Karen-san makes the holy sword shine.
“Kuwaa!!” (Karen)
She was desperately trying to somehow break through the defense of Ates and run to help her comrades. But no matter how much light she releases from her holy sword, it doesn’t shake the perfect defense of Ates.
“How unsightly, Karen-san. Making your holy sword sparkle so much is boundlessly vulgar. Do you want to save that much the heroes of the other churches that are your enemies?” (Ates)
“They are not enemies! They are comrades that have overcome dangers together!!” (Karen)
She once again makes the holy sword Saint-George shine intensely. However, that sword slash was easily deflected by the tip of Ates’ spear.
She makes the holy sword shine again.
“How stubborn!!” (Ates)
On the other hand, the other four were more and more cornered at a critical point.
“Ugah!!” “Hiiiaaaa!!” “Kugh!!” “Dasu~~!!!”
At some point in time, Mirack, Celestis, Hyue, and Sasae-chan had been cornered at the center of the stage and had become one cluster of people.
And the previous heroes are encircling them.
It was as if the four inside and the four outside were drawing a circle.
In other words, the current heroes have been surrounded by the previous heroes and had nowhere to run.
“This is as far as you go. It was so one-sided that it was boring.” (Kyouka)
“Truly. I didn’t know our juniors were such let-downs.” (Sarasa)
“If it be going ta be like this, I didn’t even need ta participate.” (Yoneko)
“…Hihihi.” (Juo)
What are they saying. They utilized the elemental affinities to one-sidedly attack them.
“Do you understand now, Mirack?! This is how your naive thinking of cooperation will end up like! Relying on others all the time, you are now paying for not training yourself!” (Kyouka)
“Sis!!” (Mirack)
The big sister is one-sidedly blaming the little sister disciple.
“What’s required from heroes is strength. The strength to wipe out hundreds of monsters on your own. It looks like you, who were playing around as an idol, didn’t even reach that point though.” (Sarasa)
“Sarasa!!” (Celestis)
The gazes between the new and old water heroes were also dangerous.
The encirclement was also slowly closing.
“I’ll tell ya little chicks~. The meaning of the strength that heroes should possess. There be strength that ya absolutely can’t obtain by depending on others.” (Yoneko)
“Hihihihi~~.” (Juo)
Mirack and the others of the current heroes team had their back against each other and were facing the previous heroes that were approaching them from all sides.
That formation when seen from above was like the inside circle is made up of the current heroes and the outside circle was made up of the previous heroes.
“…Thanks for the sermon.” (Celestis)
Celestis said.
“But there’s nothing as saddening as listening to the sermon of idiots.” (Celestis)
“What did you say?!” (Sarasa)
Being told such a bold thing, the closing feet of Sarasa stop.
“Totally agree, Celestis. People that don’t even know where they are standing at and still speak their opinion to others can’t be described as anything but idiots.” (Mirack)
“Mirack, you bastard!!” (Kyouka)
Kyouka also stops her feet at the sharp abusive words of her junior.
“This must be what they mean by you can’t dress up your teeth huh. I am not that good with words, so I will stay silent.” (Hyue)
“I pass too-dasu~.” (Sasae)
The four haven’t given up.
Even when they are cornered in a totally disadvantageous situation…no wait, is this situation really as bad as it seems?
“Listen well, grannies. The reason why you were able to do as you wished until now was because your elemental affinities were fitting more than perfectly. For your side, that is.” (Celestis)
“As long as we fought individually, we wouldn’t have been able to overturn that disadvantage. However, now it is different.” (Mirack)
“Because we four have gathered now after all.” (Hyue)
“Dasu!” (Sasae)
That’s right, it is exactly because the four were dispersed that they were being suppressed by the bad compatibility of their opponent.
But now that they have been driven to the center and the four are in a cluster, there’s no need to force themselves to fight against the disadvantageous opponent.
“You haven’t noticed yet? Normally, the moment we ended up in a cluster, you should notice that your turn has already finished. Being drunk in your advantage, you couldn’t even see the battle formation. You are more muscle-heads than I thought!” (Mirack)
“Enduring has ended. From here on, it is time for…the counterattack!” (Celestis)
The circle of the current heroes made a 180 degrees turn.
At that moment, my brain created an image of a safe dial that has been turned in the memory area, and the safe opening.
What was drawn in the two sides of the previous heroes and the current heroes was…that by doing that rotation to the dial, the opponents of each one had changed.
Mirack’s opponent was the proxy wind hero, Brastor Juo; Celestis’ opponent was the previous fire hero, Kyouka; Sasae-chan’s opponent was the previous water hero, Sarasa; Hyue’s opponent was the previous earth hero, Yoneko-san.
By simply doing a half-rotation, the elemental advantages had cleanly turned!
“This is bad! Quickly—!”
“Too slow!!” (Celestis)
The current heroes attack their new opponents at once.
It was a complete turnaround.
“Damn it! Dual fire fist, [Flame Burst]!!” (Kyouka)
“Not enough, not enough! If you want to break my ‘Water Blade’, you will need to grow at least 10 more arms!” (Celestis)
Celestis vs the previous fire hero Kyouka.
The surge that the Miki-Moses created had swallowed the fire whirl along with Kyouka.
At the same time, in a different battle…
“How impudent! With the ‘Water Blade’ of my water folding fan, Dahyu, I will—!!” (Sarasa)
“Sobo-chan and Yorishiro-sama said the exact same thing-dasu… ‘When doing something, do it thoroughly’.” (Sasae)
Sasae-chan vs the previous water hero, Sarasa.
The swung earth scythe easily sliced apart the high water pressure blade and approached Sarasa.
“Eeek!!”
The other sides were similar to this, and that clear turnaround had been witnessed by the other pair that was watching from afar; Karen-san and Ates.
“Those idiots!! I told them that much that they should finish the battle while they were still isolated, and yet…!!” (Ates)
“As I thought, it really was you people who did something.” (Karen)
Karen-san calmly approaches Ates.
“Who knows. Don’t know what you are talking about. I am just saying that they are an incompetent bunch of trash that can’t utilize a chance to its best.” (Ates)
“I wonder about that. Do you really think that Mirack-chan and the others coincidentally gathered in the middle? What if they feigned as if they were cornered and skillfully led them?” (Karen)