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Duel-2

“Hou, looks like it's something interesting. What if I join your team? We can both catch up to her together, you know,” Claire's offer.

“Hum, okay. You can join me to fight it. But if you become a burden, don't expect me to help you later. Own responsibility if you get hurt,” Rinslet's responsibility.

“We'll see who gets hurt, Rinslet Laurenfrost!”

On the other hand, Kamito approached Miko while asking, “Who is he?”

“Miko! I didn't know you were here. What are you doing?” ask Rikka after arriving beside Miko.

“...” As a fainted individual, of course he could not answer.

“Fainting when inside Astral Zero is very dangerous. Here are some evil spirits that can attack you. Shouldn't we bring him back?” advice Kamito.

“Hmm... true also.” Rikka almost agreed, but she added, “But, isn't this fight about to start? We will be considered as cowards and cowards if until there is no time when the incident.”

Miko slowly regained her senses and opened her eyes. He was still quite tired with this body. One evil spirit comes, then he will die. A friend who can take care of her is needed or she will be the dinner of the spirits inside this Astral Zero. Although a physical wound is turned into a mental wound, it does not mean that it is not painful when eaten alive.

“Can you walk out of here, Miko?” asked Rikka without any worries.

‘Which way maybe I can move!’ the screams did not accept Miko. “Ma-Sorry. My body is too weak, I can't walk for a while. Why are you here?”

“We will only do a few duels,” explained Rikka. “Oh, yes. If you are here, you will be affected by our duel. Are you really unable to move from this place?”

“I just need some rest ...,” added Miko.

They waited for some time ahead until Ellis and Kino got to this Astral Zero. They did come a few minutes sooner than they should to make some more mature preparations in the face of Ellis and Kino who were considered strong by them. It must have been scared, anyway, when asking for a duel with two strong people, Kino and Ellis.

Miko for a while was transferred to the audience seats surrounding the place. With Carol Natasha, at least security is more secure. Well, just pray. If there is an evil spirit or demon spirit that approaches them, yes. Don't expect too much to survive in Astral Zero.

After a few minutes of waiting, finally came their enemies, Kino and Ellis. Both of them had deliberately come a little late so as not to be the waiting party. You know, waiting is boring. So instead of being the waiting party, Kino and Ellis were the waiting party. Really mean and annoying, isn't it?

“Wah, well, you guys are already preparing to lose apparently. Don't blame me if you guys go crazy, yeah,” Ellis said when she came to the arena.

Kino walked calmly following Ellis behind him. He wears full clothes as when he was wandering. It seems that he became more serious for some reason, or maybe because this place was cold? Astral Zero's place was indeed another dimensional place, but this place was not too far away from the academy. Can this even be called an adventure?

“No, you're the one who's going to lose tonight. This is a double difference in number!” claire shouted excitedly.

“Oi, don't underestimate them. It is not good to underestimate the opponent,” Kamito's advice.

“Be-True. Kino is very strong and capable of attacking from a long distance,” added Rikka.

“I don't care! Anyway he became my enemy when he joined him!” claire shouted at the two of them.

“So you guys get new members, yes. Kazehaya Kamito, Rikka Yotsuya, Claire Elstein, and Rinslet Laurenfrost, no matter how many ants you collect, are ultimately ants. It will never be able to fight and beat both of us,” Ellis said.

“Hmph! How to know if you haven't tried! Let's start, Scarlet!”

*flame!*

Claire's fire spirit turned into her elemental waffe form. The elemental form of the scarlet waffe is a fire whip named Flame Tongue (/= Tongue). With a blazing fire, Claire's every attack would inflict more damage to her opponent. Not to mention the fire element it possessed gave even more torment when it burned the opponent.

Perhaps this was the reason why Claire chose the whip as her weapon. The whip weapon had the same shape as his contract spirit elemental waffe form. When he got used to using the whip, then he would also get used to using the elemental waffe of his contract spirit, Scarlet. In addition to the different weapons from the general, he also trained in the use of elemental waffes. Smart enough.

“I assume your arrival here has been very serious and will not retreat. Therefore, I will also be serious!” Ellis puffed out her chest as she summoned her contract spirit. “Simorgh!”

*wosh!*

The whirlwind follows when Ellis's contracted spirit is summoned. In a split second, a giant eagle appeared and instantly soared high in the sky.

“The situation is serious, yes!” Rikka called out to her contract spirit who had been in the form of elemental waffe in her right hand.

The elemental shape of the waffe is a long hammer that belongs to a blunt weapon. As a blunt weapon, his attacks were extremely heavy although not sharp. It also has a good defense as an addition. Depending on how Rikka uses it, it will become useful or useless. Previously he could only use it in one attack.

“Oi, where is your contracted spirit? Quickly get that out!” Claire shouted at Kamito who was silently observing.

“No, no, no, do I really have to get involved in this fight?” ask Kamito who is without motivation.

“Quick get that out!” Claire clenched her hands as she began to get emotional.

“Hah, alright.” Kamito sighed before closing his eyes to focus and cast a spell, “Cold-Headed Steel Queen, the holy sword that obliterates evil Now form the Steel Sword and become the power in my hands!”

And unfortunately, just like in the anime, the elemental form of the Terminus Est waffe is very sad and doubts whether it will be useful. The original form was a sword, but what Kamito managed to summon this time looked more like an apple peel knife. The shape is very short and small with doubtful durability. Even if the user is an expert, not necessarily it will be useful. This is the opposite of Rikka.

“What? Aren't you able to make spirit contracts so easily before? Why is yours so small?” Claire was stunned when she saw the elemental waffe.

“Yes-Well, I haven't used contracted spirits in a long time. I'm just not used to,” Kamito's reason.

The author himself also understands about Kamito's reasons, anyway. If you don't use your best skills for a long time, you won't know when they will rust. Author himself after stopping playing BanG Dream game for several months, when playing again his skills are reduced. Therefore we need to exercise regularly every day to ensure that our abilities will not rust.

“Kik!” Simorgh swooped down at high speed, pointing straight at the four of them. Using the wind attack with the form of slashes, dozens of wind blades were instantly shot down on the four of them.

*Shelf!!*

It was fortunate that the four of them had managed to jump before becoming flesh slashes due to the violent wind of the eagle spirit. Luck in the beginning of the fight. Not bad.

“Gaha!” Kamito was almost hit by the wind, “Is that how knights fight? Against unprepared enemies, ha?” Kamito gritted his teeth in annoyance.

“All is fair in love and war! Don't get involved in this issue if you don't want to accept the consequences!” Ellis grinned a little. He also gave a note to Kino, “You should also be fast, you know. I'll probably beat them before you act.”

“The spirit of my contract provides increased speed. Have you forgotten that?” answer Kino using a question.

“Do you think because of who we are late to this place? If it wasn't for you, we could have come early and looked cool on them. We're late because of you,” Ellis reminded.

“Hah, alright.” Kino took out a gun from her right waist and used it on her right hand without summoning her contract spirit.

The gun was a rubber pistol previously purchased from the group. Not too dangerous to the opponent, but painful enough to be hit by an attack from the rubber gun. If you don't believe it, you can try the gun yourself. If you have, please write in the comment column what it feels like to be hit by a shot from a rubber gun.

It was more or less like that was a small debate between the two of them. It is a little difficult when having friends who are slow in everything, but it is our duty to give understanding to them. But if our friend has gone too far, maybe it can be made money, yes….

“You guys didn't go forward attacking? You will not be able to win if you just stay there, you know,” Ellis said slightly mocking.

*sis!* *sis!* *sis!*

A few ice arrows shot straight towards Ellis' place.

*tat!* *tat!* *tat!*

Kino used his rubber gun to aim at the ice arrows, then fired rubber bullets at him.

The two attacks collided into each other in midair and eliminated each other.

“Don't let your guard down, Ellis-san. They are indeed weaker than you, but that does not mean they can be underestimated.”

“I know.” Ellis continued by taking out her sword from its sheath, then she advanced on all of them.

“Hmph! So you finally chose to advance, yes, Miss Knight!” Claire made her elemental waffe dance in the air.

*pishi!* *pishi!* *pishi!*

The whip of fire swung at Ellis viciously. Every attack from him was aimed at killing the opponent without granting the slightest pardon. Well, fatal injuries would indeed not be too dangerous considering they were inside Astral Zero at the moment. But this is cruel!

Ellis nimbly avoided one by one the path of the whip that led to her. An unavoidable attack was overcome using his sword. It was fortunate that his sword was able to handle the heat of Claire's whip or else he was about to burn. The sword belonging to the Sylphid Knight was indeed not kidding in terms of materials.

“Kamito!” Claire gives aba-aba.

“You told me to attack, but what attack can I give you?” Kamito lazily threw Terminus Est at Ellis. This was the only attack he could think of doing.

*trank!*

Kino shoots Terminus Est from a distance, making the small blade slam into the ground without contributing to the fight.

‘It's shocking! Wasn't that a sealed spirit before? Why is it so weak?’ ask Kino in her head.

“Uryaaa!” Rikka lunged forward without any tactics or anything towards Ellis.

His attack was the one that jumped into the air and overtook Ellis using the weight of his weapon. A very stupid attack to do because as long as in the air he will not be able to dodge. But besides controlling his mana as a chuunibyou, what else could Rikka Takanashi do? From the beginning he did not have the expertise to enter a fight like this.

*clank!*

Ellis was kind enough to fend off Rikka's big hammer. These two weapons are clashing with each other and the victory between them is determined on how much force (force) issued by each side. As learned in physics, forces move in the direction of a larger force after subtracting a smaller force when there are two forces in opposite directions.

“Your attacks are strong. But that is simply not enough to compare us, the Knights Sylphid.”

“Don't underestimate me. I've progressed from regular training.” Rikka smirked a little when she said that.

*poof!*

Rikka applied Henge no jutsu to her elemental waffe. The weapon that was previously hammer was turned into a katana similar to the one Miko Yotsuya had. Rikka did use that as a reference for her change.

“What?” Ellis was shocked when the katana slumped through her sword and directly aimed at her body.

Previously, his sword was stuck on the head of Rikka's hammer, making the movement of the hammer stop by getting stuck in his sword. But when the hammer had a different form, the form in which the head of the hammer disappeared, the attack instantly aimed at his body with a sharp slash from the katana. The difference in the impact of an attack was of course there between a hammer and a sword.

when the area shrinks with the same force, the pressure generated will be enlarged and when the area is enlarged, the pressure produced will shrink. Just like this one physical material, the attack of a katana that has a small surface area gives more force than a hammer that has a large surface area.

Wait, it's a novel or studying physics, huh?

*tank!*

Utilizing its high accuracy, Kino from a distance fired a bullet and changed the direction of Rikka's trajectory. The attack made Rikka's attack miss and only slashed the ground beside Ellis.

“Khukhukhu, this is not your lucky day, young man.” Ellis giggled cheerfully at Rikka's missed attack. “Let's get stronger, Ray Hawk!” call Ellis against her spirit. Simultaneously, he took a few steps back while sheathing the sword back.

What a very unfortunate and futile move, yes. Though he had many opportunities to slash Rikka using his sword when Rikka's weapon was hitting the ground. But as an honorable knight and underestimating the opponent in front of him, Ellis chose a move that would make him look even more cool. It seemed like he started following the origin path of the Megumin clan who always looked cool when in front of others.

“Kik!” Ellis's spirit, the Wind Demon Spirit, made a powerful screeching sound before he disappeared into a spear.

The spear fell into Ellis' hands. He twirled the spear several times while creating gusts of wind at each turn.

Ray Hawk, as the embodiment of the Wind Demon Spirit has the same ability, that is, the ability to create gusts or even blades of wind from the ends. Plus Ellis's skill in using it, this weapon is not kidding.

“Guh!” Rikka flinched back a few steps due to the gust of wind from the spear. Even worse, he closed his eyes due to this gust of strong wind.

He was unfamiliar and inexperienced when in a cornered situation. As an ordinary man of the modern world, he reflexively closed his eyes when something passed near his eyes.

*sis!* *sis!* *sis!*

Some ice arrows were pointing at Ellis.

*trank!* *trank!* *trank!*

*Pishu!* *pishu!* *pishu!*

Claire added the attack using her fire whip, Flame Tongue.

*wush!*

Easily, Ellis drove away using the gust of wind from his spear.

*set!*

Kamito advanced on Rikka, then he brought the girl back backwards, out of Ellis's attack range.

*sut!* *sut!* *sut!* *tank!*

Ellis twirled her spear several times before dropping her base to the ground. “So that's your goal in this movement. You guys want to save your colleagues from a slumped position, yes.” He made the horses in holding the spear. “I don't know why you guys chose to save a useless comrade in this duel. But, well, I don't care.”

“Do not underestimate the times. Next, we can definitely beat you!” claire shouted loudly.

“Hmph! Try saj—!” ellis' words came to a halt when a phenomenon occurred above their heads. He turned his head upwards followed by all of them. “This feeling...”.

Above the sky, dark red clouds swirled within the blackness of night. The vortex formed by the cloud had a very wide diameter, wider than where they had conducted this duel. They were astonished when they saw the cloud vortex. But of course, Ellis, Claire, Kamito, and Carol can understand this phenomenon that is going on over their heads.

“Maybe it a demon spirit?” ask Kino in the monologue casually. “I've never seen it and only know it from the literacy in the library, It's the first time I've seen a phenomenon like this in person. It will be a good story for Hermes later when I return to wandering with him.”

The demon spirit emerged from the middle of the circle. His form is quite difficult to describe, rather he has very dubious or very unreasonable body proportions to be a living being. The shape of this demon spirit was only a jaw with a round body in dark purple. Other than that jaw, he had no other limbs like stomach, eyes, etc. This is so absurd.

The problem is, how does he get his nutrition or energy? Doesn't a living creature need food to live? If he has no body, how does he digest his food? If he had no eyes, how could he figure out the position of his prey? Does he have other sensory senses? How could he fly without wings?

Answer's easy. Throw all that in the statement “ini, tuh, fantasy world. It is up to whether it makes sense or not, the important thing is the flow keeps running”.

Look at it, they—Biju—. Bijuu itself is still unclear whether they can be classified as living things. Bijuu do not require feeding, cannot breed, and cannot grow. They have gone out of the classification of living things. But even so, they are still called “seek” which indicates that they are animals. Supposedly, they it is “a” because it is an object.

“Vuo...!” That Demon Spirit let out a loud sound along with him who swooped down.

But strangely enough, this one spirit does not lead to a horde of Ellis, Rikka, Claire, and Kamito. He's heading the other way.

“Do not, the destination is...” Kamito observed on the path that the spirit was heading. “Carol!”

“Eh? Uh!” On the edge of the arena Carol felt confused and frightened when she became the target of the Demon Spirit.

He was just an ordinary human being in this place. Unlike the others, at least the others had fighting skills and magical skills that helped them. Carol who had no fighting ability felt a bone-piercing fear and terror. Not to mention, in his place there was also an exhausted Miko.

‘Wire, at least I'll use an explosive talisman. But, I ran out of mana,’ Inner Miko.

*sis!* *sis!* *sis!*

Ice arrows shot out from the Rinslet on that spirit body.

He was already serious in using his power that was visible from the eyebrows on his face. This is an urgent situation! But unfortunately, all the arrows that hit the body of the spirit did not have a meaningful impact. The spirit shook and continued towards Miko and Carol.

*drap!* *Drap!* *Drap!*

“Legna!” Kino summons the spirit of her contract along with her who is heading to Miko and Carol's place.

In an instant, he closed the distance between that spirit and himself. They both have the same destination, where Miko and Carol are.

*Hack!* *Hack!* *Hack!*

*tat!* *tat!* *tat!*

*glash!* *swush!* *sis!*

Kino, Claire, and Rinslet aimed their attacks simultaneously at this Demon Spirit.

But unfortunately, all of their attacks only scratched or even left no marks on this Demon Spirit at all. This one spirit continues to accelerate on Carol and Miko who are in the lane.

*set!* *tap!*

Fortunately, Kino managed to get faster than that spirit to where Miko and Carol were. He swiftly put the rubber gun back in, carried these two people, then jumped away right before the spirit devoured the three of them.

*sret!*

Kino lands near Ellis and the others while carrying Miko and Carol after jumping from her previous place. In addition, Rinslet also headed there and stood near them. It is too dangerous to move alone when fighting one powerful enemy. But swarming will also make them flounder in one attack.

Phew, mana or magic energy has been trained through Cheon Bu's skills External Energy Control from the Three Skills. The basic effects of this ability passively are increased strength up 10%, agility up 10%, stamina up 10%, stamina recovery up to 10%, fatigue recovery up to 10%. In addition to passive enhancement abilities that increase as levels rise, there is also an increase in bonuses when active. Not a bad ability for the start of the journey.

“Thank you for saving my waiter, Kino,”, Rinslet said.

“No need to think about it, besides one of my friends is also there.” Kino's gaze turned to the Demon Spirit. “Which is more important, we are still not safe. The spirit seemed to be wild. Does anyone have a strategy to beat him?”

“...” None of them gave an answer to Kino's question. Each of them looked at each other, letting the other talk. Looking at their previous unsuccessful attacks, they did not have much of an idea on how to defeat this Demon Spirit. Even if the plan existed, they would attack blindly.

“We just need to attack it continuously, right?” advice Claire.

“Hah, okay. I assume you guys have no plans whatsoever to fight him.” Kino sighed as she started walking forward. “I'll use Claire's plan. First I'll go ahead and look for his weak spot. You notice when he looks weakened. Don't worry, I don't intend to die. After all among you, I am the fastest.”

Every time Kino stepped into this Demon Spirit, her steps became even faster, until she finally ran. Then, he inserted the rubber gun back into the holster on his right waist and changed his weapon into a persuader rifle he stored behind his back. This time he was serious about his fight.

*dar!* *dar!* *dar!*

Several magic-coated bullet shots hit the body of the Demon Spirit.

“Gou..!” The spirit is affected and targets Kino as its prey.

‘Reacted successfully. It's easier than I thought before.’

Of course, it was still the same weapon he had used before. But indeed, when compared to the rubber shot, the difference in strength was too far away, not to mention that he added magic power into his shot. In addition to providing physical injuries to the target, each of Kino's shots also gives a magical impact that contributes the majority of injuries to the target.

The highest Kino is speed. Using the support of his spirit, Legna, and using the mana on his feet, he increased his speed at a speed that normal humans could not. His speed certainly did not reach an unreasonable level like sound or light, but this was more than enough to make his enemy difficult to attack him.

Every time he moved, he fired magic bullets from his rifle and dealt damage. This became something very surprising to others because they did not expect that the Kino attack would have an impact, even though the combination attack between them before could not scratch the body of this creature. They can only be amazed in their place.

When this spirit was about to attack Kino, Kino used the advantage of his speed to dodge. None of these spirit attacks had been successful on Kino and those attacks were just attacking empty space, The fight became a one-sided fight with Kino being the attacking party while the Demon Spirit being the slaughtered party.

When he ran out of bullets, he bought bullets, ammunition, and gunpowder from the System. His bullet reserve was at his side and his hand was very fast when he reloaded his weapon. His focus has not changed at all because he has trained himself to focus on visualizing his indoor shooting skills as long as he is a wanderer and before that.

His training with the Master made Kino even more skilled and more skillful in using long-range weapons and fighting strategies. Although all of this was almost useless against an enemy he could fight using monotonous attacks, this made him accustomed to being on the battlefield. Fighting his master made himself accustomed to fighting stronger enemies.

As a result, within a dozen minutes ahead, Kino managed to defeat this Demon Spirit without the slightest injury. He took a deep breath with slight fatigue, but his face still remained flat and like it was not exhausted. His fighting ability was indeed quite insane amongst the members of the group and he became the strongest at the moment.

“He is indeed strong compared to other spirits, but cannot compare to sealed spirits. It's not difficult.” Kino casually stuffed the persuader rifle into the sheath behind his back and turned on all of them before saying, “Now, what are we going to do next?”

Honestly, actually this fight made such a description to be finished quickly, I as a writer was tired enough to write this one CHAPTER.

———

Name: Miko Yotsuya

Condition: Online

Quotes/ideology: Ignore them, and they will ignore you.

Skill: Elemental Waffe, Explosive Talisman, Piercing Wind Talisman, Sharp Cutting Talisman, Lightning Bird Talisman, Strength Self Talisman.

Affinity: Fire, water, wind, lightning.

Points: 1,000.

———

Name: Rikka Takanashi.

Condition: Online.

Quotes/ideology: Those who saw my Tyrant Eye, made a soul contract with me!

Skill: Tyrant Eye, Henge no jutsu, Elemental waffe.

Affinity: Ground.

Points: 1,400.

———

Name: Kino.

Condition: Online.

Quotes/ideology: When you see a bird flying in the sky, do you not have the desire to wander?

Skill: Elemental waffe, Cheon Bu's External Energy Control from the Three Skills.

Affinity: Light.

Points: 2,787.

———

Name: Keith Claes.

Condition: Online.

Quotes/ideology: The world is not built by one person.

Skill: Earth Manipulation, Kaifuku Maho, Cheon Bu's External Energy Control from the Three Skills.

Affinity: Ground.

Points: 9.240.

———

[Rikka Takanashi, 800 → 900 → 1.400]

[Cino, 1.198 → 1.298 → 1.798 → 2.298 → 2.798 → 2.787]

[Miko Yotsuya, 1,000]

[Keith Claes, 7,000 → 7,080 → 7,480 → 9,240]