Vol 5 Chapter 2 (1/2)

Chapter 2 – Colosseum(Circular Arena) Duel

Part 1

The citizens of Zeltis alking on the street with s with expectation

It was the city of the common citizens which was surrounded by the most outside castle wall At the sides of the street, stores aies and snacks, there were also various things like opera glass and souvenirs sold That sight was exactly the sa district that was adjacent with tourist attractions or sport facilities on earth

The people were talking with enjoys that would happen after this and made their heart sith anticipation And then, ahead of that procession, the facility that was their destination was displaying its dignity proudly

It was so that was completely like the Colosseum of the ancient Roman Empire

On its outer wall that was created by the sa were carved Slashi+ng with sword, stabbing with spear, grappling with bare hands Their figures were coht ofon the wall How the colorful radiances were flowing even looked sirated circuits

As if being invited by those angels andabsorbed one after another into the entrance of the Colosseue battle field was spreading with diameter that surpassed five hundredit were audience seats where a hundred-odd thousand people could watch the battle at the same time

The extent of this Colosseuic weapons, and even possibly between people wearing ic armor

Similar to the ancient Roht, which was exhibited as a spectacle event

The most popular was the coic aric armor was nice, each one was rich with personality, with various weapons ranted ic arnized as suitable There was a showy i warriors, it was only natural that the audience would be excited

However, if they fought using that kind of weapon, the audience too wouldn’t end up safe There, this whole Colosseum was constructed by means of sorcery mechanisms The battle field rapped bya solid wall that was invisible to the audience’s eye Thanks to that, there was not a single worry that stray bullets or bloay e between the audience seats At the sahting in this place couldn’t escape

Several huge floating ere opened above the battle field and the audience seats And then phrases to pro up the audience’s exciteo

The gathered hundred-odd thousand people understood That the match today would be a special competition card which they had never seen until now And then, that this match was also attended by the emperor who returned after ten years and the second princess

It was the beginning of a festival without doubt

Aine as sitting on the throne which was prepared for the sake of royalty was overpowered by the Colosseum which she witnessed for the first time and the excitement that ruled the place

“This is……what’s this commotion?”

“Yes This is one of the events to celebrate Ainess-sath will devote all their strength and skill as attraction Especially since there is Ainess-sama and Grace-sama in attendance this time to watch, so I had prepared a treasured card”

Aine made a frown and looked over the audience seats and the battle field

“Making people fight as an attraction like this……it’s not a good hobby”

“However Nee-sama, didn’t you say that in Lemuria there is also a siht each other So?”

Sitting on the two lined up thrones, at the right side was Aine and at the left side was Grace In contrast with Aine, Grace aiting for the start of the match in a cheery mood

“Those are just sports, it’s not killing each other like this”

Aine answered without looking at Grace It even felt like there was a tear growing in her voice

Zelsione as standing by beside the two took a step forward and lowered her head reverently

“Ainess-sa each other Until the end it has the objective of pitting each others’ skill, it doesn’t hting here are not just enemies or prisoners For example there are Clayda and Lunora there who are inated from this Colosseum”

Zelsione pointed at a blonde eye-patched girl and a blue haired beautiful wo still behind her

Clayda was the girl who led away Kizuna from the cell in the battleshi+p into the prisoner transport Right now she was not in her i a battle outfit that clung tightly to her body She wore a no sleeve short vest with vertical line in it Together with that was a hot pants with size that was abnormally little And then on her back she was armed with a thin sharp sword that looked like a crescent moon

The other one, Lunora, was a feood family rather than a soman However, the atmosphere her body was clad in seemed bizarre souard and a see-through camisole under it At her lower body there were only panty that was tied with strings at the left and right sides and tights until above her knee, her appearance looked like she was co her clothes Her look was really inflammatory, but she wasn’t merely sexy but also caused a bizarre pressure towards those watching her

The cause for that were the large gashes carved on her beautiful face and body

There was a diagonal painful-looking scar fro from a sword cut The wounds were not only on her face There was a large scar along the valley of her breast that was like a vertical stitch Similar scars were also carved on her neck and abdos and arms It made one wonder just how many life and death battles she had acted in this Colosseu it

“I grew to desire theht of these two many times They were scouted by this Zelsione truly”

Grace was staring at the proud Zelsione with astonished eyes

“What scouting Isn’t that just your quick hand, or your bad habit of philandering huh?”

Behind Zelsione were the Quartum and then also Aldea who recently was added as a close-aide standing in a slightly distanced spot

“I feel obliged by the praise your highness bestowed me”

Zelsione made a theatrical bow Aine spontaneously leaked out a sain staring at the faces of the four Quartum

“Other than Clayda and Lunora……the other two didn’t originate from the Colosseum?”

“Yes Eluard”

Eled lady She had cute charently hite hair as her characteristic, and her ears which were a little like beast ears with how it pranced up

The co was also like a fe it see lady, her skin was exposed in places like the valley of her breasts or her stoe slit was inserted right in the ht, the essential places weren’t hidden The ure, creating a dangerous feeling of immorality

She pinched her skirt and bowed elegantly

“Ainess-sareat honor to serve as your highness’s guard in this occasion”

“Yes Take care ofone is……”

A girl with fla red hair

“She is called Ramza There is a little special circumstance――”

At that tian to flow in the Colosseum

“Oo, it will begin soon Nee-sama”

Grace raised her voice happily

At the saate, white sht brown skin alking A splendidly tight body with the muscularity Her short cut blonde hair and the white costuht brown skin

Aine had seen that figure before Rather, it was soet even if she tried

“That’s Gravel!? ……Why is she?”

She was a soldier of Vatlantis who assaulted Ataraxia and struck Aine with her gunsword The opponent who acted a mortal combat with Kizuna at Okinawa

“Ainess-saht now she is being entrusted to ation”

“Treason……?”

Just what in the world happened? Aine stared fixedly at the back figure of Gravel as sloalking to the ination, but it looked like there was tiredness seeping on her back

If she reht Aldea should be her comrade……

Aine who thought that took a glance at Aldea as behind Zelsione However Aldea was expressionless, it see up in her even after looking at Gravel’s figure

The an to flow

And the wall at the opposite side of Gravel opened and similar white smoke like before was blown out Cheers thundered in the Colosseuure of the opponent appeared

The instant she saw that silhouette, Aine gulped

She wouldn’t ure Aine’s heart was ringing like an alarm bell

“Ki……Ki, zuna?”

With his whole body swaying the white sure appeared In place of his pilot suit, Kizuna earing top and botto while looking straight ahead His clothes had si awarriors wouldn’t liven up the place if they had shabby appearances, so Kizuna was made to wear that for the production

Aine’s clenched hand was tre hard

“What is……theof this?”

Zelsione tilted her head as if she didn’t understand theof Aine’s words

“The ?”

“Why is Kizuna over there!? Don’t tell ht――”

“Of course There is no otherthan that for someone to stand in the battle field”

Aine’s astonished expression hardened

“Is so the matter?”

After returning to her senses with a ‘hah’, Aine lifted her eyes

“Stop this ht now! Zel-! I should have told you already to treat everyone courteously! Yet……what’s, with this-!”

Zelsione kept back Aine with a wheedling voice to calitation

“Please rest assured Ainess-sama This is just an entertainment you know, entertainment”

“Entertainment……you say?”

“Yes This is the unveiling of the black ic armor……Kizuna This is to let the people of Vatlantis to know, and recognize of Ainess-sama’s friend Ainess-sama also wished for them to live as a member of Vatlantis correct?”

“Tha, that’s……if that’s the case, that’s certainly fine, but this is too rushed or……no! If they die before that then it will all co”

“Kizuna is a really strong ht I think he doesn’t compare unfavorably with Gravel Rather, Kizuna has defeated Gravel once hasn’t he? Then there is nothing to fear Besides, this Zelsione who has actually fought hith my stamp of approval”

Grace too had her eyes shi+ning fro that

“Hohou, I’ll look forward to this then Moreover the opponent is that beast with tanned skin”

Zelsione nodded as if to say ‘that’s exactly what I think too’

“Yes Furthermore combined with the fact that he is a rare species of male, there is no doubt that he will become the star player of this Colosseum”

Unable to endure, Aine yelled with a loud voice

“You’re wrong At his current state, Kizuna’s strength is the saet killed by Gravel!”

Grace and Zelsione reflexively looked at each other For the two of them who didn’t know about Heart Hybrid and Climax Hybrid, they couldn’t co about However, they at least understood that Aine orrying about Kizuna’s safety

For just an instant, cold light flashed in Zelsione’s eyes That light wasn’t noticed by anyone before her expression changed into a troubled one Zelsione then whispered into Aine’s ear as if she was reluctantly exposing a secret

“Of course, there is also the case where the fighters bet their lives However, just as I told your highness before, this is an entertain each others’ life, but it’s nothing th They are not really fighting for real”

“Eh……”

‘――That ame?’

Aine’s expression softened a little

“Ainess-sama, if Kizuna can suddenly becoard Vatlantis as his second home and live a happy life here”

“……!?”

With a violent shake, Aine’s heart was greatly wavered

‘――Living together with Kizuna in Vatlantis A happy life……’

Aine stared at the center of the battle field with tre eyes Surrounded by cheers that shook the Colosseu eyes

Kizuna was staring hard at Gravel that he even forgot to blink

Previously she was an opponent hoe of life and death, but s or hatred towards her

“Gravel……it’s strange to say long time no see, but why are you in this kind of place?”

On the other hand Gravel’s eyes felt down, her face looked a little lacking in vitality Her glossy tan skin also seemed to be somehow dull

“Kizuna……that’s your naht now I’m merely a captive……I’m in the same position as you No, now that I have received utter humiliation, perhaps I’m even lower than you”

Kizuna felt a shock that even rese out of that dark expression

She was completely like a different person than the Gravel he once crossed swords with The killing intent, ambition, the power of soul that he felt amidst the defense and offense in paper thin difference, he couldn’t feel at all of all those things from that time

“What’s wrong? You are really down”

Reacting to Kizuna’s voice, Gravel lifted her gaze with upturned eyes

“You are concerned about the opponent you will kill each other with after this?”

Kizuna knitted his eyebrows He recalled the thing Zelsione announced to him in the cell

{I’ll grant you the chance to be liberated Tomorrow, if you can triumph in the duel that will be carried out in the Colosseum, you will be free But, if you lose――}

“Killing each other……huh So this is an attraction where people watch the prisoners kill each other”

“That’s right I never thought that I will be able to see you again in this kind of place and shape”

Gravel’sHowever that was a self-deprecating smile, that sneered at herself

“So it’s true that the one who loses in this match will die?”

“That’s right”

“But, I also heard that if you win you can be free”

Gravel snorted

“I was also told that But don’t believe those guys’ words Even if you win you will only be put in the next fight anyway And then, you will continue to kill your opponent to win and advance to the next round, and die when you lose”

“So like that……I want to refrain from that huh”

“This body is s like my life at this late hour……but if there is still a sliver of hope……ifthat I have to do!”

After letting out a deep breath, Gravel yelled with a tensed voice

“Zoros!”

Together with that voice, orange light enveloped Gravel’s body That radiance was coic armor

“Eros!”

Kizuna too immediately called his own Heart Hybrid Gear In response to that voice, pink particles equipped Kizuna’s body with ar black luster

As if already esti, fireworks were launched all at once around the Colosseuht fell fro welled up from the audience who reached the peaked of their excitement

The gong of the battle rang

Three line particle cannons were floating behind Zoros in wing shape Twelve cannon s were directed at Kizuna While they were just the common equipment, but it was Zoros’s main equipment that possessed powerful destructive power The street of office buildings of Ataraxia was cruelly returned to ashes after receiving the volley from them Gertrude of Masters had her Heart Hybrid Gear destroyed after receiving boe And then she becaree that all the bones in her body broke and she wandered between the boundary of life and death

“Here I go Kizuna!”

Kizuna too deployed several layers of Life Saver

“Yeah, I too cannot die in this kind of place!”

Zoros ignited its particle cannons Fla, Kizuna’s figure was hidden by the flame Surprised and disappointed voices leaked out froht that he was instantly killed However, Kizuna’s figure who flew out fro made cheers to be raised once more

“shi+t! That’s too severe for a preliminary attack!”

His Life Saver quickly reached the limit with the attack just now In his condition without Cli What he could do was just continuing to lay out Life Saver and blocked the attack Cold sweat flowed down Kizuna’s cheek

“daot to quickly think of a way to defeat Gravel!”

Gravel ignited her thruster and chased after Kizuna However she was putting a fixed distance between theht be a precaution

“What’s wrong Kizuna Escaping forever like this is not like you”

“Ku……-”

He didn’t have any way to pick a fight even if he wanted it!

He wanted to speak back like that, but he endured with an effort He raised the output of his thruster and could only run away But, Gravel was gradually closing in on Kizuna Although it was a spacious battle field, Kizuna was soon cornered to the wall

Gravel reached out her hand to the gunsword on her back

On the large caliber particle cannon that was like a bazooka, there was a huge and wide single-edged sword buried into it The sword part elongated even th was even taller than Gravel’s height There was a trigger in the hilt and an a the bullet that was inserted into the cylinder, it could be added with a special attack

Putting aside the Corruption Arest weapon

However, Gravel was also hesitating whether to draw out the gunsword or not

‘――Why doesn’t Kizuna come to attack?

His movements are also slow, there is no speed for him to escape

Is he inviting an attack from me?

What is he ai at?

No, there will be no end to it if I’!’

Gravel’s fingers grasped the hilt of her gunsword She accelerated at the same time and closed the distance in one breath

Kizuna sensitively sensed her presence

‘Here she comes!’

He made a spin-turn near the wall and faced Gravel

“HAAAAAAAAA-!”

Gravel’s gunsung down at Kizuna

‘――Now!’

Kizuna’s leg kicked on the ground

He leaped aside with the unsword that cut empty air slashed the wall and fierce sparks scattered

That as the entrance from where Kizuna arrived to this battle field It was the door he entered from

“Yosh-! Did that do it!?”

For Kizuna who didn’t have a weapon, he th and tried to destroy the Life Saver that was enveloping the battle field If it was the gunsword that destroyed even Kizuna’s Life Saver, then perhaps it could destroy this wall

Kizuna was staring fixedly at the dazzling light and sparks that the conflict between the gunsword and the Life Saver e his breath

‘――Just noas a speed that Eros can only barely create Afor a while in the prison If I’et killed by that attack’

The sparks the gunsword caused stopped and Gravel raised her sword She swung around the gunsword lightly and then pointed its tip at Kizuna

“You won’t be able to get out fro this kind of petty trick”

“What-!?”

The door of the entrance was completely unharmed

“The Life Saver enveloping this battle field is firm Your Life Saver is also hard, but the one here is even harder than that If it’s possible to break through with the gunsword, then I’ll have done that a long tio”

Kizuna groaned with a face as if he was chewing a bitter bug

“shi+t-, so your gunsword is also no good……even though it destroyed my Life Saver in Okinawa like a joke”

“Certainly if it is ] then……if I use that then even the Life Saver of this battle field can be destroyed However, it’s iht now”

“Why!? If there is your Corruption Ar each other!”

In contrast with the frustrated Kizuna, Gravel answered disinterestedly with an expression as if she had given up

“In order to draw out Sword Gatling, a large aic power is insufficient Before this, I was confined in a special prison That prison has the function to absorb ic power above a certain amount”

Kizuna recalled of the prison where he was locked at

“Is that the prison that looked like ice?”

“I see……so you too were in the same prison If so I can understand of the half-hearted way you fight It looks like your ic poas absorbed even more than me”

“……uh huh”

Gravel comprehended it as she pleased, but that actually wasn’t it

‘Even if I have h, I still don’t have the power to fight

When I haven’t done Climax Hybrid with someone, my combat power is equal to zero shi+t-, if I just had the chance to be together with Himekawa or the others……’

“It seems that the power you showed at Okinawa……the power to create an inexhaustible supply of weapons is unusable huh”

Gravel stared hard at Kizuna as if she was trying to see through the inside of Kizuna’s heart

“Most likely thata vast ath is due to the absurd storage aic power that surpassed our coe tank filled with only a few drops of water……a?”

“……So like that”

He whispered his true thoughts inside his heart while replying auously

‘――That’s totally not it!

Rather than soot to think about

What do I do to defeat Gravel?

What should I do so I can escape from here?

Honestly speaking, there is no plan I can take I’ blind here’

Gravel directed her gunsword at Kizuna and fixed her stance

“Kizuna Even if you don’t have any way to fight right now, I am not allowed to sheath backthat I have to accomplish at all cost That’s why, no race……I cannot die here no matter what!”

In the face of Gravel rung out a painful voice, there was not a single speck of happiness fro convinced of her victory What was there were only dark shadows and tragic determination

“Gravel……what in the world are you fighting for? I understand that it’s not only because you value your life For what, for whose sake that makes you try to survive here?”

Gravel glared at Kizuna with a bitter expression as if her wound idened After glaring at hiunsword Her gaze also fell to round ahead of her hung down gaze, but those eyes were staring at the far beyond

“Two things”

Two things?

Kizuna didn’t understand thethat a door inside Gravel that wasn’t opened until noas going to open

“I have things I want to save……one, is my motherland and its people”

“Motherland? This Vatlantis Empire you mean?”

“No My country is a small country in the corner of this continent that lost the battle with Vatlantis Right now it’s nothing more than an administration sector of Vatlantis”

‘Is that so……so this world originally wasn’t a single united country There are multiple countries like on earth, war happened, and amidst that there is a powerful country that is the Vatlantis Empire that ruled at the top’

“However, I thought that if a just government and administration are carried out, it will be fine even like this There is not only bad things fro obsessed to independence and uselessly prolonging the fight will hurt the people……but, Vatlantis is not a country that one can have expectations to”

“Gravel……”

“The Genesis is not working nor to its collapse Nevertheless, this country continues to skir countries, and the senior statesle in the imperial castle Even the forceful invasion to your Lehteousness”

‘Aah, is that so

Even the people of this world are the sauys then there are also bad guys And it’s similar here, there is no way that all the people of the AU arefiends

Besides, Gravel’s position is really similar with us, how her country is under the rule of Vatlantis Gravel and her ure of us in the future’

“That’s why, I have to escape from here And then I’ll return tocountries to fly the banner of revolution”

There was a single thing Kizuna was convinced at in regards to Gravel

‘――This woman is someone that is worthy of trust’

“I see now, I really understand that And then, what is the other thing?”

Gravel sent her gaze at one corner of the audience seats Over there was a place that common audience couldn’t enter, the noble seat exclusive for the royal family

Seeing the figure of a girl as sitting there, Kizuna reflexively raised his voice

“Aine……-!”

There was the figure of Aine as sitting on a splendid chair The instant he discovered that figure, Kizuna’s heart was beating fiercely Beside her was a girl slightly younger than Aine with pink hair At their nearby were Zelsione and the Quartuainst several times

“The other one is……a personal story There is someone that I want to rescue no matter what”

He didn’t understand clearly just where was Gravel’s gaze looking at But, even Kizuna could iine that who she meant was Aldea

“Is that so……so she is an important existence for you huh”

“No, I don’t think of her as i to kill her then I had such thoughts several ti to kill each other at our first ”

“……Wait a second Didn’t you want to save her?”

Gravel’s lips floated a smile It was a real smile that he saw for the first time since they met here

“But, I cannot abandon her”

“Is that so……”

‘――She is also the same with me there’

A strange feeling of solidarity was born inside Kizuna Perhaps it was only a one-sided thing, but he began to harbor a feeling that resembled friendshi+p towards Gravel

Kizuna and Gravel faced each other once more

“Kizuna, that tiht, in that time, in that instant, hen I felt the most fulfilled in le second of that with affection”

Gravel said that and her eyes narrowed As if feeling nostalgic of an important memory

“Aah, me too But……my bad Honestly, I cannot show a power like that time”

“I know But, I cannot go easy on a soldier of your level I’ll coth”

Gravel took out a cartridge frounsword And then she faced Kizuna and aimed

“Bullet!!”

“Ku――”

Kizuna immediately jumped away Fierce flash caused explosion in front of his eyes

“UWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”

He avoided direct hit, but after that he ed by the spreading shockwave His body danced in the air as if he was just kicked flying by a giant, then his body bounced on the ground and rolled

“Gah! Hah……”

His body was nu

“Kizuna! Dodge to the right!”

“!?”

He could hear a familiar voice

He reflexively obeyed that voice and flew to the right

Sharp blade ran through his left side He rolled just like that and jumped up with the momentum

Gravel had stabbed the gigantic sword of the gunsword to the ground where he was just at

‘――That was dangerous But, the voice just now?’

“That’s how you do it Kizuna-kun!’

“Captain! Please do your best desu!”

“Everyone!?”