Looking up at the two figures right below the ceiling, Leo and Haerin immediately followed, double-jumping off the cube's holographic walls and rising rapidly.

Alternatively, I simply remained still, hopping back and forth, taking a step, and then stepping back.

Yet, at that moment, as Magnus rapidly approached Anna, an inexplicable change occurred.

The white pupils within Anna's eyes began to tremble wildly, her expression distorted into one of absolute terror, with her head wobbling, and her quivering lips parted as a soft and quiet voice emerged.

"Magnus..."

It was Carissa

Magnus immediatly lowered his sword, his expression softening as he raised his hands and adjusted his course, no longer aiming at the girl.

Yet, suddenly, the trembling pure-white pupils instantly halted, a smirk forming on Anna's face.

Serena's voice instantly sounded from below.

"IT'S NOT HER!"

But before Magnus could even comprehend those words, Anna's two wings flew together, sending a thunderclap through the area, and in the next moment, she appeared right before Magnus's flying body, grabbing his body with her left hand and stopping it.

A massive red lightning bolt appeared in her right hand as she raised it above Magnus's completely defenseless back.

A blow like this... at the very least, would paralyze Magnus for life.

Dozens of arrows surged up to the sky, while Leo and Carissa finally reached the ceiling of the cube and burst forward from opposite walls...but it was too late.

Her hand sparking with red electricity, she surged it downward.

Perhaps, due to an underdevelopment in training for whatever reason or the change in setting of this fight, Magnus had faltered, not immobilizing Anna like in the book.

Sighing, I looked up, clenching my sword while my head ached.

A single line, starting at Anna's hand, which was covered in red sparks like a firework and ending somewhere within Magnus's body, flashed across my vision.

"...?"

Do I consider her an object then, too? Or how can I see that line?

It was interesting.

Ever since Anna had initially attacked me, breaking the railing, I had been considered part of the fight.

Therefore, my Waveform Stride ability had been active.

However, since the beginning of the fight, I hadn't taken a single attack and probably moved over a thousand steps in place by now, while simply observing and hopping up and down.

I could feel it; my muscles coursing with energy and trembling uncontrollably, as if I had just taken a thousand milligrams of caffeine.

Turning around, facing the cube wall right before me, I leaped forward, and as my legs touched the holographic wall, I tensed my calves.

Calculating the perfect angle to boost off the wall, I planted my legs on the wall with all my strength before leaping upward like a rocket, easily covering the distance between the ground and the ceiling.

Just as Anna's glowing red hand met Magnus's skin, leaving a handprint-shaped burn mark and knocking Magnus unconscious, I arrived right below her legs.

Instantly, I horizontally swiped my Willow Leaf Dao at the air above me, making contact with Anna's right leg.

Immediatly, her right wing stopped flapping, causing her to fall to the left immediatly, her hand leaving Magnus's body.

Simultaneously, Leo rocketed toward Anna's left-leaning body and struck her squarely, sending her flying through the air and directly at the holographic cube wall opposite.

However...at that moment, Magnus's gifted ability vanished the cube's holographic walls crumbled, now nothing preventing the white-haired figure from flying right off the patio.

Fuck, fuck, fuck.

My mind instantly sprang into chaos as I fell back toward the ground, my body exhausted and in shambles from releasing so much power.

Simultaneously, Magnus's body, limp and motionless, dropped to the floor, but like an outfielder catching a baseball, Serena caught his body before it could hit the hard stone ground.

Haerin, mid-air already, caught the falling book bag, her eyes widening as she followed Carissa's body, aimed to fly right into the valley beyond the patio.

Descending onto the ground, being the first, I immediately sprinted across the patio, toward the broken railings, and yelled out.

"BREAK THE DIARY, LEO!"

There's no time...she needs to regain consciousness.

The fight hadn't gone to plan.

As I glanced backward, Leo finally landed on the ground, his head flickering back and forth, between my running figure below Carissa's body and the diary now lying in Haerin's hand.

I yelled out once again, this time more powerfully.

"BREAK THE DIARY; BELIEVE ME!"

Through the pitch-black sky, Carissa's pure white hair trailed as she neared the point of no return, flying right off the patio and into the valley, a drop of more than fifty miles.

Ultimately, after another moment of contemplation, Leo...ignored my words and sprinted after me, toward Carissa's body in the air.

It wasn't surprising; how could he trust me, whom he had met not even a day ago, to save Carissa?

Yet...I couldn't help but be disappointed; he had just doomed Carissa.

With Leo here...there was no one to break the diary and return conscious to the body flying into the valley.

Bitterly, I smiled and continued running, my body right below Carissa's.

What would happen if a main cast member died?

I had vowed to save every character, even the useless background ones, in my book, but now, I couldn't even save a heroine?

What was I thinking?

Whatever lives I had saved by killing Zyn would undoubtedly be less than that of Carissa.

*WHOOSH*

However...at that moment, a sudden arrow burst through the air, aimed...right at Leo.

The arrow pierced right through his open back, the orange substance on its tip entering Leo's bloodstream.

Behind me, his body crumpled, falling to the ground, and a familiar figure with purple hair appeared in front of him.

With the diary in her hand, Serena screamed out at Leo, who was lying on the ground while struggling to even move his legs properly.

"DESTROY IT LIKE HE SAID!"

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