"You... you're...?!"
At that moment, Mashu, who was desperately holding back an attack of unknown origin with her Noble Phantasm deployed, revealed an incredulous expression.
"You're not Tamamo Vitch Koyanskaya! You're... you're...!?"
Before Mashu could finish speaking, another world-shaking boom exploded against the city gate she had deployed.
"Ugh...!"
The impact rattled Mashu to her very core. It felt as though her internal organs had caught fire and were burning, scorching hot enough to be terrifying.
If Mashu had not possessed such astonishing defensive power, she would never have been able to remain standing before such a terrifying attack.
"Hahaha!"
A voice brimming with excitement and madness rang out from the darkness once more. Claw-light capable of tearing apart heaven and earth erupted from within the darkness, crashing down upon the tottering Chalk Great City as though intending to rip it apart completely, exposing the girl hiding within to its merciless ravaging.
Unfortunately, this time, the attack failed to strike Chalk City.
Snap!
With an extremely abrupt snap of fingers, Mashu and Chalk City vanished from where they stood.
Boom!!!
The heaven-rending claw-light slammed into the ground, unleashing an earth-shaking roar that made the entire world of black storms tremble violently.
Mashu felt the world before her blur and her vision sway, and then her location changed.
No longer was there only a raging black storm before her. A figure descended from above, landing lightly before her.
"Mister Riezel!"
Seeing who that figure was, Mashu's eyes lit up as she cried out in delight.
"Are you all right?" Though Riezel had his back to Mashu, he could inspect the condition inside her body through the Clear World. As he activated the Reverse Cursed Technique and injected positive cursed energy into Mashu's body to heal her, he asked, "Why are you