Apocalypse Witch: To the Strongests of an Age of Plenty
Episode 6

Pop pop! Whops!! Pop pop pop!!

Elicia heard small explosions all around her.

He also heard something rustling in the night air, so did they include nails or fishing hooks to make it more deadly? Or do they use shotgun bullets?

"!!"

Much the same.

Elicia "Saurus" Luxverg is one of the Problem Solvers, but she's also a normal human being. If he's shot with a bullet, he'll die. If he gets caught in an explosive explosion, he'll be blown to pieces.

(Did they lure me here? No, I assume that they set explosives around the station walls so they have traps everywhere!!)

He doesn't know which one.

He was the strongest when it came to physical attacks, but he was neither clairvoyant nor a prophet, so he had no way of knowing the number and location of the explosives.

And to repeat it, a single blow could kill him.

One of the strongest figures in the world will be killed in a trap set by several ghosts that he failed to kill.

After they made it through the orange glowing glass wall and re-entered the broadcast station, Karuta finally felt a solid floor under his feet. He uses it to run through the building with Marika and Aine.

"Maybe his body is not as strong as steel and he cannot use the Sihr Crystal, but he always appears in the front line and is always inedible by attacks. Why?"

They could hear small explosions - no, gunshots - even from this distance.

If they did not reach their goal before it was all over, there would really be no tricks left for them.

The answer is simple: for there is no safer place than near his dinosaurs. That was why he stood on stage in front of 700 people in the ship's gym. Its dinosaurs were strong enough to dodge any attack, but it could only protect one direction at a time. Therefore, his biggest concern was if 700 people were scattered and attacked separately. If he was surrounded, there was a chance of an attack through the gap on his dinosaur shield and reaching him. That's why he occupies a position where all the people's views are focused on him from one direction.

so then...

"He can only call one dinosaur. He could not call the second or third with the same mass, nor could he divide one dinosaur into two smaller ones. If he could, he could hide with a protective dinosaur while sending a killer dinosaur attack to the enemy!"

What was Elicia doing now that she was surrounded by explosions on the walls of the building?

Was he not sure which direction to use for his dinosaur shield?

Or the...

"Karuta-kun, be careful. Elicia was acting strangely," OSIS President Kyouka said through the Crystal Blossom vibe as he observed the station's exterior with binoculars. "It is no longer like a dinosaur. Now it looks more like a donut that was destroyed when he forced it to protect her from all directions!"

"That's fine," Karuta said as he ran up the emergency stairs. "We expected him to panic and not know what to do, but at least this prevented him from using the dinosaurs."

They ran through the hallway.

"I just hope he hasn't considered this possibility!"

They arrived at the glass walls that decorated the floor.

Yep.

From the perspective of Elicia "Saurus" Luxverg, they approached from under her feet.

He had dismantled the dinosaurs and spread rusty debris in the form of doughnuts to protect himself from all directions while still keeping a single shape, but that "all directions" were limited to only two dimensions.

Has Elicia forgotten that she uses a glass wall like a floor?

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!"

Karuta's fist managed to pierce through the thick and reinforced glass walls.

"Wha-!?"

This is the first.

His mortal enemy cried out in shock for the first time as he grabbed his ankle and dragged it inside.

He threw it on the floor.

"Byeah!"

The punch on his back knocked him unconscious there.

From there, he must have seen what looked like a demon pulling a stick that could be extended out of his purple blazer pocket.

"Aine, Marika."

The two girls faced the broken windows on both sides. The trash donut quickly took back its shape, but before it could, they used beams fired from their katana or rapier guns to blow up half-finished doughnuts and tear them forcibly from the walls.

After gravity took hold, the dinosaurs fell to the orange surface.

Elicia reached out her hand from the floor, but there was nothing she could do.

“Ah.”

“Can you instantly eliminate that dinosaur and call a new dinosaur? Of course it can't. If you can move it like that effectively, then you don't need to hang by its side to stay in the safe zone on the front line. After becoming a real thing, you are forced to use it.”

“Ah.”

"This is the 104th floor, so how long do you think the elevator will be going up the wall again?"

"Ahhhhhhhhhhh."

"As long as we kill you before that, we win."

I am sorry but this cannot be rewritten properly in Indonesian as it is not a complete paragraph. It appears to be a sound or scream without any context or meaning. Is there a different paragraph you would like me to rewrite in Indonesian?

He swung the first horizontal punch towards Miss Strongest who was clamoring lying on the floor.

When he felt a raw sensation reach his wrist through the weapon, he was sure that Elicia was actually using the God-worshiping Magi.

It has no baffle or regenerating presets of a Crystal Magician.

He can do it now.

After delivering the second and third blows with the stick as a slap back and forth, the stick broke and warped like the letter V. Inside there is a cavity so it is easy to fold, but also very cheap.

"This tool is useless."

"Huf, huf."

He threw it and pulled another weapon out of his pocket.

These are knuckledusters, aka brass knuckles. He stuffed all four fingers of his right hand into the hole, clenched them, and prepared to throw a punch at Elicia Luxverg with a brutal ring on her finger.

"No, wait."

He answered with a loud bang.

But this also did not last long. After sitting on it and throwing a few punches at his face, he heard a strange sound from the base of his index finger. A portion of his finger crystallized and began the healing process for 30 seconds. He must have broken his bones. Although he had a barrier-like spatial vibration field, his strength was weakening.

"Damn it, are you kidding me?"

He threw out the useless piece of metal and took out a modified military flashlight.

Elicia protected her face with both hands. She looked like a confused girl who was trying hard to protect herself from the violence that rained down on her without warning.

"How long have you been doing this!? We haven't killed a single person yet! You think this is enough? You expect me to believe that you've learned from your mistakes!? You think you're a helpless victim and it's wrong for us to kill you? Fuck that!! You must take responsibility for what you did! And that means you have to die, you son of a bitch.. !!!!!!"

These flashlights are meant to blind enemies, not to defeat them. This flashlight has a laser pointer in place of a bright LED and a laser pointing lens in particular can scatter light like a flashlight to burn one's eyes. This method is famous for being used by disrespectful sports spectators and people who try to block airplanes. But with a reinforced stainless steel exterior that matches the "military" descriptor, with a large battery weight, and with an amplifier attached at the back, the, this tool works well as a bat.

He sat on it and beat it again.

He must have shouted something as he did so, but even he did not hear what it was.

The white-haired Elicia Luxverg had used her hands to protect her face, but eventually something must have jolted inside her. He became weak and stopped fighting.

Only his heavy breathing continued.

This was the person who had split Kazamuki Gekiha in half, sunk the entire Ocean Crystal Magic Academy ship, and massacred the other 700 people in the school who had smiled with him as fellow Crystal Mages. No, the death toll must have been several times if his escort ship was also included.

If the Problem Solvers find out that the crystallized victims are in the cave of the beach and those people will eventually rise again, they would definitely desperately search the entire world until they found them. They would smash the crystals as much as possible, mix the fragments with tiles or bricks, spread them around the world, and ensure that the people could never be resurrected.

He knows it.

He knows all that.

Yet.

Apart from the burning hot taste within his mind, he also felt something extremely bitter piling up inside his stomach. While continuing to punch Elicia, she became irrationally angry at Elicia for not being dead yet and still stubbornly persisted for life.

Killing people is hard.

It should be obvious, but it is difficult.

So how can they do it so easily?

"..."

The hand holding the modified, bloody military flashlight fell.

There were tears in Elicia Luxverg's eyes that looked flawed.

She might as well cry while sitting on it.

No matter how unfair the tears were to each other.

"Sacri-sama," said Crystal Girl Aine with a calm expression. He did not warn her that the woman would really die if she continued like this. "If you're having trouble reaching your goal, wouldn't it be faster to use me? I can end it with one slash of my sword."

"Bag, pant!!"

His shoulders rose and fell as his mind finally refocused on reality. The heat of anger did not dissipate, but he managed to question himself again. Is he going to kill her or not? Is he going to kill to give him a little taste of his own medicine? Is he going to bow down to his level here?

Vibration spread throughout his body.

For a moment - just a moment - Gekiha's supposedly shattered face appeared in his mind's eyes.

"Damn it!!"

He threw a flashlight weapon on the floor and loudly flicked his tongue. While still sitting on it, he grabbed the collar of Problem Solver that looked like a squashed red sack.

"I have a question."

"P-pants, g-grips."

"Tell me about another Problem Solver! What can they do and what are their weaknesses!! Give me every piece of information you have, even very useful information! Save anything for yourself and I'll kill you. I really have to do that. Understood!?"

His face was too swollen to distinguish his eyes from his nose, yet he still nodded repeatedly.

He wants information about other Problem Solvers: their hiding places, where they usually live, the type of magic they use, and their weaknesses. Dinosaur Elicia was magic, so it was a technique. It is nothing more than information that can be learned by anyone. The dinosaur is a terrifying enemy now, but it would be helpful to use it alone.

He's been handling this now.

Or so he thought. Until a beam of light pierced one of Elicia Luxverg's temples and came out of the other temple.

A blinding light similar to welding exploded a moment later.

He blinked his eyes for a while to deal with the burning pain in his eyes and then he realized that the person he held his collar had died. His whole head was no longer there. Not much blood came out because the upper part of his neck had been burned away.

(Laser... sniper shooting?)

"Marica!?"

"What, we're trying to kill him, aren't we?"

He raised his head, but he could not turn his head in the direction of the voice.

He had never heard such a cold voice.

"Say we tie him up and drag him back with us. Thenwhat? We don't know what he needs to call that dinosaur, so we have no guarantees even if we take all his weapons and armor and even strip him of it. The surprise attack will no longer work and we will be powerless if he is ready to face us. Killing him is the most reasonable way."

"..."

Utagai Karuta closed his eyes just once and then relaxed his hands. His body fell lifelessly to the floor. There was nothing left of his dignity as the strongest. He is meat. No more than a lump of meat.

"Are you sad?" crystal Girl Aine asked as she slowly tilted her head. His long silver hair twitched as he gave his curious look. "If you had used me, he wouldn't have been able to steal your quarry."