LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 42
Druruk
Druruk
Ting Ting Ting Ting
Shuuuu-per!
Anti-aircraft guns, missiles, and Vulcans were all unleashed towards a massive cobalt blue airship looming 200 meters over the battlefield.
Its overwhelming size, like a horizontally laid 50-story building, was so massive that one could hit it with their eyes closed. Yet, every projectile fired was blocked by a barrier surrounding the airship wide enough to keep them at bay.
Bang
Bang
Bang
The instant the projectiles touched the barrier, explosions erupted, sending warheads and explosives flying, while the seemingly disposable reactive armor regenerated instantly to fill the gaps.
The airship, which should have been extremely vulnerable, quietly advanced towards Seoul, wrapped in an absurd Explosion Shield.
“Are these bastards swimming in money, or what? They’re really firing away like crazy,”
heh heh heh, already wrecking three countries and still not bored, huh, Alex?
“Well, compared to the Doctor, I’m just a bride waiting for her husband on her wedding night, aren’t I?”
At that moment, a slang-filled voice, so thick it was hard to tell if it was English, echoed from the bridge, answered by an ominous-sounding girl with a noisy Middle Eastern accent over the radio.
Clatter
Clatter
A long blonde girl in a tank top, her military pants were cobalt blue, shook her head to the beat of the explosions, revealing scattered scratches on her side cut.
Her ears were stuffed with piercings that made a clattering sound every time she moved her head.
Are you getting nervous because the boundary of the start is getting precarious?
Alex heard the advice hidden in the Doctor’s joke but ignored it, growling out loud.
“Damn it… War is supposed to be a bloody mess until you drop dead, you know…!”
With pupils dilated from excitement, Alex’s face started to flush as he breathed heavily, mumbling towards the air.
His heavy breath dripped with sweat, and he twisted his legs while rubbing his entire body with both hands.
The Doctor knew about Alex’s fit of excitement, so he didn’t pay much attention to it.
Bang
Bang
Bang
The explosions kept coming.
The sound of explosions roared into Alex’s ears.
It seemed there had been fewer times in his life when explosions weren’t ringing in his ears.
“C-Civil alert… Civil alert…! It’s an explosion! Yesterday was the next village…! Today, it’s our village…!”
heh heh heh, crazy girl indeed? I’m getting chills being on the other side of the Earth.
Mumbling, Alex suddenly turned serious, returning to his original mocking expression.
“Doctor, did you deploy all the puppets?”
heh heh heh, while you’re dancing around, I’ve glued the guests tight under the bridge, Alex.
“What about the gift boxes?”
My intelligence is about four times higher than yours.
“Stop talking crap, Doctor.”
*
Bang
Bang
Bang
Druruk
Druruk
Kwaaaang
The endless explosions continued, and through the thick smoke, the massive cobalt blue airship loomed closer.
One of my clones was taken up to the northern airspace by a Blummed Born 2-Star magical girl named [Gliding], who served as a squad leader in the White Wing Unit led by Park Saebyeok.
Responding to Kang Dorim’s request, Park Saebyeok summoned a dark gray hang glider to carry me here.
“I will now withdraw from the operation area!”
“Yes, thank you… and I’m sorry for bringing you to such a dangerous place.”
“It’s okay! We’re strengthened by the power of the stars for such tasks!”
“Once the boundary is complete, make sure to lead the squad members to the garden!”
“Ha ha! If we abandon the patients, we’ll be punished for desertion by the company commander!”
“…Will you be returning to Seoul immediately?”
“Yes! If patients arise, the White Wing Unit must take action!”
The [Gliding] magical girl saluted me, her sports sunglasses glinting atop her tied-back hair, and I nodded in acknowledgment. She seemed perfectly suited to the airborne unit insignia on her military uniform.
“White Wing!”
Whoosh!
Letting go of the hang glider, she went into free fall, summoning a new hang glider to fly back towards Seoul.
As I watched her disappear into a dot almost immediately, I turned my attention back to the airship ahead.
Large-scale barrier-type illusion magic is temporarily unavailable; this time, I’ll suppress it instantly with cognition and illusion.
Whooooosh――
Bang!
Druruk Druruk
Bang!
Noise
Endless noise.
The relentless wind and explosions pounding in my ears were ear-deafening.
The Thousand Bloom 3-Star [Bombardment] magical girl,
Alex.
The infamous Alex was a scavenger that appeared in the original work.
Among the scavengers, she had a clear purpose, like [Sword]. Throughout the story, she barely showed her face and only appeared ambiguous before suddenly disappearing, and then there was [Revenge] who could only be described as a crazed criminal that had drowned in madness.
Originally, I never imagined that the villain magical girls would show up like this in Asia until the descent of [War] and the trial of monsters began.
Is it because it has already diverged too much from the original?
I had no idea why villains expected to show up in volumes 4 and 5 were suddenly going into a collective frenzy before the first volume had even begun.
But it was clear what I had to do.
I will kill them, this time I must kill!
To achieve the blooming of the 2-Star girl, a Glass Star was needed—100 of them.
I’ve already killed or plundered over 100 magical girls.
Not stopping there, I came to kill and plunder even more magical girls.
This place isn’t a world made of a few drops of ink from a light novel.
The laughter and lives she has harvested are real.
Clench
Suddenly, the faces of the girls from the sushi party rescued from the research facility, and the girls who came and went from the supernatural ability headquarters, as well as Dorim, Hana, and Ichika, flashed through my mind, and I tightened my grip on the hang glider’s handle.
I will kill.
I must kill.
I accelerated towards the airship with the hang glider I was holding through psychic powers.
Whoooooosh
Feeling the wind brushing against my ears as I accelerated, the massive cobalt blue figure approached to the point where it looked like a wall. And as it approached, the explosions grew louder.
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
The barrier activated in response to the anti-air system, the sound so loud it rattled my skull, and I activated a psychic barrier layered numerous times in front of the hang glider.
I gripped the handle with all my might, and immense vibrations and explosions hit me.
Tudududududung!
Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang
Beeeeee――
As the Explosion Barrier activated, it regenerated and exploded again, and within that chain of regeneration, I gradually edged my way through until I could finally face the airship directly.
Dizzy from the continuous explosions, a ringing sound echoed in my ears.
It was a relief that those explosion sounds were no longer ringing.
If I hadn’t known how, I would have had to take a long detour… Thank you, Yuki…!
I followed the method where Shikishima Yuki spread the Flame Barrier in multiple layers to break through, and it worked far too easily.
However, at that moment, Yuki, who had evolved into a 2-Star magical girl, was described as panting after breaking through, but thanks to the difference in specs, I sailed through with ease.
It felt like I was benefiting from the original work for the first time since the debutante.
Crash!
I jumped off the hang glider and charged toward the bridge jutting out beneath the airship, letting the pressure from the glass shatter me as I dashed inside.
Inside my sight, the floor and ceiling flipped chaotically, blending the scenery within the bridge.
As I rolled around in confusion, I attempted the fall technique Ichika had taught me, correcting my posture.
The huge crashing sound shook the bridge.
In the distance, military pants briefly flickered into view.
Those startled by my sudden arrival.
It was Alex.
The Unique Skill of the Magical Girl of Deception
Dream World
Cognition Acceleration
Suddenly, I bent down to grab the tactical bag that had fallen to the floor, and with cognitive acceleration, I locked onto Alex’s neck.
Crack
Alex’s head spun completely around and made eye contact with me.
She was smiling.
‘The lifeline of a magical girl is tougher than that of a common person!’
Using my psychic powers, I squeezed down on her sternum.
Creeeak
Due to the magical energy being drawn out in real time with the Domain Declaration, I couldn’t fully suppress her, and we were locked in a tense psychic tug-of-war, but I managed to maintain a precarious advantage and pushed down little by little.
Crack
“Gahhh… Urgg… Damn it, Doctor! Says I was strong!”
Blood filled Alex’s mouth as her head dangled uselessly.
Crack
Crack
Crack
I charged at her with a Drop Kick infused with psychic energy as her upper body was completely crushed.
Even though my weight was that of an average woman, the force propelled by the unique magical girl power crushed her body.
Kaboom!
I steadied myself mid-air, gathering psychic energy to make a sharp hand blade and aiming for a horizontal slice.
Splat!
Through the split beef where rigidity had set in, I could see Alex struggling helplessly.
“……”
Watching the writhing meat due to post-mortem rigidity and the vibrations of the bridge, I kept my guard up.
Thick, sticky blood clung all over my body, producing an awful stench.
It was my first kill, but the turmoil in my heart remembering Dorim, Hana, and Ichika’s smiling faces was nonexistent.
“Phew… Phew…!”
Still, it was the first time I fought with a killing intent, my heart raced and my limbs felt cold.
“……,”
This wasn’t a scavenger that would die quietly.
Even after death, she would surely come up with something.
I raised my hand, maintaining a state of caution.
Bombardment is brutal.
Glance
Where’s the Glass Star…?!
Alex was wearing a top with a small coverage area, and as I stomped down on her trembling lower body, I checked everywhere but couldn’t find a single hard Glass Star.
Whoosh
I opened the tactical bag, presumed to be Alex’s, with my psychic power without touching it, spilling its contents.
Clatter
Dozens of small bombs, glowing with cobalt blue magic, fell down, and chills ran down my spine. But I still didn’t see a single Glass Star.
Then, there was a voice from the radio behind me.
heh heh heh, you were all over the place but ended up munching down your spare already.
Damn it, you little punk! You ambushed me when I was so busy being bullied and suddenly attacked and killed me! What do you want me to do about it!?
I’ll send OS for hallucination countermeasures directly to the main body, so make sure to receive it, you fool Alex.
There was a bright green radio attached to what appeared to be the control stick of the airship.
I picked it up and looked at it.
It’s quite unexpected that you’re active since you came from Japan, starting the Magical Girls.
“Doctor?”
heh heh heh, oh no! In our first meeting, revealing names like this! What an idiot Alex!
Damn, just before I could hit the self-destruct button, and now I’m dead! Damn it!
I told you to prepare instead of playing around in the bridge!
Hell no! Hey, you little punk! Just you wait! I’m going to blow that damn city to smithereens!
Filled with words starting with F, the slanged-filled sentences were not hard to grasp.
Thud
I tossed the completely silent radio to the ground and twisted the control stick to the right as far as it would go.
The trajectory displayed on the monitor showing the expected route of the airship shifted toward the West Sea. If I were to hastily land it in the densely populated northern Gyeonggi Province, it’d be better to crash it into the sea instead.
Static
Elder sister, what’s the situation?!
The clone of Dorim appeared near where my consciousness was focused.
“…It seems I got help from a magical girl who can create something like a backup body, I thought I definitely killed her, yet they were saying something over the radio from elsewhere.”
Isn’t she bluffing?
Dorim tried to avert her gaze from the horrifying split bodies laid out beneath.
“I’m not sure, but she might really have gone to do something in Seoul or set something up while the attention was diverted from the airship.”
So… Shall we let the airship head toward the sea then?
Dorim glanced at the monitor displaying the predicted flight path and said.
“Yes, just in case, I think I’ll leave one clone here.”
Then let’s head back to Seoul now.