Seiya - Transform: Automatic Garuda

...But a few moments go by and nothing happens. The silence slowly drifts along like the clouds below. Just when I am about to relax, though...the inside of a cloud illuminates continually in the distance! Immediately, I notice something about the luminous points reflecting in my eyes...

S-seven points?! That means there are seven arrows! This is... Don’t tell me it’s...!

“Seven-Shot Shining Arrow!”

This is what makes him one in a billion! Despite being human, he’s already at the Goddess of Archery’s level! And Mitis said that if you use Shining Arrow and spread out all seven arrows...then it would be absolutely impossible to dodge—such a monster doesn’t exist! The luminous points I see in the sea of clouds are all over the place! I bet he calculated and spread his shots so he would hit Beel Bub’s  head,  arms,  legs,  and  wings!  There’s  no  way  to  dodge  this!  It’s  like  a human trying to dodge a shotgun fired point-blank! It isn’t possible!

I am sure of our victory, but...

“Bzz, bzz, bzz! Rolling Dodge!”

With my goddess-enhanced dynamic vision, I see Beel Bub twist its body like an  acrobat  before  spinning  and  dodging  each  ray  of  light,  in  spite  of  them traveling faster than the speed of sound.

Rosalie freaks out even before I do.

“I-it dodged all of them?!”

“Th-that’s impossible...!”

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Beel  Bub  instantly  speeds  in  Seiya’s  direction  as  if  planning  to  tear  a defenseless human apart. But out of nowhere, the monster suddenly vomits a purple liquid.

“Gwa...ha...!”

“Huh?! Wh-what’s going on?!”

It  looks  like  Beel  Bub  has  no  idea  what  just  happened,  either.  However,  it doesn’t take me long to figure out.

There’s a gaping hole in its stomach! After a slight delay, copious amounts of purple liquid begin pouring out of its body!

Before I even realize it, six birds are flying around Beel Bub. They’re similar to the Automatic Phoenixes Seiya creates using fire magic, but they’re moderately different. These are brilliantly shining birds of light.

Beel Bub coughs up another pint of purple liquid.

“L-light magic birds...! Where did those come from...?!”

Seiya must have created them, and one of them must have torn through Beel Bub’s stomach! B-but when did he conjure six birds out of light magic? ...W-wait! Six birds? If you count the one that drilled through Beel Bub’s body and self-destructed, then that makes seven in total—the same number of arrows Beel Bub just dodged! It all makes sense now! After Beel Bub dodged Seven-Shot Shining Arrow, the arrows transformed into Garudas! Then they must have flown back and attacked Beel Bub when its guard was down! In other words...

“Transform: Automatic Garuda!”

Beel Bub probably realizes now what Seiya’s strategy was.

“You...little piece of...!”

The monster’s utterance drips with spite, but those end up being Beel Bub’s final words. As the demon starts slowing down, the birds of light ram into it, exploding at an ultrahigh temperature and emitting a blinding flash. The only thing  before  me  when  the  light  fades  is  Beel  Bub’s  charred  remains  as  they plummet to the surface.

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Volume 2, Chapter 36