Chapter 103 (1/2)

Otoe Volume 3 Chapter 10

Chapter 10 – Livia's Power

Part 1

Principality arshi+p──Hertrauda's private room

There was the rescued Hertrude beside Hertrauda

「Onee-sauardian deity of the earth The sky and the sea──with those two guardian deities, it will be easy enough for us to accomplish our objective」

「I have pushed that painful role to you If only I used the ic flute」

Hertrauda shook her head

「One of us has to shoulder that role When Onee-sa to the kingdom」

Hertrude clutched the htly, and then tears flowed down

In case the ic flute's true poas displayed──the compensation that was demanded from that was the user's “life”

In exchange of the user's life, they could euardian deity

「Rauda, I became unable to understand I wonder which side is actually in the wrong」

Hertrauda didn't have a clear answer for Hertrude's question

Because the answer for that question was already less

「Even if Queen Mylene's words are the truth, we can't possibly stop We will sink the kingdo island that make their land float──and the principality will obtain a new land This is soreat country」

The reason for the principality to sink the kingdo the kingdom's land to float

If they could bring back that floating stone, they would be able to expand their territory

The principality was unable to ith a frontal attack To fight the kingdom and won, they needed a method that was at least this coercive

「Are we in the right?」

「I cannot decide that Because the only thing I can do is leave the rest to Onee-sa is over」

The parents of these sisters died in accident

There were other people that could be categorized as royal fas like oral tradition or teaching or the like to the next generation as the heir

One of them needed to survive and led the country

「──Onee-sadom?」

There was only a little re time where Hertrude could speak with her sister

That hy, she wanted to have a conversation that was as fun as possible

「I was placed in a place called the academy I enrolled there as an overseas student It was a place that is ined」

Fe slaves around with the down on the male students Even Hertrude had heard about it

But, it was evento see it with her own eyes

「Even that fiendish knight was bowing his head obsequiously to the female students there」

「The fiendish knight who defeated Bandel? How did the kingdom end up like that? I heard that the principality is still the sah」

「Indeed It's a really strange country They even go out adventuring in airshi+p for woe of elves and saw a ruin」

Hertrude talked about adventure story seeing Rauda's sparkling eyes

The ancestor principality──the former archduke house was also an adventurer

They held interest because they were raised hearing adventurer story since they were children

Rauda was grinning cheerfully when Hertrude finished her story

「So Onee-saone to an adventure I'm jealous I, don't have any more time」

「──Rauda, I'm sorry I'm really sorry」

Hertrude pitied her little sister, but the time had come

A knight ca

「Your highness Hertrauda! We have confir!」

Rauda's expression changed instantly from a childish expression to a cold expression

「I will be there immediately ──Onee-sama, please take care of the rest after I fall」

The distance until the capital──the center of the continent wasn't far

Everything would end when they arrived there

Tears flowed fro toward her sister

「Leave it to me Also, I too will stay at your side」

「That's reassuring, Onee-sama」

Part 2

I anz sat on the deck

Inside the cockpit, I whistled to put on a brave front seeing the sight before my eyes

「The iame」

The principality's fleet is right below the gigantic h they are under its protection

They're escorting thethe capital

『Target is entering the firing range』

The stupidly huge monster has the shape ofit Several of its large eyes are directed at the kingdom army

I' with the kingdo behind Partner

The gigantic monster stretched one of its hands toward us

『Target is approaching』

「Ram it!」

Following my words, Luxion that has coer』

He didn't even say his usual abusive words He only talked the minimum required word

『Missiles are fired』

Threepod of Partner

They raanticaway the large hand

The large hand that could even hold Partner in its grip is bloay It's changing into black smoke

「Keep firing without rest!」

『Beginning bombardment』

Partner's large cannon spouted fire It caused a large explosion when hitting the gigantic monster

Missiles are fired one after another, blowing away the arms

Partner then changed the direction of its bow and accelerated

『Change in enemy fleet's formation is confirmed』

「Too slow!」

Theyto prepare to intercept us in panic after seeing the arm of their prided last boss bloay

Perhaps the other side is also in a state of bad coish

Following right behind Partner are the airshi+ps boarded by my family and friends

At present their airshi+ps has the best specs a our force

I anz stood up on the deck and readied its rifle

I shot down thearound the fleet of the principality army Thousands, tens of thousands of monsters──the airshi+ps other than Partner will be the one facing them

Partner is busy with attacking the gigantic monster

I can only leave the shot exchanges of fleet battle and monster extermination to my allied warshi+ps

When the distance with the ene, my allies started their bombardment

Theinto black smoke

Cannon shells are fired one after another toward Partner, but there is no dae even if they hit

The barrier that is deployed to protect the airshi+p deflected all of them

Airshi+p with cannons lined up at the sides of the hull is thetheir flank at me

「Bite a hole into it」

When Partner approached until within a stone's throw froht behind me fired their main cannon that is installed on their bow one after another

Even when the warshi+ps of principality arot penetrated and the airshi+ps are sinking

「How does the latest style cannon taste? Don't think you can block it with just that much!」

When the ene out one after another next

One airshi+p with its flank facing us appeared in order to hinder Partner's advance

The lined up cannons fired simultaneously, but Partner blocked them all

「You won't stop us just with thatattack is also Partner's forte」

Partner's bow charged at the flank of the enemy airshi+p, then the enemy bent into the shape of “<>

Partner kept advancing like that The airshi+p is decapitated into two and fell

「The battle is ours now that we've come this close」

I already penetrated until right below the gigantic monster

In this position, the gigantic monster won't even be able to attack me──maybe!

The kingdom army's airshi+ps behind Partner deployed their ared into a fierce melee

「First stage is cleared with this」

Several antic ed into black smoke

The black s even larger and blacker

This battle happened early in the ot completely covered with thick black cloud

The revived gigantic monster appeared from that black cloud

Itsat Partner

「Its revival is faster than expected We're going to continue attacking it like this and seal its movement」

『──Ene』

Principality aranz

『Found you, fiendish knight!』

「Fiend? Don't speak like you yourself aren't stepping off into the wrong path!」

You who ca to kill you after this are both birds of a feather

I pointed er The eneh and the armor fell on the deck

When I looked up, airshi+ps and ar to surround Partner

I pointed the rifle at the airshi+p right above and pulled the trigger It hit the engine part and caused fire to break out

It's falling toward Partner, but Partner that is protected by a barrier isn't even scratched

I can hear voices mixed with noises

『Destroy him with armors!』

『You'll get all the promotion you'll want if you take him down!』

『GOT YOUUUUU!』

I used the axe in my left hand to cut down an armor that approached

The arht shoulder until its stomach I immediately realized the pilot is beyond help

Luxion pointed out to me

『Your reaction is delayed』

「Well yeah!」

I swunguntil the aro of the axe

I shot the third armor with my rifle and placed a neeapon into my left hand

「──I' on you」

I turnedup to the sky and flew (TN: I used Vice for the name of the royal family's shi+p last chapter, but soht name should be Weiss which is German for white)

Part 3

Weiss's bridge

The kingdo the battle into a melee The battle was fierce

Ange atching that hugged the tre Livia to support her

「Livia, rest for a bit」

Livia shook her head Tears were spilling fro her head with both hands and breathing roughly

「It's painful Why is everyone fighting? Even though it's this painful──why」

Ange was troubled of how to answer

「──I wonder why」

She knew the answer

Ange had learned the answer for that question before, but now that she had actually witnessed it with her own eyes, she didn't know if that ansas the right one

Livia pressed her hands on her chest Then Marie yelled

「Hey! Ene around this shi+p too!」

Ange rebuked loudly at Marie as dressed in saint's attire

「Be quiet!」

「Ye, yes!」

「We have escort vessels around us Besides, this shi+p won't fall that easily」

The floating Creare nodded

『The greatest threat is the gigantic ht above us This shi+p cannot be destroyed except by that monster Rather than that, are you two prepared? Also, Marie too』

Marie as treated like an extra looked dissatisfied, but she was scared of Ange and stayed silent

Ange supported Livia and then she talked to her kindly

「Livia, let's end this kind of battle quickly You can do it right?」

Livia nodded while crying She joined her hands in front of her chest

After she esture

(What? My chest feels painful IT also──feel sad tears are co out)

She could hear the voices of the surrounding

《Help! I don't want to die!》

《Mom, save me!》

《That's why I didn't want to go to war》

Ange felt the vanishi+ng lives and voices Her chest was also growing painful

(You have been, feeling this all this time?)

Creare spoke

『Should I call this as resonance? It's reacting to Olivia's ability There is no explanation of this kind of function in the manual』

Marie looked to the front and made a ruckus

「NOOOO! A largefrom the front!」

Athem

When Creare muttered 『There』, Weiss'sit away

『Marie too, please do your job』

「Eh? What should I do here?」

『I about this using the saint power』

Marie hurriedly i, then Weiss started shaking

It was as though it was going to get serious──

Ange looked up to the ceiling and spread both her hands

(──War)

What surfaced in Ange's heart was the summer vacation──the scene of the three of the

The setting sun was pretty, and it was fun

Ange thought that if only such day would continue forever

Part 4

I turned around after cutting down an approaching monster

The surrounding ar

The battle stopped, and then the

A war emitted from Weiss

「──So this is the ultimate weapon」

The anticits eyes and crossed its many arms to protect itself

But, that gigantic body is gradually vanishi+ng due to the light

「So it's the end with this」

Many ar the weapon in their hand

The co the sky vanished and the blue sky became visible

「Love is a huh! ──Tsu!」

When I' spirit is suddenly disappearing

At the saetting forcefully taken away

──I can hear a voice

(Don't fight anymore I──don't want to see a battle like this Please, stop the fighting!)

It's Livia's voice

「I see, so this is Livia's true──」

Livia's voice reached people's hearts clearly

Even if it isn't anything like a wise saying that shook the heart, it will seized people's feeling if it's Livia saying it

Livia's voice directly reached the surrounding people's hearts from Weiss

──I can't disobey

(Let's stop already At this rate a lot of people will beco)

There won't be any hardshi+p if war can stop with such words

There won't but──the feeling that genuinely wished for the war to stop is penetrating into the heart

Luxion's empty shell muttered

『Mind attack confirmed』

So it is This thing is a really powerful attack

Livia's ability that is strengthened by Weiss's function is outrageously atrocious

The knights of the principality that are holding grudge to the kingdom threay their weapon and listened to Livia's voice

Don't screw around! or, Who's going to let it end like this!

──Such feelings are dissolving in front of Livia's sad emotion

And then, the sight that I can see is──the nostalgic memory of my previous life

I looked up at the giganticwhile──

「What a really terrible attack」

This power ht

Part 5

Hertrauda atching that sight froshi+p of the principality army

Tears were flowing

「Why are you grieving for our sake Stop All of you have to be our ene you──stop already」

The pain of Livia's heart flowed in Her chest was painful

The people around her were also in a daze or shedding tears and sitting down on the spot

Their fighting spirit was taken away

「Such thing You are telling us to forget our resent like this」

──Mortifying

But, her desire for revenge was being taken away

Gradually they becaht

Hertrude hugged Hertrauda tightly

「Rauda, let's end this already The guardian deity of the sky, has vanished completely」

Hertrauda shook her head

「No No way If it ends like this, then I won't knohat do I lost ht no matter what! ──Just what do I die for like this!」

Hertrauda gripped the h she wanted to fight

She was unable to hate the opponent that she should hate

「──Coward The kingdo like this They're the lowest to do so like this that doesn't even allow us to hate or resent To take away the will to fight fro people's heart like this」

Hertrude hugged the crying Hertrauda and shed tears

「I'm sorry To make you do this in my place──I'm really sorry」

The guardian deity of the sky vanished

The ic flute in Hertrauda's hand broke into pieces

「──Lies Even the guardian deity of the seas is defeated」

Hertrauda's vitality was gradually vanishi+ng Her consciousness was going far aithin her big sister's arms

「Rauda!」

「Onee-sah it's scary」

All her fears were gradually disappearing due to Livia's ability She felt like she was enveloped in so warm

With her will to fight taken away, Hertrauda's face became peaceful

「I'm sorry, Onee-sama To leave you alone──I'm sorry」

When Hertrauda slowly closed her eyes, she understood that her consciousness was vanishi+ng

She could hear Hertrude's sad crying voice, but even that voice was gradually vanishi+ng fro

Part 6

Bandel stood beside Hertrude

The crying Hertrude was gradually starting to smile

「Princess」

「Bandel It's, strange Even though I should be sad, h Rauda died, I'm not even allowed to feel sad」

The people of the kingdom are really horrible Hertrude whispered Bandel softly placed his hand on her shoulder

「Please leave it toto an end」

「Bandel?」

Perhaps because of the ht arm's effect, the mind attack didn't work on Bandel

「Now, please give 」

Hertrudethat face that was the same with her childhood

「Princess!」

「──Bandel, go Show them the principality's pride」

Bandel nodded resolutely and walked away froly

When he got outside, his hand pressed on his hed

His palm was dyed red with blood

「Good work holding out for this long」

He thanked his own body while looking at his right arm

「At the very least I have to sink that shi+p of the kingdom no matter what」

The white shi+p that he could see at the distance

Bandel thought that such thing couldn't be left alone He put strength into his right ar the form of an armor

『──Now, let's begin』

Bandel fleay, charging toward the white shi+p──Weiss in a straight line

Part 7

I' absentminded

Even though Isleepy──that's ht now

Or is that not it?

Anyway, now it felt stupid to fight

『Mental pollution to master is confirmed』

The voice of Luxion's e anything right now

Thinking back nohy a?

In the first place, it's Marie's fault

No one would be angry at me even if I abandoned her

No one──no, perhaps only my parents from the previous life who I won't be able to ry at me I think?

You are her big brother, so look after your little sister, they would say

But, that's not my character──

『Ene toward Weiss』

When I turned aze, a black thorny ar toward Weiss

I felt like I have also seen that armor somewhere

I still can't remember where did I see it

「Hm? Weiss?」

Right after that, a hole is opened in Weiss's hull by the charging black armor and an explosion happened

「This is bad!」

I gripped the control stick in a hurry My anz

「What? It was like I was drea」

『It was a mind attack The mind attack from Weiss affected everyone whether enemy or ally』