Vol 1 Chapter 4 (1/2)

Chapter 4 – Heart Hybrid

Part 1

Kizuna was peeking at Aine fro

Since he was trying to knowAine for these past three days all the time to observe her

Saying it frankly, he was stalking her

Right noas afternoon break Aine went away froht in thethere

Kizuna tried to hide behind the digital signage display lining the road and peeked at the situation

After this, Aine would return to the classroom with barely any tio to the command headquarters to train and practice When she finished she went directly to the doro outside anymore for the day

“Just following her around doesn’t give me any clue……”

“What kind of clue are you looking for?”

“UWAA!”

Suddenly a voice called out to hi Kizuna jump in shock

“Hi-, Himekawa!?”

Hi there with her hands on her hips

“What in the world are you doing, Hida-kun?”

“No, no This is…… that…”

Hayuru breathed an ah

“Just when I heard that there is a student stalking a female student, and try to look…… really, a person like you is……”

“This, this is a uilty for――”

“What do you want to know about Aine-san?”

“Eh?”

Hie display and stared at Aine

“I too have questions about her since before Her usual words are also hard to describe as a normal person, and most of all, her unusual fixation towards battle That fixation of hers already went off the proper track”

“I’ be done to help her? Surely you too are thinking like that right?”

Kizuna nodded largely

“When did Hiet to know her?”

“It was at the high school entrance cere that ‘there is a really beautiful girl here’ that time At that time, Aine-san already had a Core finished installed inside her”

“Is that so…… then is there anybody that knows about Chidorigafuchi in middle school?”

“No Aine-san didn’t go through h school…… it seems there is no one that particularly knows her from before”

Was it impossible to know more than this?

――No,

Based on how she had a Core installed in her, surely there should be some clue in that place

Part 2

Kizuna visited the laboratory of Heart Hybrid Gear, [Nayuta Lab]

{Hida Kizuna, what is your business?}

When he entered the laboratory, there was shi+kina Kei there facing the console that was like a cockpit

“Can I get the inforafuchi’s past?”

{An authority to release the inforafuchi Aine’s inforh It cannot be released with Hida Kizuna’s authority level}

“No, it’s fine even if it’s not any i like her birthplace or her elementary school”

{Everything is listed as secret The information cannot be disclosed}

What’s with that?

“Even though I have the authority to know everyone’s personal information as well as their three sizes and their location in the real tiafuchi’s information?”

{The only one with the authority for that in Ataraxia is only Hida Reiri}

‘So it’s Nee-chan’

“Got it, I’ll ask Nee-chan Perhaps she is in the coht――”

“No need for that”

The entrance of the roo behind her entered

“Nee-chan!”

“Kizuna, you want to know about Aine’s past?”

“Yeah I want to know”

“Why?”

“I’h I cannot say it clearly, but it feels really frustrating――”

No, wrong

That was not it

“――Perhaps, I’ about other people, about herself, even whether she would die or anything at all”

[A worthless worry isn’t it?] (TN: This is a flashback of Aine’s words, not Kei)

“What is inside that girl’s head is just to obtain an evenlike our worry is really trivial”

[What I cannot forgive the most, is my low combat ability]

“She is not thinking of raising her co I don’t understand her Because I don’t understand, it irritates me”

[I see…… it seems that this is pointless isn’t it]

Her sad back was reflected in his eyelids

“That’s why I want to know about her!”

Reiri crossed her arms and listened to Kizuna’s words

“……Fine then I’ll teach you”

“Really!?”

“But, even the inforafuchi Aine is limited Understand that”

Kizuna nodded silently

“The beginning of this afloat, it was at the mainland Tokyo, the imperial palace there is surrounded by canals around it and there is a canal there na there was received That girl was sheltered then, that was――”

“That’s Chidorigafuchi?”

“Correct The girl as sent to hospital and opened her eyes didn’t remember at all, just as she in that kind of place On the contrary, where did she come from, as she, she couldn’t even recall those information She didn’t even know her own name, that was the state she was in”

“So she is…… amnesic?”

Reiri nodded

“She didn’t have any external wound, so it was examined to be caused by ten at all that she was recovering her memory”

“But, didn’t Chidorigafuchi’s family search for her? Thereout”

“There was nothing It seems the police made a search, but Aine’s family couldn’t be found in the end Her appearance looked like she was around ten years old, so the elehout japan were searched, but there was not a single clue”

“Then…… as expected she was from abroad?”

“Even asking around the Iration Bureau didn’t result in any clue”

Then, just where in the world Chidorigafuchi came from?

“The person herself was an extreirl There was also no problem in the examination result But――”

Reiri knitted her eyebrows

“It’s just, there was only one point that orthy of special mention Her aptitude for Heart Hybrid Gear is abnorh”

“Abnorreat?”

“Recently she is falling behind Yurishi+a and Hie battle, but it’s disadvantaged when there is a distance with the enemy It’s not that her talent is inferior, but the difference in the gear’s aptitude resulted in a large difference of battle results”

……So that was hoas

“――Anyway, the one who had an eye at that girl’s high aptitude, was our mother”

Kizuna’s heart felt like it was grasped tightly

“Mother took custody of Aine Even the one who naafuchi Aine was also our e in the research and development of Heart Hybrid Gear”

“Then…… since then, all this time?”

“Right She was staying in this lab all day, beco”

“Then, her school?”

“She started attending school froh school”

“I see…… so she finally started a norh school”

“That hen the practical application test began”

“……”

Then…… that girl

Since she was a child, she was isolated in this lab,

All the ti,

All alone,

The only thing she had was the Heart Hybrid Gear and Professor Hida Nayuta

Excellent talent

But, she was overtook by her rivals

――After that?

Suddenly, an alertpopped up All over the roo s and alarms

“Kei! What’s going on”

{Enemy attack Enemy warshi+p appeared two hundred kilometers ahead of Ataraxia}

“Enemy scale?”

{One two thousand hly thirty warshi+ps below one thousandthe seem to be escort shi+ps}

“Wha……!”

As expected, even Reiri lost her words

It was an unprecedented large fleet

Until now, there were cases where they battled enemy shi+ps, but the number of enemy shi+ps were invariably only one Even so each tie from them

And now there were thirty shi+ps

To encounter this large fleet, perhaps this was the first time since the mainland decisive battle of the Second Another Universe Conflict If they entered battle situation like this, it couldn’t possibly be iafloat japan could go through this safely

“Kei, connect the line to the command room! There is no time to return there, I’ll take command from here”

{Roger}

The alert s disappeared, and in their place s that displayed the battle network and Megafloat japan’s infore amount

All those made a lump like a school of fish in the center of the roo up a syste, the floor surface too, all beca Ataraxia’s outside

Kizuna saw the enemy fleet that was projected on the wall

The black battleshi+p that looked like it was cutting apart the blue sky was floating in the sky Patterns that didn’t see on the shi+p’s body

It was a fantastical battleshi+p that was obviously y than mankind

Its shape was completely unrelated with fluid un turrets were directed at every direction It felt like a fortress or a castle of ether with its defensive wall

That figure of an object with giganticin the sky couldn’t be described as anything but absurd

{Connection with the co is about ten ive instructions thinking of me as the command room}

Kei lifted her face a little Her gaze met Reiri’s and both of them wordlessly nodded at each other

“Okay, calculate the evasion course of Ataraxia”

Kei’s ar on top of the console with tremendous speed

{Most likely the ene from Solomon direction Ataraxia’s evasion course calculation co away to the northwest direction with full speed}

“The time until the encounter with the enemy!”

{If the situation doesn’t change, ill enter the enee in fifteen more minutes}

The flagshi+p of the enee battleshi+p was ely projected

{What will be the threat is the e battleshi+p If we are boafloat japan will sink}

Reiri clicked her lips

“All members of Amaterasu, reply!”

Responding to Reiri’s voice, Aine, Himekawa, and Yurishi+a’s faces were reflected in the appearing s Looking at the background behind them, it seemed that the three of them were in a classroom

“You understand the situation? Then all hands, sortie!”

{Roger!}

The three saluted and cut off the transmission

Reiri faced Kei and yelled

“Activate all defensive systeafloat japan’s all area!”

{Roger}

Reiri pulled an operatingfloating in the air to her She tapped an icon for broadcasting towards the whole of Ataraxia from inside it

“Infor all students! This is not practice or a school event, this is a real battle! Show your efforts’ result to those another universe lot!”

Thethat projected the i up from their seat and exited the classroo to every departned to they department performed confirmation on the defense installation inside Ataraxia, combat department used those weapons and intercepted the enemy

Ataraxia that entered battle state e at the city’s appearance Shutter was lowered down on the buildings’ walls, iround In reverse coround

The street opened and unmanned aircrafts appeared froht road to launch The caan charging while scattering electrical discharge The ground of the park opened up like a shutter and e missiles peeked out their heads from below

“Yosh, then me too!”

Kizuna as going to go outside was stopped by Reiri

“Wait Kizuna You are staying here”

“W, why!?”

“It’s o now For noait here”

“Just why is it ainst the likes of category-C ic weapons!”

“That’s why Currently, ic weapons of C-class and lower that even you can face still haven’t co yourself towards the enemy warshi+p’s firepoith your mobility is just suicidal”

“Kuh……”

“If the ene unit, that time will be your turn Until then prepare yourself”

Kizuna stared at the figures of Hie monitor

The three of the on their Heart Hybrid Gear and flew heading to the enemy fleet

Hi at the inforht be created in it

“This is the first tie…… really, can we protect the Megafloat until the end…… when I think that the future of Ataraxia and everyone is put on our shoulders……”

A deeply depressed voice came out from Himekawa’s mouth

“That’s really not like you Hayuru Well, it’s going to be fine if we just do our best I wonder?”

In contrast, Yurishi+a’s voice was bright She was carefree as if playing a ga home from school

“……Aine-san, are you okay?”

Aine was shouldering a ed on her waist And then in her hand was an anti- down

“I’ of your question”

“Ah, no The bombardment of the battleshi+p will be fierce, so please don’t force yourself Aine-san specializes in close range after all, so follow after us――”

“That’s unnecessary help”

Aine declared to Himekawa coldly

The eneer

In front of the three, Reiri’s floating as opened

{Listen well What you need to shoot down is the enee battleshi+p It will be fifteen morerange Before that happens, crush the enemy’s main cannon!}

“Rea―ally, commander says that so easily”

Yurishi+a breathed out a deep sigh

At that tiht the sign of an airplane could be seen

“……Moreover, it doesn’t seem like ill be able to reach the enemy shi+p easily―”

Magic weapon groups taking off fro to their location

It was a crowd of category-B Albatross In total there were fifty

“Well then, we are clearing them all at once now♪”

Yurishi+a stopped in place

The Differential Fray from propulsive power into attack power

Golden light flowed into the surface of the gear, carrying energy into the particle cannon

The Differential Frame was deployed and the particle cannon’s muzzle was directed to the front

Ahead of it was the squad of Albatross

Aine and Hiht, running away from Yurishi+a’s line of fire toward the Albatrosses

Energy was gathering in the muzzles of the particle cannons

At that ti all at once

“Yurishi+a-san!”

Himekawa turned around to Yurishi+a

However Yurishi+a didn’t show any sign of

The light bullets of the bayonets flew, grazing Yurishi+a

Cross’ particle cannons were filled with energy until the liht that couldn’t be suppressed

“GOOOOOO-!”

Together with an explosive light, a bundle of light was fired from the Differential Frame

The radiance of the particle cannons opened a hole in the Albatross squad for a moment

The Differential Fraht traced a line horizontally through the enemy squad

As if chasing after the particle cannons’ line, the Albatrosses were exploding one after another

Half of theht in a flash

“Thank you veryattack-!”

Hi units

“Blade!”

The large swords freely flying on her back flew out While drawing large arcs, the swords circled the explosion smoke

Albatrosses appeared from inside that explosion They headed to Himekawa in front of them and prepared their bayonet

Himekawa drew out the sword on her hips

However, she had no projectile weapon

The distance until the Albatrosses was roughly three hundred meters

Himekawa’s sword couldn’t possibly reach

And then, the Albatrosses’ bayonets spouted out fire――,

At that instant, Blades piercing through the Albatrosses’ chest appeared

The Albatrosses exploded greatly while exposing out their internal mechanism

The Blades that cut apart the h speed and aimed for the next prey

They attacked fro the enemy from its head until its crotch into two

The Blades flew around freely in this air coic weapons one after another They eapons that displayed unparalleled e combat

However, high concentration was needed for its operation Because of that, Hi

Hi in place was attacked by an Albatross from behind

“!!”

Hi her sword

The Albatross’ sung down

Fierce sparks scattered

A roar from torn off metal resounded, the head of the Albatross was torn off and bloay

“Aine-san!?”

Aine kicked away the Albatross

She halted as if sliding in the sky There, another Albatross was lying in wait and rained her doith its shooting

“Kuh!”

She deployed a shi+eld of light and repelled the ic bullets

Zeros’ defense system, the Life Saver was instantly deployed and protected Aine’s body

Aine looked around her surroundings with a grim face

When she confir into the enemy’s flank

However the Albatross was also trying to maintain the distance with Aine and moved back

And then, it directed the gun at the charging Aine

However, Aine readied the anti er

Staggering explosive sound resounded, wind pressure that seemed like a strike had hit her face

Even the rifle that could destroy trucks and aric weapons However, it was enough to divert the gun muzzle directed at Aine

The ht from the side

Aine threay the rifle and pulled back her arht

“HAAAAA!”

The thruster ignited

Like a fired bullet, Aine’s fist was driven into the enemy

The sound and destructive power that were like an explosion pierced through the Albatross’ body

The shockwave passed through until the back and a large hole was gouged into the Albatross’ body

Together with a large explosion, fraght scattered apart

When Aine came out from the smoke, she could confirm the enemy fleet

“The distance is only about…… two, thirty kilometers more”

“Ah! Please look at that”

When they looked at the direction Hi out one after another from the enemy fleet’s aircraft carrier

Even Yurishi+a as in a slightly separated location made a fed-up face

{Hurry! Only seven minutes left!}

Reiri’s impatient voice resounded in their ears

Yurishi+a’s voice that was answering her was also irritated

“We know already! If I can just get a little bit closer, I can settle this with my particle cannon!”

Even while they were talking, the Albatrosses were attacking them The enemy number was just too many in any case

“Just howhere!?”

Hi the map of the battle state

The circle that displayed the ene to reach Ataraxia soon already

Blood left Himekawa’s face

“F, for now let’s not get too focused on the ic weapons! Anye have to hit the enemy’s main――kyaaaa!”

Hirazed by a flame pillar

That fierce heat and pressure bleay Hiether with her Life Saver

“Hayuru!?”

When Himekawa stopped with her brake, she looked at the enemy that attacked her

It was a on with a person buried on its back

A Dragre

It was a category-A ic weapon that troubled Yurishi+a before this

“I hate persistent guys, really!”

Yurishi+a raised her output and headed to the battleshi+p Himekawa too immediately pursued behind

“Yurishi+a-san! What about the Dragre?”

When she looked back, she could see the Dragre pursuing them

“There is no free tiory-A!”

However the Dragre couldn’t be shaken off It was gaining in its pursuit of the two

When the dragon’sa vortex in it Faster than the two could fly, it hit directly at their backs

“HIAAAAAAAAAA-!”

The i hit from behind by a car

“Guh…… you bastard!”

They forcefully changed their direction and escaped froh they were protected by the Life Saver, their Hybrid Count was considerably shaved off

Yurishi+a wiped off her sweat

“If it stays like this, on’t have any energy left to destroy the main cannon!”

“Yurishi+a-san!”

Himekawa put her hand on the sword on her hips

Looking at that, Yurishi+a stopped her pace

Himekawa also imitated her

“We are killing it, Hayuru!”

“Yes, that’s what I wish for!”

However, there was no ti of the battleshi+p bombardment was only three minutes

“Both of you, head to the battleshi+p”

The wind that passed through the side of the two left those words behind

“Aine!?”

With a trere

Dragre’s flame attacked Aine

However Aine didn’t dodge it and deployed her Life Saver

The flame and the Life Saver collided

“HAAAAAA-!”

The Life Saver parted the flare

Inside the fla as opened

“You idiot! What are you doing!”

“That’s absurd! Aine-san!”

Both of them screamed

Kizuna as also looking at that situation opened a line unable to bear it

{Chidorigafuchi! Stop!}

Aine yelled as if to shake off those voices

“UAAAAAAAAA-!”

She pierced through the flame

She passed through the dragon neck

In front of her eyes was the humanoid upper body

The thrusters on Aine’s waist and legs spouted fire

“HAAA-!!”

The full power acceleration added to the force of her charge A flying kick like a re’s body The shockwave re twist its body

The next on body was broken into two and the internalwrenched sounded like the death cry of the monster

The Dragre caused a large explosion

{Aine!}

{Aine-san!}

Aine’s shoulders were heaving fro

“Even I, can defeat, A-class…… I don’t lose, to, Yurishi+a……”

Abreaths

A co ahead

{Aine, don’t be rash!+ Think of combination!}

{That’s right! Let’s form formation! Quickly, this way――}

Aine waved off the noisy ith her hand and hurried towards the battleshi+p

In front of that Aine, Kizuna’s as projected

{What are you doing so rashly! You use the Life Saver too much!}

“I defeated the category-A right, I didn’t use it pointlessly”

{Right now your Hybrid Count is…… o, oi! It’s already in 10 see!?}

“If there is that h”

Aine answered nonchalantly

“If there is that much――”

Yurishi+a looked back and confirure

“Good grief…… what a stupid girl-!”

Yurishi+a clicked her tongue and distributed the Differential Fra force

“We are going ahead!”

“Ah! Even Yurishi+a-san!”

Hi to cry, but she went away to the rear of the enemy

The commencement of the bombardment was one more minute

Cross’s full acceleration shook off the eneht Yurishi+a until above the battleshi+p

“Looks like, I somehow made it”

Yurishi+a stopped stock still in the sky

She deployed the Differential Frame, and this time she directed the whole output into the particle cannon’s attack power

Below her the large battleshi+p was slowly but surely invading forward

While she was charging her attack, Hiht up

“Yurishi+a-san!”

“Yes I’ll settle this now”

In contrast with her light tone, Yurishi+a was glaring grimly at the battleshi+p

Yurishi+a’s particle cannon was directed at the battleshi+p’s main cannon

“Now, prepare yourself, hell Fi――”

At that ti, the ene momentarily