“This place… is the room the same? No, there’s no ceiling? And everyone is here?”

We were transferred and gathered in the same room instead of separate ones this time. All 15 of us were in the same square room, which was about 50 meters long on each side.

The difference from before was that there was no ceiling, and a pitch-black darkness spread out into the sky.

And there was one more thing.

Tanaka-san muttered as he looked at the drawing on the floor at his feet.

“Is this an eye? And over there, hands, feet… body… no, is that a torso?”

The floor of the square room was further divided into four more square areas, each with a drawing of eyes, feet, hands, and torso.

We were all in the area with the drawing of hands right now.

To the immediate left was the area with feet, the upper left corner was the area with the torso, and the upper right corner was the area with the eyes.

“What on earth… is this… huh?”

As Tanaka-san seemed lost in thought, he suddenly looked up and noticed something. All of us were drawn to look in the same direction.

“What is that?”

I gazed at that shining something.

It was descending slowly and gradually; Really, what is that?

It radiated a golden light, had pure white wings, and was holding a sword in its hand.

Its face was like that of a mannequin, a fabricated face.

“An angel?”

The first thing I thought when I saw that descending object was that it was an angel.

It looked a bit creepy to be called an angel.

Still, it shone in golden radiance, and the divine white wings were those of an angel.

“Everyone, be on guard!”

『All members, prepare to intercept!』

Tanaka-san and Colonel Alfred almost simultaneously shouted upon seeing the angel. At the same time, everyone prepared their weapons.

Then it happened.

*Gashaaan!*

“Huh?”

I dropped my sword.

Not just me, everyone dropped their swords, shields, and axes they had been holding.

It was as if our hands had suddenly become immovable.

“My arm…”

I had lost the sensation in my arm.

There was no pain, and my arm was still attached, but there was no sign of it moving, as if my brain and arm had been completely separated.

“What the… what’s happening!”

Sato was panicking.

『Colonel!! What is this?!』

『Don’t panic, hold your formation!』

It was the same for everyone, struggling but unable to move, their hands unable to rise against gravity, hanging limply downward.

And then the angel landed before one of the explorers.

The clearer had a large body and looked like a seasoned warrior.

However, his thick arms were now completely useless, rather a hindrance.

“Ah, ah…”

The angel was smaller than the clearer.

Even so, the pressure emanating from that angel made it seem impossible to win against it.

We couldn’t move.

The angel slowly lifted the sword and placed it on the shoulder of the clearer.

Immediately after, the angel’s mannequin-like face tilted its head.

“St…stop it…stop it!!”

The clearer trembled, but the mannequin tilted its head even more.

*Zashu.*

The conqueror’s head was decapitated.

The head flew in front of me and rolled on the ground.

As I gritted my teeth, my eyes met with those that were shedding tears of blood.

“Waaaah!!!”

With my scream, red blood scattered around.

At that moment, the clearers who seemed to have been paralyzed began to shout one after another.

“Everyone, run away!”

『Evacuate! Keep your distance!』

Everyone moved away from the angel, following Tanaka-san’s loud voice.

The clearers fled from the angel as if they were scattering spiderlings.

I also ran away with all my might.

I didn’t know what was happening, but I didn’t feel like I could beat that angel.

I couldn’t even think of choosing to confront it from the beginning.

Everyone probably felt the same way, including Tanaka-san, an A-class who could basically be considered a monster.

Alfred, the lieutenant colonel of the U.S. Army, who seemed to be the strongest here, was the same.

I ran in the opposite direction of the angel.

In other words, towards the area marked with a foot symbol on the ground.

And the next moment, I fell down hard.

“Guh!”

Did I trip over something? But there was nothing there.

No, that’s not it. Because when I looked around, everyone else had fallen in the same way.

“Ah, my feet!”

I noticed something strange.

I couldn’t move my feet.

On the other hand, my arms moved as usual.

That’s probably why I fell so hard.

“What…what’s wrong with my feet?”

I looked at the floor where I fell.

There was a wall painting depicting feet.

It was just a hunch but judging from this situation.

“If I’m in this area’s painting, I won’t be able to move that body part!?”

As I lay there having realized the rule, I looked behind me and saw the angel slowly standing in front of the conqueror who couldn’t move his legs and was simply flapping them.

Again, the angel placed the sword on his shoulder and tilted its head, then cut off the clearer’s head as if it was a matter of course.

Then, one of the conquerors stood up and returned to the hand area.

With a trembling voice, he shouted at the angel.

“Y-You bastard!! How dare you kill my brother!! I’m…I’m A-class!! Don’t fuck with me!!”

The clearer, without weapons and with his arm unable to lift, stood firm on the solid-looking floor and rushed toward the angel at an unimaginable speed.

As expected of an A-class, at that level he could be called a monster and a national power…

His full power knee kick flew like a missile.

I thought the knee hit the angel, but it passed as if nothing had happened.

No, for a moment, I felt like the angel moved at an impossible speed.

But at my current level, I don’t really understand what happened.

“Huh?”

However, as I watched, the clearer crashed into the wall with the same momentum.

And with a sound of squish hitting the wall, the clearer fell over.

“No way… He was cut?”

The strategist had no head.

The high-flying head fell while scattering red blood.

An existence at the strongest level of humanity, an A-rank, was killed by having their head cut off at an unfollowable speed without being able to resist.

Tanaka opened his mouth with an expression of disbelief at seeing it.

“This is too unreasonable… What kind of trial is this?”

Tanaka-san and Midori-san while crawling on the ground, their faces turned blue.

Not even mentioning beating the angel in a normal situation, but we had to win with the handicap of not being able to move a part of our bodies.

Even if you’re a high-ranking clearer, you can’t fight without being able to move your arms or legs.

“Even S-rank Colonel Alfred couldn’t handle something like this… Kai-kun!?”

With all my might I rushed toward Tanaka-san and Midori-san, who were at the forefront.

“Tanaka-san, Midori-san! Probably, if you are in the area where this design is present, that body part won’t move!”

“What!?… Oh, I see, there was a picture of an arm drawn here. You noticed it well in this situation.”

“That’s why I’m going to enter that torso area. If there’s anything wrong with the heart not moving, it’s almost certain death, but we have to try it now!”

“Kai-kun!? Th-that’s too dangerous!”

“But we’ll just die like this. I… I won’t give up!! Tanaka-san, if anything happens, please pull me back here!”

“…Understood! Leave it to me.”

Tanaka-san hesitated for a moment but immediately nodded in agreement.

It was truly impressive how decisive he was in times like this. His serious gaze met mine straight on.

『Hey! What are you doing!?』

Colonel Alfred, flustered, questioned me.

But I had no time to answer and understanding of English.

Tanaka-san, Midori-san, and I moved forward only with the strength of our arms, until we reached the design of the torso.

Behind us, with a scream, the angel, in the same way, slowly launched a clearer’s head, and moved onto the next target.

“…Then, here I go!!”

“Leave it to me! If anything strange happens, I’ll pull you back immediately!”

And then, I jumped into the torso as if rolling.

“Gah!?”

Immediately after, I held my chest.