Vol 9 Chapter 2 (2/2)
Kizuna and Aine separated their hand that was connected with Grace’s
“A scapegoat is needed to save this world One with soul of high status at that too”
“What are……you saying?”
Grace was unable to understand thefro
“Thanks for all your work till now From now on, I and Kizuna will support this country”
Aine passed in front of Grace, walking toward Kizuna’s side
“The world looks like in peace, but that’s because Osiris-saratitude, we have to offer a sacrifice”
“Yeah So that we and Vatlantis Empire can live in happiness, ant you to die”
“For the sake of me and Kizuna, can you die for us?”
Aine presented her a short sword decorated with jewels
Cold sweats were flowing from Grace’s whole body Despite so her body was cold Her ears were ringing, the voice of the two people who should have loved her sounded like they were far away
Those two, in front of her eyes were clinging close to each other as if they were e Whether it was in front of them or at their side, there was no place for her to stand
“I see……so that’s how it is……”
With shaking hand, Grace accepted that short sword
“Nee-saht?”
“Yeah For our sake, die”
Grace unsheathed the short sword and stared at the blade that was shi+ning coldly She held the sword in reverse grip and aimed the tip at her own throat
She faced up and looked at the sky
Tears were naturally falling from her eyes
Actually, she wanted to live the three of theether But, if this as the only way for these two to live the happiest, she should offer her life happily Yet――,
“Uu-……hic”
Her tears were spilling down unstoppably Sadness, frustration, herself was just too miserable
It was no good already
If she had to feel like this, then it was better to die
“Sayonara……Nee-sama, Nii-sama”
The wasteland spreading before the pyra Both of her hands were pointing at her neck as though she was holding so
There was nothing in Grace’s hand But, in exchange Osiris put a sharp sword at her grasp
And then the point of that sword, was stabbing at Grace’s neck
“Fufufu The ood right? The people of this country, all of them tasted that before they died With this now you are also a resident of Necropolis”
The tip of the sword touched Grace’s slender neck Her skin break from the impact and red blood flowed out from her white skin
Osiris turned at the four Quartu behind
“Even though if you are easy to control like these children, I will let your flesh properly alive……but, I have properly prepared undead body for you You can be together with us, so you can rest assured Eternally in the future……”
And then, Osiris deeply plunged the sword into Grace’s neck
At that moment, fresh blood spurted out like a fountain fro blood seeped into the sand, creating a red river
“This is……?”
Along that river verdant plants were growing, floere bloo it, wide area was turning green Tall tree was growing one after another, around Necropolis greenery was growing abundantly Springs elling up here and there, right now as far as the eye could see the land was changing in appearance into grassland That
“By no ”
Froreen, she could see huht had also passed Beneath bright sunlight, that silhouette was running to here
‘――Running, to here?’
Osiris doubted her eyes
There was only undead at the city The undead couldn’t run Yet despite so, just what in the world that was?
“Don’t tell , human?”
It wasn’t undead It was a huirl with blonde hair that was really similar with Yurishi+a
“Mother―!”
Osiris opened her eyes wide
“That’s……Isis?”
Osiris’s body was tre
‘――Don’t tell hter, Isis And then, that person from behind her That person is――,’
“Dear!”
“Osiris!”
It was a tall olden hair Osiris dashed and leaped into the chest of her missed husband The pharaoh too embraced Osiris’s body firmly
“This is……a miracle has occurred?”
While trickling tears in happiness, Osiris pressed her cheek at her beloved pharaoh Her daughter Isis was also hugging at the mother that was like that
“Mother!”
“Aa, Isis……hter”
Osiris detached her body frohter’s body
“But, just how……?”
“I don’t know Mymy former body……when I noticed I had become exactly like before I want to meet mother immediately……”
Tears were overflowing fro at that face Osiris’s eyes were also shi+ning with tears
“Aah……Isis!”
She eain And then to hter’s back many times over After that, Osiris looked up at the face of her husband the pharaoh
“We too were the sa come back to life How and e don’t understand but……”
People were spilling out from the city one after another Everyone was the undead people fro around on the desert while laughing
“It seems, that everyone is saved……”
“Yes……this miracle……it’s unbelievable”
Tears of happiness overflowed froround vibrated
“Eh? This is……”
The next moment, shockwave that bloay at them assaulted Osiris and Isis, the pharaoh too collapsed on the grass
“Earthquake!?”
Isis pointed at the city
“Mother, the Necropolis!”
They could see the palace cru one after another, sed by the sand The verdant land once again changed in appearance into a desert
“Aah-! Our city!”
“Anybody, help!”
Voices of lament were raised from many mouths But, those voices were suddenly blocked
“Wh……what, this is!?”
The body of the people ws cru down And then from beneath those, undead body appeared
“N, no! Help, help me!”
The people whose body began to crumble looked for salvation from Osiris
“Aah-, Osiris-sa you! My body, my bodyyyyyyyyy!”
“HIiiii-! Osiris-sama! Osiris-sama!”
The too sudden happeningIsis
“Mo……mo, ther”
“I, it’s fine It’s fine Isis I will――”
The face of Isis in her ar down The beautiful face that was like a Goddess of beauty was erased, a smooth steel mask without individuality was there in its place
“I, Isis……”
“Mo, the……r,”
Flesh tissue was also torn off fro into the undead body that was only like bone frame
“I, ISIS―!”
Osiris’s shriek thundered However Isis’s cru was unstoppable Not only her flesh, even the undead body that should be i into scraps
“Dear! Dear, help――”
The face of the pharaoh she looked up at, was a steel mask of undead
“NOOOOOOOOOOOO!”
And then the undead filled with the soul of the pharaoh also had its joint slipped, falling on the sound in pieces
“Stop! Please! My daughter! The pharaoh, they cannot be revived like this! I beg you please stopppp!”
However even her pleading words ca, the bodies of the people, even the undead filled with the soul of Isis and the pharaoh were rusting and cru And then they were bloay by the wind
The warm body that was just in her ar undead that became dust couldn’t be differentiated with the sand of the desert She thought to search for the dust of her husband and daughter frole sands in this desert However, she understood how impossible that was
Frustration that she couldn’t do anything about was raging through her body toward the unreasonableness that suddenly visited What could she do to kill this feeling of regret
When she thought that, a short sword half-buried in the sand entered her eyes It was a short sword for ceremonial use However, it could be used to cut the skin and flesh of hu the heart were possible
Osiris picked up that short sword and pointed it on her chest
“Dear……Isis I too will follow the two of you soon”
And then without hesitation she thrust the sword The sharp blade tore her soft skin and pierced deeply until the handle part
However, nothing happened
There was not even pain
“No way……”
After she pulled out the sword, she stabbed her stomach next Then she stabbed at the other side of her chest, and at her throat
She couldn’t die at all
This body as the ive her the permission to die
“I……have to live, holding this bitter feeling, for eternity?”
Dropping the short sword, she didn’t even have the will to wipe the tears that were floithout end
‘――Please Someone, kill me’
“UAaAaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-!!”
Above Osiris who let out her shriek, the
“――a”
What was spreading in the sky wasn’t blue sky, it was night sky Osiris stiffened with face that ith tears
“How is it, the feeling of seeing a dream”
Receiving theAnd then inside the unfolded wings,color like kaleidoscope
“What in the world just now……you are……”
“Heart Rebuild(Heart and Soul Re)”
A s like a butterfly The wo that beautiful armor whispered
“!?”
“The ood right? Osiris”
Osiris’s face distorted in rage
“How dare……how dare, how dare you!”
Tears of sorrow changed into tears of rage
After standing up in unsteadily, she glared at that woman with eyes filled with hatred
“Who……are you? For this me to not notice you”
At that time, Grace and Quartum who collapsed on the sand opened their eyes
“Wha……eh? I……”
Grace noticed how she was sleeping while trickling tears
“Nee-sama, Nii-sama……they?”
When she raised her body, there was the Quartu faces like hers
“U…… I wonder……”
El around in circle below her as though searching for so
“Hm? Eh, the children……”
“The live show is……”
“Ha? What are you saying? Rather than that, cough……eh?”
Lunorlla and Ramza also seemed confused in the head Each of the until now
“Stop being careless and wake up If you cannot protect Grace-sama, then what use is there in Quartum”
“!?”
The four Quartum jumped to their feet from that familiar voice And then they showed expression of surprise and happiness
The one as there was a fe splendid military uniform like a commissioned officer, yet her lower body had underwear appearance as though she forgot to wear the trouser Her four liic ar silver
Grace and the Quartuic armor However, coer Its shape was just like the machine God No, it was obvious that it was the same type like Himekawa Hayuru’s Neros that had been reinstalled
An ar unit was large, e type thruster on the back and the unit that iht line as the basic tone
However right now those wings were unfolded, showing a biological for off colorful lu
That was the ic armor [Telos]
The only ic armor that could possibly launchht in Vatlantis Empire
All members of Quartum raised happy voice all at once
“Zelcyone-sama!”
The captain of Vatlantis Euards Zelcyone, it was that person
Grace also made a smile and her voice was excited
“Zel!”
“Grace-sa here”
Toward Zelcyone as apologizing from the bottom of her heart, Grace wordlessly shook her head side to side
Osiris glared at Zelcyone with a demonic look
“I see……you, seems different compared to these bunches”
Osiris whispered after looking at Zelcyone’s Telos from top to bottom
Grace showed a joyful expression, but she noticed suddenly and looked up at Zelcyone with a grim face
“That’s right! That figure……you left me alone and did reinstall with Nii-sama then!?”
Zelcyone’s face also made turnabout into a bitter face
“……Grace-saht now that matter is――”
Quartum also had their cheeks reddened and their eyes shi+ned
“Zel, Zel-sama ith Kizuna!?”
“Zel-sama, finally made a male lover!?”
“Lies-, I cannot believe it!”
“The……the detail……”
All at once strange voice of ‘kya―’ or laughing voice or aard voice were raised
Zelcyone looked at the Quartum with an irritated face
“Shut up! Just who is going to do that kind of act because of liking! This too is for the sake of protecting Grace-sa this bitter choice!”
“Ma’am!”
The four Quartuhtened their back and saluted
Osiris lifted up her chest and crossed her arms
“Indeed that co, but even so you cannot compare withto fight me?”
“No, I don’t have any intention of fighting or anything”
Osiris tilted her head
“Then, what?”
Zelcyone’s lips showed a wicked smile
“I’ to execute you”
“……My”
Osiris narrowed her eyes
Fro was pulled out A whip that was like a sword thinly stretched out was condensed, its shape transformed into a sword in Zelcyone’s hand
“Then, how about I use a sword too”
Osiris put her hand at her front and spread her fingers Thereupon like a plant growing fro stone rose up
An octagon shape that was vertically long with pointed tip Letters were carved at its surface It was the spitting iypt’s relic, an obelisl
The obelisk that appeared frohtly swung it around like a sword Frolance it was a stone sword that looked like it would easily broke However, it was a weapon of a machine God There was no way it was a mere stone
Zelcyone readied her sword and pointed the tip to Osiris
“Here I go!”
Particles of light scattered fro Zelcyone toward Osiris Osiris’s golden eyes captured that figure
“I will make you into a slave too and disciplined you back to the correct path!”
Osiris kicked on the sand
The two bodies accelerated in the blink of eye to a speed that was nearly the speed of sound And then the ic circle and pattern drawn on Telos’s wing that was like butterfly shi+ned
Zelcyone’s sword and Osiris’s obelisk scattered fierce sparks Sword and sword clashed, fierce shockwave bloay sands The crossing tomen passed each other and when they distanced themselves from each other, a crater appeared between the two of them
Osiris’s lips slackened and she turned at Zelcyone At the same time Zelcyone fell on her knee
“Guh……”
Her left arht hand
“Zelcyone-sama-!”
“Zel!?”
Quartum and Grace yelled worriedly
Osiris thrust the tip of the obelisk into the sand and then looked down at Zelcyone with a smile full of composure
“Zelcyone As expected it’s impossible for you to defeat me To try to defeat me with an attack of that level is……”
“I wonder about that”
Zelcyone grinned widely
“What are you bluffing fo――”
A splitting destructive sound cas broke
“――Wha”
“The instant we passed each other, I shi+fted your space recognition with Heart Rebuilt Its ability is not only showing any kind of night it in this way is also possible”
Osiris looked down at her own leg that was broken
“How dare you……how dare you!”
Fro As though invitedby that darkness, mechanical bird descended down from the sky to Osiris
“Horus!”
Osiris’s leg folded and the torso opened Thereupon her mechanical inside became obvious to see
“Sekhmet!”
The lion lying down on top of the pyrah it was disasse into a state without head When it arrived at Osiris’s back, Osiris slid in her leg into the part where the head was
Osiris’s legs were stored into Sekhmet’s inside, with the lion torso as the replace, her appearance turned like a centaur
And then on her back her shoulder armor opened and a link unit showed its face There Horus’s body combined Like that was created was a huure of Sekhmet and Horus and Osiris’s combination
――And then, one
Fro
That was the sun that symbolized the death and rebirth
That was the stone that was the main cause which cornered this world into ruin
That sun eht
“Wha……what, this is!?”
Zelcyone felt strength leaving her body If she let her mind relaxed, it felt like she would fall on her knees
“Uh!?”
Froure of a th that shook the mind spread It was like an impact of heavy bass explosion It felt like her body would be bloay a few meter back
That wavelength shook the body in cell level jolted awake the fear lurking in the body The fear that living thing instinctually possessed The despair of encountering natural enemy that one couldn’t possibly match
It was the sensation of a bare handed hu a lion with empty stomach
That much fear and despair attacked Zelcyone’s whole body
Zelcyone gritted her teeth and raised the corner of her mouth with the muscle of her cheek
“An existence that introduced herself as a God, should at least able to do this much huh!”
As if looking down at Zelcyone who roused up herself, Osiris showed a cruel smile
“This is the true appearance of machine God Osiris……Zelcyone Only you I will kill in this place I will erase you from all time and space!”
Readying her obelisk sword, Osiris headed toward Zelcyone
“HAAAAAA-!”
Zelcyone brandished her whip Theandaround an absurdly long sword That sword attacked Osiris The long and heavy obelisk couldn’t deal with this speed Ai at the spot where Osiris’s stance would be hard pressed to deal with it, the whip assaulted
Sand pillar rose explosively Osiris kicked on the ground and evaded the whip That movement was fast, she leaped toward the bosom of the whip in an instant
“Chih!”
Osiris swung down the huge stone sword Zelcyone changed the shape of the whip into a sword and blocked the attack of the obelisk It was a heavy attack that ung down from overhead
A sword that was broken into two flew in the air
Although she defended against an attack of the obelisk, Zelcyone’s sword snapped
“What stupid strength-!”
Opening her thruster in full throttle Zelcyone took distance in one go However Osiris’s speed was fast In the blink of eye Zelcyone was overtaken and she was hit by a pursuit attack
“Guoh-!”
The obelisk attack that hit her back snapped off one of her wings
‘――damn it!’
“Fufufu, without that wing it’s iht?”
“Hmph, well it’s just like you said”
Zelcyone was trickling with cold shile she was grinning
“Then die!”
Osiris headed toward Zelcyone and she was going to swing down the obelisk However,
“Wha……?”
She had lifted her obelisk, but it didn’t ht it
“This is-!?”
Zelcyone’s as entangling the obelisk The whip came from inside the sand
When Zelcyone flicked her finger, from inside the sand whips raised their head in succession and entangled on Osiris Both ars were restrained
“Guh……since when……”
“This whip is quick witted see While it was pretending to run around fro itself inside the sand Quartum!”
“Ma’am!”
Clayda, Elma, Lunorlla, and Ramza, the four people carried their respective weapon and attacked from four directions The opponent was in the state that couldn’t make any moveth
“YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-!”
The round bright thing at Osiris’s back eht
“What-!?”
The nextlike a sun Quartuhts that were like laser were fired to all direction from the sun
“shi+eld!”
Zelcyone’s yell ht was stolen The laser fired from Osiris’s sun opened holes on the desert and destroyed even the Life Saver
“UWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!”
Although Quartuot hit directly by the laser and got blohile their Life Saver was pulverized
“This cheap trick……”
The laser of the sun also severed the whips of Zelcyone that were entangling Osiris’s body When she spread her arms, the whips that were bisected into pieces fell on the sand
With this it looked like all of Zelcyone’s plan had ran out its course However――,
“You all did well in buying tiive you my praise”
“What?”
An anxiety that Osiris couldn’t co in her She looked at Quartu on the sand, the four people floated satisfied smiles And then, Zelcyone was,
“Even if Heart Rebuild beca, if it’s heavy work then there is no problem”
Zelcyone’s butterfly wings had its left side half broken However colorful light was rotating at the right wing It was like a kaleidoscope that was eht
“Eat this! Kaleid Breath(Thousand Color of Every Flower)!!”
The butterfly wing released explosive light That was a surge of light that shi+ned in various colors Every single patterns of the wing eht attacked Osiris Several hundred, several thousand lines of light each drew different color and trajectory, hitting directly at Osiris’s armor
“Kuh……what, pressure!”
Osiris’s are body was pushed down Osiris deployed shi+eld at her front and she curled herself as though she was laying on the sand Her wings burned and its surface began to s of Sekhht that seemed like it would continue forever suddenly informed its end
“Fufu How is that? It feels good right?”
Zelcyone sounded like she was enjoying herself, but sweats were trickling down on her cheeks
‘――My ic poill also hit empty soon Can you just stay down already?’
Zelcyone’s secret wishi+ng cas didn’t lose their strength That large body stood up once again
And then the hateful eyes of Osiris captured Zelcyone
“It was a mistake, to think that if I use h already All of you, will have those body of yours perished by me”
Lines of light floated on Osiris’s body Blue light was rushi+ng on the body of the golden lion It looked like poas traveling all over that body And then that light was restoring the ar, Osiris recovered back her shi+ning golden armor into just like before
That figure felt like she had liberated the power that had been put under limiter until now
‘――How troublesome’
Zelcyone murmured inside her heart
“Zel!”
Grace yelled in loud voice
“This wo bloith her honestly from the front is not a smart plan!”
“……It cannot be helped”
She shrugged her shoulders and floated a nihilist smile And then she turned and yelled sharply
“Retreat!”
Sand rolled up explosively Zelcyone opened her thrusters in full throttle and escaped fro after her Quartum and Grace also fleay
“You knaves-!”
Osiris was staring with eyes filled with hatred However she didn’t try toat that state of Osiris across her shoulder, Zelcyone whispered in surprise
“……She won’t come in pursuit?”
A floatingopened and Elma’s face was projected
{Might she be possibly grows scared of Zel-sath?}
Grace nodded in a different
{Possibly she harbored a feeling of danger to leave Necropolis unattended Receiving Zel’sreally shocking for that woman}
Clayda murmured with a complicated face
{Possibly, she feels no need to chase……or so}
Zelcyone sensitively reacted to those words
“What? What do you mean?”
{Ah……no, it seee power is affecting Oldiuht have another method to obstruct us}
“You fool! Say that quicker!”
Yelling ‘hi-‘ shortly, Clayda then instantly closed the
Zelcyone pondered while gnawing at her nail
‘――What to do? In the end we have to return to Necropolis once more Besides if there is this manipulation of sand…&hellip