"No matter how beautiful a scene from the past may have been, it is still gone..." Kagura opened her eyes fully. A cool gaze glimmered with an unreadable emotion as she watched the Celestial Spirits roaring toward her. Lowering her stance, she pressed her right hand firmly against her Tachi's hilt! "But now, we need only hold fast to our convictions," she said quietly. "Use our swords to sever our obsessions—"
"Choose our own fate, then accept it, because everything comes from the choices we ourselves make—" The Celestial Spirits drew ever closer, so close that she could clearly feel the powerful magic rushing toward her. Yet Kagura remained utterly unmoved, standing quietly in place. Her soft murmurs seemed directed at Yukino, but also at herself. "Each of us guides our own future. If that future offers us no light, then we must use the swords in our hands to cleave it open and cut through it!!"
"Grudge Blade: No Shared Sky!!" All the magic radiating from her instantly withdrew into her body. Then, just as the three Celestial Spirits were about to strike her, Kagura vanished from the spot—
Boom— An enormous magic blast, formed from the combined full power of the three Celestial Spirits, slammed into the place where she had stood! The violent shock of the magical explosion instantly gouged a massive crater forty or fifty meters across into the ground—
Kagura abruptly appeared behind the three Celestial Spirits, her hands pressed firmly against her Tachi's sheath and hilt. Having just unleashed their magic, the spirits were momentarily stalled, not yet recovered enough to prepare their next attack. Seizing that brief opening, she cried out in a cold, low voice, "Unsheathed! Tachi form!!"
"Demon Rampage!!!"
Magic flashed. In the next instant, all three Celestial Spirits were sliced