Volume 12 Chapter 5 (2/2)

Golden hair and blue eyes. On her back were white and golden and blue gigantic wings. That appearance was worthy to be called a G.o.ddess that was enshrined in the temple of the G.o.ds.

「It's you huh, the individual who defeated Odin.」

「Yeah.」

Kizuna's whole body was enveloped with p.r.i.c.kling tension. It felt like the skin throughout his body became a sensitive sensor. The fear he felt there increased his body temperature. However his head was clear. The tension and fear uplifted Kizuna's mind like narcotic drug, creating the greatest concentration power.

「Where in the world is this? What happened to everyone else?」

「This world is something created for you. Each of the other intruders are also locked into different worlds separately.」

Kizuna felt a bit relieved knowing that everyone was safe.

「This is really luxurious to have a personal world like this. Though it's a bit too bland here.」

「It's something for temporary capture. There is no need to decorate it at all.」

Thanatos was staring at Kizuna like a scientist observing a subject.

「Something like skipping the process of evolution, and suddenly obtaining a power to the degree that can defeat G.o.d……the experiment is clearly a failure. However it will be useful to perfect my archive as an irregular case. Therefore before I erase the your world, it's necessary to investigate first. I'm capturing the other individual is also for nothing more than that.」

──'That means, she isn't planning to kill us right away?'

Kizuna didn't feel hostility from Thanatos's gaze that contained sorrow inside. It was as though there was no clear hostility, rage, or hatred like the other machine G.o.ds in her. Both Hokuto and Osiris, and even Odin had aspect that was human-like in them. However that kind of thing couldn't be felt at all from this Thanatos.

There was only hint of melancholy in her.

Not the slightest emotion could be seen even in her act of erasing world. The impression that he got from her was it was a work that she was carrying out apathetically following the set procedure.

It was as though her heart was dead──,

Kizuna looked at Thanatos's splendorous and beautiful figure once more and he felt like that.

「Thanatos. You want to erase us because we are failed work──I know that you are thinking like that. However, are you unable to even allow us to exist? Does a failed work not allowed to even live?」

「You all aren't just existing. If I leave you alone, I don't know what kind of influence it will bring. If there is a chance that an obstacle that I cannot predict will occur, then it should be erased.」

「We aren't going to do something──」

「Fact, Hokuto, Osiris, Odin, three machine G.o.ds are defeated, each of their world is changed. This is a problem that cannot be overlooked.」

「……That's」

「Especially, you and the people who possess similar configuration information like you. That is an existence that is close to G.o.d. Regarding those three, they will be immediately purged.」

「Wha──!?」

「The risk is higher than the result that can be obtained from investigation. Therefore the purge is prioritized.」

Thanatos's eyes changed color from blue to gold.

──'Coming!!'

Kizuna's intuition instantly turned sharp.

He kicked on the floor that was like white marble and moved instantly. That floor exploded from the red light that was fired from Thanatos's hand. Vivid red flame was blazing up inside the monotone world.

Kizuna was flying inside the temple while trickling cold sweat.

If he was late just for a moment, he would be done in. He was saved because he obeyed his instinct that detected danger and moved before Thanatos was starting to move.

However Thanatos was calmly staring at Kizuna who was flying in circle and pointed her hand. That palm s.h.i.+ned red once more.

「Mode Zecros!!」

Right before Thanatos's light reached, a silver s.h.i.+eld appeared on Kizuna's arm.

「GUOuh!」

Zecros's s.h.i.+eld blocked Thanatos's light.

Thanatos's eyelashes that were half laying down twitched.

「What……? The thunderbolt Keraunos, is blocked?」

The red light that Thanatos fired, Keraunos was a red lightning that destroyed everything. It could return everything that existed inside the world Thanatos created back into nothingness.

「That s.h.i.+eld is……I see, it's that small G.o.d's」

Kizuna yelled toward his own armor.

「Mode Cross!!」

Differential Frame was instantly created on Kizuna's back.

「UOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!!」

Golden light attacked Thanatos along with that war cry.

Thanatos spread both her hands. Then a black dome with Thanatos as the center appeared. Stars were floating there, as though seeing the night sky from the outside. The bombardment of Differential Frame was vanis.h.i.+ng as though absorbed into that s.p.a.ce.

──'Then!'

「Mode Taros!!」

Kizuna stretched his right arm right to his side. Taros's right arm appeared ahead of that hand. It was a giant hammer s.h.i.+ning black. Inside it possessed a small black hole that swallowed everything, t.i.tania. An anomalous hammer.

「NUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!」

Taros's hammer and Thanatos's s.p.a.ce clashed. Enormous gravity sucked in the light drifting in the s.p.a.ce, gouging a hole in the s.p.a.ce.

Thanatos's half closed eyes widened slightly.

「This is──」

「Mode Neros!!」

Soariung sword flew into the wrenched open s.p.a.ce.

At that instant, Thanatos moved for the first time. She moved with her own legs and evaded the attack.

Blade chased after Thanatos, rus.h.i.+ng around inside the temple.

「The power this individual possesses is──」

The temple's pillars were severed, the floor cut apart, Blade was slas.h.i.+ng at Thanatos over and over. The temple was destroyed and Thanatos got out from the temple. Chasing behind her, Blade and Kizuna also flew out from the collapsing temple.

Several temples were floating in the s.p.a.ce that was like flowing thin ink. Blade chased after Thanatos who escaped to one of those. Kizuna took distance from Blade and headed to a different temple in order to cut off Thanatos.

「Mode Zeros!!」

Eros that was covering Kizuna's body circulated blue light. Eros's speed leaped up. Kizuna instantly went through the temple and he clenched his fist. He tasted a sensation as though his whole body became a sharp blade while closing his distance with Thanatos.

「DEYAaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!」

For an instant Thanatos showed a face that looked surprised.

Kizuna's fist struck onto the arm that she put in front of her without delay.

Fist of black steel sunk into the white arm that was engraved with Greek style pattern.

Thanatos's armor was cracked and it burst apart.

「──ku」

A terrific impact a.s.saulted Thanatos. The machine inside the arm burst out. It had a mysterious structure, like transparent gla.s.s with countless pattern of light emerging on the surface.

Thanatos was blow away backward. She rotated her body like spinning wheel and landed on the temple's floor slidingly.

Thanatos was staring on her own arm with eyes as though she was looking at something strange.

「Destroyed……this me?」

Kizuna put a distance between him and Thanatos and got down on the floor.

「Thanatos. Can't you leave our world alone? We won't bring any harm to you. We want to live inside our world. That's all.」

After a slight pause, Thanatos opened her faint pink lips.

「I cannot do that.」

「Then, let's settle this.」

Kizuna took a stance with his fist.

Perhaps it was because of the Harem Hybrid. An unbelievable power was filling his whole body to the brim.

He could win if it was now.

That kind of confidence heightened until it became conviction.

「Here I come, Thanatos!」

When he was about to leap in, Thanatos's golden eyes s.h.i.+ned.

And then the wings on her back that looked like huge relief opened. White feathers shook and particles of light that looked like golden powder scattered. The mechanism of the wings moved like how mechanical clock marked the pa.s.sage of time.

There was a presence of something approaching.

A crack was generated suddenly in front of Kizuna.

──'Entrance.

She is planning to send me to another world again!?'

「I WON'T LET YOU GET AWAYYYYY!」

Kizuna avoided that crack by swinging his body to the side. And then when he tried to pa.s.s through, he could see red eyes at the other side of the peeled off s.p.a.ce.

Kizuna's legs stopped.

The crack spread quickly in one go and fragments of s.p.a.ce scattered out.

Silver hair was swaying softly.

「A……Aine?」

「Eh? ……Kizuna!?」

Aine noticed Kizuna and raised a surprised voice.

Thanatos opened her hands.

──'Keraunos is coming!'

Without delay Kizuna reached out his hand and put out the s.h.i.+eld in front of Aine. Red light was blocked by the silver s.h.i.+eld and it burst explosively.

「KYaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!?」

Amidst the thunderous sound that was like thunder, and the roar of Aine's scream, a whispering voice could be heard in Kizuna's ear.

It was a small voice,

However it sounded clearly,

Informing Kizuna of his fate.

「Die(Thanatos)」

Thanatos was standing behind Kizuna with a sword in hand.

However Kizuna didn't turn to look at that figure.

Aine was staring at the figure of the man holding out a s.h.i.+eld in front of her.

A foreign substance was protruding out from that chest,

Beautiful, sharp, white and golden sword was,

Piercing Kizuna's body from his back to his chest.

Red color was flowing as though to tinge the white blade.

When the sword was pulled out, bright red fresh blood was flowing down on the white floor.

「Ki……Kizuna?」

That body swayed and then tilted. Aine reached out her hand to support Kizuna.

However that body was losing strength and collapsed on the floor, as though slipping through Aine's arms.

She didn't understand what was going on.

She was sucked into Entrance and entered a strange world. And then, an Entrance appeared again, and when she noticed it──,

──'Why is, Kizuna, on the floor?'

Aine crouched and touched Kizuna's cheek.

「Hey, Kizuna……Kizuna, come on」

There was no reply no matter how many times she called.

'Why,

Why does it turn out like this?'

Kizuna's half closed eyes that looked sleepy didn't move as though he forgot to even blink.

And then those eyes weren't seeing anything anymore.

No matter how many times she called out, no matter how she touched him, those eyes wouldn't look at Aine.

The truth that she didn't even want to comprehend and recognize was approaching Aine as though to block her path of escape.

「──Ki」

Aine's red eyes were overflowing with tears.

「KIZUNAaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-!!」

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