Catching Naoki and laying him on the ground, then closing all the stab wounds on his body, Arcueid finally let out a small sigh of relief.
"This should be enough. Just rest for a day after this."
Although he looked very miserable, Naoki unexpectedly hadn't suffered too severe injuries. Should she say his physical resilience was strong enough, or was he lucky? The thorns had pierced all the non-vital parts, all still within Arcueid's range of treatment.
And then—
Looking at Manaka, who was bound by chains she had materialized from her imagination, Arcueid's blood-red eyes showed great anger: "How dare you do this to Naoki! Even if you're not a Beast, I will definitely not forgive you!"
"Tsukihime Princess, huh..."
Glancing at Arcueid, Manaka flicked her bound fingers, and the dozens of iron chains wrapped around her entire body instantly turned into puddles of black mud.
Manaka moved her hands and feet: "From the beginning, you directly bound me with ten chains, each weighing a hundred tons. My hands and feet were almost broken."
"But they didn't break, did they? For you, who currently has no real form, physical interference is meaningless."
"No, it has some effect, doesn't it? Maybe about half the effect." Manaka smiled. "First the Fifth Magician, then the True Ancestor princess. The vixen really attracts many great women. Although I don't care what he does, I at least hope he doesn't use Saber's face to deceive people out there."
"Attract—what are you talking about, little brat!"
Jumping out of the pit and standing with Arcueid, Aoko glared sharply at Manaka with annoyance: "Still so young but already full of bad thoughts. Didn't your family teach you that a girl's behavior should be more polite?"
"That's right! Naoki doesn't attract anyone!" Arcueid also nodded, "By the way, Aoko, what does 'attract' mean?"
"You don't know?"
"I know the general meaning, but in this context, I'm not sure if it's the same meaning."
'Ah, this child's brain has some problems.'
Seeing this unexpected development, Manaka unconsciously laughed: "Hehehe, both elder sisters are really interesting. If it weren't for this situation, I would be very willing to have a tea party with you. It would definitely be very fun to interact with you, but unfortunately..."
*CRACK!*
The giant standing behind Manaka suddenly broke the chains on its body. Black flames blazed on its massive upper body, while its lower body, touching the ground, released an unparalleled extreme cold. Pitch-black ice instantly froze the surrounding ground to a radius of at least two kilometers.
Seeing this scene, Arcueid hurriedly warned: "Aoko! Be careful, that giant is absorbing all the remaining information of Vlov that hasn't disappeared!"
"No wonder the Tsukihime Princess, your understanding is very quick."
Lightly leaping onto the giant's shoulder, Manaka sneered: "Alright, crush them, Giant Vlolv."
*CRASH!*
Within the wave of chaos that covered the entire intersection, a black steel spear, its shape similar to Vlolv's steel spear, was pulled out by the giant with one hand, piercing towards the two people on the ground who were as small as ants.
The massive steel spear fell like a meteor, and regardless of its actual destructive power, just from its mass alone, perhaps one strike would make this ground sink even deeper.
Exchanging glances, Aoko instantly leaped away from her spot, while Arcueid, who was left behind, directly stretched out both her hands towards the falling black steel spear.
*THUMP!*
The ground once again shook violently. Countless cracks spread in all directions.
This was a fatal blow—Manaka thought so, but she also knew that an attack like this wouldn't be able to kill the True Ancestor princess.
"Ugh... so heavy..."
As expected, after receiving a direct hit, Arcueid still stood on the ground without the slightest injury. Both her arms seemed to want to hold back the giant, and along with countless steel chains, she hugged the tip of the spear tightly!
And what was unbelievable was that the giant actually couldn't immediately pull the black steel spear out of Arcueid's hands.
*BANG!*
At the same time, falling from the air onto the black steel spear, Aoko instantly accelerated her Mana to the highest speed, shooting along the black steel spear and the giant's arm. In just about three seconds, the hundred-meter distance between her and Manaka shrank to zero.
*BAM!* *BAM!* *BAM!* *BAM!*
Instantly completing several Mana accelerations, a fist like a launched rocket suddenly struck Manaka.
However...
*THUMP!*
The fist actually directly passed through Manaka's body, hitting the giant's body and forming a dent.
'What happened?'
Aoko didn't have time to think about the problem. Using her hand to support her body, she resolutely performed a spinning kick once more towards the girl behind her.
Just like before, the fast kick once again passed through Manaka's body.
"Grandpa Jewel's True Magic?!"
"Slightly different. It can only be said to have slightly touched some of the laws of the Second True Magic." Manaka smiled. "Space displacement is a high-level usage method of transfer Magecraft."
'Then physical interference is completely ineffective!'
"How about using True Magic? Otherwise, as an ordinary Magician, you won't be able to—"
*THWACK!*
Before she finished speaking, Manaka's body suddenly split into eighteen pieces. Pitch-black blood instantly spurted out, but even before the blood fully spurted out, as if time had reversed, the body that had split into eighteen pieces rejoined.
"Imaginary Materialization?" Manaka looked down at Arcueid. "Turning space into a death zone composed of countless layers of vacuum, destroying everything within it. Truly a dangerous usage method, Tsukihime Princess."
"But unfortunately, this won't be able to kill me. At least another hundred times maybe?"
"As long as you can still hold on until then, and still have the remaining strength to do so. The blood-sucking urge, you must be almost unable to restrain it anymore, right?"
"Ugh..."
*SWOOSH!*
Another punch passed through her body. Aoko sneered, "What did you mean just now?"
"The literal meaning. Since you're a vampire, there must be a blood-sucking urge. Even the True Ancestor princess is no exception. Although you've suppressed it very well all this time, it's clearly almost unbearable now."
"Shut up!"
Layers of vacuum formed again. Manaka's body shattered once more, but as if time had rewound, in an instant, she reappeared unharmed.
"In order not to turn into a beast controlled by the blood-sucking urge, the True Ancestor will use most of their power to suppress that urge. As for the Tsukihime Princess, perhaps she has already used seventy percent of her power, so under normal circumstances, she can only exert thirty percent of her power."
*CRACK!*
"But in the end, this suppression is only a one-time use. I remember the Tsukihime Princess's physical age is 800 years? That means the blood-sucking urge has been suppressed for 800 years."
*SCRAPE!*
"Under normal circumstances, no matter how long it's suppressed, it won't explode. You have that power. But unfortunately, you were killed once, and used most of your power to resurrect. Although Avalon helped you heal, you have probably only recovered about sixty percent of your power now."
*THWACK!*
"With only sixty percent of your power, you won't be able to fully suppress the blood-sucking urge, and because it has been suppressed for 800 years, so now, to suppress the exploding blood-sucking urge, even using all your power might not be enough."
"Be quiet!"
In an instant, space shattered!
Manaka, along with the space she was in, instantly shattered into thousands of pieces!
"Hm, those words, maybe about thirty times would be enough to kill me. Keep it up, Tsukihime Princess." The reborn Manaka swung her small legs with a smile, "If you can still keep it up?"
Below, Arcueid had already knelt on the ground, panting incessantly.
Stopping Aoko's returning fist with one finger, Manaka sighed: "I told you, you should just use True Magic, but I definitely won't let you use it either."
"Then, enough playing around. Finish them off, Vlolv."
Burning black flames and freezing black ice suddenly swept out! Aoko and Arcueid were instantly swallowed up at the same time. This result didn't occur, because before it happened, the giant actually froze into an ice statue.
Imaginary Materialization—Freezing.
"UGH..."
Grasping her mouth in pain and suddenly kneeling, Arcueid clenched her teeth tightly—Manaka was right, she could almost no longer hold back.
'The last Imaginary Materialization? Truly can struggle.'
With her current remaining strength, if she melts, perhaps four more attacks and she will be killed by Aoko. Since Arcueid was almost powerless, taking advantage of when her strength was still sufficient, she would go kill the vixen.
"Um, let's just do that."
Thinking that, Manaka instantly stepped into the door opened by space displacement, arriving at Naoki's side in an instant.
"Damn it—"
"Ugh... Naoki..."
"It's too late, you won't have time."
Manaka reached out and choked Naoki's neck. One more time, and she would be truly free. After that, she could continue to pursue her Prince.
But just at that moment, a hand actually rested on Manaka's arm.
"Have you made enough noise?"
Naoki's voice sounded softly. The calmness on Manaka's face instantly disappeared. Panicked, she wanted to use the wave of chaos again to form a weapon and kill Naoki.
But just like Aoko and Arcueid, who didn't have time to catch up, she was also too late.
Just like the night five years ago, the sky-blue Mystic Eyes looked at her again.