"Yohohoho~~"
"Looks like we won't be able to communicate without a fight."
Brook took off his little black hat and grinned.
"They must be the so-called spiritual officials. Monks like them seem to be called mages."
Loli Mercury studied the monks charging toward them with great interest.
Yet neither she, Brook, nor Giselle showed any intention of making a move.
Sure enough.
Miria, who had taken over as director of the Supernatural Affairs Enforcement Bureau, immediately stepped forward to meet them.
"A perfect chance. Let's take one out first!"
Mage Yun Ya's eyes lit up.
He had been worried that his side would struggle to deal with five Yoma at once.
He had not expected their opponents to be so arrogant.
[Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh----]
The seven mages began circling Miria at high speed.
Their movements were so fast that they left behind blurry afterimages.
From this alone, they did seem somewhat extraordinary.
Clad in white robes and silver armor, Miria held her Claymore and watched their movements expressionlessly.
She wanted to see what these people were capable of.
The next moment.
White objects shot out from the nearly unbroken ring of afterimages.
Miria's eyes had already turned into golden vertical pupils as she channeled her Demon Power.
This allowed her to clearly make out the white streaks.
"Paper?"
That was right. They were sheets of white paper.
More precisely, talismans!
The patterns on them were intricate, but one character could be clearly identified.
Suppress!
The mages shouted that same word in unison.
In an instant, the talismans shone with white light and connected together, creating an inexplicable binding effect around Miria.
At the same time.
The monk's staff in Yun Ya's hand bloomed with seven-colored Buddhist light, from which arcs of blue lightning shot forth.
"Be annihilated, Yoma!!!"
The crackling