Volume 3 -A Chapter 7 (1/2)
Black sh the blue sky
Some flames were mixed in and many different sounds came from Tsim Sha Tsui's Chatham Road below
It was an ensemble of uncountable shouts, screams, and h noise because avoice joined in
It was the sound of a double-decker bus breaking apart
A massive hole covered both lanes on one side of Chatham Road and the bus had fallen in
The sounds of destruction linked with one's ie point giving them a vien
”It looks like so from a movie”
That slightly out-of-place comment came from Rin as she tried to catch her breath
”They really are violent,” agreed Akira ”I wouldn't do it like that at all”
Both of their voices were soh
They had ”escaped” by flying straight up from the hole and onto the roof of a dozen or so story department store on Chatham Road
Akira glanced over at Rin as peering down fro
”That was close, wasn't it?”
Rin nodded while still catching her breath and she pulled a combat knife from her pocket
”You sure carry a lot of weapons around”
Rin did not respond, but she did produce a voice
It was a fairly low, undulating sound
”Lu”
This was Rin's Live
As she produced the voice, she pressed the knife against the back of her own neck
A e bird flew from her body
The bird frantically flapped its wings and ran along the rooftop without flying
It was a Live of impatience
After driving it frohed
”It was close If you had been just a little sloith the Tuning, you wouldn't have been able to deconstruct the flames and ould have been killed …Look”
Akira looked in the direction Rin indicated with a jerk of her chin
That here the giant hole filled the asphalt road to a ridiculous extent
The edges of the hole were brightlyheat still rose from them
The shi+ was very thick, but twonearby
One was aa Device sword and the other was a man with a fully customized body
Both of then land
They were searching for so
”Are they looking for us?”
”Of course not”
As soon as Rin spoke, J-Gun and Fei began walking
However, they started toward the opposite side of the road
The cars in those lanes orried about the large hole in the ground, but they were still slowly
Or they should have been
The orderly current of Lives controlling the road was suddenly disturbed by the two men who cut into those lanes
The disturbed Lives began with the bright red of screeching brakes
A double-decker bus slammed on its brakes, blue s in front of it
Unfortunately, it was too late
Tocar crashed into it from behind
With a metallic crash, the car was knocked backwards and the bus forwards
And the bus collided with the two on the road
”Oh, no!” shouted Akira
Fei briefly turned in her direction as the bus crashed into him
The destructive Live was not one she wanted to see or hear
”That had to hurt”
”Don't turn away, Akira! Look!”
She kept watching and saw that Fei had not been knocked away despite all the noise
His body was elued to the ground
”You're kidding”
Akira gulped because she saw no change in the faint Live co from Fei
”Rin, did that Galgallin go through a Psyche Outer surg-…”
”Wait five seconds and they'll head out”
Due to her harsh tone, Akira glanced over at Rin and found her checking on the Henry Ball she hadthe explosion
She was preparing for battle
Akira did the sa her Device
…This is serious
Looking back down at the road, she noticed Lives of fear overflowing from the bus's s and door The bluish-white Word Color and tre Tempo formed a wave as it spilled out
After a beat, the passengers followed the wave out
Feifor that moment because the double-decker bus floated up like it was a prop made of paper
He had lifted it
And Akira also saw Fei's dried but slightly re pure red toward her
That Live was known as intent to kill
”Oh, crap He noticed us”
She pulled back, worked to keep her Live fro, and asked Rin a question
”Rin?”
”Yes?”
”Are you htlifter?”
”I carry a gun everywhere”
”I's much heavier than- Ah! He can throw it!?”
”What is it, Akira!?”
”Don't look down! You'll want to just give up!”
But Rin looked down regardless
And so did Akira
The red double-decker bus flew up into the air and instantly arrived over their heads
It blotted out the sun for them
At the same time, it seemed to freeze about ten meters above them
And once it stopped, it was bound to fall
”Fly, Akira!” shouted Rin
”Yes, ma'am!”
Without even hearing Rin out to the end, Akira grabbed the other woman and jumped out into the air
A fall froht would be lethal, but she did not hesitate
She flew out over the road
She could see Chathas With a strong flap of those wings, she supported Rin's weight and descended
Almost immediately, a splendid sound of destruction reached them from behind, but Akira did not care
She had no intention of looking back
Below, Fei and J-Gun had only just hijacked a convertible stopped at the front of the traffic jam
”Ah, you thieves!”
Akira's protest chased futilely after them as the convertible took off
As she watched it go, Akira glanced backwards for just an instant
”Rin! Tram!”
Her h because Rin nodded
With a large flap of her wings, Akira gently flew along, ignored the panicking roadway, and approached a tra the center line
The tra car
”Now!”
Using Rin's shout as a cue, Akira released the other woman
Rin fell toward the tram's blue roof from about three meters up and…
”Well, I don't have time to watch”
Akira pursued their ene to look down
She flapped her wings to fly through the air while using her legs as ballast
She prepared her Device and listened to the wind blowing through the road
Perhaps due to the smoke, the blue of the as somewhat hazy It looked in a worse mood than normal
But Akira did not particularly care She could deal with soht disturbance saved her some trouble
She stabbed the Device's blade into the wind
As she flew through the sky above the road and held her breath a bit, she began Tuning
”Oh, you Lives flowing around ue of the wind and crying of the air Can you hear…my Live!?”
And…
She released her Live that began with ”la”
It was gentle, but the high-pitched sound contained a rising intonation
The clear reverberation flew as a song and Tuned the wind's Live into that of a bird
The miracle was complete in only four seconds
”Go!”
The bird of blue wind spread its two s the instant it was born and it flew
It charged straight toward the convertible racing on ahead
The bird would becoh power to stop the car
It was about twenty meters ahich would take about five seconds at the bird's speed
J-Gun reacted to it with his back to Akira
He slowly stood up atop the convertible's trunk and he swung his Device while turning around
The slight hint of his Live shook as if trying to convey so
…That's the sa as an Over Up
That fact gave Akira a chill
Meanwhile, J-Gun did not utter a word as he released a Live beginning with ”oh”
It was low, but its Te The Word Color was the red of offense and it was shaped in the bent half arc of a sickle
The strike smashed Akira's bird
And…
”Get down, Akira!”
Rin had a good reason for her advice that was less relevant for someone who could fly
J-Gun's attack had done more than just destroy the bird; it continued toward Akira as a destructive Live
Akira could see the red destructive sound
”Wah!?”
The red Live approached before her surprised eyes
But then it burst
That was thanks to Rin's anti-demon round fired from behind
The sound of the red Live scattering was very lass
Both the Live and the anti-dehout Hong Kong's wind
But Akira did not overlook those smaller Lives
She frowned, rotated her Device, and gathered together all of the Lives scattering in the wind
…An anti-demon round and J-Gun's Live! …This is pretty heavy
”But…I can't allow this!”
Akira raced forward again and gathered up the Lives of the ith her Device
At the saht and the coastline cas would end in another five hundred s
”Oh, you Lives dancing around s of power, roars of wind, and announcements of destruction! Can you hear my Live!?”
It took her a few seconds to call in the greatest Octave she could e
A giant spear shi+ning a bright red resided in her Device
It was at least five , but she did not have time to appreciate it
She swung the Device and immediately fired it
”Hit them!”
”Wait, you idiot! Don't kill them!”
Rin's as granted The spear was on the level of a tank's gun, but it fleard the convertible's trunk instead of directly at J-Gun
Meanwhile, J-Gun raised his Device to eye level and lowered his stance
He planned to block the spear that was over twice his height and not even aimed at him
”Are you suicidal!?”
Rin's question ell deserved That spear included J-Gun's own Live, so attacking it would have the sa himself with his own fist
The reflexive echoing of his own Live would destroy him
However, he made no attempt to escape
Instead, he opened hisresurrected
”Ohhhhhhh!”