Vol 5 Chapter 2 (2/2)
their wings, and onal fashi+on
So, with their general direction re the same, Sora and
shi+ro decelerated as they spun spirals in the air On the other
hand, the Flügel thought that Sora and shi+ro had simply
disappeared as they were too fast – si, they
merely 「Overshot」
They were still unused to their wings, and they would never be
able to reach the speeds of that of a Flügel’s no matter how
hard they tried, so –
“Since we can’t control our wings we just have to stop in our
tracks, and for the Flügel who conore aerodynamic
studies at the like – they are
a fixed path…”
“…Even if they know…they never bothered about it…”
Both of them smiled mischievously, and on their hands were
exactly what shi+ro had declared earlier – the characters 「ナ
(na) 」and「ア (a) 」 were swirling about there
Plu just realized what had happened
“…Don’t tell me – you memorized the positions of all the
characters!?”
Sora smiled bitterly and replied:
“Plulorious sister?”
This sentence alone made even one such as Plum feel
pressured, and she shut her mouth
“Anyway…shi+ro, the words we really need…you should
know theht?”
“Of course”
“So we need to get hold of those people, also our opponents
aren’t exactly diy won’t work all the
time”
“…Mm, understood…”
- Get hold of Those two declared that naturally as if it was
bound to happen, causing Plum to widen her eyes in shock
They were clearly playing a gaht
against the Flügel, however they themselves acted as if they
were the pursuers
Sora and shi+ro flew about in the city of Avant Heim just like
「Passing through cracks」
Part 5
- On the floor where only two people remained after the rest of
the Flügel had left
Jibril and Azrael stood together and watched the events
unfolding in the air before them
The feelings within Jibril’s chest – turned into 「Shock」
extremely quickly
shi+ro had memorized all the characters and the people who
possessed them, and even where they were
That hy they could pull off the avoid and recover
maneuver so flawlessly earlier – however, what shocked her
even more was that they knew the city like the back of their
hands, as they were flying about as if it was their own
backyard Jibril couldn’t hide her shock at her two Masters
The city of Avant Heim with countless cubes stacked up in
complex formations was lit up extremely dimly under the
darkness, however they could
still duck and weave throughout the spaces between the cubes
like skilled weavers passing threads through needles
They were still lacking in speed, however in this case if their
pursuers were to go too fast they would lose them instead
The narrow, dark alleyways and cracks that were formed
between the cubes –
Even the cracks that could barely fit a single person through
were easily overco two, so if their pursuers
were to go too fast – if they were to let down their guard they
would crash into the cubes, leaving them a clear escape route
(…They’re really so…but if so -)
There was one part she couldn’t explain, and Jibril began
questioning it
Jibril couldn’t deny the fact that the Flügel as a race – did have
the tendency to achieve victory through brute force
But despite this, they could still 「Coordinate」 If they
couldn’t, they wouldn’t deserve the right to be called
「Weapons」
Even if they didn’t have 「Speed」 , they would switch to a
「Surrounding」 strategy – and –
“Huh!? Huh, why -!?”
A Flügel fe cry, as they were all
standing guard by the crack Sora and the others flew into
which had only one exit – however both of them flew out
through a way they hadn’t expected
Sora and shi+ro avoided their grasp easily
They had only caught an extrelimpse of the map,
and they had gotten such a deep understanding of the entire
city (Avant Heim) within that period of time?
- Impossible If it was one of the Masters – shi+ro, there was a
possibility that she could memorize the map within seconds
However the city was built from various, countless complexly
stacked cubes of different structures and heights, so it would be
impossible to truly master the alleyways and shortcuts of the
city with the map alone, if so how did they do it –
Just like that, even Jibril as observing them for the
longest time finally realized that she suspected her own
explanation more than anyone else
Part 6
(Huh? Y-you’re joking right?)
Sora and shi+ro’s tightly interlocked hands – Plum saw that
their fingers wereabout intricately
Plue to moan pitifully as hard as she
could since earlier, and as for her theory behind how those two
could duck and weave between all those narrow caves and
alleyways – it could even be called fallacy – and this fact made
Plum so shocked she was unable to say a word
Which h somewhat
unbelievable – it could be the case
shi+ro would fly along the streets according to her memory, and
confire size of the cubes
After which she would calculate mentally to decipher the order
of the patterns of the stacked cubes, then find the small
passageways created due to those height differences
And she transh
words, but instead through hand signals
While Sora would reply ays to shake off, trick, bait, and
deceive their pursuers
- What other response could Plu
speechless?
To Plum, no, possibly to anyone, that would be beyond
comprehension
Coer movements, but it wasn’t
information on a mere level of 「Move here」 or 「Go
there」
From the touch of their hands, they could decipher each other’s
intentions, as these two I each flapped
their wings in the air and moved seamlessly, without any form
of hesitation, as though their clutched hands were a combined
part of their reflexes
There was no doubt about it that they still weren’t completely
used to the procedure
Their flying still carried a slight hint of jerkiness – and because
of that
Pluht
Holding each other’s hands – the two fors
When a wing on one side were towoven by
Pluravity
The other ould simply master the other half’s
thrown off
Throughout the span of each flap, they learnt from each other
and passed down their knowledge between them as well,
without any mistakes nor hiccups
- They were endlessly i speed
Upon seeing this, Plu down her spine,
those tere ined –
- At this time, the previously silent two spoke
“Left four, four pull”
“…Left サ (sa) と (to) オ (o) ス (su), right カ (ka) マ (ma)
ヌ (nu) ク(ku)one”
“Return, top, twelve?”
“…Character five, coerous”
Both of them conversed in a code-like manner, however Sora
finally replied cheerfully in a normal fashi+on
“Even if it’s dangerous we still have to do it -! Let’s begin our
attack!!”
“…Understood! shi+ro left Nii right, left shoulder right wing
left hip left arm!”
Immediately as she finished –
“Yaaaahhhh!!”
They spun about a breakneck speeds as if their wings – which
meant Plum – had split into two, and they flew into a narrow
hole –
“-! We’ve finally got them cornered!”
“Pincer attack, this is my time to shi+ne!!”
Sora and shi+ro accidentally – according to Plum’s point of
view – stumbled into a wide road
What awaited theht
respectively – and as they had said, it was a perfect pincer
attack
However Plum suddenly remembered what they had said
earlier
- 「Left right four, four pull」…Draw them out – then attack?
The Flügel which were a total a in
at an extremely rapid pace, but – if so –
“Let’s move, shi+ro!!”
“…OK!”
- Who exactly were the ones driven into a corner –
Sora and shi+ro clapped their open pal a
「Word Spirit」
The characters that were originally on their respective hands
coht
Facing the onslaught of the eight Flügel, the two – yelled with
their pal opposite directions:
“”- 「Hole (アナ ana) 」!””
- In an instant
The eight Flügel that were charging towards Sora and shi+ro –
“--…Huh?”
Passed through them, and them appeared on opposite sides
“Ah!”
Leaving behind eight ain flew
into the cracks between the cubes
In a narrow passageway that could just about fit one person,
Sora flew horizontally and laughed
“サ (sa) と (to) オ (o) ス (su) – what do you think, shi+ro, I
got all of them!”
“…カ (ka) マ (ht…”
The both of the characters that
were spinning around on their respective palms in a matter-offact
fashi+on
- Plum asked them fearfully
“…Um, just noas that…”
“What else, it was a 「Hole」, a 「Word Spirit」 that would
take effect on anyone it comes into contact with – which is the
rule of this game”
“…So…we opened a hole…in 「Reality」”
Plu what had happened
They had opened holes on their left and right using themselves
as the center, then connecting theether in order to avoid
the Flügel
Once they were to ee from it they would of course be
facing Sora and others with their backs – and to return the
「Characters」- however more important than that…
“…Could it be, you’re only baiting the people that have
characters on them!?”
“Of course, but we haven’t got all the ones ant yet”
Sora admitted nonchalantly, and he looked up in satisfaction
after looking at his wrist that had various letters strung up
around it like beads
- Plu with him
…After which four, five, eight – twelve Flügel began darting at
the speed
“Waaaah what are we going to do-aaaahhhhh!”
“Return, fro
according to plan, don’t panic”
“…Nii, can you make it?”
Sora and shi+ro flew at high speeds through a crack that could
just about fit one person
Which meant, when they were to reach the next open space, the
a them at once would
be – twelve
While Sora smiled cockily –
“Yep, no prob-lem-aaaaahahahhhhhhhhh!?”
Sora’s body lost its balance as his neck was being licked by
Plum all of a sudden
They reached the open space – and in front of twelve onco
Flügel, Sora had lost his balance, and because of that his center
of gravity –
“…Nii!?”
“…Waaaaahhh!?”
As he was about to be thrown off, shi+ro frantically flapped her
wing in an attempt to maintain their balance
However Sora who almost crash-landed had no time to
properly capture the figures of the oncoel
“shi+ro, gooooooo!”
- Sora iet
back in position
Sora stretched his hand out to shi+ro – he trusted that shi+ro
could understand his intentions, and passed his 「Word
Spirits」 to her
shi+ro grasped Sora’s hands, allowing the characters to move,
after which she let theo and threw them into the sky –
“- 「No entry (トオサヌ toosanu)」…!”
- As she said this, the twelve approaching figures, just as they
were about to come into contact with Sora and shi+ro, suddenly
–
“Ouch!”
“Ah!”
Pitter-patter – no, it wasn’t such a gentle noise
A huge, cannon-like explosion was heard, and the Flügel all
violently slammed into an invisible wall
But the problem was -!
shi+ro looked over at Sora, and according to the plan – they
were supposed to spiral upwards rapidly
- 「No entry」 She was forced to create a barrier with these
four words in order to prevent their ene
through
And in the instant when that would occur, they would only act
on the five that had characters inscribe on them, or at least that
was the plan –
“Heh-aaaaaahhhh!”
- Heimmensely
relieved
While he left the activation of the 「Word Spirits」 to shi+ro,
he spent that tiain his composure and turn to his
original position
Sora even began sweating cold sweat, and he flapped his wing
while shi+ro cooperated –!
As the twelve Flügel slammed into the invisible wall and were
stopped in their tracks, the two passed through the Flügel
crowds –
“Dammit, shi+ro – it’s up to you!”
“Mm!”
shi+ro didn’t e to tell Sora which one of them had
characters on them
shi+ro stretched out her hand, and then –
Since it still wasn’t enough, she used her two legs – and even
her wing to gather up all the characters
“Uggghhhhhh~~~ don’t think about running –“
“Dream on!”
shi+ro’s as nearly grabbed onto, however Sora flapped
his wing and shi+fted their centre of gravity
They had avoided a death trap extremely narrowly, and the two
landed below the invisible wall – flapping their wings just as
they were about to hit the ground – then flew into another
narrow corridor…before they could say they were safe
“…Phew…phew!”
Sora’s shoulders convulsed violently as he breathed, and he
finally , just as shi+ro was
about to ask about his condition –
“A-about that… are both of you alright?”
- The culprit that had brought this crisis upon them (Plum) did
it before her
Sora bit onto the scarf and yelled with his voice muffled
“- Pluether!?”
“I-I-I-I-I’m sorry! It was because of that sudden spiral, my
mouth left Sora-dono’s presence – and I even previously said
that if I were to lose a source within a few seconds I would
die!! So of course if we’re going to die we ht as well die
together, see you all in hell!!”
This fellow s
like that
While shi+roheart – and
spoke while looking the characters on her hand:
“…Nii…ソ (so) ワ (wa) ケ (ke) ユ (yu) ラ(ra)…we have
them…so now…”
“Yep, we’ve finally completed it”
「ラ（ra）ユ（yu）ス（su）マ（ma）ク（ku）ケ（ke）
ソ（so）カ（ka）ワ（wa）」- the two chuckled upon
thinking of the 「Word Spirits」 those characters could create
As they exchanged glances and nodded at each other – they
flapped their wings htily
The tere darting through the cubes earlier, were now
– cli up into the skies
“- Ah, found it!”
“Hain?”
They were spotted immediately However their pursuers
reacted ilantly this time at Sora and shi+ro’s
appearance
They didn’t travel in a straight line, and instead approached
their circuit in a circular formation as if to surround them
- No one had probably thought of it
Because Plue to predict it either
In front of the Flügel that surrounded them, the two clasped
their open palether to form a 「Word Spirit」
- As three characters disappeared, they touched them and
yelled:
“- 「Accelerate[2]」-!!”
Part 7
Not only the pursuers
Even Plu were
speechless
Froot their
wings, barely fifteen minutes had passed
They werecreated
by Plum
- They merely left behind a shockhile they themselves
were already long gone
- They had charged straight through the oncoel, who
could have predicted that?
Although, if it was an acceleration created by the 「Word
Spirits」, it could actually happen
That hy they could overcome the limitations of physics
upon their wings
Acceleration, speed, light speed – the two had planned to
collect and forame had
even began If not, facing an enemy that could adapt to and
change their strategy according to Sora and shi+ro’s actions –
essentially an opponent that could 「Learn」 and 「Adapt」,
they wouldn’t be able to survive for an hour Thus they flew
about between the cubes at a speed, focusing
and collecting – as Jibril saw this, her eyes narrowed as if she
had just seen the light
- Because it el
“Hah! This is fun!”
“…Mm!”
Both of them soared and spun about in the air like dancers, and
their laughter – spread across Avant Heim
- Lovebirds
This ter up from Jibril’s mind
However – this terht, and she shook her
head
What she was looking at wasn’t the figurative kind of lovebird
She was sure that it was the true, originalof the
「Lovebird」
Theand
would fly together with their bodies combined, a fictional
organism
(…And a being just like that is flying happily right over there)
Jibril watched thely proudly – but…
“…”
Azrael as gazing fro rather bored
and disinterested, still didn’t seerasp the
of it
- Upon seeing her like that, Jibril said silently:
“Senpai, do you know the reason why I’ainst the
「Equality Law」?”
“…Because Jii-chan is close minded and doesn’t like other
people touching her books-nyan?”
“No, it’s because – I enjoy reading the same books over and
over”
- It was the first ti, and she
stared at her in shock
“…Why is that so-nyan? Wouldn’t it be fine if you just
memorize them?”
“Yes, I knew you would say that, which is why I never said it
previously…”
Jibril sighed, and she continued again in a fit of determination:
“Even if you’ve read a book once before, after you gather
s even after
reading theain”
“…”
“So if you want to read theain you can’t, wouldn’t that
be annoying – don’t you get it?”
“Don’t get what-nyan?”
“- Once you memorize it, it’s over”
Jibril bent her head lohile giving her this painful piece of
advice – however…
- Azrael still seemed extremely confused
Ignoring Jibril’s opinion for nohat she didn’t understand
the most was –
“- What does have to do hat’s going on now-nyan?”
…
…Jibril looked into her eyes – extremely sadly
Her gaze wasn’t that of underesti
one
It was one of betrayal at her anticipation being ignored, a gaze
of gradually increasing disappoint
her anticipation being betrayed every single time
- She couldn’t understand her sister’s anticipation, which
pierced her heart evenelse
“What is it-nyan…what did I do wrong-nyan…!”
Part 8
Above Avant Heiht
sky
The sound barrier had been left behind long ago, and the flying
Sora and shi+ro – couldn’t be caught by anyone
“Now as long as we don’t get too careless, on’t get
caught”
Sora and shi+ro held each other’s hands and sped through the
night sky, and although Sora said this, but –
“…But, the collecting…of the 「Characters」…”
“Yes, I know, although ant to play, we definitely have to
collect all the characters to finish this level perfectly, and…”
Sora agreed with shi+ro’s words, after which he continued
solemnly:
“- I’ve already figured out a 「Word Spirit」 to retaliate
that person”
“That person…? Who are you referring to?”
Plunored it and turned
around
Relying on speed to increase their distance between them was
good – but in order to collect the 「Characters」 they had to
get close, and that always caht,
not to el Also – Sora
thought to himself in a cautious tone:
- Don’t forget, this ga we didn’t expect – it
was a game on their home turf
No uard up, it was
impossible to completely avoid it
“…Huh, interesting”
Sora ame that
deserves to be played!
So let’s decrease the risk as much as we can – so we had better
collect as many characters as we can
That was sort of their insurance policy, which was increasing
their 「Word Spirits」, so even if they get into an
unpredictable situation - and Sora as facing behind –
suddenly had a glint in his eye
“…Huh?”
shi+ro let out a curious lint, but –
“- Cheh~~!?”
This was the 「Unpredictable Situation」 Sora was thinking
about earlier, and to this Sora had reacted in advance
He took hi doards – and
while still going along the same direction, he shi+fted their
「Axis」, and spun around in a curve
“U-u – kyaaaaaahhhhh!?”
A burst of light shot through the 「Position」 they were in
previously, cutting off Plum’s words
- shi+ro was just about to praise her brother’s unbelievably fast
reaction speed and judgement time, however before that –
“Jibri~~~llll!! What is that! I never heard you
anything about that! We can attack!?”
…His composure earlier had completely disappeared, and Sora
yelled suddenly, and above his head – with a small poof…
A tiny Jibril of about four heads tall appeared to explain the
situation
“No, Masters, that wasn’t an attack, it’s a 「Capturing
Magic」 that stalks its target”
“Are you telling me that wasn’t a 「Bullet」?”
“No, that thing does no daic
that binds the enemy and pulls him to yourself, it doesn’t
have any potential for destruction as its aim is merely to
capture its target So it’s different from the 「Bullets」 in the
Masters’ world –“
Sora scratched his head and roared in response to Jibril’s
chatter:
“So let me rephrase my sentence, you never mentioned that
long-distance tools could be used! Don’t we have any? Plum!!”
“Don’t go so hard onis a talent natural
only to the Elves, also if I continue to use another spell, I’m
actually going to shrivel up and die! I’ve licked Sora-dono’s
neck soto swell!”
“I don’t care whether it’s swelling or not! I’m covered in cold
sweat anyway, so why don’t you just lick my back!”
“Really!? Let’s eat~! Ah~ mm ♥”
Her wails suddenly turned into groans of pleasure, and Sora
turned around, speechless at Plum’s actions
Being a el’s home turf, Sora was just
thinking about unforeseen circuht
about that they occurred immediately!
The opponent did say they would 「Ban teleportation」- but…
- They never said to 「Ban ic」-
“Dammit – I realized it too late!”
“…We should have expected it…!”
- Regarding the 「Word Spirits」, the rules would be too much
in their favour if they could win through the 「Word Spirits」
alone
When they realized theirthat earlier,
Sora and shi+ro – no, shi+ro gnawed on her fingernails, feeling
extremely frustrated
Rules to attack the opponent… this language loophole was her
responsibility to discover since she was the one that would
word for word
Sora stroked shi+ro’s head and said:
“It’s norames like these that we couldn’t anticipate,
so there’s no use crying over spilt milk, what’s important now
is –“
“…Mm”
- Being a surprise game that they didn’t have complete
knowledge about, it was reasonable to think that unpredictable
things like that could happen
Despite this they could still win – because adapting to their
opponent’s actions extremely quickly was the true ability of
Kuuhaku「」- there was no tiret!
“- Jibril, howfire?”
“Let me think…it varies for the abilities of different people,
but about six shots I guess?”
“- It’s hard to handle, but since there are only six shots our
opponents won’t waste their ammunition, thus –“
“Ah, it’s not like that, Master”
At this point Sora as facing behind saw multiple
shadows land on the cubes – the Flügel
They raised their palht it
was like daylight
“It’s that 「Up to six shots can be fired at once」, there’s
no limit to the amount of shots!“
“I actually thought that monsters like you would have such
things as 「Limitations」 for a moment there, I’m so
stupid!”
“…Nii, over here -!”
This time shi+ro was the faster one to react, and she flapped her
wing vigorously
Sora immediately left behind the mini-Jibril and followed shi+ro
without reply, and they accelerated together
The 「Binding Light」 drew a complex pattern in the air as it
approached – although if it was ho as Jibril had said –
“…Mm!”
shi+ro flapped her wing once as hard as she could, and Sora
played along, having understood her intentions from her hand
motions
Countless streaks of light approached them, and even Sora and
shi+ro who had used the acceleration 「Word Spirit」 from
earlier couldn’t escape their clutches
And as the light approached their backs - 「Chandelle」[3]
They turned diagonally upwards at a forty-five degree curve
fro their speed to altitude, and
cliht」 would
probably activate its proximity fuse as it reached a certain
distance away froht burst from behind
them as their sharp ascent caused their speed to decrease which
allowed the 「Blinding Light」 to approach – and it triggered
“Aaaaaahhhhh!”
Ignoring Plum’s cries, shi+ro immediately cancelled their
original sharp ascent with a slight flip of her wing
She didn’t turn around, instead she flapped her wing again and
once again began their ascent, distancing themselves from the
exploding lights behind them
- They dodged it Just as they were catching their breath,
streaks of light once again surged at them, and shi+ro attracted
them all to her then swapped her direction
She baited them with the exact same method from earlier,
however this ti
altitude to speed As for the countless lights that exploded
behind them, she escaped them with the same momentum, and
she acquired speed from this –
“Yaaaaaaahhhhh!”
Plu form let out a cry, as