"Deal with Nalakuvera and the remnants of the Black Death Emperor Front," said Kojou to Vatler, whose wounds and injuries had healed considerably, leaving him with no problem moving around and handling such small matters.
As he spoke, he tossed a phone to Vatler.
"This phone carries a special voice code that shuts down Nalakuvera, preventing it from moving without another command code."
With those words, Kojou left the battlefield together with Vatler. Their clash had already destroyed the Sub-float they were standing on, to the point that building a new one was easier than repairing it.
Not that Kojou cared. As long as the destruction didn't reach the civilians, he wouldn't hesitate to level half the island if he had to. After all, his true intention was to shatter the image of the Gigafloat Management Corporation and the Japanese government that held authority over Itogami Island.
Kojou wasn't ignorant of the true purpose behind Itogami Senra's creation of Itogami Island — to serve as a sacrificial altar for the return of the Sinful God Cain.
As for how he knew this? It was simple. He had seen it in the Blood Memory tied to the Fourth Primogenitor before him, who possessed vast knowledge.
Using that knowledge and memory, Kojou easily noticed how the island was built atop Dragon Veins to control the Four Divine Beasts, along with other signs pointing toward their plan to revive Cain.
But...
For the current Kojou, that didn't matter. Once the island fell into his hands, he could do whatever he pleased with it.
Which meant he had to deal with the other sources of disturbance first.
With that thought, six pairs of raven wings sprouted from Kojou's back, carrying him skyward toward the place where Touka and Sayaka were imprisoned.
He could feel another presence there as well.
Though he hadn't confronted this person directly before, Kojou already knew who it was. That presence had been shadowing him at school, watching from the darkness.
After sensing them multiple times, Kojou had investigated and uncovered their identity.
He shot across the sky at incredible speed, arriving at the building where Touka and Sayaka were bound. He had erected a barrier around it earlier to shield it from the effects of battle, so the structure remained relatively intact.
At the rooftop, both Touka and Sayaka were restrained within a magic circle, and before them stood another girl in Saikai Academy's uniform. She seemed to have been trying to free them, but had failed.
She was a girl of above-average beauty, with jewel-blue eyes, black hair tied in twin braids, and a pair of glasses perched on her nose. A book was clutched in her hand.
Kojou landed quietly on the rooftop, his wings folding behind him before vanishing in drifting black feathers. The girl's gaze snapped upward, her glittering blue eyes trembling briefly — as though she had already anticipated his arrival.
"Fourth Primogenitor..." she whispered softly, tightening her grip on the book, her tone caught between caution and dread.
Kojou showed no surprise. His face remained utterly calm as he stepped toward the magic circle binding Touka and Sayaka.
"I didn't think you'd dare show yourself directly... Shizuka Koyomi," he said without hesitation. "Or should I call you one of the Three Saints at the head of the Lion King Organization — Paper Noise."
Paper Noise.
A name famous and feared in the supernatural world, belonging to one of the strongest individuals alive — a power even vampire primogenitors were wary of. Yet here she stood before Kojou, looking no more than an ordinary high school girl obsessed with her studies.
Still, Kojou wasn't careless. Her power was very real, and fighting her could be more troublesome than fighting Vatler. Not that she was stronger than Vatler — her physical and spiritual power were both inferior, and in terms of raw magic she couldn't match him either. Physically, she was only as strong as an ordinary girl.
What made her truly troublesome was her special ability, the very source of her title: Paper Noise.
Her ability guaranteed her the first strike. Inserting time that ought not to have existed, cloaked in silence, the effect of her attack suddenly appeared — as if a page in a book had been torn out and discarded.
It was a terrifying ability. Even with the might of the Fourth Primogenitor, facing it wasn't easy. Even his Campione powers couldn't help much — killing Chronos or other heretic gods of time wouldn't stop it.
After all, even Chronos could not create nonexistent time. And so, there was no way to block Paper Noise's power.
[ A/N: This is within the standards of the Campione World. ]
But for Kojou, trained by Anos and possessing nearly all of his powers, Paper Noise meant nothing. He had immense resistance to time and causality manipulation, even the ability to reject or nullify effects that rewrote the past or erased existence itself.
Which meant he had no fear of her ability. In fact, he was intrigued by it — for by drinking someone's blood, he could copy their powers.
It wasn't theft or plunder, but more like copying information or memories encoded in their blood.
"Your ability may be strong enough to make even other primogenitors wary," Kojou said with a mocking smile, "but your talent for intruding into others' thoughts is useless against me. You know that, don't you?"
Indeed, her mind-reading worked on a principle similar to Paper Noise. But neither could affect him. She couldn't touch his thoughts — so naturally, her main ability would also have little to no effect.
And that was the truth. No matter how powerful Paper Noise was, it could not touch Kojou, who could deny cause and effect and rewrite them at will.
Koyomi's fingers trembled on the book's cover, but she quickly steadied herself, raising her gaze with forced resolve.
"...Paper Noise never misses," she whispered coldly. "It needs no beginning or end. All you see is the result."
Her words had barely left her lips when the ground before Kojou split open without warning, as if an explosion had already taken place there moments ago. No light. No motion. No prelude — only the completed result, as though the world had skipped the instant of its happening.
Sayaka gasped, staring at the deep fissure that hadn't existed a heartbeat before.
Touka cautiously raised her arm, dread washing over her. "I... I couldn't even see it."
And again, without warning, Kojou found himself engulfed in shredded winds, as if a massive blast had already torn through the place. The surrounding walls crumbled under an unseen strike.
But while such devastation could have ended anyone else, Kojou remained standing, brushing dust from his shoulder slowly.
"...Cute," he said with a cold smile. "But your problem is that I don't recognize the time you created in the first place."
Koyomi arched a brow, a faintly strained smile crossing her lips.
"Even Paper Noise... doesn't work on you as it should?"
Kojou approached calmly, his footsteps echoing over rubble that hadn't existed moments ago.
"Your ability is impressive," he whispered, locking eyes with her. "But it has no effect on me. I can reject cause, effect — even fate itself."
Koyomi took a half-step back, her grip tightening on the closed book.
"...So you really are outside all laws."
A small smile curved Kojou's lips — the kind that made resistance feel meaningless.
"Which means your existence in my hands is nothing more than a torn page."
In the next instant, Kojou vanished from sight, reappearing right beside Koyomi. He pulled her into an intimate embrace, his arms wrapping around her warm, fragrant body without hesitation. To use his power, he required sexual arousal — and so he wasted no time in holding Koyomi tightly, igniting his vampire instincts and sinking his fangs into her to drink her blood.
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