"Canon-sama, we found them"
"They are heading toward the forest Master Canon"
…
"Well let us hunt them"
"Let's go Canon"
"Now that I think about it…isn't you are supposed to be invincible in nature?" Shinji questioned, "why didn't you just go to the forest and beat them black and blue?"
"I spent too much time in the urban area, and even in nature I am not invincible just harder beat" Hinako explained "they are trapping me to make sure I can only fight with limited energy, and if I am correct they preventing me to go into the forest. "
"Is that so…then how can we arrive in the forest easily?" Shinji puzzled
"Well, there no way they can think a magus will help me on a whim" Hinako grumbled "and to them, you are just merely a magus, not a magician"
"That makes sense…hey how many Dead Apostle can we expect coming here"
"Originally three…but in my last-ditch effort, I managed to kill one after that in my dying breath you found me. So only two left and don't forget about their vampire minions "
"Okay let us fight them one on one" Shinji suggested "afterall I don't think our teamwork level is enough for a group battle"
"...sure"
1+1=2, That was a really simple math problem but in battlefield 1+1 answer is not always 2. 1+1, If the pair have enough understanding of each other the value of their teamwork worth more than 2 but if the pair didn't even have the minimum understanding lets just say they are worth less than 2.
That was the reason Hinako agree with Shinji suggestion of splitting up. For one Hinako have a little understanding of the individual called Shinji Matou.
A magician at age 13…that absurd, can't use Magecraft properly…that also absurd but after checking his shitty bounded field, Hinako can easily claim she is better…
Shinji claim he was saving her on a whim…even though Hinako suspicious, Hinako can't see any sign of deceit from Shinji.
Shinji really saves her on a whim…
With that Hinako tell everything about her circumstances, with the hope Shinji wants to help her against the Dead Apostle.
Shinji rejected, Hinako already sees it coming afterall Shinji was a magus, and Magus doesn't help anyone for free.
So Hinako states a price for helping her. The location of Houtengenki. It was something that Hinako find years ago but because at that time Hinako still looking for a place to settle and can't use it, Hinako just left it there.
Hinako shook her head
At her peak, Hinako can beat and wipe the floor with all the apostles that hunting her.
There is a reason for Hinako current weakness
In order to blend into human society, Hinako began to suppress her nature and powers over time, this came at the detriment of severely weakening her and it took a large source of energy, such as a servant, for her to be able to regain most of her strength
'I have to focus' Hinako observed the Dead Apostle in front of her, long black hair, and wear a black coat that matching with its hair
Hinako strike the Dead Apostle with her energy powered blow, in an attempt to defend against it, the Dead Apostle right arm, shoulder, and part of its ribcage blown off
"Haha, if this any other night this wound will make me back off" The Dead Apostle laughs smugly "but tonight is Full Moon!"
Dead Apostle and True Ancestor reach the height of their power at the full moon.
The time turned back at a speed that makes anyone that looks at it think of it as a regeneration.
'Damn' Hinako grumbled in her heart 'Of all night why tonight is a full moon?!'
'I plan to beat this guy by blowing him to piece with repeated powered punch' Hinako grimaced 'if this keep on my energy exhaustion will be faster than the recovery'
'I need to use Marble Phantasm' Hinako takes a deep breath 'with my current reserve I can use it only one time, I have to make sure he will die when I activate it'
To fight a 'Fantasy' you need its conceptual weakness or greater 'Fantasy'.
Conceptual weakness can be skipped because Hinako didn't have any Anti-Dead Apostle weapons. So Hinako can only use a greater 'Fantasy'
As an incarnated Elemental/Spirit that part of nature Hinako has access to Marble Phantasm (Fantasy Manifestation).
Marble Phantasm is the ability to materialize a phantasm, a vision. It is the capacity of an Elemental or True Ancestor to connect their will to nature, as a means of interfering with probabilities, and transfiguring the surrounding world at will, in accordance with their vision of the world.
Much like a mathematical metaphor involving drawing a white marble from a bag of black marbles with a one percent chance, Marble Phantasm is the ability to raise that chance to one hundred percent and definitely pick the white one amongst all the black ones. This remains within the laws of the world, but similarly, a Reality Marble would allow for all of the marbles to turn into white ones
The Dead Apostle strikes with a force that can kill a normal person, Hinako parried and countered with a strength that can rip a normal human. Such a strong blow only makes The Dead Apostle flinch.
Both of them trading blow on blow, each blow can kill human, pulverize boulder, rip off layered steel, causing intense wind and affecting the landscape.
It was a stalemate, The Dead Apostle has free restoration and Hinako can't use energy exceeding her recovery or she will become vulnerable to the next attack.
"Damn, where is Canon?" The Dead Apostle grumbled "Isn't he supposed to kill the Magus quickly and come over to help me? I am really at disadvantage here…if not for the full moon I already die after the first strike"
Hinako put energy on her feet and using it to jump at a speed beyond human eyes. The amount of energy used was lesser than Hinako energy recovery speed in the forest but still high enough to drain her easily in urban areas.
Seeing the attack coming and not taking any risk or chance, the Dead Apostle dodged, resulting in a spiderweb crack in Hinako landing place. At the same time, the Dead Apostle countered with a strike that if it hit a normal human will leave bloody gore.
Parrying the attack, breaking only her left arm in the process Hinako punched the Dead Apostle with power that literally bisected it into two, the upper body crash into a tree, and the lower one followed thanks to the intense wind created by the punch
"Damn that hurt" The Dead Apostle complained its upper body still stuck in the tree, the lower body just below it
The time start to turn back leaving a Dead Apostle that still feeling phantom pain in its stomach.
Not taking any chance Hinako attacked with a strike that enough to pulverize the boulder into dust
The Dead Apostle smirked and powered its arm with strength and literally jumped using his arm. The tree and the Dead Apostle lower body pulverized at the contact with Hinako fist leaving a gore straight horror movie.
Time turned back, but Hinako didn't take any chance. Hinako kicks the Dead Apostle that finally gets one of his legs back. The Dead Apostle countered using a punch that literally can break layered steel
It was mutual destruction between foot and arm, both side limbs pulverized
"Give up," said the Dead Apostle smugly "you can't beat me on the full moon, we are both equal in a sense"
With a thought, Hinako foot returned, and the Dead Apostle finally back at full limbs
"What did you mean we are equal?" Hinako raised her eyebrow "Equal? Don't make me laugh, in that fight, I only check the limit of your restoration"
"!"
"Marble Phantasm" Hinako pointed at the Dead Apostle "Air Pressure: Vacuum Zone"
The wind sucked out the Dead Apostle body making the Dead Apostle a living vacuum zone, crushed under air pressure/atmosphere, the Dead Apostle turned into a ball and finally crushed by Hinako hand.
After making sure the Dead Apostle dead, Hinako dropped on the ground. She was extremely tired
"If that Dead Apostle still alive I will be the one who died" Hinako sighed "Just using it once really emptying my energy reserve, that guy really strong if I fight him in urban area, my energy already empty when he is stuck in the tree."
"What about Shinji situation? Did he already win? Well, he is a magician I am sure he is okay somehow"