I, Fujimaru Ritsuka, am back with a max-level character!

boom!

boom! boom! boom!

boom!boom!boom!boom!

Like a raging storm, or rather, hail, this relentless attack was not so much without any strategy as it was utterly chaotic.

"You should too..."

"That's enough, Captain!"

Such frustration caused even the usually mild-mannered Fujimaru Ritsuka to lose her temper.

Thump—!

With a knee strike, Fujimaru Ritsuka instinctively delivered a knee strike, slamming it hard into the stomach of the Kirshtalia captain.

Am I not physically resilient enough now to have the same resilience as I will have two years from now?

At nearly 1.9 meters tall, Kirshtalia was a full 15 centimeters taller than Fujimaru Ritsuka, and her strength was also greater due to her upright character.

“Ugh—!”

Kirshtalia's handsome face was contorted with pain, his back arched, and he gritted his teeth, taking two steps back.

In that instant, Fujimaru Ritsuka transformed into a sharp sword, his arm rising smoothly, his stiff elbow like a steel cone, thrusting into Kirshtalia's chest, followed by a powerful hammer blow to Kirshtalia's shoulder.

This guy really hit people hard; he was definitely aiming to kill them!

A barrage of elbow strikes landed on Kirshtalia's shoulder, one after another...

It was hammered down hard, as if a nail were being driven in.

"whispering sound--"

Kirshtalia reacted quickly to the blow, his body arching slightly, his spine and shoulders tensing instantly, as he opened his right hand and grabbed Fujimaru's elbow.

A sharp pain shot through her metacarpal bone, and even the muscles around her palm were twitching, but Kirshtalia paid no attention to it.

Taking advantage of his height, he shifted his center of gravity forward.

"?! We've been held up."

Upon seeing this, the black-haired boy immediately raised his elbow, interlocked his fingers with his right hand, and transformed it into a hammer, smashing it down like a meteor.

"How naive—!"

Kirshtalia seized the air strike as the heavy hammer fell, leaned forward sharply, and slammed his forehead into Fujimaru's face.

Bang!

As if he had hit a metal plate, blood instantly seeped from his forehead.

The area before them turned blood red, and the entire green Reality Marble now looked just like Emiya-senpai's Reality Marble.

Fujimaru Ritsuka staggered backward, shaking her head as she spoke.

"That's really too much, Captain—I feel like I can't see clearly anymore."

Before them lay a blood-red world, with the captain and the stargazer standing in the distance.

"You too, junior. My shoulders feel a bit weak, and even my heart seems to have been shaken."

......

Both sides were injured, striking each other with all their might, even as a Master and a Magician...

The strong and the weak are almost incompatible in terms of their ideologies.

However, despite the difference in strength, they share the same inner resilience.

Even though his body, his chest, was decaying, even in this near-death struggle... he still had a wish he wanted to fulfill.

"This is where we die, Kirshtalia... Only those who survive can leave this barrier."

"So I will use everything I have to defeat you."

Fujimaru Ritsuka took a deep breath. Without a starting stance, the shortest trajectory, the arc-shaped line, the initial purpose was to destroy from the inside out.

The elbow strike is immediately followed by a double blow to the abdomen.

......

A sharp pain exploded inside Kirshtalia's body. He clutched his chest and was sent flying backward uncontrollably.

"Bajiquan—I saw someone use it at the Clock Tower. Do magicians in the East all use this style of martial arts?"

It can be described as a unique skill, taught by all sorts of people, although its full power can never be unleashed, but...

Fujimaru Ritsuka caught up instantly, facing the Kirshtalia who had been knocked away.

"I wouldn't call myself a magician... nor could I be considered human..."

"And what are you, Fujimaru Ritsuka, an ordinary high school student? If an ordinary high school student can fight me to this extent... then I need to reconsider my humanity."

The fist was thrown out, but was held in place by the blond youth's hand.

The striking became a contest of strength.

He tried to strike the abdomen with his knee, but was blocked by Kirshtalia's prepared knee.

boom!

boom--!

boom------!

The sound of knees slamming against each other, the sound of relentless blows.

This is not a battle against an enemy, but a battle where lives are at stake, a battle fought from all sides.

"Ah...that's right!"

“I once introduced myself to someone like this… and now… Captain Kirshtalia—I also extend the highest level of respect to you!”

"——————"

Kirshtalia is a genius, a figure who could theoretically establish his own school of magic.

Such a genius, even in terms of fighting skills, will not lag far behind others.

However, this is not a contest of skills, but purely a physical duel.

Both Kirshtalia, who was fully unleashing the [Planetary Bombardment], and Ritsuka Fujimaru, who was fully removing the restrictions on the [Spirit Origin Shadow], seemed to be in a state of exhaustion.

boom--!

boom----!

Their fists met, each striking the other's cheek with full force.

Crimson blood spurted out, salty, pungent, and scalding hot; geniuses and fools... are essentially no different in their inner nature.

Glug glug glug————!

They transformed into a spiral, tumbling across the still ground. Their white clothes were torn apart, and the green transistors on their black formal attire were shattered.

Blood rubbed against the ground, leaving a scarlet mark.

"I am..."

"I am... I am Fujimaru Ritsuka!"

Struggling, he stood up from the ground.

Just like countless singularities and countless Lostbelts.

For Fujimaru Ritsuka, it was a barrier she had resolutely built through her journey.

"She was saved by many people..."

"They stand here on behalf of many..."

"Neo カルデアのマスター!"

The name has been slightly changed; it is no longer the Master of Chaldea, but the Master of Neo-Chaldea. It is an organization that was reborn in Antarctica due to a surprise attack and is destroying the world in order to save it.

"New Chaldea...?! I see. It seems you know... much more than I thought."

"You know what I know, and you also know what I don't know... So can I assume that you come from a Chaldea that is very similar to us—yet completely different?"

"There's no other possibility but this!"

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To have everything in your hands.

Understand all truths.

To reach the truth that no one has ever reached before.

To transcend the limitations of the physical body and attain the infinity of the soul.

The species called human is confined by pre-defined boundaries, and wants to escape the endlessly spinning spiral of the brain.

Before Kirshtalia, countless people had fallen into the abyss because of this aspiration.

Kotomine Shiro.

Machiri Zorgen.

Kirshtalia...

Perhaps there are many, many more people, and countless different ways of developing the world.

This is the end for the heroes of justice, a path of no return filled with despair and no future...

This is something that Fujimaru Ritsuka had almost forgotten, something she had fought and fought and fought from the very beginning of her journey to save humanity.

There was no option to back down, no possibility of retreating, and not even time to wipe away tears.

Just like now, they're beating each other up.

His fists turned blood red.

Sizzle—!

The stargazer tore open his upper body clothing, revealing his battered and bruised body underneath.