Elka supported her weight by stabbing her sword into the ground.
Breathing heavily, sweat ran on her forehead.
“Not even one of your attacks is working against me while I haven’t exercised my abilities. If you receive my attacks, it’ll be over in one hit. I’m letting you dodge them now, but how long will you hold out I wonder?”
“Kuh…Aah”
Elka grasped her sword tightly from her excessive regret.
Even in this situation where danger to her life was drawing near, she could not completely concentrate.
Whatever she tried, Setsu’s figure floated inside her head.
( …If I die like this, will I be able to go to Master Setsu’s side, I wonder)
Her thoughts fell in a dark direction.
Even if Elka were to be defeated here, her other allies would be able to take down this sacred sword, who took on the appearance of a boy.
Even if Elka were to die, the final results would not change.
“I was unable to… defeat my enemy, right?”
Finally, Elka gave up on thinking.
She chose to die here and release anything and everything.
When she let go of all her strength, the figures of Yuuhi clad in black flames floated in Elka’s mind.
(What I thought in my last moments is my apprentice’s completely changed appearance… this isn’t like me)
She tried to laugh at herself on her own, and opened her mouth――That moment.
“――――No that’s wrong”
In whispers, Elka so muttered.
“Yuuhi is right”
Elka pulled out her sword from the ground.
She brushed off the dirt off the sword by swinging it left and right, and then raised her face.
“I… didn’t accept the fact that Master Setsu had died”
Tears ran along her face.
She did not want to accept it, she did not want to admit it.
Setsu is alive, that was what she wanted to think.
“Nothing but monologues since a while ago, you’re getting creepy~. What happened?”
“ … You’re all irresistibly detestable”
Cold air began to drift about at Elka’s feet.
“Yuuhi fully accepted Master Setsu’s death. That’s why she has been that angry”
The atmospheric temperature dropped in her surroundings.
Frost began to descend on the soil and tree leaves.
“It was a simple thing once I have completely accepted it”
In Elka’s eyes burned a light that had not dwelled in there until now.
That would be, her intent to kill.
A cold, then hot emotion.
“Detestable… The god of creation is, and you are, detestable”
“… Hey, you’ve got good eyes now haven’t you”
Elka’s heart was completely wrapped around in the hatred she had suppressed.
She wants to kill the boy in front of her eyes, Leviathan.
She wants to kill the ringleader of all, god of creation Creasyl, with her hands.
Her feelings of hatred which lost its destination before she was aware of, discovered where they had to go.
“――I’ll kill you”
“Just try!”
Elka kicked the ground.
Leviathan moved to ready his sword.
“Too late”
“Huh-!?”
Elka caught and held the arm that was holding Leviathan’s sword.
And then Elka violently thrust her own sword onto Leviathan’s thigh.
“What are you doing――――”
“Stop crying”
“Gi-”
Elka twisted her sword.
Naturally, blood began to overflow from Leviathan’s thigh.
She appears to have struck the bones as well, from the fact she felt something hard from her sword.
Unimaginable pain assailed Leviathan.
Leviathan, who raised soundless screams from that, was completely petrified in that place.
“Hah-!”
Elka pulled on Leviathan’s arm.
Elka drove a jumping knee kick to Leviathan’s face as he fell over.
The force of the pull and kick combined, and sounds of bones breaking came from Leviathan’s face.
“Gyahi-… Y- you”
“I won’t let you go”
Leviathan’s body was once again pulled.
Elka never released his hand.
“Hah!”
Releasing her hand from the sword thrust in Leviathan’s thigh, Elka drove a fist in his face.