"Cough, cough... it hurts so much..."
Gasping for breath, Lingmeng felt as though several of her ribs had broken.
She stared at Yoshino and Yamai in the sky, her feelings a tangled mess.
Just a little while ago, they were calling me Big Sister Lingmeng and their familiar, but once the fighting started, they hit harder than anyone. Boohoo... no love left at all.
"Lingmeng! Are you okay?!"
Shido shouted from a distance, worry written all over his face.
Miku beside him wore the same expression.
"Dream-chan, please don't die...! (??^??)"
Lingmeng wanted to say she was fine, but reality apparently wouldn't let her.
Not only was she injured, but the Spirit Power inside her was almost depleted as well.
Ahh... was fighting several Inverse Spirits while sealed too much after all? So much for being the Strongest Spirit...
At that thought, a helpless smile crept onto Lingmeng's face.
Meanwhile, Mana's voice rang out from the sky again.
"Gah—"
Mana screamed as she slammed into the ground from the sky, kicking up a cloud of dust.
"Mana... are you okay...?"
Lingmeng asked with a slight frown.
Wounds of all sizes covered Mana's body, and both her Connection Suit and Realizer had been damaged.
Her injuries didn't seem much better than Lingmeng's.
Bracing a hand against the ground, Mana struggled to stand.
"Don't worry... I'm not dead yet..."
As she muttered, she raised her head to look at Tohka above.
"So I really can't beat her...? In her Inverse Form, Tohka can already fight that woman Ellen on equal footing..."
Tohka looked down at them from above and spoke.
"Hmph—pathetic."
Then she pointed the Nahema in her hand at Lingmeng and Mana.
"I'll finish all of you off in one go!"
With that, she loudly called out that name.
"**Nahema—Sword of