“A silver… giant.”
On the rooftop, Tsukimi Ryuune stared blankly into the distance, watching the direction where that beam of light had fallen.
A giant of pure silver-white stood before the monster Melba like a colossal god, blocking its path.
Beside her, the cosmic weirdo Jelanos had suddenly fallen into an abnormal silence, his gaze fixed just as tightly as hers on the giant’s location.
“It seems that besides me, another guest has arrived in your world.”
“…”
“I only just realized it myself. First, let me see what this guy’s purpose is.”
“He was probably drawn here by the monsters.”
“What, do you know him?”
Jelanos rarely failed to respond at once.
Instead, he stood as quiet as a statue that had lost its voice, pondering something.
On the other side, the giant who had descended from the sky stood tall on the main road of Zone E3, blocking Melba’s attempt to advance.
Kagami Yuto was so shocked by the scene before him that he could not react for a long moment.
Only when he came to his senses did he suddenly realize that the giant in front of him had just saved his life.
The giant was now locked in a staring contest with the ferocious Melba, standing firmly in place like an impregnable city wall.
The next second, it slightly bent its knees and assumed a fighting stance.
Without waiting for the monster in front of it to launch an attack, the giant charged forward first.
A battle cry different from the monster’s sharp screech erupted from the giant’s body.
The next second, a heavy knife-hand strike landed squarely on Melba’s long neck.
Yet the latter’s defense was not to be underestimated either.
It took several knife-hand strikes and elbow blows from the giant before it was forced to retreat a little.
“So strong…”
“This giant… is actually here to help humanity…”
Kagami Yuto’s heart surged with excitement, completely sweeping away the despair he had felt when facing the monster earlier.
Watching the giant trade blows with the monster, his entire body burned with fighting spirit.
“Hmm, this guy can actually push Melba back?”
Ignoring the sudden silence of the cosmic weirdo beside her, Tsukimi Ryuune instead grew interested in the silver giant that had suddenly appeared in the distance.
Melba was steadily losing ground in its battle against the giant.
Seeing this, and not wanting the fight to end so quickly, she suddenly remembered the Evil Beast Lock in her hand.
She recalled that she still had one more capsule left.
It seemed to be called… Golzan.
Thus she used the same method as when she had summoned Melba earlier and inserted the Prison Capsule into the Evil Beast Lock.
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[Evil Beast Sequence 34, Golzan. Release?]
The moment the prompt sounded, she pulled the trigger toward the distance without the slightest hesitation.
The next second, accompanied by a flash of thunder, another spatial rift appeared in the sky above Minamihara City.
The ultra-ancient monster Golzan crawled out of the rift and joined the battlefield from three kilometers away to the southwest.
“Roar——!”
“Wh-what? There’s actually another monster?!”
Seeing another monster rapidly approaching the giant from behind, Kagami Yuto could not help but shout in anxiety.
“Watch out!”
Fortunately the giant reacted in time.
It kicked Melba’s torso to force it back while rapidly turning around to intercept the even more ferocious and brutal monster attacking from behind.
“Now this is more like it. The situation needs a bit of balance to be interesting.”
Watching the chaotic melee ahead, the corners of Tsukimi Ryuune’s lips curved into a faint smile.
Only at this moment did she truly feel the reality of being a god.
Watching these divine giant beasts slaughter one another in the palm of her hand, victory and defeat both controlled by a single thought of hers.
This was exactly what she wanted—the feeling of standing above all life.
In the center of the battlefield, the giant, forced to fight one against two, was beginning to struggle.
Not to mention that the two ultra-ancient monsters even seemed to share a certain tacit understanding and coordinated their attacks, causing the situation to take a sharp turn for the worse.
Left with no choice, the giant could only attempt to break through from one side.
After a mutual pull, it flipped backward to create distance from both beasts.
The moment it stabilized its footing, it raised its arms and assumed a special stance.
First it held both arms vertically in front of its chest, then spread them horizontally outward, drawing a thin line of light across its chest.
That light was bright and brilliant, as if it contained some kind of explosive high energy.
Melba sensed a trace of danger at this moment, yet it was already too late to dodge.
When the light on its chest condensed to the limit, the giant folded its arms in front of its chest, and a ray of light that had gathered cosmic ultra-energy shot straight out!
“What?!”
Tsukimi Ryuune saw it clearly from afar.
She had never expected that the giant still had such a finishing move hidden away.
As a god, she was fully aware of the energy contained within that ray of light, and that was precisely why she was so shocked.
The body of Melba, struck by the ray, now showed signs of cracking and exploding.
Seeing this, and unwilling to let the giant ruin her game of destroying the world, her eyes instantly turned ice-cold.
Thus she activated her divine authority.
First she released a spatial rift to swallow the ray of light, then opened a dimensional wormhole and tossed this uninvited visitor from the heavens into it.
“?!——!!”
After she finished, only Golzan and the heavily wounded Melba remained on the battlefield.
Seeing that their enemy had vanished, the two beasts once again began their destruction of the city.
“Beautifully done, my master.”
Jelanos, who had remained silent for a long time, finally spoke.
“You successfully stopped an invasion by an external enemy, proving that you are the true ruler of this world!”
His voice was uncharacteristically excited, as if filled with the joy of finally achieving some purpose.
In response, Tsukimi Ryuune frowned slightly.
Her intuition vaguely told her that she seemed to have been used, yet right now she had no mind to think about that.
What she cared about more was the identity of the giant just now, and the purpose for which it had come to her world.
The Jelanos before her clearly knew something, yet for some reason he was deliberately hiding it from her.
This caused a faint killing intent to rise toward him within her.
Evidently, she had fallen into some kind of trap from the very beginning.
—
The disappearance of the giant caused a thread of despair to rise once more in Kagami Yuto’s heart.
The entrance to the shelter had been buried by the fighting, leaving him with nowhere to go while carrying the injured student.
At that very moment, the building above their heads began to collapse from the impact of the battle.
Seeing the situation turn critical, he could only shield the student with his own body.
He himself was struck by the falling debris and fell into unconsciousness.
…
……
Wake up, Earthling.
In the haze of his consciousness, he seemed to hear a voice continuously calling to him in his mind.
“Who is it… this voice… is someone calling me…?”
Immersed in endless darkness, his awareness blurred, he could no longer distinguish reality from illusion.
Just as he was about to let his consciousness sink into sleep, that voice rang out once more.
Wake up, Earthling. I need your help very much right now!