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"Clang clang clang clang—!"
Amid the clashing of chains like metal striking metal, silver chains tipped with wedges of varying shapes and flowing with golden light moved nimbly through the air. In an instant, they formed an encirclement that trapped Kudou Asuka and Kasugabe Yō within.
Holding Kudou Asuka in her arms, Kasugabe Yō hastily controlled the whirlwind, bringing it to a stop amid howling winds. She hovered in midair and looked around.
Chains that had shot out from golden ripples filling the sky had formed what looked like a massive chain cage, imprisoning Kudou Asuka and Kasugabe Yō inside.
Hovering in the air with Kudou Asuka still in her arms, Kasugabe Yō was like a bird locked inside a cage made of chains, utterly at a loss as to what to do.
Under such circumstances, that earlier voice, half-smiling and half-mocking, rang out again.
"Now you have no way to escape, do you?"
Hearing that voice, Kudou Asuka and Kasugabe Yō raised their heads at the same time and looked ahead.
There, Noah seemed to descend from the heavens, slowly drifting down from midair until he reached the same height as Kudou Asuka and Kasugabe Yō.
To Kudou Asuka and Kasugabe Yō, now birds in a cage, that figure was practically the very embodiment of a Demon King.
In truth, although he could not use Host Authority like the Demon Kings of Little Garden to forcibly drag others into his own Grace Game, Kudou Asuka and Kasugabe Yō