The mock battle between Rubel and Reiko continues.

The aftermath has left the area around them gouged out and strewn with rocks, and burnt, scorched, and melted ground is everywhere.

"After all, Mr. Reiko is just as I thought he would be. ......!"

"I see."

Rubel speaks passionately and Reiko answers calmly.

I haven't given it my all yet. I'm going to ...... give it everything I've got!

"I'll take it."

Rubel stands a short distance away,

"I'll give it everything I've got!"

and started to rush forward.

Reiko did not catch him, but spun her body and dodged with half her body.

She then used the momentum of her spin to throw a back fist at Rubel.

However, either her timing was a little too late or Rubel was too fast, and the backfist only grazed her red hair.

Rubel was kicking the ground with her foot as they passed each other, sending up stones and debris toward Reiko.

But Reiko was no longer there. She had turned around and was chasing after Rubel.

"I won't let you go!"

Reiko was one step behind, but she was faster than Rubel and caught up to him in no time.

!!!!"

Rubel sensed a crisis. She could not escape at this rate. And she would be severely damaged.

So, she took the evasive maneuver of intentionally falling to the ground.

"Kyah!"

Sliding from a speed of over 300 km/h, even Rubel was not without damage, but she judged that it was much less than the damage from Reiko's attack.

Rubel rolls erratically, making a cloud of dust and sand.

"But we're far enough away from Reiko."

Enough?　What is a distance of 10 meters to an opponent who can travel much faster than the speed of sound?

I've got him.

!

Reiko's voice came from behind him, and at the same time, Rubel was pinned down.

"It's over."

If Reiko could increase the power by another ten percent, Rubel's arms would fall off her shoulders.

But...

"I've been waiting for this!"

Rubel had invoked some kind of magic.

* * * * * *

"Wow,...... this is a great fight,...... this is a mock battle?　Are you kidding me?"

<, was a little taken aback.

The ground around the site was so rough that Jin D. thought that it would be difficult to repair the damage.

Reiko and Rubel are even more impressive than that.

They are moving around in all directions in the wasteland that became the stage for the mock battle.

"...... I can make this many automata, I'm satisfied."

Markosias, too, is watching the battle with narrowed eyes.

And then.

"Oh, Reiko caught Rubel!"

Zion D pointed out.

"Hmmm, I guess you could say it's our first contact. What is ...... Rubel doing ...... is that engineering magic?

Seeing the Magi Formula of light floating between Rubel and Reiko, Jin realized what was happening.

"So you're going to contact them and attack them with engineering magic?"

"Yes. That's the last thing I taught Rubel.

Using engineering magic, he would form or separate the parts of the person he touched.

This was Rubel's last resort.

* * * * * * * * * *

Engineering magic cannot be used on living creatures.

The reason for this is currently being studied by Elsa, and although it has not yet been clarified, it is a strict fact.

And there was a hypothesis that the living body is guarded by <>.

Reiko's skin is made of < leather and her clothes are made of , both of which are biological materials.

Reiko herself is under the control of <>, and she is filling it up and strengthening it.

That means...

"Oh no!　It doesn't work?

Rubel's desperate move did not work on Reiko.

"<> activated.

"Oh ......"

Reiko judged that further continuation of the mock battle was likely to lead to a breaking each other, and temporarily stopped Rubel by using <>.

Then, holding Rubel in her arms, she slowly returns to Jin D and the others.

* * * * * * * * *

"......The end was so quick," said Zion D.

Zion D. says, "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

"No, no, no, if we had continued like that, one of us would have been broken.

Jin D. interrupted.

"...... I think it was Rubel who was broken at that time, though."

Marcosias also said. His face was full of satisfaction.

"Thank you, Jin-sama, no, Jin-sama, for taking care of me."

Slowly, Marcosius bowed his head toward Jin D.

"I'm back."

Then Reiko, holding Rubel in her arms, and Ruf, who had been filming the whole thing, returned.

"Thank you, Reiko."

"Thank you for taking care of me, Miss Reiko."

Jin D. and Markosias approached Reiko.

"No problem."

Reiko answered shortly and gently laid down Rubel in her arms.

"Please reboot him, Mr. Malkosius."

"Yes, I will. ......<"

"......Ah..."

Rubel's eyes opened.

"This place is ...... ah, I've lost, haven't I?"

Then she realized that Marcosias was there,

"I'm sorry, father," he said.

He apologized.

To which Marcosias replied,

"No, it was enough. You did a good job, Rubel.

He patted her on the head.

Rubel rolled her eyes in surprise, and Reiko and Jin D looked at her with kind eyes.