Vol 17 Chapter 340 (1/2)

The Walt House is Number One

The katanas in my hands sparkled

The blue light created shockwave tails to listened with blue sparks We both increased our speed, and as her desperation had grown slightly frorace Novem’s face

As she took a horizontal swipe, I passed underneath, crossingtheround to pass her by, and instantly stood to reset my stance

Making a sed a bluff

“Hasn’t your speed fallen from before? And this is just my personal opinion, but… I’d prefer your skirt a little shorter”

Right now, she earing a skirt that reached her ankles As she turned to faceto show any of the good parts At the just-barely mark, it quietly drifted down

“… Why don’t you ask that of the other women to become your wives?”

I took a step in

“Sorry, I’ve already prepared a seat for you But worry not… even if you haven’t fallen for me, I’ll make you fall in no time!”

Reh tensions Re!

My heart continued whispering to htest weakness, I would fall apart At the very least, the very least, the very least, I needed to continue on So that my voice would reach Novem

Not some evil God Not some Goddess Novem… in order to reach her!

I parried her bloith the short sword, piercing through her heart with the katana She didn’t spurt any blood Seeing that, Novem’s expression warped

“You can’t be so selfish forever!”

“Poppycock! All the Walt House’s generations… they’ve all been selfish!+”

Stepping in further, I entered her boso my short sword into her

“They entered pioneering brigades so their first love would look their way!”

As I forced h her sides, Novem parted

“They couldn’t be honest, rebelling against their parents to the end!”

I approached Nove an illusion to avoid an attack from her scythe Perhaps she was considerably flustered, as she looked straight at the projection

“They punched the king because they got pissed off…”

Lining up the two katanas, I took a horizontal swipe at her

“… They worked hard in internal affairs because they loved money!”

As Novem held up her left hand, I tossed my katana and short sword in opposite directions When she fired off ic, I first collected the short sword and cut at her When that was blocked, I instantly warped to the katana, collected it, and cut at her again

It was shallow, but I raze her flank

“They doted on animals over their children!”

And following on with thatboth swords in a backhand grip, I spun, kicking the scythe out of the way, cutting again and again I didn’t care how shallow they were, I focused on nothing but cutting at her

“They ran out of the house because they hated their parents!”

Noverit her teeth I produced four illusions and cut at her fro above her, I continued to spin as I lowered the blade

“Even if they kneould be iun was!”

To be blunt… our house was a selfish one

Novem looked at me as she directed her left hand From it, a number of small balls of fire A few thousand, tens of thousands were fired off

Parting as I sliced through and avoided her rounds…

“Again, just like that, you continue to speak of nothing but their bad points…”

“… And just like that, you continue beautifying the their bad points! When you only looked at whatever you wanted to see, don’t try calling yourself a mother!”

My katana’s picked up the wind, blowing away the flames The fireballs swept up raised explosions as they landed on the ground As Novee Looking at the discharge that gradually grew, I stuck the short sword into the ground and attack

As the lightning she let out gathered at the short sword, I passed her by as I cut with all ht

Instantly turning and cutting her back, Novem brandished her scythe, so I warped towards the short sword Retrieving it and gripping both blades in my hands, I took a deep breath

Nove her head Her hair was a aps in her sweat-stuck locks, I could see her violet eyes scowling my way

“… But I! … even so, I! … for the sake of the future!”

I sucked in a lot of air, and yelled I helled from my heart

“Who cares about ruin and whatever mess happened in the past!? I… I… rather than some distant future to come, today, and tomorrow… I’!”

So happened in the past

That’s why Novem and the others were born I know that

But if you’ll let me have my say… if you’ll let us have our say…

“The distant past and distant future are irrelevant! If you ignore the all-iless, Goddaht now? Can you stick out your chest and say you’re living the dreaht now!?”

Not the Novem who thinks of the future

Or the Novem bound by the past

I wanted to know the feelings of the current Novem Forxuz

Novem took a stance with her scythe

“Again… and again… just shut up! My feelings are… no one… as if anyone could understand! No one understands! I know no one will understand! It’s because no one understands, that I…!!”

She shed a single tear Seeing that, I laughed She was starting to chip The evil God and Goddess chipping away, Nove to the surface

“Look right there, I’ve peeled off the ive me more! Expose yourself more! Expose it all before me! And when you do… I’ll accept it all for you!”

As I directed the points of e step towards me The rubble where she stood was bloay, and she approached h velocity

“Like hell anyone could accept it!”

I instantly swung h her as her body went by

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… Protected by hard scales, before thehard

Her red hair in disorder, sas dripping down froripped was also in tatters Before the Land Dragon protected by sturdy scales, Aria was mismatched

“Good grief… when I want to go help Lyle out I really a in power”

Did she want to cry or to laugh?

Aria didn’t know her own feelings Clara held up her staff and directed a strong light at the beast While its sight was lost, Eva fired an arrow

While the arrow that stuck in between its scales exploded, the Land Dragon didn’t even flinch

From the sky, Monica and the Valkyries hit it with their attacks, but the most they could do was seal off its movements Novem had selected the perfect monster to buy time

In the sky, Monica clicked her tongue

“How persistent!”

She rained a few hundred lines of light down on the Land Dragon, but the dragon curled up into a ball and endured it While its surface would turn red froinal hue

Aria got her breathing in order, regaining a firem

“How ht however many times it takes”

Even now, her body was screa out Froreat to carry The burden fro in heavily on her

Stepping in with her feet was an annoyance

As she was in such a state, a hand touched her back The feeling of four right hands… alongside a red light, a gentle voice enveloped her

『Do your best』

『… We’ve all seen how hard you’ve worked』

And at the end, a voice that reminded her of her own

『That man’s descendant and my oere able to meet I’m sure this is fate So Aria, ill lend you power… the power to take one more step forward』

As the red geue was bloay froth broke out from within

A red light inated the sprea in her hands Just a little more… a little further

“…!”

But the Land Dragon before Aria’s eyes sensed the danger, and attacked It intended to crush Aria with the highest priority

“Aria!”

Eva’s arrows caon’s eyes, and hit dead on But perhaps the Land Dragon felt an even greater danger froe

Even with Monica and the others attacking from the sky, it wouldn’t falter at all Laser-weapon-centric Monica called out

“Live rounds would be more effective!”

Clara looked around, and looked towards Porter’s debris-buried loading tray

“Porter, please”

The loading tray portion blasted off the rubble and on’s flank, the Land Dragon trae forelimbs

There, attacked to its round, pillar of a head, Porter’s two eyes that were supposed to be low

Raising its face, the ht Raising a wind, and just like that, Porter’s upper half attacked the Land Dragon Forcing it to retreat, it went and instigated an explosion The grand explosion scattered rubble, and made all present feel the shock wave Once that had passed, Clara was left dumbfounded

“No… I never gave such an instruction…”

Monica from above

“I didn’t prograet for forcing on so many modifications”

Froon took a step forward And dragging its body behind, a second

Opening its on spat up blood But even so, it advanced

Aria opened her eyes wide In her violet pupils dwelled a red light, and she felt as if her back was being supported up

『… Show thehter of the Lockwarde House』

As a red light enveloped her, rubble flew froirl rose into the air, and even the sky The Land Dragon was unable to keep up with Aria’s speed, only raising its face to the sky in an attempt to follow her

There a single line of red light

The Land Dragon was cleanly bisected, slowly splitting into halves

And standing roainst her shoulder, while clad in a red light, she spoke to all

“Let’s go I won’t be able to calood one into that idiot Novem”

At the end of Aria’s eyes were the forms of Novem and Lyle

Monica swooped down over the ground, collecting up Porter’s distorted head Clara raced over to Monica’s midst

Eva called out to the two

“I’ll be going ahead”

So together with Aria, they headed for Lyle The Valkyries followed behind theaze to Porter

Monice clutched its head tight

“… I can’t just write it off as a haywire machine You were also our splendid comrade, Porter…”