"-fast!

　Unexpectedly, the 【Hatsubara's Sword】 raised above the speed at which he reacted, carved a deep cut as if to cut open Mekphis' chest.
　This is it, this was what he was afraid of.
　The wound opens up to leave a lingering effect even after being slashed. Separating the magic itself, the sword. Reflecting and repelling magic and magical power without inhibiting it.

　A vast amount of blood gushes out, but that doesn't stop Jean's hand. It did not shake the slightest thought. Because Jean's eyes were just staring straight at Mekphis.

　--Tasteless!

　In one fell swoop, he leapt backwards, but was instantly followed by a pitched chase so as not to leave the distance. To Mekphis, that sword possesses the potency of a natural enemy.
　And Jean was also aware of this definite shortcoming. That's why I won't let him get away with it.

　I'm going to be able to say that I'm not going to be able to get away with it.

''Aaaaah!

　He was cut in both directions down to his elbow, and his torn arm was flooded with a bizarre flood of red blood. I reflexively thrust the other one out, but this time it was slashed off from the wrist and beyond. I can't repair it instantly. This is because the part that was cut often leaves a repulsive effect.
　A few seconds ... a few seconds would pass ... but Jean didn't give him that kind of time.

　The overflowing blood is important information for Mekphis. The sensation of a part of his body being dumped outside of his body instills fear in him. It felt like he was drawing something close behind it, something that could be taken as both anxiety and anticipation.

　The elemental body that I had worked so hard to gather was leaking out.

　With the enemy in front of him, Mekphis turns away from him with his emotions and jumps up at once, but.

''--!
Where do you think you're going...

　In his fear-driven action, he chose a monotonous escape, and as expected, his legs were grabbed by Jean right after he leapt. The body is slammed directly into the ground.

How much more blood do I have to spill? How much more blood do you have to spill before you die.

　After the words were told coldly. The 【Hatsubara's Sword】 pierced over the heart without mercy and skewered the ground as well.



　Immediately after uttering that, Ars's expression crumbles as if it were melting.

　--Okay, the information has leaked out!

　The blood used to make up the body is absorbed by Mekphis, including that information. That's evidenced by his enormous blood volume. But because the information contained in that enormous amount of blood is mixed up, even the host, Mekphis, is unable to organize it.
　So it's not as if shedding blood would help compensate for it. Spilling blood is tantamount to leaking the information that was taken in.

　Even if you have a sense of which elements were leaked, you can't deliberately hide them so that they don't leak.
　That's why it's only unfortunate that some of Ars's information was leaked.

　However, the hundreds and hundreds of elementary bodies that he had taken in, at least not by accident, had definitely reduced that number.
　The only thing that was certain was that something seemed to bring back a distant memory of one day - a memory of the time when he was alive as a human being.


　The blade I stabbed into my chest just barely proceeded to tear the flesh inside my body. When it was time to go straight through to the side.

　--the bare body of a man!

...

　He spat out a lot of blood from his mouth as well, and yet Mekphis gripped the blade with a creepy smile strained on his face.

''Let's admit it. You can kill me - it's just that you have the power to kill me, that's all. Kukk!

　He loosened his mouth awkwardly and put up a final resistance, before the elemental information of Ars, the elemental information that formed him, was lost.
　Muzu, I won't let go of the elemental body I've obtained. It is necessary to leave behind a souvenir.

　An unpleasant thought passes through Mekphis in the blink of an eye like a running wheel. He had said that Krokel would die, and he thought that was the result of confronting Ars, but would that fate be changed?
　It's a minor gamble. I don't know what will really happen if I lose myself and all my elemental bodies in this.
　That's why it's worth a try.

　--The only thing that can be done is to make sure that you can prevent it from happening at such close range.

[Airborne detonation detonation]!
"--Hey!

　A point of light twinkles in front of Mekphis's eyes, in front of Jean's eyes. No, it emitted a momentary glow at the edge of his vision as it surrounded the two of them.
　Immediately after, a series of explosions roared out that instantly blew away human bodies and other parts of the body. Waves of swelling flames, detonations that pushed back and engulfed one after another as they overlapped.

　The momentary explosions won't even let you deal with them. Believing that, the self-destruction was triggered.
　Mekhis had taken a gamble. Evasion is impossible, and even defense is probably not possible in time. Even with Jean's AWR, it's not even slightly in time. That is also true for himself.


　The shock wave alone will crush and break trees across the board. That much power, destructive power that doesn't even leave a piece of meat behind. And he took over Ars's magic process. Its compositional density would not be able to match his. However, its activation speed is comparable.


　It was probably only a few minutes in time. Not exactly the time it took for the black smoke that had accumulated as it sat there to clear. It was the time it took for Mekphis, whose body parts barely remained intact, to regenerate.

　It was the one hand that had been slashed off by Jean. From there, a bright red liquid gradually took shape from the arm and torso. Fortunately, the base of the fundamental information as Mekphis was still being moved to one hand because I had it cut off as an alter ego just in case.

　I never thought I'd have to use this kind of insurance.

　When the color came on, Mekphis' face contorted and at the same time he felt that this body was somehow convincing as the last remaining elemental body.

'It seems my luck is not running out. But still, this is the last thing left........Yol.


　It was the figure of a strange old woman who first changed her appearance. This figure had purple-blue hair and made a dumpling that was clothed only on the shoulder side. However, the only thing that was unusual about the outfit was that it was different. The change was not a dark suit, but a change that somehow suggests a magician. The name that unconsciously leaked out was accompanied by a somewhat nostalgic sound. Even the language was a natural leak. But Mekphis still couldn't get to the meaning of it. Only the sensation that he was really close........tingled in his chest.

　The old memories have been overwritten to the point that he can't even recall them as his memories are repeatedly muddled through absorption. I don't even know when I stopped clinging to the past.

　Still, I was convinced that in the innermost part of it was the feeling of being alive that I sought - no, I'm convinced because I still am.

'Oh!　.........who is sickeningly stubborn.

　Mekphis looked stunned and surprised to see white silver in the fading smoke gap.

　But when Jean's full face was revealed, Mekphis lifted his cheeks to the limit, as he had expected. A smile so ugly it was as if it was an arc.

　It meant that Jean's defense was not in time.
　The white and silver shield deployed in front only prevented half of his body. And it holds his abdomen as he holds it. I'm not going to be able to stop the uncontrollable blood flowing from the finger gaps.
　The left half of his body was burned by the fire and is sore red.

　But instantly, Jean froze the damaged area with 【Freeze】. His expression is painful.

　On the other hand, Mekphis is almost unharmed - in appearance.
　Yes, that's only on the outside, on the outside appearance. In fact, the only element left in Mekphis' body is currently the being known as Yol.
　That's why I don't feel an ounce of urgency, like I'm tasting the good wine of victory. That's probably because this element is special and exceptional.

　I mean, by simple combat power for Mekphis.