From this moment on, I finally understood that not everyone can be like me, achieving anything they set their mind to. For me, it's only a matter of having a serious attitude, but for them, their own lack of ability cannot be solved by attitude alone.

And at the same time that I understood this principle, I also understood…

As the voice spoke to this point, the surroundings suddenly reverted to the venue, and appearing before everyone's eyes was Kaguya Shinomiya, dressed in kendo practice attire, holding a wooden sword, with long black hair, and eyes devoid of any emotion.

She swung the wooden sword in her hand, and an astonishing spiritual power fluctuation burst forth from her body. With those emotionless red eyes, she scanned Yozora and the others in front of her, slowly raising the wooden sword in her hand, pointing the tip at the group.

I am special, unable to be understood by ordinary people, superior to others, a genius burdened with the Shinomiya name. I don't need to understand those who can't do it, and I don't need anyone, because I myself can do everything.

Miko Yotsuya and the others knew that this Kaguya Shinomiya in front of them was not the real Kaguya Shinomiya, but merely a projection of her within the "Palace." Even if the projection was destroyed, the "Palace" would not disappear. Only by eradicating that distorted desire could the "Palace" be resolved once and for all.

"You're wrong."

Hearing Kaguya Shinomiya's words, Yukino Yukinoshita shook her head, a complex look appearing in her eyes as she looked at the other girl, and she softly spoke.

"I once thought that it would be best to be alone… that if I could accomplish everything by myself, I wouldn't need to interact with anyone else. But… there are people in this world who can understand me, and who can also understand you. You should know this in your heart, right?"

Kaguya Shinomiya didn't reply, her figure only blurring for a moment, transforming into a phantom before suddenly appearing in front of Yukino Yukinoshita, swinging the wooden sword in her hand and unhesitatingly slashing down.

"Bang!"

The armor formed by Miko Yotsuya's soul manifestation instantly appeared around her, and at the same time, she drew Mikazuki Munechika from her waist, blocking Kaguya Shinomiya's powerful strike.

A mere ordinary wooden sword naturally couldn't compete with the famed sword Mikazuki Munechika. The moment they made contact, it exploded into a shower of scattered wood chips.

"I see…"

Kaguya Shinomiya's expression and eyes were still indifferent as she looked at Miko Yotsuya, who had completed her transformation, and muttered.

"I understand."

As the words fell, a reddish-red spiritual power radiance appeared on Kaguya Shinomiya's body, just like Miko Yotsuya and the other supernatural power users of the Super-high School Students Brigade, quickly forming a suit of armor, and a pure white mask appeared on her face, revealing only those red eyes.

Seeing this scene, Miko Yotsuya was shocked.

What was going on?

Was Kaguya Shinomiya a supernatural power user?

No… Even if she was a supernatural power user, what did that sentence, "I see, I understand," mean?

Just by seeing her use the ability of soul manifestation armor, she could instantly comprehend the principle behind it and then directly start using it?

Was this talent… a bit too exaggerated?

"Come out."

As Yozora's voice rang out, a giant pale ghost hand instantly appeared, slapping toward Kaguya Shinomiya, who was standing there. Kaguya quickly retreated a distance, watching the pale ghost hand pinch toward her, her eyes flickering, as if struggling internally, and finally her body turned into a phantom and disappeared.

"Shinomiya-san…"

Watching Kaguya Shinomiya's figure disappear, Yukino Yukinoshita pursed her lips, her face a mixture of emotions, unsure of what to say.

After witnessing the other girl's childhood experiences firsthand, she felt that she could understand the other girl's feelings.

Although Yukino Yukinoshita's talent wasn't so outstanding as to be like Kaguya Shinomiya, and she couldn't even understand the feeling of "not being able to do it," she might have a deeper understanding than Kaguya Shinomiya.

Because Yukino Yukinoshita was one of the few people who had experienced both the bitterness of her own talent hurting others and being hurt by the talents of others.

"Is there really no way… to save Shinomiya-san…?"

Yukino Yukinoshita bit her silver teeth lightly, a look of unwillingness on her face.

"I… want to help her…"

"There will be a way."

Miko Yotsuya gently patted Yukino Yukinoshita's shoulder and said softly.

"As long as we want to, we will definitely be able to find a way to save Kaguya Shinomiya."

On the other side, in the courtyard of Private Shuchiin Academy, around the magnificent artificial fountain.

"Touma Kazusa…"

Touma Kazusa, who was conducting reconnaissance, heard the voice behind her, turned around, and saw Kaguya Shinomiya standing there.

"Kaguya Shinomiya."

"You should be able to understand my feelings…"

Kaguya Shinomiya said calmly.

"You and I are both geniuses with outstanding talents, completely unable to understand the feelings and emotions of mediocre people. In other words, why should we try to understand? My brother, Kaguya Un'ei, once said that in this world, due to the influence of talent, family background, appearance, and many other factors, some people are born to be rulers above all others, while most people are destined to only follow orders. For a genius to try to understand ordinary people is such a naive act…"

"Stop talking."

Touma Kazusa interrupted coldly, directly drawing Suzumaru Tsunetsugu from her waist, while her left hand reached into her chest.

"I don't think of myself as a perfect person. I'm just a person with a problematic personality, strange, aloof, irritable, sensitive, fragile, and useless."

Immediately afterward, Touma Kazusa changed her tone.

"But even so, I have found people who are worth relying on and trusting, who also trust and rely on me, giving my life meaning. And one of the people who is very important to me is, in your eyes, what you call a mediocre person who can't do anything and is useless, so…"

"I won't show mercy."

As the words fell, Touma Kazusa had already taken out a black heavy pistol from her chest, aimed it at Kaguya Shinomiya, who was standing there, and pulled the trigger without hesitation, while softly shouting.

"Resound, melody, Kinnara!"

Along with a melodious and pleasant koto sound, Kinnara, holding a musical instrument, appeared behind Touma Kazusa, her slender fingers plucking the koto strings, emitting a series of pleasant sounds that made Kaguya Shinomiya feel dizzy.

"Bang!"

After feeling the pain on the surface of her body, Kaguya Shinomiya heard the sound of the gunshot. She looked down and saw that a hole had appeared in her right shoulder. However, because she was in the "Palace," she was not the real Kaguya Shinomiya, but only a phantom formed by Kaguya Shinomiya's inner self, so the injury healed in an instant.

"Touma Kazusa…"

Kaguya Shinomiya raised her head, looking at the Suzumaru Tsunetsugu in the other girl's hand, as if searching for some memory in her mind. After a few seconds, a long sword emitting a blood-red light appeared in her hand.

"Since you can't understand me either, then go die."

The two blades collided, making a crisp sound.

Because Touma Kazusa was holding a firearm in one hand, she could only hold the sword with one hand, while Kaguya Shinomiya used the standard kendo stance, holding the hilt with both hands. But even so, in a head-on confrontation, Touma Kazusa still had a clear upper hand, slowly pushing the blade she was blocking toward Kaguya Shinomiya.

“My strength is above yours.”

Just then, Touma Kazusa suddenly had an extremely dangerous premonition.

She could clearly hear the sound of the air being torn apart by an unknown object, but it was already too late to react.

“Hmm?”

Phantom Kaguya Shinomiya also noticed the anomaly, and in that instant, she suddenly made a move that Touma Kazusa did not expect.

She directly released the force of her hands gripping the hilt of the sword, allowing Touma Kazusa's Juzumaru Tsunetsugu to slash at her shoulder, causing Touma Kazusa's body to lean forward a few centimeters, dodging the sniper rifle bullet by a hair's breadth.

“You…”

Shinomiya Kaguya's body turned into a cloud of smoke, slowly dissipating, only looking at Touma Kazusa, and softly leaving a sentence.

“No one can use me.”

On the other side, on the top floor of the private Shuchiin Academy's teaching building, behind the window of a certain classroom, a girl wearing a Shuchiin uniform and holding a heavy sniper rifle, seeing that the bullet she fired had missed, did not hesitate at all and directly planned to turn around and leave.

She knew that what she had just found was already the most perfect opportunity to shoot, but even so, she was unable to kill "Kinnara". Now that the other party was already alert, it was even more impossible to hit.

"Mask" and the assistants around her all possessed the reaction speed to dodge bullets, so there was no need to continue this foolish action that would waste time and expose her own position.

“Where do you think you're going?”

When the girl turned around, she saw Hinata Nitsuru holding a nail gun and Amane Suzuha holding an automatic rifle, already blocking her path.

“Found me so quickly… This is a headache…”

Amane Suzuha and Hinata Nitsuru sized up the girl's face, searching in their minds. These two were the kind of people with outstanding memory, able to clearly remember the appearance of every student in the private Shuchiin Academy who had fainted, as transmitted back by Yozora, but they discovered that this girl wearing a Shuchiin school uniform did not belong to one of the fainted students.

“Forget it, whatever.”

The girl didn't hesitate at all, just slowly said.

“Induce despair, Mukuro.”

The moment the words fell, the Shuchiin school uniform on the girl's body disappeared, replaced by an outfit that matched a pair of military boots, like a special forces light combat uniform, and her face was covered with a black half-face mask, quickly reaching for the guns she wore on her waist.

Hinata Nitsuru and Amane Suzuha naturally couldn't just watch her reach for the gun. The two didn't communicate at all, just unhesitatingly pulled the triggers of the guns in their hands.

Hinata Nitsuru was originally very good at using nail guns, after all, she used this method to deal with the shadows of Nitou Island, and Master Miyamoto's crafting plan was also inspired by this.

At this moment, the weapon made by Master Miyamoto finally showed an extraordinary effect.

The bullets from the automatic rifle in Amane Suzuha's hand were completely unable to penetrate the girl's spiritual power military uniform's defense, and didn't even make her body shake in the slightest, but the silver nails shot by Hinata Nitsuru's nail gun deeply sank into the other party's body.

Seemingly nails, but in reality…

This is the power of the relics of several enlightened monks.

This nail, hundreds of years of cultivation, can you block it?

Chapter 408 The Girl Named "Mukuro", Kaguya's Perception of Herself

“Tch…”

The girl whose soul's true form was named "Mukuro" felt the pain in her body, as well as the subtle suppression of her spiritual power after the nails were inserted, and couldn't help but frown slightly, muttering to herself.

“I see, at this time… you already possess these weapons… It seems I need to be a little more serious.”

The girl glanced at the silver nails, locked her gaze on Amane Suzuha, completely ignoring the silver nails still stuck in her body, and ignoring the blood flowing from the wounds, rushing straight towards Amane Suzuha.

Amane Suzuha raised her arm, trying to block the punch coming at her with her elbow, but she didn't expect the girl's straight punch to be just a feint, and in reality, she had already swept a whip kick towards her.

“Bang!”

After a muffled sound, Amane Suzuha's face showed a painful expression, and she could clearly feel that her calf bone had already broken.

Looking at the girl again, her expression remained unchanged, and in an extremely professional close combat posture, she immediately rushed towards Hinata Nitsuru, not giving the other party a chance to fire the nail gun.

“Jun…”

Hinata Nitsuru had just uttered the first word of the soul manifestation release incantation when the girl had already rushed in front of her. Helplessly, Hinata Nitsuru could only take two steps back, trying to distance herself from the other party, but the girl's speed was even better, and a silver gun suddenly appeared in her hand, aiming at Hinata Nitsuru's heart and pulling the trigger without hesitation.

“This is…”

Sensing Hinata Nitsuru's death, Yotsuya Miko's eyes flickered, first softly speaking into the communication device.

“Miss Hinata has fallen, I need to activate time reversal.”

Immediately afterwards, Yotsuya Miko once again activated the ability of time reversal through suicide.

Time began to flow.

When the timeline stopped, Hinata Nitsuru and Amane Suzuha, looking at the girl still standing by the window, both took a few steps back, looking at the other party as if facing a great enemy, with fine beads of sweat seeping out on their foreheads.

They retained the memories from before the reversal. In the battle just now, the two of them joining forces didn't even last two seconds, and after falling into close combat, they were directly instantly killed.

Hinata Nitsuru and Amane Suzuha realized that the girl in front of them…

Was very strong, absurdly strong, so strong that she possessed a kind of oppressive feeling that made it difficult to breathe.

“From the looks of you, it seems you've already used time reversal and know my strength.”

The girl was expressionless, just drawing a military short sword-shaped weapon from her waist, slowly walking towards Hinata Nitsuru and Amane Suzuha, and said lightly.

“But if I'm not mistaken, the opportunities you have to use time reversal are not unlimited. I just need to keep killing you.”

Hearing this, Hinata Nitsuru and Amane Suzuha both felt a little sweaty.

They really didn't expect that among the enemies they were facing this time, there would actually be this kind of powerful enemy who could directly instantly kill them, making it impossible for them to even escape, or delay time waiting for support.

Even Hinata Nitsuru, in front of this girl, was unable to fully recite her release incantation, and couldn't even summon her soul's true form.

The other party's speed… is even faster than Yotsuya Miko, the strongest member of the Overload Society…

Moreover, it's not just physical fitness. The girl's every move clearly showed that she was battle-hardened and had received professional training. Even Amane Suzuha, a supernatural countermeasures action team agent, was inferior to the other party in close combat skills.

Could it be…

That this is the so-called combat specialist of SERN?

Could it be that the other party also possesses the ability to switch soul's true forms?

“Just obediently die.”

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