Vol 21 Chapter 1 (1/2)
Chapter 1 - Grendan That Night
The place she dropped down upon was in front of the doors of Grendan's Royal Palace
Most of the palace had been destroyed by the coer be seen any by the brand-new doors
The guards were called the Rivanes Military Family, composed of the children of those who possessed the blood of the Grendan Three Royal Fauards of the Queen were all of this fa in front of the door were all royalty to soree If someone not from Grendan heard this, e
Actually, though they were somewhat related to the royal families, they were only seen as normal Military Artists
Because of this, other than the guards in front of the door and the two in a slightly elevated position, there were four uards, her appearance was sudden
They were able to notice that this appearance was an abnormal situation They were Military Artists, so if there was someone who could hide past their vision and appear in front of the door in a moment, then that person must be a Military Artist on the level of a Heaven's Blade
Moreover, the one in front of them wasn't a Heaven's Blade successor
”Who's there!?”
One of the guards asked
The electric light ure who had appeared was a girl not yet twenty
But, this uard, the door guards were clear on this
”Who is it!?”
The girl didn't ain questioned her The two guards who had been relatively distant also gathered Before long, the guards patrolling other areas of the palace would also gather
Alaruard who had just asked the question also knew that he should wait for other guards to gather
However, the opponent had no reason to wait it out with them
”Please move aside”
”What?”
”I want to complete my mission with the least amount of harm done So please move aside”
”What kind of joke”
Hearing the girl's words, the guards irl in front of theuards quietly uard positioned farther back pressed the eency alarm button
With this, the others like the Heaven's Blade successors in the palace would definitely coirl spoke as if co the actions of the other side This ht have been over before they realized
”What?”
The guards felt the abnorht shi+ning on the girl becahtly blurred
”damn, prepare yourselves!”
It was an instinctive yell, but it was already too late
No, it should be said that starting frouards' level already had nothat seerown out, made of tiny objects called nanomachines Countless nanoirl's co a new shape
The entire process was finished in a uards
”What!?”
The guards who had originally acted to suppress the girl were sent flying
However, the girl wasn't the one who had moved
Rather, it was the two arht
”Ah!”
The guards who realized this fact didn't have any response other than surprise
Until just now, there hadn't been anything to the left or right of the girl
There shouldn't be anyone in this place, but people now stood there
A girl ore fighting clothes like a Military Artist, except slightly looser, stood there
It htly
The reason they only felt this was because the upper half of the girl's face had been covered with a colored sheet, and the lower face couldn't be seen too clearly
Even irl had appeared on either side of the maiden
”What is this”
Because of their surprise, the guards didn't even speak, the scene before theet that they were in a battle situation
The girls who had appeared weren't only those two
Rather, they forirl as well as behind her, other girls appeared in a formation
Their nuirls uards ere too surprised to speak
Without even looking at the guards who had been felled in an instant, the girl passed through the doorway alone
The girl's name was Lævateinn
She, who had lived in Zuellni clai to be Vati Len until recently, had suddenly appeared in Grendan with the identity of Lævateinn in order to coet was the palace in front of her, its underground
”Please guard the outside, don't let anyone trespass”
At Lævateinn's words, the other girls - her copies - wordlessly indicated coh it was only a moment, Lævateinn turned her head to look at her copies, but she already knew that they had already begun le one left to receive Lævateinn's gaze
Turning her gaze back, Lævateinn advanced
Lævateinn asn't a Military Artist couldn't see the light of Kei that had covered the entire palace, that strongly shi+ning light
The light broke through the clouds, burning the sky, but to Lævateinn, this wasn't any threat to her et in order to cooal and for which she existed
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The ones on duty that night were Reverse and Cauntia
Reverse who had been dozing in the rooiven to the Heaven's Blades on duty suddenly opened his eyes His Kei vein was also suddenly ignited As he quickly left the sofa that he had been sleeping on, he quickly grabbed his Dite
”Tia!”
”I know, Rever”
Cauntia replied while standing up froh where Reverse's touch still lingered, she chased behind hiuards pressed was after this
At that ti to the entrance through the shortest distance
That girl ignored the fallen guards and passed straight through the entrance
”Restoration!”
A shout
At the same time, not only his hands, but his whole body was illuminated
The Dite responded to Reverse's activation keywords, and the changing Dite began for his entire body
When he landed before Lævateinn, Reverse's entire body was already covered with armor
”Please wait”
It see fro Reverse like this, Lævateinn didn't waver
Though he felt a bit apprehensive, still, Reverse didn't kno to judge Lævateinn, as a single girl however he looked
”No one unrelated is allowed to enter past this point”
Though it was a bland sentence, it was a warning that Reverse had worked hard to think up
”If you put it like that, I have an even more ancient relationshi+p, compared to you”
”Huh?”
The unexpected response made Reverse not knohat to do for a moment
”Pleaseyou into a painful situation”
”What”
Reverse stopped thinking before Lævateinn's words confused hih I don't knohat she's talking about)
She had a human form in front of him, but he couldn't feel Kei Then she wasn't a Military Artist? But, Reverse was very clear about this kind of oppressive feeling
”I definitely won't let you pass”
This girl was very dangerous
Even if his brain couldn't coet rid of the girl in front of hiently sleeping on Cauntia's lap just noas already gone He stood in front of thehis own ti that would appear in Reverse's heart was fear The fear that his body felt towards battle, the fear that he felt towards filthothers be wounded Pure terror and guilt at the results produced from his Military Artist actions - that was the kind of person Reverse was
However, those feelings were the source of his strength It was a saying that ‘one must overcome himself’ Reverse could be said to be the perfect interpretation of this saying
Reverse, who had overco else to be scared of when he stood on the battlefield
The fear he had originally felt due to the girl was already gone
However, this definitely didn'tthe ene overconfident in one's power But this kind of thinking wouldn't exist in Reverse who had always fought with his timid heart
”Then I have no choice”
Compared to Reverse whose entire body was covered with armor and resembled a block of metal, Lævateinn wore some kind of student unifor power didn't have any si, and even if they didn't have the Queen as an example, everyone was still well aware of this But the for fro down the confusion in his heart Reverse focused his concentration on the hand that Lævateinn raised
Fury dropped froh the wind
It was Cauntia
His lover descended fro us!”
As she said this, she brandished the weapon in her hand
Her Dite had beco back and forth The decorations on the blade stretched out, beco a flashi+ng blade assaulting Lævateinn
The feeling was oppressive as if trying to cut the entire city into two, but Reverse wasn't panicked
Cauntia was also very clear that the she definitely couldn't hold back with the strike before her
Though it was only a moment, they felt as if this moment was extraordinarily drawn out
Reverse didn'tLævateinn's irl raised her head to look at the light that Cauntia had released, and opened her hand towards that light
Was she preparing to endure that strike, or was this perhaps a means of counterattack?
Cauntia's attack wasn't that weak, Reverse naturally thought
That light had been condensed, and the length was about the saht Cauntia had purposefully controlled it because she had considered hiht that seeed towards Lævateinn, and then
Collided with the hand that the girl had raised
The light swelled, and the destructive afterround beneath his feet furrowed slightly, Reverse's body stopped
His gaze was filled with dazzling light
”Wha-!”
Though it was only aother than his vision in order to keep froirl still stood in the saed?
No
”Still alive?”
Because he couldn't feel the girl's Kei, he had to rely on other methods to confirm His vision was still a bit blurry even now, and his ears were filled with the sounds of explosions
Even if one wanted to feel the flow of the wind, the surrounding airfloas still in a chaotic state because of that attack
But that was only the situation for normal Military Artists
Even if it were an intense battle, Heaven's Blade successors could read all aspects of information at the same time
Of course, Reverse was the sa in the midst of his blurry vision wasn't a distortion caused by the heatwave
In the sounds of the explosions, his ears picked up a hard-to-understand sound like flowing sand
His sense of touch felt thehi stopping the air fro in the correct direction
She still lived
”Tia!”
When he reached this conclusion, it was a moment after the attack had exploded
Reverse leaped, arriving in a moment next to Cauntia who had dropped by the side because of the recoil of her technique He took up a stance, using a shi+eld that could cover his entire body to engage the things incooukei
The iron will that could deflect any kind of object had been revealed
Inco
He didn't knohether his body would be cut in two He no longer kne long it had been since he had this feeling Reverse realized that his concentration had disappeared for a moment
”Rever!”
Cauntia called out froth”
Saying these short words already took all of his efforts
”She isn't an opponent that can be defeated so easily”
It had been extremely thorny last time too, when the monster had attacked
However, that ti this ti unable to parry
The returning feeling that had reappeared because of this girl made Reverse's back break out into a sweat
”Understood!”
Cauntia replied At thatinto an attack that see apart
What was next? What was the ene?
Reverse's jump should have already scattered the dust in Lævateinn's surroundings
However, there was so similar to sand, or perhaps tiny particles even sirl
The hand that Cauntia's attack had collided as no longer there, and the portion all the way up to the arm had disappeared
However, there wasn't a drop of blood leaking out, as if there hadn't been an arm there from the start There were no splatters of blood at all
”How”
Reverse sed his words
What was going on? There was no tiht suddenly flashed through his mind
But there really wasn't any ti
”Rever!”
”Nn!”
Reverse responded to Cauntia's shout
The roaring, violent Kei bursting behind his back was condensed, collected into Cauntia's blade
Reverse also refined the Kei inside his body, leading it into the for
The condensed external Kei was released in a flash
Up to this, it was the same as before
But what came afterwards was different
The moment after the released Kei passed over Reverse's head, its shape changed
The flash that had been scattered out suddenly beca towards Lævateinn
Co the deflective abilities of Kongoukei, he further condensed Cauntia's external Kei
The external Kei that had been co toyed around with by the wind, flying towards Lævateinn with an unstable trajectory
As expected, the single-arirl only quietly raised her reoing on!?)
Reverse shouted out in his heart, but he currently didn't have the leisure to go check it out
He set his shi+eld, once again spreading out Kongoukei
He hadn't clearly seen the form of the attack just now He was also rather concerned about the nus Why didn't she bleed? Why was there a strange flow in the air?
Also, also
There were too s he couldn't understand
Reverse was never negligent during battle However, the battle this time required his attentionof this, Reverse unfolded his power in front of hi it out in front of Lævateinn
It hit
An explosion occurred
The Kei bullet exploded the ht and dust swelled up in an instant, blurring out vision The shock that could originally shake the entire city was annulled by Kongoukei
Reverse had spread out Kongoukei with all his power, in order to wait for this
He didn't understand a single thing about Lævateinn About why she had come here, or what she wanted to do next
Or what she had done just now
There were s he was concerned about
What had Lævateinn done when she received Cauntia's first attacks?
Other people ht not have noticed this, but Reverse had absolute confidence in this
The technique of his beloved Cauntia, that explosion, that destructive power, couldn't only produce that much of an injury
Because of this, he had used all of his power to spread Kongoukei
There would definitely be soe after this
This was all Reverse was able to do in order to protect Cauntia
And his expectations were realized
He had guessed correctly
There was an abnormal flow in the airflow produced by the explosion It wasn't scattering outwards, but it was as if it were being sucked inside
”It's the sa this
Incoh!!”
His Kei was battered, and his body shook The assault jarred his entire body and his consciousness Reverse strongly clenched his teeth, withstanding the assault The reflective ability of Kongoukei wasn't any use Moreover, this wasn't the ti
However, he couldn't cower at this
Behind him was the woman he loved the most in this world, Cauntia
He definitely couldn't shrink back
”ReVer”
From behind him came a voice that made him despair
”Eh?”
The back of his head, his neck, had been touched by so, and it wasn't Cauntia's hands
It was a war
His astonishment made his entire body shake, and Reverse slowly turned around
The air around him swirled intensely The only place that oukei
That was also where Cauntia behind him was
And it was because of this, that the liquid dripped on Reverse's body
It was Cauntia's blood
”Tia?”
Greeting Reverse's eyes was blood endlessly flowing fro from a burst pipe
”Sorry”
An inconceivable apology drilled into his ears
Cauntia who had lost her strength slumped on his back
As if to support her body, Reverse otten to oukei
And because of this, he was able to perceive everything
Even if he wanted to turn his body around, his left arm wasn't able to move like he wanted to, he finally realized
”Eh?”
When he looked carefully, his left arone
Actually, Reverse's own blood had beenout that he had seen behind him
”Eh?”
It was inconceivable However, this was reality
Reverse's Kongoukei had been broken
It had been completely destroyed
”I see”
That moment, Reverse understood the situation in front of him
The second attack that Reverse had received
It was Cauntia's attack
No wonder he had felt it strange Even if Cauntia's technique had been deflected, the das had been too small It would be too unlike Cauntia for her to have considered that Reverse was there and held back
Though he didn't knohat had happened in the e
Cauntia's Kei technique had been sent back
Both times were like this The composite Kei art of Reverse and Cauntia had been cos had becooukei because it had been the combined technique of the two of them
”Sorry”
After Cauntia repeated the same word, she fell fro bones ca the noise fro in his blood-red vision His body already didn't feel any pain, and in his hazy consciousness, he could only urge on his body, looking for the target he yearned for
It was by his side
”Tia”
Cauntia didn't htest response to his voice Cauntia who had always repri slo lay silently by his side
Cauntia's hand reached out, as if to echo herout to Reverse
They lay there silently, both reaching out, their strength weakened to a drop, but they still reached out to their desires
When he gripped Cauntia's hand, a hard-to-describe feeling of tranquility cath decreased with each breath, the scene dyed red with blood before him became more and , Reverse's angled gaze caught Lævateinn as scattering soer had any judgment ability, when he noticed the feet of so in front of hi before hi at him
Even in the tense situation just now, Reverse had always felt that she had a sort of indisposed attitude But he hadn't been in tiainst everything Now he could only look at her Regardless of whether it was fear of enee he needed to overco had returned to nothing All he needed to do noas grasp that hand, and everything else was less
As his vision almost disappeared, Reverse didn't knohy Lævateinn still looked at hi thatat his and Cauntia's hands that were clasped together
”You”
A weak voice
The answer appeared in his th to forain slowly became muddled
His vision became even blurrier than before, so ure any beca that hand until the end
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(R, Reverse-sama and Cauntia-saht an unconcealed tre
Alsheyra asvoice ot Elsmau with a natural attitude
”What about the others?”
(They have already taken action before contacting me)
”Good, then tell theh I've only seen that guy fight from the side so far, if he wants to take action himself, then let him”
(Yes then what about Your Majesty?)
”I already know the goal of the one in opposing us, so I'll go et rid of everyone else and go become the frontline?”
(No, no, that's not the best choice)
”Really has the evacuation of the city's residents been carried out smoothly?”
(Yes, In order to keep the co the citizens to shelters sht, are there any other people there?”
(Military Artists other than the Heaven's Blades have stopped them No, it would be more correct to say that we've been pinned down by theh I don't want to be too wordy, what really is going on? Ah, whatever Tell the Heaven's Blades to ignore theinal body”
(Understood, Your Majesty)
”Ah, I fear that we'll be in a pinch for a while”
As soon as the conversation ended, Alsheyra spoke to herself Elsht have also listened, but she didn't respond with anything
Alsheyra didn't really care about her not responding
Coazed to the side
As if it were chasing after her, there was a figure walking behind her with a slightly slower speed
It was Leerin
”How is it? Can you keep up?”
”Of course”
Leerin nodded her head with a persevering expression, and looking at her would reallypain in the heart Alsheyra's expression distorted for a moment, but it was only a ed back
By now, she couldn't tell Leerin to go back that would only be an insult to her deterth was necessary
”Really”
”Nn?”
”It's nothing”
Alsheyra used a strong smile to mask the words that she had almost let slip out
She felt that this was another helpless thing
She had always thought so
It had been for all of this, for this day, that there was Alsheyra Almonise
That there was the Almonise Family
That there were the Three Royal Families of Grendan
The Heaven's Blade successors as well, the Lance Shelled City as well
They were all prepared for this day
Alsheyra had been born for the coinally been
But actually, as it?
Actually, the ultimate trump card hadn't fallen into her hands, it had crossed over her palirl
If there was truly such a thing as fate, how much of a tease was it, or perhaps why did it like to pester people this irl, and to Alsheyra it was a kind of insult
”It feels like I've been wearing the wrong shoes the whole time” [1]
”Eh?”
She unconsciously spoke the words that she originally hadn't wanted to say
However, in this situation, even if she let soretful expression, and she still showed a smile like that past
”Ah”
Leerin felt it
”Well”
”It's alright, you haven't done anything wrong If ant to talk about who made a mistake, it should be that fiancee without any patience” [2]
But even with this, even if it were truly the case, it was still the situation of bad luck befalling one's own children [3]
It refused to gather at Alsheyra
It refused to gather at the person anted to end everything
Even if she thought about these questions tiain, it wouldn't have any effect on reality, and she couldn't find any ways that were enough to affect the current reality
”Because I wasn't able to become aLeerin nodding her head as a response, Alsheyra manipulated the lift round
The space that she saw underneath the lift was in darkness A tense feeling had already been spread all over that black space This darkness certainly also knew already, knew that the time destined to come was already close by
The lift continued lowering
Carrying Alsheyra and Leerin, it went to her side
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Kalvan was a person who couldn't stand it when he wasn't clear on what had happened and how things were currently turning out
He had noticed an abnor Els he had heard her report
But even with this it couldn't be said that he understood everything about the current situation
The Queen hadn't explained anything regarding the core of the situation
To one who had always lived in Grendan, though he could speculate a part of it, it was still only a speculation
And even if he asked the Queen, the Queen's reply would only be 'the continuation of last tiuous explanation He was very clear that the Queen had always been that kind of person
Even so, he still couldn't help but ponder the situation
But, it was also reality that as a Heaven's Blade successor, he was an extraordinary Military Artist at the same time
To face the situation, what he had to do was decide by his own judgnored the battles of the s, and as he entered the inner palace, Kalvan saw it
Aeach other
”Reverse and Cauntia?”
The blood-red liquid covering the ground let him know that this wasn't a joke Kalvan's expression became completely serious, and he watched the area behind them
A few steps behind Reverse and Cauntia, she was there
”You did this, huh!”
Though it was the appearance of a girl, Kalvan wouldn't be fooled by such a si once again, and then Kalvan had dropped in front of her
”Please move aside”
”You're the one that should move aside”
As he replied in a low voice, he took up his restored Dite
Golden Kei surrounded Kalvan's entire body
External Kei variant - Armed Sword
An armor composed of countless swords formed from Golden Kei covered Kalvan's entire body
Thetowards the girl's body
At that time, a different presence dropped behind Kalvan's body
”Kalvan!”
The owner of the voice was Kanaris
”Don't come over here!”
Kanaris i down and wanted to team up with Kalvan, but Kalvan stopped her
”Go meet up with the others and prepare an attack with them”
”But”
”Go, you must have seen it as well”
Kalvan only needed to look at the overlapping bodies of the two people behind the girl's back and in the center of his vision, and everything was already understood without having to be said
”Uht”
Leaving this word, Kanaris once again leaped
What had she been thinking of saying at the end? The ed
It became a smile
Had she wanted to tell hie for the two of them?