[Under the devastating impact, comparable to a small nuclear explosion, you hid in Shadow Space, feeling the violent tremors around you that threatened to tear space itself apart.]
[Yet deep down, you were surprisingly calm about Mahoraga's defeat and death, and not particularly surprised.]
[Rather, from the moment you decided to summon Mahoraga, your greatest hope for it had merely been that, in this utterly hopeless situation, it would secure as many results and as much breathing room for you as possible.]
[Because in a previous simulation, when you faced the mysterious figure with stitches occupying Suguru Geto's body, he had not only seen through your intention to drag him into Mahoraga's subjugation ritual at a glance, but had also attacked with such ferocity that he left you no opportunity whatsoever to summon it.]
[So from the very beginning, you had made the most pessimistic but also most logical assumption: this woman of unknown origins with stitches absolutely knew Mahoraga's abilities and mechanics.]
[Her understanding of this divine general might even have surpassed yours, despite you being the user who had replicated the "Ten Shadows Technique"!]
[But judging by the results so far, Mahoraga's brief appearance had been nothing short of illustrious.]
[It had single-handedly killed a special grade cursed spirit in an instant, without any suspense, and had also forced that volcano-headed cursed spirit to use his Domain Expansion and that terrifyingly powerful Maximum Technique attack.]
[This had already exhausted them considerably and exposed their trump cards.]
[Had this followed the usual course of a desperate situation, your precarious struggle at your limits might have ended here.]
[After all, once Mahoraga was completely annihilated and that distraction was gone, those monsters would absolutely turn all their firepower and killing intent back on you immediately.]
[And right now, you were