-1110- [ Koukarin ]

"————!"

In an instant, the girl turned around abruptly and leaped a distance away.

"Minamiya Nichiyo...!?"

Watching the young man appear behind her, the girl widened her eyes and uttered a bitter cry.

"H-How did you...!?"

Though the girl's voice sounded pleasant, it was filled with anxiety and puzzlement.

Surely, she never expected Rozen to catch her so effortlessly?

Even if Rozen had captured the girl's jutsuryoku, reaching her within moments of detecting it was impossible without several minutes, even with flying, which would still take several minutes.

However, just as the girl's jutsuryoku was detected, Rozen appeared here, causing the girl to be shaken.

Yet the girl was no ordinary person; she immediately understood what kind of magic could achieve this.

"Could it be...Space Manipulation Magic...!?"

Even high-level mages needed specialized preparation and extensive time to perform Space Manipulation Magic, yet the opponent used it the instant her jutsuryoku was detected?

"Right...!"

At that moment, the girl remembered something.

That is, there were rumors about someone who could use Space Manipulation Magic as naturally as breathing.

————The Witch of the Void.

Renowned as the pure-blooded witch who hunts demons — Minamiya Natsuki.

This person was the older sister of the man standing before her.

"What? Are you scared by just this?" Rozen said disdainfully, "You dared to attack me when you are scared by this, quite courageous."

In truth, Rozen himself was startled when he saw the girl.

In the recent attack and defense, the assailant had silently cursed the bench below him, then immediately changed the jujutsu after the curse failed, transforming the completed jujutsu from a distance using mere wooden fragments as a medium. The skill demonstrated was truly astonishing, so much so that Rozen thought it was someone like Endo Yukari who attacked him.

Who would have thought that someone who could wield such power would turn out to be such a young girl?

"Now I'm curious where you came from."

Rozen still held his lunchbox, showing no signs of nervousness.

The girl gritted her teeth at Rozen's attitude.

"Damn you, 'Divine Child of Origin'...!"

The girl lowered her body and reached for the music box she had been holding.

"Oh? Looks like you're carrying a weapon?" Rozen raised an eyebrow, teasingly asking, "By the way, the last person who treated me like this is now my overseer. Are you also from the Lion King Agency?"

Rozen casually uttered these words.

Yet this sentence yielded unexpected results.

"Don't you dare speak of her so casually!"

The girl spoke out vehemently.

"I am a Shamanic War Dancer from the Lion King Agency! Kirasaka Sayaka!"

Upon hearing this, Rozen froze.

"Shamanic War Dancer?"

————Shamanic War Dancer."

This was a type of Attack Mage belonging to the Lion King Agency.

Like the Sword Shaman, the Shamanic War Dancer was also a national attack mage from the Lion King Agency. However, unlike the Sword Shaman, who was trained as a spearhead against demons, the Shamanic War Dancer excelled in assassination and curses, operating in the dark world.

However, by modern times, the need for Shamanic War Dancers to carry out assassinations had become rare. Since the appearance of the "Sanctuary Treaty," Shamanic War Dancers were hardly ever used for assassinations. However, they remained indispensable talents within the Lion King Agency because individuals skilled in assassination and curses possessed unique insights into these dark arts.

Therefore, the Lion King Agency often assigns Attack Mages serving as Shamanic War Dancers to protect important figures, serving as guards for key officials and ambassadors, or as monitors like Yukina, monitoring dangerous individuals and eliminating them when necessary.

In view of this, solely in terms of jujutsu and magic, Shamanic War Dancers even surpass Sword Shamans.

Outstanding Shamanic War Dancers can even threaten powerful demons with assassination and curses.

The most outstanding Shamanic War Dancer within the Lion King Agency once cursed and killed a third-generation vampire elder, using his immortality against him, sealing him underwater, repeating the cycle of life and death, which was quite terrifying.

If the girl in front of him was truly a Shamanic War Dancer, then it would explain why she was able to perform such splendid jujutsu transformations just now and curse the bench in the school without making a sound.

Of course, besides being a Shamanic War Dancer, there was another aspect of the girl in front of Rozen that intrigued him.

"Kirasaka Sayaka..."

Rozen frowned deeply.

He had heard this name twice before.

Once from Endo Yukari.

Once from Yukina.

"Your roommate, Kirasaka, has been eagerly anticipating this moment in the middle of the night, taking pictures of it as if it were a treasure. I was just curious how she could set up such a deadly curse in her wardrobe, so I took the liberty of breaking the curse and flipping through the album a few times. There's a picture of it here; would you like to see it?"

This was what Endo Yukari said when she took out the embarrassing photo of Yukina in the Lion King Agency's office.

"Sayaka... my roommate, we grew up together at the Lion King Agency. She's a year older than me and has always been kind to me, just like an older sister."

This was what Yukina said when she was advised by Rozen during her depression due to Astarte's matter.

One mentioned the surname, the other mentioned the given name.

Added together, it's her————Kirasaka Sayaka.

"You're Himeragi's roommate?"

Rozen looked at the girl who called herself Kirasaka Sayaka with surprise.

This sentence triggered Kirasaka Sayaka's anger.

"I told you not to mention her so casually...!?"

In her fury, Kirasaka Sayaka opened the music box and took out her weapon.

It was a sword that was entirely steel-colored, shimmering with silver arcs, similar in mechanical feel to Yukina's Mechanical Demon-Purging Assault Spear Mark Seven, but without the agility of the Mechanical Demon-Purging Assault Spear Mark Seven, instead possessing an indescribable heaviness.

Rozen had now read and memorized the magical knowledge in "No. 282" almost completely.

Therefore, Rozen immediately recognized the origin of the weapon in front of him.

It was a War God Device, just like the Mechanical Demon-Purging Assault Spear Mark Seven.

"Koukarin(Lustrous Scale)!"

Kirasaka Sayaka called her War God Device by this name, wielding the silver giant sword, and directly rushed towards Rozen.

The speed was extraordinary.

Obviously, the opponent had used physical enhancement jujutsu.

"Interesting."

A smile crept up on Rozen's lips, showing no fear on his face, he welcomed the slash of the silver giant sword in this state.