I yanked at the thread forcefully as it tried to wrap around me, and it gave easily . . . but it wouldn’t break! I could have just written it off as being futile, since I wasn’t able to attack by nature. But regardless of that, this elasticity was just unreal. What in the world was this?!

“Ugh! This thread!”

“Ewww!”

“Little Ra—Shigaraki! Little Humming! Let go of your weapons!”

Filo and Sadeena each let go of their weapons, but Raphtalia was holding a vassal weapon that she couldn’t let go of if she wanted to.

“Little Shigaraki!”

“I know! But . . . Take this! Instant Blade! Mist!”

Raphtalia tried to force a skill to cut the thread, but it just resulted in sparks flying. No way! Just what kind of material was this stuff made out of to be able to take one of Raphtalia’s skills and still not break?! Or was that it? Could we not cut it because the gap between our stats had been made so massive that this was all futile? If that was the case, I might just have to incinerate everything with the Shield of Wrath.

Using brute force, I overpowered the thread that was binding me down and placed my hand on my shield.

Due to interference, the shield may not be changed.

A message appeared in my field of vision. Huh?

“I won’t let you.”

Thread after thread wrapped around my shield. You couldn’t even tell whether it was a shield or just a big jumble of thread anymore.

“Change Seal Wire”

“Damn it . . . What the hell . . .”

I knew that our opponent was supposed to be crazy strong, but even so, something about this just wasn’t right! I couldn’t imagine attacks like this coming from anyone other than a hero!

“Fire Paralysis Wire”

The thread in the area surrounding me burst into flames and started reaching out for me. Damn it! The heat didn’t bother me, but the enemy was clearly trying to eliminate me, the leader of our team!

“Mr. Na—Mr. Rock!”

“Hurry up and put your katana away! Use your other weapon!”

“Un . . . understood!”

I needed to put some distance between us quick, while I could still move! That said . . . How could I do that? That’s it! I’d repel them with Shooting Star Shield!

“Shooting Star—”

“Skill Seal”

The thread wrapped around my throat. It wasn’t the least bit uncomfortable. But . . .

“Wh . . . what?!”

I was trying to cast the skill, but for whatever reason I couldn’t say the name of the skill!

“What the hell is going on?!”