Volume 3 -A Chapter 10 (2/2)
”If the Earth Burn is activated, call ive you your next chance”
…How?
”How…can you do that?”
He still did not answer He only stepped forith lowered Device in hand
She looked up at his back and prepared her own Device
She closed her eyes, cale of ”herself” that her Live was singing
…It's really disturbed
Maybe because of the blood loss, its Tempo was quick yet weak And she was e in there, too
…I'm surprised by Gunmal
Strangely, it was not a bad feeling
She did not knohat to call this Message, but she felt it would be a shame to Tune it away
…But I need to hurry up and heal myself
She was driven to do that by the blood that had reached her thigh and the enemy's movements
She could tell even with her eyes closed that J-Gun and Genius had both begun to move
Meanwhile, Gun his Live
He was defenseless
However, she did not panic
”Oh, you Lives within me You shouts that form my Wild Name Can you hear my voice?”
She released her Live
”La”
It was a gentle yet vivid Tempo and Word Color It was her own Live that she reo
She sang a Live with some pointed bits
She amplified her own Live in her Device and felt it reside in the spear tip
Ied the spear into her own chest
The Live, its Message, its Teh her body
It was not quite a wave, not quite an impact, not quite a ripple, not quite a vibration, and it covered her with goose bumps
However, it cooled so her
She opened her eyes, stood up, and pulled the Device from her chest
In that instant, a massive Live exploded before her eyes
Gun any kind of preliminary Up
She heard him shout
”Go!”
The exploding Live bleay all other sounds, so shehis voice
Still, she obeyed it
She looked up slightly, took two or three steps, and flew
Akira flew
She arrived above the twenty meter reactor in the span of a breath and then continued forward
The floor of the concrete reactor's rooftop released a strangely thick Live of heat and produced a visual shi+
…This region is producing the fire element Earth Burn, isn't it?
With that on her athered Lives of wind and heat
”Oh, you Lives floating in the 1,280,000 Octaves around me You roars of wind and proclamations of heat Can you hear my Live?”
She cleared the reactor's rooftop with a single step and gathered quite a few Lives in the process
The as blue and the heat red She gathered those Lives around her like heavenly raiment and descended from the rooftop
She saw a small park-like space lit by mercury lamps from all sides
A Tune E a sword Device stood at the center of the large Tune Emblem
”Brother!”
Double Lee looked up at her voice
A look of slight surprise appeared on his face
…This doesn't look like the start of an emotional reunion
She put up her guard and he nodded He had read her Live
”So you are finally here, Akira”
He looked up at the night sky
The els danced
”Such a lovely s”
He then asked Akira a question
”But why are you here?”
She landed and held her spear at the ready as she answered
”Why? To stop you of course”
”Are you serious?”
”What do you mean?”
Double Lee laughed when she answered him with another question
”Interesting So you didn't notice on your own?”
His deep laugh continued but suddenly stopped
After that moment of silence, he spoke directly to her
”Are you kidding me?”
”Do you really think you have any chance against me?”
She tensed up, but only for a moment She soon squeezed her Device and spoke
”Stop this …Can't you just turn yourself in?”
And…
”Please, brother”
The brother frowned at his sister's words
”You want me to stop this? But this is what father,wanted …No, not only that This is what the two of us wanted as well”
”Stop!” she shouted ”A lot of lives will be lost if you destroy Hong Kong! Don't you get that!?”
”I do That is reality …Did you not think about that when you used to talk about creating a dragon?”
”If you wish to stop me, then do it by force I am a criminal at the moment”
”Then…take this!”
Akira Tasked herself
She Tuned the Live residing in her Device
”La”
The Tee in her
After a short ti
…This ork!
She created soe indeed
It was a dragon
The crion wrapped around her spear was about ten
It would be classified as a Lesser Dragon, but it still had proper fangs and horns
…Okay!
She let Double Lee see her thought and raised her spear
He looked a bit surprised to see her Lesser Dragon and she did not hold back
She suddenly swung down her spear
”Go!”
The Lesser Dragon roared as it was released from the spear
It shook the air as it fleard Double Lee
It was fast
It raced through the air with the speed of so down an icy slope and it raised its head
It opened its ain
Its red eyes were focused on Double Lee's right arm which held his Device
He remained silent
He stared straight at the charging Lesser Dragon and made no attempt to run
”I see”
All he did was quickly tilt his body and raise his empty left hand
The Lesser Dragon must not have kno to react because it tried to latch its jaws onto his left arm
…Not that arm!
And just as Akira tried to say so…
”Word Accel, you Live with an Octave of 1,280,000”
He spoke quietly and the Lesser Dragon burst
”What!?”
The tearing sound drowned out Akira's shout of protest
The Lesser Dragon cainal Lives
The sound of the dragon's destruction continued as the red and blue Lives scattered into the air
It took the span of only three breaths for the Lesser Dragon to completely vanish
Red and black Lives flew and Double Lee remained unscathed His left ar had happened
”Targeting my dominant arm? You alere naive”
He slowly lowered his left hand and spread it out before his face
He wore Device rings on the ers
”I can destroy your Lesser Dragon with Devices this small”
Akira said nothing, but he must have read her Live because he smiled bitterly
”What's wrong? I had heard you and the rest of Hong Kong saw you as the city's 1 Tuner”
As he spoke, the scattering Lives of the Lesser Dragon wrapped around hion he had destroyed
…Is it co?
She raised her guard
”Word Accel, you Live with an Octave of 2,080,000!”
It suddenly appeared above his head
”The Vermilion Bird!?”
It was a large bird with a burning red Word Color
He had placed his Message inside the Lives of heat, wind, and the night
As if flapping its wings, it throbbed with a refreshi+ng yet heavy and deep Te else
”I suppose you wouldn't be able to pull off a trick like this …Not if you haven't changed in the last three years”
The Vermilion Bird responded to him with a cry
It was a high-pitched voice
It then spread its wings
The vers were over twenty h to outdo Akira's Lesser Dragon
Some yellow and black feathers were ave a sense of heat and pressure as soon as one looked at it
The wings ht
The Vermilion Bird fleard Akira
It flapped its wings once, glided just off the ground, and prepared its beak It targeted her torso and would crush her with its wings if she dodged
…Will I make it in time!?
She did not have time to answer her own question
She flehile throwing pencil-like Discord Bombs so that they would not scatter
She fleards
She s to fly up the reactor wall behind her
The Verround to flap thes, so it was launched upwards
It was not going to let her escape, but then the Discord Bombs exploded
The Vers, and tail were bloith the Lives co them
The cry that escaped its beak sounded like a scream
”Did I get it!?”
She looked down from halfway up the reactor
The Vers even harder, broke through the Lives that had scattered from itself, and ascended
It pursued Akira as if crawling up the reactor wall
…Not good!
The only place left to escape was the sky, but the bird would be faster than a Nein Engel there It would catch up and attack her
So she gave up on escaping
She reversed her grip on her Device to point it straight down
Without averting her gaze, she targeted the spot where a Discord Boht shoulder
That here its Live was most shaken
…Its Octave should be lower there!
The contact lasted an instant It was only long enough for her to take three running steps
Her spear accurately pierced the enemy's weak point
She auto-reversed the Live in her Device to read the Vermilion Bird's Live
She was searching for a Live she knew very well: her brother's Wild Name
…Leed Lee!
Her heart shouted that Wild Name, which was the key to an individual's Live
”Oh, you Live with an Octave of 1,480,000…directly in front of me! You shout of heat, roar of wind, and Live of a name with an eternal form!”
It reacted to her call
The Verave a s the quick pause
”Can you hear my Live!?”
That settled it
”La”
She released her Live and the Vermilion Bird crumbled
The resistance reaching her spear weakened, she twisted her body, and she passed the bird by
…I did it!
Just as she was certain of her victory, the Vermilion Bird noisily exploded
”You're kidding!”
By the time she cried out in protest, she had already been slaround
The impact made all the bones in her body ache
At the same time, she heard a hard metallic sound in her hand
The sensation in her hand told her that her Device had broken
However, this was no ti in pain
She clenched her teeth, got up, and faced forward
Double Lee still stood at the center of the Tune Emblem
”You took far too er without our mother?”
She started to answer but then froze in place
The wound in her side had opened a little Blood was flowing and spilling out once more She reflexively threw aside the broken spear and held her side
The liquid wetting her hand felt like warm oil
Still, she faced her brother
She did not look up or down at hiht at him
Her brother responded with a bitter smile
”With that look in your eyes, you would think I was in the wrong here …As a Tuner, you should have better judgment”
…About what?
”Both Tuning and Busting are not just for fun Have you never heard about the past wars? These are true weapons meant to kill”
He slowly raised the sword Device in his hand
After gently, gently raising the straight line of silver light overhead, he took a breath
His eyes were looking to the center of the Tune Emblem at his feet
Akira stood up and tried to run
…I have to stop him!
Double Lee watched her take the first step
Their gazes seemed to audibly collide
”Move!”
The Live carrying his voice knocked her out of the way In the span of a breath, she was knocked back to the reactor and her winged back slammed into the wall
She felt the i a dry soundand the s had broken
She grimaced but still faced forward as Double Lee spoke with his Device still raised
”This is not so so You do not knohat our parents and the Archs they fought wished of us, so there is nothing for you to do here”
…What are you saying our parents wanted!?
She asked him a question
”All mom said was that she wanted to see heaven because dad died! She only wanted to see him after he had died! She never said she wanted anyone to kill people with Tuning!”
”You are si his eyes ”Either way, you are no…Just watch”
He took a breath
”This is true Tuning!”
He ht line to use it as the Baton
With an ear-splitting metallic sound, the Device's tip stabbed into the asphalt
”Word Accel, you Live with an Octave of 40,960,000!”
After his shout, he released his Live
”Haaaaaaaa!”
Pushed on by his voice, the Device sank further down
The sword seeuard and hilt were sed up by the asphalt
It vanished almost immediately
A short pause followed
In contrast to Double Lee's previous actions, all sound vanished
However, that great silence was soon broken
The reactor was destroyed
The top of the concrete structure split open like a rice bowl and flames burst out
A scarlet pillar rose toward the heavens
The sound of the blaze shook the air and did not stop
More pillars of fla sound
There were just as many as there were reactors in the thermal power station
The sixteen pillars reached the night sky
The Nein Engels were gathered there
However, the sixteen pillars of fire surpassed the Nein Engels and rose further and further, where they slowly pressed together and overlapped
The sixteen pillars spiraled and intertwined until they had become one
By that time, a bestial face had formed at the end
It was a dragon's face
The scarlet dragon began to gain a real body instead of onebody in the night sky, each and every scale twinkled like the stars, and it opened its great maw
It roared
Its voice shook the atmosphere from the sky
And other voices answered
They were also dragon voices They belonged to the three dragons produced elsewhere
And at the sa shook
Akira looked down at the vertical shaking of the earth below her feet
Double Lee used his six wings to float in the air before her
Roaring dragons shook the sky overhead
There were four dragon cries in all The dragons of the four elements had been activated
The ground was torn away before Akira's eyes
”Eh?”
By the tiround becaround, the grass, and even the lamps became Lives and lost their form They all floated upwards
Akira knehere they were headed
They were joining that which the white Nein Engels clung to as they decorated the sky They were joining the body of the Earth Burn that ruled this land
The red earth Burn's long body formed a white spiral and rose further and further toward heaven
Its roar shook without end
The ru
With those two perforround, Akira heard an unpleasant Live
…This Live!?
Her questioning thoughts were crushed
”Ahh!?”
She heard screa volume
This was not just one or two and it was not a solidified chorus of voices These were probably the screams of the tens of thousands of humans and Glossolalians who had failed to escape in time
The sih Akira as a Live with a yellow Word Color
And a of a bell
She knehat it was
This was the screa Hom's Holy Carpenter Church It was the screa there
She covered her ears to escape it all, but that was not enough to block out the ringing Lives
Hong Kong's screaedy” and she heard the crying voices of the panicked, fleeing people vanishi+ng into the sky It was enough for her knees to give out below her
Speechless, she heard Double Lee speak
”Look This is Tuning!”
He ht
Surprised, Akira grimaced at the screams and reached out toward her brother
But there was no way she could reach hirasped only empty air
And she reflexively gave a shout
”Gunmal!”
She was nearly in tears as Double Lee joined the chorus in the sky
”Re as a weapon! Do you understand!? This is how Tuning is used! It is meant for destruction like this!”
”No!” she shouted ”That…that has to be wrong!”