Who's this adorable young girl here to save the day? Why, it's me~ / Lord El-Melloi II, that's just cruel!

Magecraft was ineffective.

Because these black aberrations themselves were in the midst of "evolution."

They kept evolving, adapting, and changing.

It was not because magecraft lacked sufficient power.

On the contrary, if magecraft had been able to take effect, these monsters would have been destroyed countless times over.

The black aberrations themselves were not particularly difficult to deal with, but that trait of theirs was truly troublesome.

Don't know why Lord El-Melloi II's disciple could harm these things, but there was only one of him.

Inorai was considering whether she should quickly call for reinforcements.

But just then, the course of the battle suddenly changed.

—Ice spikes fell from the sky.

This was not some extraordinary magecraft.

Any reasonably skilled magus could use this sort of magecraft.

At least, that was what Inorai had thought.

"Mm?!"

Yet those ice spikes pierced straight through the black aberrations.

"What was that?"

Inorai looked up at the sky.

A girl in an enormous pointed hat and a cute dress was sitting gracefully atop a broom.

"—Such a timely entrance."

"—On such a star-filled night."

"—Who could this pure and adorable beautiful girl possibly be?"

"—Why, it's me~"

Irena was practically muttering to herself.

"Irena!"

Flat Escardos waved at her from below.

Irena smiled and waved back at the two of them.

Gray relaxed slightly.

In that situation just now, Gray had already steeled herself.

Against an enemy like this, Gray did have a finishing move.

But under that attack, the Gold Princess would surely die as well, and everyone nearby would be affected.

More importantly, Gray was not sure whether her attack would be "adapted to" by the enemy.

It was truly fortunate that there was another way to harm these strange aberrations.

"Are you two all right? Whoa, why do you look