Vol 4 Chapter 2 (2/2)

But, Izuna’s petite body had released the overwhelth of a

Warbeast when saving the ball

- Because of that, the ballflew at an abnor closer to

Sora

However Sora rerumbled to himself

(So she really won’t let us win so easily!)

Izuna’s save became as if it was a deadly smash from a professional volleyball

player, and when faced with the approaching ball, Sora intentionally dove into

the sea, creating a pillar of water

The ball went through the pillar of water – and continued to move forward,

but when it reached Sora’s position, it had nowhere near the originalspeed

Sora barely ed to use his foot to putt the ball towards shi+ro

- That was an extremely heavy ball that was completely absorbed ater

“…Mm! Steph… keep it up…”

shi+ro passed the soaking ball that had become heavy in an instant to Steph

with some effort

“Eh? Ah, eh!?”

Yes – she had impeccably accurately passed the ball over to a position where

Steph could just catch it

Judging frole, even if Steph could

catch it –

“Ah, I’m sorry Izuna –“

Even ifshe could catch it, it would only fly to a position a fair distance from

Izuna

- Can’t catch it

The ballfleards a direction where it would be impossible to catch, but –

- Upon seeing Sora and shi+ro whose mouths were curled up in victory and

were「We win」under their breaths, Izuna clenched her teeth

“…Don’t look down on this little girl – des!!”

She kicked the floor and stepped forward – creating a pushi+ng force

The water originally swirling around her feet explosively spread out, revealing

the surface below it

Izuna boosted forward as though intending to rival the force she had just

created

Chasing the ball that was al over the ocean surface, Izuna

maintained her speed and stretched out her arms

The ripples created by waving her arh to create

waves – but –

With a boom…

The surrounding water evaporated into mist, and as he saw the ball in Izuna’s

hands explode, Sora yelled loudly:

“OK, Izuna has lost!”

“-? …! Y, you cheated, des! You’re despicable, des!”

Only realizing what had happened a beat slower than the others, Izuna

protested in dissatisfaction

shi+ro replied only after exchanging a high-five with Sora

“…The person unable to catch the ball will be considered the loser… as long

as Izuna-tan were to use her fullstrength… she would lose”

That’s right, if Izuna as a Werebeast were to hit the ball that had become

heavy due to the absorbed water with her fullstrength, the ball would burst as

it wouldn’t be able to take the impact, thus it cannot be passed to the next

person –

Despite understanding that this hat Sora and others had planned since

the very beginning, Izuna continued to protest

- If the ball hadn’t burst when it did, ould’ve happened?

Under the noise of the violent waves and ripples that Izuna had created from

stepping and waving her ar:

“…You guys… don’t you ever think of just having fun normally?”

“Eh? Since it’s a game, then of course not”

“…Not…at all…”

“Since it’s a gaoals, des?”

Hearing the unhesitant, somewhat childish replies from the three, Steph could

only allow herself to be swept aith the waves…

Miko atching them from a distance spoke reverently:

“Oh… they … even

though they weren’t planning on using legitimate ways, but it’s really some-!?”

- Her sentence was interrupted

Feeling a presence behind her, Miko immediately shi+fted her hands to her

breasts!

But even with the superhuman reflexes of a Werebeast, she was still a few

milliseconds too slow

With her swimsuit suddenly stripped away, she could barely shi+eld her

breasts, but Miko lare sharply at the 「Culprit」

“-What is theof this? The vermin over there?”

Jibril as facing the brunt of her gaze feigned ignorance instead

She was fiddling with the swimsuit she had stripped from Miko

“According to Master’s literature, to 「Expose one’s breasts」 at a place like

this would be fate ☆”

“Oh~ really… so you must adhere to the same fate as well then?”

Miko shi+elded her chest, but – she slightly lowered her center of gravity

Miko had unquestionably taken on a 「Battle Stance」, while Jibril chuckled in

response

“Fine, no proble that can merely crawl on the floor

can take away soe your

mind-set?”

“Huh? It appears you’re in the wrong here, I clearly don’t merely crawl on

the floor you know?”

She had a smile on her face

While their killing intents impossible to detect with the naked eye clashed and

produced sparks –

-…

“Ah, shi+ro you can’t swim?”

“…Eh? Steph… you can swim?”

She had initially thought that shi+ro was o

fro truth like that existed, caused Steph to question her

But instead shi+ro was shocked by the fact that Steph could swim –

“…A, des”

“Indeed Stephanie-san is truly worthy of her name, you’re capable of not only

politics, cooking, sewing… but even proficient at swi, however I have

a si animal, is there a need to swim in the

water!?”

“Old man, you’ve spoken the best sentence of the century! A land-dwelling

animalshould remain on land!!”

- The group that couldn’t swim replied as one

Steph srasped shi+ro’s hand

“I really don’t kno to deal with you, it’s more fun to kno to

swim, here, I’ll teach you”

“…Oh…”

“Here, I’ll hold on to your hand, just start fro the water with your

feet”

Steph co from the basics

Steph took hold of shi+ro’s hand

But –

“Uwaaaahhhh!”

“Aaaaahhhhh!”

A sudden huge wave reeled in, sweeping everyone onto the beach in an

instant

“…Poof…aahhh…Nii…”

“Waaaaashi+ROaaaaaa!”

Seeing shi+ro as about to be swept away by the waves, Sora dashed

up to grab her

shi+ro gasped for air while grabbing onto her brother, and mumbled:

“…Nii…shi+ro wants to learn… to swim!”

Maybe because the seawater got into her eyes, shi+ro spoke determinedly

with tears streaking down her cheeks

But Sora yelled towards 「The ones that created the wave」instead:

“You two over there! Can you at least respect – or at least obey the laws of

physics… can you?”

His e the scene that lay

before him

What was before him was –

On the distant sea were two battling – monsters

“Hah, despite being so arrogant, you’re only at this standard, right, huh?”

Jibrilacross the water surface

Right below her, Miko who had jumped out below from below the water

surface turned corab

her

- Miko even used 「Blood Devastation」, but Jibrilstill e that

outstretched hand by a few millimeters

But Miko directly – ran on the surface of the water – while shi+elding her

breasts with both hands

Miko’s clothes that she had worn on her swimsuit, and even her hanten

appeared to have been snatched away, so she released a murderous aura

unreservedly, chasing after Jibril in an atteet her swimsuit back

“Heheh ☆ Say your prayers, I’onna skin you alive ☆”

So this is Miko, the representative of the Werebeasts - 「The strongest

Werebeast」?

She ran on the surface of the water – and occasionally despite only for an

instant, even soared in the air

Every time she dove into the sea, Miko who basked in the water and wind,

had her body change froolden –

“…Miko-sama does live up to her name… hoerful, des”

- Upon seeing the events unfolding before her, even Izuna couldn’t believe her

eyes, it was unquestionably a situation with no room for others to butt in

Sora decided to give up, and instead turned around, ignoring them

“Mht”

Sora spotted Ino as he turned around, and followed his line ofsight

What he saas a group of people swept to the shore – not only Steph and

Izuna

The waves had appeared to strike the shore as well, dragging Miko’s

followers into the chaos as well, all of them were completely drenched –

Their subtly transparent swimsuits, created an indescribable scene

“Oh… I see, it’s still unforgivable on their part to almost let shi+ro drown, but

this is pretty stunning as well”

Sora carried shi+ro back onto the shore

“Ah, this really is a treat for our eyes, Sora-san”

“Yeah, it would be perfect without you”

Trying his best not to let him enter his field of vision, Sora complained to the

only a loincloth

Watching the group of noisy people being swept away by the waves, Steph

smiled cheerfully

“Hah… I’ve been so busy ork recently…”

The dazzling sunlight and the white beach

Steph returned to the waterside, and kicked the water surface lightly

The waves created by her feet, and the wind blowing in from the sea, seemed

to drive away the fatigue from her daily routine –

“…I guess I need a rest once in a while”

Steph spoke passionately

Sht to herself when

was the last tiot the chance to relax like this?

Since Sora’s bunch carandfather passed away

It felt like she hadn’t relaxed in a few years – Steph breathed deeply

“Isn’t it great to be able to come here…?”

Steph spoke, see approvalfrom no-one

- Beepbeepbeep

“OK~! Cut~~ pack up! Thanks for everyone’s hard work!!”

Sora yelled with both his eyes half open

…One after the other… everyone dragged themselves from the sea back to

the shore with the spirit and energy of half-dead bodies

“…Ugh…my hair’s sandy…sand everywhere…”

“Phew… I apologize, Master, I really can’t enjoy the ocean… when the sea

breeze gets into s it makes me feel inexplicably unhappy”

“My tail’s so heavy after absorbing all the water, des… how troublesome,

des”

“Phew~ this feels terrible, who exactly thought of thalassotherapy

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, it’s just

plain ridiculous”

“My sincerest apologies, Miko-sa with

Sora-san’s tricks”

Everyone’s moods seemed to have taken an about turn for the worse, just

like a group of actors after finishi+ng a performance –

“…Eh? Eh?”

Steph was the only one that couldn’t keep up with the situation and was left in

theeveryone else return to shore

“-H’s done, you can come back

to the shore now”

Sora spoke while closing the recording applications of the smartphone and

tablet co the shore

“…Eh? Huh? What’s going on?”

“-H fun earlier?”

Afterinto the shade, everyone had shocked expressions on their faces

whiletheir bodies

“…Ah, sorry, about that, Steph… actually”

Maybe because he didn’t think that she wouldn’t notice at all, Sora spoke

somewhat aardly:

“…A everyone here…none of us like the ocean at all…”

- 「…Mm…」

Everyone agreed while nodding vigorously

Ast them Miko looked particularly disturbed

She spoke while grooolden fur:

“Although I was trying to play along with the 「Common practices」 that Sora

was talking about… I still don’t really understand… there’s a ton ofsand on

et this off?”

“shi+ro-san – now!”

Jibril’s eyes lit up all of a sudden, and she quickly passed so to shi+ro

- At the saave Jibril a thumbs-up,

saying “Good job”

“…Miko-san…I suggest that you use…this brush and…hair conditioner”

“R, really? Thank you very much”

“…Fondle…phew…”

Ingeniously finding an excuse to achieve her goal, shi+ro let out a conniving

laugh, and buried her head in Miko’s golden tail

And Sora was holding the exact sa that had mysteriously appeared in

his hands

“Ya~hoo~! Then I’ll help Izuna as well –“

“I’ll help Izuna groom her fur, here, Izuna come over here”

Ino blocked his path instead

Their eyes lared at each other

“…Old o clean your own tail?”

“If Sora-san were to groom her fur Izuna would be contaminated by your

malicious air, how about Sora-san you take care of your frail body instead!?”

Izuna ignored their quarrel, and unhesitatingly walked forward –

And sat down in front of Ino

“Hurry up, des”

“…”

“Oldintent of others without speaking, is

that sort of expression a special ability of the Werebeasts as well?”

Looking at Ino’s expression that was so cheerful he could almost hear cries of

pleasure coan to pulsate violently on his

forehead

…With a whishi+ng sound, the waves brushed against Steph’s feet

- It seeotten about Steph’s existence

completely…

Part 3

- The sun was about to sink below sea level

“…Heheh, the sunset is so beautiful… heheheh…”

Sitting on the beach while hugging her knees, as though she had escaped into

a world of her oas on Steph’s face was… a smile

- Suddenly Sora shouted

“- I’m bored”

Hearing that, everyone turned to look at Sora

“Ugh, how despicable to run away after you’ve won, des”

All this tii,

tic-tac-toe and other games in the shade of the trees, all these activities that

would make one question why they’d bother to come to the sea in the first

place, and upon hearing Sora’s exclaive

in

“Ah, it’s not that, it’s not because I’ames with Izuna”

Sora stood up while speaking and shouted at the wooden box:

“Hey, Plum, shouldn’t the Reception Boat be here by now?”

“”Ah!””

- It appears that everyone had forgotten their original purpose, and cried out

in surprise involuntarily

Plum stuck her head out from under the box

Maybe because she was using ic continuously for a period of time,

Pluain reminded everyone of her expression

when they first met She replied:

“Uht…”

“The battery power ofout,

and I’ bored”

“That’s why I said we came too early…”

The still-exhausted Plum complained dissatisfiedly

While Sora behaved like a kid throwing a tantrum

“No, I’ back”

“Why’re you saying so childish like that…”

Plulance with

Miko and shi+ro

Ever since they reached the shore, Miko was being stroked by shi+ro in the

shade of the trees, and shi+ro was stroking Miko all this time as well

- They nodded slightly, and spoke at once

“Exactly… it is pretty boring here”

“…Mm…shi+ro is…tired…”

“Eh… why’re even you two saying such capricious things…”

Plum appeared heartbroken, while Sora opened his mouth to speak

“Jibril”

“Here”

At his call, Jibril immediately appeared from thin air

“Have you got the position?”

“Yes, the position calculated by the Masters should be correct”

- Calculated?

Plum appeared confused, while Sora took out his tablet PC

On thethe perimeter of the Eastern Federation, the records of

their trading with Oceande had been recorded as well, and thus he had

deduced the rough position of the 「City」

Pointing to the direction indicated by its position – Sora looked towards the

horizon and said:

“OK, that’s enough – do it”

“- I obey?!”

Hearing Sora’s words, Jibril was unable to hide the jubilant expression on her

face while kneeling on the floor to accept his order

“Eh? W, what are you doing…?”

Plum asked uneasily, but Ino was about to ask the same question

Ino’s 「Instinct」as a Werebeast warned hi

To elaborate, it seemed that the situation needed to be stopped

Whatever these people were about to do – it definitely wouldn’t be so

good

So Ino glanced sideways at Miko

He let out a breath of relief only after seeing Miko nod her head slightly to

indicate 「It’s allright」

But as he saw Miko sh」, Ino’s face

paled

Sora lifted up shi+ro, and spoke a single sentence

“We’ll go off ourselves, everyone back off”

After which, Sora and others left the waterside, which hen Jibril asked:

“- Master, is it really OK to be doing this?”

She appeared impatient – but she still made the final confirmations excitedly

“It’s fine, besides won’t the power of the 「Ten Oaths」 come into effect?”

「The First」 of the Ten Oaths

- All bloodshed, war and pillage is forbidden throughout the world

“Any actions with har violence,

will be canceled due to the li,

actions not involving har intent won’t be cancelled Which means the

「Only God (Tet)」has guaranteed that e do it, that action won‘t be

considered as violating the rights of anyone, so –“

Sora revealed a daring save a thumbs-up

“Make it as large as you can”

Hearing his response, Jibril as though receiving a sacred order ceremoniously

bowed, but her facial expression contrasted with her actions as she smiled in

relief Jibrilstood up

“Hahah, hahahahah~ I don’t kno many years it’s been since I’ve last

used this, hehehe~ I’ forward to this~…”

Jibril had an intoxicated expression on her face, and mumbled to herselfso

At this tis –

- Suddenly distorted

Apparently the light – no, as though space itself had twisted, everything

beca

- 「The Ten Oaths」

The usage of violence in this world – any actions intending to cause harm will

be prevented by the power of the oaths

Regarding this, Ino understood perfectly, but when personally faced with

those events, goosebumps still appeared on his skin

“OK, everyone get back!”

Miko ordered calmly but sharply

This sentence, h their bodies and free

will had separated from themselves, reflexively leap backward

“…Eh? What’s happening?”

Due to Miko’s loud yell, Steph finally snapped back to reality

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- Suddenly, she realized she was the only one that was particularly close to

the ocean

Crash – a sound outside of the audible range caused the area to tremor

The sand on the beach even ignored gravity and began dancing about, while

space continued to distort

The space that was slowly distorting and changing shape began to gather at

Jibril’s hands

Pluic – the only other one

that could see Spirits

But as she looked at what Jibril was doing, she still appeared completely

confused

Judging fro

What Jibril was doing was – 「Absorbing all Spirits in the area」

When the Spirits that are supposed to be in a place are removed, then one

naturally wouldn’t be able to see anything, just like a black hole

And – in Jibril’s hands, the absorbed Spirits were being compressed,

squeezed, condensed, low of

light

Even though Imanity that can’t see spirits, Sora and shi+ro were able to see

clearly as going on

In Jibril’s right hand, a swirling vortex-like pillar of light gradually began to

form

Regarding things related to ic or Spirits, Sora and shi+ro could neither

comprehend nor detect them, but –

The halo on Jibril’s head had beco way too

fast

Which could only

“…Hey, eh? You’re joking! Eh? Eh~~!?”

Plu on, hurriedly tried to seek

shelter, yet yelled instead as she was unable to free herself from the box

Yes, this scene could only

And that is Jibril was preparing to cast a spell that was, at least by Sora and

shi+ro’s standards, never-before-seen, at a coular

dimension

As the shape was not fixed at all, 「It」 could neither be classified as a sword

or a spear

But Jibril was grasping tightly onto it with her right hand

And she – slowly raised it – revealing a sweet smile

“So then Master…”

“I will use - 「A B O U T F I V E P E R C E N T」 of my full power then?”

Jibril’s right hand descended with a speed as though to leave her previous

sentence in the dust

That was all Sora and others could witness

It was like hearing thunder only slightly after lightning strikes

After a few seconds, along with an exploding sound loud enough to quake the

earth, a huge wave swept up tall enough to reach the heavens –

It was ally - 「The sea parted」

And then –

“Kyaaaaaaaaaahhhh!”

“Aaaaahhhhhhhhhh!”

The aftershock from the impact, swept Steph and Plum still in the box over to

Sora and others

- This is what they saw after that

“Phew…? It’s such a great feeling to be able to use my powers”

As though greatly relaxed, Jibril had an invincible, cheerfulsmile on her face

“I hope the tiet to use 100 full power?”

Hearing that, even Sora and shi+ro released a cold sweat

Only 5 was enough to part the ocean, sha even Moses… they

suddenly recalled –

Jibril had previously unleashed fullforce upon the Elves, which means a 100

「Airstrike」

They hadn’t coe to deflect it partially

–

“…The Elves…Fii’s bunch really is a”

“…Nod”

The both of the – while shi+ro nodded in respect

for her asn’t present at the time

As for their inner thoughts, Jibril of course knew nothing

“Anye can now 「See」 the capital of the Seirens, so I can teleport you

anytime”

…The five senses of the Werebeasts were at their physical peaks

Certainly not to say Ino, Izuna and even Miko could only see the horizon

Maybe because the previous strike had bent the light, for Jibril that had said

she could 「See」 it earlier, everyone remained speechless

- Sora looked at everyone who had backed away earlier

“OK, everyone, let’s go, grab onto Jibril”

Miko and the Werebeasts appeared defeated, and returned to the beach in

trepidation

“I had known this since earlier… but to see it myself, it’s just like a bad

joke”

“…Ugh… the best course of action would be not to get involved with the

Flügel at all…”

Plum climbed out from the broken wooden box, and spoke after Miko,

luckily, the sun had already set

Ino then yelled in panic:

“Sora-san! Please don’t let Miko-sama hear 「That noise」!”

Ino called out, apparently afraid of the sound ofspace distorting created by

long-distance teleportation

“Ah, he’s right, Jibril”

“Yes, I understand, so – everyone please grab tightly… ah, hey, Dora-chan

stop sleeping already, get up”

“…Eh? Huh? What happened – hat is this!? The sea parted!?”

Steph yelled alone, while everyone else ignored her reaction and gathered

around Jibril

“So we’ll teleport now, off to the capital of the Seirens – Oceande”

Jibril’s wings began glowing again, and her halo spun faster and faster

“The distance is three hundred and seventy-eight point twenty-three

kilometers, but the parted ocean waters are about to return to normal”

As though in response to her words, the seawater ruan to

return to their original position

“So, I predict that Oceande won’t have any air”

“Ah, I, it’s fine, I have a spellfor breathing underwater –“

It was unclear whether they didn’t hear Plum, or whether they were simply

ignoring her –

“So – I’ to teleport the air in a radius of two hundred

with us then?”

“-Eh?”

“Get back!”

Miko’s voice rang out once again

Hearing this, aside from Ino and Izuna – even the Werebeasts that ith

them at the seaside previously hurriedly left as well

- In an instant

Leaving behind only the exploding noise at an extreh frequency

created by space shattering, the group disappeared

“”Kyaaaaaahhhhhhhh!””

As the air that was removed refilled itself, an explosively low air pressure was

created

AWerebeast females

grabbed onto tree trunks in defense – while any who could witness that

scene… were gone