Vol 2 Chapter 30 (2/2)

A okay?

Don't act tough, me, collect yourself now

Now isn't the time to suddenly fall over

I was thinking at myself

”okay, I'll rest a little But Ilya, you don't force yourself either”

”Yes, Milady”

She would force herself I knew that, but I couldn't tell her to stop

Sorry, Ilya

Please let ht now

I gave the Rod I'd been using to Ilya and rested my body

”I'm sorr ry sor don't!”

”Cira-san? Are you alright!?”

After I stepped back to the end of the cave and sat down next to Cira, I noticed her change

Her breathing was erratic?

It was too shallow, too fast

This was hyperventilation?

The oxygen!?

From what I saw, the space ere in was definitely not wide

But I wasn't having thatyet

I looked at Ilya, but her breathing seemed stable, too

I see mental anxiety had caused Cira to panic

It's understandable

”Agh! Ngg!”

”It's alright, Cira-san It's alright, so calm down? Take a slow breath Don't be impatient?”

I talked to her as gently, cally as I possible

I held her hand and told her she would be alright

If I wasn'tway had the opposite effect and could be dangerous

Butdown the patient and make him feel relieved

”There's nothing to be scared of See? Take deep breaths Slowly See? It's all right”

I gently held her hand

”――”

Cira's hand flexed and I felt a pain like a cat's scratches

Her nailsme

”――See? It's not scary, you see? You don't have to worry about anything Take slow breaths”

Her hand slowly relaxed

Her breathing, too, calmed down

It was fine As long as she calht away”

”o cha?”

”Eh?”

With dilated eyes, Cira was looking at me

There were tear tracks there

Even in the darkness, I could see those clearly

”Calm down?”

Thinking about theof the murmurs I'd just heard, I leaned towards Cira and whispered near her ears

”Cira――――leave the rest to me”

With a really quiet voice, I whispered so that only Cira could hear me

”――”

Once, her body stiffened like so had surprised her, but then she relaxed like she was calm now

For a short while, I looked at her condition like that

Her breathing had stabilized

”She's asleep?”

Come to think of it, the battles she wasn't used to and the fear of being shut it must have pushed her to her limit

I felt a bit reluctant about it, but I slowly unfastened her hand that was still holding htly

”Now then”

Don't want to become a liar, do I

How much time had passed since we'd been buried?

I had no feeling for that whatsoever

It could have been a whole night, even

On the other hand, I did feel that that guess was a bit long

”Ng the air is getting a bit thin”

With three people in this closed-off space, the oxygen wouldn't last that long

And yet the digging was processing only slowly

The ed, the more earth took its place

The fear of it all pouring into the cave sent shi+vers down my spine

”Ilya you can still go on, right?”

”Of course, Milady”

Of course she couldn't be alright

She hadn't even taken a single break

Although she had borrowed Cira's Wooden Stick, what had happened to her hands in the long tied barehanded?

Regret al

Digging would probably get us nowhere

I didn't kno h power to blow all of that away, this was nothing but a waste of effort

But, what to do then?

There waslike ”blowing stuff away”

There was too much earth, too

And even as a repellent force

No, I could only go for it

”GOOO!”

Pushi+ng ht hand and accumulated it

The trick was the same I used at the lake

But――

”――ugh!!”

You could call it the natural outcome, but as bloas me, not the earth

I heavily crushed into the wall in the back

”Alice-sama!”

”I'm fine”

That worked

My body wasn't tough enough to do that again and again though

But I could only take my chances hat I had

With no losing option, I tried what I could

”Split the heavens and becoht, to strike my enemies! Thunder!”

I shot lightning into the earth

But, as expected, it only ”pierced” and didn't blow anything away

When I'd shot it into a wall for the first time in those Ruins, it hadn't destroyed the wall, either

I'd known that, but

When I lowered

But, it was a fact that the air was getting thin

There was no time

”there is one last thing I can do, Alice-sama”

”There's no need”

”Eh?”

Hearing my immediate reply, Ilya made a dumbfounded face

”I don't knohat you're intending to do, but it would kill you, wouldn't it?”

”——”

”That's why you don't have to do that I'll break through this I won't give up——!”

Mass

Right Because it has no ic cannot blow stuff away

Then I'll have to find a replacement for that

I looked at the Lightning Rod in my hands

It was broken and didn't work adequately anymore

But if that was the case

Onee-chan, I will use this to save people

”——Co Enchant!”

With the added lightning element, the Rod shone silver

I had one chance, and I had no clue what this one attack would do to the ground

We et buried alive completely

But at this rate, the ti

I didn't want to regret without doing everything I could

”I will blow the earth away Ilya, hold on to Cira and me and defend us with your Field in that moment”

”Y-yes, Alice-sama”

I would blow the entrance open and before new earth ca, I would jump us out of the cave

Using ic at maximum output, consecutively, and skillfully

I could do it No, I would do it

I brandishedRod

”——Blade of Light descending from the Heavens, become my Sword and split the Darkness!”

The pentagram spun

My maximum output

But I wasn't just going to shoot a lightning

I would make the rod a projectile and shoot that

That's why I had enchanted it, for the netic repellant force

Pushed forward by the lightning, it would even break the sound barrier and————

”Lightning!!”

One strike, the silver torrent from my left hand catapulted the Rod forward like a bullet

”Urgh——!”

Activating ic with my left hand

My power left me all at once

But I couldn't complain about the firepower

The flash blew the entrance open and shot all the way up through the rain clouds before disappearing

I could see one ray of light from between the clouds

And then——the vibrations

Bear this!!

”Now Ilya!”

”Any time, Milady!”

Ilya laid her hand around my waist

Cira was on her back

The vibrations got stronger and stronger

Control the activation of s, and——

”Fly!!”

The ain, we flew out of the cave

We were almost crushed by the avalanche of earth and rocks, but that much was expected

Protected by Ilya's Field, we broke through the pouring ground and escaped into the sky

The feeling of freedo

” what is this”

”Alice-sama”

Ilya hugged er

”Nn it hurts, Ilya”

”Please bear it, Milady”

Yeah, yeah, bear it, right

””

in the air, I'd spontaneously looked to the top of the cliff

I'd only thought about checking out the landslide The trees and rocks on the plateau at the top of the cliff had collapsed and only the part with the landslide was completely bare

That, that was a natural phenoht?

I'd only seen a fear-induced illusion, nothing more

I wanted to laugh it off

——and still, the thought that I'd seen a woman with red eyes on that plateau made my whole body shi+ver just a little