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The cool evening wind howled through the street filled with firelight and smoke, sweeping away everything that obstructed the view and revealing the somewhat shattered road.
"Cough, cough, cough..."
Amid the smoke slowly carried away by the evening wind, Hinagiku, Mikoto, Rin Tohsaka, Luvia, Miyu, Illya, and the other girls kept coughing as though they had been choked by the smoke, yet they were almost completely unharmed.
"Illya!" Rin Tohsaka coughed as she glared furiously at Illya.
"Don't fire a high-powered mana cannon from that close!"
"Illyasviel!" Luvia was furious as well.
"Were you trying to drag all of us into it?!"
"S-Sorry..." Illya coughed too, embarrassment on her face.
"I forgot..."
"But this is strange..." Miyu covered her mouth and nose, her face full of suspicion.
"Why weren't we hurt at all after using such a powerful mana cannon?..."
"Did you hold back?..." Hinagiku sounded impressed.
"They were trying to kill you, yet you, the person involved, actually held back..."
"H-Held back?..." Illya blinked blankly before saying something that stunned the girls.
"I didn't hold back. I gave it everything I had..."
"You didn't hold back?..." Mikoto could not help but be surprised.
"No way. It was clearly much more powerful when we fought in that mansion last time, wasn't it?..."
"B-But I really didn't hold back..." Illya raised her wand. Layer upon layer of mana currents surged from it and rose into the air.
However, although the mana from Illya's wand continued pouring out without pause, aside from its endurance, the amount it could release at once was pitifully small.
If it had been the Illya from before, the mana she unleashed at this moment should have been at least two or