Chapter 183 – Aoba / The Desperate Magical Sword (1/2)

Chapter 182 - Aoba / Preparedness and Loss Chapter 184 - Aoba / Rewards

Translator: Ranzan

Their connected lips separated.

Their connected eyes didn’t.

In front of him was the same strange beauty.

Pure white, jet black.

Sharp as a tempered blade, strange as a fluttering ray of sunshine.

He looked on her.

A girl with no ability to reply. The barbary of his lips opened up a moment of silence between them.

After a moment, she opened those well-shaped lips silently to speak.

「That was…my first.」

「Wha?」

「My first…」

「…」

Taiyou swallowed those words.

Her first…her first kiss.

His mind became gleeful after hearing her admit that to him.

A strange delusion, and an arbitrary request.

Those two things blossomed rose-colored inside of his mind.

Maybe…just maybe…that request he would make could happen.

However, that was the end of that story.

Shirokiyami simply looked at him silently, and he could see that she hadn’t completely understood what had happened.

In the air flew a red colored fairy.

「Some-thing…is there.」

「Yeah…oh! That’s Hera.」

「She’s al-ways…been there?」

「Yeah. She can fly even with broken wings, and you’ve seen us watch her countless times yourself. That was always her.」

「Your power…too?」

Taiyou nodded.

「The power…that messed up your brain…too?」

「Don’t say my brain’s messed up!」

He yelled at her, and then cleared his throat and nodded.

「Yeah, I got all of my power from her.」

「Natsuno-kun!」

Aoba shouted, and he somewhat knew what it was about, but raised his hand to stop her.

No matter what anyone said, Taiyo’s power…all the power that he had came completely from Hera.

「I…see.」

「That’s why I wanted to stop her.」

As soon as he said that, he fell down prostrate on his hands and knees.

In a request.

He could feel Aoba swallow her words above him. That meant nothing to him now, as he bowed his head to Shirokiyami and begged for her help.

「…」

In an instant, his sensation from there was gone.

When he raised his head, he saw a white apparition floating.

Its legs weren’t on the ground, nor was it moving quickly.

It was a heavenly woman. It seemed to have wings from its back as it turned to face Hera and Shirokiyami.

In the confusion, Shirokiyami unsheathed Gyakuten.

From its sheath it flashed in a strike too fast for the eyes..

It struck the red fairy directly, and sent it flying.

There was no sound or shock.

An attack so fast that it might make others turn their heads and wonder if something had happened.

They all looked at an unexpected incident as they held their breath.

A swordfighter had engraved a slice in the wall, damage that told the story of a great battle.

From one side of the wall to the other, there were a diagonal strikes, stories of a sword fight.

Immediately after, the building shifted. A creaking sound rose up and the upper half of the wall began sliding and fell from the diagonal slash there.

It was an attack with no past comparison.

Anger.

And in that attack, Taiyou could feel that anger.

「Sorry.」

「It’s…fine.」

「No, I really am sorry.」

「Instead of…that…you want to stop…that, right?」

「Oh…yeah.」

「I see…then I’ll…stop it. But my secret tech-nique didn’t work.」

「That was a secret technique?!」

「She cut through the building, after all.」

Aoba muttered in a shocked tone…and sounding a bit puzzled too.

They could understand it was her secret technique, as the building itself was cut up, slid and fell in a strange looking scene.

To the contrary, it was surprising as a quick jab.