slender top of the angel of death with pale and pale skin poked out. He held a katana made of cold materials such as crystals and a short laser weapon that branched out like a jitte. With her target within firing range, the white-clothed crystal girl moved as accurately as clockwork.

There's no sound.

But the slash went into the woman's shoulder and cut diagonally down from there.