Vol 1 Chapter 4 (1/2)

Chapter 4 – The Cherry Blosso Country

—-Good grief Just what’s with Noel

It would be nice if I didn’t cohs inside the classroom

To begin with, Takeru’s an idiot Taking every chance he gets to get closer to her

Once again, she let out a weary sigh

Currently, it’s lunchtiht

Even if Takeru and I are separated at school, I should slowly cal, she still ended up thinking about Takeru

And when she noticed, she furrowed her eyebrows Sakuya was then approached by the lone girl next to her

It’s the girl from Goertz who’s her classmate She was someone whom she rarely speaks with

“Um, Konozuka-san Here…”

So she said and handed dohite envelope There was a fragment of affection in the envelope

“Th-, this is the first tiirl…”

Sakuya spoke with a perplexed toneher hands in panic

“Yo-, you’re wrong You’re someone trusted by Noel-san”

“… That’s rare of her”

Said Sakuya as she receives it, the Goertz girl raises her hand

“Well then, that’s it”

Sakuya expressed her gratitude, the girl then turned back towards her seat, and Sakuya opens the envelope

What’s written inside the letter was a business-like speech What’s inside was a summon for Sakuya

Sakuya froith a “Muu…”, and crammed the letter from the envelope inside her desk

“… Well, let’s go after school then”

And then after school, Sakuya headed to the place she was called at

The rendezvous point ritten in the letter which was left inside her desk

She goes out of Academia and immediately went to that place A town of neutrality where it is not part of any country’s dominion

After co to that town, it is still continued to be a neutral area where meadows and forest still exist

When Sakuya arrived, she looked out in the , isn’t the grass on this place have grown too much?

“So, what do you want? Calling me out to this place”

Sakuya called out to the other party, Goertz’ irl, Noel

Noel, whose twintails are swaying, spoke

“I’ you out to this place”

Sakuya was confused as she saw Noel bowing dohere she can see her back

“Now it reet a new one?”

On Noel’s back was her 《False Sword》 that she always carry which was destroyed by Takeru

“This one is a substitute Until that one is fixed, I a this Rank 1 kid”

Which reminded her that the current Noel eaken considerably

Sakuya who heard that emits out a little bit power from her body

“Fuun I thought thatme out for a duel”

“There’s no way it’s true This talk of ours just in case, I don’t want any other person from any country to hear it”

“Then how about Vento within the Acadeh?”

Noel shook her head in refusal

“That would be unfair To speak with someone in equal terms, you should speak with that someone in a preferable place Is ritten in the manual”

“…… So you chose this place huh”

Sakuya was amazed by Noel She look around the meadows that stretches wide

“This place isn’t bad You can take a good look around, there’ll be no one conize us So you don’t have to worry about eavesdropping”

“You could say that… Well, fine then So, what’s your business?”

Noel becaht with Sakuya

“Konozuka Sakuya… What do you think of hii Takeru that is”

At that moment, Sakuya was at loss for words

“Nothing really, I don’t feel coh I don’t knohy you asked that”

Noel looked at Sakuya and quietly confirms her facial expression

“Konozuka Sakuya This would depend on you but, I think we can cooperate That’s why, let me hear your what you want However, that will only be it”

“…Cooperation?”

“That’s right A cooperation It’s difficult for you to achieve it alone but with the two of us, it can be done Depending on your answer, my country will cooperate with you That would be for the best, is what the higher-ups have said There shouldn’t be any disadvantages for the both of us”

After Noel’s done with her speech, silence continues on

“Now then, tell me what you wish for”

Sakuya was at lost by her words

For Sakuya, her wish doesn’t only limit to one

She wants to raise a country where every person from Yamato could live on and be protected It was necessary for her to the point where it can be already called as obsession

However, at present time, her home country have already fell into a crisis She can’t protect her people That was her situation

That’s why, her answer’s already decided

Sakuya spoke without hesitation

“I want to protect Yamato”

“However, Konozuka Sakuya, that country has already been checkmated It is already been a place where life won’t bloo but ruins However, do you still want to?”

Even if Noel said that, Sakuya, until now, never thought of anything other than that

“Even if it’s like that I am already in this position”

“Then, please cooperate Please hand over Kisaragi Takeru over to my country”

Hearing those words of her, Sakuya’s heart had a huge leap She gulps down then answers

“…That’s not possible”

“Why? If the event of the people of Yaone, Goertz can still support you people Our countries can then create an alliance”

Sakuya didn’t nod her head, Noel spoke after she spat out a sigh

“I see If you had a child with Kisaragi Takeru, Ya but a sheer drea to such delusion?”

Sakuya was questioned by Noel The discomfort in her stomach boils up

“You’re wrong! That’s not what I feel about that Because, I will be together with those guys”

Those people who brazenly approaches Sakuya Those people who are hated by Sakuya She doesn’t want to be desecrated by those guys However, that was the only effective method

《Regunare》 dee of twelve to twenty years old or so they say And then, their power steadily declines That’s why, for Sakuya to protect Yamato, it was needed to do But if it was someone who is a pure-blood frooes up

However

—-The one who summoned Takeru was me after all

“He’s my responsibility”

“You’re being in a contradictory position right now But no ht(hope) in that road”

“Even if it’s not right now, still, the possibility is not zero”

“…I don’t understand”

Noel seemed to be amazed by Sakuya

“Even if you don’t, it’s not a problem”

As a person of his own country, Takeru will not forsake it too

“Are you perhaps done with the talk?”

“Yes I was not instructed any further than that I will further do anything more than that”

She’s been asked by radually fixed her composure

She can faintly feel the clogged up fog cleared up

“Oh, I see”

If you think about it, it was a very easy answer

“I don’t want the people around me unhappy”

It was dazzling momentarily

She re sensation of her muscles around her spine This dread The s

The idea ofher body quickly appeared

Sakuya kicking the meadoithout hesitation, Noel pushes down her two hands

As Noel falls down on her back, she shouted surprised

“Wha-!? Wha-, what are you suddenly—”

The next h She did not touch it but, it was hot enough to scorch her back

In the rear of Sakuya, a violent explosion sound reverberates

Sakuya, while pushi+ng down Noel, looked around The area where Noel stood earlier had a huge gouged out hole

The other side was covered with thick black smoke

“What’s with this That couldn’t be instigated by… that’s not it Sorry”

If the real target was Noel, then that wouldn’t be an attack from Goertz

“Yes That attack wouldn’t benefit Goertz at all”

After the smoke have calmed down, there were two boys on the other side

They were a little bit tall They also had body in sylasses He, Alberto expresses a sant

And then, the other person he’s as named David

They were carrying their drawn out 《False Sword》 with their hands That is, they’re in attack mode When they fired from their swords, the air trehtly

“…Why are you here?”

Sakuya gave a glare to the two Neorika men

Alberto threateningly spoke

“That’s not good, Sakuya-kun For you to leave that letter under your desk”

Sakuya bit her lips

I FORGOT ABOUT THAT…!

Perhaps, someone from Neorika in her class leaked that information to him

“For you to be a stalker, aren’t you ashamed of yourself?”

“Aren’t your sense of danger also insufficiently low? You are also here without a companion either”

“…Oh shut up I do have one A comrade that is”

“Is that so? The other one’s nothing but an insect, isn’t she? However, he’s not here right now”

Alberto shrugs his shoulders as he said so

“With that opportunity, I was thinking of having an honest talk with you”

Sakuya didn’t hid the unpleasant feelings she have and spat out

“Then, you didn’t have to target Noel”

“Well, she ht also be possibility for you to not agree with my invitation”

“Didn’t I rejected you already for so many times?”

Alberto forgetting that he attacked first, donned a gentle smile

“Well, won’t you listen to my story? You should already be unare》 of Yamato to me Surely, it would be better for you”

“Huh? Don’t screith me”

“I’ with you It will be fine I swear that I’ll help the people of your country”

“That invitation of yours, I’ve already rejected it”

“Did that happen? If so, that’s right I swear that Takeru-kun will never be able to use his hands”

Hearing hirimaced

“Are you hesitating? I understand that You’ve seen it for a long tiht be a responsible huuess, youtoo”

Sakuya bit her lips as Alberto continues to speak

“There’s no way for you to be safe being together with that guy ”

“……That ht be true”

“That’s why, I pro around you However, you’ll only spend your time in my house To eat, sleep, and to be happy, that’s what I only think for you to do And then, you will be soive birth to my children”[1]

Sakuya slowly breathe out

An unpleasant chill swept across Sakuya’s cheeks

“I don’t think that proposal of yours is not bad However, I loathe you though I have a feeling that my body will just be fine”

“Then—-”

Alberto having a glad-looking expression, Sakuya boldly declares

“However, I refuse Didn’t I tell that I don’t like it? I can’t trust your human nature You will fail Even if you held me dear and protected me, it will turn into a drawback after you discarded me If that’s the case, if you’ll protect this hand, it needs be hundred billion times better”

Alberto said with disappointment

“Is it so…? That’s pitiable”

“… Pitiable?”

“If you had agreed here, it would’ve been good for your future You have already been decided earlier”

“What are you saying?”

After being asked, Alberto replied back to her as if it was nothing

“I told you already didn’t I? I’ll take you back forcibly Let’s chop off your feet Let’s chop off your ar left will be you special features”

Declaring such insane statement, Sakuya’s spine froze as if the whole water in her body froze

“It can’t be help since you’re resisting right? If you only had agreed earlier, even if you only lovedit”

Alberto from his throat, had a dark smile

“I ht now since you’re quite weakened You’re out of shape for the past days right?”

“Wha-?!”

“Well then, let’s try it, David The you right now, can you defeat her?”

This huge o and now his teeth can be seen from his smile

“As expected of Alberto You haveto stop”

“I won’t say that However, do you think you can get away?”

David, with his deep voice, replied “That’s right” Gripping his unrefined 《False Sword》, he placed it in his thick shoulder

“Konozuka Sakuya Leave this place to me As stated in the manual, the school’s discipline corps should suppress any uprisings”

Sakuya shakes her head to the words of Noel

“Wait This problem is caused by me Also, your 《False Sword》—”

Sakuya’s words were interrupted by Noel who had serious looks

“Even if it’s like that, I will not overlook this Konozuka Sakuya, you should shut up and watch”

“Hey, hey Are the two of you going to take ht now? Aside the one from Vento, I want to try the best of the princess from Yamato”

David shed

“Ha Are you an idiot? Do you think a 《False Sword》 can beat a 《Regunare》? Is your brain consist of nothing but muscles? However, I can’t stomach it—- for you to think that you’ll be able to defeat me”

“Very nice So it comes to difference betisdom and abilities”

To the giant idened his slares back

“It seems that you don’t know our difference between our abilities, don’t you? That I am a ninth ranker of Vento I won’t lose even if you’re a fourth ranker in Flame”

“But, what you have is a rank 1 《False Sword》 Mine’s a rank 7 you know?”

“Whether be it rank 7 or rank 1, that doesn’t matter at all”

After Noel said that, she sent side glances to Sakuya

“—-Konozuka Sakuya In one uy in one minute”

Noel unsheathes the huge 《False Sword》 that she carries in her back as she slides its blade on her palm

Then, the 《False Sword》 shi+nes with golden color

As if it was screah the ears of the world

“Sword Essence———Release——–!”

The 《False Sword》 released a fierce surging power thus rewriting the world

It didn’t exist but illusionary cog wheels that looked like holograph manifested

“Cli easy on you”[2]

Noel turns her 《False Sword》 that looked like a chunk of metal at David

Bazun~ Albeit impossible, the laws of the world have been bent

With such sound, David pursed his lips His gigantic figure shook painfully

“—–… —–…”

“You’ll be having hard ti desu Soon, you’ll lose consciousness after running out of power so let me say this first, —Goodbye”

Noel sharply kicks down the ale

Noel swung down her huge 《False Sword》 doithout a hitch

Wind that cuts through sound Next was metallic sounds

David repelled it with his 《False Sword》 from down under

With such force, Noel used it to sprung back in the air David’s head was hit by her heel Just how much power does that sround Noel once again jumped from his reaction

“!?”

Not letting hih the space with vigor whilst brandishi+ng her 《False Sword》 A sword attack added with a roaring sound scattered as it tore upon the atmosphere

“With strengthened the wind, to hold your footing… It needs quite the skill…”

Froe build was reduced down into a defensive fight

Noel released attacks quicker than the ithout mercy many times

“W-with this, I’ll win…!”

David was hit by her 《False Sword》 in his abdo to the back He rotates many times in the air then collided in thea gouged hole in the meadow

There, pressing him for his answer, Noel releases the wind blade she created

The wind in the surrounding co into a windstoriant The earth blasted upwards from the explosion

“… Is this the rank 4 of Flame can do? It didn’t even took one minute”

Noel exhales then pointed the tip of her 《False Sword》 to Alberto

“You’re next in line You should better give up”

Alberto furrowed his eyebrows in a good hilst closing his eyes in discomfort

“Till when are you going to fool around, David?”

Hearing those words, David’s huge body slowly rose up Albeit covered in dirt, there’s not one scratch on him

David swung his 《False Sword》 with all his strength after getting up Then, his 《False Sword》 radiated red hot light Seeing that redness feels like scorching hot

“My bad, my bad That attack was so shabby so I just”

“Don’taway”

“I know, I know”

Noel was injured with a wound She painfully stared dumbfounded on David

“No way That couldn’t be… It can’t be After all, you aren’t suppose to be able to breathe…

Why are you able to talk?”

“I broke it You should suppose to know Regla Elementum Wind powers up the flah with brute force[3]

Regla Eleinates from the four elements cradled back in the ancient west

Wind burns on Fire Fire dries the Earth Earth cools the Water Water da elements

“Even if……! But still, there’s the difference between our abilities…!”

To Noel whose body stiffens, David laughed scornfully and declared

“Yeah, there’s difference So, what now? One minute already passed That line was supposed to be yours Kahahaha”

“Kuh…”

“Well then, my turn next If it’s one minute for you, then I’ll do it in one second”

In the next moment, David already appeared before Noel Sakuya barely saw his acceleration Noel on the other hand, failed to react

“I-, I’ll show you…!”

David, with a dignified impression, threw his 《False Sword》 to Noel Noel on the other hand, blocked it with her own 《False Sword》 But, her 《False Sword》 was deflected by the bigger one

Not giving time to retrieve his 《False Sword》, David instead, pulled out another 《False Sword》

Noel’s eyes opened wide

And then, the 《False Sword》 in front of her, beat her up Like a massive clump of steel, it was a violent attack

Noel was blown off to the air and landed on her small back

Don! It made a violent sound Noel’s body strike the meadow

As if it was an explosion Froround

Noel fell down at its center

The difference in their abilities, it was so obvious, Sakuya did not expect that but it was there

Receiving that attack from her opponent, Noel’s fallen body trembled

“He, he destroyed my Ether Barrier in one hit…? No way…… why… is this the difference in our abilities…?”

Noel dizzily said as if she was talking in delirium

“Now then, time for the finisher Die”

Towards Noel’s vacant eyes, David brandished his red hot 《False Sword》

Certainly, she’ll feel the weight of that lu down at her

“—–I won’t let that happen!”

Sakuya swiftly break through Using her own body as a shi+eld, Sakuya jump in front of Noel

Sakuya’s shoulder was hit fro from her bone

“Guh…… uu……”

Sakuya endured the pain She held her red scabbard and resolutely strike at David

David accepted it with his body He gave a groan whilst standing He braced his legs down in the meadows and was blown ten meters away

Seeing their appearances, Noel opened her eyes wide upon seeing the two

“Konozuka… Sakuya…? Wh-, why…?”

“Noel, are you fine I wonder?”[4]

“I’ht… However, you’re…!”

To the dizzy eyed Noel, Sakuya said nothing but one word

“……I’m sorry”

“Wh-, Why are you apologizing? I was supposed to be the one protecting you… It was supposed to be me”

Sakuya while looking at the tattered Noel, had a face of her biting her lips

“I got you involved in this troublesome mess after all And that’s, my responsibility”[5]

“…… Wha-, what are you… what are you saying?”

Sakuya stretches her hand out to Noel who dizzily talked

“……Noel Can you get up?”

Grasping the hand of Sakuya, Noel staggeringly stood up and then replied back

“Please run”

“However, currently, you’re power……”

“Yeah These two s”

Says Sakuya as she sht about it with a smile

There’s no way that it would be an easy victory However, I should buy time for Noel to escape!

“There’s no way it could be It’s impossible to win……”

“Forget about it I don’t have the time to chat here Just call out for some please —-Until then, I’ll hold them off back here”

Sakuya forcefully donned a smile She pointed the direction of the Academia with her chin

“Oi, oi You’re thinking of running huh? It’s not just me but Alberto’s here too you know?”

David laughed scornfully as he look down but Sakuya ignores it

Sakuya’s beautifully lacquered scabbard in red rotated in her hand

“—–Dance——Ouen Kekkai!”[6]

It swirled for an instant The world was colored by the sakuras

The sakuras did a boisterous dance

There was no tree for the sakura yet, petals of sakura fluttered down

The power that rewrites the reasoning of this very world, the 《Regunare》 It doesn’t follow any common sense since it is the co andThey distorts the law

The person that holds it can its power to ReWrite the world[7]

However, Sakuya is already exhausted in using it Her boldit made her bit her lips

The sweat fro down like waterfall Her breathing already becah

“Hurry up and go already, you damn idiot!”

Sakuya pushed away the back of Noel

To the pushed Noel, she ran away

“I’o!”

David holds out one hand and chases after her The petals dried upon touching his hand

“When you touch those petals, it will burn”

The petals that dropped to the hand of David already turned white then burned

“Uooooooooo!?! Fo-, for me to– They burn if I touch them?!”

David panickly extinguished the flame on his arm His eyes opened wide in surprise

However, Ouen Kekkai didn’t end there With an overwhel temperature, the sakuras danced and burned his Ether Barrier With that, Sakuya pierced the two Flaaze

“I absolutely won’t let you chase after her”

Sakuya’s body will collapse any tis

“Flaunare》 have the attribute of light I won’t lose in flames if it just in power”

While Alberto scowled at Sakuya, he spoke in a vexed tone

“Tch David Switch to defense Let’s just wait for a while”

As Alberto said so, he defended himself from the sakura with his 《False Sword》

“Butaway you see?”

“Chasing after her is already iht be wounded, she’s still a Vento Even though they’re not that powerful, their feet is still fast”

Alberto said to David whom had a dissatisfied face

“But we can’t just leave any evidence alone We could make that Sakuya was attacked by the Goertz We could insist on that —-However, we’ll still be doubted I guess”

“Such thing, will that be alright?”

“Well,about it”

The falling sakuras gradually decreased

Whenher body as she knelt down

“Let’s bring her back to Neorika’s territory Only an idiot wouldtry to invade our country”

And then, all of the sakuras completely disappeared The only remains was the scorched meadow

Alberto calmly approaches the fallen down Sakuya

Sakuya tightly grasped her red scabbard Her face lared at Alberto

“Now then, Sakuya-kun It’s my win Please hand over your scabbard”

Alberto started to snatch the red scabbard with all of his strength

“W-, who……Is that a question?”

“…Say, Can’t you be honest already? I hate trouble you know?”

Alberto while saying that, trampled down Sakuya’s shoulder

“Ugh…guh”

“Like I said, could you stop wasting my time?”

She was kicked Sakuya’s body gruround

Still, she didn’t release the red scabbard

“I… absolutely… won’t hand… it over…”

Alberto drew near and stepped on Sakuya’s arm for how many times over

“…………ugh”

Sakuya stopped her rising voice Forstepped on, her arm bended on a weird direction

“You won’t still release it even if I break you? …… well it’s fine You already don’t have the power to fight As this goes on, I’ll just take you back David, I don’t want to get dirty froht I don’t care if you break her hands or feet, just don’t injure her abdomen It would be a problem if she becomes unusable”

Alberto said so while directing his gaze to David

“I get it, Alberto”

Sakuya’s eyes faintly sees anything as she is being carried by the giant

—–While Noel ed to run away, her faintly voice didn’t come out in her words

♦♦♦

Noel Lieven ran

She suppressed the pain screaround

“Konozuka…… Sakuya…”

Her e her name

As to why that girl have saved her, Noel doesn’t understand it

She didn’t have to stand on the sa as Noel does

Those kind of things were never been written in the manual of Noel

Sakuya’s feelings nor Noel’s current feelings, they were never be in the manual

Inside her head is aabout it

“Konozuka… Sakuya…”

That in itself confused Noel Till now, she only lived having folloas stated in the manual

As Noel ran, she pulled out her phone to either report to Goertz or the Academia’s school discipline corps

But she understood one thing and that’s she will not make it in time

That’s what

She doesn’t understand anything anymore Noel walked slowly forward

Sakuya is already taken to Neorika’s territory Of all possibility, that would be the most possible scenario

If Goertz would go to another country’s territory to get Sakuya, that would take a bit of a long ti She must take action immediately

Then, how should she do it?

It’s helpless There’s no one she can trust to Even in the

Noel only have to wait for further instructions And what happens after that, she can’t help it but leave it that way That was not Noel’s responsibility Not her responsibility There’s nothing she can do It’s not her…… problem

——That should have been it

The frustration that burns in her chest remained