Vol 6 Chapter 1 (1/2)

Chapter 1: In a broken house

This wasn't the first tiht as she stood beside the leader

No Academy City would be very wealthy Most of its inco the livelihood of students and maintenance of facilities As such, the Salinvan Guidance Mercenary Gang that Myunfa was in usually wouldn't be given VIP treath she didn't have aMilitary Artists or another city, which explained the low probability of filthAcademy Cities One probably wouldn't know this truth if one only spent his entire life in one city, but soios

(I never thought of that before I entered the Mercenary Gang)

Even so, the Mercenary Gang would sometimes visit Acadeht, but to work as teachers To allow student Military Artists to taste the atht – probably just a taste of as left of a fight though – the previous leader of the Mercenary Gang said that was the best way to teach

Everyone else said it was boring though

But Myunfa herself had been really busy when visiting an Acade was part of it too Seven years Thatpicked up Myunfa Her strength wasn't enough for her to fight on her own so she hadn't really fought before, but she thought it incredible that she hadn't died in the past seven years This thought surfaced in herconstantly moved froer outside

”There're larvae within the investigating area 500 of them They've noticed us” An electronic voice broke Myunfa's train of thought

They were in one of the bus stations on the edge of Zuellni Myunfa was on the roof of the roa bus, built to house the Mercenary Gang It looked like afortress As such, it needed three tith of rope to hold it down at the bus station The Mercenary Gang currently had 43 Military Artists and a nu bus was needed to house these people, their living space, the Dite preparation space and other storage

No aze roas of the city and the arid land

But Fer different

”Anything~?” the person sitting on Myunfa's left asked He was Haia Salinvan Laia, the leader of the Salinvan Guidance Mercenary Gang

”I got theood but I still can't beat the abilities of a genius She discovered them faster than I did”

Fermaus was the one who had picked up Myunfa He had looked after her for seven years now, but she had only recently hed at the strength of the genius Psychokinesist – Felli Loss

”If you two fought, ould win~?”

”I don't like this childlike thinking Butif our strength was the same, no, if she's at 40 percent and I am at 60, I'll win She relies too ot perfect skill”

”But he's a bit rusty now~” Haia said He was the leader but he still failed to hide the childish side of hi Layfon Wolfstein, that side of Haia was more obvious and intense than before

Myunfa understood She was about the saether with him But now, the relationshi+p between theap between them made her lonely However, she could stay by his side with this identity, so she was happy too

”You still can't win That's the truth,” Fermaus said

Haia curled up his lips

Fer of his head ”He is a bit rusty, but that is his heart and not his skill He was once called Wolfstein, yet he isn't any worse than he was even though he now chooses to use a different weapon”

Although the Salinvan Guidance Mercenary Gang was formed in Grendan, out of the three people here, only Ferroamed from city to city Only the seniors ere about to retire and the 2nd head of the Gang were born in Grendan Fer as Grendan-born

The youngsters heard of Grendan's Heaven's Blade successors froerated, hence, Myunfa didn't think a Heaven's Blade successor was really that strong She never thought anyone could win against Haia until the appearance of Layfon Alseif A Grendan-born, former Heaven's Blade successor, exiled fro the larvae in a place Myunfa couldn't see

”But a sword that he can't use to its fullest potential is the sa up”

Myunfa heard loneliness in Fermaus' voice

When Layfon arrived at the destination on his bike, the ground had already cracked apart, spilling out the larvae The larvae crawled out of the hard ground like water shooting forth from a broken pipe They spilled out and spread across the earth

”I've confirh my eyes”

(150 larvae The round show no life signals)

The larvae had probably eaten the mother and then each other Layfon stopped his bike and took out the Adamantium Dite Different Dites were placed in the slots in the Adamantium Dite The best feature of the Adamantium Dite was its ability to coain)

Layfon put the thought of Felli aside, poured his Kei into the Adamantium Dite and spoke the keyword ”Restoration AD”

A weapon left with only its handle formed in his hand Numerous steel threads were attached to one end of the handle

”I trust Felli I'll calculate the number I have to defeat You just need to track them with your eyes”

[I know]

Whether she had heard of the word ”trust” or that she was tired of the sa else She spread the flakes, including the one on her helmet, into the sky

She knehere her flakes were heading without having to explore her surroundings with the steel threads Even Layfon found that terrifying At the sa in his chest He disine, and he ran his Kei into the steel threads

In that one second, he clearly felt so heavy in hih A fulfilled feeling inside hiot to use Kei as much as he could out here, whereas back in the city, he had to suppress it But this feeling was exactly the problem

”I must hurry and finish this”

His steel threads went hunting for the larvae

Why is it like this? He knew the answer but the question hovered in his reeted Layfon after the cooperated fight with the Salinvan Guidance Mercenary Gang One of the reasons revealed itself straight after that fight

Layfon and the Mercenary Gang were greeted by Zuellni They went in the city through the entrance in the botto off their reeted them were the Student President Karian, Vance, other members of the Student Council, Harley, the senior Military Artists of the Mercenary Gang and Felli Then came Sharnid, Naruki and Dalshena

But not Nina

That was the source of his loneliness How strange Nina was the captain of the 17th platoon, and Layfon and Sharnid were the team members Nina wasn't one to not welco A crack showed on Felli's usually indifferent face Harley was cheerful as usual, but his countenance was a bit stiff and green He looked as if he wanted to say soaze darted around That was enough for Layfon to raise the question

”Where's the captain?”

He had to raise the question Now that he knew, he had to Standing next to hi But Layfon didn't push the responsibility to hiaze swept across the people before hiave a reply to his question Karian waved and stopped Felli and Harley fro,” he said

Layfon's heart thu on?” Sharnid said, putting his hand on Layfon's shoulder His voice trelanced at Felli She should knohere Nina was up till when she went

”I failed to find the Captain once she entered the center of the Mechanical Depart now?” Sharnid asked, shocked

She nodded ”Her presence suddenly disappeared I checked the area around but didn't find her”

”How” Layfon was speechless

”She ht have invaded the very center of the Department That's a secret even we can't touch,” Karian added ”But in that case, we can only give up It's a place we can't reach Perhaps there's a failure there But I can't risk stopping the city fro rushed up in Layfon

This had become his responsibility

Not too much time was needed to defeat 500 filth h his skill in using the steel threads was only a thousandth of Lintence's Lintence liked to describe with nuerated them In truth, with Layfon's level of Kei, he could defeat these h his skill wasn't on Lintence's level The filthtowards Zuellni froht into a trap If Layfon was in Grendan, other Military Artists would have taken care of this crisis, but not in Zuellni

People of high talent were so labeled by others, so they could be used equally by other people That was the cruel reality All sorts of policies were created to protect these elites so they could be used for a long time and for maximum potential Military Artists were people who could die easily, and as such, cities gave theave birth to Military Artists were given wealth and the best living conditions But that didn't change the fate where they were used as commodities

The purpose of an Academy City was to nurture elites, not to consuattacked by filth est crisis

[Thanks for your hard work] Felli's soft voice sounded in his ear

”Any other reaction?”

[Straight in your path The information came fro I doubt the accuracy of the intelligence I can get et three days closer]

”I got it Please return for resupplying”

[Right Take your ti] Weariness filled Felli's voice

NextRunning desperately in weariness The city should be avoiding filththem Did other cities have the same level of confidence to overcoht as he rode the bike to Zuellni If he said it out loud, Felli probably would say ”that's not true”, so he kept it inside hi on a raood relationshi+p with the Electronic Fairy Layfon had never seen anyone who had a relationshi+p with an Electronic Fairy so good that the Electronic Fairy would fly over for a hug He had never seen an Electronic Fairy in Grendan He had wondered whether Zuellni was special because it liked to hug other people, but that probably wasn't the case Zuellni didn't like hugging just anyone He only knew Zuellni because Nina introduced him to it Was it because of Nina's personality or some special ability of hers? He couldn't think of anyone else who could directly touch an Electronic Fairy That hy he thought she could do so about it

Such a weak reason

If only he didn't think of that If only he just defeated the filthcrisis, and then discussed the reason behind Zuellni's rae So many students were here They had better brains than him The result would have been better if he had left it to theht filth ant, but Layfon was good at Military Arts Till now, th as a Military Artist No one in Zuellni had asfilthto do with solving the proble without having first experienced it However, he had pushed that proble to anyone else's opinions

(That's true arrogance)

He tossed away his thoughts of solving this proble Layfon thought hiant

”Did youfind senpai?”

() Felli rehtened his grip on the handle of the bike

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When Leerin stretched all she wanted in the space she had been waiting forFootsteps sounded in the corridor outside and the door was banged open

”Don't un facing her

”We're from the City's arhting unifore

She had no choice but to keep her stretching pose as she raised her hands

”Excuseman must be the captain He ordered one of his comrades to remain in the room and he left with the rest of the soldiers In the corridor echoed the footsteps of leather boots, angry howling andOnly the title of City's armed forces was clearly heard, and any dissatisfaction started cal down The person in the corridor took Leerin and the others outside It seeht in a co bus area

”Ah, ould have thought that I'd get caught up in soe so quickly”

Leerin turned her head at that voice The silver-haired handso man was also taken to the outside by the sa man didn't look worried or shocked

”Ah, better do what that driver says,” Savaris see off the pressure on her