Chapter Two: Perhaps This Is Life

Everything vanished like bubbles.

It was a truly hair-raising sight, but compared to the other projection, this level of destruction was nothing.

It was an image set against the sky. Hundreds of millions of rays of light converged into a band that spiraled through the air like the Sword of Damocles, radiating danger.

"Th-This..."

The girl who had once watched Tohka Yatogami unleash her Angel and been awed by its violently beautiful power froze. She had thought that was the most dangerous weapon in the world, but the band of light before her had once again shattered her understanding.

Simply looking at it gave Itsuka Shiori the illusion that she would be reduced to ashes by endless light and heat.

"This is the Angel of the newly appeared Spirit. That guy is absurdly powerful." The Flame Spirit sitting in the commander's seat sounded bitter.

"Big Sister, can you try to deal with him?"

Chapter Two: Perhaps This Is Life

"Deal with him?!"

Hearing her little sister's words, Miss Itsuka Shiori was a little dumbfounded. She scrutinized the band of light in the second projection, which seemed capable of burning the entire world to ashes, and swallowed hard.

That thing was absolutely incomparable to Tohka Yatogami's Angel, Melekh Ha'amal. Even if Itsuka Shiori did not know how Angels were ranked among Spirits, anyone who was not blind could see the gap between them.

Trying to solve this through force was undoubtedly a dead end.

Since force could not solve anything, then the plan they could use was...

Miss Itsuka Shiori turned her gaze to the first projection. A black-haired youth was carrying a girl in a red-and-black Gothic dress, limp as a salted fish, while gazing into the distance as though waiting for something.

Well, judging from his back, he was