Vol 13 Chapter 2 (1/2)

Chapter 2: Akiba, I Have Returned!

Part 1

“Kata-Kata that s of their teeth There’s no time anymore

But the atmosphere in this place isn’t low at all Certainly the place outside is being wrapped up by the cold weather of December, but the temperature here is pretty warlasses and completed with air conditioner It keeps a comfortable temperature for everyone here

Even so, Knox cannot stop his body fros, which have been covered by bandages and plaster, are also tre Gradually, he takes a deep breath

Though, it’s not like Knox doesn’t knohat is happening here Next to hies and his face expression looks just as nervous as Knox’s face The reason was simple

“……………Uhm”

Right in front of the down on his chair; he lowered down his eyesight to the document on his hands

“…………………!”

“---------------!”

With only such a littlefrom Knox and Burton’s heads

Theassisted by an ash blonde haired woman whose appearance could attract every man Her facial expression is as sharp as a shich would cut theetting paler

ThatIt seems like he’s in theappearance suit with hie ht years old, so you can say that this er than him

Of course that’s only natural The person over there isn’t an ordinary man

He’s a enius financial eneration founder: Sir Isaac Westcott

In normal situation, it would be impossible for a mere pilot like Knox and Burton to be able to ht now, of course there’s a certain reason for that

“………………Knox-san What in the world will happen to us……”

Right now, Burton is talking with a small voice that allances to him He replies back with a voice that can’t be heard by Westcott

“………Ssh!+ Shut up!”

“………………” After hearing Knox’s words, Burton stopped speaking

Burton’s insecurities are understandable However, having a small talk in their situation shouldn’t be done If they did, then the possibility of the situation beco the two of them can do is to keep silent just like a stone and wait for ill happen next

Right Knox and Burton are being called here for some reasons Anyway, that’s not because the two of theiven any work to do like usual Instead, it must be because of the fatal mistake they had committed

A few days ago, both Knox and Burton were sending <material a=””>, which is a spirit captured by DEM Industries, from Neryl Island’s experiment facility in Pacific Ocean, and in the ot attacked out of nowhere and that resulted in <

Though, it’s not like Knox and the others let the <material a=””> escape on purpose It’s was ular event

But knowing how much Westcott is attached to the spirits, nowith thisto do with their punishment

Westcott is without doubt, ahis fingertips Knox and Burton could be throay to the street if thisreally easy for that man

No, Knox throay that thought inside hiseven worst is more possible, because the assuentle to be done by that man

“……………”

Knox took a silent glance to Westcott’s side

There’s stood a young, blonde woman behind him; he takes a note of her

Just by looking at her for once, it can be felt that she’s different from an ordinary secretary That woman is DEM wizard’s supervisor, Ellen Mira Mathers

She has power equal or even stronger than the spirits; the strongest hu, that’sto cut off Knox and Burton’s neck as punishment

Kachi-Kachi, the sound of the clock attached on the wall resonates inside the entire office

Because of the silence, Knox can hear the footstep sounds from the stairs above the office clearly

“-------I see”

Westcott coaze is pointed to Knox and Burton’s faces

“………………U-Ukh”

He puts soaze has pierced through their bodies Knox, who cannot describe this unpleasant feeling, unintentionally frowns at this

However Westcott doesn’t seem to care about that at all, he throws the report onto the desk Then, he stands up and walks towards the two of them

After that, in front of the two of them, Westcott moves his lips and speaks in calm tone

He is going to announce whether it’s punishement thinks that they’re not useful anyet rid of them

Knox averts his gaze away fro inside his mind, then he bites his inner teeth and closes his eyes

“Thank you for your trouble The two of you should use Realizer to treat your injuries, they’ll recover in instant Give your body enough rest before co back to work”

Knox’s body shi+vered upon hearing Westcott’s words, it was truly unexpected thing

“………What?”

“Only that ………Sir?”

Knox and Burton exchanged their glances for a moment, and then a voice came out to interrupt them

It was Westcott himself who says it It seems he still does not understand their reaction

After that, he nods as if understanding so

“Aah, so that was the problem? Of course, the treatment will be under worker’s insurance, so you’ll both receive-“

“No, that’s not what I meant………!”

Knox cannot keep his silence upon hearing Westcott’s words The reaction Westcott gave also looks unexpected, but Knox unintentionally continues speaking

“Because we let the <material a=””> escape About the punishment……”

“Huh? That wasn’t your fault judging froh evaluation toward your calhtmare>’s attack Do you think I’ll be a fool that would choose my personal emotions instead and lose such talented staff like you two?”

“I-Is that so………”

The unbelievable sentence he just heard made Knox start to sweat Then, Westcott says “Besides” ; adding another sentence as he continues to speak

“I already planned to free <material a=””> anyway Besides, it's better to let her be free for now Thanks to you, I don't have to setup the stage”

“Wha-?”

Knox widens his eyes when he heard Westcott’s unexpected words

This man, he planned to release the Spirit <material a=””>…………Then as his true intention for delivered the spirit to japan?

“Director, what are you going to-“

However, before he could finish his sentence, he can feel that so on his clothesWhen he turns to see, it was Burton who face is pale Bang-Bang a sound is ht

Looking at Burton face, Knox realized that he’s going to ask so unnecessary for him to know Then, Knox fixes his posture in confusion

“I understand Well then, please excuse us……”

“Aah”

Westcott raise one of his hands and replied with a friendly tone Knox and Burton left the rooether

When they leave the room and pass the door, they expected Westcott to call out to the happened

They walk along the corridor, once they reach some distance where their voice cannot reach the inner part of that room, Knox as well as Burton let out their breath Buhaa Frankly speaking, up until now both of the in underwater

“Just now……What does that mean?”

Burton asking while wiping sweats on his forehead using his cloth’s sleeve, Knox also does the sa as he replies to him

“………I don’t know Perhaps, the e think is far too different with him That’s impossible for us to understand him No, rather…”

“Rather, what?”

“……………No, nothing”

While Burton pauses, Knox gives a vague reply

They are still inside the DEM Industry Co In this place, they won’t knohether someone will eavesdrop on their conversation So inside his mind, so as expect that he shouldn’t continue his words

Apparently, “that” isn’t a huh

No, to be exact-----Thatbeing as Knox and Burton

He remembered Westcott’s eyes when he looked at them He looked at them differently as if they were the eyes of some kind of reptile or insect Knox shuddered involuntarily

“…Let’s go, Burton”

“Ah………Alright”

Knox and Burton continue walking along the corridor

Secretly inside hisa new candidate to replace him in the workplace

Part 2

“Just nohat the-“

shi+dou creates a dubious face and stares at the girl in front of him

Honjou Nia A girl who had proclaia artist, Honjou Souji

shi+dou unintentionally answers back her question with another question However, shi+dou cannot abandon this girl’s word after he had heard it The reason was simply, for her to know this matter has surprised shi+dou a lot

Right, this girl just now said-------------<spirit>

That is, this world’s source of calamity, the existence that is the true cause of the spacequake occurrence But that existence was kept secret, only some people were allowed to know about their existence Usually, they are government officials or the upper class department of military enterprises

Moreover, it’s not only that

Not only has this girl known about Spirits’ existence, she also knows shi+dou’s nah a peaceful way

“Nia…………How do you know about that?”

shi+dou questions her with a wary face

“Fufuf?”

After that, Nia relasses she wore for work and then listlessly brush her hair up

“Well, I wonder why, how mysterious?”

“D-Don’t dodge my question! You, who are you!?”

As shi+dou asks with a strong tone, Nia answers hi her hands

“No need to be so angry Because~ I will tell you properly”

After answering hiht tone, she calls out a name

“---------Yod<heavenly raiment=””>”

“Wha…………!?”

shi+dou held his breath

At the an to surround her body, and then Nia’s body is wrapped up by the light

“This is……………”

shi+dou suddenly let out a voice while narrowing his eyes

There’s no doubt There’s no mistake This is----------

“Astral Dress!?”

The light has manifested as an Astral Dress An absolute armor that a spirit alears, that’s it The thick Reiryoku has for clothes

Soon the light has already wrapped around her body The maid clothes Nia previously wears now has already coed its shape

The transparent light gave radiance like an illusion It is an astral dress that looks just like a priest’s robe The cross design gives it an important point, and her head is covered with a veil Somehow, her appearance looks just like a nun

“Just by this you already understand, right?”

Nia opens her shoulders and gives a fearless smile

shi+dou’s looked at Nia’s appearance fro voice

“Nia, are you…………a Spirit?”

“Yes~ Well, if there’s a living being that could do this kind of thing, as far as I know there’s none other than that one”

After saying that jokingly, Nia laughs

However, looking at shi+dou’s reaction, she saw that shi+do is still shuddered at what happened It made Nia dissatisfied and he puts her hands on her hip and her mouth creates a “へ” shape

“What’s this~ There’s no reaction at all? Even after I transform myself like this, it’s only makes me look like a dumb”

“……………Eh?”

shi+dou scratches his cheeks at Nia’s constant casual tone It sounds the sah tension that had filled the roo to vanish

“I was though you would go [W-What the heck!?,] or soe your pattern into Doki! upon seeing the figure of a girl who suddenly transform herself like this! And anyway, don’t you think my Astral Dress is quite erotic? Just look at the slit over here near the joint of s The whole dress is created by semi-transparent mysterious material which completely displays my body line”

While saying these words, Niaonto a nearby chair Froh the cut of the slit shi+dou’s face also went red and he averted his gaze away from her

“…………………Tch!”

“Ah~ That one, that one! That reaction~ Ehehe It’s fine, it’s fine~ boy Perhaps you have leg fetish? I see~ You’re still young, so it’s alright for being a bit greedy~”

Nia swings her hand as if trying to lure shi+dou Even though her outfit looks like a virtuous nun, her personality is completely different from her looks

“………………Aah, it’s enough!”

shi+dou scratches his head out of irritation, and then he turns back towards Nia again

“Stopfun of me! I’m still confused with current situation Nia, I already understand that you are a spirit But how do you know about me? That I — um, persuade the Spirits”

“Aah, that one?”

After shi+dou asked, Niafrom the chair, slowly she raises one of her hand in front of her body

“Even though I don’t really like giving any spoiler due to my profession, but I’ll make an expectation for this time”

After that, along with her movements, she moves her lips-------Suddenly, she called out for its name

“Rasiel<tome of=”” revelation=””>”

Theappeared in Nia’s hand, it was a book

It was a large book which looks like a scripture Its cover is made from mysterious material which is neither leather nor metal Just like Nia’s astral dress, the book has a cross design applied on it

“That’s……an angel?”

“Right My angel <rasiel>, the o in this world”

“Wha……”

Hearing Nia’s words, shi+dou knits his eyebrows

“Omniscient……………? What does that mean?”

“Well, even if you aska book <rasiel> can tell s in this world It knohat occurs in this world It also knoho and what they’re doing For exa, I knew that you would pass through that street”

“What?-“

shi+dou inclined his head upon hearing Nia’s words

Nia found his reaction pretty ahs

“----Don’t tellwas just a real coincidence? You irl who collapsed on the street by chance and then you look after her, and also by any chance too that girl is actually a Spirit Do you really think so soht? If it were ue for a story”

“……………In other words, you knew that I would help you, so you collapse there on purpose?”

“Well, sort of”

Nia anshile nodding exaggeratedly shi+dou beco her words

“…………Then, did you also let me help out with the manuscript for some reason-”

“Ah, that one I was really asking for your help”

“So, there isn’t any reason!?”

shi+dou yelled at her ……………No, if there were any hiddenterrible So down from a plane or such

However, that’sNia invited shi+dou to her room because she already knew about him shi+dou shakes his head in order to calain

“Because of that---------Nia What is your real objective? Why………I’m in this place?”

Being asked, Nia’s face looks so calht tone while shrugging her shoulders

“No need to be so wary It’s not like I have any particular business with you But if you really wanted to knohy, boy, I only wanted to see you et the you in person”

Nia touches the front cover of <rasiel> with her fingertip and then it’s floating on the air, she then continues her sentence

“And then-------That’s right, I wanted to say thanks to you”

“Thanks……?”

shi+dou shrugs his shoulders in wonder It ht be true that shi+dou already help Nia out, but that was all according to Nia’s plan It e

Noticing shi+dou’s thought, Nia shakes g her head to brush off his thought

“Aah, that’s not it Not that one That’s because you savedof this month”

“Eh?”

shi+dou paused for a while

There’s no doubt This is the first tiinning of this month, shi+dou had lost control of his Reiryoku because the path became narrow Rather, it was the time when he was saved by everyone

“Heee, you don’t remember? Listen, you answered my call back then, and you shot the airplane down for me, didn’t you? It was thanks to you that I was able to escape”

“Your call…………That’s, ah-“

After saying that, shi+dou’s shoulders begin shaking

It’s true that at that time his consciousness was blurred and he cannot remember clearly what happened However, he can re out to him back then That’s why he released his Reiryoku

“That’s means that was your call…? But the transportation……”

“I was locked inside the transportation plane, DEM Industry’s transportation plane”

“…………! DEM!?”

Upon hears that unexpected name, shi+dou’s facial expression sharpened Deus Ex Machina Industry The headquarters are built in England Unlike Kotori and the others frooal is to capture Spirits Actually, shi+dou and the others had already faced them several times already

“Why was Nia inside DEM’s transportation…?”

Seeing shi+dou asking her with serious looks in his face, Nia answers back with a flat tone

“Ng-----? That’s because, I was capture by those guys of course No---, I was lock inside the base time Thanks to that my body is all stiffen And what’s make it so awful is that I had to puttime”

While saying these words, she put her hand into her cap to scratch her head

Hearing her casual tone, shi+dou alins to understand her sentence right away and widens his eyes in surprised

“Captured? By DEM……!?”

“Yes That’s right~ I think it was 5 years ago? Well, who’s that again, that sickly girl”

Next, Nia points her left hand’s fingertip to touch the front cover of <rasiel> gently

After that, <rasiel> shook a little to show that it was reacting back The page glows a faint light and autoes

Nia takes a look at the page, then Pon! she claps her hands

“-----Aah, that’s right It’s Ellen Ellen Mira Mathers I can’t do anything to against her I was seriously beaten up by her She aiting to ambush me and suddenly she went Don! and attacked me”

“Ellen”

Hearing the na stiffens and his eyes sharpen

Ellen Mira Mathers, the top executive of DEM Industry and the strongest wizard of humanity She and her companions are destined to be shi+dou and <ratatoskr>’s eneh to capture a Spirit

“A-Are you really………alright?”

“Ng--, actually I can’t remember very well They tied me down to various machines and such –Ah, no, letreally harsh they did to a at all Co ti sense would becoa sales fell down?”

Nia folded her arms in an irritated tone as she said that shi+dou knits his eyebrows at the h that this person was involved in a serious problem………for a peerless, heartless company like DEM to treated her like that can be considered as pretty gentle Besides, there’s only one thing still stuck inside his mind shi+dou turns back to Nia and ask,

“In short, Nia Your angel could know everything, right? Then why you didn’t know about the ambush……”

After shi+dou asked, Nia points her fingertip and swings it to deny his question

“Ah, no~ That’s not hoorks”

“What do you mean by not………?”

“Even though el; in the very end, I could only get infor everything that will happen in the future, nor could it warn er is around In short, I can’t avoid so that I don’t know It’s quite siine”

“I think…………I can see it now”

shi+dou gulps down his saliva, see in what Nia just explained to him

“Even though I think it has a ability……… It also has its own limit, huh”

Then Nia went “Fuun?” and narrows her eyes

“Didn’t I already say it, boy? Right now, you don’t know that my <rasiel> has another ability”

“Eh…………?”

“Everything you write on <rasiel> will become a truth On the other side, that’s means-”

Nia creates a fearless smile, slowly she raise her left hand overhead After that, she uses her finger to take the ornae of decoration that was hidden finally can be seen, the full shape of the decoration looks similar to a pen

Then Nia sets up the pen and starts drawing so in the air

“…………”

“…………”

“…………”

“…………That’s… what are you doing?”

A few minutes later, Nia who still had not finished her work, let out a voice

“Wait Please wait a minute”

Nia ansith a serious look, and then continues drawing soain

And few minutes later after that,

“-----------Okay I think this is enough”

Nia shows such a deterinal place, Nia taps her fingertips Ton on <rasiel> Not so long after Nia does that, <rasiel> starts to glow a faint light

“W-What the-?”

“You’ll soon understand Look, it will begin soon”

“Eh? E, Uwaah!?”

shi+dou screamed at that instant

But that was only natural Anyway, his body is ainst his will

“W-What is this!?”

Aah~, right-right Over here-over here”

Saying those words, then she lays down on the bed After that, shi+douNia’s waist skillfully using both hands

“Aah~……………Over there…Over there This feels good~”

“Wa-Wait a minute! What is this………!?”

While shi+dou is trying to protest, shi+dou’s hands suddenlyNia’s butt

“Kyaa! Boy, you’re so perverted!”

“N-No, just now that wasn’t me-!?”

shi+dou screaains the ability to ain He juh while shaking his shoulders

Upon seeing his reaction, Nia raises her bodies up and then starts laughing

“Well, in short, this is it”

And then she taps <rasiel> front cover lightly, intending to show the page to shi+dou

In the page, there’s an illustration which style is sio Further shi+dou and Nia drawn, ----Not only that, there’s also drawn a detail that’s even sio

“T-This is………”

“Future describing I already said it, right? Everything written on <rasiel> is a truth ----Right For exa neritten on it is as well”

“………!? W-What did you say………!?”

shi+dou lets out a surprised voice Of course he would If so like that really exists, that’sto her will That’s even isn’t so on a terrible level anymore, but on the level of a God instead

However, so popped up inside shi+dou’s mind

“…………Then why is it a a? Wouldn’t it faster if you just write it down?”

“Ng~, because if I do that, I can’t grasp the feeling very well But, if I have ti on this book, I’d rather use that free time for work instead It’s not that convenient you see?”

“………………Err”

shi+dou doesn’t seem to believe her Nowadays, to think that she has the pohich level reaches the point where she could control the world………Why is such an issue just passing by Nia’s filter? Seely, she doesn’t think this serious matter that far yet

Judging fro dissatisfaction

“Ah You created a face as if you’re looking down at ain If boy still does that then, I wonder if I should show you this too~ About how scary it would be to know everything already happened in the past”

“Eh…………?” Hearing Nia’s words, shi+dou knits his eyebrows After that, Nia did so similar that she had already previously done She taps the front cover of <rasiel> and the page starts flipping again

Then, she looks at the page and puts her hand on her chin

“Fufufu…………I see Instant Lightning Blast? Hee, isn’t that cool?”

“Bhu…!?”

Unexpected words cahed as a result Coinal final move created by shi+dou back then

Nia, continues reading the page while giggling

”Ah, I found your original character The Black-Clothed Fighter Lieven, eh? Ah, I agree Black is cool don't you think Ah, but if you're going to create a story with hiive him some weak point that the reader could sympathize with and to add tension to the story Also I think it e that youa feirl's settings, since her character will directly be associated with the sales”

“Please don’t give me opinion from a pro view poiiiiiiiiiiint!?”

shi+dou scratches his head and bends his body while bursting in tears To think that he would experience another person learning about the original character that he created He feels a pain si stabbed by an unseen knife