Vol 14 Chapter 5 (1/2)

Chapter 5 - To the indecisive person

A large hole had opened up in the sky Light filtered into the city before Leerin's eyes It burst through the air shi+eld, through the monster's body to wave away the clouds and reveal the moon Leerin didn't know this was er that the Heaven's Blade successors faced afterwards The battle had taken a sudden turn for the worst

” Delbone”

She heard Alsheyra's light call and saw her eyebrows knotted, but she didn't understand the truethe faint light of Psychokinesis had fallen next to the feet, lying on the floor like a dead bug She didn't understand it

The ht eye because it couldn't take the eye from her

”Ah, ahhhh” she moaned But even Alsheyra and the doll-like Saya didn't seem to notice her moans They didn't turn to her

Leerin watched the e that the es in her left eye differed froht Her visions overlapped because of different ies and this made her head hurt She covered her left eye with her hand and that ht eye clearer

This hat the moon saw The scenery fro Grendan into its stomach The face of the enemy that covered the entire city

Thisneck as its ten heads roared at her Lightning fell and hit the

Leerin felt blood loss at the scenery of hatred aimed at her Her eyes felt shaky Suddenly, this scenery disappeared into darkness

When she realized it, the hole in Grendan's sky had closed up once more The flake was still lifeless beside Alsheyra and Alsheyra's eyes were tightly closed, as if she was enduring so Grendan into a new crisis

But Leerin understood so She knehat she wanted to see

(One ed and watched the sky

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What had turned strange?

Layfon had to put all of his concentration into the fight but even he felt the delicate change in the air The original tension suffusing the entire city was gone But this didn'tdown in the airspace Layfon was in The large river that counter-attacked those live-bullets had not stopped

But so was shaken A spider's net wouldn't be destroyed even attacked by a furious wind, but the tension of a net being finished had relaxed The indestructible spider's net was slowly losing its shape

This was an event that was unbelievable for a battlefield in Grendan Such an intense change in the air of Grendan had never happened no matter how harsh the battle was, not to

Still, just as happening?

What was it? Where was it happening?

Derek was striking at him with his katana

Layfon blocked the attack, his external Kei eli the live-bullets around him in the process This scenery had happened countless times already He couldn't count the nue? This consideration ended when he noticed his father's expression as the two blades clashed

Father had already noticed it

But he still prioritized Layfon's fight

Nothing would change his decision This stubbornness began with Derek and was passed down to Leerin and Layfon The other siblingsto persuade hi what he wanted to be in the future He could only go with the flow and he wasn't comfortable with that

It was norht for hi that he had lost She wouldn't let go noeverything if she had taken a wrong step, but he didn't, and he was grateful for that

The blades kept dancing External Kei becaht to adorn the sky The live-bullets also becarating However, both Derek and Layfon ignored theile as it turned complete

The blades hit Layfon felt the Kei in hiht Savaris and Lintence Orhis own lith, as well as the liht Savaris it was the liht Lintence he had to surpass a limit, a limit he could control, the li his own liht without reservation Even though what he held noas only half a Heaven's Blade, it had been his partner for five years It had been absorbing his Kei and so it felt like a beast was howling in joy at returning to its owner And si found a new partner in Derek

The live-bullets serving as their platforms were destroyed as they jumped froe their li Kei into their limbs Layfon didn't need to think anyhts since small His body had learned the best Kei skills and techniques after tasting failures, and he used them all autos because the actions were too autoes around hih he didn't know the result would be like And then he thought so that was even less relevant

What would he do after surpassing his father?

He had decided to see Leerin The battle was beco more chaotic He didn't knohat had happened but he could judge froht be able to see Leerinher?

He should have already made up his mind He would listen to her true intention Did she not need him anymore? Or did she do that for his sake? He wanted to confir because he had decided, but he was still confused

He was confused whether his decision was right

Why did he ask himself this question The ansas simple

(Ah)

He didn'twould have drowned it out

(I' its end though he couldn't clearly see hoould turn out He felt it ending though and the feeling he had pressed down in his heart because of the pressure before his wouldn't necessarily happen the way he wanted no matter how prepared he was He knew the pain he felt wouldn't change no matter how he swore that he would endure her scolds

He knew he could endure physical pain but not the pain in his heart He couldn't deny that his tactless thoughts were ht with his father A fight that no one must interfere

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Felli felt the change in the air inside the shelter

”So has happened,” she said

Psychokinesis couldn't be trans Nina had lost its power after bursting through theGrendan Felli wanted to follow Layfon but the speed of the battle was too fast, so fast that even she couldn't catch up Besides, the rain of creatures and the Kei that was destroying the her flake

Felli couldn't even gather all of the information inside the city and that didn't sit ith her She was now located at the entrance of a shelter Inside was a wider space Felli didn't have the courage to stay there even though the city's citizens and City Police only made a ”why are you here” expression at the Dite in her hand She knew they wouldn't do anything to her, but as an outsider, she wanted to avoid their gaze as much as possible, and so she chose to stay here

She couldn't only try to grasp hold of the situation since she couldn't catch up with Layfon She did this and wasn't happy as she realized the battle was taking a worse turn The Heaven's Blades were still fighting in a way that turned her knowledge of Military Artists upside down No one would be left alive if these people fought like this in Zuellni But none of the Heaven's Blade successors or normal Military Artists had died for now

A delicate crack had appeared in this unusual situation, in this unusual attack and perfect defensive for but a delicate change had occurred Felli couldn't tell the real reason behind it, but the situation was clear to her The Heaven's Blades were still perfectly fighting on their own in their assigned locations, but judging fro in the conjunctions of assigned areas One could calculate that

The nuh the Heaven's Blade successors was increasing

As if the original 100 had beco fro them The Heaven's Blades made up the first line of defense, and as such, the burden on the second line of defense had increased

Also, the swaying of the heart of the second line was clearer than that of the first line It was slowly losing its accuracy in clearing up the live-bullets This all happened after the Heaven's Blades executed an attack that differed fro This was very clear

”What is happening, or that”

Felli didn't want to turn her thought into words She pressed it down in her heart

What would happen if this hat she thought it was? She couldn't make a prediction as she wasn't familiar with Grendan, but the shelter she was in was in Grendan No one would know the next turn of event she shook her head But what to do next

” As I thought I see”

She hadn't noticed the three coather infor before her were a boy and two girls All three of theer than her Two of theer Felli had taken these three to the shelter after Layfon saved them They should already be in the middle area of the shelter

”Ah”

Tobyfound out

”Ok, this isn't the tiirl as of the sae as him, pulled at his sleeve

”Hehe”

Felli didn't knohat to do so she only watched her silently

”Uh, are you from Zuellni?”

”Ah, yes,” Felli answered Anri speculatively, not knoould happen, but it was certain that her confusion wasn't shown on her face

Anri smiled at her with her child-like innocent smile, and then tossed her a boirlfriend?”

”What!”

”Because Toby-Nii said it's not possible for Leerin-Nee to ith such a beautiful person next to him”

”Hey! Don't push that onto me!”

”To- but you did say it”

”U”

”So is that true?”

Felli couldn't think of an answer in the face of the girl's naive question

”Well”

”So it's true!?” Anri's expression turned complicated Expectation and discos of the other teren't so obvious Toby was full of expectation and discomfort was heavier on Rainetta's face

But, no, that wasn't it Felli wasn't confir it for the rest of her answer

”Well, how is Layfon-Nii? As a boyfriend? Have you dated? Kissed?”

”Well No”

Felli felt sheThat was how she felt, but she couldn't say anything in front of the expectant Anri

”Well”

So what happened next was like a savior to her

(Sorry for interrupting when you're so happy)

The sudden voice azes to it A butterfly-shaped flake She remembered it

”Ah, Delbone-sairl)

”hello to you too”

(I' to say to this Nee-san Could you lend her to ood answer)

Anri smiled at Delbone's praise and returned to Toby's side

(If possible, I wish to turn this conversation voiceless)

(I understand)

Felli replied immediately

Psychokinesists could converse withouta noise Their words would directly appear in one's head

(Because there isn't much time left, so I'll say this directly)

(Is this related to you disappearing from the battlefield)

(Uh, yes)

Felli felt her sh Delbone's Psychokinesis

(Just a se impact on my body I probably only have two to three minutes left My heart has stopped but I can keep ine what it was like to be so relaxed at facing death

( Then, what do you ithand continued speaking She mustn't lose time because of her own shaky heart and doubts, as there wasn't much time left for Delbone

(I hope you can finish my unfinished duty I've prepared the compensation too There's some information in the flake before you That's your compensation)

(This is?)

(My battle experience till now I've turned it into data I won't tell you the way to read it though the data is about to finishto this new location If you could read the infor in it)

(That kind of thing)

(Please, can you help?)

(Do you think I can do this on my own?)

(Perhaps you're far better than all Psychokinesists in Grendan just by your ability But your experience is lacking and so to fill out for your inexperience, there's one more person)

Delbone's flake had also appeared next to that person

(Grandmother)

Elsmau, as in a sickroom the sa through her own Psychokinesis

(It seeh tiret could be felt through her data

(Then, as I thought)

Elsh her Psychokinesis She couldn't not do anything probably because she had been through many battles while she ith the Salinvan Guidance Mercenary Gang

(Her Majesty has to personally give you the Heaven's Blade, but I can reset the Kei fingerprint immediately I've already set it for you after I die If it's you, you should be able to activate the Heaven's Blade froht Dite)

(But)

(I'm sorry There's no ties has inherited the nahter's husband, Fora You're already Grendan's Psychokinesist, and from this moment on, you've become a successor, the next Heaven's Blade successor)

Feres She had finished the operation beforeto this shelter, the operation of skin transplant One would feel tragic just by looking at her even though her body ed to survive in the exposure of pollutants She had re pollutants and changed into new skin

A Heaven's Blade successor had existed who once had changed his brain and Kei vein That Heaven's Blade stood in battle on the day his brain died Grendan's medical skill development had sustained him, and so it wasn't difficult for this skill to make the skin transplant possible

But Elsmau couldn't leave the sickbed yet

( My level of Psychokinesis isn't at grandmother's level)

(You don't have to be like th and limits All you need is do it the way you think is best And I've prepared the ability in order to solve this situation She will fill up your weaknesses and you too are to fill up her weaknesses)

A figure appeared in Fermaus' mind when Delbone said ”her” The Psychokinesist that she met in Zuellni She knew she was in Grendan Perhaps Delbone was conversing with her now Ferh she was about to die

(I understand)

She couldn't return to the Mercenary Gang any had died Then let her accept her new life

(Then from thisfro to you, Elsmau Quantis Fora)

Delbone seeritted teeth

Felli accepted the request at the same time

(I understand)

(You've saved us Then)

Felli touched her own flake to Delbone's under Delbone's instruction The flakequick It only took a split second to finish

Felli felt so different in her head Perhaps it was Delbone's information She could tell where the infor, and the doubt in her vanished during the process

(Then I' it to you)

Some other noise was mixed in with the words in Felli's head

Because the conversation was voiceless, Felli felt Delbone's concentration was now on so in a distance behind Felli were the three boy and girls Anri waved when she saw Felli look at the tier, a, fortune, s that exist and don't exist no matter where it is Even this city is just a nor in it)

Even a little girl like Anri would greet Delbone enthusiastically after seeing her flake This h Psychokinesis

(No e that you are you But whether you can see the value of being yourself is up to you)

(I've lived a very good life)

When Felli turned around, the butterfly-shaped flake lost its radiance to fall into Felli's hand

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She ran as she looked at thesed and heard the voice of the giganticbeside her, heard thethat fell like decoration on the uy you can't joke around with,” Sharnid sed at the scenery He didn't knohat to say

Nina was the same

But she couldn't stand here and space out because she ca behind Layfon and Felli She must protect Zuellni froain

But the monster hadn't attacked Zuellni till now

”Anyway, I can't let down uard”

But she couldn't see they were safe Either way, it was the truth that they were in a crisis and Zuellni couldn't move

She must confirm the situation with the Student President

And so she had been running and she aze away from the monster The Student President should be in the shelter, or Nina probably thought that Zuellni's Psychokinesists would find her if she kept running

This expectation soon becaood you're safe)

It was Vance's voice

”Military Arts Head? Where are you?”

The Psychokinesist controlling the flake replied instead and told her the location She would see it once she went passed the bridge

(We'll leave the details till you get here)

”Roger”

Nina nodded put her concentration back on running

Once could still see soh a thin layer of dark cloud covered Zuellni's sky The gray sky looked peaceful Next to Nina was the city's leg that was destroyed in the fight against the aged phase filthits work, but the progress had onlyout fro's nerves It hurt just to look at it

Nina's chest hurt

Zuellni was a terrible state but she herself went chasing after the unknown

”I mustn't allow any more harth in her legs

Vance was at a location s destroyed by the giants hadn't been repaired yet Vance and the others were hiding behind the skeletons of the buildings, using them as the last defensive line

”We've tried to understand the situation on the other side,” Vance immediately answered her question ”Our flakes had tried infiltrating but had failed We haven't found any areas for infiltration Thatany cracks”

Vance's words carried a sense of abandoniants who attacked the city were already outside one's knowledge base This time the event was even more incredible On the other hand, it was coive up his coiving out commands And it was commendable for those Military Artists who didn't run away but chose to stay behind to protect this place

”Gorneo and the others have returned, but that became like that after they returned, so no one knows the situation in Grendan”

”Gorneo and the others were in Grendan?”

She didn't know about that, but Grendan was Gorneo's ho Grendan

”Uh, those two have exhausted th You were there too How's the situation?”

Nina told him what she knew Vance and the other Military Artists didn't look good at the beginning of her narrative Their expressions turned worse as her narrative progressed

” It see with” Vance pressed his forehead with a hand as if to relax his headache

”But we can't do nothing”

”I know, but if what's happening in Grendan happens here, we've no strategy against it”

Nina didn't have any good strategies too All she had was the strong resolve to protect Zuellni She would keep on fighting even if she was the only person left But this resolve wasn't a good strategy

”All we can do now is pray the people of Grendan can defeat this monster”

Zuellni had no future if they couldn't defeat it Everyone understood this ending And Nina knew she shouldn't say anything reckless when they had no strategies, but she wouldn't lose out in air

This was si She didn't feel regret for the effort she put into becoone lazy if she kept holding onto this sie to what she should be doing

She would obey her will and keep on fighting no matter how desperate the situation was

Noshe had become, what she could do noas about the saht have won the battle without Layfon at the cost of many sacrifices, but they ithout any casualties because Layfon was here Could Nina become the Layfon back then?

She asked herself What would the power of the Haikizoku do to thatnow?

They had lost contact with hie Felli hadn't told the Nina didn't think he would die, but then she had just seen his defeated self And right now, she couldn't contact Felli

So she must protect Zuellni She must protect it so Layfon and Felli could return to it

Leerin

They let Nina go after she told theic , all Nina's infor this monster was

Nina sat on the debris and watched Grendan What good as there to defeat this monster? But she couldn't co her time

What appeared in her heart was her desire and worry to save Layfon and Felli and about Leerin She had to save her if Leerin didn't return to Grendan out of her own free will But she didn't feel she had the right to do this Leerin was her friend, but she came to Zuellni for Layfon, and so Layfon should be the one saving her Either way, she herself Nina couldn't do it In that case, she should prioritized protecting Zuellni

This was all she could do even if the event unfolding before her was related to the survival of this world

”But”

She held tightly to the flake in her hand and looked at the monster

(Nina Antalk?)

The voice from the flake jolted her awake This wasn't Vance's voice

”Student President?”

The owner of the voice was Karian

” I'ist of it from Vance Never mind that Excuse me, can you come down to the Mechanical Departht Karian would be more worried about Felli, but then she res first in a crisis Besides, she was keen on his reason behind his request

”Did anything happen?”

It was Nina's first time to hear the voice of an Electronic Fairy when she had a drea happen to her?

(Just head over first)

The flake left after that

Nina was thinking of leaving too, but now she really had to leave Sharnid ith Dalshena and Naruki aiting for their injuries to heal Nina greeted them and then left by herself

That place wasn't that far for the feet of a Military Artist Nina arrived at it and entered the Mechanical Depart up the place The heat inside was much hotter than better

”You're here”

Karian walked out of the restroom that the cleaners of the Mechanical Depart room Sweat beaded in Karian's face The same silvery hair that Felli had was stuck on his face Hethe students repair the place

His expression looked worse than his face

”Student President Are you ok?”

”I'm fine”

It seemed he would collapse any th Usually he was very busy, and then one crisis happened after another His th must be close to the limit

”You should rest a bit”

”No Everything will be fine if we can overcome this crisis I can't collapse at this time”

”But”

”Co you've to worry about”

Nina didn't knohy he called her over, but since she was here, that reasonhappen to Zuellni?”

”She returned to the Mechanical Depart withwith Zuellni?

”Just”

”Go You'll understand”

Karian's face was pale Was his paleness not related to his exhaustion? But what did he hear from Zuellni?

Nina slowly entered the central area with a big bundle of doubts She had entered this area before when Melnisc caused Zuellni to go on a rah she only knew of the existence of the Wolf Faces froes of this world when she leapt through cities, but it all happened after she entered the central area

The three children chosen by the cruel fate

That hat Schneibel said As the mother, the prototype, she would call all other Electronic Fairies ”children”, then sheto Electronic Fairies And the ones ith her at that time were Grendan, Melnisc and Zuellni

Was Zuellni burdened with a cruel fate too? Wasn't she an Electronic Fairy of an Acades weren't that siinal of Electronic Fairies The beautiful girl who seemed to call forth disaster She was in Zuellni before Perhaps everything was related to that

Nina's feet halted She had arrived at her destination

There was a huge ge Connected to it were large machineries and tubes This here the Electronic Fairy lived The soul of the Regios

Zuellni existed in this gem of unknown color

” Why?”

Nina felt nostalgia when she saw her Though she was more familiar with this Zuellni, she had yet to adapt to this sudden change

But this only took a split second Nina ie

”Zuellni”

The Electronic Fairy srown for with Falnir This was the forirl that Nina first knew

”Why!?”

Zuellni sem and didn't reply She had never communicated ords, just like theany nostalgia even though Zuellni wasn't saying anything

But Nina had heard of her voice She heard of Zuellni's voice when she was in Lance Shelled city

And Karian had also had some special contact with Zuellni And so asn't she answering?

(My owner Zuellni is very weak right now Please don't force her)

Melnisc answered instead

”Very weak?”

Why?

No, this couldn't be helped The city's leg was broken It couldn't evenconclusion Zuellni was the city's consciousness A consciousness without a body The city itself was the Electronic Fairy's body, and the Electronic Fairy was like the soul of a huh it wasn't sure whether humans had souls, the city did have it, and that was the Electronic Fairy

The body was busy repairing the leg, and so Zuellni ed area So it was understandable that she had weakened

(That isn't the only reason, Master)

Melnisc's

”So what happened?”

(Did that girl in dark clothes not tell you? There's no place to retreat to)

”So”

(This is what she meant An equivalent price is needed to overcome a difficulty This is what you have to have, and so you were called)

”So”

(Merciful Electronic Fairy You have accepted me ent insane because of erous path of self-destruction This is what your existence is like As long as you live,You accept those who are confused no uidance to those who don't know their future This is what your existence is like, and so the Academy City is more suitable for you than any other cities)

Zuellni s hi her stupid for sacrificing herself

”So just what is going on?” Nina howled ”Why is Zuellni this weak?”

Because the city had come across this situation? Or was there another reason? Why did Zuellni turn back into a girl?

Zuellni's expression turned heavy She didn't say anything

(The power obtained from Falnir, Falnir had anticipated the intense battle afterwards and so deliberately transferred it to Zuellni so Zuellni could be reborn)

Melnisc's voice echoed in place of Zuellni's

(But Zuellni didn't do it She gave the power to the one anted to walk her own path Zuellni paid her own price in order to help that person move forward)

Nina was speechless The person anted to walk her own path The price The girl in the color of black had no path to retreat to

Nina couldn't still not understand She wasn't this clumsy

But she wished she was a bit cluuilt, because the guilt in her chest was about to shatter her chest