"Clang----!"
Blinding radiance illuminated the entire school, which had been transformed into an icy plain.
"What...!?"
The cleric, who had been calmly watching the battlefield, suddenly looked shocked and let out an uncharacteristically flustered cry for the first time.
It was because something miraculous had happened beneath that dazzling radiance.
"----"
The chill that had swept across the entire campus vanished without a trace.
"Bang----!"
The frozen ice plain suddenly shattered, restoring the school to its original state.
"Boom----!"
The two familiars locked in confrontation were likewise blasted apart by the astonishing artificial Divine Aura, melting like snowflakes within the radiance.
The terrifying magical power filling the entire area was erased completely, without leaving behind even the slightest trace.
"Ugh...!"
"Ah...!"
At once, Aurora and Astarde both cried out and groaned, retreating from each other and widening the distance between them.
Between the two of them, a girl in the Saihaugakuen Academy junior high girls' uniform maintained her stance, her silver spear thrust into the ground, telling everyone that she was responsible for everything.
With nothing but a single spear, the girl had defused the conflict between one of the familiars of the terrifying Fourth True Ancestor and another familiar capable of absorbing that familiar's magical power. She had even erased the familiars' manifestations on the spot.
The person who had achieved this incredible feat was the Sword-Miko of the Lion King Organization—Kishiryu Yukina.
"Are you all right, Miss Florestantina?"
Yukina pulled the silver spear from the ground and spun the weapon as she shielded Aurora behind her. Glancing at Aurora's condition, she asked the question.
"Thou..."
Aurora had never expected Yukina to appear here. She stared at her blankly, unable to react for quite some time.
But soon, another girl came running over.
"Are you all right, Aurora!"
Nagisa