I planted a sacred tree in Tokyo.

Chapter 758 Kaleidoscope: The Time Reading Room
"What do you two intend to do, drawing your swords at each other?"

With 'Light's' strength, it would be easy for him to catch Tokugawa Shizuka and Dolly's ultimate attacks with his bare hands.

"Lord Touma, you—"

Turning his head to look at Kamijou Touma, who was slumped against the wall, his face flushed and head throbbing with blood, Ninja 'Hikari' frowned.

"Have you been poisoned?"

It's no wonder that Hikaru and Tokugawa Shizuka's first reaction was this, after all, Touma is a strong person who has struggled a few moves against a 'god' level being; his current appearance of sitting slumped against the wall can only be explained by this.

No, it's not poison.

Leaning against the wall, Touma Kamijou bent over and got up. His eyes were bloodshot, but a sliver of reason remained.

and so--

"Ah ah ah ah ah!!!"

Suddenly tilting his head back, Kamijou Touma roared as he mobilized all his spiritual power.

then:

boom------

A heavy headbutt slammed into the ground in front of him!

???

The attack was so sudden that Tokugawa Shizuka, Dolly, and the inexplicably appearing 'Hikari', who were locked in a heated confrontation, were all caught off guard and had no time to stop it.

Rumble, rumble~~~
The ground cracked and large chunks of floorboards and stones flew everywhere, revealing the dark metal underneath.

That's right,

The area beneath the Tokugawa residence had long been transformed into an all-metal underground structure.

On one hand, it was to prevent those with abilities like 'burrowing into the ground'; on the other hand, it was also to provide weapons for Tokugawa Shizuka.

This headbutt shattered the ground, revealing a dented metal layer beneath: and this was even with Touma Kamijou in an unstable state.

The Tokugawa mansion, which had already collapsed due to the battle between Tokugawa Shizuka and Dolly;

A large area immediately collapsed, turning into ruins.

Fortunately, the other people in the mansion,

They had already gone to seek refuge.

"call--"

In the center of the ruins, a boy with a sea urchin-shaped haircut stood up.

"I'm finally a bit more awake."

? !
"Touma?"

"Touma-kun——"

"Lord Touma, what is this?"

The three girls present were either heartbroken, worried, or confused: Kamijou Touma, whose face was covered in blood, raised his right hand and wiped away the blood.

"This extraordinary aphrodisiac... cough, it really does use blood as a carrier, which means—"

Bleeding can suppress that beastly urge.

In fact it is.

After all, it is clearly explained in physiology class that the corpora cavernosa need to be filled with blood to maintain their function; once a large amount of blood is lost from the body, the body will definitely self-regulate and stop supplying blood to 'unimportant' organs.

This is the human body's survival instinct, and it comes in handy.

"Lord Touma, are you alright?"

Faced with 'Light's' questioning, Touma Kamijou flicked the blood off his right hand.

"Minor injury,"

His face was smeared with blood, staining most of his white shirt red; however:
For a superhuman, this is indeed just a superficial injury.

It's not fatal yet.
"Let me handle it."

Raising his hand to calm 'Light' down, Touma Kamijou, covered in blood, walked straight toward Dolly.

"Dolly,"

"Touma-kun"

Before the girl could finish speaking, a left hand was placed on her head.

"Sorry, it's my fault."

"I'm so happy that you like me."

Kamijou Touma isn't the type to hesitate. During his intense internal struggle earlier, he had already thought things through.

"But I'm sorry, I already have a girl I like."

? !
As soon as these words came out,
The ruins fell silent instantly.

"Touma-kun, do you like that girl more than you like me?"

The two tomoe in her pupils trembled, and Dolly, unwilling to give up, asked the question that was about to deliver the fatal blow:
"Um,"

While Touma Kamijou is a kind-hearted person, he is not stupid, nor is he indecisive.

Some things we have to face eventually; some things we'd better say sooner rather than later.

"Dolly, I've always thought of you as a little sister."

“Like the other ‘sisters,’ you were rescued by me and Jing, so I have to take care of you until you become independent.”

Killing without burying is not in Touma Kamijou's character; since he took the initiative to do this, he must see it through to the end: therefore, taking care of his 'little sisters' is his duty.

"But this is just familial affection. You've mistaken it for romantic love, so... I'm sorry."

Two apologies have completely extinguished Dolly's hopes of getting away with it.

"H-How could this happen—"

"Waaah, waaaah~~"

Faced with such a desperate situation, the girl named Dolly couldn't help but burst into tears; tears streamed down her cheeks like broken pearls, falling to the ground.

"Hmph~~"

On the other side, Tokugawa Shizuka raised her head.

Without a doubt, she is the winner of this battle of love!

Pfft

The sound of flesh being pierced suddenly rang out.

The next second, the boy with the sea urchin-shaped haircut slowly collapsed. The bloody, gaping hole in his left chest left him no time to be shocked before he lost his life.

? ? ! !
"Touma."

Clang,

Boom!
The long sword fell to the ground, and Tokugawa Shizuka slumped into the ruins, staring blankly at the fallen Touma.

He didn't even have the strength to move his feet and go forward to check.

"Huh?" Dolly stared blankly at her palm, which was still stained with the blood of her beloved, just now, right before her eyes!
"No, no, Dolly didn't—"

? !
"From my sister's body"

The first to regain his senses, 'Guang,' suddenly had the divine eye in his eye socket spin, transforming into three crescent moons connected end to end.

"Get out!!"

"Ha~~"

The next moment, a pale red phantom floated backward from Dolly's body.

Crimson scales covered its gnarled body, and its hideous demonic horns pierced the sky; burning abyssal eyes looked down upon the ants, its claws were like blades forged from molten iron, its spine was jagged like a mountain of knives, and its body was wreathed in hellfire. Who else could it be but a certain 'Demonic God of Fear'?

"An evil spirit is manipulating my sister!!"

In the instant he made his move, he finally sensed another wisp of spiritual energy within Dolly's body, and he was enraged!

The 'eye of God' in his eye socket kept spinning, and for the first time, tears of blood flowed.

"Night Noshugahara!"

This is 'Ijiang's' Eye of God ability, which theoretically only he can use: but 'Light' fought against Ijiang some time ago and, with the characteristics of 'Eight Thousand Spears', has copied this divine technique.

"Aaaaaaahh ...

With just a 'glare,' even the illusory figure of the mighty God of Fear couldn't help but cry out in pain.

However, it was merely a cry of pain.

"Very good ability,"

After taking a hit from 'Night Eater', Diablo's phantom made this assessment.

"Duriel would love it, but for someone like me, it's torture for 24 hours straight."

Nothing more.

"Humph!"

A red glow appeared around the ninja girl 'Hikari'.

The divine incarnation is poised to strike—

"Wait a minute,"

Even if the demonic phantom on the other side raised its hand to stop,
The light still summoned 'small' skeletal warriors, enveloping himself and the distraught Tokugawa Shizuka.

“Child of the God of Destruction, I have no intention of fighting you.”

"Because the real show has only just begun!"

As he spoke, Diablo's phantom gaze fell upon Dolly, who was equally distraught.

?

Given the other party's attitude,
This made 'light' hesitate for a moment.

Dolly, whose palms were covered in blood, finally realized what had happened.

thud,

Both knees buckled.
The girl, who had fallen to her knees, instinctively threw herself onto Touma Kamijou.

"Touma-kun, Touma-kun, Touma-kun?!"

"It's not true, this can't be true."

The girl helplessly covered Touma's chest with both hands, as if simply covering the hideous wound with her hands would allow the man on the ground to stand up again.

"Dolly didn't want to kill you, absolutely not, absolutely—"

No matter how she tried to explain, the fact is: her palm pierced through the unsuspecting Touma's chest, killing him instantly!
In order to bleed himself dry, Touma even deliberately withdrew his spiritual energy defenses, and the result was:

"Dolly won't accept it! Dolly won't accept this ending!!"

He held the gradually cooling corpse in his arms.
Sadness, regret, despair

It kept flooding into my mind!

"what------"

The heartbroken girl suddenly raised her head and cried out in anguish to the sky.

If it were any other extraordinary being, in this situation there would only be 'impotent rage', but if it were someone of Susanoo's bloodline:
Blood spilled from the eyes of the girl who was holding her head up, and the rapidly spinning Tomoe God's Eye had become a blur before suddenly stopping!
finally,
It froze on the three pitch-black hands.

"Dolly won't accept it!!!"

As the girl gritted her teeth and spoke defiantly, the three black pointers in her eye sockets suddenly began to rotate counterclockwise.

"Rewind, rewind—"

"Oh? It's actually..."

Amidst the enthusiastic voice of Diablo's phantom in the sky, everything on the battlefield seemed to fly into the air.

The shattered earth and rocks transformed into a flat ground, and broken bricks and tiles reassembled into an intact building. It was as if—no!—time had reversed: even the blood on the ground and on his shirt flew back into Touma Kamijou's chest, and his flesh and blood healed together again.

then:

thud,

Dong dong dong,
His heart pounded again, and his eyelids trembled as the boy with the sea urchin-shaped haircut opened his eyes!
???

Such an astonishing turn of events,
The previously 'stunned' Tokugawa Shizuto got up: she was enveloped by the divine incarnation of 'light' and was not affected by this 'time reversal'.

"What kind of miraculous ninjutsu is this?"

Even Hikari, the older sister, couldn't help but murmur softly.

"Huff, huff huff~~"

As Dolly, who was holding Touma Kamijou and breathing heavily, had her bloodshot eyes filled with light, the three black pointers stopped, and everything around them returned to what it was before the battle.

Without the divine incarnation of 'light' and the phantom of Diablo floating in the sky.

This is the divine art she awakened: Time Reading Room.
"I wasn't..."

Touma Kamijou scratched his head.

One second his memory was being ripped out of his heart by Dolly, and the next he was lying in her arms?
Looking down, I saw that not only was my heart intact, but even my shirt was completely unharmed!

Did I just have a nightmare?
Touma Kamijou is confused.

"Since time can be reversed..."

Holding Touma Kamijou tightly in her arms, Dolly excitedly announced.

"Everything that just happened doesn't count!"

"Touma-kun is mine—"

Snapped,

A right hand covered her forehead, instantly silencing Dolly's declaration.

And Touma's helpless voice.

"Don't make trouble."

(End of this chapter)