Bang! Magic surged through his entire body, and all the smoke obscuring his vision vanished in an instant!
Step! He stepped through the air, his senses locked firmly onto the Oración Seis below. With a Flash Step, Achill suddenly appeared beside Brain!
"What?!" Brain's pupils shrank to pinpoints. Alarmed, he raised his hand and swung at Achill! But a snow-white pillar of ice shot upward before he could strike!
"First Dance—Moon White!!!" Achill swept Sode no Shirayuki across his body with his left hand. At the same time, he swung his right hand toward the members of the Oración Seis closing in on him! "Cry out—"
"Benihime!!!"
Screee! A vivid, blood-red Blade Flash burst from his sword! Amid its piercing cry, it mercilessly sliced the four charging members of the Oración Seis—and the one who had been sleeping all along—in half!!!
Crash—crack!! At that same moment, the towering ice pillar exploded into glittering fragments the size of fingernails! Vanishing along with the ice was Brain, the leader of the Oración Seis, who had been completely frozen inside it!!
"Did we win?" Natsu immediately cried out in delight!
"No!" Erza had been about to cheer too, but her sharp eyes caught something a moment later, and she blurted out in alarm, "Those were all—"
"Thought bodies!!!"
"What?!!" Everyone was stunned! They turned to look at the supposed corpses! Only then did they realize that the Six Demon Generals, who had been moving about just moments ago before Achill sliced them apart, were all turning transparent and disappearing into the air!!!
"Farewell, True God of Death. I have to say, you really are as powerful as the rumors claim..." Within the largest remaining chunk of ice, Brain's severed head gazed at Achill's thunderous expression. He let out a deep, wild laugh, his