Two shadows leap and bound between tall, futuristic buildings.
One is Black.
The other is me.
My lower half is in spiderlike arachne form, hopping effortlessly from one building to the next.
Arachne form increases my jumping ability, of course, and I can use the eight legs to run up buildings and such, making it ideally suited to this kind of movement.
And if I use my threads on top of that, I can even do tricky maneuvers like changing directions in midair and easily crossing greater distances.
Bweh-heh-heh.
Bet you regret not making our battlefield an empty plain or something!
You’re kidding yourself if you think you can outmatch a spider in an area with tons of obstacles!
While I’m cackling inwardly, I suddenly sense something closing in on me at an alarming speed.
Whaaat? You can really match my speed?
As I turn around in surprise, I see a car flying toward me.
A caaaar?!
I dodge it in a panic.
Whew. That caught me off guard.
I wasn’t expecting a car, of all things…good thing I dodged it on instinct.
This really is a parallel world, huh?
It’s got flying cars and everything.
While I’m thinking such stupid thoughts, things suddenly get darker all around me.
What the—?! I look up and see the sun nearly blocked out by a building flying right at me.
A buildiiiing?!
I make myself scarce, in an even bigger panic, and the building crashes down directly behind me.
There’s a tremor in the ground and a loud crash, followed by a cloud of dust.
Um, excuse me.
Don’t you think this is a little too grandiose?
A car is one thing, but flying buildings?
That’s a parallel world for you.
It totally turns everything I thought I knew upside down.
But y’know, just because this is a parallel world, doesn’t mean you have to go that far.
Isn’t this a little much?
My face twitches a little as I stare upward.
Now there’s a whole bunch of buildings floating in the air.
The same set of buildings I was hopping all over just moments ago.
Well, that’s weird. Why would those be floating in midair? Golly, what a mystery.
…Yeah, there’s no time to react like that!
I start zooming away as fast as I can, at the same moment that the floating buildings start flying toward me.
Each one has an insane amount of mass, and now they’re speeding toward me like bullets.
GAAAAAAH!
Hang in there, leg muscles!
Not that I know whether spider legs actually use muscles to move or not!
Just move as fast as you can, feet!
We’ve gotta get away from these things!
There are intermittent booming sounds from behind me, shaking the ground beneath my feet each time.
Normal buildings would be one thing, but this is a world Black created.
I can’t assume that buildings here are ordinary.
Even I would probably take a lot of damage if I got hit by one of those.
…I mean, not that I wouldn’t take damage f rom an ordinary building, you know?
Seriously, though! What kind of crazy person does something like using buildings as bullets?!
Hmm? Who am I to talk when I used meteors as bullets, you say?
Look, I don’t see what that has to do with it.
Besides, this is Black’s dimension, all right?
And yet here he is pulling up buildings and throwing them around, causing all kinds of environmental destruction—or rather, dimensional destruction. It’s like messing up your home with your own two hands.
I dunno how he can stand it.
I could never do something like that.
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