It Became a Time-Stop Slit-Eye

56. Deus Machina.

A spell that spreads over the entire range of perception.

Its vastness and red magic were also ominous, but its speed was particularly heterogeneous.

The woman who introduced herself as ‘Deus Machina’ did not chant spells.

I just stepped on the ground.

Just acting like that was the trigger for a large-scale spell to soar.

For a spell formed suddenly, the range of spells and the amount of magical power suddenly felt in the area are vast.

All elements are wonderful, but the most terrifying thing is the person who achieved it.

A single raised finger.

At its tip, there are tens of thousands of magical threads connected to it as if to control the spells rising from the ground.

“…… Ah.”

Ichimaru Shiki had a hunch.

If it falls, everyone will die.

It’s not just a lot of getting hurt and dying, the city center itself is disappearing.

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It was like the power to erase everything.

There was no emotion in the eyes of the woman who held the trigger for such a massacre.

It wasn’t eating people, killing people for pleasure, or killing people in a fit of rage, like common yokai’s catering activities.

I was looking at the boy in front of me with interest, but I didn’t pay attention to everything else.

So I clean it up.

It’s getting in the way at this moment, so get rid of it.

Such indifference.

The atmosphere that said that was all made me more certain of the results to come later.

—With that one gesture, everyone dies.

My family is dying.

A friend.

Everyone in the vicinity disappears.

…… It shouldn’t be like that.

Ichimaru Shiki, whose alarm went off in his head, squeezed out his overworked and devastated soul.

William Betelgeuse’s magic is obviously great, but it can’t be stopped with that.

It’s not enough.

That’s why I had to make a move on this side.

─Expansion.

It burns the soul.

Forged a blade of magical power with starlight in hand.

Not only that, but even though he had already reached his limit, he once again demonstrated the power of the soul.

─Openness.

The moment Shiki Ichimaru reached out into the air.

───Time in the world has stopped.

The magical energy of the starlight gathered in the air, William who moved hurriedly, and everyone around him who looked puzzled at the sudden appearance of a woman.

Everything stopped.

The whole world turned gray.

Except for one existence.

Deguru, the golden eyes that had been looking elsewhere rolled to face the boy.

I hoped that I might have misunderstood.

The woman in the moonlight, her finger half-tilted, bent her head.

Deus Machina faced him with a bright smile.

“As expected, you should be by my side.”

“aaa!!!”

Ichi Marushiki let out a scream and stopped the thought of stopping his legs.

Go ahead even if you die in the very next moment.

The moment I stopped in fear, everyone was going to die, so I somehow reached forward.

Step by step, another step piled up.

Suddenly, the street disappeared, and the starlit blade touched the nape of the woman’s neck.

Finally the boy stopped his steps.

I saw the outstretched blade.

“…… Ah.”

Dazed and hopeless, I felt a hand that could not go any further.

I couldn’t get through.

It’s not a matter of hardness, but as if this was the end of the world, I blocked her hand.

There was something on the wall in front of her neck.

“How do you feel?”

Makina just smiled, not caring about the blade hanging around her neck. What draws an arc is a beautiful smile.

As she gazed at her blade, it grew farther away from the skin of her neck.

Her telekinesis didn’t move her hand or push her sword away.

It was essentially different from that.

“Void Space.”

Anything, its existence and the area where it is forbidden to enter.

If you define that nothing exists in a certain space, that is the only thing.

Sometimes it was the upper that never cut, and sometimes it became a wall.

It could become a weapon that can make anything disappear, depending on your mind.

I had to pass this space in order to decapitate it, but I couldn’t pass it.

Machina, who governs the entire space, made that decision.

“The ability to control time and space. It is a clear proof that we are in a relationship of destiny.”

Ichimaru Shiki’s pupils fluttered at the benevolent smile as if he had met his soul mate.

Hold hands.

As I moved from the golden-eyed woman’s side, her hand caught with an absurd ease.

“We can never be far apart.”

One-way traffic.

A one-sided relationship that only one side can approach.

As easy as the hands were, the rest of the hands were infinitely difficult.

The blade, which seemed to pierce the woman’s skin at any moment, was pushed past her shoulder.

I could have cut it if I went a little further, but that tiny bit was an unreachable gap forever.

A distance that is virtually impossible to narrow.

In this situation where only one side of the power works, the clever boy noticed the identity of the currently emerging technique.

A spell of annihilation.

It was such a technique that turned the entire Tokyo area into a space of nothingness.

Unlike him, whose powers can only be activated by holding onto her sword, the woman was able to turn her powers into her own spells.

In the midst of finding out the fact, Deus Machina looked at me gently and said.

“We can definitely understand each other.”

No, I don’t understand.

This woman is a crazy monster.

Ichimarushiki dropped the knife he was holding in his hand, shaking his body in fear from the load on his body.

Kwajik-!

At the blade of the star that fell to the floor and broke as easily as a piece of glass, the woman put on a pitying expression.

“Oops, I can’t let go of the sword.”

Machina frowned for the first time since facing Shiki Ichimaru.

“If you make up your mind to become a prosecutor, don’t let go until you die.”

Soon, the corners of her mouth were raised, and her face resembled that of a teacher trying to discipline a misbehaving child.

“You are now dead once.”

Ichimaru Shiki’s pupils trembled.

The boy had a hunch.

He didn’t want to understand at all, but he seemed to understand the principles of her behavior.

“Originally, it’s right to experience the logic firsthand, but you have to live and be my companion.”

Deus Machina smiled benevolently again and spoke to him.

“Others must die instead.”

As a result, the movement that had been suspended due to a brief conversation was carried out.

The fingers connected with tens of thousands of threads began to fall down again.

Considering its ability, it was clear that it could be dropped even in an instant, but its movement was slow.

It moved so clearly that it completely formed on the boy’s retina, whose brain was tired from fatigue.

She It was her teaching as her own teacher.

“…… Alas, no.”

Ichimarushiki tried to stop it by clinging to her woman’s body, but her body did not move. She was

She was caught in Machina’s hand and she was locked to those coordinates.

She seemed to have to watch her from there.

The boy’s quivering eyes saw his fingers gradually falling to the ground.

When the drawbridge announcing the end is completely level with the ground, and the smile of God deepens,

“───Stop it, you devil!”

An old man appeared behind Makina’s back.

A strange old man wearing white armor and a cape, holding a cross-shaped sword.

The old man raised his greatsword high and seemed to be cutting the woman’s throat.

Deus Machina didn’t care and tried to keep the boy in front of her in her field of vision, but her eyes soon became the size of a lantern as if she realized something about her.

She turned her head away for the first time with a surprised expression on her face.

“───Slash!”

It was also at that moment that the old man struck down his sword.

Suddenly!

I heard that.

The fingers connected by tens of thousands of threads, and Machina’s left hand connected to it, floated in the air.

Golden blood flowed.

At the same time, the spell that covered the entire area faded, and the world of Shiki, which had turned gray, was also shattered.

Seeing that, Makina smiled thinly at her brightly shining pupils and muttered.

“Is it really a demonic sword of nullification?”

Machina released Ichimaru Shiki from underwater.

Letting her see her abruptly walk away with her dazed look.

After confirming that the only hostage was freed, the old man, Kitagawa Touji, shouted, swinging his cross-shaped sword again at the woman in front of him.

“───William! Release the star’s ban!”

Since the spell was invalidated, they weren’t the only ones who could move from place to place.

William Betelgeuse, the star wizard, widened his eyes when he saw the elderly warrior who suddenly appeared.

His existence itself is surprising, but I wonder if the words that came out of his mouth were more nerve-wracking.

“…… Inspiration, what is that-“

At that moment, Makina created a sword out of thin air.

No, it felt like that.

It looked like he was holding an invisible sword in his hand.

Deus Machina still swung her sword.

Guardian of spirit vein, Kitagawa Touji struck down the demonic sword.

────────■■■■■■■■!!!!!!!!!!

The intangible sword and the nullification sword collided.

A crack in space occurred at the point of impact, and an indescribable roar was heard.

Only that part was a bug, and the programming seemed to be wrong.

Feeling like he would never be cut, the old man shouted again while frowning.

“───Dedicate your soul! William! Here, we seal the demon inside the gold!”

As the hero spoke with such a determined look, William Betelgeuse stopped for a moment in awe.

Instantly, he hardened his expression as if he had made up his mind.

He erased the starlight in the air.

“A star.”

The wizard called the stars.

Then, the entire surface of the area, the world, was colored with bright white starlight.

A chain of constellations rose.

The flickering white chain formed a camp instead of tying the woman in the middle of the world.

William Betelgeuse muttered with a ghastly expression, without a trace of laughter.

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“Release the limitations of the soul.”

A great magic that sacrifices the souls and stars of wizards.

In a world of only light, a magic circle only for Deus Machina soared.

Her spell aimed at her tied her up.

The gist of the spell is the starlight that made the world, and its purpose is the devil’s seal.

“You dare to seal me?”

The woman bent her head and looked at her wizard. She lifted the fingers of her left hand, which she had recovered before she knew it.

“Reversal.”

She just whispered.