Magical Girl with Demonic Time Magic-Chapter 101: Strategic Combat

I quickly make my wings appear and take off the ground as I see Mizuhane manipulating the metal in the area. I grab my gun while thinking.

’I’ll use the Sniper to finish the fight.’ She doesn’t know about the existence of the extra weapons, the Black Hero knows, but he just watches the fight.

Bang.

I shoot, but Mizuhane forms barriers with the metal while starting to form metal attacks, throwing sharp weapons at me with force and speed as I dodge in the air, firing shots.

She forms two giant metal hands and uses them to quickly scale the walls, trying to come at me, while I find it difficult to fly in such a small location, the arena is not so free to help me.

I hear the crackling of the metal as she hangs from the chandelier and tries to punch me and pierce me with a metal weapon. I dodge with speed and shoot at her, forcing her to defend.

’She loses field of vision with each defense...’ I analyze her way of defending, realizing that every time she covers her entire front with the giant metal fists, she ends up losing the visibility she has of me.

As she falls to the ground, I shoot at the chandelier, knocking it down, while the Black Hero just changes position, standing somewhere I can’t see him, he’s incredibly fast.

"Are you just going to keep running?" Mizuhane speaks impatiently while creating 3 sharp metal pillars and controls them, trying to hit me. I notice they are red at the tip, indicating they are extremely hot.

’It’s the manipulation of ambient heat, it seems she can store the heat and use it later.’ I shoot, forcing her to defend while dodging the 3 advancing pillars, testing it.

As soon as I’m close enough, several metal spikes grow while I fly back, narrowly avoiding them.

’As I thought’ It was obvious that she knew that she opened a breach every time she defended, it seems she has made a trap that attacks if you get too close.

’I need a strong, fast, and powerful enough shot to pierce any defense.’ Accumulating all this force in a single quick shot is possible, but I need to make sure I won’t miss.

’When she defends, I lose exact visibility of where she is.’

"Mizuhane, don’t you think it’s pathetic to let your girlfriend be kidnapped?" I provoke her, focusing on the sound while shooting.

"Shut up! You don’t know anything to be talking that crap," she speaks angrily, while the sound reaches me in an almost muffled way.

’Is she moving?’ I continue firing shots, but the giant metal arms are too large for me to find her exact position.

’If I let myself be hit, it would be easier to shoot her.’ It’s an option, but it has to be a wound that doesn’t interfere, so it’s not that good.

"I believe I know perfectly well," I continue talking while shooting, she creates several metal blades that she randomly fires, with this I know that she can’t know exactly where I am, showing that her visibility is 0.

"Don’t you think it’s too cold to try to kill a comrade?" She speaks while the metal weapons fired separate into smaller needles that I barely manage to dodge.

"You’re trying to kill me, I’m just reacting accordingly." Ayane in this situation would hold back and not fight seriously, because for her, killing another person, especially a comrade, would be impossible.

’If I could get rid of all this metal around, it would be possible to fight more freely.’ Mizuhane has already noticed how much metal she has at her disposal, and the amount is so large that she doesn’t stop generating attacks.

Flight is really a great advantage, if I were on the ground, I would have been hit in a dangerous or even lethal way.

’The metal is full of her magic, it’s sharp, more resistant, and also hot.’ It’s covered in magic, so it’s more resistant than common metal.

I completely stop shooting while gliding in the air, without making any sound, this will force her to stop defending to locate me, and as expected, she stops defending with the giant hands and starts climbing the walls, advancing quickly against me.

She decides to use the metal more intelligently, she fires thousands of needles at me, they are more difficult to dodge completely, so some pierce my wings.

I feel pain as blood flows from them, this seems to shock Mizuhane, as it is abnormal for wings supposedly made of magic to bleed, but for me it’s normal since they’re not made of magic.

"...You shouldn’t get distracted," I say, flying so fast that she loses sight of me. Normal humans can see 60 to 90 flashes of light per second, with an average of 50.

Flies can see up to 250 flashes of light per second, and that’s why their eyes can react to things that human eyes can’t. Obviously, a standard magical girl’s eyes should be equally high, possibly around 500 to 1000.

And stronger magical girls must see much more, it’s basically the speed at which the brain sees a scene and how many parts that scene is divided into per second, similar to a game’s FPS.

So in theory, a normal magical girl sees 500 to 1000 frames per second if compared to a game.

However, when something exceeds that, the brain obviously stops keeping up with that something. My full-speed flight is faster than the vision of an average magical girl.

To the point that someone like Lenore, who has shown to be very strong, loses sight of me 2 out of 10 times during a training session.

Of course, this also proved what I imagined, that Lenore is much stronger than she demonstrated, and showed that my wings move so fast that the world is slow in comparison to their flapping.

And even more interestingly, my vision adjusts to this speed, meaning that when I fly at maximum speed, the world seems slower, and with that, I’m immediately behind Mizuhane.

I see the metal spikes expanding to defend her, which shows that this defense is automatic. Mizuhane seems confused, unable to process that I’m no longer in front of her.

However, even though I can do all this at this speed, I still have my limits. It puts a great strain on my body and uses up magic to make the shots comparable in speed.

’It’s slow, but not enough for me to hit this shot.’ It only served to evaluate how fast her defense forms, and with that I realized that her defense starts from the outside inward.

So in the minimum space of 0.3 seconds, a circular breach opens exactly at the central point of her body. It’s a defense that forms at an impressive speed, but it’s slower than the shot from my sniper.

I quickly move away from her, reducing my speed. Mizuhane quickly turns to me, and in her gaze, I see fear. She realized that she almost didn’t survive.

If I had been a little faster, I could have ended this fight now, but thanks to this, I found all the possible openings to kill her.

I just need to make her defend with her arms, stop shooting, and remain silent, and when she opens the defense, I should give a precise shot to the center of her body, and it will pass through the defense that activates by proximity.

"Any problem, Mizuhane?" I ask, feeling my flight slower. The wounds from the needles hurt, and blood flows from them, making my wings heavier. Some of the needles were hot, so some of the wounds were closed by the heat, but others were normal wounds.

In addition, strangely, my wings have a lot of blood, probably because the structure inside them has many veins, which means that when I flap my wings quickly, my heart must also pump more blood.

’If I exceed my limit too much... can my heart explode?... Probably not, as Hexael said, my body regenerates, so this should be regulated on its own.’ I doubt my brain would let that happen. 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Probably there is a natural physiological/biological block that prevents this from happening, and I don’t even know if it’s really like that.

"If you’re so strong, why have you never shown this?" Mizuhane speaks seriously, becoming more attentive.

"I showed it, but I didn’t show off like others." Lenore knows I can fly that fast, Ophelia and Ayane know too, I just don’t like to reveal my cards like that.

"So, Mizuhane, let’s see if you can beat me in speed?" I provoke her, wanting to make her think I’ll take advantage of the speed to kill her, when in fact I’ll use the sniper for that, so I’ll stay still in the air.

Mizuhane seems to get stressed at the possibility of losing. She accumulates more metal in her giant hands, while I notice that all the metal in the arena has already been molded by her and is now under her control.

’This magic is very powerful.’ If she had more metal in this tight space, my defeat would be a matter of time, but now Mizuhane has made a fatal mistake.

She’s using the metal for defense. If she focused 100% on the attack, I wouldn’t have anything to do besides dodging until I eventually die.

She’s letting the desperation of losing her girlfriend affect her, and of course I’ll take advantage of this fact, after all, it’s her or me.

I start shooting at her again while dodging metal balls she fires. The balls, when close, explode into dozens to hundreds of needles, but now I can dodge them more easily due to the predictable direction.

I just need the ideal breach, a single moment while she’s more distracted from the fight.