Blazing flames spread across the entire grassland.
The roaring fire erupted like scorching waves, instantly igniting all the surrounding weeds and expanding at an astonishing speed, turning this patch of grassland on the outskirts of Academy City into a sea of fire.
Black smoke billowed up at once.
The temperature soared in an instant.
Even the outer walls of Academy City stirred with some commotion. It seemed the guards there had noticed the fire and begun contacting personnel inside.
Perhaps a fire brigade would arrive to put it out before long.
Unfortunately, if a fire brigade really came here, the flames would have vanished long before then.
Because there was someone here capable of killing flames with a single strike.
"Hiss—!"
A streak of racing sword light appeared in one corner of the sea of fire, cutting through space.
"Slash—!"
Amid a tearing sound, the racing sword light swept through like a flash that erased the inferno. The instant it passed, the entire sea of fire trembled before abruptly going out.
This grassland had a diameter of roughly two kilometers.
Yet that two-kilometer sea of fire had been cleaved apart by a single streak of racing sword light.
In that instant, it had been killed.
"...?!"
Kanzaki, who had laid out steel wires and activated her magic, finally realized she had made a fatal mistake.
That was, Kanzaki had forgotten.
The man before her possessed Magic Eyes capable of killing all things.
Those Ice-Blue Demon Eyes could kill magic and phenomena alike.
Using magic against him was simply foolish.
But realizing that now was already too late.
"Flash Run—One Deer!"
A beam-like kick landed heavily on Kanzaki's abdomen.
"Bang—!"
The dull impact burst from one corner of the grassland, where the flames had abruptly been extinguished, like a shockwave.
"Cough...!"