Speed 6 Volume 13

So Stella made a decision.

『Eh? Wha, wait wait wait wait! 《Crimson Princess》! What the hell is she thinking!?』

– Stella-chan…!?

– ────!

Stella’s parents, who were watching the broadcast in Vermillion, also opened their eyes wide.

The reason being,

『She put away her Device during the war, in the middle of the battle!?』

She had made such a ridiculous move.

『Is she going to stop 《Chariot》’s 《Circus Maximus》 with her bare hands!? That’s crazyyyy────! She’s a little too reckless! It’s completely evident what will happen if she stands in front of the cavalry that flies at top speed with her body! But even if she regrets it──it’s too late!!』

The enemy had unarmed themselves.

This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity was something Johan──and the 《Marionette King》 who controlled him could not miss!

–  《Circus Maximus》!

『《Chariot》 plunges in like an arrow! A straight line to the defenseless enemy!』

The golden cavalryman stuck out his knight spear and rode fast in a straight line through the sky directly aiming at Stella’s heart.

Stella, on the other hand, never picked up the sword.

A stance to grab the approaching tip with her bare hands.

──That was an absurd decision. An unthinkable recklessness.

There was no infantry that could catch the charge of a cavalry from the front.

Moreover, Johan’s ability was 『Path』.

The power of supremacy, which plunged forward and crushed all obstacles in its path.

That power took the form of a concept and interfered with causality, rendering even Stella’s physical strength meaningless.

That was obvious.

──But,

(I couldn’t care less… about what’s obvious!)

Stella remembered.

That tiny 《Desperado》 she faced in Edelberg.

《Toutetsu》 Fu Xiaoli.

Stella herself was a superior warrior. Therefore, she knew.

That enemy──if she fought her ten times, she would lose ten times, that much was obvious.

The difference in ability between herself and her opponent was that wide.

Stella herself admitted that without leaving room for any objection.

But, even so──she was the one who won that deadly battle.

Blazers were beings who rewrote their destinies according to their own will.

A strong will and a strong ego sometimes changed the obvious

In other words, fighting for the hegemony of that fate was the battle of a Blazer.

If that was the case──the power that had the fate to run over all obstacles and push forward. How big of a threat would that be?

She could stop it.

The power of fate that Johan possessed.

No. Of course she could. Such a thing. Something of that degree.

Because that Johan wasn’t even Johan.

It was a mere 『wooden figure』 manipulated by an evil will.

Because there wasn’t even the slightest bit of will or self in him…!

– ────!!

And then, the golden warhorse hit Stella directly without slowing down at all, and the tip of 《Chariot》 hit her heart──no, it did not.

That was because Stella’s hands easily caught the knight spear and stopped its charge with force.

『Wha…! It stoppeddddd! Are you for real, 《Crimson Princess》!? She stopped 《Chariot》’s 《Circus Maximus》 that crushes everything that stands in its way! Seriously, she caught it with her bare hands! What a non-standard power────!!!!』