Chapter 25

Stalling for Time (時間稼ぎ, Jikan kasegi) is the 25th chapter of the Gleipnir manga series.

Characters

 * Morita
 * Sayaka Koyanagi
 * Chihiro Yoshioka
 * Shuichi Kagaya
 * Madoka
 * Isao Kasuga
 * Ikeuchi
 * Yota Murakami
 * Claire Aoki
 * Hanakawa
 * Miku Aihara

Summary
They made it back to the forest. However as soon they fought against an enemy. Morita is a monster. He looks like a centipede. He warns them if they refuse to join them and give their coins to them, they will get killed. Claire found that he is trying to make time for his crewmate to reach here. So, they start attacking. But they were thrown out by Morita. He catches Sayaka and abuses her in front of her teammates. Morito throw a bag to them. When Yoshioka opens it, she was shocked that inside the bag, it was a bare human’s head. Morito give detail of the human head that she is girl like them. Who entered their territory and refuse to join with them. So, their boss killed her. He also mentioned that their boss is on a whole another legacy for them to deal with.

Morito courage's himself as genius for bring the head to threaten the enemy.

Youta take a look at the head. By looking at the head he says that she was really his type. He asks again why he killed her. Morito replied that because it was fun for him. He said what happened in his past. When he was a human, he was kicked out of his school because when he tried to protect his friend. He seriously ended hurting others. Shuichi fears of Youta for his overwhelming power. In just a blink he tears apart of Morito. To think a fool to thread them by a corpse said Sayaka casually. She asks Youta to bury the head.

Sayaka mentions that when they enter the forest to collect the coins, they also know a scene like this will held. So, whatever their path is that should towards the spaceship.

Madoka asks Hanakawa to look for the enemy’s location. Hanakawa he an x-ray vision power, he can see through anything. He found them 500 meters apart. Madoka conforms that they defeated Morita. Now that will be a lot more fun for them to fight with the enemy.