“Tell me, how am I supposed to stop your magic?”
“I… I really don’t know what to do.”
The clerk miss looked at Nadeshiko with a face full of despair.
“It looks like a magic rampage caused by unfamiliarity with newly born magic…”
Nadeshiko had suffered from this herself.
Having become an expert through long illness, she naturally had experience on how to solve it.
She pulled the clerk miss into her arms, took a deep breath, and kissed her deeply.
“Mm! Mm…”
The clerk miss wanted to resist at first, but her eyes gradually grew hazy, and she even began to actively respond.
But Nadeshiko did not give her time to enjoy it.
She pulled away decisively, drawing out a long silver thread.
“What is this… it feels so good.”
“I don’t know either, but how do you feel now?”
“It seems like I can control some of the ice cream.”
The clerk miss looked at her own hands in surprise.
The ice cream monsters below the tower began to slow their movements, and the special operations squad members quickly regained the upper hand.
“That’s good.”
Nadeshiko let out a long breath.
She still was not sure whether this move would work on the monsters.
The root of magic was emotion, so only a brief and intense emotional shock could change the complex flow of magic, just as one should release floodwaters rather than block them during a flood.
“Um… I still want more…”
The clerk miss blushed and brought her small lips closer again.
“You still have work to do later. Don’t think about this kind of thing.”
Nadeshiko pushed her away and stood up.
“Probe and see if there is a magic source here that belongs to you.”
Not daring to disobey Nadeshiko’s order, the clerk miss could only close her eyes and concentrate on searching.
“There seems to be an especially powerful magic source below… I cannot control it for now, but I have already been able to recall the other scattered ones.”
Nadeshiko looked down the tower.
The people who had been parasitized by the ice cream all woke up one after another, and the ice cream, once detached from its hosts, was gradually melting.
“Do as I say later.”
Nadeshiko took out that silver-white fox mask and gently put it on her face.
Another Battlefield
Every punch from the ice cream symbiote **boomed** a large hole in the floor.
Accompanied by waves of **whooshing** fist winds, the entire building seemed to begin shaking as if the earth were moving and the mountains swaying.
Seika used her threads to hoist herself onto the ceiling, dodging a downward smash coming toward her, and could not help thinking about the floor’s repair costs.
“Sakuraraku! Are you still alive?!”
She shouted toward that human-shaped crater.
The response was a thrown longsword.
The longsword split the instant before it hit the symbiote, firmly pinning its four limbs in place.
This was precisely Sakuraraku’s specialty technique.
“I’m fine. I just might need to see an orthopedist after this fight.”
Sakuraraku struggled to climb out of the crater, raised her sword, and joined the battle.
Those longswords did not hold the symbiote for long.
It softened its limbs, letting the longswords sink into its body, then solidified again.
“It’s really troublesome.”
Seika drew her bow to full, but this time she did not aim at the symbiote.
Instead, she aimed at the fire pipe above.
Sakuraraku instantly understood her intent.
She dashed forward and used all her strength to parry a heavy punch from the symbiote.
The enormous force made cracks bloom across the floor.
The arrow accurately struck the fire pipe.
With a piercing **hiss**, water mist sprayed out, and rain began to fall indoors.
The symbiote began to melt uncontrollably.
Sakuraraku clearly felt the force transmitted through her sword lessen.
Large lumps of ice cream dropped to the ground.
Clearly, it could no longer maintain its previous form.
“Can we pop the champagne now?”
Sakuraraku sheathed her sword and turned back to ask.
“Uh… you might be disappointed.”
Seika pointed at the ground.
The melted ice cream had already submerged their calves, and the enormous symbiote in their line of sight was still continuing to melt.
In other words,
they would be submerged in a sea of ice cream.