Volume 6 Chapter 16 Goddess Holy Church Seven Heaven Apostles' Order Of Love' Rapucel Dreadnought ⑩ - 50% Power
50%.
Half of Elk's full power.
Until now, he wasn't using his full strength.
"Ugh..."
Rapucel was being pushed back, as if the earlier advantage was a lie.
First, the speed of 'Terpsichora: Telekinetic Dance' shot up. That alone was manageable... but for some reason, Rapucel's punches and kicks stopped working.
It felt like hitting a slightly hard tree, but then it changed to the feeling of hitting unbreakable steel.
Elk floated using Telekinesis and delivered a high kick from an impossible angle.
"Ugh!?"
She tried to defend, but she couldn't fully take the impact of the kick that came from below.
Her stance was too low.
Elk bent down, spread his legs, put his right hand on the floor, and held his left hand out horizontally.
This felt like a natural stance, almost like it was meant to be.
"50%──it doesn't seem like a lie!!"
"It's not a lie!"
He slid in with that low stance.
And he was fast. This was only half of his full power... She thought he was just bragging, but that wasn't the case.
Rapucel opened a semi-transparent display around herself.
Without touching it, just by thinking, she could manipulate the design for creating a dungeon.
"Pawn!!"
Several bronze soldiers appeared.
Then, Rapucel shouted.
"'Promotion Queen'!!"
The bronze soldiers began to shine gold.
This was the evolution of the pawns that could be used when Rapucel was in danger. Each one had the same specs as a queen.
The 5 "Promotion Queens" attack Elk.
But Elk claps his hands and makes a motion like he's kneading dough... the 5 Promotion Queens stick together as if they have magnetic power, curling up like pieces of paper.
"Here's your payback!!"
"Wh──!?"
Then, the ball of Promotion Queens is launched towards Rapucel.
Caught completely off guard, the mass of Promotion Queens crashes into Rapucel, sending him flying.
"Ggh!?"
A shock runs through Rapucel's whole body, and she spits out blood.
Elk's attack doesn't stop. She lifts several pieces of rubble and, using telekinesis, sends them flying in quick succession. Dazed, Rapucel barely dodges to the side.
With bloodshot eyes, she screams at Elk.
"DON'T GET COCKY, YOU LITTLE BRATTTTTT!!"
Oh, her front teeth are broken.
Elk thought this without caring about Rapucel's anger.
* * *
Finally, Poseidon managed to meet up with several teachers, including Elshi.
Elshi is in a tight suit, while the other teachers are in pajamas or casual clothes. When they opened the door, they suddenly found themselves in a different room, so it can't be helped.
However, Elshi looked at Poseidon's heart-covered pajamas with complete disgust.
"...Goddess Holy Church. I can't believe they made a dungeon."
"Hmm. To be precise, it seems they just connected the school door to another room and placed dungeon monsters. The structure of the school itself hasn't changed."
Poseidon fiddles with his beard and says this seriously. But saying it while wearing heart pajamas makes it feel completely silly.
And then, the gym teacher Jacob raised his hand.
"Principal, if there's a dungeon, there must be a (core) or (treasure) inside. If we retrieve that, the dungeon might collapse."
"Jacob is right. But... if the dungeon collapses, it could mean the school will collapse too. Plus, we don't even know if there's really a treasure."
"Hmm..."
At this point, the biology teacher Enrique raised his hand.
He looked like a skeleton with sunken cheeks and eyes. Enrique moved his thin fingers awkwardly and opened his dry lips.
"Um, I encountered a student. They were wearing a robe from the Goddess Holy Church."
"Mister Enrique, why didn't you say that sooner?"
"I-I'm sorry... I was hiding."
Elshi sighed.
Poseidon nodded, saying, "Hmm."
"Well, it's fine. What we can do is ensure the students' safety while searching for the priest from the Goddess Holy Church, who is the cause of this chaos. The one who turned it into a dungeon should be able to undo it."
"Um, Principal... The brainwashed student seems to have a skill that teleports them outside the dungeon if they take a certain amount of damage."
"Mister Enrique... please tell us these things sooner."
"Y-yes."
"Alright. Let's go right away. For safety, we'll all stick together."
Poseidon placed his hand on a nearby door and opened it.
* * *
Elk used telekinesis to lift the fallen students' weapons and sent them to Rapucel.
Rapucel used a spinning move to push everything away and rushed in at a speed that was way faster than before. As she got into punching range and stomped on the floor, cracks spread across the entire ground.
"Get out of my way!!"
A straight punch.
Aimed right at the heart. If a normal person got hit, their insides would explode out of their back.
Rapucel put all her strength into the punch───...but.
"............!?"
She stopped.
Her fist didn't reach Elk's chest, didn't reach his heart.
Elk raised his right hand towards Rapucel. Just that made Rapucel freeze.
Not just that. She couldn't move a single finger.
Sweat dripped down her face, she gritted her teeth, glaring at Elk with bloodshot eyes.
"This is one of the techniques named by Pipina, 'Forbidden'... well, it's something I always do, but it completely stops the movement of one target. So far, only Pipina has broken out of it."
"......"
"Stop the dungeon transformation."
Elk made it so only Rapucel's mouth could move.
"Y-you...!"
"Stop the dungeon transformation."
"......huh."
Elk unfolded the blade on his right arm and pointed it at Rapucel.
"Stop the dungeon transformation."
"Go ahead, do what you want."
"......If you stop the dungeon transformation, I'll tell you something good."
"......"
Rapucel's eyebrows lifted slightly.
"Goddess Pipina. Don't you want to know what I talked about with her?"
"......"
"If you're curious, I'll tell you. If you're not interested, then it's fine."
"Wait... what did you talk about with Goddess Pipina?"
Elk smiled inside.
The Goddess Holy Church worships Goddess Pipina. They want to hear any story about Pipina... that's why he offered this deal.
Elk continues.
"If you stop the dungeon transformation, I'll tell you."
"...I understand."
Then── for just a moment, the ground shook vertically.
"I have canceled the dungeon transformation."
"..."
Elk leaves Rapucel as is and opens the Cathedral door.
Then, without teleporting, he steps outside the Cathedral.
He opens the door to a nearby storage shed and finds it filled with cleaning supplies.
Just to be sure, he opens a few more doors to check, but they don't lead to different rooms.
The cancellation of the dungeon transformation was true.
When he returns to Rapucel, she is sparkling with excitement.
"Alright!! Now you know it's true, right? Tell me what you talked about with Goddess Pipina!!"
"I-I got it. Listen, everything I say is true, so you can doubt me if you want."
Now, what should he talk about?
He had been with Pipina for 2,000 years. So, he was tired of silly stories.
As he tries to think of a good episode to share...
"Talking about Goddess Pipina, huh... Hey, Mr. Elk. Let me hear it too."
"Hehe, I want to know as well."
The two step into the Cathedral.
When he turns around, he sees...
"...Lolo, Senior Elena."
"Hello, Mr. Elk. Ah, today I'll greet you in person."
"I will too. It's been a while, Elk."
"..."
Elk uses Telekinesis to pull the fallen eye mask towards him.
He puts it on, pulls up his hood, and raises both hands horizontally to reveal his blades.
"Oh dear, Mr. Elk doesn't seem to want to talk."
"You guys hurt Emma. You're at the top of my kill list."
"Eh? Well, that's fine. Hehe, let's play a little."
Lolofaldo stuck out his tongue and pulled out a knife from his waist, spinning it around.
Elena had somehow gotten behind Rapucel.
"You let your guard down, Rapucel."
"Wait!! I haven't heard the story about the goddess, Goddess Pipina, from him yet!!"
"Yeah, yeah. By the way, these bindings are crazy... You can't be moved at all. But, so what? It doesn't really matter."
Then, Rapucel's bindings were removed.
It turned into a 3-on-one situation, but Elk didn't care.
"Let's play a little. Right, Mr. Elk?"
"......"
"And by the way, I used to be a doll, but my real strength is on a whole different level."
Elk didn't say a word and started running towards Lolofaldo.
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