I Became a Spirit in Date A Live, but I Refuse to Date

It didn't matter whose Angel he had summoned. As long as it could split the sky, that was enough!

Shido nodded with conviction and looked up at the sky again.

He gripped Sandalphon's hilt with both hands. His stance looked just like that of a real swordsman.

He recalled how it had felt to use the Elemental Spirit.

Then he applied that feeling to Sandalphon in his hands.

Shido drew a quiet breath and raised it over his head.

"Haaaaaaah...!"

With that cry,

Shido swung Sandalphon at the three figures in the sky as Tohka watched.

The next moment, Sandalphon blazed with dazzling white light.

The slash traced by its blade stretched farther and farther, becoming a blade of light that shot into the sky.

"Do you two have to be so stubborn!? Can't you just admit defeat!?"

Lingmeng had dodged Kaguya and Yuzuru's attacks and opened more than ten meters of distance between them. Looking thoroughly fed up, she spoke with weary irritation.

She had lost track of how long they had been fighting.

All that time, Lingmeng had been beating the two of them without taking a single hit.

Kaguya and Yuzuru, on the other hand, had been covered in wounds.

If Lingmeng hadn't used her power over time now and then to heal them,

there probably wouldn't have been a single uninjured spot left on either of them.

Yet Kaguya and Yuzuru both smiled without a trace of fear.

"Heh heh heh. Such minor wounds are nothing to fear."

"Persistence. Yuzuru will not admit defeat."

"That's what I'm saying... Can't you two be honest for once?"

Lingmeng scratched her head in frustration.

"You're both terrified of dying, so why act like you don't care? Can't you face what you really feel?"

"Hmph. My only wish is