After all, if it were that simple, Makima wouldn't have needed to specifically invite Rosen.
The Darkness Devil's body, which had been gouged out by the Power of Destruction, rapidly recovered.
"It can revive from this too?"
Seeing this, Rias found it incredibly absurd.
She had hollowed out the Darkness Devil's chest, leaving less than a quarter of its four heads.
Rias thought that was its core.
But she didn't expect it to be useless.
This reminded Rias of her fiancé, Raiser Phoenix.
As the third son of the Phoenix family, Raiser also inherited the bloodline of the immortal phoenix.
In his ranking games, he often won by relying on his immortal characteristic.
Even if their family members had their heads destroyed, as long as they had one organ left and enough magical power, they could revive infinitely.
And now, the Darkness Devil's ability seemed similar to the Phoenix family's.
This situation immediately led Rias to conclude that she couldn't defeat the Darkness Devil.
After all, if she could eliminate the Darkness Devil, she wouldn't have to worry about her engagement with Raiser.
Couldn't she just have a duel and step on him?
"Bang!"
Several more bullets were fired.
Tokisaki Kurumi used her spiritual power to create the Seventh Bullet, which could stop the target's time.
However, perhaps the Darkness Devil had developed resistance, as after several bullets, its movements only slowed down but did not stop.
"This guy… is quite troublesome."
Tokisaki Kurumi was a little surprised.
The Darkness Devil's performance had already exceeded all the enemies she had ever faced.
One must know that her Seventh Bullet could easily stop the AST unit members, but when it hit the Darkness Devil, it only had a very short-lived slowing effect.
In that case, wouldn't the Second Bullet be even more useless?
For the sake of experimentation, Tokisaki Kurumi fired several Second Bullets and found that the Time Bullet, which initially could slow down movements, had no effect at all now.
Although the Seventh Bullet was effective on targets, Tokisaki Kurumi could not fire such bullets indefinitely.
After all, the Seventh Bullet consumed a lot of spiritual power.
Besides, this was not a life-and-death battle, so she didn't need to fight so desperately.
More than that, she wanted to try another idea.
Thinking of this, the two antique rifles in Tokisaki Kurumi's hands turned into particles and dissipated, and with another wave of her hand, an invisible force spread out from around her body.
Dark red light appeared in the pitch-black environment, and the darkness spread by the Darkness Devil began to erode the dark red space.
Tokisaki Kurumi noticed that her spiritual power was rapidly depleting and no longer hesitated.
Accompanied by the sound of a bell, a peculiar quality appeared in the space near the Darkness Devil.
Time was being interfered with.
—City of Devouring Time.
This was the barrier Tokisaki Kurumi used to replenish time.
As long as any living creature stepped into the barrier's range, their time would be forcibly absorbed, and their bodies would become heavy and unable to move.
Ordinary people without spiritual power could not break free from the control.
She had previously used this ability to absorb time to her heart's content in a maximum-security prison.
Her purpose in coming here this time was also to absorb time.
And her opponent was the powerful Darkness Devil.
Tokisaki Kurumi wanted to test if she could absorb its time as well.
If she could, it would not only weaken the Darkness Devil but also bring her a considerable accumulation.
But things did not go as she wished.
It was just like the result when she cast this barrier on the Origin Spirit decades ago.
She could not absorb even a second of time from the Darkness Devil.
Moreover, because of the commotion she caused, the Darkness Devil set its sights on Tokisaki Kurumi.
Tokisaki Kurumi's hair stood on end as she was stared at by multiple pairs of eyes.
She wanted to evade, but found that the space around her seemed to be sealed.
At the same time, a Japanese katana quickly formed above the Darkness Devil's head, its hilt resembling a magatama, with four bells hanging from the end of the hilt.
As the Darkness Devil raised its arm, this Bell Blade also adjusted its direction, pointing at Tokisaki Kurumi.
Tokisaki Kurumi felt a prickle on her back and her scalp tingled.
That Bell Blade gave her a very bad feeling.
If she was stabbed, she might die.
Thinking of this, Tokisaki Kurumi no longer restricted her spiritual power consumption, and after resisting the Darkness Devil's seal, a puddle of shadow appeared at her feet.
In the already pitch-black environment, the appearance of the shadow did not attract any attention.
Tokisaki Kurumi's body entered the shadow space.
This place was usually used for invisibility and storing time clones, and could also imprison other living beings.
She could send a shadow to a location, and she herself could instantly arrive at the shadow's position without restriction.
Before the battle began, Tokisaki Kurumi had made preparations.
She could summon herself from different timelines at any time.
Outside the domain enveloped by the Darkness Devil, she had left her shadow clone.
However, even after retreating into the shadow space, the feeling of a prickle on her back did not disappear.
The Darkness Devil uttered a strange sound, and then the Bell Blade flew through the air.
"Tokisaki Kurumi, that blade of the Darkness Devil ignores space and distance; as long as it locks onto a target, it's an inescapable hit!"
Gabriel, seeing this, immediately shouted a warning.
"You can't dodge it, you can only block it!"
In the original work.
The Darkness Devil used this ability to kill the Violence Devil and wound Makima.
Gabriel's voice was not small, and Tokisaki Kurumi heard it very clearly.
But even without Gabriel's reminder, the sense of crisis followed her like a shadow, even after she left the barrier created by the Darkness Devil.
Perhaps it was annoyed, or perhaps it wanted to end this "farce" quickly.
A strange low murmur emanated from the alien head on the Darkness Devil's body.
Then, the four bells hanging from the hilt of the Bell Blade, which was shrouded in ominous black mist, suddenly jingled softly.
The Bell Blade tore through space and appeared above Tokisaki Kurumi's head.
Tokisaki Kurumi felt a death crisis descend upon her; her spiritual power was draining away like a river from an open floodgate, and she was certain that once it ran out, she would be killed by that strange blade.
However, at this critical moment.
Rosen, who had been observing from the sidelines and kindly letting his group members assist, quietly appeared beside Tokisaki Kurumi.
(Get money Zhao)
Rosen's arrival instantly reduced the pressure Tokisaki Kurumi was under to zero.
Then, without any apparent movement, he simply reached out and gripped the Bell Blade, and with his divine power, easily shattered it.
The sense of crisis vanished completely, and Tokisaki Kurumi breathed a sigh of relief, then looked gratefully at Rosen: "Thank you, Rosen."
"Now I owe Mr. Rosen even more."
"Then let it accumulate, and you can pay it all back at once later."
After saying this, Rosen, upon sensing the reaction of the life tree, paid it no mind, merely reached out and stroked Tokisaki Kurumi's small head, then reappeared within the space created by the Darkness Devil.
While he was away saving Tokisaki Kurumi, Gabriel, Frieren, Fubuki, and Rias launched a full-scale attack on the Darkness Devil, but to little avail.
Upon seeing Rosen appear before the Darkness Devil, everyone's suspended hearts finally settled down.
It's time to end this.
They were certain of it.