Vol 4 Chapter 77 (2/2)
Suzu did not even find this odd
“Don’t lie…! Don’t forget! You haven’t…forgotten, have you…?”
“Forgotten what…?”
“The past! You haven’t forgotten the sad things, the unpleasant things, and the…painful things, have you…?”
“What are you talking about!?”
Masa behind her, she tried to pull Suzu’s hand off of her own
But…
“No…!”
Suzu refused to let go She grabbed on with both hands and held on tight
“Ah…”
When Masarip loosened
That hy Suzu tightened her grip further She wanted to get through to her She wanted to return what it was Masaht
She sent new strength back to the girl And…
“You rearden…I was surprised when you…touched …”
“I-I don’t knohat you’re talking about!”
“Don’t lie! When we…danced before…you took my hand!”
Suzu remembered She remembered it clearly
“It was the…the sath as when…you pulled on e yesterday…and taught rass, and the trees…!”
“——————”
“Don’t say you…forgot about that!!”
She knew Masairl for wanting to forget about it
But, thought Suzu She et it After all…
“If you forget…you really will…lose him…”
She had already lost soot that? Even if he could live on in her heart…
“You aren’t in the present!” shouted Suzu
Suzu knew sootten the precious person he had lost and continued to think about thereat remorse, but he had looked to the present and…
…He stayed with us!!
“What’s wrong with…remorse?”
Because…
“It’s the…proof that…you chose the present!”
“But…!”
Masamune’s face twisted Her voice did as well and a breath escaped her lips
“That doesn’t change the fact that I killed Kojirou!!”
That did not matter Suzu already knew the answer She knehat to do about so in the past and instead arrive at the starting point for living in the present
That was…
“…Nn”
She pulled back her hand Masairl lost her balance
“Ah…”
It did not matter if she fell None of it mattered
There was son frame spoke
“Chancellor!!”
Then the warriors ran over Suzu stood out in front of them all as they supported her
“Don’t…worry”
She caught and embraced Masamune with the others
She did not let go It was more than the hand now She used her entire body and arth and let the girl know she was here
“If so…painful happened…then you just have to…s happen…”
Just like he had
“You need to…accumulate plenty of happiness…on top of the pain”
Naru wind
It was Masaon’s power and Date’s leader was bawling like a baby in the arirl as supported by the others
“Ah…!!”
It’s over, thought Narureatest reason to re form
The half-dragon had yet to move from within the collapsed wall behind her, but she decided to trust that he was fine She also decided thank them And on top of that…
“We will settle this soon”
Naru Masamune and the others
She had go at this with everything she had
She would attack on the left side from her perspective She could use either hand, but that was the safest position since she was ht hand on the left side of the Seiryu
There ind and there was a roar Where there was pressure there was a current But…
…It’s been disturbed
The Seiryu was attacking within that disturbance However…
“Vice Chancellor!!”
Her co floor They hardened the floor with spells and fired projectile spells toward the Seiryu
She had no idea how useful that would be, but this was the end
This “ending” would determine Date’s future
“That’s right…”
Narurew clear
Even the Musashi+ residents had made the correct decision
Their 2nd Special Duty Officerthis was a job for Date’s Vice Chancellor
So Narumi stared at the Seiryu
At first, she looked straight at it And…
“I’ll be going now”
She spoke to all of Date and then raced through the air
Narumi accelerated
The Seiryu noticed her and leaned its head forward to hide its throat
“…!”
It roared and spread its wings
…It’s going to produce its River here!?
Masaained consciousness, so control should have mostly shi+fted back to her But soon was atte to retrieve Masamune with its own actions
It was a lot like a child desperately trying to take back a confiscated toy
But its power could not be denied
“Ohh…!”
Narumi held a mandible sword up toward the Seiryu and used its pommel to smash the explosive pressure
There was a steam explosion and several wispy clouds appeared in the air like white lines As lightning fired through those, Narued in with a focus on evasion
She approached the Seiryu and prepared tolike a dance
She twisted her body and – as dozens of lightning strikes approached – she res
“Kh…!”
She searched for the best striking point, slipped between the lightning bolts, spun around, approached, and passed over attacks
“…!”
She arrived She was in front and a bit to the left From there, she could accelerate and attack simultaneously
She could do this
She could pierce the dragon’s throat
But the Seiryu turned its face toward her It opened its mouth, and…
“————!!”
It released an explosive roar
It was the greatest sound yet It ie and would soon sweep across the walls, ceiling, and floor as a shockwave that gloith ether light
And its nearby right ar sword
The explosive roar had stopped her and the right lightning sould act as a counterattack
“In that case…!”
Naruh the roar as well as the throat
A ed before her eyes
The explosive roar suddenly vanished
No, it had not been annihilated It concentrated, narrowed down, and left the dragon’s throat in a different form
“A dragon cannon!?”
The ether-based dragon cannon was forht line
All the sound in the air is gone, thought Suzu
The Seiryu changed…the roar co from its throat
…Is that…?
She understood The Seiryu was trying to protect Masa to leave the past behind, it knew that fighting as a beast would no longer work
…So it’s fighting like the member of…the Four Sacred Beasts it’s supposed to be!?
The attack was as sharp as a thrusting spear as it swept through the air
Two pairs of eyes saw Sendai Castle sliced through froed to Sasuke and Saizou who had just run out of the ra dinner
It looked like an ether cannon had sliced through the night sky from a distance of about three kilometers But…
“Have you ever seen an ether cannon that can continue firing long enough to look like a solid sword!?”
“You ht in front of me here…?”
The two of them walked out with the Kitakata raer as he shouted for the back the bowls
“damn”
“What is it? …Oh, you can have ht”
“Sure thing It’s just that…er”
“Testa They’re definitelyhistory in there”
“It’s unbearable, isn’t it?” Sasuke smiled bitterly, drank the soup from the bowl, and looked away “We need to make sure we eventually do that too”
Suzu could tell the explosive dragon cannon had bisected the top of the hall
The poas essentially following the Seiryu’s gaze as it swung its head And it was turning toward Unturning Centipede as she charged straight toward it
The ceiling was beginning to fall, but Suzu ignored that to look up at Narumi
“…Watch out!”
Suzu sensed a stone piece of the ceiling falling along Narumi’s path
And the Seiryu inging its head beyond that falling stone
Normally, the Seiryu would not havestone was in the way Whether Naruain enough time to reach her
Suzu did not know if the Seiryu had predicted that when it released its roar
But she noticed Masa in her arms
“…Yes”
The girl spoke quietly
“I caused you all a lot of trouble So…I will begin writing some history that can accumulate happiness”
A girl stood up with tears in the corners of her eyes
The as blowing, the dragon’s pressure swept through, and the night sky was exposed in case she felt like stargazing In that place, she slowly gathered strength in her legs and turned both her eyes toward that night sky And…
“Thank you”
She spoke to the dragon behind her
“You protected ether from here on out too”
So…
“As a mutual vow, let’s acquire what it is we lack!”
With that, she pulled out a short sword
And she stabbed the blade into her own right eye
“Take this as proof froon!”
She cut through it
Masaht device to be destroyed
“…!!”
The Seiryu leaned back its head and its right lightning sword stopped
It was receiving feedback from Masamune’s actions That showed how much control had returned to her and it also revealed the weakness on its throat
“Here goes”
Unturning Centipede drew 37 on’s throat
It was a direct hit
This blocked up its throat and left the explosive dragon cannon with nowhere to escape, so the Seiryu’s chest exploded
The Seiryu had lost
…I did it…
As she fell, Naru into ether light
The Seiryu had not been annihilated It was ate to be sealed inside Masae dual pitch space
But things would be very different now Masaer be weakened and trapped in the past and the Seiryu would protect her forever could complete
And Narureat quantity of scattering ether light
…Masamune
She could only see the girl’s back, but Masa
However, she was actually roaring into the e like tears and ept away by the wind
“I aon’ Masamune, Conqueror of Oushuu…!”
The girl spoke clearly and loudly
“This ends my history recreation and completes Hashi+ba’s request!”
That announce about Date’s future
…After Hashi+ba, we’ve chosen a future with Matsudaira…
With that thought, Narue had already reached the red danger zone She would hit the floor and be unable toSeiryu and falling ceiling would hide her exit So…
…I want to get sorilled chicken…
She felt a smile on her face
“…Eh?”
But then so odd happened
Unturning Centipede’s fall came to a premature stop
…Eh?
Narumi quickly checked the status display and saw she was 153m from the floor Also…
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“Eh!?”
She was positioned on her back, so if Unturning Centipede was released now, she would fall onto her back
But she did not fall
So her back and knees from below
Within the great quantity of scattering ether light and the thick fog blowing through the air, someone held her in her torn dress
“You…”
It was not a half-dragon It was a white-haired boy He was slender butbluntly down at her were golden dragon eyes
…Eh?
When she widened her eyes and looked hih
“Hon God ether I don’t look nearly as cool as I usually do”
The manner of speech and the voice were just like hi on
“Eh!? W-wait just a second …Are you telling me there was someone inside there?”
“How rude You are from Date and you still don’t understand? Surely you were able to deduce why Masaon God’s power,” he said “Dragons can take on a huht …Your Principal claion God in some kind of mistake, but that would be a lie It would have been the result of her having a good tion God in his human form Her children would never have been born as humans otherwise”
“Then you took on a human form because…?”
“It is partially thanks to taking in the Dragon God ether…but I also felt it was best not to keep any secrets between us I mean, I did strip you bare earlier…”
So…
“Which do you think is cooler?”
Naruhed quietly at that And…
“I’e earlier”
“Some people can be very capricious Idiots don’t kno to mind their own business”
“I like the idiot half-dragon”
“Then we’ll go with that”
He did He returned to nor her The sensation on her back and on the back of her knees was harder and colder than before, but…
…I appreciate it
That much was perfect for someone with prosthetic limbs and the position of Vice Chancellor
“But…where are you going?”
“To say goodbye to the others”
“Wait… My dress is torn…and what do you oodbye!?”
Masamune must have heard her voice because she turned around beyond the thinning ether light A healing charht eye, but she had also reuard to the short sword used in the vow and then tied it over her right eye
“Does it look-…?”
The eyepatch girl trailed off, looked at Narumi, and rephrased her sentence
“Looks good, doesn’t it?”
“Don’t expect me to sympathize with you”
But Narumi felt a smile in her heart She was certain Masamune did as well
Then the hall’s door opened, revealing everyone who had been waiting outside
“…!”
They gave a joyous roar that was a different form of explosive
“That settles it then,” said Yoshi+aki as she listened to the festival sounds and viewed the snowy land and Novgorod’s original site “Date, Sviet Rus, and Mogami have all turned the compass of history toward the future Noe just need the wind to catch our sails”
As Adele watched her, she aze Where was that wo? There was a reason she had to ask
Yoshi+aki’s eyes were positioned a little higher than the surface
Her gaze was horizontal instead of staring down to the bottoinally been and her eyebrows moved as she viewed that space
“Here it comes”
Eh? thought Adele as she continued following Yoshi+aki’s gaze
…Music
She heard flutes She heard the rough but carrying notes of divine protection tones that seemed to define their position Yoshi+yasu quickly looked over
“Hey, Vassal…Yoshi+aki! What is that!?”
Land appeared at the height that Novgorod would have once been
The land of bluish-white ether light forreat many people walked across it
Adele did not recognize the people
Those ether light people had a great diversity of race and species, but their equipment was similar yet different from what she was used to Their equipe point style” and they had what looked like hard points, but the confusion came from what most of them carried
“Those weapons… They’re at the level we call God spears and God swords!!”
“What a knowledgeable vassal Yes, and it should not be surprising that they are all equipped at that level”
After all…
“This is the Party of Seven Hundred that entered the phase space 6000ke of Dawn That scene is still carved into this space and is replayed like this”
The festival dancing around the original site of Novgorod began to move
The people formed a line and moved in and out from that former land
“This isn’t just afestival, is it?”
Because…
“It’s also a prayer festival asking that they will arrive belowground and return safely”
“Testament When our ancestors ins of the dance were forgotten, but e returned here and regrouped with the others, we learned anehat it meant Ever since, we have offered up the dance like this”
The seven hundred noble ghosts advanced Adele knew that only around thirty would return But those sacrifices allowed them access the Environmental Gods
Music fro at the head of the Party
Dru combined to overpower the sound absorption of the snowy earth, and fiery lights waved below the moons
The people who had inherited the present surrounded the past and cheered it on
Then the seven hundred entered an entrance built into the ground But…
…Huh?
The story generally envisioned theate leading underground
“Isn’t that…?” asked Adele “Isn’t that an academy entrance?”
“You could tell?” replied Yoshi+aki “The world’s first acaderound to help the people survive in this snowy region, but that also allowed a later audience with the Environmental Gods and a way to prevent round… Well, that’s uess anyway And once they were able to access the Environmental Gods, they wanted to ensure no one else could do so So they sealed up the cave…”
Yoshi+aki looked up into the sky
“And they lifted the acade with the land it was built into”
“That settles it”
The inside of the Ariake was beginning to sink into the diht But the Musashi+ was lit by the pale lights and stands of a festival Masazue in front of Okutama’s academy
“Aoi”
Me: “Huh? What is it?”
“Judge,” said Masazu She looked to the stands and people below “The party is ending So with ‘Part E’ over, we can get started on Part F”
Hori-ko: “Did Masazu?”
Me: “Yeah, I heard it too… Ah, …”
10ZO: “Toori-dono! Toori-dono! Pull yourself together! Here, I have a Russian porn game!”
Vice President: “Take this seriously!”
Almost Everyone: “You first!!”
What do they mean by that? Well, who cares Oh, Tsukinowa is so cute Uain?
“Aoi Give the order to send out the Musashi+ Our destination will be Novgorod in Sviet Rus And our objective…”
Masazumi raised her eyebrows somewhat
“To support Sviet Rus’s history recreation asarbitrary use of the history recreation This will also be a test flight, so it will all be ‘experimental’”
Me: “Oh? You’re ready to do this, Seijun!? So it’s war after all!”
“Judge Yes, that’s right”
She did not feel like denying it
“It’s war this ti political disputes”
She was not afraid to let the corners of her lips form a smile
“Give us the order, Aoi You are Musashi+’s Chancellor and Student Council President You take the lead and we’ll follow you and getAnd to do that…”
Me: “Sure Then co the Musashi+ with you”
“…Judge!!”
Masazuht hand outward A con frame opened and “Musashi+” nodded inside it
“I will send a simultaneous divine transmission to all shi+ps We will assist you Over”
Sakai aving toward Masazumi from behind “Musashi+” Masazu her to take care of all this
To ensure her voice reached everyone, she spoke into the sign fra her and all of the people on the Musashi+ down below
“Attention all Musashi+ passengers and crew!”
She breathed in andher way
She raised her right hand, swung it down to the side, and clenched her fist
“Musashi+ will now leave on a test flight to Novgorod!!”
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