Is This... a Facial?

The moment the Azure Dragon Staff struck out, a trace of seriousness finally appeared in the Herrscher of Thunder's eyes.

"You seem a little more interesting than the other insects."

In the Herrscher of Thunder's eyes, after being hit by her attack, Gu Yu should have been unable to escape the fate of having every molecule in his body destroyed, no matter how strange his armor was.

Yet judging by Gu Yu's agile movements, her attack had barely affected him at all.

Although the current Herrscher of Thunder possessed an Electromagnetic Shield capable of blocking attacks, she no longer intended to keep playing with Gu Yu.

Since he could resist her molecular disintegration, there was no telling what trump card this man might have that could threaten her.

Before she suffered a reversal...

—She had to kill him first.

The Azure Dragon Staff flowed like water, striking more than a dozen times in a second. Yet no matter how Gu Yu attacked, he could not break through the Electromagnetic Shield with it.

"Whew... Even the Azure Dragon's force can't break through this bastard's shield?"

After landing on the ground, Gu Yu saw the killing intent rising in the Herrscher of Thunder's eyes and immediately drew a card from the Card Holder Sword.

"Hey, hey, hey, didn't you call me an insect? For the lofty Queen of Thunder, crushing an insect isn't exactly elegant, is it?"

Hearing Gu Yu's words, the Herrscher of Thunder merely chuckled and slowly rose higher into the air.

It had to be said that, even though he knew the girl before him was a powerhouse capable of destroying a town with a gesture, the smile she showed at that moment still nearly made Gu Yu fall for her.

After all, these days, being beautiful really did let someone do whatever she wanted.

"Yes. Crushing an insect truly isn't an elegant matter to me. But you're not something as lowly as an insect."

At that moment, the Herrscher of Thunder's wings, which had originally possessed only four petals, suddenly became eight.

Hovering in the air, the Herrscher of Thunder looked like a butterfly wreathed in lightning—eerily strange, yet breathtakingly magnificent.

"I'll acknowledge your strength a little, human. I am quite tolerant toward the strong."

"I'll let you witness a little of my power!"

[Form Ride Kuuga Pegasus Form]

The instant the Herrscher of Thunder spoke, Gu Yu did not dare slack off in the slightest and immediately swiped the card he had prepared long ago.

In the next moment, having switched into Kuuga Pegasus Form, Gu Yu barely dodged one of the Herrscher of Thunder's attacks through the super-sensory abilities he had just acquired.

"As expected, I can't kill you in one strike?"

The Herrscher of Thunder lightly swung out an Air Blade, then immediately drove the wings behind her and pushed her speed to the limit.

"But at this speed..."

"—How long can you keep dodging?"

With her power fully unleashed, the girl transformed into a series of afterimages, darting chaotically through the sky.

Meanwhile, on the rooftop of Senba Academy, Gu Yu could only tightly grip the weapon that had just materialized in his hand—the Pegasus Bow—and rely on his super-sensory abilities to predict the Herrscher of Thunder's attack direction, barely evading her attacks.

After switching into Kuuga's Pegasus Form, Gu Yu's sensory and reaction abilities had become thousands of times greater than those of an ordinary person.

Thus, under these circumstances, the Herrscher of Thunder's seemingly incomparably swift attacks were not actually that fast to Gu Yu.

But at the same time, Gu Yu knew very well that he only had fifty short seconds to rely on Kuuga Pegasus Form.

Kuuga's Pegasus Form consumed a tremendous amount of the user's stamina while in use. Even though Gu Yu had temporarily borrowed this power through the Power of Decade, that could not change the fact that his stamina was draining rapidly.

For now, he could barely evade the Herrscher of Thunder's attacks through his vastly enhanced reactions and senses.

But what about after fifty seconds?

If he could not think of a solution, he only had a little over forty seconds left to live.

"Other people get girls and systems at the start of their transmigration. I get hunted down the moment we meet... Forget it. I really shouldn't have expected those novels to serve as transmigration guides."

As he continued sensing his surroundings, Gu Yu gradually noticed that the Herrscher of Thunder's flight path seemed to follow a certain pattern.

In the Herrscher of Thunder's eyes, although Gu Yu had perfectly evaded her attacks, he was unable to counterattack.

Therefore, she naturally assumed that the warrior before her could not fully keep up with her movements using his eyes. Naturally, she no longer flew about randomly with the same extreme caution as before.

And that was precisely what gave Gu Yu an opportunity to strike back.

"Heh, you've been dodging for a full forty seconds. You're pretty capable."

Seeing that the rooftop of Senba Academy had already been blasted into ruins by the attacks she had casually fired, the Herrscher of Thunder narrowed her eyes slightly.

"There are very few places left for you to evade to, human."

"That's true, but..."

Watching Raiden Mei continue flying at high speed, Gu Yu slowly closed his eyes.

He no longer needed his vision to observe her movements.

He sensed the flow of air with his body, listened for the position of sounds with his ears, and smelled the distance of scents with his nose.

At that moment, he completely captured the place where the Herrscher of Thunder would appear in the next second.

"—Got you!"

In an instant, Gu Yu infused Seal Energy into the Pegasus Bow, pulled back its string, and fired an Air Bullet.

"You...!"

The Air Bullet was so fast that it exceeded the Herrscher of Thunder's expectations. At that moment, she simply could not intercept it accurately.

In fury, the Herrscher of Thunder immediately manipulated electromagnetic force, drawing down lightning from the sky and sending a bolt crashing into the area around herself.

"Petty tricks!"

If it had been an ordinary projectile, it naturally could not have retained any effect after being struck by lightning.

But the Air Bullet Gu Yu fired was not only filled with air; it also contained a special energy that should not have existed in this world—Seal Energy.

Setting aside its immense destructive power, Seal Energy's greatest trait was [Penetration].

The Electromagnetic Shield, which should have blocked all energy attacks, was actually penetrated by part of the Seal Energy after the Air Bullet exploded.

Given a large enough quantity, Seal Energy could destroy every substance within a radius of several kilometers.

And now, even this small amount of Seal Energy was enough to achieve Gu Yu's goal.

After the Seal Energy fully exploded, the Herrscher of Thunder, caught in the blast at close range, was hit full in the face by the Seal Energy.

Although she promptly raised a defense, she still suffered a heavy blow under the violent impact.

Then, in the next second, accompanied by the intense shockwave, the other personality within the Herrscher of Thunder's body—Raiden Mei—awakened once more.

She stared in disbelief at her body, which was wrapped in Honkai Energy, and at herself floating in midair.

"What... am I doing...?"

"After I lost consciousness just now, could it be..."

After thinking of a certain possibility, Raiden Mei completely forgot to control the Honkai Energy.

The girl who allowed the Honkai Energy to disperse naturally could no longer manipulate electromagnetic force to keep herself floating in the air.

Then...

—As the sensation of weightlessness flooded her body, Raiden Mei suddenly fell from the sky toward the ground.

"No!"

Looking at her falling body, she screamed and shut her eyes.

Could it be...

—That today, before her father's injustice had been cleared, she would die here?