Nene

"Black Blade ・ Yatagarasu[8]–"

"Kusanagi–!"

A magic blade of lightning darker than night crashed into a sword of tornado winds, and the two knights wielding them were both repelled backward. While losing his footing on the gravel mountain path, the Sword Emperor of Wind Ouma Kurogane clicked his tongue.

"As I thought, the power drops by the third usage."

On the other side, the petite woman fighting against him who was dancing back through the air, the Yaksha Princess Nene Saikyou turned gracefully in midair, and dropped down in front of the Hagure sisters who had been cornered upon the deserted mountain.

-Volume 4, Chapter 4
[Nene's Yatagarasu stalemate's Ouma's Kusanagi, a city-block+ attack (volume 4, chapter 3 beam clash with Stella)]
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"Don't try to play make-believe with an adult, brat."


Every one of Akatsuki's members was assaulted by weight. No, not just Akatsuki. With Saikyou at the center, everything within twenty meters was being crushed into the ground by an invisible force. It was Saikyou's Noble Art that used gravity, Jibakujin[9]. Akatsuki, who had suddenly been struck by gravity making them ten times as heavy as normal, all collapsed onto the ground as if they were sinking into it.

-Vol 4, Chap 4
[Gravity manip within 20 metre radius that makes everyone ten times heavier than usual]
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“Don’t make such a scary face,” Stella said unapologetically, “this couldn’t be helped. After all, my opponent up till yesterday was the strongest knight in the Pan-Pacific region.”

In all honesty, Stella was not the sort to intentionally humiliate her opponent.

They were simply on different planes.

After all, the one training Stella this whole week had been one of the strongest people in the world, the Yaksha Princess, a Gravity User who boasted such outrageous offensive power that she could pull a meteorite from beyond the atmosphere at two times escape velocity.

- Volume 6, Chapter 1
[Nene can pull down meteors from the atmosphere at two times escape velocity]
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Stella raised a voice of protest, but she did not finish what she wanted to say.



Because she saw the expression of Saikyou standing before her.



(What’s with that face......!)



What was reflected in her pupils was a bloodlust that she had never seen before during their special training.



(She’s...serious......!)



“Kuh!”



She did such a thing at such a time, when the next day the Seven Stars Sword-Art Festival would start.



Stella could not understand what she was thinking doing that, but she knew just one thing.



She instinctively understood that the current situation was really bad.



Hence, Stella exploded her magic power beneath her feet, and took a large jump backwards.



She took distance from Saikyou. ──However...



“I won’t let you es-cape.”



“UAAA!?”



Saikyou faced her palm upwards, and curved her index finger.



Right after that, Stella’s body was pulled towards Saikyou in the middle of jumping backwards by an invisible force.



Nene Saikyou’s ability. The attraction force from Gravity Manipulation.



She did not intend to let Stella go.



She was really serious.
[Pulls in Stella with gravity]
- vol 8
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Stella also changed her Device from Illusionary Form to real blade.



And she gathered a few strings of flame onto that blade...



“Katharterio・Salamandra────!”



The heated blade that turned into light flashed as it was swung down towards Saikyou who had pulled her in.



The blade of light was racing on the track of a diagonal slash at Saikyou without an err...



──However, it was at the moment when it was around thirty centimeters from Saikyou’s skin.



Suddenly, the slash’s movement curved and went off the way.
[Makes Stella's beam attack miss via gravity manip]
- vol 8
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Stella’s head was full of question, but she didn’t have the free time to think.



That’s because Saikyou, who had drawn her in, swung her iron fan.



“Kokutou・Yatagarasu.”[6]



Accompanied by a crimson iron fan that tore through the wind, was a black blade of super gravity that pushed away even light.



Stella could not evade it after her posture crumbled from missing her strike.



She couldn’t evade it, but ── reversing her blade to shield herself was a miraculous technique possible due to Stella’s high physical ability.



However ── it could do only so much.



“Kokushichou.”[7]



Against Stella, who had received her right hand’s iron fan, Saikyou opened the iron fan in her left hand and swung as if fanning wind at her.



Soon, black gravitational energy formed shapes of butterflies, fluttering their wings and flying towards Stella’s flank...



“～～～～～～～～～～～～!?!?”



Immediately after that, Stella was assaulted by a super massive impact, as if a large truck had just rammed into her, blowing away her body.



Stella’s body slid past the ground, thrusted into the forest behind her back, knocking down trees along the way, until a huge cliff raised from the ground.



“Ka...ha......!”



Stella’s body was about to collapse onto the ground while blood flowed out as she opened her mouth wide.
[Nene's casual gravity attacks knock down a huge area, destroys a huge cliff, and severely damages Stella (she can tank city block level attack with no damage)]
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As Saikyou told her such, she activated Jibakujin.



The gravity of the surrounding space increased, applying ten times the normal gravity on Stella’s body.



She would not be able to escape easily with that, but...



“T-Thisssss! Stop jooooking!”



That would work at best against a normal Blazer.



Stella pulled out her sword from the ground while bearing the heavy pressure, and stood with her two feet...



“Dragon Faaang!!!!”



The hot flame wrapping around the sword shot out towards Saikyou with the intensity of the swing.



The flame dragons that flew out numbered ten.



They twisted their bodies between the gaps in trees as they assaulted Saikyou to devour her.



However, as they closed in on her, the flame dragons started to show abnormalities.



As if they were escaping from Saikyou, they started to wriggle away in the wrong direction.



(W-Why!? I totally cannot control them......!)



She ordered the flame dragons a few times, but the result was the same even if she changed their tracks.



Not a single one could get close to Saikyou.



She had obstructed the homing ability with some kind of method.



──Wrong. Saikyou’s ability was not something that could do that kind of job.



Then as Stella was thinking what could have caused it, she immediately understood the reason.



(I see......! Using super gravity, she twisted the space itself around her and made it like a maze......!)



However, there was nothing she could do even though she understood...

[10 times gravity thing along with twisting gravity around themselves to move space into a maze so that opponent's attacks can't get close]
- vol 8
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“Know when to quit.”



“Ga...fu............!”



As Saikyou strengthened the pressure of Jibakujin, Stella was finally pressed down to the ground.



Her bones were making creaking sounds and her body was being buried into the ground.



Even if she wanted to stand up, she could not even lift her upper body.



(Too...strong......)



However, that was only natural.



Her opponent was the third place in the KoK A-Rank League.



Because she was the third strongest knight within the nations of the League.



Although both were A-Rank Blazers, her opponent was too much for Stella, who was still a student.



If such an opponent was seriously trying to crush her, she had no way of resisting.
[10 times is in base, Nene can increase the gravity against people to an extent that Stella gets crushed]
- vol 8
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Right then, just like her body, her soul roaring────!



“Ua-AA-A-AaAAAAAAAAAA──────!!!!!!”



The moment Stella resolved herself, her body moved by itself, and stabbed Lævateinn into her chest.



No more hesitation, no more wavering.



It was the same as humans breathing without being conscious of it.



Her body, her cells, knew about it.



Her own power, the real way to use it────



Immediately, an explosion of heat rays came from the center of Stella’s body.



A wind of light that mowed everything down in all direction was like a sickle of scorching heat.



The trees in the forest that were hit were disintegrated into ash without even having the time to burn.



While that storm of heat rays made her hair flutter......Saikyou smiled as if she was relieved.



“Good grief, finally awakened. What a troublesome child.”
[Stella's awakening produces a shockwave of heat strong enough to instantly turn trees to ash but Nene can casually tank it cus gravity]
- vol 8
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