Homura clicked his tongue with a bitter expression to that.

  But, he didn’t object.

  Because he also understood that it was the valid countermeasure.

  In the first place there was also the large factor that if he didn’t do that then Shiori wouldn’t be saved.

  However, …although that countermeasure was a valid one but it was also an incredibly risky move.

  That was why Homura――

  “Unrestricted limit. From Malchut(tenth) until Kether(first)――forced purge!”

  The that had continuously bound him.

  He forcibly tore apart all of it.

  Instantly, ――an impact shook the star.

  Because was a magic formula that suppressed Homura with the very power of this planet itself, forcibly releasing it made a backlash appear as a cataclysm on the star.

  Earthquake that shook the ground. Lightning strikes that rained down from the sky. Tornadoes――

  It was a spectacle as if it was the end of the world.

  But, the people that were in Tokyo life sphere, …didn’t even notice such a spectacle.

  It was――darkness.

  From Homura who had torn apart , deep jet black magic power light surged out from Homura as if it would paint over the whole world.

  That darkness covered the whole Tokyo life sphere, wrapping the area in an even deeper darkness than the dead of night.

  “…………–!”

  Sumika and the others were dumbfounded from witnessing for the first time the power and presence of Homura who was in his full power.

  Looking at Sumika and the others who were like that, Homura said.

  “Right now I have dispelled . Because that guy is an opponent I can’t go easy against and won’t be able to beat unless I do this. ……Shiori also ain’t here, so once I start fighting, I won’t be able to back you up like that time with Elfiena. Even so, can you bastards intercept that murderous bunch just by yourselves?”

  At the fighting against all the until now, Homura still had the composure to secretly make preparations for assistance even though he was dragged down by his surroundings.

  But this time he wasn’t like that.

  By some kind of way, an had manifested in possession of a complete flesh body.

  Even for Homura, against the Michael who possessed strength and popularity that could even be said as a symbol of the world of heaven as an opponent, he had to challenge such an enemy with his full strength.

  In other words, no matter how cornered Sumika and the others were against the without Homura, he wouldn’t be able to back them up cleverly like until now.

  Homura exposed his own lack of leeway and questioned the determination of Sumika and the others.

  In response, although Sumika was taken aback for a moment from Homura’s full power, she immediately straightened her expression,

  “Protecting the citizens from the fires of war is the duty of the national defense magicians. We have received training for the sake of that. It’s nonsense to question our determination for that. Besides――”

  Sumika asked back with a dignified voice and eyes that were filled with a strong resolve.

  “For Homura-san, Shiori-san is someone that is more important than a mere old acquaintance right? …Then please go. We still don’t have the power to fight together with Homura-san, but exactly because of that, dragging down Homura-san is the only thing that we don’t want to do.”

  The expression of Sumika who answered so, and also the expression of the people standing at her side, were expressions that Homura knew well.

  It was the same like his comrades of the who once fought together with him and fell in battle.

  That was why he understood exactly.

  The people with this kind of eyes wouldn’t step back no matter what kind of despair they faced.

  Despite being a brittle and weak existence that would break completely just from a little damage, they staked their lives for the sake of someone other than themselves.

  From the point of view of the strong Homura, it was something unbearable and terrifying… he couldn’t help but think that it would be far better if they just let themselves be protected, but――

  (……Really, what a really good woman, to the degree that I even get fed up.)

  At the same time, ……he was really grateful and reassured, to the degree that he felt vexed.

  Just as Sumika said, for Homura, Shiori was……

  {I’ll take [responsibility] for your future. ――That’s why, live.}

  An important person that he didn’t want to lose.

  Then, there was only one action that he should take――

  Homura took out the grimoire , and chanted while making the pages flutter from the wind.

  “Lower down the stair of time. ―― Quachil Uttaus!”

  Thereupon, a streak of light from the sky shined into the world of darkness that was enveloped in Homura’s magic power.

  And then that person laxly descended that path of light and appeared from the sky.

  Its appearance was a humanoid mummy with size almost as big as a human.

  There was not a single hair all over its body, its skin was dry and rotten with web-patterned wrinkles carved on it.

  At the part that seemed to be its head, there were no eyes, nose, or mouth, there was only a hole that seemed to go on forever until the depths of the abyss, each of its body parts were pierced, its two hands were stiffened in a thrusting forward position as if searching for a mother.

  Its appearance was as if it was the ghost of a fetus that had dried up completely, unable to even get born into the world.

  This ugly and repulsive existence was exactly the divinity that was recorded in the , Quachil Uttaus.

  And then the moment that divinity descended.

  Not to mention Sumika and the others, all the people inside the Tokyo life sphere had a divine protection of sorcery affixed to them.

  “This is……!”

  “……Thinking about the fight with an after this, I can’t really waste magic power. This is just a simple summoning with the chanting discarded, but even so, with this it should be easier for you to intercept those guys.”

  This was the declaration of Homura’s intention.

  Homura was determined.

  That he would entrust this place to Sumika and the others with this divine protection as a parting gift.

  “Listen. Absolutely don’t kick the bucket until I return back!”

  “……-, YES-!”

  Sumika replied her consent with a loud voice towards Homura’s encouragement.

  After Homura listened to Sumika’s vigorous reply for the last, he chased after the Michael,

  (――I’ll murder him right away……!)

  He leaped into the gate himself.

  Right after that, the gate closed after swallowing Homura――

  {Notification for all national defense magicians! The deployed around Tokyo life sphere is beginning to march all at once!}

  When the enemy began to move, the message was sent to Kinugasa from the observer of the observation radar that had been restored.

  {So they wasted no time to quickly attack when Homura-san is gone.}

  Kinugasa who took the command of this place closed his eyes to resolve himself against the enemy’s movement――

  {Announce the third issue of the emergency manual! Abandon the first and the second defensive line! Please operate the bulkheads of the third defensive line!}

  He opened the channel of mind transmission to all the magicians of Tokyo life sphere and gave out his order.

  Hearing that command, the actual scene immediately reacted with well-trained movements.

  On the circling line surrounding the imperial palace with a radius of five kilometers, armored walls with thickness of ten meters and height of seventy meters raised up from the underground while making the ground rumble, becoming a rampart that enclosed the space inside the Tokyo urban areas.

  So that the tragedy of wouldn’t be repeated, through these five years this trump card of this city defense had been constructed.

  After confirming the deployment of that trump card, next Kinugasa also connected the transmission channel to the city broadcast and spoke to all the humans within the life sphere.

  {From now on we will concentrate all our battle strength in the third defensive line and deploy in a siege battle.

  All national defense magicians, as well as the student magicians, please take the in the nearest national defense army facility and arrange your battle preparations.

  The non-combatant personnel are to follow the third issue of the emergency manual and guide the evacuation of the citizens.

  All citizens, please evacuate to the geo-front.

  All citizens located in the first and second defensive line are to use the underground linear train and head directly to the geo-front.

  As soon as all citizens are recovered, explode the linear line. Quarantine the area physically.

  All citizens, please complete your evacuation in a hurry.

  ……Surely everyone has questions about Innocentius’ words and the cooperation with the , but right now the enemy is advancing here with certain intent to kill. Please, for the sake of repelling back the approaching threat, just like the time of , I want all of you to lend me your power……!}

  Hearing those words of Kinugasa, the citizens all closed their mouths and nodded, they then took action following the instructions.

  The citizens of this life sphere knew, just who it was that was worthy of their trust.

  That trust didn’t waver from just Innocentius’ words.

  On the other side――, above the sea of Tokyo bay.

  The American army aircraft carrier that had been prepared beforehand as the headquarters of the somehow passed through the cataclysm that was produced from Homura tearing through .

  “So the waves have finally settled down.”

  “Eight ships capsized. Six ships in serious damage from collisions. ……Chih! This much damage just from the release of his power. An absurd asshole like usual! Just how is that guy really human!”

  The president of America, Joseph, who felt relieved and Tairon, who clicked his tongue from the severe damage report of the sea force that he received.

  “But it also can be said that he is cornered to the degree that he has to lift off . With our unswerving determination for these five years, we finally can see the prospect of victory.”

  “But that wall is a little troublesome. Like this the land force cannot advance.”

  “Whaat. Rather than having them scatter from panic, having them gather in one place like this is more convenient for us too. After all our role is to capture the people of the Tokyo life sphere without letting even a single one escape so that they can be used as the energy for laying out the barrier that Michael brings.”

  “Yes. Exactly.”

  Innocentius also agreed to Tairon’s words that were returned to Leti.

  The duty that was bestowed to them was to capture the people of Tokyo life sphere.

  It would trouble them more to deal with people escaping everywhere.

  “And then, …the time right now is a good opportunity with the away from Tokyo life sphere――!”

  There was no other timing to attack other than now.

  Innocentius represented the and gave the order to the whole army after confirming that the gate was closed.

  “All forces, full speed ahead! Surround Tokyo life sphere and suppress them!”

  With this the allied army under the banner of the began advancing.

  Warships from the sea, tanks from the land, and fighter aircrafts and equipped magicians from the sky.

  Each of them deployed and rushed to Tokyo life sphere from all directions with violent force that was ten times more than Japan. In addition――

  “Don’t get stingy. ……All of you too depart immediately.”

  Innocentius also gave the sortie order to they who were on stand by aboard the warship headquarters.

  “Aaa!? Something like that is obvious already you senile gramps! Just who the hell d’you think we are!” (TN: Damn, the sentence just now is a complete copy from Gurren Lagann)

  “Yes, just now was truly impolite to us.”

  “Do you think that we, the , will let live the heretics that go against the holy work of god I wonder?”

  “Nnnnnn~~~~!”

  “E, e-e-e, eve, everything is, in, in-in accordance with, go, god’s, will……!”

  A man with bristling up red hair that was like a flame.

  A bald headed man wrapped in binding clothes combined with sewn shut eyes and mouth.

  A sister or something with a pallid face and a katana in one hand.

  Men and women that each possessed unique appearances.

  Those people that were burning with fighting spirit were the that were gathered for the sake of the day that was today.

  ―Like this, the spark of the all-out war between Japan and the Five Great Leaders’ allied forces was fully lit.

  Chapter 3

  * * *

  The war between Tokyo life sphere and the Five Great Leaders’ allied force finally began.

  The one who took the first move was the air force of the allied forces.

  Under the lead colored clouds, drops of rain began to fall.

  Countless aircrafts drove through the sky and rushed to Tokyo life sphere.

  {I see it. The nest of the shitheads that conspire with demons.}

  {Ain’t their defense something. They are just guarding.}

  {I’m gonna shove my thick dick there now and make them say ‘hii-hii’ just you see.}

  Even while exchanging vulgar talk through the wireless, the pilots moved to do their work.

  The role granted to them was to destroy the protective wall that was protecting Tokyo life sphere with missiles.

  Each pilot controlled their console and locked-on to the wall.

  After that,

  { { {FOX2!!!! (Missile fire)} } }

  They pressed the button for missile fire.

  From the aircrafts that numbered more than 200 even just on the side of Tokyo bay, missiles numbering more than double of those aircrafts were released.

  No, not only aircraft missiles.

  The warships above Tokyo bay were also shooting their missiles.

  And then those fired swarm of missiles approached Tokyo life sphere with white smoke trailing behind them.

  ――They impacted the protective wall.

  Heat and black smoke bloomed and roared that shook the sky.

  ……However regardless of that much concentrated firing, the veil of coiling black smoke shook due to the sea breeze, and the pilots saw inside the appearance of the wall that was just slightly sooty.

  {Oi, oi, you serious! There ain’t even a crack!}

  {It even got hit by the warship missiles, aircraft missiles won’t do anything to something like this.}

  The pilots were amazed.

  But, that was only natural.

  In the first place this protective wall was something prepared for use against demons.

  Destroying it using man made ammunition was out of the question.

  Even if it was hit by a nuclear missile, this wall wouldn’t be broken through physically.

  Therefore, the mission entrusted to the first wave of the air force to destroy the wall using missiles was impossible to be accomplished.

  In this situation, the commander of the air force immediately called to all pilots using wireless.

  {Notifying all pilot. Changing the strategy to plan B. I repeat. The strategy is changed to plan B.}

  {This plan B is―……}

  Plan B was the tactic for the case where the missile attack failed to inflict a telling blow to the wall.

  Giving up on the side that was protected by wall, they would descend from above the sky that was virtually defenseless.

  The descending unit would try to steal the control of the wall and open the wall from the inside, that was the tactic.

  The ones who became an obstacle this time were the interception units of the enemy that were deployed above the wall.

  The protective wall was thick, it was also equipped with the likes of anti-aircraft gun and anti-aircraft interceptor missiles, turning it into a place that was well-suited as a defensive line.

  The intercepting unit that was deployed here would become an obstacle for the helicopter sending in the descending unit and the magicians equipped with .

  Therefore the role that was assigned to the aircraft units in this plan B was concentrated attack on the enemy units above the wall.

  They rained down gun shots and bombardments and obstructed the interception units from deploying.

  {Put simply we just got to let loose our guns properly.}

  {Ai―n’t that right.}

  {Hah, this is an easy win!}

  While saying that, the pilots pressed the switch of their aircraft gun.

  There was no feeling of tension at all in them.

  That was also only natural.

  This time the allied forces managed to slip under the radar and launched a surprise attack.

  It hadn’t been five minutes since Innocentius declared the war proclamation.

  In other words, right now the enemy should be running around in panic from the sudden surprise attack.

  Like that, naturally, not to mention the interception unit, the set up of the anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft missiles hadn’t been done adequately.

  After all, the enemy didn’t have the leeway for that timewise.

  If that was the case, this mission would only become one-sided killing――that was how it was supposed to be.