In a world of boundless white, Aoko Aozaki once again experienced the despair of being unable to do anything.
"Ugh...!"
She pressed a hand to her chest, feeling as though her body would explode at any moment. Life should never have existed in such a void. Had Roland's Made in Heaven not been protecting Aoko, she would have died long ago.
Feeling her circuits run wild and her power distort, Aoko could find nothing to brace herself against. Pale-faced, she could only force down the pain in her body.
"You forgot that you no longer have the infinite magical energy you borrowed through True Magic. Maintaining your previous output rate will only drain you dry."
Roland floated unconcernedly in the void, speaking in a leisurely tone.
The Magic Bullet Aoko had fired dissolved into nothingness before it could even spread through the void. At this moment, before any phenomena had come into being, such things could only fall apart.
Despite her extensive combat experience, Aoko Aozaki was completely at his mercy in this situation.
Amid the silence, Roland suddenly gave a teasing smile.
"If you want, you can keep quiet like this. I don't mind spending an entire day playing with you. Time isn't accelerating right now anyway, so we still have quite a while to spend together before the singularity is born. Besides, there happens to be something worth admiring... You have a nice figure. For a high school student, I could even call it outstanding."
In this void where nothing existed, privacy was naturally superfluous.
Aoko Aozaki flushed and instinctively hugged herself, her alluring body swaying as she glared at Roland in embarrassed anger.
Clearly, however, this attempt to conceal herself only drew more attention and accomplished nothing. When Roland's gaze swept over that spot, Aoko felt weak