The beast tamer exiled from the hero’s party and the cat eared girl from the strongest race meet
Mona, shattered into countless pieces, scattered her fragments across the area.
Then, a wyvern-like monster breathed fire.
The crimson flames licked across the ground, melting Mona’s fragments away.
And then, something unbelievable happened.
Mona’s fragments began to move, each piece reconnecting with the others.
It was almost like a slime reforming itself...
"I’m back!"
In the end, Mona completely restored herself.
"Nya!? S-she came back from that...?"
"What a ridiculous ability..."
Still, she probably wasn’t truly immortal.
Like Altera, there had to be some kind of core that made up her body.
If that were destroyed, victory would be theirs.
If possible, they wanted to capture and interrogate her...
But if that proved impossible, then at the very least they needed to reduce the enemy’s forces here.
"Aaaah, seriously... Fighting isn’t even my specialty. Yet all of you keep ganging up on me and doing whatever you want!"
"Hmph, listen to yourself. Thou art the one doing as thou pleasest."
"Ehh? I haven’t done anything though. This is totally a false accusation, right?"
"Silence. Thou hast meddled with Rain and the others enough already... and not only that. Hast thou forgotten how, when thou left the village, thou stirred chaos everywhere and even took things that should never have been taken?"
"Don’t you think tools and knowledge only matter if they’re actually used?"
"There are things that should never be touched."
"Good grief, you’re still as stubborn as ever."
Mona shrugged dramatically, as though acting on a stage.
Then her smile disappeared.
"Well, whatever. Being beaten around like this leaves a bad taste in my mouth... so I’ll kill you."
Mona snapped her fingers.
In response to the sound, spider-like monsters began appearing from seemingly nowhere.
"These things... Don’t tell me she controls this many?"
"Ahh, you don’t need to worry about that. I just tamed these guys. That fox was the first successful monsterization experiment."
"Why would you do something like that?"
"Because it’s fun."
"What?"
"Trying new things is fun, isn’t it? That’s why I do it. Simple as that."
She showed absolutely no sense of guilt.
If anything, she even seemed confused that people were angry at her.
What a disgusting person.
"I... won’t forgive you...!"
Nina glared fiercely at Mona, apparently filled with intense anger herself.
"You can’t forgive me? You hate me? Fine then. Let’s fight it out!"
Mona snapped her fingers once more...
That signal sent a massive swarm of monsters charging forward.
――――――――――
"Rain, leave this place to me and Nina!"
"Got it!"
Kanade and Nina stood before the approaching horde of monsters.
"Hn!"
Nina spun her hand, opening a door connected to subspace.
Kanade leapt into it...
"Nyan!"
Teleporting behind the monsters, Kanade launched a surprise attack instead.
Alternating punches and kicks, she sent the monsters flying one after another.
However, the enemy wasn’t backing down.
More and more reinforcements kept appearing...
Trying to overwhelm Kanade and Nina through sheer numbers.
"Ei!"
Nina opened countless portals...
And rapidly tossed stones into them one after another.
From above, below, left, right—stones rained down upon the monsters from every possible angle.
Even though she was still a child, she was one of the strongest species.
Her attacks carried considerable power, forcing the monsters to halt their advance.
"And then I’ll finish them off!"
Kanade dashed forward.
Faster than the wind.
More violent than a storm.
She deliberately leapt straight into the center of the enemy formation.
The monsters, stunned by Nina’s attacks, couldn’t react to her.
Kanade rampaged freely...
And in the blink of an eye, the monsters’ numbers began to dwindle.
But there was no time to celebrate.
The monsters they had defeated suddenly split apart...
Then split again and again, multiplying into more than double their original number.
"Nyan-desu to!?"
"I’ve... never seen monsters like this before?"
"Maybe Mona did something to them! She probably lied about not doing anything so she could lower our guard!"
The monsters must have realized they couldn’t win through quality alone.
So they continued dividing themselves.
One became two.
Two became four.
Four became eight.
And then...
They split over and over again until their numbers quickly surpassed a hundred.
Even then, they kept multiplying, rapidly approaching a thousand.
"What... should we do...?"
"It’s okay, Nina. If they split apart, then we just need to wipe them all out at once. Let’s go all out. Nina, I’m counting on your support!"
"Okay."
Because they had spent so long together, they understood each other’s intentions without needing lengthy explanations.
Kanade closed her eyes and focused deeply.
Likewise, Nina calmly sharpened her concentration.
"Nnyaaaaaah...!"
"Nnnghhhhh...!"
They gathered power and gathered more and more power...
Then released it all at once!
"Nyan!"
"Hn!"
Wrapped in crackling electricity, Kanade stood transformed, while Nina matured into an adult form with nine tails...
The awakened forms of the two girls stood there before them.
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