Like a mad dance of world-ending destruction.
As Godzilla spun in place like a top, its Atomic Breath mercilessly raked across everything nearby!
The skyscrapers still standing collapsed with a roar.
Steel melted. Concrete vaporized.
With Godzilla at the center, within a radius of dozens of kilometers, nothing remained that could block its line of sight.
Thud. Finally, having vented all its energy, Godzilla stamped its foot heavily onto the scorched earth.
It panted faintly, its gaze sweeping the surroundings, and once it confirmed it could no longer sense those fly-like, pestering humans, the King of Monsters snorted out a satisfied breath flecked with sparks.
It stood at the center of the ruins, slowly closed its eyes, and slipped into a brief dormancy to recover its energy.
Seeing this, the Alien Mefilas — who had stayed hidden in the shadows kilometers off — showed no intention of appearing at once to snatch an easy opening.
Not because he was terrified of the destructive power of Godzilla's Atomic Breath.
As a higher-order cosmic being, Mefilas wasn't so easily frightened away.
From the intel he'd gathered, though this monster held the potential to rapidly evolve by absorbing heat and radiation, it had clearly only just reached its current level not long ago.
Plenty of raw power, but sorely lacking in combat experience.
With Mefilas's strength, he was confident that even without his beam techniques, relying on melee and telekinesis alone, he could subdue Godzilla before it evolved to the next stage.
As for what would happen if he left it alone and let Godzilla climb a few more stages — that fell entirely outside his considerations.
As a fine opportunist, if things ever spiraled beyond control, he'd dust himself off and switch planets long before then.
Still, the reason he held his troops back now…
Aside from noticing that the mysterious merchant named Oriana hadn't shown the faintest trace of panic in the face of Godzilla's breath…
The bigger reason was what he'd caught in the instant Godzilla unleashed its Atomic Breath.
That group of otherworldly students, cornered into a hopeless dead end, had been swallowed whole in a heartbeat by a rippling mirror surface.
Space-folding tech? No — more like some mirror dimension attached to reality.
Mefilas stroked his chin.
'Well then, let me see what you'll do next.'
And at this moment, inside the Mirror World.
Watching Godzilla rest with its eyes closed out in the open world, Ryuuen's mouth split into a grin. 'Good… We've finally drained just about all the energy out of this big lizard.'
'That way, even if we wake it up later and it tries to hit back, it won't be able to spit out any threatening breath for a while.'
Ryuuen cracked his neck. 'While there's this lull, we could tell the civilians who haven't gotten out yet to hurry up and clear the area.'
'Our time's limited, though — we probably can't wait for all of them to evacuate before we leave.'
Chris cut in calmly:
'The Mirror World has a time limit for how long you can stay inside. To be safe, let's first see how well our original plan pans out.'
As he spoke, he tilted his head toward Ryuuen. 'Right — where's that coagulant and coolant you prepared? They didn't just get vaporized along with everything else by Godzilla's Atomic Breath, did they?'
Ryuuen let out a light laugh, arrogance threading his tone:
'I can be impulsive sometimes, sure. But impulsive doesn't mean stupid.'
'Besides, I've got alien tech running the numbers now. You think I'd make a rookie mistake like that?'
With that, Ryuuen raised his hand and fired a dazzling signal flare from his fingertip into the ashen sky.
The flare burst in midair.
Soon after, the ground began to tremble.
Several heavy tanker trucks laden with specially made coagulant rolled slowly out from beneath an intact overpass in the Mirror World.
The vehicles came to a steady stop not far in front of Chris and the others.
The doors opened, and the one who hopped down from the driver's seat was a coldly indifferent Ayanokoji Kiyotaka — the rest all faceless shadow ninjas whose features couldn't be made out.
Chris raised an eyebrow at the sight and feigned surprise:
'Didn't expect the soldiers of the Phantom Legion could handle delicate work like driving.'
Ayanokoji Kiyotaka stepped forward to explain:
'These tankers were originally driven over by this world's Self-Defense Force soldiers. But since ordinary people particalize if they linger in the Mirror World too long, I had them evacuate first, planning for us to hurl the trucks and the chemicals through together ourselves when the time came.'
'Didn't expect the Dark Shadow Legion Horikita left here to be not only so obedient but even skilled at driving… a big help.'
At that, Sakayanagi Arisu glanced back, mildly surprised, at Horikita Suzune standing behind them:
'The Dark Shadow Legion actually pitching in to share the chores on their own…'
'From the look of it, the Phantom Mask's so-called power to bewitch the heart and amplify darkness doesn't take effect all that quickly?'
'No.'
Ichinose Honami shook her head, her expression grave:
'The degree of corruption is proportional to the number of Phantom Legion summoned.'
'To evacuate all those civilians just now, Horikita summoned an absurd number. No matter how you look at it, the mask's side effects are worsening — we can't gamble on the odds of her losing her mind.'
Feeling the concerned looks of the companions around her, Horikita Suzune spat out a cold reply.
'I can still hold on.'
Chris nodded and made the call on the spot:
'Since everything's ready, let's end this fast while Godzilla's dormant.'
Katsuragi Kohei rubbed his bald head and offered a suggestion:
'The passage between the Mirror World and reality isn't affected by the size of what passes through it.'
'If possible, we don't even need to drive the tankers out. We could just use the passage between the Mirror World and reality to deliver the coagulant remotely into its body from the opening, couldn't we?'
Kouenji Rokusuke extended the thought:
'Hehe. A theoretically very Beautiful tactic, Katsuragi boy.'
'But the problem now is: how do we get this mirror precisely into Godzilla's throat?'
'Surely I can't just charge up, pry open Godzilla's jaws with my bare hands, then have [The World] stop time and stuff Sakayanagi Girl straight in?'
Sakayanagi Arisu rolled her eyes in exasperation and shot down the unreliable proposal outright:
'Three seconds of stopped time isn't short for ordinary combat, true. But against a beast of this size, that little window is essentially no different from Sianweistan's time deceleration.'
'Either way, the ultimate goal is just to get the mirror to the corner of Godzilla's mouth — that completes the task.'
The girl's gaze drifted. 'Honestly, compared to how to deliver it, the real problem worth worrying about is how to pry Godzilla's mouth open.'
'Chris's [Enma Blade] can ignore defenses, sure, but… he can't fly.'
'If we had him free-climb up to Godzilla's mouth and it noticed — waking early — any accident from that would be hard to handle.'
At those words. For some reason.
The group's eyes instinctively drifted to Ryuuen.
Being stared at by so many pairs of eyes,
Ryuuen's mouth twitched, and in an instant he grasped exactly what this crowd was getting at.
'…'
Though he was ten thousand times unwilling,
Ryuuen had always known how to weigh priorities, so he didn't waste time fussing over it.
He only let out a long, hollow sigh and glared viciously at Chris:
'I'll be your stepping stone and carry you up there!'
'But let's get this straight — just this once!'
'After this crap exam's over, you either train your Ki and learn to fly, or buy an item that flies, or go get Ichinose and Sakayanagi to carry you through the air… point is, don't you dare count on me being your springboard again!'
Hearing this, Ichinose Honami awkwardly looked away.
But Sakayanagi Arisu, entirely unbothered, covered her lips and laughed sweetly:
'Oh my, if it's the kind of clingy embrace where a baby depends on its mother… I really wouldn't mind at all~'
Chris's mouth twitched, and he shot her an annoyed look:
'You're not even wearing a Phantom Mask — so why do you sound like something weird has corroded your mind?'
'Alright, no more stalling. Get ready to move!'
Sakayanagi Arisu smiled without a word, gripping a folding mirror in her hand.
And so… when they passed through the mirror passage and reappeared in the scarred, devastated reality,
the picture they presented was, admittedly, a touch comical.
Ichinose Honami spread her pure white wings, hovering high above Godzilla's head, ready to seize its attention the instant it was startled awake.
Sakayanagi Arisu appeared at Godzilla's shoulder, geared up and ready at every moment.
As for Ryuuen and Chris…
From the vantage of the Alien Mefilas watching from afar,
Ryuuen was floating horizontally, face toward the ground, thrusters blazing at full blast;
while Chris stood steadily on Ryuuen's back, as though riding a hovering skateboard.
The two quickly rose to a height level with Godzilla's massive head.
Wild wind whipped at the loose hair over Chris's forehead.
Just then Chris suddenly looked down and asked:
'Ryuen, tell me… if I aim straight at Godzilla's head and pour everything into a single Dimensional Slash, could I one-shot it and end the fight right there?'
Ryuuen, serving as the human aircraft beneath his feet, gave a cold snort at that:
'You could try.'
'Your [Enma Blade] can ignore defenses and wound this big lizard, no question. Wrecking its brain outright is definitely the crude, simple option.'
'Even if one slash doesn't kill it, waking it up would hand Sakayanagi the perfect chance to slip inside.'
Chris stroked his chin, thought it over, and shot down his own idea:
'Never mind.'
'If we can help it, better not let Godzilla detonate right here and now.'
'Otherwise, forget this district — everything within a dozen kilometers would be left barren.'
'Let's play it safe. Once it's frozen solid, we'll move it into the Mirror World and deal with it slowly.'
Ryuuen was noncommittal:
'Suit yourself — get on with it, quick!'
Chris drew a deep breath.
He rested his hand on the hilt of the [Enma Blade].
Holding his breath and centering himself, he drew the blade and swung!
Clang—!
A deep-blue crescent of sword energy sank precisely into the seam of Godzilla's tightly shut lips.
In an instant — like an eraser lightly swept across drawing paper —
under that spatial cut, a huge chunk of the sharp teeth along the side of Godzilla's jaw vanished into thin air, leaving a gaping gap!
Though the strike hadn't reached far enough to shear off Godzilla's whole head, it was more than enough to make the ancient behemoth feel searing pain.
'ROAAAR—!!!'
The agony jolted Godzilla awake from its dormancy in an instant.
It snapped open its slit pupils and let out a roar.
But the very moment its eyes opened,
what filled its vision was Ichinose Honami, already soaring on beating wings above its line of sight.
'Feathers of God!'
Countless hardened feather-arrows shot straight at Godzilla's eyes.
Faced with this sudden assault,
Godzilla instinctively shut its eyes.
And in that razor-thin instant of closed eyes—!
'Now!'
Sakayanagi Arisu leapt without hesitation and flew straight into Godzilla's mouth!
The moment she entered its maw,
Sakayanagi Arisu instantly unfolded the folding mirror in her hand and aimed it down Godzilla's bottomless throat.
At the same time,
Ayanokoji Kiyotaka, who had been watching the outside world's every move through the Mirror World, caught this signal,
and swiftly commanded the Parasyte to hurl the two heavy tankers full of coagulant — long since prepped at the passage opening — fiercely toward that opening!
BOOM! As spatial ripples spread outward,
the two tankers, each weighing dozens of tons, appeared out of nowhere at the mouth of Godzilla's throat!
The suffocating sensation of foreign objects lodged in its gullet instantly threw Godzilla into a frenzy.
It arched its body in agony, letting out strange gurgling sounds, instinctively trying to cough out whatever was stuck in its throat.
But how could Sakayanagi Arisu ever let it have its way?
The instant Godzilla hunched over, the girl darted up close to the front of the tanker.
'Swallow it!'
With all her strength, she slammed a kick into the rear of the truck!
CRACK!
Her monstrous force drove the tanker deeper into Godzilla's esophagus!
A Deep Throat achievement — unlocked!
But it wasn't over yet.
To make sure the coagulant took effect fast, Sakayanagi Arisu quickly summoned [Roman Artillery: Pumpkin] and pressed its muzzle right against the outer wall of the tanker lodged deep in the throat.
BOOM! Feeling the intrusion inside it, Godzilla flew into a full rage.
The purple light on its back flickered wildly once more, and its surface temperature soared.
Clearly it meant to use its Atomic Breath to purge the foreign objects within — along with Sakayanagi Arisu, who was bouncing about at the corner of its mouth!
But this instinctive counterattack played right into Chris and the others' hands.
As the searing energy gathered in the throat, Sakayanagi Arisu barely needed to keep firing.
The tanker's shell melted away with ease.
'SPLASH—!'
The specially made coagulant poured down Godzilla's esophagus, rapidly chilling everything along its path.
Meanwhile, in the Mirror World, Ayanokoji Kiyotaka expressionlessly kept hurling the remaining tankers through, one after another like cannon fire.
Sakayanagi Arisu seized the chance to put away her cannon, and standing atop the last tanker, sank her whole body into Godzilla's throat.
Without hesitation, she pulled a test tube of [Demon Essence] from her pocket.
And downed it in one gulp!
As the searing heat within her collided violently with the frigid liquid nitrogen outside,
Sakayanagi Arisu, inside Godzilla's body, instantly felt a will hotter than molten lava and more violent than the abyss go tearing wildly through her mind.
'Kill… Destroy… Slaughter… Battle feels so good!!!'
The overwhelming urge to kill nearly burst her apart.
But with the experience of her earlier brief fusion, this time Sakayanagi Arisu wasn't swallowed outright by the will.
She held her breath and focused, running Ripple Breathing through her body.
Though that savage tide of negative emotion still battered against the walls of her reason, she could feel it clearly… she was almost suppressing it!
The corner of Sakayanagi Arisu's mouth curved up, even as blood seeped from it:
'Domination maxed out, control over everything, is it?'
'If that's how it is, then… kneel and submit obediently to this lady!'
'But for now, I still need to borrow a bit of your power… so let me see just how much might you have, you so-called Super Dangerous Species!'
With that thought, Sakayanagi Arisu completely released her suppression, letting the Dangerous Species' will run rampant through her mind and every limb and bone.
Soon, fine, dense cracks of blood split open across her delicate cheeks.
In sync, she noticed the Soul Gem worn at her neck beginning to fracture across its surface as well.
'The price, huh… doesn't matter anymore.'
Before Sakayanagi Arisu could ponder any further,
the all-freezing ice erupted with a roar from within Godzilla's body!
The purple nuclear energy — already suppressed by the coagulant — was frozen solid in the behemoth's esophagus!
In the span of just a few breaths,
the King of Monsters, so arrogant only moments ago,
fell utterly silent, turned into a lifelike, colossal ice sculpture!
At this moment, countless shadow ninjas surfaced from the shadows of the surrounding buildings.
Holding up the mirror shards scattered across the ground, they quickly gathered before Horikita Suzune, who had appeared at the edge of the battlefield at some unknown point.
They knelt respectfully on one knee, raising the fragments above their heads.
Suppressing her own mind, Horikita Suzune summoned [Crazy Diamond].
'Dora!' A pink-and-blue fist smashed into the mirror shards.
A Miracle like time flowing backward unfolded: every fragment rushed together and pieced itself back, and in the blink of an eye restored itself into a huge full-length mirror!
The shadow ninjas immediately stepped forward and hoisted the full-length mirror.
Starting from Godzilla's fully frozen tail, like a scanner, they forcibly dragged the hundred-meter-tall ice-sculpted behemoth, bit by bit, into the Mirror World!
With the crisis clearly resolved,
Chris, Ryuuen, and the others didn't linger, stepping into the mirror passage right after.
And atop the wreckage of another ruin far, far away,
the Alien Mefilas, who had watched the whole battle from a distance,
couldn't stop the corner of his mouth from twitching twice at the sight.
These people's methods… weren't they just too brutal, too utterly devoid of honor?
Honestly, watching Chris and his group deal with Godzilla in such a near-savage way,
Mefilas was genuinely shaken.
As the saying goes, kill but don't torture — yet here they were shaving off its mouth, then deep-throating liquid nitrogen down it…
An onlooker who didn't know better would think they were abusing Godzilla!
Still, shock aside,
Mefilas grew ever more interested in the endless stream of tools these people wielded.
'If only I could strike some kind of deal with them and get my hands on those technologies…'
'Never mind that odachi that can slice open space at will.'
'Just take that girl who uses a mirror as a teleportation gate, and the Stand that can alter the very structure of matter—'
The Alien Mefilas's eyes flickered.
He decided to shelve his earlier plan to test them, for now.
If he moved rashly now and these people, sensing trouble, simply unsealed Godzilla's ice to drag him down in a mutual-destruction gambit…
'The wise act with the flow of things.'
Mefilas shook his head with a smile, his figure slowly melting into the surrounding night.
'Let me observe you a while longer, guests from another world.'
'Violence has never been an elegant way to solve problems.'
'Isn't that right?'
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