"Watch out!!"
Just as Electro Mei turned and shouted, Rita's scythe had already come down, sweeping toward Lala. She was not planning to kill the girl in front of her, merely force her into submission. As long as she seized a hostage, everything afterward would be much easier—or so Rita believed.
However, what Rita had not expected was that at the very moment she swung her scythe, the seemingly airheaded girl before her suddenly ducked down and avoided the attack. Then Lala spun on the ground and kicked at Rita with her right leg. Rita instinctively flipped her scythe around to block in front of herself.
Then Lala's foot struck Rita's scythe.
"Boom—!"
The next moment, the Black Stockings Maid was sent flying backward like a cannonball, crashing straight into the wall beside her. With a thunderous roar, the sturdy wall shattered as easily as a cookie, and Rita flew through the breach, vanishing from sight.
"..."
Seeing this, Electro Mei, Serenji Haruna, and Furukawa Yui were all stunned. Their impression of Lala had always been that of a carefree girl who liked making strange inventions. Perhaps because Lala usually acted so much like an idiot, people often overlooked one thing.
That was—the First Princess of the Deviluke Kingdom, the sovereign that had unified the galaxy, was not famous for nothing.
Still, Furukawa Yui and Serenji Haruna remained relatively calm. The physical abilities of Devilukeans were indeed extraordinary. They had seen Lala's "heroic" standing long jumps of dozens of meters in gym class before, so while this sight shocked them somewhat, it was not impossible to accept.
But for Electro Mei, it was enough to make her jaw drop.
Rita was no ordinary Valkyrie. She was one of the few active S-rank Valkyries in the Schicksal Organization. Even Electro Mei