Before the emerald beam, whose point of origin was impossible to discern, the thick wall simply melted, letting it pass through without resistance.
Before the heat at the breach could spread, the immense impact stored within it swept outward. Vast cracks instantly covered the wall, and chunks flew everywhere like clods of earth tossed up by a shovel.
Only then did the enemy's footsteps reach them.
If Roland had not just pulled her aside, although the beam would not have struck her directly, even the flying debris grazing her would have been enough to put an ordinary person out of action.
"They have a way to pinpoint our location?"
After Roland's warning, Misaki Shokuhou grew serious too.
Although she was not good at combat, that was ultimately only in relative terms. Otherwise, she could not have escaped Deadlock's attack right away.
Startled but not panicked, Misaki Shokuhou quickly responded appropriately.
-Stray electrical light spread naturally outward, shattering every fragment that came toward them.
"What rude people."
The girl's expression slowly chilled, and her gaze suddenly sharpened.
"Get out here!"
She extended her slender hand, swiftly pulled out her remote, and pressed it without mercy.
An invisible AIM Diffusion Field immediately spread outward. Accompanied by a muffled grunt, another emerald beam, straight as a greatsword, abruptly bent like a fishing rod and stabbed diagonally to the side.
Amid a violent explosion and spreading smoke and dust, the adjacent room instantly became a heap of rubble.
"So the people upstairs really are unreliable..."
An irritated voice came from across the room.
A single strike had reduced everything around them to rubble.
Every piece of cover collapsed, and even the outer wall suffered extensive damage.
Amid currents of air that billowed upward like white silk where the structure had been pierced straight through,