Eternal Resting Place

Yudola was pinned to the floor, but her erratic shouting and screaming didn't stop.

『You… You tricked me!』[Yudola]

Nova silently breathed in before letting the breath out.

『...Release the spell. I don't want to kill you.』[Nova]

He took hold of the anger that she manipulated him into, with Sir Fluffles as the catalyst.

「If I don't save you now, Sir Fluffles… Reischneid... I don't think I'll be able to in the future!」[Nova]

The blood giant was slowly melting, but Mune's Raiment finally dissolved after several minutes of keeping it up.

『...Here we go!』[Mune]

He took the pure black dagger in his hands and threw it into the blood giant.

『Bias Flame!』[Mune]

The dagger slowly sunk into the giant, being absorbed by it.

『Alright! Mune! Go!』[Nova]

The giant exploded into a mass of black flames, melting the blood giant even more.

Nova finally broke a smile in the hopes of the battle ending.

Yudola began to maniacally laugh, though.

Nova looked back down at her, wondering why she was laughing.

『You think that the giant is done for?!』[Yudola]

Mune suddenly knitted his eyebrows.

『The energy is too potent to burn… We'd have to wait here for too long for the flames to burn it down.』[Mune]

Nova's face seemed to turn into one of despair.

Yudola's expression turned into one of bliss.

『Ahahahaha! That's the face I want!』[Yudola]

Nova suddenly tightened up the submission hold that he had on her, prompting her to moan loudly and for Nova to ignore it.

『RELEASE THE SPELL!』[Nova]

『...Even if I could release the spell, I won't!』[Yudola]

The giant suddenly began to rampage.

Mune's expression changed, deciding it was time to act with a stoic face.

『Crap. The finale of life, the protector from death...』[Mune]

Mune seemed to pour out as much mana as he had into this, starting to glow yellow.

『...The magnificent ballroom in which we battle for our lives! The grounds in which we spill our blood is also the place where we may break bread and spill wine... Domain! Eternal Resting Place!』[Mune]

Hundreds of swords and other weapons began to rain from the sky, some piercing into the giant directly.

In retaliation, the giant began to spray jets of blood everywhere, some hitting Mune and causing some holes to appear in his flesh.

This only reaffirmed Nova's resolve to get Yudola to stop the giant.

『...RELEASE THE SPELL!』[Nova]

She smiled back and looked at him with an ecstatic expression.

『...No~!』[Yudola]

Out of nowhere, the giant lost interest in attacking Mune, and began to turn around for Nova.

『Wha-?! NOVA!』[Mune]

Nova was too focused on Yudola to react immediately, but he looked up when Mune shouted.

He was just in time to see a giant blood fist coming at him.

『What?! Area!』[Nova]

The moment he raised his hand up and formed the Area as a way to redirect the attack, the giant somehow managed to make contact with it.

『Wh-What?!』[Nova]

Coils of colorful lightning began to spark in every direction when it made contact with Nova's Area.

He suddenly felt an arm grab his wrist, causing him to let go of Yudola in shock.

Nova looked back and saw Mune standing there with a disheveled appearance.

『Get out of the damn way!』[Mune]

He threw Nova several feet away, causing Nova to roughly bounce off of the ground and slide.

Nova quickly turned around to find Mune's arm stuck into the giant's fist.

『Mu-Mune!』[Nova]

Mune looked back at Nova, keeping a brave smile on his face.

『...Live, and…』[Mune]

He raised his other arm into the sky and coalesced a yellow orb.

『GET OUT OF HERE!』[Mune]

He crushed the orb, causing the countless weapons on the floor to begin shimmering and vibrating.

The blood giant materialized tendrils to pull Mune into its body, quickly enveloping him.

『MUNE!』[Nova]

Nova got up in an attempt to reach out for him and pull him out, but there was no way for him to.

Mune immediately got sucked into the blood giant, leaving no trace of him behind.

『..A...』[Nova]

Nova kept staring with a despairing look at the blood giant's fist.

The blood giant pulled its fist back, getting ready to punch Nova.

A shouting noise began to fill the clearing, however.

『Class B-2! Let's do this!』

Nova was stunned back into movement, hearing the name of his class.

Yudola slowly pulled herself off the ground looking around at the surrounding weapons that shimmered, embedded into the floor.

The yellow particles that filled the air whenever Mune used his Domain technique coalesced into the transparent shape of people, wearing the same uniform as Nova did at school.

A silhouette that seemed familiar to Nova appeared next to him, a girl with long hair and a strawberry hairpin.

『Who… are you?』[Nova]

The silhouette appeared to have heard Nova, looking over at him before giving him an open mouth smile.

He couldn't see her eyes, nor hear her voice exactly, but there was something natural about each of these silhouettes.

They pulled the weapons out of the ground and began to run around the giant and focus on it, save for the girl, who stood there and placed her hands in front of Nova.

The light coalesced around Nova, healing his injuries before the phantom of the girl joined the rest of the phantoms in battle.

He looked up at the blood giant.

『...I have to run…?』[Nova]

Yudola began to stand up and laugh.

『No~. Please don't go~. Stay here~.』[Yudola]

She laughed loudly.

The phantoms of people that looked like students of Genesis Academy all assaulted the blood giant, whose black flames began to die.

The giant would occasionally strike some of them, causing them to vanish back into yellow particles.

『...Area.』[Nova]

Yudola's expression suddenly turned into one of panic as she ran at Nova.

『NO!』[Yudola]

Nova was wrapped up by a black space as he disappeared into thin air.