“Um… I actually have a shark phobia…”
Fox Mask swallowed and said it, trembling.
“Hey, hey… you’re kidding, right?”
More than the shark, the usually reliable Fox Mask suddenly dropping the ball shocked Valentine even more.
“Then run, quick. I’ll hold it.”
This time Valentine stood up with considerable loyalty and put himself in front of Fox Mask.
“How many seconds can that little frame of yours hold? Better we go together. I’ll be the bait, and you kill it with one swing of the pick.”
Fox Mask drew a deep breath and regained her calm.
Under the mask, her eyes followed the fin as it kept circling.
The circle was getting smaller.
Clearly this shark monster could not only talk. It also had hunting instinct to spare.
By tightening the circle, it kept the prey inside on high alert, wore them down in body and mind, and then launched the killing blow.
“Here!”
Fox Mask leapt.
The blade in her hand reversed, and she cut down in one sharp stroke.
The shark leapt out of the water in pain and turned to bite the blade.
“Now! Valentine!”
The miner’s pick in Valentine’s hand flew, spinning through the air toward the shark monster.
But Fox Mask had underestimated the shark monster’s brute strength.
It started whipping its big mouth wildly, and Fox Mask was flung into the air along with it.
The huge centrifugal force made Fox Mask let go of the hilt on instinct.
The shark opened its big mouth and bit down on the flying pick and the sword together.
“Damn it!”
“My pick!”
Both of them were people who cherished their weapons.
Seeing the shark open its big mouth and swallow both weapons into its belly, they could not help but feel angry.
Valentine pulled out a small knife and flew forward, meaning to land a killing blow while the shark monster was still chewing the weapons in its mouth.
But the shark monster twisted.
Its three-meter body thrashed, and it actually bit toward Fox Mask in the air!
More precisely, Fox Mask fell into the bloody maw it had opened.
It left the two of them no time to react.
The shark, as if it had found a treasure, charged through the railing and flew off the roof.
“Got it… take it back to Boss… shark as a reward!”
Valentine reached the broken railing.
The shark, carrying Fox Mask in its mouth, drew a long arc through the air and flew straight for the school building across the way!
“Don’t you dare die! Fox Mask!”
In his rush, Valentine grabbed the rope hanging in the air and swung himself toward the school building as well.
The world spun in front of her eyes.
Fox Mask found that although the shark had her in its bite, it clearly was not using force.
Otherwise, with its strength, she would already have been scraps in its belly.
So it wants to take me to that “Boss” it mentioned?
Fox Mask forced herself to calm down and think.
Just then the shark, still holding her, smashed through the school building’s glass and flew into the back row of a classroom.
Fortunately no one was sitting there, so no one was hurt by the flying shards of glass.
The classmates cried out.
Fox Mask struggled to lift her head and look, and wasn’t this her own class?
Rakuraku had just been about to stand up and go look for Nadeshiko, who had been in the bathroom a long time, when she saw a big shark fly into the classroom with a person in its mouth, and for an instant she was stunned.
“F… Fox Mask?! How did you…”
The watching classmates recognized this highly popular villain cadre one after another and crowded over, curious.
“Go take shelter, quick! Don’t stand around watching!”
Fox Mask shouted, and at the same time tried to wrench herself out of the shark’s mouth.
The shark sensed the person in its mouth resisting, and it actually dove underground with her still in its bite!
But she could not swim through solid matter the way the shark could.
A person-shaped pit appeared in the floor in an instant.
Fox Mask was dragged along, punching through one floor after another.
Rubble and dust flew everywhere.
Only then did people realize how serious this was, and the teacher organized the classmates to take shelter in the gym.
[Building Destroyed. Villain Points +50]
“Why are you adding them now of all times? Stop!”
After the fear came anger, gradually catching fire.
Fox Mask burst out with huge strength.
She shoved a hand straight into the shark’s mouth, yanked 「Hatsuzakura」 out by force, then jammed it back into the shark’s mouth and stirred hard.
The shark let go in pain.
Fox Mask finally managed to wrench herself free of the shark’s mouth and gasped on the ground.
She looked around and found the shark had already brought her to the B1 parking garage.
Sunlight came down along those layers of person-shaped pits, and the light took on a shape because of the dust floating everywhere.
She braced a hand on the wall and barely managed to stand.
The shark monster in front of her seemed to realize this prey was not going to surrender so easily.
It dove into the ground again, ready to attack at any moment.
“Fox Mask!”
Valentine finally arrived and stood in front of Fox Mask.
The rope had not been long enough, so he had reached a floor a little lower than hers, and only now had he followed the trail to the scene.
Rakuraku, Hanaka, and Mawata had also used the chaos to transform into magical girls.
After helping evacuate the teachers and students in the school building, they reached B1.
The scene was drawn taut.
Night Theater’s cadre, the magical girls of the new urban district, and a shark that kept circling had all gathered in B1.
No one dared move first, afraid of breaking this delicate balance.
“One, two, three… since when does the new urban district have this many magical girls!?”
Valentine could not believe it, and he counted them off on his fingers.
“Valentine, go call Owl over to help.”
Fox Mask said it to Valentine in a low voice.
She did not dare relax for a moment.
The fear of sharks, carved deep in her memory, had her nerves pulled tight.
Besides, she had no confidence she could beat the three of them with only one sword, and without seriously injuring them.
Valentine looked over the situation.
There did not seem to be a better way.
His magic could not help at all, and it would only get in the way of Fox Mask.
“Don’t die here. If you need to move, move. Don’t go holding back!”
Like a neighborhood big brother telling his little sister to do her homework properly, Valentine rattled off a few sentences and fled the scene at top speed.
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