Vol 4 Chapter 3 (1/2)

HxH Vol 4 Chapter 3 – Tokyo Recapture Operation

Chapter 3 – Tokyo Recapture Operation

Part 1

The Entrance of Tokyo was in a shape that traversed through the japan imperial palace, it displayed an eerie presence

It was a transparent wall that crossed about a kilometer horizontally and vertically It had no thickness, the surface was di slowly like a water surface Froreat amount It was an understandable story for Tokyo to be vastly daed

The bay coast area was particularly in a bad condition, it was turned into a burnt filed with only rubble that stretched continuously There was al in the cities of Hibiya, Ginza, and japan Bridge The capital highway crue fell, the common roads were also filled with rubble and the traffic was paralyzed Tokyo had completely lost its function as the capital

Also, the hue was considerable too And then, even after the battle had quietened down, Tokyo was treic weapons that strutted around as if they owned the place, the people were living in hiding Lifelines like electricity and water didn’t function, the food amount also hit rock bottom

The people didn’t have hope, there was also no means of salvation What was left was only to die The only difference hether it came fast or slow Rather, it was better to die quickly with a pain that would only last for a short while The nuht so were not few

But, that too was just the story of last month

“The reconstruction is going well isn’t it?”

Hida Nayuta alking from Yurakucho towards the entrance

“Yes……the work is carried out focused on each block…the building in, Yurakucho, and Marunouchi will be finished soon”

Large nu nearby the two When there was a person that earing a business suit like a coht their fa male and female couples that seemed to be on date were also not few in numbers

That scene was like the situation before the 2nd Another Universe Conflict happened, when the city was flourishi+ng in holiday They were not concerned of anything at all, whether it was of the crued out, or the AU fleet floating above, or even the Entrance that stood tall dividing the ih it was only natural for those sights to be there, or as though such sights didn’t even enter their eyes

A the clothes of AU and Valdy earingcoat that was ordered in AU It gave an ilance, but it also looked like afro it At the very least, there was no doubt that it would gather curious gazes in the middle of the city

However, there was no one that gave heed to these two even when they passed each other

“In accordance with the oing ahead from the areas that are nearby the Entrance Is there……any problem?”

“No It’s truly marvelous”

Valdy’s cheek reddened from Nayuta’s words of praise

Sound of construction rang out froreat nuressing the reconstruction work of the pavement

The laborers were talking to each other about the progress of the work, they also talked about trivial things However, the content of those talks felt dreary in some respect

“I saw it yesterday on television you know, it featured Hibiya in the gourram The food looked really cheap and tasty”

“Then, how about we try it after the work is over?”

That store was destroyed from the battle of Another Universe Conflict In the first place right now the broadcasting station was not functioning, so there was no television broadcasts Regardless of that, these laborers were repeating the sa lively as if they were really having fun as though they were talking of this topic for the first ti full vitality that could only be thought of as co from a human

“Seems like there is also no problem in the mind control”

“Yes……in the previous experiment, the eic power plant……thanks to that, Zelsione-sama also kindly lent her power even more than before”

“Even so, she was able to brainwash on a scale this large Zelsione-sa”

“Yes but, it’s only for the inside of Ya, Yaic is deployed using the track of that ring railroad, so…that’s how it is, please don’t try to get out to the outside……because it’s dangerous”

The people spending a wealthy and peaceful livelihood were only the ones inside the Yamanote line In contrast the outside was in ruin, there was alhborhood It was just that there was the possibility of resistance force of hu nearby

“Understood I only earnestly ask to please not let humans co after all if they destroy the i power plant’s installation”

“Ye, yes I think, it will be fine The patrolling of the ”

Nayuta looked at the direction of outside the loop line Thereupon, at the opposite side of the overhead structure of Yaic weapons [Blue Head] and [Albatross] lining up

“Roger Then next it’s about the expansion work of the ress at the area from Kudanshi+ta until Iidabashi+?”

“The, the work there is……lacking in workers……looks like it will be late”

“If that’s the case, let’s put to use the gentle public order”

In this place, the people collected fro their minds controlled to be used as labor force There were especially a lot ofpublic order The AU were using hu down on the resistance forces that were against AU

“Let’s increase the area where we can collect energy just like this We have to hurry in order to stop the destruction of Vatlantis after all”

Valdy nodded with a meek face at Nayuta’s words

“Nayuta-sama, this Valdy……even if I have to risk my life――”

At that time, an explosion sound could be heard from the direction of Tokyo bay

Valdy readied herself to protect Nayuta and becas

“The sound just now……is froic weapons encounter enemies? ……But, there should be no more humans in the coastlands”

Nayuta s in puzzlement

“No It’s likely the scouts of Ataraxia, otherwise it’s a surprise attack”

“Enemy……”

Nayuta looked up to the sky of Tokyo Bay The five hundredthere exploded and fell down

Nayuta murmured joyfully

“So you came Kizuna, Reiri”

Part 2

At Ataraxia, Gertrude was taking position in the middle of the control roo on her wheelchair, but she wore her Heart Hybrid Gear and opened several co several lines to multiple people at the same time, so several communication ere lined up

Reiri caave instructions to Gertrude

“It’s time to rush into Tokyo Confirm the present condition”

Gertrude nodded and chose Kizuna’sto talk

“This is Ataraxia, explain the situation”

{This is Kizuna It’s coic weapons of the enemy are too many}

Reiri changed her expression

“Kizuna! Can’t you go past without getting noticed?”

Reiri faced theand yelled angrily

Kizuna sent the ie that Eros’s cae relayed to Ataraxia lost their words

And then Kizuna yelled to the

“The situation is just as you see! This is the second co of the 2nd Another Universe Conflict!”

Large force even ined was stationed there Several dozen battleshi+ps were in standby at the sky, between those shi+ps were tens, hundreds of

“All gears charge! Be careful of stray bullet!”

Right after saying that, bullet of light grazed passed right beside Kizuna The battleshi+ps deployed along the Tokyo Bay began their bo forward Kizuna plunged in the ic weapon and boht, he ain Even so a bullet that ca from somewhere hit his Life Saver and let flew sparks

“It’s io past through!”

Kizuna and A forward eneh the enemy and caic weapons that were standing by at the main road and intersection that flew up one after another

Fierce sounds roared, Kizuna looked above Thereupon one of the battleshi+ps that was carrying out shi+p bombardment was sliced into two And then it exploded repeatedly while turning into fraght that were scattered by the wind

Nearby the shi+p was a red Heart Hybrid Gear floating while holding two double-edged swords

Kizuna faced theto Ataraxia and shouted

“Himekawa sunk a battleshi+p with Gladius! Now that it co and go to investigate Tokyo!”

Reiri called out with a worried voice

{Roger Don’t forget to secure an escape route}

Kizuna replied with affirmative and sent a communication to everyone

“Everyone, I’ll infiltrate until the center of Tokyo like this! I’ll retreat after investigating around the Entrance Until then, defeat every single one of the ic weapons and the battleshi+ps Got that!?”

{Roger!}

Voices returned from all members of Amaterasu and Masters

Kizuna went north from Tokyo Bay and flew above the street that continued to Ginza and Yurakuchou And then when he passed through the overhead structure of Yaed completely

“What, is this……there is reconstruction work?”

Until now there was only ruins that continued without end, but suddenly the scenery changed to a city with sign of living Constuction as carrying out everywhere in the ordered townscape without rubbles

And then, there was so

“People! There are people Nee-chan! Also……there are a lot, or rather……”

{What!? Are they AU people? Or else, are they human of our side?}

“I don’t know It looks like just before the Another Universe Conflict happened I’ll land down after this to confirm!”

Kizuna lowered his altitude He couldn’t suppress the rapid throb of his heart and landed on the street without even decreasing his speed satisfactorily He ran right after that and talked at anearby

“Wait! You there”

However that h just like that

“O, oi! Wait!”

It was like his calling voice wasn’t heard He left without turning back with unhesitating pace

“shi+t-, I’nored! ……Oi, you all!”

This ti unifor

“I caafloat japan in order to free Tokyo I got so I want to ask a bi――”

However, these fe Kizuna

“Oi! Can’t you see me?”

Kizuna grasped the shoulder of one of the girl and turned her at his direction

That girl finally looked at Kizuna

“Listen, I……”

However the gaze of that girl was passing through Kizuna’s body and focused at far ahead She didn’t recognize Kizuna’s figure at all There was nothing particularly unusual in this girl, she was a really nor at all

It was just that she was unable to see Kizuna’s figure, she also couldn’t hear his voice

“Hey―, what’s wrong―?”

The girl’s company called at her

“Eh? H”

The girl that Kizuna stopped chased after the other two female students with fast steps and like that they continued to talk while walking

‘―――What the heck, just what is theof this?’

Many people were passing through around Kizuna However, no one noticed Kizuna’s existence So cold crawled at Kizuna’s back

‘They didn’t hearto them, they also didn’t see me This is, as if――’

“It’s like they are hypnotized……don’t you think?”

He heard a voice that he recognized Kizuna turned back at the direction of the voice with a startled jump

“You have come Kizuna”

At the other side of the crowd of people, Hida Nayuta showed her figure wearing the clothes of the AU Behind her was Valdy sticking close to her like shadow in her ic armor Rael

“Kaa-san!”

The ure, he tasted a nervousness that was even sis unintentionally froze and he was unable to immediately rush

‘shi+t-! Get a grip Hida Kizuna! What are you doing getting cold feet at yourthis far for!’

Kizuna encouraged hilared at her h to rush forward, he walked until in front of his mother

Looking at Kizuna as like that, Nayuta was showing her usual kind smile

“Ka……Kaa-san”

When he saw that ss that he wanted to ask suddenly welled up Mountain of doubt and question searched for exit at the sa his throat hitched and no voice came out

“Fufufu, I knohat you want to ask Why are these people not recognizing us, isn’t it?”

“Ye, yeah……that’s, true”

There was other question, there was so even more important to him He tried to say that, but Nayuta’s words cut him off

“Exactly as you guessed, they are put under a powerful suggestion They cannot recognize the current situation and live inside the happy world before the Another Universe Conflict”

Kizuna gulped audibly

“Why……why are you doing this?”

“Because it will be really difficult for the experiment if they have free will left”

‘――Experiment?’

“I pro didn’t I? Look over there”

Chasing after Nayuta’s gaze, his eyes were caught at a strange machine installed at the intersection

It was like a tree created from metal and electronic coled coh until around twenty meter From the middle of the trunk, several antennas protruded out like spreading branches And then fro to four directions

With that ic circle with diaround When he looked carefully, he noticed that theof metallic cable that formed the tree in the center

“This is……the interesting, thing?”

Kizuna didn’t understand just as this thing that was like an object of modern art But, he also felt like it was anticlimactic

At that ti through Kizuna He was apologizing with his all at the s from his forehead

“I’m sorry, the train was a little late……yes, in ten y I will arrive soon”

“He can use……smartphone?”

Nayuta shook her head to Kizuna hispering in admiration

“Of course things like base station for telephone are not activated That office worker is just feeling that he iswith anyone Rather than that, look at the trace of his step”

Being told by Nayuta, Kizuna dropped his gaze at the ground that the office worker passed through There, his footsteps were di it was absorbed into the ground and vanish

“What’s, that light just now?”

In order to answer Kizuna’sin the intersection

Light particles were rushi+ng about inside the hts arrived on the cable and reached the tree at the center And then the tree trunk raised the bluish white light above as though it was taking water froht was trans out from the branches and crossed to the other side of the street

The light passed over the moat of the imperial palace and vanished at the Entrance that wasthe cable and flowed into the AU

“Kaa-san……what is that, just now?”

“Life force is sucked froy”

“Wha……”

Kizuna doubted his ear

“What I called as energy is……that’s right, as I thought, calling it [ that world is suitable Currently it only targeted the area around the Entrance, but three is the plan that before long the whole area inside Yaic power plant”

A great nuh in front of his eyes Life force was stolen froht particles followed the cable and flowed into the Entrance

“Magic power? Plant……you said?”

Kizuna was unable to understand theof those words

“All of the people inside Yay source for the sake of supplyingtheir life force that is their stay, that’s what it means”

‘What the hell, is that……’

“Isn’t that, completely the same like the mechanism of Heart Hybrid Gear?”

“Yes That’s why they will die if their energy is coed out That will just not work For that reason an adequatehalf of the energy that human recovered in one day”

“Why just half? It’s strangely kind just in that kind of place huh”

Kizuna intended to say that as sarcasm with his all But Nayuta didn’t even notice and continued her explanation

“If we collect it all, human won’t be able to do their activity They will be completely asleep the whole day That will inevitably invited the decline of sta short That will result in the sy obtained That’s why, in order to collect energy in thethe schedule that I planned For that sake they are given powerful suggestion like this”

Kizuna stared at the co people dumbfoundedly

“Just why in the world, Kaa-san do soic pohat in the world is it?”

“If I have to say it siy at the world over there Although right now they are faced with a serious proble up This is the countermeasure for that”

‘The AU’s, energy problem she said?’

“Don’t fuck withlike that?”

“Even if for argu that is particularly rare right? It also often happened in our world here”

“That’s not the probleiven!?”

“It can”

“-……!”

Kizuna couldn’t say anything after getting an answer that was said so naturally like that

“Isn’t this fine? They look happy see? Look at them, Kizuna”

Kizuna looked at the face of the walking corim face and also happy face, in any case they were faces that were living their respective ordinary day

But that was a live that came from a fake ordinary day

“So like an ordinary day……a peace that is created fro there is in such a fictive happiness! So like this is no different than a livestock!”

Ten years ago he experienced being abandoned Even so, so for his mother He honestly loved his er at that mother

However, that mother spoke as if to admonish him

“For the current the job”

Kizuna clenched his fist

‘――This is,

This is, my mother?

Come to think of it, perhaps I too am like a livestock for this person

She raised , but she threw me ahen I became unneeded’

Kizuna glared at Nayuta with a grim expression

“Kaa-san, I won’t expect anything from your conscience anymore But, I’ll have you take responsibility”

“Responsibility? For what I wonder?”

“Forit to other people! Why did you create so like Heart Hybrid Gear!? That kind of weapon! Not only that, you even went to AU and created for theic armor!”

Nayuta suddenly sighed

“Kizuna isa mistake of the major premise here”

“Mistake? Whatexcuse after this far is――”

“The Core of Heart Hybrid Gear is not so that I created”

‘……What?’

“The Core is a substance froated it in Vatlantis, but over there the Core is also treated as y it was created Most likely it was created by the race at the time before Vatlantis Empire……by the people that ruled over the AU at the prehistoric era, that’s what I think”

“Tha, that’s impossible! Then, how……”

“Around the outbreak of the 1st Another Universe Conflict, a Core was discovered nearby an Entrance Most likely there was an outbreak of small scale Entrance That Entrance was connected to the place where Vatlantis stored their Cores by accident and the Core fell at the world over here……this is nothing but a hypothesis though”

‘It’s not so, that Kaa-san created, she said?’

“It seeician used They created aric power, equipped their body with powerful weapon, it was a kind of ic power in hu at y that is extreic power That is……”

Kizuna scowled his face

“That is, the life force of hu is it?”

“Right Thanks to that replace forth Heart Hybrid Gear What I did was only creating a ic power”

“Then……even the method to suppress the reduction of Hybrid Count, or extracting the Core……”

“I don’t know”

‘shi+t-! Even though I finally found Kaa-san, it doesn’t solve anything’

“――No, anyway……I’ll have you return to Ataraxia If Kaa-san doesn’t know, then think how to do it froether with the method to repel back the AU”

Kizuna opened the communication

“This is Kizuna I discovered Kaa-sa……Professor Nayuta, I’ll take her back after this Lend me a hand’

Before he could finish saying that, Aine landed down from the sky

“Kizuna! Professor Nayuta!’

When Nayuta noticed Aine’s figure, she raised her voice happily

“Aah, Aine So you cam, I’ve waited for you”

Aine faced Nayuta with a dubious face

“Waiting……for me?”

“Yes I’ you Of your forbidden armament”

‘――what is Kaa-san talking about?’

Aine too tilted her neck similarly like Kizuna

“I don’t understand theabout but……anyway, let’s return to Ataraxia”

At that tih pitched voice resounded

“I found you, Zeros!’

Kizuna searched for the owner of the voice and looked around his surrounding

At the other side of the street, a battleshi+p of AU was slowly showing its appearance froantic battleshi+p showing its appearance fro possessed a bizarre pressure

It was a 500 ant line and slim body Thanks to its slimness, it could fly above a wide street The hull was colored bright red, it was a type that they really never encountered

However, he recognized the figure that was standing on the bow of that shi+p

The large typeits arrus which was settled inside that large body

“I thought that you will absolutely co you in front of Zelsione-sama!”

The gear ignited its thruster and charged toward Aine

Valdy raised a panicked voice

“Ra, Ragrus, inside the wide area ic circle is-“

“I know! I must not dirty the sorcery of Zelsione-sauys!”

“Eh……ah, so, sorry”

Valdy’s ar from her elbow suddenly vanished

At that tirus’s charge, a steel claw grasped Aine’s arm

“Wha-……what’s with this”

Aine felt creepy staring at the steel arrew out from thin air

“Aine!? shi+t-, that girl!”

Even Kizuna’s aro to help was also similarly restrained Kizuna had cold sweat froe hands opened and approached Kizuna and Aine

‘daht by that!’

Derasped Kizuna and Aine’s body

‘――damn!’

Kizuna struggled trying to escape frorasped Kizuna and Aine’s body tightly Deh the wide road Kizuna and Aine were kept in its grasp and they passed through the overhead structure of Yamanote line in the blink of eye

“Noe can rauess you till be crushed in rasp first before that won’t you?”

The gigantic palth on Kizuna and Aine’s body

Aine uished expression and desperately resisted that power

“Kuh……this”

Blue light of h the surface of Aine’s Zeros She put her body’s full strength and tried to pry open the fingers of Deth was the best she could do

Eros’s armor raised a screaments scattered all over

‘――daet crushed for real!’

Kizuna endured his body that was raising creaking sound while reaching out his right hand as if trying to grasp so

“Mode Neros!”

The pink light that ran on Kizuna’s Heart Hybrid Gear [Eros] changed color to red At the same time, the power of Himekawa Hayuru’s Neros now resided in Eros

“Come! Sword!!”

A sas created inside Kizuna’s palm

“Wai-! What’s with that!?”

It was the result of his Climax Hybrid with Himekawa Kizuna’s Eros made the ability of the partner he had Climax Hybrid with as his and with that he was able to create the weapon of said partner He quickly grasped the created sword and airus

‘――Even if she is not killed, it’s enough to stop her movement Rather I’ll let her live and capture her as prisoner!”

“HAAAA-!”

He deter down his sword

“Chih!”

Ragrus threay Kizuna and Aine’s body with all her strength

“UWAAAAAAAAAA!”

Kizuna’s body gouged the pavement of the street and rebounded He rolled around for some hundred meters in bounces

“Kuh, shi+TTTT!”

He somehow controlled his balance with his thruster and halted his body by sinking in his feet to the road

When he raised his face, Aine had recovered her posture even quicker than Kizuna and rushed in order to intercept Ragrus

“Here I go, big guy!”

“Show me the power of the rumored Zeros!”

De down Aine crossed her arm and blocked it overhead

“Guu……-!”

The ih the road surface from below Aine’s feet Her arms almost broke

“Hah! You block well But, there is still more after this-!”

A punch with large swing bleay Aine Aine’s body flew in a straight line and crashed into the building at the opposite side of the street

“Aine!”

Kizuna light up his thruster and rushed at Ragrus

“URAAAAAAA-!”

He readied Sword right beside him and flashed it horizontally Fierce ht into two

“……-!!”