Kamen Rider Date A Live

Before he finished speaking, a whirlwind suddenly rose up.

The wind was hot and dry, as if it wanted to burn everything. It didn't sound like the wind one would expect from a forest at night or a castle courtyard—it sounded like it came from the desert, roaring in my ears.

Feeling sand enter his mouth, Weber quickly spat it out. It was indeed sand. Bringn by the strange wind, it was truly hot sand that shouldn't have appeared otherwise.

"Saber, and Archer, the final question of the banquet—is the King aloof?"

Standing in the center of the sweltering heat, Rider asked. Looking at the cloak billowing over his shoulders, it was clear he had somehow donned the attire befitting a conqueror.

Archer chuckled. There was no need to ask, so he answered with silence.

Saber didn't hesitate. After the conversation, Saber had relaxed a lot.

"The king is definitely not aloof."

Rider laughed out loud. As if in response to the laughter, the whirlwind intensified.

"Hahahahaha!!!! Shido's eloquence has surprised me more than once! And his strength is just as formidable. I really do want to recruit you into my army, Shido!"

"Come on, Rider! You know I would never join in. And stop it."

Shido rolled his eyes at Rider's words, secretly expressing his disdain. However, he then walked over to Rider, patted him on the shoulder, and said...

"Stop. I don't know what Noble Phantasm you're planning to use, Rider, but don't use it for now. Save it here. Your magical power isn't like mine. I'll handle this. Don't let a moment of impulsiveness ruin the whole situation. Oh, and share this with everyone."

"Ah, you're right. Although I really want to have a match here, Shido, you're right too. So, the rest is up to you."

Rider didn't stand on ceremony and followed Shido's simple advice, withdrawing his spirit armor. Although he didn't understand why, he still took the several large umbrellas that Shido gave him, distributed them to everyone, and returned to the ground. At the same time, the sandstorm disappeared, but it was replaced by a light drizzle.

"It's...it's raining!?"

Everyone looked at the sky in confusion, feeling a chill on their bodies, and realized that it was indeed raining. But the weather doesn't rain for no reason. Shido, who was emanating an astonishing chill, naturally made it clear who was causing the rain.

At this moment, everyone understood why Shido had given them umbrellas, and they quickly opened them as they felt the rain getting heavier.

At this moment, Shido's belt had appeared, accompanied by a series of soft humming sounds. However, the core of the belt emitted a bright blue light, and at the same time, a blue crystalline pillar and a green crystalline pillar appeared on Shido's chest.

"Moist-spirit-crystallization, Cold-spirit-crystallization!!"

Article 163: Water and Ice

Chapter 163: The Ultimate Overlord of Water and Ice! (Part 2)

"Moist-spirit-crystallization, Cold-spirit-crystallization!!"

With Shido's chilling shout, the two crystals that appeared before him emitted a brilliant light. Within the light, a curtain of water, formed from condensed rain, first enveloped Shido. Then, a surge of icy air rose from beneath Shido's feet, instantly freezing the water sphere he was in. At the same time, the icy air began to spread, turning the simple rain into sleet. The area also began to expand, with sleet falling within a 1000-meter radius centered on Shido!

Although Shido's transformation caused rain, which was merely a side effect, it was still enough to shock the group of mages and Heroic Spirits!

It's important to understand that while it's not difficult to change the weather on a small scale with magical abilities, only someone at the level of 'Zu' could change the environment on such a large scale. However, given the seemingly endless nature of the forest, Fuyuki City was probably also affected—this was only because the Einzbern Castle Forest was so vast, and Shido's transformation took place right in the center.

Moreover, the crystals that appeared during this transformation were not one, but two. The reason is simple: Yoshino's abilities are water and cold air, and the two abilities are different, which is why there are two crystals.

Kotori, similar to Yoshino, possesses an immortality that is essentially an extremely rapid regeneration ability of fire, which is also part of her original fire power. However, because this side effect of immortality is so memorable, everyone would assume it's a completely new ability. It must be said that Yoshino, who possesses two abilities, is rare and powerful, even though Yoshino herself is an excessively kind and gentle child...

After all that has been said, the blue-haired loli Yoshino and the pirate rabbit Yoshina have indeed appeared before Shido in front of the ice block.

The moment Yoshino, who was as beautiful as a French doll, appeared, Irisviel's eyes lit up with love, as if she wanted to touch Yoshino's face. At the same time, she couldn't help but think of her daughter Illya, and her sadness deepened.

"Do your best, Shido! Everyone is waiting for you, Shido. Although I can no longer help you, Yoshina will stay and help you for the time being!"

Yoshino clenched her fist and made a gesture of encouragement to Shido. As she finished speaking, her body turned into light and disappeared. However, Yoshina did not disappear, just as Yoshino had said. Instead, after Yoshino returned, Yoshina automatically flew to the ice block and went inside!

"Haha, Shido-kun, long time no see! Let's go!"

"Yes, Yoshina."

(And Yoshino too. I'll definitely be back!)

Unlike Yoshina's loud voice, Shido calmly replied, reaffirming his goal in his mind. As Shido spoke, the ice on his outer layer cracked rapidly and exploded into ice crystal fragments that floated in the air!

As the ice crystals shattered, an invisible spiritual force, accompanied by a chill, spread and merged into the continuous rain and snow. Sensing the unusual phenomenon, the heroic spirits and magicians reached out to feel the altered rain and snow. To their surprise, they found that the flow of magic slowed down where the rain and snow touched them, and they also felt a chill in their bodies!

Weber and the others, who were shielding themselves from the rain and snow with umbrellas, were relatively alright. After experiencing it for a moment, they immediately withdrew their hands and did not continue to experience it—continuing to experience it would be masochistic!

However, compared to Waver and the others who could ignore the rain and snow while holding umbrellas, the Assassin group was in a much worse situation. There was nowhere to take shelter from the rain nearby, so they could only endure the rain and snow that had special effects.

However, if you stay there for too long, the flow of magic will slow down and eventually stop. In addition, the coldness inside and outside your body will make you freeze to death or be slaughtered by your opponent because your magic cannot flow!

Having figured things out, the Assassins no longer hesitated, quickly rushing towards Shido with daggers in hand. Their speed was faster than the wind and faster than lightning! Aiming to quickly kill Shido, the Assassins attacked him from all directions. More than fifty people surged forward in dense formation. A timid person would probably have been terrified long ago, but facing this situation, Agitω, who had already transformed into a form similar to the Wizard, looking like a battle mage, and hidden among the ice fragments, rain, and snow, simply spoke calmly.

"Yoshina."

"Got it! Watch me!"

On Yoshina's left hand, hundreds of thin, blue-ice-colored spiritual energy lines appeared on her hands. With a flick of her wrists, agitω channeled spiritual energy into Yoshina, and the hundreds of spiritual energy lines emitted a faint glow. Water and cold air began to condense at the tips of the spiritual energy lines. In less than two seconds, various water and ice figures appeared, and their designs were all Heisei Kamen Riders!

The characters inside include Kuuga, Agito, Ryuki, 555, Blade, Hibiki, Kabuto, Den-O, Kiba... all sorts of characters, even villainous Riders! They're just humanoid figures made of water and ice, but there are even more of them than the Assassins, at least a couple hundred!

"Attack Formation - A Knight's Feast of Water and Ice!"

With a confident laugh, agitω announced the name of the move. At the same time, a larger and more densely packed group of water knights and ice knights, armed with weapons or their own fists and feet, attacked the assassins!

Faced with a densely packed enemy, the assassins felt a chill run down their spines. They never expected that the situation, which was originally one of numerical superiority, would suddenly reverse, and that the enemy outnumbered them by several times!

However, with no way out, the Assassins had no choice but to bite the bullet and attack, and the result of their attack was beyond everyone's expectations (except for agitω)!

Even the Assassins, who are not much of a threat in a direct attack, are just a matter of a punch or a kick against these Water Knights and Ice Knights! The Water Knights and Ice Knights are simply real water and ice, without any special abilities, and pose no threat to the Assassins at all! However, unlike the solid Ice Knights, the liquid Water Knights are a bit more troublesome, because they are liquid, so they simply pass right through you, making it difficult to inflict significant damage.

agitω understands this situation, but agitω has no intention of recreating the Water Knight and Ice Knight, because there is no need for them!

"Now, let's end this with a cool line, just like Haruto-senpai! — Ah! The finale! Shattered Star Collapse!!"

As agitω finished speaking, half of the water knights suddenly changed their appearance, transforming into water chains that bound all the assassins together!

At the same time, the ice shards left behind after the Ice Knights were shattered began to emit an icy blue flash, then exploded with a crack! ...However, the power was only that of a child's firework, but! Although the power was only enough to damage clothing, and even ordinary people would hardly be injured, just think about how many ice shards there were?

Imagine an ice knight the size of a human being, shattered and falling to the ground. How many pieces do you think it would break into? At least hundreds or thousands! Add to that the hundreds of ice knights themselves, and the total number of shattered ice pieces could reach tens of thousands!

If they are allowed to explode, this place will probably be reduced to ashes!

However, since that's one's own move, agitω will naturally have a way to deal with it!

The remaining Water Knights transformed into curtains of water, surrounding all the locations where the explosions would occur. They also enveloped the Assassins, turning them into a water sphere. However, agitω knew that the power of the explosions could not be blocked by a mere water sphere!

Water flow control! Cold air activation!

The rain falling from the sky and the water created by agitω rapidly and continuously merged into the water sphere. Although the size of the water sphere did not increase, no one could underestimate the water sphere whose color was gradually deepening! Meanwhile, the icy air that agitω unleashed at full power rapidly condensed this water sphere, which contained an unknown amount of water, into a huge ice crystal sphere that was so deep blue that it was dazzling!

The process of doing all this took only 2.54 seconds. Although the explosions did not stop during this time, they were not completely blocked by the water spheres. Only two or three things that were unclear whether they were arms or legs flew out.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang bang bang bang bang bang………………！ ！ ！

The muffled explosions inside the ice crystal sphere continued for a long time, after all, the sheer number of thousands of explosives was simply too much.

After about three minutes, the explosions began to subside. At this moment, agitω simply walked under the ice crystal ball, poured spiritual power into his feet, causing them to emit an astonishing chill again. He then used the energy wings on his back to spin around, lightly jumped up, and kicked the ice crystal ball away with a bicycle kick, sending it flying into the sky!

On the ice crystal ball that was kicked away, a large ice-blue agitω hexagonal dragon emblem appeared. Centered on the emblem, streams of cold air were injected into the ice crystal ball, which at the same time emitted a light that was even more dazzling than the ice crystal ball!

The ice began to assimilate the ice crystal sphere from the inside, taking less than two seconds. Cracks covered the entire sphere in the next instant—

boom!!!

A loud explosion rang out, and at the same time, countless ice-blue powders sparkled in the sky, so eye-catching and beautiful against the dark, rainy, and snowy sky!

However, while everyone was immersed in the beautiful scenery, no one noticed that the rain and snow had gradually stopped, and the black parts of the Assassin's body that had fallen to the ground silently disappeared as particles of light...

Assassin – officially withdraws from the Holy Grail War!

Chapter 165 The Annihilation of Caster (Part 1)

Chapter 165 The Annihilation of the Caster (Part 1)

P.S.: Sorry, sorry, I've recently become obsessed with a game called TinyDungeon, it's completely captivating me, and now I'm also hooked on Gintama. Long live my great Gintama!! -- That's all, belated declaration.

"Oh wow (It's over)... Well, I didn't expect that Healing Sakura would bring up something like this."

With a complex expression, Shido watched the blue light gradually disappear before his eyes, then sighed softly. He turned his gaze to the mysterious blue teardrop that had fallen to the ground, bent down to pick it up, and examined it carefully for a while. Unable to figure out what it was or what its purpose was, he scratched his head and turned to look at Kariya, who was still staring blankly at the sky, holding Sakura.

“Kariya, take this teardrop. Although I know you hate Machiri, at least in the end, Machiri regretted it and repented... so please accept it.”

Faced with Shido's sincere words, Kariya snapped out of his reverie, staring intently at the blue teardrop for a long time, causing everyone to grow increasingly impatient and anxious. Just as they were about to lose their temper, Kariya finally spoke, replying to Shido.

“…No.” Yan Ye spoke softly, calmly shaking his head, then lovingly stroked the unconscious Sakura and continued speaking.

"You should keep that teardrop... I will never forgive Zouken, so I don't want his keepsake. Besides, this thing born from the soul might be useful in your future battles, Shido, you keep it."

Kariya's calm voice carried an undeniable determination, causing Shido to sigh helplessly. He looked at the blue teardrop in his hand, knowing that Kariya had made up her mind not to take it.

Although he, like Kariya, utterly loathed Zouken Matou and wished he could tear him to pieces, he couldn't really bring himself to hate Machiri Zorgen.

Although I don't know his story or why things turned out that way, I sense that he was an absolutely kind person. It's just that he completely went astray during those five hundred years.

Shaking his head to banish the extraneous thoughts from his mind, Shido took out some simple materials and made a lanyard with suction cups. He then attached the blue teardrop to it and hung it around his neck. Although he already had a Millennium Puzzle hanging around his neck, the small blue teardrop wasn't very eye-catching. After all, an inverted triangular gold cone with sides of more than ten centimeters was already quite attractive.

After hanging the blue teardrop around his neck, Shido estimated the time and realized that it was already the second day, and it was really time for everyone to go home. He asked Kariya, the only one among them who was not sure where he could rest.

"By the way, Kariya, where are you going to rest today? Can you still go back to the Matou family now? If you have enough money, I can lend you some, since you still have to take care of Sakura."

Upon hearing Shido's question, Kariya paused for a moment, then gave a wry smile, shook his head, and said...

"No, you don't need to lend me any. I'm going back to the Matou family home. Although I hate it there, my nephew and my brother live there. After all, my older brother is always indulging in alcohol and money. That family really can't be left unattended."

After saying that, Yan Ye turned around, picked up Ying, and walked towards his home. Before he completely disappeared from everyone's sight, Yan Ye said something calmly.

"Soleni (and), as for that guy named Machiri Zorgen, I'm slightly... somewhat interested."

After calmly finishing his sentence in a way that only a tsundere would use, Yan Ye completely disappeared.

"...Has Kariya's personality completely changed or just collapsed? I really don't know where to even begin to complain."

Shido, his lips twitching, unsure how to comment on Kariya's performance, suppressed the urge to shout out his criticism and turned to Waver and the others, saying...

"Master, let's go back too. We need to conserve our energy for the Caster annihilation battle that starts tomorrow."

"Ah... um."

Weber, snapping out of his daze, nodded quickly. A whole host of things had happened tonight, it was incredibly troublesome, leaving him exhausted and wanting nothing more than to go home and get some sleep.

As for the others—although they were all Heroic Spirits—while they weren't particularly tired, they knew that facing a Caster would definitely not be an easy battle. Conserving their energy and storing up mana was the most important thing, and sleeping was also a way to restore their mana.

Since the decision had been made, in order to conserve magic power, everyone got off Rider's Kamui Chariot and boarded Shido's Mechanical Tornado. However, Rider's size was undeniably enormous, resulting in everyone standing while Waver was held in Rider's arms in a rather bromantic scene.

Although the mechanical tornado was small, even its owner, Shido, didn't know its weight limit. Because it had been modified by Ken in the past, even with so many people on board, including the large Rider, the mechanical tornado's speed didn't decrease at all, and it quickly flew back home.

Without disturbing the elderly couple, everyone quickly returned to their original places to rest—Wave and Rider were in the same room, except Waver was on the bed and Rider was on the floor, Jeanne was sleeping in the sleeping bag Shido had given her in the attic, and Shido was sleeping on the roof as usual.

However, before Shido went to sleep, Rider suddenly found Shido for some reason, said something incomprehensible to him, and then left.