"Hey, hey!! You bastard! Is that shikigami your girlfriend?!"
Ryu Ishigori raised a hand, directing the blasts of light as they continuously struck Rika flying toward him. After knocking Rika back slightly, her fist had already appeared before him.
"How rude... We're true love, you know."
"What the hell?!"
As Rika's fists rained down like a storm, Ishigori had no choice but to turn and face her fury.
Seeing that Rika and Ishigori had moved to the other side, Okkotsu decided to try again.
"Miss Uro—"
"Uro's Bullet!!!"
Okkotsu immediately circulated his cursed energy—an uncharged Uro's Bullet slammed into her arm with a terrifying explosion.
At times like this, he felt increasingly grateful to Mr. Xuan.
Xuan's smirking face surfaced in Okkotsu's mind again, saying, "Are sorcerers so lacking in intelligence that they can't even learn something as simple as cursed energy control?"
Ah... just remembering it made him inexplicably irritated... Was it because of Fushiguro?
Okkotsu's body crashed into a broken wall. After smashing through it, he steadied himself, while some of the displeasure on Uro's face faded.
There should... be a chance, right?
"My technique... can grasp the 'surface' of the 'sky.'"
A technique explanation... now?
"Haah... Miss Uro, could you please hear me out?"
"Hm?"
"You're collecting points so that, once new rules are added, you can leave the barrier and experience a second life, right...? Then helping me add a rule should work too... If there's no one you want to see and nowhere you want to go... if you simply want to leave the barrier, then I'll help you get one hundred points, and you'll help me add a rule. Isn't that a win-win?"
"Huh?"
"What I mean is, I have friends waiting for news from me... Though we've only known each other for a