"[Hey]!"
Hidden in the shadows, Kurumi's real body wore an utterly grave expression. Without hesitation, she fired a shot into her own temple!
Images of the next few seconds instantly flooded her mind!
She saw it!
She saw that woman, like a god of slaughter, finish off the tenth clone before unhesitatingly thrusting her blade into the very shadows where she was hiding!
"Trying to catch me? How naive!"
Kurumi sneered and prepared in advance.
Sure enough!
The instant the tenth clone was cut to pieces, Shiki appeared before a patch of shadow as though she had teleported. The Tachi in her hand carried the breath of death as she drove it down!
Shhk-!
That patch of shadow, along with the space it occupied, was forcibly "killed," exposing Kurumi hiding within!
Yet at the very instant Kurumi's real body was forced out!
The astonishment at the corners of her mouth turned into an eerie smile of a scheme fulfilled!
"Got you-[Zayin]!"
An invisible bullet had already left the muzzle of her other gun, precisely striking Shiki Ryougi at point-blank range!
Bzz-!
Time froze at that moment!
Shiki Ryougi's body, along with the Tachi she was about to swing down, was fixed motionless in midair!
"Hehehe, it's over."
Kurumi immediately fired [Aleph] at herself, gaining extreme acceleration as she prepared to leave the battlefield.
However-
Just as she was about to escape!
She heard a voice like a nightmare.
"Is that so?"
The figure frozen by [Zayin] actually... slowly moved!
Shiki Ryougi's Mystic Eyes, shimmering with rainbow light, were quietly studying the layer of "time stop" binding her.
In her vision, even the very "concept" of "time stop" possessed an unmistakably clear... [Death Line]!
"So even 'time'... can die."
She murmured softly and lightly swept the Tachi in her hand through