Chapter 144: Déjà vu

Touka's ability, in its barest form, is to manipulate reality. She can easily "project" Noble Phantasms, although they would be lacking without their 'memories'. In the first place, Shirou managed to project Avalon and Excalibur due to his shared connection with Artoria Pendragon. He shared the same memories of her wielding those two Noble Phantasms, hence he managed to record them in his Unlimited Blade Works.

The same went for the [Nine Lives Blade Works] as he read through Heracles' memories and sagas.

By using the memories of her sister, Takanashi Rikka, the image of her armaments becomes clearer. Add to that her own memories, it is as 'concrete' as it can get.

[Wicked Twinkle]!

From her eyes, dozens of red magic circles appeared before separating like a telescope. Then, a wave of colorful spheres crashed in the huge doll.

Boom-!

Boom-!

Boom-!

Surprisingly, the explosions of those rainbow spheres can obliterate half of this town alone. As a result, bright light illuminated the skies, making it look like daytime.

Still, the three weren't optimistic of it going down. Once the light died down, they saw Walpurgisnacht, unscathed once more. It gave off a weird laugh before it summoned a bunch of minions—shadows that are based on Magical Girls.

Shiro didn't mind them and focused on her thing instead.

[Swift Stride]!

[Ocular Enhancement]!

[Critical Strike]!

[Aura Enhancement]!

[Reinforcement]!

[Faker's Replica—Causality]!

The twin blades that is held by Shiro set ablaze. The fused flames rotated around them as her abilities are applied one after another. Just like earlier, she decided to utilize one of Sayaka's attacks, an aspect of it to be precise. It allowed her to damage it by limiting the causal effect of her attack into one.

That is, for her attack to hit it directly.

[Time Accel x50]!

Feeling the immense speed boost, Shiro executed a <<Sword Dance>>, a 99-hit <<Sword Skill>> that she got from Aincrad. She turned into a blur, going from the head up until the lower torso of the doll. Sword marks proliferated its body as she did so.

A second later, it is set on fire. White and black flames devoured its upper half immediately. Only the clockwork gears are visible right now.

Suddenly, Shiro and Touka felt the space around them constricting. It became heavier all of a sudden... until Shiro is thrown on a random ten-story building, crashing down in it.

As for Touka, she managed to negate it through her [Imaginary Domain].

Touka: "Are you all right?"

Shiro: "...I got surprised, but I'm fine."

After chatting Shiro, she continued to distract the strongest Witch by throwing out her projectiles. Sometimes, she smashed the big great sword on its head herself.

BOOM-!

BAM-!

CRACK-!

Their confrontation are so intense that they formed strong shockwaves that destroyed the town partly. The Walpurgisnacht didn't fight directly, though it manipulated the physics of the surrounding to repel Touka every time. As it did so, the earthquake became more intense.

It served to help it, however, as it pulled out many tall buildings with ten floors or more and threw it at her. It even threw some in Roman's direction, but they are well-protected by the Bounded Fields set up there.

"Damn..."

Under the huge rubble, a fair hand came out. With one punch, it generated enough force to crush these rubbles to dust. Fortunately, the armor that [Tail Gear] had provided is something very commendable. It wasn't even scratched during their confrontation!

Shiro absorbed the energy stored in the [Energy Box] while she shifted the ribbons on their previous position, reverting her state back to [Normal Chain]. The twin blades disappeared on her hands once it happened.

Shiro: "How much of its power are shaved by now?"

Touka saw this while fighting and responded instantly.

Touka: "5%."

"F*ck!" Shiro cursed, but what came out of her mouth is the voice of a young girl. "My full power without [Ittou Shura] and Touka's full-powered attacks only shaved it by 5%?"

She didn't even have time to mull over carefully as she found over five buildings about to crush her once more.

[Space Jump]!

Avoiding it, Shiro took out [Fragrant Olive Sword] and chanted, "Release Recollection."

Command circles appeared on the golden blade before it turned into countless osmanthus flowers.

This time, she added both [Critical Strike] and [Faker's Replica—Causality] on it. She also infused millions of magic power (mana/aura) on the blade, which increased the quantity of the golden flowers by a huge margin.

It covered the entire sky, making it a beautiful sight.

Shiro directed the flowers to cover Walpurgisnacht as best as possible. Meanwhile, it tried to repel them away, only to move it backwards due to their conceptual weight being great enough to resist it. Soon, it managed to encapsulate the Witch.

The flowers cut through air, with all of them gathering in one place.

"Explode."

BOOOOM-!

The strength of the aftereffects this time is massive. A strong circle of wind swept through the town. buildings who remained standing fell down and the rubbles from the previous earthquake flew.

On the other hand, the dark sky lit up once again. It seemed as if a supernova had occurred, alarming the entire globe... as well as the Magical Girls all over the world.

*****

"Ah? What is that?! It's amazing!"

"That direction... It's where Walpurgisnacht is headed... Such a strong magical attack can only come from a Magical Girl whose existence stands in the 0.0000001% probability."

The glasses girl besides her 'retorted' by writing in the air using her magical power.

{She's very strong. Why didn't we hear of her?}

Seeing this, the light green-haired girl with a jailer's attire responded:

"You know who's in that town. It's none other than that delusional girl~"

"Tomoe Mami? Everything makes sense now." The russet-haired girl said in realization.

{Are we going?}

Another girl with braided light brown hair wrote.

"Why not? I won't pass up on interesting things. See ya later~!"

Suddenly, the Engrish-speaking girl jumped off on top of the building. Though, she is soon followed by the other two...

*****

After casting [Infinity], Shiro wasn't affected by the dust cloud. Due to that attack, she strained her body and soul once more by using and refilling it with mana and aura. She took out an SR-rated [Restorative Potion] but it only made her expression less pale; it couldn't fully negate the effects of her action.

It's only until she downed a few more did her state turn for the better.

Shiro: "Roman, fire!"

Roman: "I already did!"

A moment later, a huge ray of light pierced through the dust cloud and hit the Walpurgisnacht once more. The power that it possessed isn't lesser than the first attack and Shiro's Release Recollection, too. Albeit, it's less destructive and more focused on a single target.

Buzz-!

The pillar of light swallowed the huge silhouette of the Witch once more. Though, Shiro saw a glimpse of a blue shield manifesting to block it.

Roman: "This is bad... It can only fire off one more time..."

Shiro: "Our initial estimates are wrong... Damn it!"

Roman: "The only good thing is that your attack damaged it enough to shave off 15% this time."

Touka: "We scraped off 40% right now. It's really a good thing that it can't perform more complex attacks."

As something that reached the level of gods, Walpurgisnacht is truly underwhelming. It has the power to bend reality at will, yet it only uses it to cause disasters, manipulate physics, and throw buildings at their faces.

The barriers prepared by them weakened the aspect of natural disasters, thus all that's left to face is its physics-bending powers. Once that 'imaginary power' is depleted, its immortality might be gone, too. Moreover, Walpurgisnacht have also used a barrier to block the ray.

Meaning, its damage will not be negligible once it truly hits it.

Shiro: "It used a barrier again."

Roman: "It did?!"

As expected, Roman instantly realized what it could mean for them.

Shiro: "Let's make the last shot memorable."

Roman: "Yeah!"

Shiro: "Touka?"

Touka: "???"

Shiro: "Let's synchronize our attacks again."

Closing the Chat Group panel, Shiro sighed lightly before shifting the ribbons upwards once more. The twin blades manifested in her hands once more.

She then flew towards the final boss while she had a sudden sliver of thought:

'What if it isn't the final boss?'