Vol 12 Chapter 1 (1/2)

Chapter 1: Chaotic City

A very beautiful girl had appeared, wearing a dark dress Her clear eyes were looking his ith a thoughtful expression Her pose was elegant and lovely like a doll's Her delicately long fingers held a black bestialthe lines of thethat ”this is a creature” exuded froirl He also wore a mask, but his mask differed from the Wolf Faces' This was the Haikizoku – The Electronic Fairy of a destroyed city had turned into the form of a mask It conquered his fate It was the power of a curse

”Why are you here?” he asked

She didn't answer

Her figure lightly shook Her dangerous beauty atteuish as i soirl was the result of a coirl fascinated him

Dixerio Maskane was confused

”Saya, didn't you die?”

He confirmed her existence, yet he was not impatient or anxious

Since his ho Desire, Velzenhei for those pieces He had been searching for the lone-eyed gunner and the girl of darkness that followed hi continuously for them, the tho had entered the outer-shell of this world, the Aurora Field His ed the fate of Dixerio Maskane His lazy and repetitive life was totally changed on that day because he had touched a piece buried in this world, the piece called ”truth”

What existed in this world, the ht a corner of it all A mysterious develop Electronic Fairies to coht in an endless and expanding battle with the Wolf Faces, yet he continued to search for the truth In the end, he figured everything was connected to Grendan's movement, that insane city A city that was restricted fro buses wouldn't want to visit What was there – it wasn't a surprising question Even a nor would come to this question What was there? As such, Dixerio infiltrated Grendan for the second tio The second tio But Heaven's Blade successors blocked hie to reach the Inner Court

Grendan, as expected of the city that even Wolf Faces feared

But was his infiltrating actiondesperately for was right before hiirl was here He had died in Velzenheiirl in the Academy City that was his second birthplace, that !”

But the girl didn't reply Wordless, her gaze moved up and down the mask And then

”Hey!”

She had disappeared without a noise, as if she had never existed Her traces vanished amidst the sound of battle, but the confusion in his heart re? Did you come here to take it away?”

Dixerio removed his mask The mask melted the moment it left his face His hand balled into a fist and the re color of the mask scattered The entire mask had disappeared

”Is that your purpose? You only ca?”

A Haikizoku sluirl had taken with her Was that her purpose? What a precious Haikizoku Once an Electronic Fairy was connected to En, it wouldn't take long to find it Did she appear in Zuellni just for that? But Dixerio wasn't the only person chasing after her There were the Wolf Faces too Why did she risk it?

”I don't get it!”

He desperately searched for her presence Since this wasn't soht she

”dah he wanted to look around in Zuellni, he couldn't do that That victiht in this fateful battle because of him

Nina Antalk

Her eyes that ehtly shut A trace of blood painted a corner of her h her defense

”It'd be bad if I don't release her froinal aiirl's sweaty forehead He had to erase her memories If he took away all the inal world If she didn't hold any speculation about the reality, then those things wouldn't affect her s were the Wolf Faces and the diht sky

The Kei froh Nina's forehead to influence the area of the brain that governed memories This was a Kei technique of thieves, a technique passed down in the Maskane family in Velzenheim a technique thatDesire

He didn't plan to do anything really bad to the unconscious girl But having looked at her recent memories, he had discovered that he needed to erase soe But he couldn't let her get caught any further This girl had a sense of mission that far exceeded anyone else's Her stubborn and inflexible personality eak in this unusual situation So he must cut off those connections Even if she was to sustain injuries in her memories, he must return her to a normal life

But

The Kei connected her and Dixerio In this un, and

”Nina!” came the shout behind him and the simultaneous shot

The whip in his left hand extended and returned The Kei that was used to interfere with one's vision -haired Military Artist held a rifle in his hands as he closed in on theround and leaped away

”Everything's a waste!”

That Military Artist went to Nina He didn't chase after Dixerio

Dixerio confirmed the movement of the Military Artist from the air and sht eye still hurt and she couldn't stop the tears That girl had disappeared, leaving behind the white wall

Leerin couldn't leave this place She didn't understand the situation, and she couldn't hear anything from outside Was it because of the thickness of the wall, or that there weren't any fighting outside? Had the battle finished? She failed to judge the situation

She was confused What was happening what had happened Did she understand anything? She couldn't comprehend, and that hy she was afraid

”Lay fon,” she called the naony But he was now on the battlefield This wasn't a curse, nor was it an annoying duty She liked hi to do hether he held a Heaven's Blade or not Because he had grown up with her He had trained through hardshi+p, tolerating his pain to become an excellent Military Artist He had bore the burden She had seen all of it That hy she liked hi to stay beside hi him, then hear him say to her ”It's ok” But that couldn't be done

She didn't know that he was outside the city, riding his bike for Zuellni The distance between theht eye hurt This was the saed Compared to the pain of dry eyes, overworked eyes and that of so into the eye This pain was different fro her nerves The pain seemed more like that of a painful tooth The pain ca that wasn't Leerin's existed there She wondered whether her face had swollen, but touching her face with her hand told her it was fine Just as happening in her body? Who was that girl? She seemed to have seen her before

Fro to recall that place as she tolerated the pain This felt like it was so only her back, but that beauty was unforgettable! The dark dress that was like a funeral dress, the long dark hair and the seeirl that seemed to break and shatter at one touch

Leerin couldn't rehting against the pain Thinking was the only thing she could do to forget the pain

A scene surfaced in herthat seemed to be unrelated to the current situation The time when she first met Synola Tears had fallen at that time too She didn't kno, but the tears had stopped She didn't feel sad, and her eye didn't hurt Even so What did Synola see at that tiht eye?

Re on the lawn The weather wasn't that war as if she didn't care Leerin was on her way to the entrance cere, a feeling of melancholy filled her chest But before Leerin herself could react to this wolued to her and tears had then fallen

”Hey, why are you crying?” Synola had asked after waking up

Leerin didn't knohy

Synola stared at her face, and it was at that time that surprise and shock showed on her face

Why? Why was she shocked? Because Leerin was crying? In that case, Synola could have been shocked the moment she woke up Or Did she hide her shock? Then why didn't she hide it the second time? At that time, she? What did she see?

Recall that memory Recall it more clearly, more vividly Call forth the h Leerin didn't do anything deliberately at that time, the memory of that action should be in her brain Back then, she was fascinated by Synola's beauty Hence Synola's beautiful face surfaced clearly in her mind Her face Leerin concentrated on that face

She saw so Look at her eyes What was reflected in Synola's eyes Norathered her concentration as if so her in Her head hurt Had the pain moved from her eye? Or was this caused by her intense level of concentration? – She wasn't sure

She e was reflected in the depth of the eye Suddenly, soh her She saw her own face reflected in Synola's pupil That face was also nified Leerin's own eye stared out at her as she looked at Synola

Synola was shocked, but for sos was behind her Leerin remembered that beast It saved her from Gahard Baren's attack when he was possessed by a filth monster But why did it appear beside Synola?

That wasn't just it Someone was at a far distance behind Synola No! Not behind It overlapped with Synola and the beast It wore a dark dress Long black hair It was her! She was there! But as she there? As if As if As if she was already on a screen that was projected on someone else's screen

(Huh?)

An unbelievable conclusion But wasn't that it? If Leerin's eye was a screen

”That irl was inside her? Inside her eye? Ih the pain and chill Because, because

She remembered that the beast hadn't appeared beside Synola She had many reasons to deny that conclusion If it did exist, then Leerin herself couldn't have reue that they always es in one's experience

Because, ahh, because of that

Somewhere deep inside Leerin had already accepted that conclusion, but right now, she didn't want to nod and adless Aabout her

(She's insideon?”

Uneasy She had become the person in question – this uneasiness assaulted her Had soth left her as if she were tossed into a deep pit

-an orphan

This term drew the attention of her entire body Her birth was unknown Who gave birth to her? Who was her

-Am I not normal? -Or was I abandoned because I'm not normal?

She didn't understand!

Her heart called out for so She hated hoeak she was

When she caht eye was naturally closed She felt the pain ht return if she opened it, so she stood up with her hand on her eye

Confusion remained Her vision shook when she tried to stand up She could bear it Leerin gritted her teeth, standing up

She had said she'd get soot back late Meishen, who had been lively and full of spirit, had fallen Naruki was tired fro Leerin , she had helped the older people make meals She could already cook on her ohen Layfon became a Heaven's Blade successor At that tiotten e Even so, Leerin didn't show her weakness It was her personality, not because she was forced She didn't think she had borne any extre what the older brothers and sisters had done at their younger age

She covered her right eye and intended to return as she staggered Sheher eye But before that, another fate had taken her

” Eh?”

She thought it was her i steps She had been on a hard floor, yet it felt sticky

She looked down

” Eh?”

The floor was gone No It was still there

”Wh What?”

An artistic floor

Face Face Face Faces had eed in the floor They were everywhere There wasn't even a crack between them They ithout expressions Foreheads, closed eyes, mouths and noses Leerin couldn't tell whether they were male or female

Face Face Face When she realized, the faces had covered up even the ceiling and the wall Face Faces surrounded her Only she herself was in this diht eye, the memories that she failed to explain, the uneasy encounter The events that came one after another had taken Leerin to her limit

”What is this!!”

A voice collapsed under agitation and anger

In that moment, the air trembled A ripple spread out in this di of the air stopped

”Ha—”

They all opened their eyes as if waiting for this moment Pupils spun in unusually white eyeballs, as if they were looking for so when they saw Leerin

” Found you!”

The voices surrounded her

”Hohohohoho, Found you! Finally, finally found you!”

”Curse you, the end of the tie”

”Destroy you, the shadow of the moon”

”We're the conquerors of the past illusory world”

”I curse I curse I curse!”

All the faces said in a chorus Strangely high spirits Strange melody Curses and lamentations surrounded her

”You What are you! What are you!” Leerin said in fear and confusion But nothing changed in this diht just be an illusion caused by fatigue and confusion But the hostility invading her every pore denied her thinking

”Ohhhhhhhh We're to return to the illusion”

”You just need to obey, Child of the Moon!”

”The tie is weak, but it doesn't grant our wish”

”We curse”

”We curse your soul to hover in endless darkness”

Hostility filled all the words Leerin hugged her eyes as she pressed down on her right eye It hurt again As if the pain encouraged her, she stood up The fear had disappeared

”Curse?” soh held within it conte, you really are weak and lazy, unable to change no roup of rotten fools that can't disappear! Such foolishness makes you quite cute!”

Leerin turned around The countless faces moaned ”oh, uh” Their sound shook the air, but the sound of the newcomer was melodious, like that of a savior's

Leerin was shocked That girl was here The white-skinned girl ore a dark dress But so was different She didn't feel like a doll She seeled from the corner of her lips Her eyes squinted into a line And her beauty shocked even Leerin, as of the sairl wasn't the one in her irl waved her hand in annoyance A mask appeared in her hand A mask that looked like a beast Leerin felt that she had seen it somewhere before but she couldn't reirl waved her hand Leerin looked around and saw the , shouting so, but no sound drifted into her ear

”You trash that only knows to bark”

She breathed a sigh of relief at hearing the girl's voice The confir had calirl continued to speak ”But for the trash to appear here, has it really weakened to such a state?”