The temperature in the air seemed to drop...
An inexplicable sense of tension spread through the surroundings, making sweat bead on the foreheads of Charlotte, Frey, and Raishin, who were watching from the sidelines...
Neither side facing off was ordinary!
One was Magnus, the greatest "Marshal" in the history of Walpurgis Royal Academy of Machinart!
The other was Wu Yan, a first-year student who had enrolled less than a month ago, yet had suppressed Magnus before even entering the academy and defeated fourth-ranked Felix with overwhelming strength—the "Crimson Eyes"!
And both possessed multiple high-performance Automatons that could individually rival the Rounds and form Battle Teams!
Kimberly had personally declared that neither of them was on the same level as the academy students. They were absolutely Demon King-class beings!
With two such beings truly facing each other, who would not be nervous watching from the side?
At the very least, it was not only Charlotte, Frey, and Raishin. Even Sigmund, Yaya, and the Hellhound Series Automatons all held their breath, afraid that the slightest carelessness would shatter the tense stalemate and trigger a great battle. Amid such tension, the four girls standing behind Magnus leaped forward and landed in front of him.
They wore black dresses like flowers, their face veils marked with clear Chinese characters.
They were: Fire, Sickle, Jewel, and Dragonfly!
They were parts of the names of the four Battle Team girls.
The four Automaton girls standing before Magnus were named Hotaru, Kamakiri, Tamamushi, and Tonbo!
Hotaru held a crimson shortsword shaped like a spike in each hand. Kamakiri carried a long, massive scythe with a similarly crimson blade. Tamamushi gripped a crimson longsword, while Tonbo raised a single-bladed battle axe with a crimson edge.
As though worried that Magnus might be ambushed, the four Battle Team girls