Dragon Shell info for KnT

[“Ohhhhhhhh!!!!!!”

“Ohhhhhhhh!!!!!!”

An explosive roar erupted out.

The sky-blue and shocking-pink slipped through the barrage of light arriving chaotically from either side and raced along the shortest distance across the dance hall.

Every little thing about that other boy pissed Kamijou Touma off.

The enemy’s transformation still only covered the right side of his body.

Kamijou gave a roar from his crocodilian jaws, but he did not wait for his opponent to reach full power. If he was going to hold back now, he might as well sink to the depths of the earth clutching his precious deck of cards to his chest.

That said.

The sky-blue shell was honestly too weak to call a trump card.

It was only the dregs and most of the power had to have been taken by the other boy.

Kamijou himself was unsure how much it could do and his enemy could negate all supernatural powers with Imagine Breaker. That powered suit made of creepy flesh would shatter the instant that boy laid a finger on it. He had a hard time imagining himself rushing straight in and pulling off a win without taking a single hit. That meant he had to come up with a plan that would work even after taking a hit and having everything taken from him.

(Stay low.)

It was true Imagine Breaker had been taken from him.

But Kamijou had learned all too well how it worked.

(I need to charge in with as much speed and weight as I can!!)

That might look like a reckless charge, but there was more to it.

Imagine Breaker was only the right fist.

If he kept his hips so low he was practically crawling along the floor and charged in along a straight line, the villain’s only choice would be to swing that fist down at him. Yes, it would have to be an impractical attack similar to breaking tiles in a karate demonstration.

That was a pinpoint attack that could only hit once he was ten centimeters away.

And it would be a downwards blow from above instead of a direct cross counter. Even if he got a clean hit on that crocodile head, he would have a hard time stopping Kamijou as he rushed in like an artillery shell.

Meaning…

“If I’m willing to take a hit, I can definitely reach him!!”

“You son of a bitch!”

Shocking-pink light shined from the corner of the other boy’s mouth.

In his unfamiliar tuxedo and ascot tie, he flipped over the stacks of plates on a nearby table and threw some full drink bottles, but Kamijou did not need to worry about that. He charged right through them using his reptilian shell made of sky-blue and lemon-yellow lines. He clenched the large jaws to ignore the dull pain.

He only had to remain conscious.

He only had to reach that other boy.

“!!”

A great roar exploded out.

As expected, the other boy swung his right hand down.

But instead of a fist, it was claws.

It was like a shocking-pink lightning strike.

A strange heat raced across the back of Kamijou’s head and he felt dizzy.

The sky-blue shell that had partially kept up with Kanzaki Kaori’s movements vanished in an instant as if unraveling.

But the exposed boy’s speed did not fall.

He clenched his teeth and slammed his shoulder into his opponent. He aimed for the solar plexus. He poured all his weight into it while thinking of it as lifting up that boy’s organs.

The two of them flew horizontally.

They briefly broke free of gravity.

“Gah!!”

“…!?”

And they hit the floor.

They kept moving and bounced along the carpeted floor like flat rocks skipping on a river. Kamijou might have been able to slit the other boy’s throat with a thick claw if he could still use the sky-blue and lemon-yellow shell, but Imagine Breaker had already negated that. But to “no more than a boy”, that Imagine Breaker was no more than some claws.

An odd cracking sound continued on and on.

It did not come from Kamijou or his destroyed outer shell. The damage of being slammed back-first into the floor must have affected his target because shocking-pink and emerald erupted from all over his body and his tuxedo was torn to shreds as the colors surrounded him.

No, that was not quite accurate.

While Kamijou had been enveloped by the sky-blue, this boy was revealing the shocking-pink within him.

Kamijou had revealed his ordinary boy’s face while the monster roared with giant shocking-pink jaws. They had entirely swapped out their appearances.

The difference in ability was unknown.

But if he had the same or even greater ability than Kamijou, he could reach Kanzaki’s speeds at least for a moment.

If that monster was given any freedom, exposed Kamijou Touma would be more than just torn to pieces.

(I won’t let him… use that properly!!)]
- TAMI NTR22 Chapter 4 Part 8