Fine, I'm Not Mad Anymore

Shiori's pupils contracted.

She warily scanned her surroundings. No strange impulse rose within her, and the air still seemed utterly peaceful. Kurumi smiled at everything before her.

But clearly, that wasn't the case. Something... something had definitely changed.

A thick, incomparably violent cannon blast of magic power descended swiftly from the sky.

Its immense range and power made it seem as though it intended to blast the island into the sea and tear everything before them to pieces.

Huanyue felt the shifting air currents, her bangs lashing wildly through the air several times and becoming far more disheveled.

She curled her lips with playful amusement, as if about to laugh, but did nothing. She merely raised her gaze toward Shiori and spoke in a quiet, pitiful voice.

"Save me... save me, Shiori..."

"What?!" Shiori's eyes flew wide open, her face darkening as she shouted desperately, "Huanyue, don't joke around with your life! Don't disregard yourself like this, hurt yourself..."

Shiori was nearly trembling herself into collapse.

20 seconds.

"This is what you did in front of me before, Itsuka Shiori." Huanyue smiled without concern. "Mm, I'm still mad at you even now. Though you don't remember anymore. Oh~ right, you forgot everything."

"Being able to get revenge on you once like this couldn't be better. I'm super petty, after all." Huanyue smiled as she tucked her silver bangs behind her ear, as though she did not care about the situation in the slightest.

13 seconds.

An intensely sharp shudder ran through Shiori. Her face was filled with tension and panic as she clenched her teeth. Even the second hand, usually so swift, seemed agonizingly slow at this moment.

Eyepatch Kurumi seemed to understand as she sank into the shadows without intervening, but her hand unconsciously tightened around her gun. The