Vol 7 Chapter 7 (1/2)

Chapter 7 - Ladislav’s Youngest Child

『Now then, it’s finally the cliht expect from the last phase, the condition to clear is very sion Seventh Institute’s two proud guardians within the time limit, you’ll be declared victorious! Moreover, this timent, so no matter how many attacks you receive, you won’t be disqualified! Please, rest assured!』

“…So this ht?”

“Well, the princess[1] being involved probablyfrom here on”

Ernest agreed to Ayato’s mutter

Having remained for the third phase were the five people Ayato, Ernest, Sylvia, HuFeng and Irene

One a with a sour face

“What’s the matter, Zhao-kun?”

“No, I a…”

Even when Sylvia called out to hi’s expression did not clear up at all

『Well then, I’ll ask World Dragon’s guardians to make their appearance!』

When Eishi+ro declared so, a big hold opened in the stage’s central part and soradually rose from under by means of a mechanical device

“Ah… So, it’s really BaiQin and HeiFu after all…”

HuFeng who saw the so with a voice rief

What have appeared were two black and white giants ── although called so, it was not so mechanical like puppets and powered suits, their outward appearance was rather close to handicraft-like carved wood statues Their faces attached a si wide opened only on the part of eyes Their ar in contrast to their bodies and their fists could alht

They would be about one size bigger than the powered suits that Ayato and coiant held a sword in each hand and the black giant held a very long spear with both hands, and a strange pattern was drawn on all over their bodies

“Oi boy, if you know, then tell me What’s that?”

“Boy? …Well whatever”

HuFeng knitted his brows to Irene’s way of calling hian to speak while pointing at the giants

“The white one there is called BaiQin and the black one HeiFu ── both of theenerationleft So, they are, so to speak, soon Temple”

“Hermit tools?”

“The successive generationswere also proficient at fire skills, and they created various weapons arinally not to be taken outside World Dragon”

It see was at wits’ end

“I don’t care about that More i?”

“──They wouldn’t be guards if they eak, right?”

It was approxi answered so that Eishi+ro’s voice resounded in the hall

『Well then, third phase start!』

But even when the announcement of the start was made, BaiQin and HeiFu substantially took stance as is and did not move

Ayato set up his blade type lux with the point aimed at their eyes and sounded the and the distance, but it was a quite

They were neithersaid that, they were different froht in Lieseltania, so unknown that they had never faced, until now

“Tch, it won’t get anywhere like that”

The moment when Irene who lost her temper struck her fists and was about to step forward──

“Wha-!?”

HeiFu who shortened the distance ind-like movement mowed down Irene with its spear

Although Irene proed that blow, HeiFu rotated its spear as is and drove its (spear) butt end into Irene’s abdomen

“Kahah…!”

Irene as vigorously bloay crashed to the defense wall froly

“Irene!”

“damn…! I was careless…!”

When Ayato called out to her in panic, Irene unsteadily stood up while bleeding froe of her mouth

She seemed to be somehow safe, but it would be iht

Both that offensive ability whichand that speed were a threat, but as surprising above all was that its presence could not be felt at all

“Not feeling presence at all at that speed isn’t funny…”

At the opportunity where Ayato turned his attention to Irene for just an instant, the blade BaiQin which sneaked around behind hi at Ayato

“Oops…!”

He warded it off with his blade of light and ran through as he passed under the opponent’s arm

In so doing, he h, but contrary to looking as if it was made out of wood, it had incredible durability and was not daed at all

BaiQin turned its face around Ayato’s way and tried to set up again the swords of both hands

“Haa!”

But, in the ti around to Ayato’s way, froed its flank

BaiQin’s large build was bloay and HuFeng furthermore set up chase

In a blink of an eye, he jumped to BaiQin’s bosom, drove in fists consecutively to its abdomen, lastly threw a roundhouse kick and then took distance

His speed was astounding It was at a level where even Ayato’s eyes could barely catch with it It would probably only looked like teleportation for an ordinary person

(Does he use prana for acceleration…!)

Ayato noticed that HuFeng’s prana was always kneaded into his legs

Prana could raise defense ability and the offensive ability in eht; but if one enhanced his explosive power in the sah-speed movement like noould theoretically become possible, too

However in contrast with the forh beyond comparison for the latter This was because if one were to make even a little mistake in the adjustment, he would easily lose control of his body Anyway, only recklessly juhly aside, extraordinary proficiency was necessary when using it in a battle which required accurate movements

“Ooh~, as expected Zhao-kun is very fast”

Sylvia who dodged HeiFu’s attack greatly jumped back and landed near Ayato

“That’s a great feat only possible with needle-like precision of prana’s control technique”

Ayato frankly admired

That was also the field which Ayato was not very good at the most

“That acceleration is also changed to offensive power, how frightening”

“…Even so, I don’t feel like he’s dealing that h”

HuFeng overwhelmed BaiQin with speed and nuh to knock it down

As Sylvia said, HuFeng’s every single blow should have quite destructive power, but they had no idea at all what kind of materials the hermit tools were made with

“Fufufu, looks like this ht be bad if I don’t take it seriously… even if I say so, it’s a little botherso”

Not being able to use their ability was originally quite fatal for <strega> and <dante>

Nevertheless, the fact that Sylvia did not look inferior at all despite being the only <strega> was proof that her strength did not depend on her ability, but that she was supported by a clear coh body specs

“But well, I guess there’s no point in asking for too e hat I have now”

As Sylvia said so, the blade of light of the sword she held in her hand swelled up at a stretch

“To think that you’d suddenly initiate Meteor Arts with a lux that you used for the first time… as one would expect of you”

“If I carry the signboard of a rank 1, I must be able to do this much”

Although Sylvia lightly said that, at least it was impossible for Ayato

“Now then Ayato-kun, could you help me, too?”

“As you wish”

When Sylvia winked at him instead of a reply, she blocked HeiFu’s spear as she replaced Ernest as facing it by himself

“Oh, I’m thankful that you came to my help”

As Ernest, who calo all out, he seemed to be devoted to defense to the bitter end He was not sweating even one bit

“Is Mr <holy knight=””> only here to watch? If you’re not o back”

“I cannot do that If I leave it to a woman and stand by as a lems>”

Ernest was about to set up his shile saying so as troubled, but Ayato ran past his side one step earlier than Ernest as about to slash

“Oh”

“A Technique ── “Stance Breaker””

When Ayato slipped into HeiFu’s boso, he destroyed its balances as he flipped up the handle of the spear crossing with Sylvia’s blade with a fist and moreover, threw a roundhouse kick at full force to the pivot leg

No e a build it had, it was easy to defeat it if you made its power’s flow derail

Violently shaking, Sylvia’s sword flashed as HeiFu bent forward

“Tch, it’s really hard, jeez!”

While hearing Sylvia’s complain, Ayato too iht; but as expected the attack was not good enough

“──Then, how about this?”

Just as she raised her gaze while surprised at that voice, Ernest who flew highly had his sword thrust into HeiFu’s mask to the hilt

When looking carefully, the sword’s blade increased in brightness in the same way as that of Sylvia ── in other words, it was Meteor Arts

It looked like what Sylvia said was not necessarily a joke

『This is gorgeous! A coordination attack by three academies’ ranks 1 exploded!』

“Hey, taking the best part is unfair”

As Sylvia, who took distance once, blahtly waved his head with a serious look as is

“…No, it looks like it won’t go so well”

“Eh…?”

『But! But still! The guardian wasn’t stopped! What sturdiness!』

HeiFu, which slowly got up, set up its spear once again as if nothing happened

“Just for note, I ai that it was its weak point Who knoas built, it seemed to be sucked in and there was no response at all”

“…Oh”

As for Ayato, he did not knohat to say

“H area like just now doesn’t look like it’ll work, so…”

But, then

“──!”

Sylvia suddenly interrupted the words she was about to speak

“Sylvie?”

“……”

Even when he called out to her wanting to ask rong, there was no reaction

Sylvia had an expression that Ayato had never seen so far She greatly opened her eyes, harking back to a Shock and confusion as if she saw so completely unbelievable ── they were little by little repainted in delight that she could not contain

When he looked at the direction of her gaze, it see

(I recalled that that area is the special watching room…?)

“──Sorry Ayato-kun, I will retire from here! Ah, if you don’t mind, use this!”

Then, as Sylvia revealed an evasive s to Ayato, she started running towards the entrance gate

“Eh? W-Wait, Sylvia?”

Even if he was suddenly told such a thing, Ayato could not but be confused, too

『Eh? Huh? W-What happened? Sylvia Lyyneheym, does she possibly renounce midway?』

Eishi+ro’s perplexed voice resounded and stir occurred from the hall However, Sylvia, as she did not ate

“What on earth is…?”

Ayato once again looked closely at the point where Sylvia was looking

In the special watching roolass wall there, a figure of a person see down his way

“!”

As soon as he caught her figure, a chill ran down Ayato’s spine

The figure ih to make Ayato shi+ver

(What the hell was that just now…?)

It was not fear

It was so a more basic, incompatible existence

Rather, if he were to look for a sensation close to it from his past experiences──

(It’s that tiravi-sheath> which took over Irene)

Its loud laughter full of malice flashed across his mind

The bad feeling did not stop

If Sylvia went to ure──

“It’s bad…! Fairclough-san, sorry! I retire here as well!”

“Eeh? What is it, all of sudden?”

Though Ernest raised a surprised voice, Ayato has already started running

But as he was a few steps until the entrance gate, BaiQin’s large build was blown off as if to block his way

“Hahahahahaha! Did you see?! Don’t underestimate me, piece of trash!+”

When he looked, Irene, who returned to the battle before he knew, revealed a ferocious s How much prana she hit it with, traces of Irene’s fist remained on the area of BaiQin’s solar plexus

Next to her, even HuFeng was also dumbfounded

But even so, BaiQin still showed no signs at all of having received dae

As BaiQin slowly got up, it turned its hollow eyes this time towards Ayato

It seeet to Ayato

“……My bad, but I’h?”

He tentatively said so, but of course there was no way that BaiQin could grant it

As Ayato shortly sighed and dropped his waist, he took a stance with the blade type lux in his right hand and the one hand sword type lux, which he received from Sylvia, in his left hand

BaiQin was fixedly watching Ayato’s radually reduced the interval, it suddenly swung down the sword in its right hand

Ayato warded off its blow, and then dodged the thrust of its left hand by minimum movement as he twisted his body

With that momentum, Ayato slipped into BaiQin’s bust and──

“Aon Style, Dual Sword Intermediate Technique ── “hell Spider”!”

Right Kasaya, left sweep, rotated his body and right thrust, left Kasaya, right sweep, then rotated his body again and left thrust, right thrust after a large step ── he drove in a total of seven consecutive blows all exactly at the same point, the place where there was the trace of Irene’s fist[2]

“──”

This time, there was a proper response

The last thrust pierced the torso and, at the same time that he pulled the blade, BaiQin weakly fell down on his back

『Ooh, finally one guardian has been knocked down by player A, this tie! What on earth is happening, even I’ve no idea at all!』

While Eishi+ro’s half-desperate voice resounded, Ayato hurriedly went after Sylvia

“Jeez, I ended up being charmed, eh”

While taking on HeiFu’s attacks by himself, Ernest, as left behind, fell in admiration to Ayato’s sword skill which sank BaiQin

Speaking only of sword skill, Toudou Kirin, as similarly in Seidoukan, would be above Ayato

Moreover, speaking of range of close coun star=””> ── just if we excluded XingLu, that is ── was probably the strongest

However, Ahtness that those two’s swords did not have It was the splendor that only those, who have controlled their own inner dread with their ideal and will had

Ernest as dodging HeiFu’s attacks could not stop s broadly

“──Now then, even though everyone showed up their skill, it’ll be unfair to be the only one left out, I guess”

Saying that, Ernest lightly blocked with one hand the spear which HeiFu swung doard

One could understand that HeiFu put strength into it, but Ernest’s arm did not move an inch

“Lately, le the old days a little isn’t that bad”

When Ernest flipped the spear as is, he lightly laughed while looking doard

There was no doubt

She did by no

──That was her

Sylvia was running the corridor of the Sirius Dome

Because the access to the corridor which connected to the special watching rooeneral audience, there was no one who called out to Sylvia

When she turned at the last corner leading there, a silhouette of a person could be seen ahead of the passage

“Ursula!”

Sylvia called that name

But, that silhouette went ahead through the passage without stopping

“Wait! Ursula!”

She rushed up near and called once again

Then, the silhouette finally stopped and slowly turned around

Her face was half covered with the hood that she put over her eyes, but even that alone was enough to see her face

There was no way that Sylvia would forget

“As expected, you’re Ursula……”

Sylvia revealed a s which almost overfloithin her

──But

“Who are you?”

“Eh……?”

Her smile froze at these words

“Ur, sula……?”

Both her voice and her features without doubt belonged to the woman that Sylvia knew

However, Sylvia noticed there, too