Vol 5 Prologue (1/2)

Prologue

It was a dim room

A bluish whiteon the wall

A thin light ran as if that ht widened in width at one go

“……Kuh”

The light pierced the eyes that were used to darkness He avoided the light with his hand against the radiance outside the door and scowled his face

“Get outside, Hida Kizuna”

A voice caht

Kizuna opened his crunched eyes and focused his eyes to the light By doing that, he could see a faint outline of a person That shadow of a person was pushi+ng out its right hand forward So in the darkness was shi+ning bluish white on that palm

The door that was until now didn’t even flinch when he kicked and hit it was closed with a slide It was likely thatthe role of a key

He confir in After his Heart Hybrid Gear was removed by Zeros’s Forbidden Armament [Code Breaker], he was soon taken captive by the iuard of Vatlantis Thanks to that, he was still in his tattered pilot suit

His wound frohly whipped by Zelsione hurt But, it was fortunate that he was given treat that was pierced by a sas also wrapped in bandage

After he rose fro As if to ascertain it, he took a single step with his left leg and put his weight on it It was quiet painful, but he could walk

Kizuna looked around the single cell idth of four and a half tatami Whether it was the bed or the tray, it was a roole le la else

How long had he been confined here he wondered? Five hours……no, perhaps eight hours He was locked inside a di of time was blurred

“What are you doing? Get out quickly”

He could hear an irritated voice His eyes were ht now, so he could confirm the owner of the voice

Her hair was blonde in bob-style that orn in braids Her aly well-ordered face had the beauty and cuteness of a western doll coexisting in it However as if to reject those two factors, her right eye was hidden by an eye patch He could understand that she was a

‘――This woman was the one that threw me into the cell If I’m not mistaken……she was called Clayda of Quartum’

Her appearance was around the sae presence and pressure It was likely that she had survivedup a journey that she had walked and experienced, coher than normal people

This Clayda of Quartu foolishness if she was in front of Zelsione But, froined even for a bit co from her

Kizuna exited the cell while being cautious of Clayda The outside was a long corridor Similar with the solitary cell, a pure white corridor without any decoration was continuing endlessly And then, siht walls with fixed interval between them

‘Are Himekawa, Yurishi+a, and the others also locked up here?

And then……what about Aine?

What happened to Aine?’

Clayda was leaning on the wall and stared at Kizuna suspiciously One of her hands was holding a scabbard that was greatly curved like a crescent moon

“Oi, Clayda……right? I have so I want to――”

Suddenly so cold could be felt on his throat

“!? ……-”

A sharp blade almost cut off Kizuna’s neck The sword that was drawn out fro That elegant sword that was extremely curved like a crescent moon, he didn’t understand at all just when it was drawn, and when it ung He didn’t notice a single gesture or even any presence

Sweat floated on Kizuna’s forehead

‘If she felt like it, I’ll be cut down instantly’

“Kizuna I’ll say it oneunnecessary”

Clayda stared at Kizuna with her only eye There was no anger or hate in that eye For Clayda, Kizuna was not an ierous existence

“Yeah……I understand your skill……besides I cannot equip ot no way to resist here”

Kizuna slowly raised his right hand and displayed the bracelet that was fitted on his arm

“It’s the fault of this thing right? No matter how much I yelled, I cannot equip my Heart Hybrid Gear”

He showed his nonresistance, but Clayda still didn’t put away her sword

“Oi……is there still so else? Rather, I want you to put away this sword already”

With a single motion of Clayda’s wrist, Kizuna would have his throat cut and then die His flowing out sweat followed along the sword at his throat and dripped down froe

Clayda’s expression warped slightly in displeasure Her soft looking lips opened grudgingly

“Also one ic arh a position you have in Leht, in here you are lower than the frontier savage By all rights, you should have your neck cut off just like this”

Similar when it was drawn out, the sas stored back to its scabbard instantly That shich was close of being semicircular was sheathed back skillfully Kizuna honestly felt i acrobatics

“Good grief……if only there wasn’t that annoying order co out to not kill you”

Clayda murmured in a bad mood However Kizuna’s ears couldn’t catch that murhtly clicked her tongue and pointed ahead of the corridor with her chin

“If you got it already then quickly walk Don’t er than this”

He had so slain Kizuna endured and began to walk the corridor in silence

After progressing forhile harboring anxiety, he could see a srew violent of as going on outside Would he get suddenly pushed down from the sky and below there would be a s, he came outside resolutely

And then Kizuna reflexively gulped from the spectacle that spread before his eyes

“This is……where is it?”

A gigantic black wall that was towering high was spreading in his sight fully The wall that gave hi black was higher than three hundreduntil far beyond, that the wall far ahead looked misty

And thenfor the black wall in an endless line Just howan orderly line were slightly different froic weapons that he was familiar with The Blue Heads and Albatross’ appearances that were like knights were the sa painted in different colors of white and red, there was also a crest like a heether with the splendidly refined ornaic weapon at the head of the line was carrying a huge flag, it was like a parade would be carried out after this

When he looked carefully, the line wasn’t ic weapons, vehicles that were ree palanquins were also mixed inside Even aolden palanquin that was put in the center of the parade It was a triangular pyraht of about tena flat space There a statue that seeold and silver jewelry were put on it Perhaps the uessed

A level below it, iht, glaring at the surroundings withoutan inch

At the opposite side of the black wall, behind the line there was boundless wasteland without a single grass growing continuing In the scenery of the desolate land littered with fissures, as running through while rolling up clouds of dust

“Don’t tell me, is this……the AU?”

He was captured in Tokyo and then he was immediately thrown into the cell of Vatlantis’s battleshi+p Since then he was continuously in a room without any , so he didn’t understand where this scenery he was looking at was located

He could iht vibration of the floor The scenery spreading before his eyes was like the wasteland of Arizona

Kizuna looked up at the black wall that cut off the light

‘But, what is this wall? Who was building so that was brought along through the Entrance?’

When he dropped his gaze, there was a raround froe design, like ain place The large car that was like a truck had its behind half like a box ic weapon that was siic weapon was the engine substitution

“How long are you going to stand around, black ic armor Get down quickly and enter the prisoner transport”

His back was pushed away by Clayda and he slipped off the ramp by a few steps in totter He al him have cold sweat Kizuna turned back to complain at Clayda, but she just pointed ahead with her chin to urge him to hurry like before

Kizuna descended the ralass box

Was this the prisoner transport that Clayda told him just now?

The surroundings of the car was circled by the i him escape absolutely

It would be pointless even if he tried to escape now

Just as he was urged by Clayda, he entered inside the e

“Eh?”

Looking at the situation inside, Kizuna raised his voice reflexively

It looked like afrolass So to speak it was the saic mirror And then, theon the floor, relief and happiness welled up inside him

“Everyone! You are all safe!”

Hearing that voice, the looking down Himekawa, Yurishi+a, Sylvia, and Scarlet turned at him with surprised expressions And then, all at once they showed hi flowers It was like colorful floere bloo in profusion inside the bland prisoner transport

Yurishi+a stood up faster than anyone and hugged at him with a leap

“Kizuna!”

“Owaa, Yurishi+a! E, err, is everyone okay!?’

Himekawa and Scarlet, and Sylvia too raised their body and directed at him their happy faces All of them were similar to Kizuna, they were in pilot suits covered all over ounds There were many tears here and there, so the pilot suit that had been sexy fro

The corners of Hihtly teary, and she smiled as if she was relieved from the bottom of her heart

“Kizuna-kun yourself……I’lad you are safe”

She softly wiped her tears with her fingertip, then in a co Kizuna

“That’s that, but Yurishi+a-san! What are you doing taking the chance in the ht now is a time of crisis, so please discern of the time and place!”

“How annoying Don’t be a hindrance in thisscene of reunion Hayuru”

Yurishi+a didn’t mind it and pressed her breasts that were nearly bared to Kizuna The huge breasts were crushed tenderly on hi soft pressure to Kizuna’s chest

Scarlet that atching that also looked daggers on Yurishi+a and lost her temper

“What are you saying-! This is the scene of thereunion between me and Kizuna!”

Scarlet slipped through Himekawa’s side and she too jumped at Kizuna She quarreled with Yurishi+a for a spot and hanged on Kizuna

“Uu……the, the both of you are not fair desuu Sylvia too……”

Sylvia too hugged around Kizuna’s waist with a face that was going to cry Yurishi+a and Scarlet were hugging at him, so there was no other empty space However due to that, Sylvia’s pose looked like she was burying her face on Kizuna’s groin

“Wha-, what sha―!”

Himekawa’s fury exploded

“O, oi, everyone, I got it already! Release me a little!”

Regardless of Kizuna’s desperate appeal, the three kept clinging at hio

“Why don’t all of you have any air of tension! Never mind that, just separate from himm!”

Due to Himekaho looked like a demon, the three were torn off fro while looking at Kizuna with a glare

“So, Kizuna-kun What kind of situation is this? Where are we! Were we taken into the AU? What is going on in Tokyo? And Ataraxia? Also, what about Aine-san?”

“I don’t know, even I……”

At that time the door behind him closed The door beca them unable to comprehend where the door was

Yurishi+a patted around the wall to investigate, but she couldn’t find even the littlest gap

“It’s the same like the cell, looks like it’s locked by sorcery or so……”

Deciding that it was ate further than this, Yurishi+a separated from the wall and returned back to Kizuna and the others The state where she played around just noas hidden, the color of her eye was serious

“Then, how about we organize the situation Scarlet, what about the other members of Masters?”

Scarlet pointed behind thelass car the saht now

“When I was put in here, I saw the in the car behind”

“I see Anyway it seems that we can think of the by above the sea separated from Tokyo? How could you be captured I wonder?”

Sylvia curled her body as if to shrink herself

“Sylvia is sorry desu……looking how the fleet of the AU appeared, Sylvia thought that Sylvia has to help everyone and returned to Tokyo desu……but suddenly a ht enveloped Sylvia After that Taros suddenly disappeared It was already the best Sylvia could do to land in eency just before Taros could completely vanish desu”

Himekawa tilted her head with a difficult face

“Is that……the enemy’s neeapon?”

When Aine used Code Breaker, Hiic of Zelsione and lost their senses That hy they didn’t know about the shocking truth But the sight of that time had been burned behind Kizuna’s eyelids

“That was Aine’s……Zeros’s Forbidden Armament’s power”

Himekawa opened her eyes wide at Kizuna’s answer

“Forbidden……Armament, what is that? Is that different with Corruption Armament?”

“It’s a weapon with special power that surpassed Corruption Armament……that’s a Forbidden Armament Zeros’s Forbidden Armament [Code Breaker] has the power to teric circle Zeros created will be decoraphics In front of that pohether it is s that are created by AU technology will be completely useless”

Yurishi+a lightly whistled

“That’s really shocking, for such a weapon to be loaded inside Zeros”

“But, Sylvia’s Taros is not a weapon of AU desu Despite so it can still be shot down by Aine-san desu?”

“Aah, that’s……Code Breaker doesn’t affect just the enerate Heart Hybrid Gear”

If he believed Hida Nayuta’s story, then both Heart Hybrid Gear andthe saht like that, then he could believe that it was only natural for both of therated

“I see now Because of that our brainwashi+ng was also cancelled”

As expected of Yurishi+a, she had quick understanding Putting aside Scarlet as having a question mark above her head, they continued the talk

“butt, like they than that is mostly invincible isn’t it……after all in front of that power, no one can do anything, whether it’s us or those AU fellows”

Scarlet crossed her ar

“Nn―……I don’t really understand but, doesn’t that et the absolute advantage in the battle against the AU like this! With that there is no e can lose anymore-!”

Yurishi+a sighed in astonishment towards the elated Scarlet

“Yet despite so, why do we have to meet this kind of experience I wonder?”

“Eh……hu, huh? That’s right isn’t it, why is it?”

There was no one that could answer that question

But, the sight at that time was left in the memory of all of them

The figure of the general of the ene in front of Aine

{Vatlantis Ehness Ainess Synclavia I offer you }

“That was……just as it I wonder?”

In contrast with Himekahose eyebroere knitted, Yurishi+a returned an answer calmly

“If we comprehend it as it is, Aine is the princess of the AU……souess?”

‘――That’s stupid’

Kizuna murmured so inside his heart However there were also several things he happened to know

Each time they did Heart Hybrid and Climax Hybrid, Aine said that she recalled her lost memory

No, rather than calling thee that floated inside her head Mysterious scenery and preposterous events Thethat came from a movie However, even if it was preposterous, it was not incoherent, but an ie of a world with order

‘So that was really a real memory

Aine was scared to re to become someone that was not herself

And then now it had become reality

Even though she was that scared, even though she was that desperate

Have I ever seriously thought about Aine’s feelings, her anxiety?

In the end I actually didn’t listen to Aine’s words seriously didn’t I?’

He started to feel regret so severe that it felt like his heart would be crushed

“Captain! Please look at that desu!”

Sylvia pointed at the front of the parade From the deck of the battleshi+p that Kizuna and the others boarded, a bridge was crossed towards the pyramid-style palanquin When he saw the shadow that crossed the bridge, Kizuna’s heart dokun beat strongly

It was a girl with silver hair and red eyes, her body wrapped in a white dress That girl alking between the lines of the iuard

“A……Aine?”

That figure was greatly separated froure of Aine that Kizuna knew It was not Aine that was a pilot of An country, as obeyed by a great nuhts

The foreign princess was not in a pilot suit, she alking in a white dress that elegantly fluttered in the wind In exchange for a headset on her head, there was a beautifully shi+ning golden tiara decorated in her hair

It was a beauty that could make him mistake that this was the entrance of a fairy princess in the middle of a movie

However there was sadness soait also looked heavy

The A at that procession with a held breath Seeht voice that was out of place

“Ahaha, she looks similar to Aine somehow doesn’t she! We, well, their atuess that’s soh! After all, Aine isn’t supposed to be in that kind of spot isn’t she? Right?”

Kizuna was driven by the te with Scarlet’s words

“No……that’s Aine”

――He shouldn’t be able to mistake her

Aine lead the iuard that was commanded by Zelsione and sat down on the throne that was put on the summit of the pyramid

As if the parade had long awaited just for her, it began to move forward

“Wha-, what’s this! This car is ”

Scarlet raised a panicked voice The car followed the line, antic black wall

“It see towards the other side of that wall Is the place we are going to heaven or hell……I wonder, what kind of experiences ill be subjected under from now on?”

“Wait, Yurishi+a! Don’t say anything that will make me even more anxious here!”