Vol 5 Chapter 1 (2/2)

Sora had initially suspected that she had used ic, however

after hearing what the two said after that –

“…Senpai, if you even so much as touch a hair on my

Masters’ heads – I’ll just say you ht want to reconsider it”

“Really now~ Jii-chan you don’t need to be so tense~ there

are the 「Ten Pledges」 anyway-nyan”

- Sora realized, she had ht bit of

「Malicious intent」

Just how much did Jibril restrain her power under normal

circumstances –

As they got an extrelimpse of Jibril’s 「True

power」, Sora and shi+ro felt cold sweat running down their

cheeks

And Azrael didn’t seeht malicious

intent」, instead she turned around to face Sora

With those jade-green eyes – eyes that were impossibly

different fro at Sora:

“I wish toclear”

“- Yeah, what is it?”

- Her gaze this tiaze

from earlier

A sudden crushi+ng sense ofthe

air in the library to freeze, giving them the impression that the

very universe itself was being affected

If they were to answer incorrectly – they would die

immediately

This world has the 「Ten Pledges」

Jibril aiting their orders by the sidelines

- Despite this, they were unable to relax

Azrael’s gaze gave them that impression, after which she

spoke:

“As long as you command it, Jii-chan will call me 「Neechan

♥」 right-nyan?”

…

…?

False alarave him the

i as he were to relax, his very soul would

escape him

The very reason why he was barely standing was because shi+ro

was clutching his hand in fear

However, Azrael ignored him and continued emotionally

“E-even like she licked the feet of the E-Elves, she could like

! N-no, I won’t force

her to do so like that!! For example you could allow

–“

- How could she have known that? Sora felt suspicious,

however he took out his smartphone from his pocket and

replied:

“…If you want videos of Jibril showering, I have videos –“

“I’ll bet the Flügel’s race piece for that! Give it to me-nyan!!”

- An impossibly loud sound could be heard in that twentythousand-foot

high altitude

“Azrael-san, please calht to do

that To bet the race piece, you need to consult the decision of

the「Council of Eighteen Wings」 right? I think your request

will be unaniain ♥”

“U-ugh~~…! – Nyan?”

Jibril’s tone of voice didn’t carry any sense of apprehension

despite her adding a sle) at the end of the sentence,

however Azrael –

“Wait a second-nyan… noises of gears ru

froht-speeds,

it’s the most active it’s been in my, Azrael’s twenty-sixthousand

years-nyan!”

- Azrael let slip her incredibly long lifespan just like that while

appearing as though considering so

Finally she raised her head up all of a sudden, seely

having got an idea

“- Right-nyan!! You…your naht!?”

“Ah, yes”

“I’ll be your possession as well-nyan! My judgement dictates

that if that happens I can shoith Jii-chan!!”

“The worst idea you’ve had in twenty-six-thousand years,

great job on that hard work, Azrael-san”

Jibril smiled a smile that couldn’t even be described with the

adjective cold, as it carried hints of disappointment as well, and

she mocked Azrael

However – shi+ro glanced silently over at her brother

Azrael had nonchalantly raised her personal freedom as a

condition – just as Jibril had said, she wasn’t the representative

of the Flügel, and so even if they were to acquire her, they

wouldn’t acquire the Flügel race

Although it would be no easy feat to play against the Flügel

Azrael even hinted that she would 「Intentionally lose」, also

it would be a rather beneficial decision to have her as an asset

Also her brother’s intention included absorbing the Flügel as

well

On this train of thought, shi+ro looked over at her brother as

though to confirm her suspicions –

“…?”

She found that Sora had completely lost interest and had

calmed down, after which she looked over curiously at Azrael

Her face still had that enchanting smile on it – an overly perfect

smile

“…Ah…” – understanding what her brother’s expression

htly

Sora sighed unexpectedly, turned around and walked away

“…It’s rare of you to say such things, but this sort of thing

should wait until next time…”

“Eh~~… Jii-chan’s naked body –“

Azrael refused to give up, and Sora grasped shi+ro’s hand and

spat

“…I bragged to Steph earlier that I would acquire three races,

but now I’ll have to apologize to her”

Looking over at Azrael, Sora – glanced at her with a truly

disappointed gaze and said:

“- This one’s useless, Jibril alone is fine”

Ignoring Azrael’s squinted gaze, Sora and shi+ro proceeded to

the mountains of bookshelves

“So Jibril, we can browse the books here right?”

“…Yes, Azrael-senpai has approved of it”

Sora nodded and surveyed his surroundings

Books, books, books… it was a giant city

but books

And within his line of sight, he could see that on the back of

countless books, there was – writing of es he

didn’t know

“Since inal expectations were crushed, it looks like

we’ll have to tough it out… forget it, let’s try our best, shi+ro”

“…Mm”

The two agreed and disappeared in the piles of books, while the

two Flügel watched theo in silence

Part 4

Azrael sat cross-legged on one of the piles of books and put her

head in her hands

“Met Jii-chan, could it

be that the bait was too big-nyan?”

She coldly revealed the reason why Sora’s expectations were

crushed

No doubt, Azrael’s thoughts were completely different from

her demeanour, as she didn’t believe nor trust Sora

To get Jibril back, all she wanted them was to fall into her trap

- As for why Jibril called them her Masters, she had no interest

“…You really haven’t changed, Azrael”

Azrael’s expression twitched slightly upon having her name

called directly like that, and she replied calmly:

“Jii-chan can even talk back to people such as me and Artoshsama,

so it’s impossible that you would serve under mere

I one’s

intentions orone a puppet should be easy-nyan

Anyway those two must have won by pure luck, so you’re

being forced to follow theht-nyan? To be honest –“

She looked directly into Jibril’s eyes

“- Jii-chan has changed”

Jibril replied Azrael’s words with a cold smile

“Yes, I have changed…whereas you can’t”

“…”

“As for hoas defeated in that challenge, you have

nothing to say – ”

Jibril smiled faintly in betrayal, and continued coldly:

“…The reason why I defied my late Master (Artosh) and you,

is because – I just can’t take your personalities anymore – too

stubborn, so…”

She hesitated slightly, should she say it? Or –

Jibril decided to go with it

She knew Azrael would take offense more than anyone

Despite this – she decided that she would tell her, so she did

“Which is e lost, and until now – you still won’t

change”

Hearing these words, Azrael’s smile completely vanished

To be honest – Azrael’s expression was like a cold puppet

No, it was a completely different existence with Azrael’s

appearance – and it spoke:

“- 「Final Unit」, hast thou discovered the 「Answer」?”

Jibril looked at that existence with a gaze of pure hate, and she

spoke to it, al her words:

“- Yes, or o, it’s just that I

didn’t have concrete evidence”

“…”

“So now I must help the Masters find what they need, so –

that’s it”

Jibril turned away, leaving behind the silent existence

- …

“…What do you think-nyan?”

- You had to ask

“…Yes-nyan, but what if you’re wrong?”

- You don’t have to ask, you know already

“…That’s right-nyan…”

- 「First Unit」, I completely trust in your decision, not just

me, but everyone else

“I know, nyan…”

I know… she told herself that repeatedly

Azrael was speaking in reply to – the will of the Phantasma

(Avant Hei within her

Azrael

through the books –

She could only ask again when they made a move

Part 5

“…No, on’t make it at this rate”

Standing before a gigantic pile of books, Sora realized that

their efforts were futile after a mere half-hour

“shi+ro, how es of this world have you learnt?”

“…Only…the Ies…”

shi+ro mumbled nonchalantly, and Sora caressed her head

lovingly

For Sora who could barely learn the Ie, that

stunning learning pace just simply couldn’t be described with

「Only」

But, despite that –

“Jibril, which languages are these?”

“It’s the Dwarven and Deuely

understand them…”

…Right, the only one that could understand all the books there

would be Jibril

Even though shi+ro could learn foreign languages at

incomprehensible speeds, the books here alone were in the

on this few people to search for

information here would be impossible, which was obvious

from the very start

“…Jibril”

“Yes”

“There’s no ti, Ino’s life will be in

danger Even if we have a lifeline, if the Seirens think we’re

genuinely running ae’ll be in big trouble – can’t you get

some help?”

They had no tiather information, as

they needed to challenge the Empress once more as soon as

possible

Because of that – Sora had originally intended to rely on

Azrael to gather help –

However his hopes were crushed as soon as he realized Azrael

didn’t have any intention of the sort

The expression Sora saw on Azrael’s face, wasn’t that of a

knowledgeable Flügel – nor was it so like Jibril’s who

was a collective of both curiosity and intelligence, nor was she

a trigger-happy person

It – was only –

“…I can get help, but I fear it may not be what you’re

expecting”

Yes, that would be Azrael’s intentions, but –

“There’s no other way, so let’s do what she wants since we

don’t have the time to just sit here – shi+ro”

“…Mm”

- Sora esture – he

nibbled on his fingernails, and shi+ro replied as well

“- Since your original expectations were crushed, we can only

adapt to the situation at hand, so we’ll need you to cooperate”

“…OK…”

Part 6

“Hey, Azra…el?”

Sora decided to call upon Azrael, but froze momentarily

instead

- Probably because she had turned the scenery in the Eastern

Union or the things within her knowledge into reality

She was just like the japanese hikikomoris Sora knehich

included Sora and shi+ro themselves – exactly like that, she was

buried in a kotatsu-like thing, with her head covered within a

blanket, staring at a projector (television) that had only static

on it –

“…What is it-nyan…? What is it so important that you have

to bother someone useless like me-nyan?”

What a waste of energy – Azrael s on her

appear dark and gloomy in an attempt to accentuate her

sadness

Faced with her overly exaggerated acting skills, Sora instead

felt admiration, after which he spoke with a deadpan

expression:

“- Ah~ u Empress of the

Seirens right?”

“Nyaaaaa…that idiot that was influenced by fairy tales and

pushed two races including herself to the brink of extinction in

the span of a single generation, leaving even the shellfish

speechless? Everyone knows-nyan~…”

Azrael replied under her blanket

- While looking at her halo that was spinning about above her

blanket, Sora continued while experiencing indescribable

feelings:

“Y-yes, that’s her, we’re looking for the records of the

conditions she set before starting her game”

“…If that’s you want, Jii-chan knows as well-nyan! It’s

「She will continue hibernating as long as she hasn’t fallen in

love」-nyan”

“Yes, but – that’s fake”

Hearing her words, Azrael’s eyes lit up with a sharp glint as

though forgetting her previous depressed act

“Oh! Is that why everyone lost-nyan? So what’s the actual

conditions-nyan?”

- That felloas a Flügel after all

“That’s what I want to know, so I’ for all available

records of people that have carried out games with her, and the

exact words the players were told for comparison”

“Oh~…”

Azrael stared into space for a moment, after which she replied

coldly:

“About that, if you’re looking for records, they’re placed in a

certain somewhere, look for it yourself, and I’ll inform you

again if you have a definitive goal”

But – no doubt, she was different from Jibril

“Yes, but there’s too many books, we don’t have time, so

where are all the related records –“

“I don’t know at all-nyan! Ahahahahaha~”

…

“Because of the 《Equality Law》-nyan~ After lending those

books out countless times, even I don’t knohere they arenyan~♪”

“Do you understand now? Master, this is exactly why I left

my hometown”

Probably because she had forgotten she was supposed to be

acting depressed, Azrael laughed cheerily while Jibril was

completely solemn

“…Since you all live to collect books, you should at least

keep them properly…”

“H-nyan, our aim is to collect

「Knowledge」, 「Books」 are actually nothing to us-nyan I

even think that as long as we can memorise the contents of the

books, throwing them away is fine as well; but since the people

who haven’t read thery, we didn’t do thatnyan~”

“Do you understand now? Master, this is exactly it! The

reason why I left my hometown”

Jibril smiled a smile that indicated she would strike at any

ain

- Sora now understood, all she was focused on was

「Knowledge」-

「As for what that meant」…Sora couldn’t restrain his

laughter, however he didn’t bother explaining it, and instead

asked Azrael:

“So, what should I do?”

“He of the books’

locations to search for them! There are some others that are just

as close- to,

you should be able to get all of them-nyan~”

“Mm, so I’ll leave it to –“

“I’m not in the mood-nyan~”

Seeain, Azrael spoke

while burying herself under the blanket once more:

“I can allow my cute imouto’s toys to wander about

everywhere, but I have no obligation to take care of you all I

have no value in being your companion, and even Jii-chan

called me an idiot, so I’m very depressed now-nyan~ I’m very

hurt-nyan~ So I don’t want to do anything-nyan~”

Sora slowly passed her his phone

“Even if I show you videos of Jibril in the shower?”

“----------No”

“If you agree now, I’ll throw in the offer of her calling you

「Nee-san」 then?”

“---------------------------N…no deal”

Azrael replied while sweating furiously, as though she was

engaging in

She squeezed out her words while breathing heavily, seely

undergoing so

“I-I’ like that… ah, no,

I’ beneath me-nyan! It’s

just that I’ more than that – um,

you should knohat I ht?”

Cheh – Sora grumbled silently

He saw that ast Azrael’s deception and lies – only her

devotion to Jibril was real, which was the reason why he

played his trump card but to no avail

At this rate, his actions would be limited

Facing an opponent such as the Flügel? Having the opponent

have the upper hand in a game still yet unknown to them? –

What a joke

“- To be honest, I don’t care what happens to you, so if those

stupid fish, o extinct

just let theet a few more books

describing their downfall-nyan For eousnyan”

Her gaze fell upon Sora

“To someone immortal like me…people like you who die in

the blink of an eye don’t even deserve the value of a 「Fairy

tale」 You want me to help? Why do I have to-nyan?”

- But he couldn’t let her have the upper hand, as if she did it

would be all over

If Azrael insisted on playingit on

“So that’s how you really are, which is why I said you’re

useless, can’t you even detect my mockery? 「Dead

man」”

Sora replied with determination but at the same time in pride –

and hearing his words, Azrael’s expression changed

“A tool used by no one, a puppet with no value, I’ll assume

that’s a pretty enjoyable life you’re living there”

“-…”

“It’s fine, since e’ve taken over the world, people

like you would definitely say so like 「Please allow

ht? Because you all only kno to follow

along here the wind blows Jibril, we’ll think of a way

ourselves, so let’s go find your friends one by one –“

Sora stood up and turned to leave

“…You dare to pick an argument with me, don’t tell me

you’re running away now?”

- She took the bait, Sora smiled to himself

“Arguue with each other”

“Oh… I didn’t think that you’d be so self-conscious about it,

you’re worthy of some commendation after all”

“- The one that’s on the lower rank is you of course, did you

get up on the wrong side of the bed today? Airhead”

“…Very good-nyan, who’s afraid of who-nyan”

After which she raised her hand and announced

“「Kill and plunder for the things that you desire, for that is

tantamount to the decree of heaven」-nyan!”

…

-…Hearing her extremely crass words, Sora and shi+ro halfclosed

their eyes

“…What kind of words are those…?”

“Ah, Masters, that’s a Flügel idiom so it’s fine if you don’t

know it”

“No, that’s not what I meant”

“Not an arguame-nyan, it’s just that

–“

Ignoring Sora and Jibril’s conversation, Azrael snapped her

fingers

“「All of us」 will play a gaether with Jii-chan’s

friends that you’re looking for, then you can ask for their

help”

- In an instant

Everyone present was teleported with a force that even Jibril

couldn’t resist

And what they saw after the scenery had changed was –

- A long banner with the words ‘Kuuhaku「」 Autograph

and Handshake Fan Meeting’ written on it

Countless Flügel were setting up the place –

“…We were tricked -!!”

As alazes fell upon them simultaneously, Sora

understood instantly

- She merely pretended to be provoked – which means, he lost

in the ames department

But, as coazes that were upon him nearly

made Sora and shi+ro black out

However – the questions that were festering in his mind caused

him to stay conscious

It was a card that none of them had expected

Although since Sora had already shut his ears and was prepared

to faint, he didn’t hear any of it

It was probably the sound of a girl yelling for help, and the

sound covered the entire area like an explosion

Under the countless approaching gazes, Sora asked in a

tre voice:

“Hey, Jibril, what…is this? What is this-aaaaahhhhh!”

Sora yelled while frantically hugging shi+ro whose eyes were

already rolling up into the whites, while Jibril clapped her

hands once and replied:

“Ah, I forgot, in order for them to deal with the Eastern

Union, I took the Masters’ 「Bible (Observation Diary)」and

passed it to them, in order for faster transmission of

information –“

Jibril giggled and continued:

“I even gave theraph vouchers,

handshake vouchers, date vouchers and sleepover vouchers,

don’t forget all the various and dream-like special items –“

“Don’t use that sort of dirty methods!! Like that even if

repeated buyers increase, the buyer penetration rate wouldn’t

increase, right!?”

“…I see, I wanted to say that ould sell a large amount of

copies but there seems to be an eerily small amount of people

here, so that’s the reason Next time I’ll think of an even more

profitable

information

Jibril’s face was full of deteran furiously

writing down stuff on a notebook, however Sora continued:

“Wait a minute Jibril! You have to report to me when you’re

doing things like this!!”

- No wonder Azrael knew a suspiciously large amount of

infor them

But since the reason for that was due to their own comrade,

hoere they supposed to win at their ames?

To el present there were all Sora

and shi+ro’s 「Fans」

Looking over at theain,

however Jibril smiled –

“No problem, Masters, you’ve won this time”

“Huh? What?”

- Jibril spoke while looking sharply over at Azrael

“~~~~~~~~~~~~~~”

“~~~~~~~~~~~”

“~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~”

“~~~~~~~~”

- That was probably the Flügel language

The two of thee that Sora and

shi+ro couldn’t understand

But for some reason –

The hall that was filled with a woman’s screams of help since

earlier…

The ated, and what replaced it was a

suffocating silence

“- U about this, what are

you guys talking about?”

“Ah, sorry Master, we’re done talking so I’ll tell you now”

Jibril turned around

“Just as Azrael-senpai said, we’ll recruit these people’s help

to find our information”

Jibril spoke with a s Sora and

shi+ro

“Essentially speaking, we just have to defeat all of them in a

game ♪”

“Jibril, do you kno much effort we put into just

defeating you alone – who can beat such a large amount of

Flügel?”

“…shi+ver”

The tere demophobic and anthropophobic in the first

place…

Not to mention that they had to face off almost a hundred

Flügel in Materialization shi+ritori, so they would definitely not

be able to survive

Just i it – made Sora and shi+ro’s faces pale in fear

“No, thatall of them at once」, luckily

the opponent’s dee”

“Yep, you just need to play against everyone here-nyan”

“If you win, everyone will help you collect the books that

you’re looking for If you lose, I’ll let the Masters choose

whether you want the autograph or handshake events These

are the conditions we set down earlier”

damn –

The hall was filled o for help once

“Jibril…do you want us to die…?”

“…Jibril…we…trusted you…”

The siblings were tre non-stop like newborn deer

“Please relax – the Masters won’t lose, and –“

Jibril looked over at Azrael

Azrael clapped her hands once

“We can’t possibly play shi+ritori with this many people, so

let’s play - 「Red light, Green light」”

“- Jibril, let ain – do you want us to die?”

“…Tremble”

Playing red light, green light against the Flügel?

They could fly and teleport freely, so if there was a place

beyond their grasps…

That was basically hinting at 「The afterworld」

While Azrael cut off his train of thought

“But the nornyan,

so –“

“In conjunction with the nature of the Flügel – we’ll use a

「Word Game」 to play it”

Jibril raised up her palm as she said this

On her raised palm, just like a vortex –

Forty-six characters woven froht appeared on it

Sora knew those characters – those were the forty-six –

katakana

Jibril threw those characters over to Azrael

“Hmm~? Are these the letters of your world? Are there

consonants?”

Azrael closely pondered the characters, then beganher

hand about in a complex fashi+on

- Although Sora couldn’t detect an to

shake about as if so it up from

underneath, so they guessed that there was a gigantic spell

being activated

“Alright, I’et started-nyan?”

As she said this, the katakana – the forty-six characters from ア

(a) to ン (n), on Azrael’s hand – converted to light…

And they dissolved si

theel females

After ensuring that all the characters were assigned, Azrael

then said:

“The rules are simple, I have just transported the characters to

a certain location on each of the women present”

- Forty-six characters, and with the participants al

the hundreds, there was no way to tell who had which

characters

“The gaht, so for your convenience

I’ve specially banned teleportation fro used within the

game”

- After that…

“If you both get caught by these children you lose, and if you

e to evade them for an hour it will be considered a

victory”

“As long as you touch the shi+fting characters – that is if you

ht, the characters will be

transferred to the Masters”

Jibril spoke with a smile on her face as if to continue Azrael’s

explanation

As she finished, she threo characters over to Azrael

“When characters combine they become 「Word Spirits」”

Azrael raised her hand as an example, and the two letters -

「コ (ko) 」 and「タ (ta) 」, began spinning around on her

wrist, and she said:

“After you touch the 「Word Spirits」, their s will

become reality – no matter whether it’s a concept or an

object, you can even shi+ft their states at will”

“”Oh””

In the instant that she said that, Sora and shi+ro – saw th