I somehow understand maid’s arcana magic is all about cleaning so it’s all related to things like a black hole.

Mine is close to distortion but I don’t understand it at all, but maybe maid knows.

“Got it, let us commence the battle.”

Maid bombards the man with compressed hydrogen.

You could say it is a mini nuclear in a scale of a house. I charged in distorting the space to prevent the explosion from coming in contact with me.

Nil was staggering from the damage, but again, no visible signs of the injuries ot damage.

I tried to sweep his whole neck but was stopped because I have to dodge his hand that was about to grab my arm. I spin turn past him to sweep his nape, but he flung a kick at my face which I avoided. 

Maid then fire a dark bullet into his right arm that turned into a small black hole sweeping everything even the blood.

It gave me a chance to do multiple slashes at him. I even included a unnoticeable slash at some part of his hand and leap back before another bombardment of dark bullet comes.

Honestly, his movement is clumsy and slow, but his hand that was trying to strangle me earlier gave me goosebumps.

Even now, his figure that deprived a human form was instantly healed right before my eyes.

Is he even trying? I got back to maid’s side.

“It’s better like this when you’re serious, piece of trash.”

“Un, Maid. What do you think?”

“Troublesome filth.”

“No… that’s not what I’m asking…”

“Hou, Far from regeneration, he is just reverting the old state of his body before the damage happened. “

“uugghh…hassle…I will charge in one more time”

He didn’t even do anything while we are talking.

He is just staring.

Is he really that confident in his ability?

Maybe he is just sizing us up.

This time, I distorted space in front of me and connected it to his back making a mini warp. I tried to stab him in the back but it seems he was expecting it and he was able to grab my arm.

I twisted my body and was able to make him let go of it. I pulled myself out of the distorted mini warp and return to maid’s side when suddenly…

“Kuh!”

“What’s wrong?”

“My arm is in intense pain, the part where he grabbed it!”

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The man, Nil smiled at me and began speaking again.

“Do you like it? The pain that is.”

“This is…”

“As a service, I shall tell you two!~”

“A final boss revealing his secrets…”

“The pain in your arm is, of course, made by me! But it is more likely a curse than damage, but its duration will depend on the victim, though. In your case, it would take 30 minutes to remove it.~”

“What a nasty power….so it means even if the enemy has strong body enchantment or absolute defense, if you just touch them, the pain will erode the body?!”

“Of course! But you do know that it is just a petty trick of mine!~”

I have to squeeze more information from him if he is by chance, not alone or just our only enemy. It is one of the basics of being a hit man, information gathering.

“Ah!~ I really love this skill, though! It seems she didn’t notice it but I used it on Asagao!~ She was crying and sobbing magnificently! I can’t forget the despair and pain painted on her adorable face!~”

“……”

I can’t lose my cool here. The arm he touched is hard to move too.

“Piece of trash, No, Susanoo.  Let me take vanguard, you do the artillery.”

“Maid…no…Priscilla…”

“I’m going to bust some veins”

She charges in.

She creates countless black holes around her body. It serves as protection at the same time, it destroys anything that came contact with it.

Of course, it has a weakness, such as a soul weapon can cut through it, or it can be neutralized by exhausting the user.

“Oh! Another Arcana magician! This is really interesting!”

Nil said it with an irritating smile on his face. I began volleying dark bullets in the distorted mini warps to speed up its velocity. 

Priscilla throws the black holes to Nil, one by one to create openings. However Nil dodges them with speed that matches mine, but Priscilla trapped him in a vortex of black holes again with strong gravitational pull.

“This won’t do miss maid!~ “

Nil distorted the space around the black hole!?

He then surrounds Priscilla with black holes too. She can’t just throw a black hole to another black hole as it will have a strong gravitational force too and it might suck her up.

“Sorry, sorry! I forgot that to say that I can imitate arcana magic. It has a time limit, though.”

“Priscilla! Get away from there.”

“Give me an opening.”

I threw the bullets that I was volleying earlier to the black holes Nil created and to Nil himself. The velocity of the bullets exceeded the speed of sound so Nil’s reaction time is way too slow that the bullet has taken away both of his legs and one arm.

 Bullets then raze the tree’s behind him toppling them down to his direction.

Priscilla rushes to my side.

“Susanoo, I owe you one. My respect for you hasn’t improved, though.”

“That’s really harsh considering I save your neck there.”

“We can’t chitchat forever here. Have you finished analyzing his Arcana yet?”

“I already have a conjecture but we cannot delay one more attack now! Let’s do that now while he is still buried by those trees.”

“We still only have theorized on how to do it, though, but this will be a good experiment time now when our enemy is this infuriating and tough.”

Right, this skill is only formed by our own theory from our world. But I think that this will go smoothly as we know each other mutually.

When I say mutually, it means that I know much more things about her more than herself by instinct and the same thing goes for me.

Like she is in a furious mood now and she is on a verge of going berserk but she doesn’t realize it herself. There are things I myself I am not aware of me.

“Let’s do this!”

“Acknowledge!”

“”Arcana Resonance.””