Mahoyo c-13

c-13
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　The blades of thunder were repelled by the balls of prana like a gust of wind.
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　The workshop that serves as a base for a magus is her main and ultimate asset. [L] [r]
　Countless defensive spells guard the scene against possible thieves and other insolent assailants. [L] [r]
　The old school did not derogate from the rule; Aozaki Touko, one of the last puppeteers and user of Runes, had an ace up her sleeve. [L] [r]
　This workshop reflected her sickly perfectionism and eliminated all intruders, humans and demons alike.
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「These wicked spells are not even able to slow her down ---!」 [L] [r]
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　Touko activated the traps placed in the corridor during her race. [L] [r]
　However, none of them had any effect.
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　Quality mattered little, ten or twenty Runes were not enough to stop this girl. [L] [r]
　She foresaw attacks and showed superhuman reflexes. [L] [r]
　The prana bullets called forth from her hands easily destroyed Touko's Runes and the walls ---!
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「It is with these simplistic spells that you take yourself for a master, you brute --- [wait canskip = 0 time = 400] [r]
　You have matured well, you're only good at destruction. It's absurd!
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　As the insults rained, the roof opened under the pressure of the Runes. [L] [r]
　A kind of gelatinous atmosphere rose in the corridor, forming an invisible wall. [L] [r]
　Aoko stopped running and kicked her leg up. [L] [r]
　Like a veritable force of nature, [i] her foot split the air and pulverized the ceiling at the same time as the Runes.
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"You can talk ! You're always such a maniac! [L] [r]
　You've carved runes literally everywhere. Don't you know restraint?! We didn't ask you to turn this place into a space fortress! [L] [r]
　This school is full of memories, so treat it well!
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　The corridor was dilapidated and the walls had suffered the ravages of the passing years. [L] [r]
　They were now bearing witness as Aoko strode about the place, wood scattering all around her. [L] [r]
　You might as well talk about a walking catastrophe. [l] [r]
　Touko's Runes only had an effect on humans in the form of a curse, but Aoko's prana bullets were pure brute force.
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「You do not even have a hint of elegance! [L] [r]
　When I think you're my little sister --- 」[l] [r]
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　Even if it did not go so far as to give her nausea, this simple fact made her want to exchange all her blood; but it was not the right time to think about such trifles. [l] [r]
　The girl who was chasing her was not the Aozaki Aoko she knew, but her "completed" version. [L] [r]
　No moment of inattention was allowed. [L] [r]
　However,
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「It's a bad joke! This cannot be True Magic! 」[L] [r]
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　Individual time travel --- Touko doubted that this is the true nature of Aozaki's legacy. [L] [r]
　The transformation undergone by Aoko was only a side effect of True Magic. [L] [r]
　She did not know if her little sister had really reached the depths, but this miracle could in no way be so simplistic.
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　And this for a simple reason --- the concept of the time travel already appeared in the Second True Magic. [L] [r]
　The rewriting of history and the alteration of reality, among other things, related to the management of parallel worlds. [L] [r]
　It was a little late to attribute this to the Fifth True Magic.
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「--- Then another question arises. [L] [r]
　Aoko! Where do you obtain these ten years? 」[L] [r]
「From that idiot! Is it a problem for you ?! [l] I'll give them back, so you're not really in a position to lecture me! 」
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　Indeed, this act did not pose a problem in itself [l] [r]
　It was one-way, but the amount of time on this time axis remained the same. [L] [r]
　Only---
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「So what are you going to do with those five minutes?! [L] [r]
　You're not going to bring him back to his original state after having eliminated me?! 」[L] [r]
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　Aoko's legs stopped. [L] [r]
　The magic of the Aozaki and the humanity of Aoko presented each other with a contradiction. [L] [r]
　These two faults gave Touko the opportunity to counterattack.
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Do you understand ? The manipulation of time does not allow the resurrection of the dead. [L] [r]
　What you did is therefore only a temporary arrangement --- 」[l] [r]
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　Touko's Magic Seal showed all its might. [L] [r]
　The biggest trap of the corridor materialized thanks to the prana provided by the Seal. [L] [r]
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「--- In other words, you are guilty of a far crueler act!」
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　Three stones of Runes appeared [l] [r]
　Their size and the prana they contained far exceeded her previous attacks. [L] [r]
　It was the technique of the giant of northern Europe, [l] [r]
　the replica of the original lost Rune that Aozaki Touko had partially restored for the Mage's Association.
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　The three crystalline membranes unfolded, ten million Runes engraved on each of them. [1] [r]
　No prana ball could pierce them. [L] [r]
　Even if the power released by Aoko far surpassed that of Touko, these megaliths produced twice as much. [L] [r]

Aoko's specialty was simply "releasing prana", she could neither protect herself nor avoid this curse ......!
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「--- [ruby o2o = 1 text =" Main "char =" Subjective axis "], [ruby char =" Fixed "text =" Set "].」 [L] [r]
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　Aoko resorted to self-hypnosis and took a deep, determined breath. [L] [r]
　She then rushed towards the storm of Runes, without trying to protect herself or to dodge.
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I see. You do not exist in this temporal axis, do you ?! 」[l] [r]
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　Certain of her hypothesis, Touko ran her Magic Seal at full speed. [L] [r]
　The Runes had no effect on Aoko because she was constantly repeating time on the scale of the second. [L] [r]
　Either she was sending the Runes impact somewhere in time, [l] [r]
　or she superimposed several thousand doubles of herself. [l] [r]
　In any case, she would never have enough prana to continue this madness ......!
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「And a one!」 [L] [r]
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　The megalith was literally pulverized. [L] [r]
　There were two left. More than ten meters [l] [r]
　Touko had enough prana in reserve. She would completely exhaust her Seal, but she could still shoot for ten good seconds.
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　On the other hand, Aoko did not have any longer. At least, from a Magus point of view. [L] [r]
　An additional transgression was impossible for her. [L] [r]
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　However --- she was already committing one with the time manipulation.
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「Aoko ---!」 [L] [r]
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　The same thing was repeated over and over again. [L] [r]
　Touko's doubts now gave way to hatred. [L] [r]
　She had only to make the spell allowing for time manipulation. [L] [r]
　The real problem was in this absurd amount of prana. [l] Where could this girl find the energy to travel back in time ......?
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"I knew it ! --- You! 」[L] [r]
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　The death of Shizuki Soujyuro [l] [r]
　She said she had brought him back five minutes before he died, but in that case, where did the five minutes go?
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　Aoko's True Magic was not the "management of parallel worlds" that consists in modifying the world itself. [L] [r]
　Aoko rewound only the "five minutes of Soujuurou". [L] [r]
　If it were true, then he would become a corpse once the True Magic had dissipated. [L] [r]
　It is impossible to change the past through a manipulation of time that makes no change to the world.
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　...... In fact, [l] [r]
　if she wanted to save him, she would have no choice but to resurrect him, [l] [r]
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　or leave the energy produced by these five minutes suspended in a distant space-time, without putting it back in its place ---!
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「And a two!」 [L] [r]
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　Aoko's assault continued. [L] [r]
　Sheltered behind the last megalith, Touko stared at Aoko with a hateful look.
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「Answer, Aoko! Where did you send his time? [l] How do you maintain balance despite the loss of this energy? 」[l] [r]
"Haven't you figured it out!? I threw his time far into the future! 」[L] [r]
"W-
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　More than five meters [l] [r]
　Touko wanted to facepalm on hearing this absurd answer. [L] [r]
　She had sent the debts she had just created into the future? [L] [r]
　A temporal paradox would have proven less cruel. [L] [r]
　The thoughtless consumption of such energy could not be tolerated.
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　Time travel itself requires a colossal amount of energy. [L] [r]
　Prana is needed to bring something non-existent into the present. [L] [r]
　In the same way, to subtract something from the present demands a huge amount of energy. [L] [r]
　What of the prana needed for cooling? [L] [r]
　Whether the equation gives a negative or positive result, the order would collapse in all cases. [L] [r]
　The distortion caused by True Magic would someday reach this area of spacetime.
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It's... It's the height of stupidity! [L] [r]
　Do you intend to impose this debt on humanity, which is already in an impasse, with the extinction of the universe that will come billions of years from now? [l] Do you realize that it amounts to placing meteorites over our planet? [l] [r]
　You intend to crush this world under your weight, right ?!
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「--- Qu」 [l] [r]
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　This example goes too far, Aoko thought, opening her eyes wide. [L] [r]
　Carried away by anger, her legs pierced the floor.
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「Shut up a little, I'll think about it when the time comes! Next time, I will send the borrowed time into the past! That way, you will not have anything to complain about, alright ?! [l] The distortion will only crush the past, after all! 」[l] [r]
「And you really think that will solve the problem?! [L] [r]
　So can the past go away as long as the present is determined?! [L] [r]
　It only helps us! What do you do with the debt of the universe, the total time?! 」
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　--- Yes. [L] [r]
　Whether the universe is closed or is still expanding, [l] [r]
　the increase in energy consumption would become unmanageable.
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　Infinite expansion, [l] [r]
　infinite consumption, [l] [r]
　infinite growth. But what is waiting at the end of the road is not a future full of hope. [L] [r]
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　The nothingness preceding creation [l] [r]
　One day, the universe will suffer heat death.
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「Your True Magic --- The true magic of Aozaki only makes this end even more inescapable! You take this responsibility too lightly ---! 」[L] [r]
「You do not have to tell me, I know it! [L] [r]
　This responsibility, I will dedicate my life to it!
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　More than two meters [l] [r]
　A Runic cannon turned into a heat ray that harbored Touko's hatred and struck its target [l] [r]
　Although devoured by the heat, Aoko hit the ground in a surge of emotions even stronger ---
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「So you will take responsibility? And more [r] specifically?! 」[L] [r]
"Specifically... I'll think about it later, of course! 」[L] [r]
「--- [wait canskip = 0 time = 400] You are the worst woman ever!」
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　--- The last shield was demolished [l] [r]
　Two steps away from each other, the two Magi raised their arms and summoned a spell. [L] [r]
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　One with the Red Runes, the other with the Blue Aether. [L] [r]
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　Once fired, the prana ball dragged Aozaki Touko like a waterfall, crushing her with the Seal floating behind it.
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