All My Summons Become Divine Girls

Chapter 285: The Stolen Moment

The leader’s black blade entered beneath Hajin’s breastbone before his second Ring completed its first rotation.

She pulled the edge diagonally through muscle plus lung, opening his coat and chest while stepping past the returning Aegis plane.

Blood crossed the old route table beneath them as his second Ring lost alignment around his right forearm.

The leader withdrew her first blade and drove a shorter weapon toward the exposed space above his heart.

Her shoulders had committed to the finishing thrust, placing both feet inside Hajin’s reach while his vision narrowed.

Hajin remained conscious through the first inch of that movement, reaching the cracked pocket watch through his inventory without raising either hand.

[ Divine Artifact: The Stolen Moment ]

[ Personal-state reversal available: 3.000 seconds ]

[ Conscious activation required ]

He activated the watch before blood loss could take the decision away from him.

The artifact did not wait for death, stop the thrust, or move anyone inside the command hall.

[ The Stolen Moment activated ]

Cold silver light passed through Hajin alone, pulling his body plus mana toward their recorded state three seconds earlier.

His opened lung restored beneath the torn coat, followed by muscle, ribs, skin, and every vessel the first blade had crossed.

The blood already covering the route table remained outside him, while both holes stayed visible through his clothing.

His feet remained beside the eastern column, preserving the dangerous position the leader had created instead of returning him across the hall.

Every assassin kept the same stance, and the short finishing blade continued along its original path toward his restored chest.

Hajin’s personal mana returned to its earlier measure, correcting the second Ring without restoring any broken wall, barrier anchor, or dead guard.

[ Personal physical state: restored to T-3.000 seconds ]

[ Personal mana state: restored to T-3.000 seconds ]

[ Position and external conditions: unchanged ]

[ Other entities and active attacks: unchanged ]

Hajin caught the finishing blade between two fingers before its point entered the same place she had opened.

The veiled leader saw unbroken skin beneath his torn coat while his spilled blood remained across her withdrawn weapon.

"You healed after I opened the lung," she said, trying to reverse her grip, "the blood did not return."

"Neither did you," Hajin said, breaking the short blade between his fingers, "you are still standing where you committed."

His third Ring opened around the restored two, filling the route hall with gold plus blue pressure that struck every unfinished surface.

The leader released both broken weapons and reached for a throat needle, although Aegis closed around her wrists before she touched it.

Hajin folded a second plane beneath her knees and drove her against the eastern column without crushing her chest.

"Alive," he said, locking the barrier cage around her, "someone is going to explain who purchased this house call."

The eight secondary assassins abandoned their trapped silk anchors and attacked before the leader’s cage finished sealing.

Three crossed toward the western stair, attempting to cut through the barrier protecting Marrick plus the evacuated household.

Hajin turned his left hand, placing three vertical Aegis planes between those attackers and the stair.

The planes accelerated beneath three-Ring pressure, carrying all three assassins backward through the central route-table supports.

Stone, timber, plus black weapons broke together when the golden surfaces drove them into the finished eastern wall.

None lowered a weapon before impact, and none moved after the wall collapsed around their bodies.

Two more assassins climbed their remaining silk lines toward the roof cut, seeking the scaffold route they had used to enter.

Hajin raised one Ring toward that opening and released pressure through every silk strand attached to its frame.

The eastern scaffold tore free from the manor, folding its cut roof edge across both climbers before carrying them into the yard.

Their escape route collapsed beneath them, leaving the unfinished command wing open to the night without another usable anchor.

The final three rushed Hajin from separate directions, using silence seals to hide their steps beneath the structural collapse.

Divine Eyes kept each core visible through the dust while the Rings supplied force without needing another weapon.

Hajin released the leader’s mapped barrier rhythm, forming six Aegis planes at irregular heights around the approaching assassins.

Their blades struck empty angles before opposing planes closed across their attack paths from both sides.

One assassin lost his head between intersecting edges, while another was driven through the cracked eastern floor into its foundation trench.

The last reached Hajin’s back with two needles extended, still aiming toward his core after every escape route failed.

Hajin caught both wrists without turning, then released three-Ring pressure through the assassin’s reinforced arms and chest.

The body crossed the command hall and struck the collapsed route table beside the other dead attackers.

[ Assassin-house breach resolved ]

[ Hostile contract assets eliminated: 8 ]

[ Hostile contract leader captured: 1 ]

[ Separate Flint field-army losses: 0 ]

[ Active Flint siege force: 1,122 — unchanged ]

[ Hajin gained: 456,000 EXP ]

[ Ring Progress: 23,710,000 / 25,000,000 EXP ]

The three Rings remained around Hajin’s right forearm while Divine Eyes checked every body, roof line, plus broken foundation opening.

Eight death markers answered Aria’s count, leaving only the leader alive inside her barrier cage against the eastern column.

Hajin found no additional serious-wound marker beyond Senn plus Pava, preserving the Sixth ledger at nineteen dead and fifty-three entries.

His restored chest carried no wound beneath the torn coat, although cooling blood still covered his skin and the floor around him.

[ The Stolen Moment: cooldown active ]

[ Remaining cooldown: 23:59:59 ]

[ Activation unavailable ]

The watch had restored one personal moment and could not repeat the rescue anywhere during the coming day.

Marrick returned through the western stair after Hajin lowered its barrier, bringing militia binders plus two custody witnesses.

They removed every hidden needle from the leader before fastening her wrists, elbows, ankles, plus jaw beneath separate seals.

"The route hall is gone," Marrick said, looking across the collapsed table and open eastern roof, "the dispatch office lost its outer wall."

"Keep the western rooms closed until the supports are checked," Hajin said, dismissing two Rings, "move every record back to the registry."

The existing manor still stood, but its unfinished command wing, route hall, scaffold, and household defenses remained wrecked around the captured leader.

Marrick assigned two named custodians before moving her outside, preserving the assassin contract mark plus every weapon for testimony.

A southern convoy horn sounded beyond the square while the last binding receipt entered his damaged command ledger.

Aria marked the signal as Taren’s contracted wagon route, where Seliza’s eight relief vehicles remained beyond the siege road.

Hajin left the captured leader under witnessed custody and took the western exit toward the convoy alarm.