Shit I hate being late...
Zuuuuu-
At the same time my voice rang, bright rays of red light came flashing out of Amaterasu's card. It looked more like a bomb, that was going to blow up. The red lights shined on not only us, but the several Tail joes and the Master beetle as well. When their blades were mere centimeters away from touching us...
"""KUAAKKKK!"""
"AUKKKK!"
The red rays quickly turned into deadly lasers, blasting all of the Tail joes and the Master beetle. The bugs went flying backwards, as their agonizing screams rang loudly across the streets. Master beetle's gigantic body was thrown like a softball, and got crashed into a building.
The Tail joes on the other hand, were cut clean in half by the lasers. Their metal plating weren't strong enough to block the laser, and was melted down like butter. Both the Master beetle, and the Tail joes stopped moving all together.
Master beetle and Tail joes. The bugs that we thought were unbeatable, was knocked down in mere seconds.
"What... in the world just..."
"Itou, that lasers... It just knocked those bugs out with no problem!"
"But it didn't hurt us. Even though we were exposed to the red light."
"Oh, yeah...It did, didn't it?"
We had the same red light shining on us. Rays powerful enough to cut/ take down a giant bug, should've cut me and Chihiri into pieces by now. And yet we were left unharmed. The lights which were deadly lasers to the bugs, were instead comfortable to us, like taking in warm sunlight.
"Well, of course. There's no way I would harm master or Chihiri sama."
"Huh?..."
Me and Chihiri both looked up where Amaterasu's voice came. And at the same time, we were left speechless.
Wearing a traditional beautiful kimono, shining in bright orange and gold, we saw a goddess with shining beauty like the sun. The whitest of skin, jewel like sparkling eyes, everything about her was like a piece carved into perfection. Amaterasu's long silky black hair, flowed gently in the air like a stream, while she slowly descended to the ground. It was a sight that was nothing less of godly.
When Amaterasu came down to the same ground next to us, me and Chihiri's face turned bright red and our hearts kept beating like crazy. We both couldn't think straight, like me and Chihiri were bewitched by Amaterasu.
"Uh... Master? Chihiri sama? Are you two alright?"
When I got my head straight, Amaterasu was waving her hand in front of me. Both shocked and somehow feeling embarrassed, I jumped back a bit, and shook my head to stay cool and focused.
"Oh! Uh.. Yeah. I'm fine. Um, Amaterasu? I know this might sound weird, but can you give me your hand for a second?"
"My hand?"
Amaterasu gave me a curious look, as if she also thought that this was an odd request. Amaterasu looked at the front and back of her hand for a moment, and held it out in front of me. As expected from her, Amaterasu's hand was beautiful as she was. Her slender fingers, glistening nails and flawless fine skin, was like looking at an idol's hand, that I was kinda nervous to touch it.
After taking a small gulp, I reached out my hand and slightly touched her fingertip.
Tut-
I could actually touch and feel Amaterasu's hand. I was surprised how smooth her skin felt. And the warmth from her hand was so relaxing, that just by touching it, felt like I was in a warm and comfortable blanket. I wanted to hold her hand, but I held back the urge to, and pulled back my hand before I change my mind.
"Wow. You really are real..."
I looked at Amaterasu with amazement.
"Of course. Did you think I would be a hologram?"
"N, No. It's just that... You looked so beautiful, and thought that couldn't be real... W, What the hell am I saying?! F, Forget I said that!"
My words just came out of my mouth without even crossing the brain, to think about how embarrassing that sounded. My cheeks became so red, that they were literally flaming hot right now. I turned my head left away from Amaterasu, so that she couldn't see what a mess I looked like.
"I'm... Beautiful?... U, Umm... It's a little embarrassing, but I'm glad... you think so?..."
Amaterasu slightly scratched her cheeks(which also turned red), while fidgeting her body like she didn't know how to react to my compliment. However, Amaterasu seemed to like it, and she quietly laughed to herself, while giving me a warm smile like saying 'thank you' without saying it.
I've seen Amaterasu in her card form before, and she was pretty even then. But seeing her like this in person was a whole new level. And seeing her cute reaction, the impact of it was making my heart skip a beat.
"I guess she's not called a goddess for nothing... How am I going to keep seeing her, if she's that..."
"Hm? Master, why are you whispering to yourself?"
Amaterasu surprisingly caught my mumbling, and immediately asked me about it. I thought I was talking pretty quietly, but I guess I was wrong.
"Ah! No, this is!... Uh... H, Hey, Chihiri! Don't keep your mouth open, and say something!"
To avoid things getting embarrassing and awkward again, I dodged Amaterasu's question and decided to bring Chihiri in. I pulled Chihiri's hand and tried to put her in front of Amaterasu. Hoping that this will change the subject.
Chihiri still stood like a statue and kept looking into Amaterasu's bright brown eyes. Until...
"Yaaaahhhh!"
"Kyah?!"
"Wa! What's wrong, Chihiri?!"
Suddenly, Chihiri just shouted out of nowhere, and quickly dashed towards Amaterasu. Seeing Amaterasu with eyes like they had a fire in them, Chihiri was like a hungry wolf that spotted it's prey. Amaterasu, who kept her cool even when the bugs attacked, flinched in terror, while screaming like a little girl who was bound to go through a lot of therapy.
And then...
"Will you marry me, O' beautiful one?"
Chihiri slid the ground with her knees and stopped right in front of Amaterasu. While kneeling with glowing eyes, she placed her left hand(which was holding mine) to her chest, and stretched out her right hand to Amaterasu like some kind of wedding proposal.
'The hell?...'
I gave my hand, and my face a proper meeting together. If I was able to reboot my brain, I would do it in an instant, so I can get this ridiculous scene out of my life. I swear if this was a manga, there would be wind sound effects by now.
"...Ex..cuse me?..."
Amaterasu was confused beyond her understanding. Back and forth, Amaterasu looked at Chihiri and then to me several times, like she was trying to search for answers. Through body language, I told Amaterasu to ignore what Chihiri is saying, by shaking my head and hand left and right.
After that, I eased up my fingers for action and walked towards Chihiri, who was using some half assed pickup lines to try to impress Amaterasu. Which sounded familiar, since it came from all the animes and mangas Chihiri watched.
"If you give half of your life to me, I shall give half of my life to, OWOWOWOW!"
"How about, before you give someone your life, why don't you take care of it, so that you don't pull pranks like this. Hm?~ Doesn't that sound good?~"
"UOUOUOUO! Iduo! N bibe ub! N bibe ub!(OWOWOWOW! Itou! I give up! I give up!)"
Cheek pinching is the perfect cure for fixing a troublemaker. Pinching both sides even helps Chihiri to listen to reason. I'm not a sadist or anything, but it was surprisingly enjoyable to me. Her cheeks were soft, and even stretched out like marshmallows.
After getting Chihiri's promise to behave, I released her cheeks which turned really red from all the stretching. While giving Chihiri some time to cool off her cheeks, I turned my head towards Amaterasu.
"I didn't know that you were this strong, Amaterasu. When you took out those bugs, I was like 'holy shit'! I had goosebumps all over my arm."
"Well, I'm strong because I have you, master. A pioneer is important to a unit, as a unit is important to the pio... I'm sorry, but would you excuse me for a moment, master?"
Fwoosh-
"I, I don't mind, but for wha..."
Amaterasu held out her hand forward, and then a giant barrier wall shining in gold light, appeared in front of us.
"HA!"
And in the blink of an eye, it blocked Master beetle's huge fist, which swiftly came down from the sky.
BHAM!
The sound of the impact violently rang like a thunderclap. Huge shock waves spreaded throughout the wall, that the barrier looked like it was vibrating on it's own. But despite how it looked, Amaterasu's barrier didn't budge to the attack, and even bounced off Master beetle's fist.
"Damn it! Then how about this!"
Right after bouncing off, Master beetle grabbed the barrier with it's hand. In the other hand, it radiated a disturbing looking dark energy, and curled it's fingers into a fist to strike the barrier again.
"When will you learn that you are over matched!"
Amaterasu's hand was faster. She pointed her fingertip to where Master beetle was, and lowered it straight to the ground.
"Kurg!"
Suddenly, Master beetle's gigantic body lied flat on the ground in an instant, like something extremely heavy was pushing it down.
"You can control gravity, too?!"
"Well, a little? Though, I can only hit targets that are in one place."
"That is so coo..."
All of a sudden, I saw another vision appear. Showing right behind our backs, some of the Tail joes were still alive, even when they were cut in half. They were running towards us at full speed, while letting out red lights, that were glowing between the gaps on their black plating.
I had a good idea on what the red lights meant.
"Urgh!... Tail joes! Attac..."
"Amaterasu! The Tail joes are coming at us from behind! Take them down, before they self destruct!"
"What?! H, How did you?!"
"Wait, those centipedes? How're they still alive... Whoa!"
Me and Chihiri looked back at the same time. The Tail joes that were lying dead on the ground, weren't in the same place when we first saw them. And just like my vision, a dozen of Tail joes ran towards us from the ground, and the building walls. Even though they were missing half of their body, the Tail joes still moved pretty fast.
"K-K-&U-A%!"
"K-KILL THE#! B-B-BL T*EM! RI& THEM TO P-PIECES!"
The Tail joe's stutters were even worse. They were barely functioning from the laser's damage. Leaving trails of black fluid behind them, it was almost a miracle that the Tail joes were able to even move. Blowing themselves up, was the only weapon they had left, since they were going to cease their functions shortly. Because they had nothing to lose, the Tail joes looked more frightening than ever. Their eyes dripping with black fluid, all they seemed to care about now, was to take us with them.
"As ordered! Chihiri sama! Master! Step aside!"
"G, Got it!"
We quickly ran behind Amaterasu.
"""T-T-T-TOO LATE!"""
When they were barely two meters away, the Tail joes jumped high and swooped us all at once. The red lights on their bodies started to flicker very fast. Like a siren warning us that the Tail joes were going to soon blow up.
"I will not let you harm master, or Chihiri sama! Gaia pillars(Flame of earth)!"
Amaterasu turned her palm to the ground. And from it, seven huge pillars of fire came bursting out, and burned Tail joes to a crisp, until there was nothing left of their bodies. The ones from behind couldn't do anything while in mid air, and jumped into the fire like moths to a flame.
"Whew..."
Amaterasu let out a sigh, as every single Tail joes were burned away to ashes. At the same time Amaterasu clutched her hand, the pillars of fire immediately stopped and vanished completely, like it's job was done.
Seeing there was nothing left of the Tail joes, me and Chihiri walked forward both relieved, and both worried at the same time.
"Wow. You actually took them all out. That was fantastic, Amaterasu."
"My pleasure, master."
Making a faint smile, Amaterasu slightly bowed her head to me, like some kind of royal princess. Which doesn't seem that far off, if I think about it.
"Thank god that they didn't blow up. How did you stop them from exploding?"
Chihiri asked a good question. Normally you don't use fire to get rid of explosives. That tends to blow up instead of stopping it.
"Well, technically I did not stop anything."
"What do you mean?"
"I simply just burned every part of Tail joe's body."
"...And that helps how?..."
"An explosive is dangerous, IF it detonates. If every part of the bomb burns away at the same time, there's nothing TO cause an explosion."
""...Ok, then.""
Me and Chihiri just nodded our heads in agreement. Unlike her appearance, Amaterasu's methods were quite... rough.
'I hope she doesn't try that way on gunpowder...'
Now that the Tail joes were out of the way, we turned our heads to the next 'problem'. An eight story tall bug, laying flat on the ground.
Unlike the Tail joes who got destroyed by a single shot, Master beetle's armor was thick and durable enough to withstand Amaterasu's attack. Thanks to that, it was the only Megacolony unit that was still alive.
"Your troops have fallen, Master beetle. I suggest you don't try anything stupid."
"Ugh!... Hehehe, look at you. Getting rid of a couple of bugs, and you're already on your high horse. Pathet.. Arrgh!"
"Your attitude will bring nothing but pain to yourself."
Master beetle screamed in agony as the gravity pressing it's body became more stronger. The force of the gravity began to sink the very ground where Master beetle was laying down. Loud bone breaking sounds came from within Master beetle's body. Not only that, even it's sturdy armor started to crack by the lethal force. I didn't care about Master beetle getting hurt, but seeing it in this magnitude made me feel slightly uncomfortable.
When Master beetle was unable to talk from the pain, Amaterasu weakened the gravity while still pressing Master beetle to the ground.
"Is there anything else you might want to say?"
"Ha.. Ha... Heh, you think... I don't know that you're just... going to end me? I got... nothing to say except... Fuck you."
Even going through the pain of it's body being crushed, Master beetle snickered while still keeping it's irritating tone. Amaterasu closed her eyes for a second and let out a deep saddening sigh. Her asking Master beetle might have been for information, or seeking a chance of redemption towards it.
Master beetle had neither.
"...Very well. For all the horrid actions your kind has done, I, Amaterasu shall execute..."
A massive amount of spiritual energy came pouring out of Amaterasu, as she lifted her left hand towards the sky. Absolutely filled with spirit energy, Amaterasu's hand no longer felt like a normal hand even though it looked the same as before. It was more like a gigantic ax, bigger than anything I could imagine, that was ready to chop off Master beetle in a heart beat.
"Wait."
"M, Master?..."
Amaterasu stuttered and halted her hand the moment she heard my voice. Stopping halfway, it was mere seconds before Amaterasu could completely lower her hand. Confused beyond words, Amaterasu turned her head and looked at me like she was trying to get an answer. Including Chihiri, who looked absolutely dumbfounded by my last second stunt.
"Is there... any reason for stopping me, master?... If you do, please tell me?"
"I'm really sorry for this. I know that this makes no sense, but I have to ask that 'thing' something."
"N, Now is not a good time!..."
"Yeah! Ditto what she said! The hell do you have to ask to that piece of shit?! D, Don't tell me that you're trying to show sympathy?! That thing is obviously a threat, and god knows how many innocent people that bug alone harmed!"
Chihiri frowned her face as she walked towards me, and grabbed me by the collar. Her face, her eyes were filled with rage. She was ready to knock me down with her fist if I say yes.
"You think I'm trying to save that thing? That shit bug dies right here, no questions asked."
"Huh?... Then why..."
"Like I said. I'm just going to ask something."
I nudged Chihiri away from me and got her hand off of my collar. Whatever Chihiri might have thought, I had no ounce of mercy to offer to that fucking bug. I haven't forgot how Master beetle treated humans as simple batteries. Chihiri didn't say another word when she saw me gritting my teeth.
"...I understand, master. But please make it quick."
"Got it. Thanks."
Amaterasu still had doubts on what I was thinking. But she knew that I wasn't going to back down. Instead she focused her eyes on Master beetle and strengthened the pressing gravity. Making sure that it doesn't even look at me the wrong way.
"Ask me? Didn't you hear me, dipshit? I'm basically a cow marching to a slaughter house. There's no god damn reason for me to do anything! If you really want to do a right bargain why don't you try to persuade me, huh? If not, you can just fuck off..."
Even being crushed by gravity, didn't stop Master beetle from talking whatever the hell it wanted to do. Even when it was utterly pointless, Master beetle kept struggling and squirming it's body constantly to try to be free. It was downright obvious that Master beetle would try to stab us in the back in a heartbeat if it got the chance.
Master beetle's face was planted to the ground and yet I could see it's shit eating smirk, like it wanted for us to see.
"Amaterasu."
DUUUUUU!-
"Argh! Uff!...Uff!... Agk!"
Master beetle's calm voice soon turned into a blood gurgling scream. The gravity pressing Master beetle's body got even stronger than before. The huge gravity completely devastated the ground around it, so much so that it changed the place into a giant crater.
Master beetle's thick armor crumbled in seconds. And at the same time, we could hear the sharp sound of bones breaking inside Master beetle's body. Master beetle had no time to talk out of it's ass, while it was too busy coughing out huge amounts of black blood.
When it looked like Master beetle was going to die, Amaterasu weakened the right amount of gravity before that could happen.
"Haa!...Haa!...Ahh..."
With the crushing pain gone, Master beetle spat out the remaining blood from it's mouth and started to gulp in air as much as possible. It seemed that Master beetle was about to die from suffocation first rather than it's body getting crushed.
"Thanks for stopping at the right time, Amaterasu."
"No need to thank me, master. Punishment is only natural for whoever insults my master."
I looked at Amaterasu and she looked back at me nodding with a warm smile. After that, Amaterasu turned her head to Master beetle and her kind face turned ice cold in a second. Meanwhile, Master beetle's loud breathing turned normal again. It didn't speak a word, fully knowing that Amaterasu will do it again if it did. With nothing to interrupt me, I started talking.
"If you want to bargain, fine. You have two options. A, you're going to answer me and die a quick death, or B, you're going to die SLOWLY and PAINFULLY to the limit, that you'll feel like a live frog being dissected. Do you GET what I'm saying? Or do you want another demonstration?"
Master beetle, who would've flat out ignored or made fun of what I would say, didn't joke and stayed dead quiet until I finished talking. Master beetle glared at me with full intention of wanting to horribly murder all of us, but at least it meant it was paying attention.
"...Well then... you drive a hard bargain there... Fine, ask away..."
It didn't take long for Master beetle's answer.
"...Why."
"Huh?"
"Why did you have to do those horrible things to innocent people? They didn't even have Psyqualia... You could've found a Psyqualia user like Amaterasu without doing any of it! If you looked hard enough, nobody had to die by your fucking hands! But why did you have to!..."
I yelled out every single word as loud as I can in front of Master beetle's face. I had to stop when my throat was to sore to talk. I could feel the bitter taste of blood while catching my breath.
I just couldn't believe that there was no other way.
And I also didn't want to even think for even a second, that 'what if' Amaterasu had to do the same thing that Master beetle have done before she met me. That I SHOULD feel afraid of her.
Amaterasu and Chihiri seemed like they had something to say, but didn't and stood quietly as if they couldn't. Master beetle didn't move an inch or even say a single word. It looked like it was thinking about something, or had nothing to say about it's own actions.
That's what I thought, until...
"PUHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
The silent air around us was broken apart by Master beetle's loud laughter. Master beetle twitched and twisted it's body like it went crazy all of a sudden. Even while being crushed, Master beetle kept on laughing maniacally. The sudden change of attitude just came out of nowhere, that at first I didn't know how to react. But my reason came back quick, as my body trembled in anger every time I had to hear Master beetle laugh.
"What's so funny?!"
After gritting my teeth I screamed out to Master beetle. Master beetle soon stopped laughing, but Master beetle kept snickering between words as if it couldn't help itself.
"How can I NOT laugh, when this is the easiest deal I ever had to do! Seriously? 'WHY' I did it? That's all you want to ask? Hahahaha! What a joke! I don't know if you're retarded, or REALLY retarded!"
"You... You dare..."
I felt Amaterasu's spiritual energy quickly rising next to me. I looked at her and Amaterasu's eyes turned violent. With her hand shaking as if she was going to kill Master beetle this instant.
I quickly grabbed Amaterasu's hand and spoke to her by telepathy, before she had the chance to actually do it.
'Calm down, Amaterasu! That bug's no good to us dead!'
'There is no reason to calm down! Don't you see, master? Master beetle is just playing you! Every second it's alive is a threat to master and Chihiri sama's safety! It must die!'
'I know, but... Look, just let it talk and then you can do whatever you want to it. Ok?'
I couldn't tell her the real reason why I needed to hear it from Master beetle.
'Haaa... If you say so...'
She didn't like it, but Amaterasu decided to go along with my...
"Well, I'll tell you what you want, since it's ridiculously easy. Also since I have nothing better to do."
"Uh, what were you two talking to each other?"
"It's nothing."
Chihiri looked at me with confused looks. She knew that me and Amaterasu were able to talk telepathically, but through her eyes we were just staring each other.
"Because it's natural."
Master beetle tossed out the words from it's mouth like it was nothing. No stuttering, no pause, or a single hint of thought behind it.
"What... do you mean 'natural'?"
"You heard me, natural. You thought that I had some big reason, or was forced to do all those things? I don't know what's going on inside that peanut of a brain you have, but we Megacolony have our rules. In fact, we have only one rule."
THUM!
That moment, Master beetle pressed the ground with it's two hands and jolted it's head up like it was about to stand.
The front side of Master beetle's face was badly smashed by the continuous gravity press. The black blood from the puncture wound covered Master beetle's entire face. We barely saw Master beetle's eyes and mouth moving, while the sludge like blood kept dripping from it's face.
"'The strong devours the weak!' That's what we know, and do best than any other pathetic nation in Cray! Yes, we 'could've' found a Psyquaila user without killing. We 'could've' acted what you call 'civilized'. But why should we care the well beings far inferior? It's like taking care of a pile of dirt. There is just no reason for it. And that would mean neglecting weaklings their rightful use. To become our food, and the honor of being fuel to power superior beings such as us! There's no personal reason for killing humans on this planet. Their lives mean so little for that to happen. Although, there was some form of joy when killing your kind. The screams they sent before they died... Ooh... Truly enjoyable..."
Master beetle's nightmarish face was nothing compared to what it said. Master beetle wasn't a murderer, or even a psychopath. It was a monster. Who doesn't know, see, feel, or even care about anything that we hold dear. The world that it knows were so different that it was almost pointless to expect anything beside the word 'alien'.
"..."
"Y, You fucking piece of shit! You think because you have a mouth, you can say that kind of shit like that?! Amaterasu! If you're not going to kill that piece of shit, let me have a go! Let's see if you can still talk with your mouth ripped off!"
Amaterasu stayed silent, but her gaze towards Master beetle were filled with absolute disgust. Chihiri was pissed off beyond reasoning. While cursing and yelling on top of her lungs, it looked like she was about to run out and kill Master beetle by herself.
I don't know what I was hoping from this. Maybe a small part of me was hoping that, a fucked up being like Master beetle would at least feel something at it's final moments. And it did. In the most god forsaken way, that it was almost chilling. But thanks to Master beetle's straight answer, there was one thing made very clear.
That there was no reason for any hesitation.
"Now, don't forget our agreement. A quick death for my magnificent speech, remember?"
"...Yeah. Can't forget that."
As much as I wanted to watch Master beetle suffer, I wasn't going to go back on my word. And to be frank, I don't even want to see that son of a bitch's face for even a second.
"It's all yours, Amaterasu. Make it quick."
"With pleasure, master."
I never thought that asking someone to kill will be this easy. It was almost worrying on how I felt nothing when saying it. Luckily, Amaterasu didn't seem to mind at all. In fact, she looked rather relieved to finally take out Master beetle.
Amaterasu stepped forward as if she was preparing to do something. It also meant for us to stay absolutely behind her. Whatever she had in store for Master beetle, it was going to be big.
Looking at her, I couldn't help but imagine the amount of anxiety she must have gone through, while I was wasting time to a monster who would kill us with a smile on it's face.
'Amaterasu was right about Master beetle all along... I guess I owe her an apology after this.'
FUUUOOOOO-
As I was thinking of an apology, the spirit energy inside Amaterasu suddenly skyrocketed. Massive amounts of red aura surrounded her head to toe. Feeling her spiritual energy this close made my whole body shudder, even more than when I was paralyzed by Master beetle's pressure. The second she radiated her energy, I knew that it was nothing like mine.
Not just the color. Power, amount. density, there was no better word to explain other than 'overflowing'. And something that I didn't expect, a will. I could feel Amaterasu's own will inside the flowing energy. It almost felt like her energy was alive.
And the thing that I felt, and was making Amaterasu's energy so powerful, was her will to kill.
"Master beetle, you have committed so many violent crimes and harmed countless innocent lives. And even when my master gave you a chance of redemption, you refused and insulted his kindness. As one of the clans who swore to protect this planet, and my master, I, Amaterasu will consider you as a dangerous threat to this world, and hereby execute you."
KUGUGUGUGU
The entire sky above us began to turn dark. The weather itself suddenly changed as Amaterasu's energy grew stronger and stronger. We could hear loud sounds roaring inside the blackened sky, like thunderclaps in a lightning storm. However, unlike a normal lightning storm, the sound was louder than any thunderclap I've ever heard, and yet there was no drop of rain or even a change of wind.
Me and Chihiri's eyes were glued to the sky. Looking at the abnormal weather made both our arms full of goosebumps. If this was the calm before the storm, we were afraid of what comes after.
"Be grateful that my master chose your death to be quick, Master beetle."
"Heh, duly noted."
Right after Master beetle finished it's words sarcastically, Amaterasu lifted her hand high up towards the sky without any hesitation.
That's when hundreds of red rays came pouring out from the black sky. The ray's light was quite faint. Nothing like the deep color of Amaterasu's energy. Rather than scattering everywhere like it's supposed to, every single ray moved and headed towards one place.
Which was Master beetle, who's body was glowing red by the falling rays.
'The rays... aren't doing anything?!'
The faint light of the rays instantly grew stronger, covering Master beetle's body in thick red light. However, the rays didn't seem to do anything besides make Master beetle more harder for us to see. Despite that, the ray's lights kept getting stronger and felt like I was going to go blind if I keep seeing it.
I was about to ask Amaterasu on what she was doing right now, until Chihiri grabbed me by the shoulder. When I looked at her, she said nothing and just pointed at the sky. I looked at the sky again, expecting the same black sky.
It wasn't. The black sky turned crimson, glowing in pure red. It was like seeing the end of the world come true. And the sky above Master beetle glowed the brightest. Not just the light, when I felt the weight of the enormous amount of spiritual energy, it was like the sky was going to fall down.
And then I knew. The rays weren't the attack. It was merely the pointer for the 'real attack'.
"Ten- Kou- Batsu(Wrath of the sun)."
Welp, that bug is dead. RIP Master beetle!
P.S: I'm really sorry for being late...