Volume 11 Chapter 5 (2/2)

She would also lead everyone in battle, with strength and skill as Drag-Knight

Because that was her dignity as princess who Lux served, her objective

「When this battle is over safely, I'll tell him properly! That's why, no matter how et defeated hereeeee──!」

She suppressed the eneravity field and then sniped them with Seven Heads

While Lisha was continuously holding back the ene that attackbehind her

「Airi, please be careful I' the enemy with radar, but it will be troubleso us」

Airi nodded briefly at Noct's words and hid herself behind the cover of a rock

The intensity of the battle far surpassed the i her focus to protect Airi rather than securing escape path

「Good grief──someone persistent is hated you know!?」

「Yeah, exactly Lacking in consideration and restrain is also the same!」

Tillfur and Sharis each atteh with Ha didn't really go well

In a situation where a large sas surrounding froy consuht the Abyss equally

Airi atching that deadly battle fro the suspense inside her heart

(The Triad, they are already near their li-Ride)

When Noct and others were training to use the strengthened type general purpose Drag-Ride, it was none other than Airi as e time limit

Airi kne in order to becoth of Lux──and also the Academy, they acted like usual in surface, while behind the scene they were also continuing to work hard desperately

Airi also kne currently, those girls were gradually exceeding the limit of their stamina

Even if they kept at it illpower, it wouldn't continue for long Their armor would be dispelled soon

The Abyss's encircleh with a bit more

But, even though it would be just onea bit of firepower

「Noct! You don't need to worry about o assist those two!」

「No I cannot approve of that I will be breaking er」

Noct was replying with a calhtly to the front But,

「We will be annihilated either way if we are unable to escape like this! If I' a burden, I have the resolve to die!」

Noct who heard that yell showed a slightly pained look

After worrying for a few moment, Noct took a deep breath and turned the back of her EX Drake toward Airi

「Please forgive me Airi I made you speak that much That's because of our powerlessness」

「It's the same for 」

When Airi smiled softly, Noct also slipped out a chuckle

「Yes You're right Let's get scolded together later」

NoctEX Drake's Step She began giving covering fire using her Cannon

『Both of you please lure away the ene fire power』

「Okkaayy!」

「Take care of it, Noct!」

Tillfur and Sharis ere battling Abyss with close range weapon in hand guessed Noct's intention with just that sentence

No -Ride aptitude value, stamina, and technique wouldn't be a -Ride

Then, in order to win battle using a strong point that was unique to only the three of the with their personal training

「GISHAAAAH!」

A swar The two athered them in one spot

Thepoint, Sharis and Tillfur raised their voice simultaneously

「──Howling Roar!」

The vortex of shockwave that was filled with the power of strengthened type general purpose Drag-Ride pressured the swarht and stopped their movement

Right after that, Noct launched a following attack froer

「GU, GYAAAAH……!」

The atmosphere was enveloped with fla with the impact

Even so as expected several Abysses survived from the attack

The res from Hammer and Blade

「Magnificent, everyone──」

With this an escape path was opened, and it became possible to retreat teanized themselves

After that it would be only Lux and Yoruka ere inside the first fortress that they had to worry about

The Triad unintentionally relaxed their tension after throwing all their strength In that moment, Airi felt unease on her body

Her weight vanished and she felt like she was pulled to the air

That h to the air, Airi was kidnapped by a Drag-Ride that fleith fierce speed from behind

「──Airi-!?」

With a shocked expression Noct used Step and pursued, but she didn't reach

「Wait!」

Sharis flew to chase after the unfa-Ride, but at that moment her EX Wyvern was hit by an invisible power that threw her to the ground

「Uah!/」

Sharis turned a so down at the three ere left behind, the irl left wordlessly

「Be careful Sharis! It looks like she is using soe Divine Raiment!」

Tillfur also skated forward in the atteht vanished altogether with Airi

At the opposite side of Lisha as fighting hard a hundreddumbfounded

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Part 3

Walls, floor, and even the ceiling were coar of the first fortress

Just like the re the darkness, Lux's life was also vanishi+ng out

His consciousness that sunk into darkness could faintly hear the screairl as unable to find any word

The sensation of blood dripping froirl's left eye

His body felt the war him

This was an inevitability that would visit him soerously He was finally brought down

Rather, his luck was too good that he was safe until now

(Airi……sorry Even though I told you that I won't let you be alone──)

He felt pained for lying to his only little sister, for being unable to stay at the side of Lisha and others till the end

However separated fro to save Yoruka until the very end

There were e of death

But, right after that so hot permeated into Lux's chest

And then suddenly the scene that he saasn't his irls, but a bizarre scene

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Zazazaza-, an ie ofinto Lux

It wasn't the pheno, it felt like he was shown the memory of someone else

He could see froe space that was surrounded by silver wall surface

It was inside a facility that vaguely resembled the interior of Ruin

At the center of that room that was surrounded by several unknown objects, an unfa

The girl in dress was folding her arh speaking to someone

「Your whole fa you, has a certain instinct ienetic A competitive factor was planted by the predecessor scientist in order for your farow into evenout the aspect of overtaking and betraying other people from your family, and because of that all of you were persecuted Even everyone of Xfer said that they will only have anything to do with us, the imperial family of Lord」

Lux had no memory of this

There was no girl with si the imperial family of the old empire

She was different from the first imperial princess Listelka and third imperial princess Hayes, but she certainly had distinctive silver hair like Arcadia family

Even when Lux tried to throw a question, he was unable to e

The girl wearing dress and flower crown quietly continued to talk as though doing it in Lux's place

「Even so Fugil, you proved to me that it's aBaptise this world that is covered with dispute, this ti-Ride in this Avalon before you wake up」

Looking closer, he could see that the girl was talking to a small black box

Perhaps, that was a irl's words

And then

For soirl turned toward a wall and peered into a cylindrical water tank beside it

Lux's eyes couldn't see clearly, but inside a slender body of a girl was floating

「Sacred Eclipse is also near co wonderful without fail before you are awake In order to grant both our wish, to save someone else──」

The girl next went down a stair toward underground and opened the door of a room that was locked securely

Inside, there was the figure of a young e ery by

(That's──Fugil, niisan!?)

When he saw until that point, a question eed inside Lux

The question was, froe this scene came from?

(Did he come and enter the Ruin secretly since the era of old empire?)

No, Lux rethought, there was no way that was true

Listelka Rei Arshalia as a survivor froo said that Sacred Eclipse existed since the past as a calamity that destroyed the world

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『I'll tell you one thing for the end, , I a of this empire』

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At the last day of the coup d'etat, his elder brother who betrayed him and murdered the emperor said that

If his words were correct, then Fugil's true identity──just what……

The girl lovingly caressed the , then she slowly turned around

Thearound, a terrifying chill ran through him

(What, the This girl……!)

The face of that girl, he had recollection of it even though only faintly

No, just now, a otten was resurrected in his mind

At the past seven years ago, when Lux went to Ries Island for a rescue there──

This girl, appeared there

「Uh, gu……!」

His voice slipped out, even though he couldn't feel his body at all until now, a headache assaulted him

His memory was muddy

At that time, Philuffy should be died because she was unable to adapt to the seed of Ragnarok The reason she was ressurected──was because of Sacred Eclipse

That thing appeared before hiht, and then to Philuffy who had stopped breathing──

Lux recalled a part of histaken aback

Before Lux's eyes, he could see once anic wall

The girl was standing there She was peering into the cylindrical water tank while talking soly

「The Sacred Eclipse that I and you created, will be draard the heart of strong person, and grant salvation for only once If their feeling is a pure wish, in order to grant it──Sacred Eclipse will grant strength, this Elixir」

When the silver haired girl that he had never even seen before smiled, Lux's consciousness was cut off with a snap fro

Right after that, intense pain ran through the blackout, and his dim vision suddenly opened

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Part 4

「Aruji, sama……?」

When he opened his eyes, he could see the worn out Yoruka peering on Lux's face

At the side, the silver haired girl that he had just seen inside the dreairl was standing there

It was looking down on Lux while sporting a gentle selic

The drop that was shi+ning in seven colors spilling fro down to the wound on Lux's chest

「This is, Sacred Eclipse? Is it……? No, rather than that my──?」

Here Lux finally noticed how he should have died already

The deep fissure that was carved on his chest had vanished when he became aware of it

「What happened? This is──」

Yoruka also noticed Sacred Eclipse and murmured with an astonished expression, but Lux didn't understand anything

At that tiantly at some distance away suddenly let out his voice

「Ha—ha-ha This is interesting! I see, so it's a jackpot at this first and last time! This miniscule chance of the surface side of Sacred Eclipse perfor revival, just like with me at that time!」

Singlen's crimson eye socket shi+ned while his body under the armor suit was dyed black and he yelled

Lux and Yoruka beca voice that sounded like he was possessed, but Singlen only pressed on his face and continued to laugh

「I was uy It was my eyes that were cloudy What is necessary so one can be called hero isn't physical strength or even ingenuity It's the heaven's decree at the critical moment when it counts! You acco it──or perhaps it's because of that foolish choice of trying to save everyone In that case even withoutat the throat of that guy!」

Singlen spread his ar down his mad excitement

Right after that, the black pattern of devil transformation receded from his body He returned to his usual form that was no different from human

Lux and Yoruka were taken aback, even so their hand moved toward their Sword Device, it was then

──DOooOOON!

A howl that sounded like ruar shook fiercely

「I see──now I have no uy It's pointless even if I stay here I'll losepieces if I don't quickly assist them I've broken that nasty lethal weapon too I don't have anything to do here anymore」

「Wait, you're going to run away after going this far?」

Singlen said that and turned around, but Lux called out to his back

But, Singlen only turned around his head and returned back his usual dark eye glint

「What did you plan to make me do!? Who do you want to kill!?」

Hearing the question that the agitated Lux spat out, Singlen's mouth warped into an arc

「There is no time to have that talk here Until you recover your e I'll teach you soood That Sacred Eclipse which revived you, it will inverse to 『reverse side』 soon Defeat it now that you are resurrected」

Lux was shocked and looked at the Sacred Eclipse, then the shape of the beautiful silver haired girl transformed

It looked injured as though its whole body was carved, its skin was carbonized as though flame had burned it, and its eyeballs rotted and fell

And then, its rin that was like crescent moon

At the sa intent toward mankind

The last and greatest Ragnarok──the one that would guide the world to destruction was slowly starting to change

「I'll be waiting, chore prince──no, Black Hero You will understand thehow this world won't change at all unless I accomplish what I have to do」

Singlen only said that and rode the wave that Leviathan's Divine Raiar

Yoruka as crouching in a dying state and Lux whose wound was healed were left behind

And then, there was also the Sacred Eclipse that was carrying out an ominous transformation slowly

Yoruka atching that with only her blue right eye while her body wasn't stirring at the slightest

With that, even Lux understood that she already didn't have even a scrap of strength to resist

「──Why, Aruji-sama came for the likes of me?」

She didn't try to look at Lux

Yorukato herself

「Why did you secretly try to defeat Singlen? Surely someone at your level should have understand ill happen to you」

Lux picked up his Sword Device that fell on the ground and silently sent his thought

Perhaps thanks to the Elixir that was poured on him, not just his wound, even his stamina was recovered

He suainst this Sacred Eclipse

「Perhaps, I'h danger in order to protect me, I was unable to leave you alone」

When Lux showed such powerless smile, Yoruka quietly shook her head

「Aruji-sa people」

Yoruka forned smile and objected like that to Lux

「Putting your hand into fire in order to pick up a tool likea stupid plan Just for the sake of this kind of broken doll, that doesn't have any e」

Yoruka sighed with a serious face seely exasperated

Lux couldn't read her emotion

Even so──what he should say as her master was decided

「That's not true I remembered about the time when Philuffy caranted my wish」

That scene that flowed into hiirl who looked the same with Sacred Eclipse, he still didn't understand as theof that

However, there was just one thing that he was convinced about

Just like how his wish once saved Philuffy, Sacred Eclipse also responded to Yoruka's hidden wish and saved Lux

「Thanks to Yoruka's wish, I was saved That's why, so a tool without emotion, isn't true」

Lux's smile looked persuasive

Even so Yoruka's eyes wouldn't meet Lux

She kept crouching beside Lux with a fleeting expression while listening to that

Her broken fingers kept tightly grasping her Sword Device

「That's right isn't it」

She replied like that with a voice that was filled with emptiness

「I a I cannot even control a single emotion of mine I'm just a poor excuse of human Just like what my father told me once, I am a failure that is not human」

Yorukamixed within her voice

Even so Lux called to her

「After the fight against Gigas, I was happy that Yoruka came forable to save anyone, but with that it felt like I was able to save it just for a bit」

Yoruka's face didn't change even after hearing those words

But, her shoulder shook just slightly

「Yoruka I' you who are a tool to become human However, I don't want to use and throay the huo of your katana, I need you, in order formyself──」

「I am, Aruji-sama's……katana?」

Yoruka was half du those words She stared at the Sword Device of Yato no Kami

In order for her to become her little brother's servant, in order for her to persist in her contract, she didn't let go of this katana until the very end

Even though she was unable to understand hu then she could understand it

In order for Lux to carry out his own belief, he saved Yoruka when she was his opponent, like that──

「Besides, calling yourself a failure isn't right Human, all of them are imperfect creature Anyone no matter ill make mistake and hesitate Even me, Lisha-sama, and also everyone else That's why──it's fine for you to stay beside me」

Saying that, Lux held out his hand toward Yoruka

Yoruka hesitated for a moment, then she put her hand on that hand

「──As you wish, Aruji-sama」

The time between the two stopped for a few moments

He could feel the war for the first time

DOoOON!

But, right after that the underground Drag-Ride hangar shook intensely

Because of the fierce battle that happened here, the first fortress itself was starting to crumble

The Sacred Eclipse that was already losing its human shape was also a concern, but first they should escape from here

「Yoruka! We are getting out!」

Lux summoned Bahamut once more and quickly put it on as armor

(──I can do this)

Although the scar on his chest was rehtly, he could move perfectly

It was slightly baffling why Lux didn't go through devil transfor Elixir poured on him, but there was no time to ponder it

He carried Yoruka in his ar the avalanche of rubbles

Lisha and others said that they tedom army at the second fortress but──

「──Lux-kun! Be careful!」

The moment Lux escaped to the sky near the Garden, Coral's voice came to him

The Gargoyle and Chiht were killed instantly by Lisha and Greifer respectively

「Lisha-sama and Coral!? And even Greifer!? Why──」

「It's troublesome, but this is also a duty of allied country yeah More importantly……」

Greifer suddenly gazed at the front of Garden with sharp eyes

Over there was the figure of a girl in dress whose eyes were covered with shadow──the main body of Sacred Eclipse A swar around it

「It's that thing! As expected that thing is calling Abyss here! Noone after another If we don't destroy that Sacred Eclipse at least, even if we return to Cross Field like this──」

Lisha was glaring at the sky with her cri hard

It seeberk was already leading the White Ridge knight order of Blackend Kingdom to retreat

In exchange it see as reinforceht away if they came to this battle situation

「But it's strange yeah? Where did those daon Marauder lot vanished into? Drakkhen also run away, the one」

Greifer grumbled with an annoyed tone

Right behind hiures of Triad whose armors were dispelled because they had already surpassed their limit

「Yes My deepest apology I detected their presence broadly until the n cut off soot kidnapped──」

That report caused Lux's co

Seeing Noct's figure that was gasping for air, itthat was outside her power

Coral as si

「I'ht get away──」

「Right now that doesn't matter!」

Lisha lifted up her sword resolutely in respond to the dejected Coral

「There isn't any time to feel frustrated about eneon Marauder's objective, if they kidnapped the little sister, then they should contact us later for negotiating hostage!」

Lisha raised her voice to rouse up everyone there

If Lux and others were sed by fear and despair here, the battle line would break

If that happened, they wouldn't be able to save Airi either way

「Thank you very much, Lisha-sama」

Lux recovered his cal her voice and said his thanks briefly He then stared forward

Certainly, if the enemy planned to kill Airi, they could easily do so

For them to kidnap her

「Even so, how are we going to fight this tiet what the hell is going on」

Greifer spoke casually while glaring at the Garden and the first fortress

Certainly this time the motives of various forces were all mixed up

Lux took a deep breath and quickly sorted out the situation in his mind

Queen Raffi of the new kingdom requested Lux and Lisha to bury Grand Force inside the Garden so they wouldn't be suspected of secretly keeping it

But, Singlen who saw through that ht order to hide inside the Garden beforehand, laying a trap to catch Lux red handed

Singlen's ai Lux's weakness to add hion Marauder that was si inside the Ruin snatched away Grand Force and then they called a lot of Abyss

The three division coon Marauder were all present, and then the Drag-Knight ere eirl also appeared and battled Coral

Outside the Garden, Yoruka as convinced of Singlen's scheme resolved herself to assassinate him and infiltrated the first fortress, but she failed

When Lux came to save Yoruka, Sacred Eclipse appeared and then they escaped But then a swarm of Abyss in the number that was incomparable from before appeared around the Sacred Eclipse

After that, Zweigbergk led away White Ridge knight order and retreated In this situation, Lux and others similarly had to escape from here

But, if they didn't defeat Sacred Eclipse that showed up once o back to Cross Field like this

Lisha turned around while breathing roughly from exhaustion and raised her voice

「Either e have to defeat that ht, Lux!?」

「──Yes」

In a situation where once againAbysses swarmed between the wasteland and blue sky, Lux nodded

Right after that, the girl in dress standing far ahead──the Sacred Eclipse for with its flesh body

Triad who had beco-Ride anymore went into standby at the rear

The ene first aid treat this time

The reed the Sacred Eclipse

「Hah! You look like a spoiled young lady, but you're quite the tomboy huh」

Sacred Eclipse fleard the Cuelebre intercepted it and unleashed a slash in spiraling trajectory with his Tail Blade

Using the blade of many joints, it was a powerful attack with a trajectory that was difficult to read

Sacred Eclipse held its hand for defense, but the blade slipped through and suddenly split its head from the top into two

Lux and Lisha opened their eyes widely seeing that brilliant performance

But, beside theasped in surprise

「Greifer! Don't let your guard down!」

「Ahaha, Greifer is really terrible」

The Sacred Eclipse healed its wound while si its shape instantly It created the shape of a different girl

A girl wearing a dress with ornaolden tiara put on her brownish blond hair

It was a girl that Lux once sahen he took Class promotion exam in Vanheim Principality, Greifer's master, princess Milmiette Sacred Eclipse transformed into her appearance

Even if someone understood in their mind that it was a fake, but if their iht in front of their eyes, they would instinctively refuse to attack

Itof an instant that was less than a second, but the moment Greifer's hand stopped, countless fleshy colored branches stabbed out from the whole body of Sacred Eclipse

「──Photon Dive!」

The ability of invincibility of Cuelebre's Divine Rai those countless branches

「Wait Greifer! The eneht in the middle of those Abysses!」

Behind the Sacred Eclipse that was sent flying, the gathered Abysses that nu by

If Greifer threw himself into there, he would be safe for a few seconds, but after that there was a high possibility that he would be showered with concentrated fire

But, Greifer didn't backdown even knowing the danger

「Certainly that's true But, if thisfor that then it's a really poor e is my hobby?」

In order to destroy the core of Sacred Eclipse here, Greifer closed in further and swung his Blade

He cut apart the branches that were hard like steel and let out consecutive attacks in order to stab his blade into that heart

「You are really cruel aren't you Greifer? Have you forgotten your gratitude to me?」

Sacred Eclipse tried to shaken Greifer once more with Milmiette's appearance, but this time Greifer didn't falter

He replied shortly while dealing an attack of his Blade at the same time

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