Sky Striker Ace, But Symphogear

But it was only a momentary lapse.

"Bad things, everything sorrowful, the resolve to face all of it... I made that resolve long ago!"

Her mind, shaken by the impact of her injuries, was pulled back by Hibiki Tachibana's reason moments later.

"Someone is crying right in front of me, a grieving heart is howling in anguish—how could I possibly spare any thought for anything else?!"

She ignored the instinctive urges to survive and flee.

At this moment, the will never to turn back continued to surge within Hibiki Tachibana's heart!

Answering her will, the magic sword's rampage stimulated Relic fusion. The Relic fusion unleashed energy, and that energy reconstructed new matter amid black light.

"Even if this body is riddled with wounds!"

She looked up. The blade that had missed its strike was preparing to fall and cut her in two.

"I will still use these hands to protect them!"

Her heart beat violently and searingly, driving the armor's built-in thrusters into overload.

Throwing herself wholly into a passionate counterattack, she shot upward on both feet and met the blade carrying pure malice head-on.

—Boom!

A violent explosion erupted between them as they clashed.

Naturally, Hibiki Tachibana came out worse. Against such an absolute gap in strength, words could only do so much.

But the tremendous increase in Relic fusion progress brought by reconstructing her limbs—and the explosive power it granted—was no illusion.

Thus, that sudden increase in explosive power allowed Hibiki Tachibana to escape an ending where only two and a half pieces of her would remain. In the end, she was slammed down to the ground, grievously wounded but still vaguely human-shaped.

My heart is so hot, my body is burning... Something is piercing through me. Is this the deepening Relic fusion that Ms. Ryouko talked about...?