Anime, Girlfriend Shokuhou Misaki.

The world is distorted!

"...!"

Stella's body temperature suddenly spiked, and the phosphorescent flames emanating from her hair caused the surrounding air to distort.

Meanwhile, the sound echoed throughout the world.

Thump, thump.

The resounding heartbeat shook the earth, completely different from the human heartbeat.

Immediately afterwards, light emanated from Stella's entire body, illuminating her bones and fading with each beat of her heart.

Then, a bright green glow appeared on Stella's abdomen.

In that seemingly healing glow, new buds appeared to be growing.

“Laaaa——”

Stella's pink lips parted wide, revealing her animal teeth, and she howled wildly to the sky.

The roar, like a raging wave, was completely unlike a young girl's voice; this was a true dragon.

However, Stella is no longer the same as when she was possessed by the Dragon God; she has completely transformed into a dragon.

He was covered in crimson full-body armor, with green gems inlaid all over his body, even his face was covered by the armor, and a pair of jet-black wings of light were on his back.

"how do you feel?"

“Better than ever.”

Stella gently waved her arm, and a sonic boom, like the sound of firecrackers, immediately filled the air.

"I have never felt so full of power before. Right now, I feel like I could smash a mountain with one punch."

Even Stella herself didn't realize that she had become excited without even noticing.

She is currently excited about her growing strength.

"Then I'll get on it."

Stella switched her feet, alternating between left and right, and repeated the reverse step several times in place.

Then, Stella vanished from her spot as if she had teleported, appearing directly in front of Makoto Haramura.

Haramura Makoto immediately followed his instincts and tilted his head to the right.

The next second, a huge gust of wind pressure slammed into my eardrums, as if a cannonball had just flown past my ear.

(This power is amplified.)

Haramura Makoto's face twitched involuntarily. The long sword he was holding sliced ​​through the ground beneath his feet, and he fell down through the dark gap that opened up.

This attack was much faster and stronger than expected.

He truly believed what Stella had just said; she could now punch a mountain away, let alone a mountain, he felt she could even shatter space itself.

When he reappeared, Makoto Haramura was already ten meters away from Stella.

"Stella represents a qualitative transformation."

Stella, who had launched such an attack, did not press her advantage but remained where she was, a bright smile on her face.

"This is all thanks to you, Cheng!"

"Thanks to your wake-up call just now, I realized what I should do now and completely broke free from my shackles."

"In return, I will fight with all my might in the battle to win."

Stella, whom I first met, is back.

Stella, the proud, arrogant, awkward, and understanding woman, is back.

Haramura Makoto chuckled softly, gripped the sword hilt in reverse, brought the sword down heavily, and slowly released it, letting the sword hang freely in his hand.

"—'The Fourth Hour: The Boundary Between Wind and Water'!"

Chapter 134 Fierce Collision

The rapier appeared directly in Makoto Haramura's hand.

The intense heat that had been raging in the arena instantly cooled down, and the white mist that vaporized on the field immediately enveloped the entire competition venue.

It's cold, it's so cold.

Even Stella, the fire dragon, felt a chill.

The cold front kept gathering in the direction of Makoto Haramura, as if a ferocious beast of frozen earth was about to awaken.

The next instant, a flurry of snow fell from the swirling clouds in the sky.

The cold air even crossed the barrier and struck the spectators outside, giving them a feeling of their blood freezing.

The referees responsible for maintaining the barrier all increased their magic output, making the barrier even stronger.

They quickly shut off the cold air.

If we don't do this, the biggest accident in the history of the Seven Star Sword Dance Festival might happen today.

"You're really amazing, Makoto."

"This temperature is already close to absolute zero."

Flames swirled, billowing behind Stella like a thin veil, as if extending from her crimson cloak, making the scene behind her even more vivid.

In just a moment, the biting cold disappeared.

"It's still a long way from absolute zero."

"If it really is absolute zero, even your flames cannot easily break free."

Makoto Haramura stared at the melting ice crystals that had spread around Stella's feet and smiled.

The legendary absolute zero is a temperature reduced to -273.15°C. At such a temperature, the molecules of an object have no kinetic or potential energy, and the kinetic and potential energy is 0. Therefore, the internal energy of the object is 0.

Such a temperature is said to be impossible to find anywhere in the universe. Even the coldest place in the universe, known as the 'Boomerang Nebula,' is only -272 degrees Celsius, which is 1 degree Celsius away from absolute zero.

"Is this to seize home-field advantage?"

Just as Stella was asking her a question.

In the pale, snowy twilight, a long, icy blue spear suddenly appeared.

Huge, sharp, cold.

The enormous spearhead fell straight down like a sword from the heavens.

The next second, the flaming claws swept upwards, and the blade-like flames shattered the spear. Even the blizzard that followed was completely dissipated by this attack, and the surrounding temperature rose further.

"That's true in a sense, but it's not just that."

"I just want to make the ground here a bit more solid, otherwise it's very uncomfortable to feel soft and unstable."

With a light touch of his toes on the ground, Makoto Haramura glided across the ice-covered surface and vanished from his spot.

Makoto Haramura's figure was blurred by the swirling snow, and somehow he had already rushed behind Stella.

"Chong-"

With a crisp clang of the sword, the gleaming rapier aimed straight for Stella's back.

"—!"

The incredible speed of this event even made Stella's expression change.

Even so, the attacks from behind will not stop.

The rapier pressed against the fiery red armor. The rapier, formed from icy crystals and a deep blue, clashed with the armor, which was made of intensely hot flames.

"boom--"

The armor developed spiderweb-like cracks radiating outwards from the sword tip.

The tip of the sword, thrusting forward, was gradually melting from the intense heat emanating from the armor.

Until that bright red color caught Haramura Makoto's eye.

"Don't even think about succeeding, Cheng."

With a sharp, piercing sound, the crimson dragon tail lashed out, tearing through the air and striking at Makoto Haramura's waist.

"But this is the moment I've been waiting for."

Just as the dragon's tail was within reach, Makoto Haramura's lips curled into a smile.

"Makapatma!"

In an instant, a chilling aura erupted centered on Makoto Haramura.

The scattering of blood petals froze in mid-air, Stella's movements paused, all of time stopped at that moment, and the world seemed to lose its color, with only Makoto Haramura still able to move normally.

Freeze time and space!

Then, the Time in Makoto Haramura's hand burst into light, transforming into a beam of light that pierced Stella's abdomen with terrifying speed.

"Pfft!"

As the sound of flesh being torn apart rang out clearly, the tip of the ice sword had already pierced Stella's lower abdomen, leaving a hole-like wound that caused blood to gush out.

"Click——"

The frozen spacetime shattered, and the dragon's tail lashed out directly into the air.

Upon closer inspection, Makoto Haramura had already widened the distance again.

"It can only last for 0.1 seconds, although I knew it probably wouldn't work on you, Stella."

"But I didn't expect it to only last so short a time."

Makoto Haramura frowned.

His understanding of time is such that he cannot interfere with the flow of time in other people without direct contact.

Therefore, he chose to use the power of ice.

By forcibly lowering the temperature, the kinetic and potential energy of molecules in the air is reduced to zero, thus achieving a different degree of spacetime freeze.

For others, this would allow them to pause for about five seconds.

However, its effect on Stella would certainly be extremely low.

After all, Stella's blood was that of a dragon, burning like flames and rolling like lava.

Once Stella is out of the -273.15°C temperature range, her body can regain its mobility.

However, he didn't care from the beginning.

He only wanted to use this move to create a momentary opening and injure Stella.

He just didn't expect that it would only create a 0.1-second gap.

"Scared me."

Stella's voice came from within the armor.

Upon closer inspection, the armor that had been pierced by Makoto Haramura had been repaired, but it was unclear what the condition of the wounds inside was now.

Stella raised her hands high, then slammed them into the ground.

"—The Dragon Queen's Nest!"

The next second, the ground, which had been frozen into an ice surface, emitted an intense light that was too bright to look at directly.

Immediately afterwards, a fiery red eruption, resembling blood, burst forth, tearing apart the entire battle circle.

The chill that had enveloped the entire venue was instantly evaporated.

The intense heat injected into the arena transformed the ground of all the battle zones into a sea of ​​lava.

All that remained of the foothold on the field were a few reinforced fragments of the floor floating on the lava.

But those floor fragments were also dissolving little by little, gradually being submerged in the sea of ​​lava.

"Puff-"

Stella jumped into the scalding lava.