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Masou Gakuen HxH:Volume 2 Chapter 3

2018-02-04T11:46:15Z

173.245.48.216: /* Part 2 */

==Chapter 3 – Captured by the Curse of the Past==

===Part 1===

On the wall of Nayuta Lab, the woman who introduced herself as Aldea was projected.

It was the video that Eros automatically recorded from just now. Inside the monitor, the woman who was smiling gently was emitting green light, equipping her Heart Hybrid Gear.

Looking at that image, Reiri spoke.

“So, this is the one who repelled Aine’s Corruption Armament in the previous battle.”

On the screen, the mysterious Heart Hybrid Gear that defended against Pulverizer was projected.

Kei typed letters on the console, and the content was projected on the monitor.

{There is no mistake. This is the same Heart Hybrid Gear. The human equipping it is also identical.}

Aldea who was reflected on the wall monitor deflected Blades with her shield. She thrust the hole that was twisted open on the wall, causing it to collapse.

{The detail is unknown, but this spear and shield seems to possess the power to distort space.}

“Distorting, space?”

Kizuna faced Kei’s direction and asked.

{The moment this spear touched the building, the space around it distorted. That distortion tore the building, it even warped the Life Saver. Her shield basically used the same theory. The instant the Blade hit it, the space was distorted, repelling the attack.}

“Then, what about this tsunami of rubble?”

Kizuna pointed at the wall monitor.

When Aldea drew a line on the ground with her spear, the ground that was slightly caved in gradually turned bigger, then it descended forward like a surge.

{By distorting the space, she produced gravity. Using that power she moved mass and caused this kind of rubble tsunami, that’s my guess.}

What the hell is that?

Kizuna wasn’t quite feeling all of this was real. He could only understand this as something like a supernatural power.

Aine pouted her lips in dissatisfaction.

“That’s quite an absurd power. How cheeky.”

Yurishia separated her mouth from the cola bottle that she drank.

“Even Aine’s Corruption Armament is quite something thoughh.”

Reiri was glaring at Aldea whose image was closed-up.

“In addition, the name of this woman is Aldea……and then she designated her Heart Hybrid Gear as Zeel, correct?”

“Yes. But, she didn’t call it Heart Hybrid Gear, but magic armor.”

Himekawa added.

“then, the ones who came in contact with her were only Kizuna and Himekawa?”

“That’s rightt. I was only giving cover fire from afar, so I didn’t even get near to begin withh……ah, but Aine came near her didn’t you?”

“……Yes. But, she kept talking about incomprehensible things, she couldn’t be talked with.”

“And then on the other side of the Entrance, namely the AU’s Vatlantis Empire…..huh.”

Reiri crossed her arms.

“Hey……Nee-chan. Is this woman really a person of AU? Also, something like Vatlantis Empire in the AU, does it really exist I wonder?”

“Who knows. There is no way I know that.”

‘Well, that’s……that’s true though.’

“Kei, show the image of the magic weapon.”

The image of the three headed dragon was projected on another wall surface.

{This is a magic weapon that was observed for the first time in this occasion. The terrifying thing is how it repelled all the attack of Heart Hybrid Gear. The attack fired from its mouth and wing destroyed even Life Saver. That ability far surpassed the category-A.}

“Above the A-rank huh……”

{It will be categorized as category-Ultra provisionally. For its call sign, it will be tentatively named [{{furigana|Tri-Head|Three Headed Dragon}}] based on its shape.}

“Commander! We should deploy once more right now.”

Himekawa raised a loud voice.

“Rejected.”

“Wha!?”

Reiri answered immediately.

“Why-!? Such dangerous thing cannot be left alone! We should exterminate it right now with all of our force!”

Against Himekawa that even now was snapping with an extremely menacing look, there was no way Kizuna didn’t feel uncomfortable.

Just what in the world was going on with Himekawa?

Since the moment she saw that Tri-Head, her state was strange.

{The spec of the enemy is unknown. At the very least, we understood that it is an extremely powerful enemy from the battle this time. It’s reckless to challenge it for a rematch if we don’t prepare some kind of countermeasure.}

Kei calmly expressed her judgment.

“What are you going to do with such weak attitude! You have seen the tragic state of Guam correct? That was the doing of that thing! If we left it alone, perhaps there will be a lot more people who will meet the same experience. Let’s destroy it before that happen!”

Reiri’s face scowled.

“What’s wrong Himekawa? Aren’t you snapping too much on this? Has something happened?”

“I, I don’t meant that!! ……But…”

Reiri heaved a deep sigh.

“――Well, fine. Anyway all members are to rest today. The countermeasure for Zeel, and also Tri-Head will be considered after this. Stand by until we contact you in due course. That’s all!”

“Ple, please wait! Commander!”

Himekawa doggedly pleaded, but Reiri exited the room as if ignoring her.

Yurishia made a large yawn.

“Haaaa……as expected I’m sleepyy. I will quickly go home and sleeep.”

“I guess……tomorrow there will be normal class for us, how unbelievable.”

The imagination of his futon was extremely lovely. He had to go back to the dormitory even for a second faster and sleep.

“If it’s from here, then staying in hotel is nearer you know? Hey, Kizuna. You won’t stay with me?”

“Wha!?”

His eyes were awakened all of a sudden.

Staying together……did she, mean it in that meaning?

“What are you saying? Staying outside is prohibited.”

Aine nonchalantly answered.

“Rather than that, the direction of my room is nearer compared to Kizuna’s room. It’s fine for you to take a rest in my room you know?”

“No, it’s in the same dormitory right? Rather, it’s even in the same floor.”

“But, the distance is nearer to my room from the elevator.”

“Aah, certainly……for just around five meters!”

While having that kind of exchange, Himekawa’s mouth was tightlipped as if thinking hard about something.

……As expected, there was something. Tomorrow, let’s try asking again.

Kizuna thought of such thing while heading to the dormitory.

“So, why are you passing through my room I wonder?”

At the exclusive floor for Amaterasu, Aine asked Kizuna.

“No……even if you asked me why, I’m just going to sleep.”

Aine’s face blushed red.

“Saying that you want to sleep right from the front like that, how could you say such thing with such straight face. I wonder if this is what people called as a ‘thick face no shame’ face?”<ref>A Japanese phrase, though in English it only have a simple meaning of shameless</ref>

“No……thick face no shame actually doesn’t refer to face or anything.”

Aine’s fingers played with the tips of her hair lacking in composure.

“If I left you to wander by yourself, it looks like you are would rape someone every three steps……well, we mustn’t let a criminal come out from Amaterasu, so I, I think I have to do something about this?”

“……If you want to sleep-talk then do it after you sleep.”

The night operation. Encounter with mysterious enemy. Battle with a category-Ultra. And then report meeting.

His body and heart was already at the limit.

“Then, good night. Managing your health is also part of battle. Quickly go to sleep.”

“Ah……wa, wait a second. I’m thinking of analyzing the image of the enemy we met today. I’m thinking, isn’t it better for Kizuna to also watch it together with me?”

He absolutely wasn’t in the mood for that.

“Do it tomorrow, go to sleep quickly.”

Leaving those words behind, Kizuna returned to his own room.

“Fuuh―good grief, I’m home―”

Perhaps his tension slackened too much, but a greeting of homecoming came out from his mouth naturally even though there was no one. He quickly entered the bath after going home, so there was only sleep left.

He changed into his sleepwear and quickly slipped into his bed.

Aaahh, how warm……somehow, there was comfortable warmth, it mysteriously felt like human skin.

In addition, the texture of this futon was squishy and soft, he couldn’t say anything, a pleasant touching sensation was――,

“Wait, what the hell is thisssss!”

When he flipped up his futon, there was Sylvia sleeping soundly there.

Soft and fluffy blonde hair, and then the long eyelashes that were similarly blond. Coupled with her skin that was smooth like baby, she really looked like a sleeping angel.

“Sy, Sylvia! You, what are you doing in this kind of……!”

When he shook her, Sylvia rubbed her eyes while raising up her body in totter.

“Funya? Ah, Captain―……welcome, home, desu……”

“You……you have been waiting for me all this time?”

“Yes……Sylvia, cannot do anything desu. That’s why, at least, when Captain return home, I have to welcome……so.”

Her head was swaying unsteadily left and right, her sleepy eyes looked like they were going to close even now.

“Really……”

Kizuna gently caressed Sylvia’s head.

“It’s fine for you to sleep already. Rest well.”

Perhaps she was reassured from those words, Sylvia yawned and collapsed at Kizuna.

She leaned against Kizuna and began to have sleeper’s breathing.

‘Good grief……should I sleep on the sofa――oh?’

Slyvia’s hand was clutching at Kizuna’s clothes tightly.

“Oi, Sylvia……”

When he saw how peacefully Sylvia was sleeping, he felt like it was too pitiful to wake her up.

Kizuna laid down just like that and covered Sylvia who was hugging him with the blanket.

Before he noticed it, Kizuna too began to breathe peacefully.

At that time, Aine was inside her own room.

The lighting of the room wasn’t turned on, the turned on monitor became the light replacement.

And then, in that monitor, the video watched in the laboratory before this was projected.

The AU woman called Aldea.

And then the three headed dragon designated as Tri-Head.

Aine sat on the floor while hugging her knees.

Just why?

Her heart was astir.

Also, that strange poem, about the goddess or something.

The movie was played back until the end, then the screen went to stand by.

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She pushed the replay button.

The movie ended.

The replay button was pushed once more.

The movie ended.

This time it was replayed on repeat.

Unnoticed, the outside became bright.

Even so Aine repeated that video and continued to watch.

===Part 2===

“Well then, I give you a new mission.”

The next day, Kizuna was summoned to the principal’s room.

“A mission……what is it this time?”

“The enemy that appeared yesterday was one so powerful to the degree that we hadn’t encountered until now. To genuinely take an aggressive position against the AU from now on, we have to recognize that our power is still insufficient.”

Kizuna also felt that.

That Zeel, and then the Tri-head, even with the Heart Hybrid Gear he couldn’t do anything against them.

“And so, we decided to implement the method for powering up the Heart Hybrid Gear more efficiently based on the previous research that had progressed.”

“Eh!? Don’t tell me, such method really exist!?”

“There is. After analyzing the data until now in detail, the result of the research invented a ground-breaking method. The Heart Hybrid!”

Kizuna lost strength and fell to his knee.

“In the end that’s what you mean!!”

“Follow me.”

Reiri commanded with a tone that didn’t allow any protest.

Being told that strongly, Kizuna obeyed with a conditioned reflex. Surely that was the result of the imprinting since he was a child.

There was no one in the corridor.

The time right now was still in the middle of the third hour of the class. When he peeked into the class from the corridor’s window, students were sitting orderly receiving their lesson.

They exited from the school building and headed to the backyard.

There he could see a huge capsule thing without any window and a smooth white outer wall.

“Nee-chan, what’s this?”

“This is a simulator from the previous research that made progress. By sending electric signal to the brain, it manipulated the sight, hearing sense, and sense of touch, it’s possible to reproduce any kind of battlefield with this.”

“Heee……”

“It was created with the assumption to be used for mock battle against magic weapon or infiltrating territory under enemy control. It was planned to be used as part of class but……”

“Isn’t that amazing! Then we can even have a mock battle against that category-Ultra and that Heart Hybrid Gear Zeel! This is the victory of technology huh.”

“No, that’s impossible.”

“Why!?”

“A major software update was performed to it. Try to enter inside.”

Reiri touched the sensor that was on the side of the hatch. The hatch opened and Reiri entered inside. Kizuna too continued after her, then the hatch closed behind him.

The inside of the room was pitch dark.

“O, oi, Nee-chan. I cannot see anything here?”

“Don’t get flustered. I’m activating it soon.”

Activate?

Flickering light ran in front of him, the inside of the room turned bright.

“Wha……!?”

Kizuna became aware of the place he was at and got taken aback.

After all, that room was――,

“This is our house! The one in Megafloat Tokyo! Eeh? How?”

“Aah, how nostalgic.”

‘Certainly, since Nee-chan enrolled into Ataraxia she was living in dormitory. I live here until just a short time ago but……hm?’

A noise ran in front of him.

Somehow it was like the sight inside his eyeball was disturbed, it was a strange sensation.

Suddenly the scenery in front of his eyes changed.

“Eh? Evening? No wait, a beach!?”

Both of their shadows were stretching out on the long continuing beach that was wrapped in orange light. The sound of wave washing ashore and the smell of salt water stimulating the nose whispered to him that the sea spreading before his eyes was a real thing. Kizuna and Reiri were bathed in the evening sun while facing a beach.

“This is the simulator’s function to set the situation.”

Reiri operated the transparent console floating before her.

In an instant, the beach changed into a hotel room with beautiful night view.

“Not only scenery, the clothes can also be changed.”

“Eh……uwaa.”

Kizuna’s uniform was changing into the appearance of a commander in warring period. Also it was not a real armor, but a light design that came out in game which looked strangely modern.

‘Is this……Nee-chan’s hobby?’

When he ascertained it with his hand, the feeling of touch of the armor and kimono was obviously different with his uniform.

“Amazing……even the touching sensation is like the real thing.”

“Originally this was a function to simulate combat equipment though. The feel of equipment and weight are also reproduced. Using this, even human without Core should be able to practice Heart Hybrid Gear for real. But right now that role is succeeded by the Technical Gear.”

“No, it’s really awesome……but, why is it not used? Isn’t it properly functioning?”

“The combat data is almost all erased, and different data is installed in exchange. Besides, there is also a need to change the equipment of this room. No matter how great it can trick the senses, it will be troubling if there is no bed and shower room.”

――Bed?

“Right now, all sorts of date spots and hotels combined with hobby preferences, in total 108 situations have been prepared. As for equipment, in total three thousand types of accessories and tools, western clothes, etc, all has been registered.”

“I don’t think it’s possible……frankly, it’s scary to ask but, I’ll dare to ask. Those data, what are they for?”

“Of course, for the sake of the Heart Hybrid between you and those lasses. A data simulator in order to stir up the feeling and to do erotic thing.”

Kizuna’s consciousness became far away.

“This much advanced technology……this kind of device, what kind of demonic remodeling has been done to it……”

“Even if I say so myself, this is quite a resolute judgment I have made.”

“Isn’t this idiotic!?”

He reflexively yelled.

“Kizuna, those Zeel and Tri-Head are formidable enemies. We won’t be victorious with superficial methods.”

“There is no connection between this and that at all!”

“In order to win against those guys, we too have to gain even greater strength. For that sake, it’s indispensable to be more effective and efficient in Heart Hybrid. However, how to actually realize that? Kizuna, do you understand?”

“No, I don’t understand……though…”

“Heart Hybrid is making the heart and body of male and female into one, sharing their affection and pleasure with each other. To produce the greatest result, is nothing more than making the affection and pleasure even greater. Then, how to actually do it?”

Kizuna didn’t try to answer.

“To do that, first you have to deepen your relationship of trust with your partner. And then, by doing acts that match the sexual disposition of your partner, it heightens the mental pleasure and excitement. By stimulating the erogenous zone efficiently, you inflicted strong physical pleasure.”

‘……What is this person saying with a serious face like that?’

“This facility is for that sake. Be aware of your partner’s wish and fulfill it with this. And that is not only about Heart Hybrid just so you know. A man that can do that is able in his job, and is also popular with woman.”

Now that he was told that, he couldn’t just ignore it……however…….

“This facility is an equipment to surpass time and space. Furthermore, it can put any kind of clothes on the other party. It’s possible with this to look for your partner’s fetish and heighten their excitement efficiently.”

When Reiri waved her hand, the console moved in a slide in front of Kizuna.

The control was simple, but there were so many options. Furthermore, it seemed that extremely detailed customization was possible.

“There is amazing variety here……wait, what’s with these clothes?”

Sailor uniform, nurse, race queen, etc, rather than calling them clothes, it’s more accurate to call them costumes. Not only outer garments, there were also a lot of underwear and accessories.

“This toy category is too ominous……ah”

He didn’t intend to choose, but his finger tapped the console accidentally. Thereupon, the scenery in front of his eyes changed suddenly.

“This place……?”

It was the main street downtown. Passerby was normally passing through.

“Kizuna. So this is your preference?”

“Eh? Uwaaa!?”

Hida Reiri in bunny girl appearance, was standing there.

“I don’t know at all, that you are looking at me with those kinds of eyes.”

GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

“You, you’re wro-……!!”

Even while getting flustered, that body was properly burned into his eyes.

Protruding long ears that went *pyon*. Butterfly necktie and white collar. The long and slender legs were wrapped in black stockings, and a black bunny suit that clung tightly on the body.

Normally it was hidden by the military uniform, but it was a magnificent figure that was not being outdone even by Yurishia and Aine.

“This is the first time I've tested it on myself, but what an interesting thing.”

Reiri twirled on the spot. Her long black hair drew a circle in its flutter. Her ass that was greatly exposed had a cute white round tail attached. She tightly pushed out her hips and stopped her rotation. Her breasts that were exposed more than half shook flexibly.

She brushed up her hair and stared at Kizuna with smoldering eyes.

“Fufufu, how is it? I too am not someone that can be overlooked right?”

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What an unimaginable appearance for the person who reigned on the top of Ataraxia! If the students and the big shots of Ataraxia saw this, they would faint for sure!

“Wha-, what kind of appearance is that, wear something quickly!”

“Aren’t you the one putting this on me……well, something like that is trivial. Listen, this is something in order to realize the greatest recovery of Hybrid Count in the shortest time possible by setting the situation to match your partner’s fetish……are you listening properly?”

“Ye……yeah! I’m listening!”

‘Nee-chan’s bunny girl appearance is just too unusual, that I unconsciously gaze at it. Nee-chan has high position, and she is always on the side that gives order, someone whom no one can oppose. That kind person, right now has become a mere showpiece.’

This was the terrifying power of bunny suit!!

“The result from inspecting the Heart Hybrid until now, we understand that the higher the excitement when the Heart Hybrid is happening, the better the quality of the Hybrid Count recovered. Certainly, it’s possible to cause Heart Hybrid even with soft contact. However, there is great difference in the energy obtained.”

“Good quality? ……What’s that mean?”

When Reiri crossed her arms, her breast was lifted by her arm. Not just her breast became increasingly emphasized, it was as if the tips would become visible, it made his heart throbbing fast.

“Even cars can be filled with regular gasoline and high octane gasoline right? Even if you fill a car that exclusively uses high octane with regular gasoline, it won’t be able to show its true performance. Heart Hybrid Gear is the same. With better quality Hybrid Count, its power and performance, every point will have their spec raised.”

“Is……is that so?”

‘Shit, I got strangely conscious of it like this. By any chance, do I actually like bunny girls?’

“What’s wrong? Is your condition bad?”

The bunny Reiri peeked into Kizuna’s face and touched her forehead on his.

“Doesn’t seem like a fever.”

Kizuna’s view was fully filled with Reiri’s close-up.

‘Uwa! Near! Moreover, the breast pressing is strangely soft, Nee-chan’s, breas――.’

“I, I-I-I-I’m fine-!”

He separated from Reiri in panic.

“Is that so? Anyway, use this facility and try out a Heart Hybrid here. First we want to confirm how effective this will be. Is it okay?”

“Ma’am, yes Ma’am!!”

He unconsciously okayed it.

When the system returned to its default state, Kizuna returned to his previous uniform. And then the scenery of the downtown became a pure white bland room with only one bed conspicuously put inside.

“Nevertheless, making this kind of facility inside the school of all place……isn’t it morally problematic?”

After his sister left, Kizuna laid on his side alone on the bed. He was staring at the Amaterasu’s Hybrid Count displayed on his smartphone monitor.

“First, who should I test this on……”

Kizuna pressed on the icon and made a call.

“――So, I wonder what business do you have with mee?”

Yurishia arrived with strangely lively attitude.

“I’m wondering if you can give me help in confirming the function of a new simulator.”

“What, it’s for something like thatt? I don’t particularly mind but……this room is something like that?”

Making a slightly regretful face, Yurishia looked around the inside of the room.

“Yeah. It seems that this is a facility where we can do Heart Hybrid even more efficiently.”

Yurishia’s eyes flashed.

“You, you meann……doing that, with me, right here?”

“We, well, see it yourself a bit.”

Kizuna operated the console floating in the air. Thereupon, the white room changed into the scenery of a plateau. Green meadows and lake, and then mountain ridges covered in snow at afar were stretching before their eyes.

“Eh? Wha, what’s this!?”

Yurishia showed a similar reaction with Kizuna before.

The problem was, what kind of situation would make Yurishia the most excited.

From plateau to beach resort area, to a hotel room, he changed the scenery repeatedly.

“Heee, this is amazingg! It’s like teleporting instantly many times over! What kind of places are there aside from this?”

“Yeah……let’s see it in turns. That, something――”

――If you have a situation that can make you excited, tell me.

There was no way he could ask that……what should he do now?

A high class hotel room was projected. From the window, they could see the night scenery with stars scattered on the sky.

Yurishia’s eyes were narrowed ecstatically.

“Isn’t it lovelyy……eh?”

However next a suspicious room appeared in front of her eyes.

There was red lighting and iron bars. Chains attached with shackles for arms and legs were put on the wall, then a stand in X-shape for crucifixion. And then things like a chair with restraints, furniture that normally couldn’t be witnessed was lined up.

Was this, that thing? The so called SM playroom thing?

As expected this was off putting.

“Hahaha, it looks like a hotel series. I don’t think that there will be something like thi-……”

Yurishia’s mouth was half-opened while staring around the inside of the room, it was as if her heart was stolen.

――Yurishia?

Her cheek was colored, her breath was rough.

“Is something wrong? Yurishia.”

“Hiee-!? No-, nothing’s wrong-“

Yurishia answered oddly in fluster.

“Ge, geez-, what’s with this room. It’s vulgar and perverted thing. Please turn it into the previous hotel with the night view!”

“My bad. I’ll change it back immediately.”

Saying that, Kizuna operated the console in panic.

However, Yurishia’s state just now attracted his attention.

“Uwaa, it really look like a hotel! He, hey Kizuna, I wonder where is this night scenery taken?”

The behavior of Yurishia right now also felt awkward somehow…….

‘Don’t tell me Yurishia is-!? No, as expected there is no way――.’

But, if they only did Heart Hybrid like this, then he had the feeling in the end there would be nothing different with everything until now. This was a facility prepared with great difficulty by his sister, going as far as crushing a combat simulator for this. He had to use it effectively.

Then, boldly――,

“Hey Kizu――naaa-!?”

Yurishia’s voice broke into falsetto.

That was understandable.

In an instant, Yurishia’s uniform was changed into a black bondage costume.

“Wha……wha……”

It was a costume composed from a corset and belt with high exposure rate. The enamel’s black material reflected the lighting, making her allure even more conspicuous. The costume didn’t dig into her skin, it was like the costume was custom ordered to perfectly fit Yurishia’s voluptuous body.

“Wa, wait Kizuna! Wha, what’s the meaning of this?”

Yurishia hugged herself to hide her body. However, doing that was unable to hide Yurishia’s body. Her pressed breast jutted out from between her arms.

“Sorry. Looks like some kind of system error put that on you by itself.”

“Wha――”

Yurishia showed a face like the world had ended.

“No way! Do something!”

“It’s okay. If we wait a little, I think it’s going to be fixed soon.”

“Re……really? It’s really okay right?”

“Yeah, that’s why until then please be patient for a while.”

“Is that so……I understand. But――”

Yurishia twisted her body in embarrassment. And then, after she glanced at her own figure that was reflected in the mirror, her face was turning red.

Her blonde hair and white skin really looked attractive with the black enamel that shined in luster.

“Yurishia, do you hate that kind of clothing?”

“Eh! Ye, yes……obviously.”

The eyes of Yurishia who was answering like that were swimming around. Different from the usual confident Yurishia, she looked anxious with fear. And then, being embarrassed like this without any place to escape, her body was shivering unable to calm down, she sent a helpless gaze to Kizuna.

‘――Wha, what the? She is strangely cute!?’

“Do, don’t, look at me. It’s embarrassing.”

“Sorry. But……it really suits you.”

“――!! Eve, even if you told me that, I, I’m not happy or anything……”

Yurishia felt Kizuna’s gaze.

‘I, it feels like, I’m conscious of Kizuza’s gaze stronger than usual…..as though, he is licking all over my body.

He is looking, at this appearance of mine……I wonder if Kizuna is also excited?’

“Aa……”

When she imagined that, a deep sigh naturally leaked out from her mouth.

Her heart was throbbing fast.

“Hey, Kizuna…… does looking at me wearing these kinds of clothes……make you happy?”

Yurishia looked up at him with damp eyes.

“Tha, that’s……I think that it’s a little abnormal, but when Yurishia is the one wearing it, that, it’s extremely……”

Kizuna averted his eye with red face.

Looking at Kizuna’s shy reaction, a little composure was born inside Yurishia’s heart.

‘I’m also throbbing hard but, even Kizuna is also the same isn’t he…….

That’s right. Even the time before, Kizuna also got all flustered looking at my swimsuit appearance.

……Really, since when could my heart get this painful because of Kizuna, I wonder.

Somehow, it’s a little irritating.

I’m the dominant one here. Get a hold of yourself, Yurishia Farandole.’

Her original personality that hated to lose drove Yurishia into a strange direction.

“And thenn, Kizunaa, just what are you planning making me wearing something like this?”

She approached Kizuna while swaying her hips.

And then her finger which was wrapped in a long glove that reached above her elbow was poking at Kizuna’s chest.

“Wha, what you ask……that’s……!”

Yurishia twirled and turned her back on him, she was walking toward the window. Looking at her figure from behind, Kizuna gulped his saliva. The exposure rate of her behind was also amazing. Her back was largely opened, a fabric that was like a string was digging into the crack of her ass, almost all was bared open.

Her figure in the swimsuit that he saw at the sea was amazing, but it was incomparable to this.

Her white and large ass was shaking up and down each time she walked.

It was glossy without a single stain. It was giving off the impression of delicious fruit heavily drooping from the ripeness.

‘――Kizuna is looking at my ass.’

Yurishia sensitively felt the gaze of Kizuna.

Herself that was wearing this perverted costume was seen by Kizuna.

Thinking like that, the inside of Yurishia’s body was becoming heated.

Along with that, golden light danced from Yurishia’s body like sparkles.

Looking at that radiance, Kizuna was shocked.

‘――The sign of Heart Hybrid? How, even though I haven’t even touch her!?’

When Yurishia had walked until the large window that stretched up from the floor until the ceiling, she turned back at Kizuna. Matching that motion, her breast shook with a momentum as if it would be forced out from the bondage costume.

The light shining in from the window into this dim room was depicting a shadow on Yurishia’s body.

Yurishia who was turning her back on the night scenery looked like a bewitching witch floating on the sea of jewels.

It was as though Kizuna was ensnared by magic, he started walking unsteadily toward Yurishia.

Perhaps Yurishia was also getting excited, her skin was dyed in faint pink, she was slightly sweating.

Yurishia caressed her hands from her ass to her waist, then to her breast, as if to ascertaining her own body line.

――Want to touch?

It was like she was inviting Kizuna for that.

When Kizuna slowly held out his hand, that hand was lightly struck down.

“Eh?”

“Noo good. You still have to wait★”

Just like usual, Yurishia sent him a heavy wink.

On the contrary, Yurishia’s hand was crawling around Kizuna’s body.

She was taking off the button of Kizuna’s uniform.

“Yu, Yurishia?”

Yurishia’s slender fingers slipped in through the gap of the shirt.

“Eh? Wai-, what are-……!”

Yurishia began to grope at Kizuna’s chest.

“Fufuu, before this you touched my breast, so this is the payment for that♡”

“Wh, wha-?”

Yurishia tickled the tips of Kizuna’s chest.

“How is it? I wonder if boy also feel it?”

Yurishia’s finger tips were moving up and down as if flicking off Kizuna’s chest.

“Wa, wait, something like this――”

Kizuna’s consciousness was concentrated on his chest. A shuddering sensation ran through from his chest to his body.

‘――Kuh! Like this our position is reversed.’

“Ufufu, as I thought you are feeling itt. Then, show me an even better face okay?”

Kizuna’s shirt buttons were unbuttoned until the bottom, then his undershirt was flipped up.

Looking at Kizuna’s chest, Yurishia narrowed her eyes happily.

It was a sturdy chest with faint muscle outlined. That chest was feeling Yurishia’s finger tips sensitively.

‘No way, this is cute somehow…….’

Yurishia stretched out her pink tongue a little and licked at the tip of Kizuna’s chest.

“Uwaaa!?”

Kizuna felt a sensation he had never experienced before.

He felt sweet itchiness from the tips of his chest.

“Have you, ever done something like this?”

“The, there is-, no way I’ve ever done this!”

Yurishia smiled in triumph of victory.

“I see♪ So I’ll receive Kizuna’s first then?”

“Stop saying that in a strange way!”

“Even if you have sucked before, you have never been sucked until now correct?”

Suddenly, he recalled the Heart Hybrid with Aine.

“――-“

He gulped his saliva audibly and stiffened.

“Kizuna?”

“Eh-? N, no, something like sucking, how could that――”

Yurishia showed a doubting expression.

“You should have done it with your mama’s breast……”

While talking, Yurishia’s eyes was turning dangerous.

“Kizuna……who have you done it with?”

‘Uwaa! Her gaze is scaryyyy!’

“Hayuru? Or maybe Aine?”

“E, err―rr……”

Being taken aback, his hand accidentally touched the console floating on the air.

“Wai-, wait? What is this!?”

Both Yurishia’s hands were shackled, her eyes were also wrapped with a blindfold. Both restraints were made from soft leather, so her body was being restrained without her feeling pain.

“Ki-, Kizuna? You’re unfair! Whe, where are you-!?”

“My, my bad! This is really just a coincidence. My hand grazed the console……”

“It’s fine already, release it quickly!”

Yurishia was angry, no, rather she looked more like scared.

Her impression was completely opposite of the Yurishia who was like a queen just now.

“Yurishia……”

Kizuna approached Yurishia.

Feeling his presence, Yurishia’s shoulder twitched in surprise.

She didn’t know what would be done to her or even resisted. It seemed that she was scared of that. Yurishia who was the world strongest ace that feared nothing was shivering from his every little action.

However, simultaneously Yurishia’s face was blushing, her breathing was turning ragged.

From all that happened until now, Kizuna felt something that was near conviction.

‘――By any chance, is Yurishia liking SM?’

Since she wore this costume, signs of Heart Hybrid immediately appeared. In addition, when she was acting like a queen too, and now that she was acting like a scared little animal too, whichever it was she looked like she was getting excited.

There was no doubt. Then, what was left was――,

{By doing acts that match the sexual disposition of your partner, it heightens the mental pleasure and excitement. By stimulating the erogenous zone efficiently, you inflicted strong physical pleasure.}

And so he was told, where was this erogenous zone?

‘……Hm?

Breast and ass……I don’t have any other idea except those places.

Wha, what should I do?

Wait, there is no point to hesitate. Then, first is――,’

“aAAAn-!”

‘So-! Softtt!’

Kizuna crawled his hand through Yurishia’s ass.

‘Wha, what’s with this sensation! Is this really human body? It’s like the softness of fresh snow, really spongy.’

“Wai, Ki, Kizuna-? Where are you touching!?”

When he grasped the ass, his finger felt like it was sinking without end. And then, from between his grasping fingers, the meat of the ass was spilling out.

‘Amazing. Touching it feels really good. No matter how much I’m rubbing it, I won’t get tired of it.’

“Aa-, ah, aaa, fuAaaAAnn-“

Yurishia was desperately trying to escape from Kizuna’s loving caress by twisting her body. However with both her hands restrained she couldn’t move her body satisfactorily, she also didn’t understand Kizuna’s position due to the blindfold. On the contrary, it was like she was just shaking that large ass in front of Kizuna’s eyes.

And then golden light began to scatter from Yurishia’s body.

‘The Hybrid Heart is beginning already? Or maybe, does this mean that Yurishia’s erogenous zone is her ass?

No, but if thinking about Yurishia’s number one, then as I thought, it’s――,’

Kizuna dropped his gaze.

‘――surely her giant breast.’

“Yurishia, about the chest area of your clothes”

While breathing raggedly, Yurishia was turning her face to the direction where Kizuna’s voice came.

“It’s almost come off.”

“Eh……”

“Is it okay, for me to just take it off?”

In other words, he was telling her to expose her raw breast without anything hiding it in front of Kizuna.

Yurishia’s lips was trembling for a while, then before long she nodded shortly.

Kizuna reached out his hand at Yurishia’s breast, he took off her buttons one by one, unbuttoning them. Each time he did that, Yurishia’s body was jumping twitchingly.

“I’m taking it off.”

Kizuna’s hand took away the bondage’s chest cloth.

The breasts which were freed from the restraint spilled out from the bondage suit as if they were jumping.

“……-!?”

They jumped jigglingly, the vibration of the repeated shaking up and down absorbed his gaze.

Without anything obstructing his gaze, Yurishia’s breast was exposed in front of Kizuna.

‘――Hu, huge.’

He understood that it was big even from above the clothes. But, looking at Yurishia’s breast raw like this in contact with the air, he realized that what he had seen until now was not everything.

Even without underwear, the breasts were going against gravity, maintaining their magnificent shape slightly pointing above, it was far larger than even Aine, that color and shape were manifesting beauty and lewdness that couldn’t be compared with anything.

The protrusion that stuck out from the white skin was drawing pink colored gradation.

From the breast that became exposed, sweet fragrance was gently drifting, tickling at Kizuna’s nose.

“Aaa……”

Yurishia felt Kizuna’s passionate gaze on that tips.

Exactly because her sight was blocked that her feeling became sensitive, her power of imagination was also swelling.

It further instigated Yurishia’s excitement, from the depth of her body, hot liquid was seeping out. And then, golden light was rising up from the surface of her body.

Kizuna’s hand touched Yurishia’s raw breast.

“HyaAAun!”

When his finger tip slightly grazed the hill of her breast, Yurishia’s body convulsed twitchingly.

Similar with her ass, this one was also very soft. When he put a little strength to his finger, his finger made a large depression on her breast.

Kizuna spread his hands and rubbed Yurishia’s breast as if he was lifting them up.

“No-, AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”

‘――Wha, what? Is this!?’

The sensation information of her breast rubbed by other people, furthermore by a man was beyond her imagination. Against the sensation that was obviously different when she was touching herself, the processing ability of Yurishia’s brain exceeded the limit in the blink of eye.

Yurishia was unable to endure the pleasure and shook her head uncomposedly. Each time she did that, her hair elegantly spread out while scattering golden particles.

“Do you feel good, Yurishia?”

“It, it feels goo-……ood-, aaah!”

Knitting her eyebrows, she was making an anguished expression under the blindfold. She raised her breathing, her lips opened as if seeking oxygen with her tongue stretched out.

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Kizuna’s palm felt something hard stiffening. That thing was gradually hardening and growing bigger.

“……Yurishia.”

Kizuna took off Yurishia’s blindfold.

“……?”

The face of Yurishia that was melting in ecstasy appeared under it. Tears were gathering in the corner of her eyes.

‘Haa―, haa―,’ She was just wringing out suffocated breathing sound without letting out any voice.

Her expression looked as if she was asking him in anxiety ‘what are you going to do?’

Kizuna separated his hand from Yurishia. Her breast shook bouncingly because of the strength holding it was gone.

“Eh, Kizu……na?”

‘Why do you stop?’ Eyes that looked blaming were staring at Kizuna.

“Don’t worry, Yurishia.”

“Eh!?”

That instant, Kizuna’s fingers pinched at the pink tips shining on Yurishia’s breast.

“――hii!?”

Yurishia showed a face that looked like she was going to cry,

Kizuna put more strength, as if he was trying to press tightly.

“~~!!”

And then he pulled as if to twist the whole breast.

“Aah, a, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-!”

At the same time with the scream surging out from Yurishia’s mouth, golden light exploded out from her body. And then, pink radiance was also ejected from Kizuna’s body.

Those radiances became a vortex of two colored light that was enveloping their body.

――That was the moment where Heart Hybrid succeeded.

And then after that he confirmed the vital signs of Yurishia in his smartphone.

Yurishia’s Hybrid Count was splendidly charged to full.

For the time being, he considered that Yurishia’s play preference was something like S&M with her breasts as her erogenous zone.

This time it was more than enough to put a costume on Yurishia, but he had to make Yurishia even more excited in the Heart Hybrid of next time.

‘――Well, first is one person.’

There was two more girl before he completed his mission.

===Part 3===

After school, Kizuna was heading to the student guidance room.

Due to the Heart Hybrid with Yurishia, he was able to confirm the result of the aforementioned simulator.

However thinking about Himekawa’s preference, what could it possibly be?

He had the feeling that his distance with her had been greatly shortened by helping out with the work of public morals committee. If he could understand Himekawa’s preference well, then their Heart Hybrid might go well.

When he opened the door and entered the student guidance room, there was Himekawa standing near the window in the light of the evening sun.

“Sorry I’m late. I was called by the teacher a little. Today where are we going to do the crackdown――”

“Hida-kun!”

She pressed on him in one go.

“Waa, wha, what! What’s wrong?”

“What do you think!?”

‘Hee!? Wha, what!? Is it about, Himekawa?’

“No, that, I think you are beautiful, you also have serious personality……”

“……What are you talking about?”

“Eh? Isn’t this about you Himekawa?”

Himekawa’s face turned flaring red.

“Wha-, ple, please don’t say something stupid! I, I’m beautiful or something is……wait, this is not that kind of talk! This is about that category-Ultra! Just how long are we going to wait until the decision to attack Guam again will come out!?”

“Ah! Tha, that’s what you are talking about. No, I also don’t know anything about that.”

‘This is bad, I completely made an embarrassing mistake. I wonder if Himekawa is thinking I’m strange now.’

Himekawa kept prattling on and on with her face still red.

“Since then, we have been in stand by all this time. I’ve already reached the limit of my patience. Let’s go to the commander right now to express our opinion!”

‘――That’s……,

Frankly speaking, as long as Nee-chan doesn’t give the order, I don’t think that a permission to sortie will come out.’

Besides, he didn’t feel the necessity to once again attack Guam in such a hurry.

In a certain meaning, he could even say that the information they collected about AU from their infiltration to the enemy territory had produced unexpected result.

Rather, he didn’t understand just why Himekawa was being this impatient.

Having his resistance cut down by Himekawa, Kizuna headed together with her toward the principal’s room. However――,

“Rejected.”

Reiri settled it all with a single word.

“Just why!? Even though there is enemy right in front of our eyes, why――”

“There is no prospect of victory.”

“……Kuh!”

Reiri’s answer was simple. With that Himekawa was thrust with a fact that was hard for her to approve.

“Bu, but, we cannot leave them alone just because of that!”

“What can we do other than leaving them alone? What are you planning to go there without any countermeasure?”

“Of course, to defeat the enemy! Isn’t that right, Hida-kun?”

Himekawa looked for agreement from Kizuna.

Naturally, you are my ally――she was making a face that was thinking so.

“Tha, that’s……”

“Hida-kun? What’s wrong? Let’s fight together!”

‘――-.

That’s impossible.’

“That’s impossible, Himekawa.”

“……Eh?”

Himekawa’s smile froze.

“Even if we go now, we will lose again.”

“Tha, that’s……”

Himekawa’s complexion was turning pale rapidly.

“The difference in battle strength with the enemy is obvious. Until we find a method to overturn that, it’s better to not force ourselves challenging them again. Even if we go now, it will only make everyone meet danger.”

“Are you……scared……”

Himekawa stepped back from Kizuna.

“No! I――”

“……I was convinced that, you understand me……what a great misunderstanding I’ve made.”

“Please wait! We cannot go right now, we should――”

“I misjudged you!!”

Himekawa rushed out from the principal room.

“Himekawa!!”

Kizuna also chased after Himekawa and wasted no time to exit to the corridor. However, he could only see the figures of teaching staff coming and going, he couldn’t find Himekawa’s figure anywhere.

===Part 4===

‘――Aah! Geez, how infuriating!’

Himekawa that sneaked out from Ataraxia was flying alone above the sea.

‘Whether it’s him or anyone, no one is reliable. As I thought, I can only do it myself.

I will defeat the category-Ultra.’

But, what if the enemy magic armor came out?

‘At that time, I’ll defeat Aldea first. That’s all.’

Before long Himekawa arrived at the sky above Guam.

‘――I wonder where they are?’

Himekawa materialized floating windows around her body.

If there was magic weapon, then the sensor should detect it.

‘……Looks like they are not here.

Was it pulled back to the Entrance?’

At that time, a certain sensor was shining red.

It was not magic weapon. This reaction was……Heart Hybrid Gear!?

“My my, you came alone? This is a surprise.”

“……So you show yourself!!”

Wearing the green colored magic armor Zeel, Aldea was floating on the air. She was brimming with gentle smile.

The reaction displayed on Himekawa’s sensor was unmistakably came from Heart Hybrid Gear. But this meant that magic armor and Heart Hybrid Gear was the same thing.

“I’m happy that you come to meet me. Let’s pass an enjoyable time? I wonder if it’s better to have a talk, or is it better to kill each other?”

Himekawa immediately drew out the Sword on her waist.

“My, so you are wishing for killing each other then.”

The moment Aldea said that, her shields detached and lined up in the air. One among them was shining brightly, changing its shape into spear. Aldea’s hand grasped that spear.

“I too come out here by my own decision……so if I don’t at least bring home a Core, I will get scolded. I will have the Cores of you and your comrades to bring back home.”

“Blade!!”

From Himekawa’s back, large swords were flying out. They cut through the sky and aimed at Aldea.

“I know that those shields boasted iron wall protection. But!”

‘――I just need to avoid the shield, and attack directly!’

Himekawa imagined the trajectory of the Blades.

The Blades changed their trajectory as if reading Himekawa’s heart, they circled around Aldea with acrobatic motions as if toying with her.

And then, they assaulted all at once from four directions.

Together with a brilliant flash, four shields blocked the attack of the Blades. Even now the Blades were trying to push back by raising their output, but the shields were also pushing back. During that time fierce sparks scattered.

The thruster of Neros ignited and Himekawa’s body sailed out in straight line.

‘――Even if those shields blocked the Blades, this Sword will cut you apart!’

“TEYAAAAA-!”

The Sword was swung down on Aldea.

Fierce light surged out like lightning.

Before Aldea’s eyes, the remaining single shield blocked the attack of Sword.

“Kuh……as expected from the shield that blocked Pulverizer’s attack. However!”

Himekawa pressed on with Sword.

The figure of Aldea on the other side of the fiercely shining shield was changed completely with just now. Because she was using her magic armor as shields, right now her appearance was mostly only her flesh body.

‘――Right here, if I can just deal a slash at her……I’ll win!’

“Prepare yourself! After defeating you, the next one will be that Tri-Head!!”

“As expected from Neros. I cannot underestimate you……but…”

“This is!?”

Suddenly, the Sword bended.

The shield blocking Sword was also similarly greatly warped. From the gap, Aldea’s smiling face could be peeked.

“……!!”

The spear grasped in that hand was stabbed on her own shield, distorting the space together with the Sword. The spear stretched out straight, brushing aside the shield and Sword.

“No――”

The tips was stabbed at Himekawa’s chest.

Similar with the previous battle, it was like the inside of her chest was taken right from the root, a strange sensation. And then in the next instant, her body was blown away as if she was pulled behind.

“Gah, GAHAAaAAA-!”

After being blown away for about two hundred meter, she finally could stop herself. She pressed on her chest and felt a relieve that her own flesh was still there.

――However, what if it was stabbed into her just a little deeper?

She recalled the destroyed building before this. What if she met the same fate like that?

A shiver ran through Himekawa’s whole body.

“It’s fine to kill you, but this is a rare chance so let’s enjoy it dramatically. I’ll collect the other Cores while I’m at it.”

When Aldea who was soaked in joy spread her hands, the spear returned to its original shield shape.

And then, behind and front, left right above below, six shields were surrounding Himekawa.

“Wha……?”

Looking from this close, the shield’s structure was like four layer piled up together. Those layers were unfolding one by one with the circle shape attached on the top of the shield as the axis, transforming into X-shape. The next instant, each of the top was linked at each other with light, then they began to radiate green light.

“――This is……-“

Himekawa became locked inside cube of light. Each surface was possessing X-shaped frame, it was a cage of light. Nervousness ran through Himekawa’s body.

Suddenly, the space inside the cube distorted.

“KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-!!”

The distortion wringed Himekawa with fierce impact and pressure.

‘Kuh! Thi, tis is……I’m imprisoned!?

Something like this, I’ll destroy it from inside with Blade……!’

However, the Blades that should be moving obeying her will couldn’t be controlled.

“Wh……why is this!?”

Himekawa intended to launch them in straight line, but the Blades were just rolling in place, they couldn’t get out from this cube. It was as if they were imprisoned by unseen power.

‘――Then, with Sword!!’

Himekawa put all the strength in her body to swing down the Sword, but it wouldn’t move just like she wanted.

‘――Wh, why?’

Neros’s output was clearly dropping down. Himekawa confirmed the status of Neros in panic.

Her Hybrid Count……was already none?

The gauge was already in red zone, the remaining amount had became only 5%.

‘No way! This, this, kind of thing.’

Himekawa’s consciousness was becoming distant.

‘No, no good, it’s painful……my awareness, cannot hol――.’

Her blurred sight could see the figure of Aldea right nearby.

“Ufufufu, you are now in the role of the captured heroine you know? Act your role properly okay?”

‘No good……I can’t move, even a single finger already.

I want…..

Hybrid Count.

――Hida-kun.’

Himekawa’s consciousness sunk deeply into the darkness.

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Masou Gakuen HxH:Volume 2 Chapter 3

2018-01-31T11:24:40Z

173.245.48.216: /* Chapter 3 – Captured by the Curse of the Past */

==Chapter 3 – Captured by the Curse of the Past==

===Part 1===

On the wall of Nayuta Lab, the woman who introduced herself as Aldea was projected.

It was the video that Eros automatically recorded from just now. Inside the monitor, the woman who was smiling gently was emitting green light, equipping her Heart Hybrid Gear.

Looking at that image, Reiri spoke.

“So, this is the one who repelled Aine’s Corruption Armament in the previous battle.”

On the screen, the mysterious Heart Hybrid Gear that defended against Pulverizer was projected.

Kei typed letters on the console, and the content was projected on the monitor.

{There is no mistake. This is the same Heart Hybrid Gear. The human equipping it is also identical.}

Aldea who was reflected on the wall monitor deflected Blades with her shield. She thrust the hole that was twisted open on the wall, causing it to collapse.

{The detail is unknown, but this spear and shield seems to possess the power to distort space.}

“Distorting, space?”

Kizuna faced Kei’s direction and asked.

{The moment this spear touched the building, the space around it distorted. That distortion tore the building, it even warped the Life Saver. Her shield basically used the same theory. The instant the Blade hit it, the space was distorted, repelling the attack.}

“Then, what about this tsunami of rubble?”

Kizuna pointed at the wall monitor.

When Aldea drew a line on the ground with her spear, the ground that was slightly caved in gradually turned bigger, then it descended forward like a surge.

{By distorting the space, she produced gravity. Using that power she moved mass and caused this kind of rubble tsunami, that’s my guess.}

What the hell is that?

Kizuna wasn’t quite feeling all of this was real. He could only understand this as something like a supernatural power.

Aine pouted her lips in dissatisfaction.

“That’s quite an absurd power. How cheeky.”

Yurishia separated her mouth from the cola bottle that she drank.

“Even Aine’s Corruption Armament is quite something thoughh.”

Reiri was glaring at Aldea whose image was closed-up.

“In addition, the name of this woman is Aldea……and then she designated her Heart Hybrid Gear as Zeel, correct?”

“Yes. But, she didn’t call it Heart Hybrid Gear, but magic armor.”

Himekawa added.

“then, the ones who came in contact with her were only Kizuna and Himekawa?”

“That’s rightt. I was only giving cover fire from afar, so I didn’t even get near to begin withh……ah, but Aine came near her didn’t you?”

“……Yes. But, she kept talking about incomprehensible things, she couldn’t be talked with.”

“And then on the other side of the Entrance, namely the AU’s Vatlantis Empire…..huh.”

Reiri crossed her arms.

“Hey……Nee-chan. Is this woman really a person of AU? Also, something like Vatlantis Empire in the AU, does it really exist I wonder?”

“Who knows. There is no way I know that.”

‘Well, that’s……that’s true though.’

“Kei, show the image of the magic weapon.”

The image of the three headed dragon was projected on another wall surface.

{This is a magic weapon that was observed for the first time in this occasion. The terrifying thing is how it repelled all the attack of Heart Hybrid Gear. The attack fired from its mouth and wing destroyed even Life Saver. That ability far surpassed the category-A.}

“Above the A-rank huh……”

{It will be categorized as category-Ultra provisionally. For its call sign, it will be tentatively named [{{furigana|Tri-Head|Three Headed Dragon}}] based on its shape.}

“Commander! We should deploy once more right now.”

Himekawa raised a loud voice.

“Rejected.”

“Wha!?”

Reiri answered immediately.

“Why-!? Such dangerous thing cannot be left alone! We should exterminate it right now with all of our force!”

Against Himekawa that even now was snapping with an extremely menacing look, there was no way Kizuna didn’t feel uncomfortable.

Just what in the world was going on with Himekawa?

Since the moment she saw that Tri-Head, her state was strange.

{The spec of the enemy is unknown. At the very least, we understood that it is an extremely powerful enemy from the battle this time. It’s reckless to challenge it for a rematch if we don’t prepare some kind of countermeasure.}

Kei calmly expressed her judgment.

“What are you going to do with such weak attitude! You have seen the tragic state of Guam correct? That was the doing of that thing! If we left it alone, perhaps there will be a lot more people who will meet the same experience. Let’s destroy it before that happen!”

Reiri’s face scowled.

“What’s wrong Himekawa? Aren’t you snapping too much on this? Has something happened?”

“I, I don’t meant that!! ……But…”

Reiri heaved a deep sigh.

“――Well, fine. Anyway all members are to rest today. The countermeasure for Zeel, and also Tri-Head will be considered after this. Stand by until we contact you in due course. That’s all!”

“Ple, please wait! Commander!”

Himekawa doggedly pleaded, but Reiri exited the room as if ignoring her.

Yurishia made a large yawn.

“Haaaa……as expected I’m sleepyy. I will quickly go home and sleeep.”

“I guess……tomorrow there will be normal class for us, how unbelievable.”

The imagination of his futon was extremely lovely. He had to go back to the dormitory even for a second faster and sleep.

“If it’s from here, then staying in hotel is nearer you know? Hey, Kizuna. You won’t stay with me?”

“Wha!?”

His eyes were awakened all of a sudden.

Staying together……did she, mean it in that meaning?

“What are you saying? Staying outside is prohibited.”

Aine nonchalantly answered.

“Rather than that, the direction of my room is nearer compared to Kizuna’s room. It’s fine for you to take a rest in my room you know?”

“No, it’s in the same dormitory right? Rather, it’s even in the same floor.”

“But, the distance is nearer to my room from the elevator.”

“Aah, certainly……for just around five meters!”

While having that kind of exchange, Himekawa’s mouth was tightlipped as if thinking hard about something.

……As expected, there was something. Tomorrow, let’s try asking again.

Kizuna thought of such thing while heading to the dormitory.

“So, why are you passing through my room I wonder?”

At the exclusive floor for Amaterasu, Aine asked Kizuna.

“No……even if you asked me why, I’m just going to sleep.”

Aine’s face blushed red.

“Saying that you want to sleep right from the front like that, how could you say such thing with such straight face. I wonder if this is what people called as a ‘thick face no shame’ face?”<ref>A Japanese phrase, though in English it only have a simple meaning of shameless</ref>

“No……thick face no shame actually doesn’t refer to face or anything.”

Aine’s fingers played with the tips of her hair lacking in composure.

“If I left you to wander by yourself, it looks like you are would rape someone every three steps……well, we mustn’t let a criminal come out from Amaterasu, so I, I think I have to do something about this?”

“……If you want to sleep-talk then do it after you sleep.”

The night operation. Encounter with mysterious enemy. Battle with a category-Ultra. And then report meeting.

His body and heart was already at the limit.

“Then, good night. Managing your health is also part of battle. Quickly go to sleep.”

“Ah……wa, wait a second. I’m thinking of analyzing the image of the enemy we met today. I’m thinking, isn’t it better for Kizuna to also watch it together with me?”

He absolutely wasn’t in the mood for that.

“Do it tomorrow, go to sleep quickly.”

Leaving those words behind, Kizuna returned to his own room.

“Fuuh―good grief, I’m home―”

Perhaps his tension slackened too much, but a greeting of homecoming came out from his mouth naturally even though there was no one. He quickly entered the bath after going home, so there was only sleep left.

He changed into his sleepwear and quickly slipped into his bed.

Aaahh, how warm……somehow, there was comfortable warmth, it mysteriously felt like human skin.

In addition, the texture of this futon was squishy and soft, he couldn’t say anything, a pleasant touching sensation was――,

“Wait, what the hell is thisssss!”

When he flipped up his futon, there was Sylvia sleeping soundly there.

Soft and fluffy blonde hair, and then the long eyelashes that were similarly blond. Coupled with her skin that was smooth like baby, she really looked like a sleeping angel.

“Sy, Sylvia! You, what are you doing in this kind of……!”

When he shook her, Sylvia rubbed her eyes while raising up her body in totter.

“Funya? Ah, Captain―……welcome, home, desu……”

“You……you have been waiting for me all this time?”

“Yes……Sylvia, cannot do anything desu. That’s why, at least, when Captain return home, I have to welcome……so.”

Her head was swaying unsteadily left and right, her sleepy eyes looked like they were going to close even now.

“Really……”

Kizuna gently caressed Sylvia’s head.

“It’s fine for you to sleep already. Rest well.”

Perhaps she was reassured from those words, Sylvia yawned and collapsed at Kizuna.

She leaned against Kizuna and began to have sleeper’s breathing.

‘Good grief……should I sleep on the sofa――oh?’

Slyvia’s hand was clutching at Kizuna’s clothes tightly.

“Oi, Sylvia……”

When he saw how peacefully Sylvia was sleeping, he felt like it was too pitiful to wake her up.

Kizuna laid down just like that and covered Sylvia who was hugging him with the blanket.

Before he noticed it, Kizuna too began to breathe peacefully.

At that time, Aine was inside her own room.

The lighting of the room wasn’t turned on, the turned on monitor became the light replacement.

And then, in that monitor, the video watched in the laboratory before this was projected.

The AU woman called Aldea.

And then the three headed dragon designated as Tri-Head.

Aine sat on the floor while hugging her knees.

Just why?

Her heart was astir.

Also, that strange poem, about the goddess or something.

The movie was played back until the end, then the screen went to stand by.

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She pushed the replay button.

The movie ended.

The replay button was pushed once more.

The movie ended.

This time it was replayed on repeat.

Unnoticed, the outside became bright.

Even so Aine repeated that video and continued to watch.

===Part 2===

“Well then, I give you a new mission.”

The next day, Kizuna was summoned to the principal’s room.

“A mission……what is it this time?”

“The enemy that appeared yesterday was one so powerful to the degree that we hadn’t encountered until now. To genuinely take an aggressive position against the AU from now on, we have to recognize that our power is still insufficient.”

Kizuna also felt that.

That Zeel, and then the Tri-head, even with the Heart Hybrid Gear he couldn’t do anything against them.

“And so, we decided to implement the method for powering up the Heart Hybrid Gear more efficiently based on the previous research that had progressed.”

“Eh!? Don’t tell me, such method really exist!?”

“There is. After analyzing the data until now in detail, the result of the research invented a ground-breaking method. The Heart Hybrid!”

Kizuna lost strength and fell to his knee.

“In the end that’s what you mean!!”

“Follow me.”

Reiri commanded with a tone that didn’t allow any protest.

Being told that strongly, Kizuna obeyed with a conditioned reflex. Surely that was the result of the imprinting since he was a child.

There was no one in the corridor.

The time right now was still in the middle of the third hour of the class. When he peeked into the class from the corridor’s window, students were sitting orderly receiving their lesson.

They exited from the school building and headed to the backyard.

There he could see a huge capsule thing without any window and a smooth white outer wall.

“Nee-chan, what’s this?”

“This is a simulator from the previous research that made progress. By sending electric signal to the brain, it manipulated the sight, hearing sense, and sense of touch, it’s possible to reproduce any kind of battlefield with this.”

“Heee……”

“It was created with the assumption to be used for mock battle against magic weapon or infiltrating territory under enemy control. It was planned to be used as part of class but……”

“Isn’t that amazing! Then we can even have a mock battle against that category-Ultra and that Heart Hybrid Gear Zeel! This is the victory of technology huh.”

“No, that’s impossible.”

“Why!?”

“A major software update was performed to it. Try to enter inside.”

Reiri touched the sensor that was on the side of the hatch. The hatch opened and Reiri entered inside. Kizuna too continued after her, then the hatch closed behind him.

The inside of the room was pitch dark.

“O, oi, Nee-chan. I cannot see anything here?”

“Don’t get flustered. I’m activating it soon.”

Activate?

Flickering light ran in front of him, the inside of the room turned bright.

“Wha……!?”

Kizuna became aware of the place he was at and got taken aback.

After all, that room was――,

“This is our house! The one in Megafloat Tokyo! Eeh? How?”

“Aah, how nostalgic.”

‘Certainly, since Nee-chan enrolled into Ataraxia she was living in dormitory. I live here until just a short time ago but……hm?’

A noise ran in front of him.

Somehow it was like the sight inside his eyeball was disturbed, it was a strange sensation.

Suddenly the scenery in front of his eyes changed.

“Eh? Evening? No wait, a beach!?”

Both of their shadows were stretching out on the long continuing beach that was wrapped in orange light. The sound of wave washing ashore and the smell of salt water stimulating the nose whispered to him that the sea spreading before his eyes was a real thing. Kizuna and Reiri were bathed in the evening sun while facing a beach.

“This is the simulator’s function to set the situation.”

Reiri operated the transparent console floating before her.

In an instant, the beach changed into a hotel room with beautiful night view.

“Not only scenery, the clothes can also be changed.”

“Eh……uwaa.”

Kizuna’s uniform was changing into the appearance of a commander in warring period. Also it was not a real armor, but a light design that came out in game which looked strangely modern.

‘Is this……Nee-chan’s hobby?’

When he ascertained it with his hand, the feeling of touch of the armor and kimono was obviously different with his uniform.

“Amazing……even the touching sensation is like the real thing.”

“Originally this was a function to simulate combat equipment though. The feel of equipment and weight are also reproduced. Using this, even human without Core should be able to practice Heart Hybrid Gear for real. But right now that role is succeeded by the Technical Gear.”

“No, it’s really awesome……but, why is it not used? Isn’t it properly functioning?”

“The combat data is almost all erased, and different data is installed in exchange. Besides, there is also a need to change the equipment of this room. No matter how great it can trick the senses, it will be troubling if there is no bed and shower room.”

――Bed?

“Right now, all sorts of date spot and hotel combined with hobby preference, in total 108 situations have been prepared. As for equipment, in total three thousand data of accessory and tool, western clothes, etc, all has been registered.”

“I don’t think it’s possible……frankly, it’s scary to ask but, I’ll dare to ask. Those data, what are they for?”

“Of course, for the sake of the Heart Hybrid between you and those lasses. A data simulator in order to stir up the feeling and to do erotic thing.”

Kizuna’s consciousness became far away.

“This much advanced technology……this kind of device, what kind of demonic remodeling has been done to it……”

“Even if I say so myself, this is quite a resolute judgment I have made.”

“Isn’t this idiotic!?”

He reflexively yelled.

“Kizuna, those Zeel and Tri-Head are formidable enemy. We won’t be victorious with superficial method.”

“There is no connection between this and that at all!”

“In order to win against those guys, we too have to gain even greater strength. For that sake, it’s indispensable to be more effective and efficient in Heart Hybrid. However, how to actually realize that? Kizuna, do you understand?”

“No, I don’t understand……though…”

“Heart Hybrid is making the heart and body of male and female into one, sharing their affection and pleasure with each other. To produce the greatest result, is nothing more than making the affection and pleasure even greater. Then, how to actually do it?”

Kizuna didn’t try to answer.

“To do that, first you have to deepen your relationship of trust with your partner. And then, by doing act that match the sexual disposition of your partner, it heighten the mental pleasure and excitement. By stimulating the erogenous zone efficiently, you inflicted strong physical pleasure.”

‘……What is this person saying with a serious face like that?’

“This facility is for that sake. Be aware of your partner’s wish and fulfill it with this. And that is not only about Heart Hybrid just so you know. A man that can do that is able in his job, and also popular with woman.”

Now that he was told that, he couldn’t just ignore it……however…….

“This facility is a equipment to surpass time and space. Furthermore, it can put on any kind of clothes toward the other party. It’s possible with this to look for your partner’s fetish and heighten their excitement efficiently.”

When Reiri waved her hand, the console moved in a slide in front of Kizuna.

The control was simple, but there were so many options. Furthermore, it seemed that extremely detailed customization was possible.

“There is amazing variety here……wait, what’s with these clothes?”

Sailor uniform, nurse, race queen, etc, rather than calling them clothes, it’s more accurate to call them costume. Not only outer garment, there were also a lot of underwear and accessory.

“This toy category is too ominous……ah”

He didn’t intend to choose, but his finger tapped the console accidentally. Thereupon, the scenery in front of his eyes changed suddenly.

“This place……?”

It was the main street downtown. Passerby was normally passing through.

“Kizuna. So this is your preference?”

“Eh? Uwaaa!?”

Hida Reiri in bunny girl appearance, was standing there.

“I don’t know at all, that you are looking at me with that kind of eyes.”

GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

“You, you’re wro-……!!”

Even while getting flustered, that body was properly burned into his eyes.

Protruding long ears that went *pyon*. Butterfly necktie and white collar. The long and slender legs were wrapped in black stocking, and black bunny suit that clung tightly on the body.

Normally it was hidden by the military uniform, but it was a magnificent figure that was not being outdone even by Yurishia and Aine.

“This is the first time I test it on myself, but what an interesting thing.”

Reiri twirled on the spot. Her long black hair drew circle in its flutter. Her ass that was greatly exposed had cute white round tail attached. She tightly pushed out her hips and stopped her rotation. Her breast that was exposed more than half shook flexibly.

She brushed up her hair and stared at Kizuna with smoldering eyes.

“Fufufu, how is it? I too am not someone that can be overlooked right?”

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What an unimaginable appearance for the person who reigned on the top of Ataraxia! If the students and the big shots of Ataraxia saw this, they would faint for sure!

“Wha-, what kind of appearance is that, wear something quickly!”

“Aren’t you the one putting this on me……well, something like that is trivial. Listen, this is something in order to realize the greatest recovery of Hybrid Count in the shortest time possible by setting the situation to match your partner’s fetish……are you listening properly?”

“Ye……yeah! I’m listening!”

‘Nee-chan’s bunny girl appearance is just too unusual, that I unconsciously gaze at it. Nee-chan has high position, and she is always in the side that gives order, someone who no one can oppose. That kind person, right now has become a mere showpiece.’

This was the terrifying power of bunny suit!!

“The result from inspecting the Heart Hybrid until now, we understand that the higher the excitement when the Heart Hybrid is happening, the better the quality of the Hybrid Count recovered. Certainly, it’s possible to cause Heart Hybrid even with soft contact. However, there is great difference in the energy obtained.”

“Good quality? ……What’s that mean?”

When Reiri crossed her arms, her breast was lifted by her arm. Not just her breast became increasingly emphasized, it was like the tips would become visible, it made his heart throbbing fast.

“Even car can be filled with regular gasoline and high octane gasoline right? Even if you fill a car that exclusively use high octane with regular gasoline, it won’t be able to show its true performance. Heart Hybrid Gear is the same. With better quality of Hybrid Count, its power and performance, every point will have their spec raised.”

“Is……is that so?”

‘Shit, I got strangely conscious of it like this. By any chance, do I actually like bunny girl?’

“What’s wrong? Is your condition bad?”

The bunny Reiri peeked into Kizuna’s face and touched her forehead on his.

“Doesn’t seem like a fever.”

Kizuna’s view was fully filled with Reiri’s close-up.

‘Uwa! Near! Moreover, the breast pressing is strangely soft, Nee-chan’s, breas――.’

“I, I-I-I-I’m fine-!”

He separated from Reiri in panic.

“Is that so? Anyway, use this facility and try out a Heart Hybrid here. First we want to confirm how much effective this will be. Is it okay?”

“Ma’am, yes Ma’am!!”

He unconsciously okayed it.

When the system returned to its default state, Kizuna returned to his previous uniform. And then the scenery of the downtown became a pure white bland room with only one bed conspicuously put inside.

“Nevertheless, making this kind of facility inside the school of all place……isn’t it morally problematic?”

After his sister left, Kizuna laid on his side alone on the bed. He was staring at the Amaterasu’s Hybrid Count displayed on his smartphone monitor.

“First, who should I test this on……”

Kizuna pressed on the icon and made a call.

“――So, I wonder what business do you have with mee?”

Yurishia arrived with strangely lively attitude.

“I’m wondering if you can give me help in confirming the function of a new simulator.”

“What, it’s for something like thatt? I don’t particularly mind but……this room is something like that?”

Making a slightly regretful face, Yurishia looked around the inside of the room.

“Yeah. It seems that this is a facility where we can do Heart Hybrid even more efficiently.”

Yurishia’s eyes flashed.

“You, you meann……doing that, with me, right here?”

“We, well, see it yourself a bit.”

Kizuna operated the console floating in the air. Thereupon, the white room changed into the scenery of a plateau. Green meadows and lake, and then mountain ridges covered in snow at afar were stretching before their eyes.

“Eh? Wha, what’s this!?”

Yurishia showed a similar reaction with Kizuna before.

The problem was, what kind of situation would make Yurishia the most excited.

From plateau to beach resort area, to a hotel room, he changed the scenery repeatedly.

“Heee, this is amazingg! It’s like teleporting instantly many times over! What kind of places are there aside from this?”

“Yeah……let’s see it in turns. That, something――”

――If you have a situation that can make you excited, tell me.

There was no way he could ask that……what should he do now?

A high class hotel room was projected. From the window, they could see the night scenery with stars scattered on the sky.

Yurishia’s eyes were narrowed ecstatically.

“Isn’t it lovelyy……eh?”

However next a suspicious room appeared in front of her eyes.

There were red lighting and iron bars. Chains attached with shackles for arm and leg were put on the wall, then a stand in X-shape for crucifixion. And then things like a chair with restraint, furniture that normally couldn’t be witnessed was lined up.

Was this, that thing? The so called SM playroom thing?

As expected this was off putting.

“Hahaha, it looks like a hotel series. I don’t think that there will be something like thi-……”

Yurishia’s mouth was half-opened while staring around the inside of the room, it was as if her heart was stolen.

――Yurishia?

Her cheek was colored, her breath was rough.

“Is something wrong? Yurishia.”

“Hiee-!? No-, nothing’s wrong-“

Yurishia answered oddly in fluster.

“Ge, geez-, what’s with this room. It’s vulgar and perverted thing. Please turn it into the previous hotel with the night view!”

“My bad. I’ll change it back immediately.”

Saying that, Kizuna operated the console in panic.

However, Yurishia’s state just now attracted his attention.

“Uwaa, it really look like a hotel! He, hey Kizuna, I wonder where is this night scenery taken?”

The behavior of Yurishia right now also felt awkward somehow…….

‘Don’t tell me Yurishia is-!? No, as expected there is no way――.’

But, if they only did Heart Hybrid like this, then he had the feeling in the end there would be nothing different with everything until now. This was a facility prepared with great difficulty by his sister, going as far as crushing a combat simulator for this. He had to use it effectively.

Then, boldly――,

“Hey Kizu――naaa-!?”

Yurishia’s voice broke into falsetto.

That was understandable.

In an instant, Yurishia’s uniform was changed into a black bondage costume.

“Wha……wha……”

It was a costume composed from corset and belt with high exposure rate. The enamel’s black material reflected the lighting, making her allure even more conspicuous. The costume didn’t dig into her skin, it was like the costume was custom ordered to perfectly fit Yurishia’s voluptuous body.

“Wa, wait Kizuna! Wha, what’s the meaning of this?”

Yurishia hugged herself to hide her body. However, doing that was unable to hide Yurishia’s body. Her pressed breast jutted out from between her arms.

“Sorry. Looks like some kind of system error put that on you by itself.”

“Wha――”

Yurishia showed a face like the world had ended.

“No way! Do something!”

“It’s okay. If we wait a little, I think it’s going to be fixed soon.”

“Re……really? It’s really okay right?”

“Yeah, that’s why until then please be patient for a while.”

“Is that so……I understand. But――”

Yurishia twisted her body in embarrassment. And then, after she glanced at her own figure that was reflected in the mirror, her face was turning red.

Her blonde hair and white skin really looked attractive with the black enamel that shined in luster.

“Yurishia, do you hate that kind of clothes?”

“Eh! Ye, yes……obviously.”

The eyes of Yurishia who was answering like that were swimming around. Different from the usual confident Yurishia, she looked anxious with fear. And then, being embarrassed like this without any place to escape, her body was shivering unable to calm down, shen sent a helpless gaze to Kizuna.

‘――Wha, what the? She is strangely cute!?’

“Do, don’t, look at me. It’s embarrassing.”

“Sorry. But……it really suited you.”

“――!! Eve, even if you told me that, I, I’m not happy or anything……”

Yurishia felt Kizuna’s gaze.

‘I, it feels like, I’m conscious of Kizuza’s gaze stronger than usual…..as though, she is licking all over my body.

He is looking, at this appearance of mine……I wonder if Kizuna is also excited?’

“Aa……”

When she imagined that, a deep sigh naturally leaked out from her mouth.

Her heart was throbbing fast.

“Hey, Kizuna……looking at me wearing this kind of clothes……make you happy?”

Yurishia looked up at him with damp eyes.

“Tha, that’s……I think that it’s a little abnormal, but when Yurishia is the one wearing it, that, it’s extremely……”

Kizuna averted his eye with red face.

Looking at Kizuna’s shy reaction, a little composure was born inside Yurishia’s heart.

‘I’m also throbbing hard but, even Kizuna also the same isn’t he…….

That’s right. Even the time before, Kizuna also get all flustered looking at my swimsuit appearance.

……Really, since when my heart can get this painful because of Kizuna, I wonder.

Somehow, it’s a little irritating.

I’m the dominant one here. Get a hold of yourself, Yurishia Farandole.’

Her original personality that hated to lose driven Yurishia into a strange direction.

“And thenn, Kizunaa, just what are you planning making me wearing something like this?”

She approached Kizuna while swaying her hips.

And then her finger which was wrapped in a long glove that reached above her elbow was poking at Kizuna’s chest.

“Wha, what you ask……that’s……!”

Yurishia twirled and turned her back on him, she was walking toward the window. Looking at her figure from behind, Kizuna gulped his saliva. The exposure rate of her behind was also amazing. Her back was largely opened, a fabric that was like a string was digging into the crack of her ass, almost all was bared open.

Her figure in swimsuit that he saw at the sea was amazing, but it was incomparable with this.

Her white and large ass was shaking up and down each time she walked.

It was glossy without a single stain. It was giving off the impression of delicious fruit heavily drooping from the ripeness.

‘――Kizuna is looking at my ass.’

Yurishia sensitively felt the gaze of Kizuna.

Herself that was wearing this perverted costume was seen by Kizuna.

Thinking like that, the inside of Yurishia’s body was becoming heated.

Along with that, golden light danced from Yurishia’s body like sparkles.

Looking at that radiance, Kizuna was shocked.

‘――The sign of Heart Hybrid? How, even though I haven’t even touch her!?’

When Yurishia had walked until the large window that stretched up from the floor until the ceiling, she turned back at Kizuna. Matching that motion, her breast shook with a momentum as if it would be forced out from the bondage costume.

The light shining in from the window into this dim room was depicting a shadow on Yurishia’s body.

Yurishia who was turning her back on the night scenery looked like a bewitching witch floating on the sea of jewels.

It was as though Kizuna was ensnared by magic, he started walking unsteadily toward Yurishia.

Perhaps Yurishia was also getting excited, her skin was dyed in faint pink, she was slightly sweating.

Yurishia caressed her hands from her ass to her waist, then to her breast, as if to ascertaining her own body line.

――Want to touch?

It was like she was inviting Kizuna for that.

When Kizuna slowly held out his hand, that hand was lightly struck down.

“Eh?”

“Noo good. You still have to wait★”

Just like usual, Yurishia sent him a heavy wink.

On the contrary, Yurishia’s hand was crawling around Kizuna’s body.

She was taking off the button of Kizuna’s uniform.

“Yu, Yurishia?”

Yurishia’s slender fingers slipped in through the gap of the shirt.

“Eh? Wai-, what are-……!”

Yurishia began to grope at Kizuna’s chest.

“Fufuu, before this you touched my breast, so this is the payment for that♡”

“Wh, wha-?”

Yurishia tickled the tips of Kizuna’s chest.

“How is it? I wonder if boy also feel it?”

Yurishia’s finger tips were moving up and down as if flicking off Kizuna’s chest.

“Wa, wait, something like this――”

Kizuna’s consciousness was concentrated on his chest. A shuddering sensation ran through from his chest to his body.

‘――Kuh! Like this our position is reversed.’

“Ufufu, as I thought you are feeling itt. Then, show me even better face okay?”

Kizuna’s shirt buttons was unbuttoned until the bottom, then his undershirt was flipped up.

Looking at Kizuna’s chest, Yurishia narrowed her eyes happily.

It was a sturdy chest with faint muscle outlined. That chest was feeling Yurishia’s finger tips sensitively.

‘No way, this is cute somehow…….’

Yurishia stretched out her pink tongue a little and licked at the tip of Kizuna’s chest.

“Uwaaa!?”

Kizuna felt a sensation he had never experienced before.

He felt sweet itchiness from the tips of his chest.

“Have you, ever done something like this?”

“The, there is-, no way I’ve ever done this!”

Yurishia smiled in triumph of victory.

“I see♪ So I’ll receive Kizuna’s first then?”

“Stop saying that in a strange way!”

“Even if you have sucked before, you have never been sucked until now correct?”

Suddenly, he recalled the Heart Hybrid with Aine.

“――-“

He gulped his saliva audibly and stiffened.

“Kizuna?”

“Eh-? N, no, something like sucking, how could that――”

Yurishia showed a doubting expression.

“You should have done it with your mama’s breast……”

While talking, Yurishia’s eyes was turning dangerous.

“Kizuna……who have you done it with?”

‘Uwaa! Her gaze is scaryyyy!’

“Hayuru? Or maybe Aine?”

“E, err―rr……”

Being taken aback, his hand accidently touched the console floating on the air.

“Wai-, wait? What is this!?”

Yurishia’s both hands were shackled, her eyes were also wrapped with blindfold. Both restraint were made from soft leather, so her body was being restrained without her feeling pain.

“Ki-, Kizuna? You’re unfair! Whe, where are you-!?”

“My, my bad! This is really just a coincidence. My hand grazed the console……”

“It’s fine already, release it quickly!”

Yurishia was angry, no, rather she looked more like scared.

Her impression was completely opposite of the Yurishia who was like a queen just now.

“Yurishia……”

Kizuna approached Yurishia.

Feeling his presence, Yurishia’s shoulder twitched in surprise.

She didn’t know what would be done to her or even resisted. It seemed that she was scared of that. Yurishia who was the world strongest ace that feared nothing was shivering from his every little action.

However, simultaneously Yurishia’s face was blushing, her breathing was turning ragged.

From all the happening until now, Kizuna felt something that was near conviction.

‘――By any chance, is Yurishia liking SM?’

Since she wore this costume, sign of Heart Hybrid immediately appeared. In addition, when she was acting like a queen too, and now that she was acting like a scared little animal too, whichever it was she looked like she was getting excited.

There was no doubt. Then, what was left was――,

{By doing act that match the sexual disposition of your partner, it heighten the mental pleasure and excitement. By stimulating the erogenous zone efficiently, you inflicted strong physical pleasure.}

And so he was told, where was this erogenous zone?

‘……Hm?

Breast and ass……I don’t have any other idea except those places.

Wha, what should I do?

Wait, there is no point to hesitate. Then, first is――,’

“aAAAn-!”

‘So-! Softtt!’

Kizuna crawled his hand through Yurishia’s ass.

‘Wha, what’s with this sensation! Is this really human body? It’s like the softness of fresh snow, really spongy.’

“Wai, Ki, Kizuna-? Where are you touching!?”

When he grasped the ass, his finger felt like it was sinking without end. And then, from between his grasping fingers, the meat of the ass was spilling out.

‘Amazing. Touching it feels really good. No matter how much I’m rubbing it, I won’t get tired of it.’

“Aa-, ah, aaa, fuAaaAAnn-“

Yurishia was desperately trying to escape from Kizuna’s loving caress by twisting her body. However with both her hands restrained she couldn’t move her body satisfactorily, she also didn’t understand Kizuna’s position due to the blindfold. On the contrary, it was like she was just shaking that large ass in front of Kizuna’s eyes.

And then golden light began to scatter from Yurishia’s body.

‘The Hybrid Heart is beginning already? Or maybe, does this mean that Yurishia’s erogenous zone is her ass?

No, but if thinking about Yurishia’s number one, then as I thought, it’s――,’

Kizuna dropped his gaze.

‘――surely her giant breast.’

“Yurishia, about the chest area of your clothes”

While breathing raggedly, Yurishia was turning her face to the direction where Kizuna’s voice came.

“It’s almost come off.”

“Eh……”

“Is it okay, for me to just take it off?”

In other words, he was telling her to expose her raw breast without anything hiding it in front of Kizuna.

Yurishia’s lips was trembling for a while, then before long she nodded shortly.

Kizuna reached out his hand at Yurishia’s breast, he took off her buttons one by one, unbuttoning them. Each time he did that, Yurishia’s body was jumping twitchingly.

“I’m taking it off.”

Kizuna’s hand took away the bondage’s chest cloth.

The breast which was freed from the restrain spilled out from the bondage suit as if they were jumping.

“……-!?”

They jumped jigglingly, the vibration of the repeated shaking up and down absorbed his gaze.

Without anything obstructing his gaze, Yurishia’s breast was exposed in front of Kizuna.

‘――Hu, huge.’

He understood that it was big even from above the clothes. But, looking at Yurishia’s breast raw like this in contact with the air, he realized that what he had seen until now was not everything.

Even without underwear, the breast was going against gravity, maintaining their magnificent shape slightly pointing above, it was far larger than even Aine, that color and shape were manifesting beauty and lewdness that couldn’t be compared with anything.

The protrusion that stuck out from the white skin was drawing pink colored gradation.

From the breast that became exposed, sweet fragrance was gently drifting, tickling at Kizuna’s nose.

“Aaa……”

Yurishia felt Kizuna’s passionate gaze on that tips.

Exactly because her sight was blocked that her feeling became sensitive, her power of imagination was also swelling.

It further instigated Yurishia’s excitement, from the depth of her body, hot liquid was seeping out. And then, golden light was rising up from the surface of her body.

Kizuna’s hand touched Yurishia’s raw breast.

“HyaAAun!”

When his finger tip slightly grazed the hill of her breast, Yurishia’s body convulsed twitchingly.

Similar with her ass, this one was also very soft. When he put a little strength to his finger, his finger made a large depression on her breast.

Kizuna spread his hands and rubbed Yurishia’s breast as if he was lifting them up.

“No-, AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”

‘――Wha, what? Is this!?’

The sensation information of her breast rubbed by other people, furthermore by a man was beyond her imagination. Against the sensation that was obviously different when she was touching herself, the processing ability of Yurishia’s brain exceeded the limit in the blink of eye.

Yurishia was unable to endure the pleasure and shook her head discomposedly. Each time she did that, her hair elegantly spread out while scattering golden particles.

“Do you feel good, Yurishia?”

“It, it feels goo-……ood-, aaah!”

Knitting her eyebrows, she was making an anguished expression under the blindfold. She raised her breathing, her lips was opened as if seeking oxygen with her tongue stretched out.

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Kizuna’s palm felt something hard stiffening. That thing was gradually hardening and growing bigger.

“……Yurishia.”

Kizuna took off Yurishia’s blindfold.

“……?”

The face of Yurishia that was melting in ecstasy appeared under it. Tears were gathering in the corner of her eyes.

‘Haa―, haa―,’ She was just wringing out suffocated breathing sound without letting out any voice.

Her expression looked as if she was asking him in anxiety ‘what are you going to do?’

Kizuna separated his hand from Yurishia. Her breast shook bouncingly because of the strength holding it was gone.

“Eh, Kizu……na?”

‘Why do you stop?’ Eyes that looked blaming were staring at Kizuna.

“Don’t worry, Yurishia.”

“Eh!?”

That instant, Kizuna’s fingers pinched at the pink tips shining on Yurishia’s breast.

“――hii!?”

Yurishia showed a face that looked like she was going to cry,

Kizuna put more strength, as if he was trying to press tightly.

“~~!!”

And then he pulled as if to twist the whole breast.

“Aah, a, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-!”

At the same time with the scream surging out from Yurishia’s mouth, golden light exploded out from her body. And then, pink radiance was also ejected from Kizuna’s body.

Those radiances became a vortex of two colored light that was enveloping their body.

――That was the moment where Heart Hybrid succeeded.

And then after that he confirmed the vital sign of Yurishia in his smartphone.

Yurishia’s Hybrid Count was splendidly charged to full.

For the time being, he considered that Yurishia’s play preference was something like SM with her breast as her erogenous zone.

This time it was more than enough to put a costume on Yurishia, but he had to make Yurishia even more excited in the Heart Hybrid of next time.

‘――Well, first is one person.’

There was two more girl before he completed his mission.

===Part 3===

After school, Kizuna was heading to the student guidance room.

Due to the Heart Hybrid with Yurishia, he was able to confirm the result of the aforementioned simulator.

However thinking about Himekawa’s preference, what could it possibly be?

He had the feeling that his distance with her had been greatly shortened by helping out with the work of public morals committee. If he could understand Himekawa’s preference well, then their Heart Hybrid might go well.

When he opened the door and entered the student guidance room, there was Himekawa standing near the window in the light of the evening sun.

“Sorry I’m late. I was called by the teacher a little. Today where are we going to do the crackdown――”

“Hida-kun!”

She pressed on him in one go.

“Waa, wha, what! What’s wrong?”

“What do you think!?”

‘Hee!? Wha, what!? Is it about, Himekawa?’

“No, that, I think you are beautiful, you also have serious personality……”

“……What are you talking about?”

“Eh? Isn’t this about you Himekawa?”

Himekawa’s face turned flaring red.

“Wha-, ple, please don’t say something stupid! I, I’m beautiful or something is……wait, this is not that kind of talk! This is about that category-Ultra! Just how long are we going to wait until the decision to attack Guam again will come out!?”

“Ah! Tha, that’s what you are talking about. No, I also don’t know anything about that.”

‘This is bad, I completely made an embarrassing mistake. I wonder if Himekawa is thinking I’m strange now.’

Himekawa kept prattling on and on with her face still red.

“Since then, we have been in stand by all this time. I’ve already reached the limit of my patience. Let’s go to the commander right now to express our opinion!”

‘――That’s……,

Frankly speaking, as long as Nee-chan doesn’t give the order, I don’t think that a permission to sortie will come out.’

Besides, he didn’t feel the necessity to once again attack Guam in such a hurry.

In a certain meaning, he could even say that the information they collected about AU from their infiltration to the enemy territory had produced unexpected result.

Rather, he didn’t understand just why Himekawa was being this impatient.

Having his resistance cut down by Himekawa, Kizuna headed together with her toward the principal’s room. However――,

“Rejected.”

Reiri settled it all with a single word.

“Just why!? Even though there is enemy right in front of our eyes, why――”

“There is no prospect of victory.”

“……Kuh!”

Reiri’s answer was simple. With that Himekawa was thrust with a fact that was hard for her to approve.

“Bu, but, we cannot leave them alone just because of that!”

“What can we do other than leaving them alone? What are you planning to go there without any countermeasure?”

“Of course, to defeat the enemy! Isn’t that right, Hida-kun?”

Himekawa looked for agreement from Kizuna.

Naturally, you are my ally――she was making a face that was thinking so.

“Tha, that’s……”

“Hida-kun? What’s wrong? Let’s fight together!”

‘――-.

That’s impossible.’

“That’s impossible, Himekawa.”

“……Eh?”

Himekawa’s smile froze.

“Even if we go now, we will lose again.”

“Tha, that’s……”

Himekawa’s complexion was turning pale rapidly.

“The difference in battle strength with the enemy is obvious. Until we find a method to overturn that, it’s better to not force ourselves challenging them again. Even if we go now, it will only make everyone meet danger.”

“Are you……scared……”

Himekawa stepped back from Kizuna.

“No! I――”

“……I was convinced that, you understand me……what a great misunderstanding I’ve made.”

“Please wait! We cannot go right now, we should――”

“I misjudged you!!”

Himekawa rushed out from the principal room.

“Himekawa!!”

Kizuna also chased after Himekawa and wasted no time to exit to the corridor. However, he could only see the figures of teaching staff coming and going, he couldn’t find Himekawa’s figure anywhere.

===Part 4===

‘――Aah! Geez, how infuriating!’

Himekawa that sneaked out from Ataraxia was flying alone above the sea.

‘Whether it’s him or anyone, no one is reliable. As I thought, I can only do it myself.

I will defeat the category-Ultra.’

But, what if the enemy magic armor came out?

‘At that time, I’ll defeat Aldea first. That’s all.’

Before long Himekawa arrived at the sky above Guam.

‘――I wonder where they are?’

Himekawa materialized floating windows around her body.

If there was magic weapon, then the sensor should detect it.

‘……Looks like they are not here.

Was it pulled back to the Entrance?’

At that time, a certain sensor was shining red.

It was not magic weapon. This reaction was……Heart Hybrid Gear!?

“My my, you came alone? This is a surprise.”

“……So you show yourself!!”

Wearing the green colored magic armor Zeel, Aldea was floating on the air. She was brimming with gentle smile.

The reaction displayed on Himekawa’s sensor was unmistakably came from Heart Hybrid Gear. But this meant that magic armor and Heart Hybrid Gear was the same thing.

“I’m happy that you come to meet me. Let’s pass an enjoyable time? I wonder if it’s better to have a talk, or is it better to kill each other?”

Himekawa immediately drew out the Sword on her waist.

“My, so you are wishing for killing each other then.”

The moment Aldea said that, her shields detached and lined up in the air. One among them was shining brightly, changing its shape into spear. Aldea’s hand grasped that spear.

“I too come out here by my own decision……so if I don’t at least bring home a Core, I will get scolded. I will have the Cores of you and your comrades to bring back home.”

“Blade!!”

From Himekawa’s back, large swords were flying out. They cut through the sky and aimed at Aldea.

“I know that those shields boasted iron wall protection. But!”

‘――I just need to avoid the shield, and attack directly!’

Himekawa imagined the trajectory of the Blades.

The Blades changed their trajectory as if reading Himekawa’s heart, they circled around Aldea with acrobatic motions as if toying with her.

And then, they assaulted all at once from four directions.

Together with a brilliant flash, four shields blocked the attack of the Blades. Even now the Blades were trying to push back by raising their output, but the shields were also pushing back. During that time fierce sparks scattered.

The thruster of Neros ignited and Himekawa’s body sailed out in straight line.

‘――Even if those shields blocked the Blades, this Sword will cut you apart!’

“TEYAAAAA-!”

The Sword was swung down on Aldea.

Fierce light surged out like lightning.

Before Aldea’s eyes, the remaining single shield blocked the attack of Sword.

“Kuh……as expected from the shield that blocked Pulverizer’s attack. However!”

Himekawa pressed on with Sword.

The figure of Aldea on the other side of the fiercely shining shield was changed completely with just now. Because she was using her magic armor as shields, right now her appearance was mostly only her flesh body.

‘――Right here, if I can just deal a slash at her……I’ll win!’

“Prepare yourself! After defeating you, the next one will be that Tri-Head!!”

“As expected from Neros. I cannot underestimate you……but…”

“This is!?”

Suddenly, the Sword bended.

The shield blocking Sword was also similarly greatly warped. From the gap, Aldea’s smiling face could be peeked.

“……!!”

The spear grasped in that hand was stabbed on her own shield, distorting the space together with the Sword. The spear stretched out straight, brushing aside the shield and Sword.

“No――”

The tips was stabbed at Himekawa’s chest.

Similar with the previous battle, it was like the inside of her chest was taken right from the root, a strange sensation. And then in the next instant, her body was blown away as if she was pulled behind.

“Gah, GAHAAaAAA-!”

After being blown away for about two hundred meter, she finally could stop herself. She pressed on her chest and felt a relieve that her own flesh was still there.

――However, what if it was stabbed into her just a little deeper?

She recalled the destroyed building before this. What if she met the same fate like that?

A shiver ran through Himekawa’s whole body.

“It’s fine to kill you, but this is a rare chance so let’s enjoy it dramatically. I’ll collect the other Cores while I’m at it.”

When Aldea who was soaked in joy spread her hands, the spear returned to its original shield shape.

And then, behind and front, left right above below, six shields were surrounding Himekawa.

“Wha……?”

Looking from this close, the shield’s structure was like four layer piled up together. Those layers were unfolding one by one with the circle shape attached on the top of the shield as the axis, transforming into X-shape. The next instant, each of the top was linked at each other with light, then they began to radiate green light.

“――This is……-“

Himekawa became locked inside cube of light. Each surface was possessing X-shaped frame, it was a cage of light. Nervousness ran through Himekawa’s body.

Suddenly, the space inside the cube distorted.

“KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-!!”

The distortion wringed Himekawa with fierce impact and pressure.

‘Kuh! Thi, tis is……I’m imprisoned!?

Something like this, I’ll destroy it from inside with Blade……!’

However, the Blades that should be moving obeying her will couldn’t be controlled.

“Wh……why is this!?”

Himekawa intended to launch them in straight line, but the Blades were just rolling in place, they couldn’t get out from this cube. It was as if they were imprisoned by unseen power.

‘――Then, with Sword!!’

Himekawa put all the strength in her body to swing down the Sword, but it wouldn’t move just like she wanted.

‘――Wh, why?’

Neros’s output was clearly dropping down. Himekawa confirmed the status of Neros in panic.

Her Hybrid Count……was already none?

The gauge was already in red zone, the remaining amount had became only 5%.

‘No way! This, this, kind of thing.’

Himekawa’s consciousness was becoming distant.

‘No, no good, it’s painful……my awareness, cannot hol――.’

Her blurred sight could see the figure of Aldea right nearby.

“Ufufufu, you are now in the role of the captured heroine you know? Act your role properly okay?”

‘No good……I can’t move, even a single finger already.

I want…..

Hybrid Count.

――Hida-kun.’

Himekawa’s consciousness sunk deeply into the darkness.

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Masou Gakuen HxH:Volume 2 Chapter 2

2018-01-31T11:10:35Z

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==Chapter 2 – The Beautiful Woman of Country of Ruin==

===Part 1===

“Well then, I’ll explain the outline of the operation.”

Hida Reiri looked over the Amaterasu members who were gathering in Nayuta Lab.

It was an emergency summon.

Kizuna, Aine, and Himekawa lent their ears to Reiri’s story with obedient faces.

In contrast, it was only Yurishia who looked around at the surroundings with a face that looked as if she would break out humming anytime.

Reiri was not even much concerned with Yurishia’s behavior, she turned to the console in the center of the room and called out.

“Kei, I’ll let you explain.”

In front of the console that looked like a cockpit, a petite girl was sitting.

She was the researcher in charge of this Nayuta Lab, the person in charge of Ataraxia’s research department, Shikina Kei.

Her hair was held back with several pins, her eyes settled behind the glasses didn’t show anything of what she was thinking about.

Kei didn’t reply back and only moved her fingers with amazing speed. Thereupon, in the middle of the research room, several floating windows appeared.

A window each appeared in front of Kizuna and the others, displaying the text that Kei inputted.

{Yesterday, at 2.10 AM of Megafloat Japan’s standard time, we caught a weak radio wave.}

On the floor surface, a map of the Pacific Ocean with Megafloat Japan as the center was displayed. Currently, the Megafloat was cruising between Papua New Guinea and Philippines. A red blinking line was stretching from Megafloat Japan on the map.

{When the radio wave was analyzed, we understood that it was undoubtedly something used by mankind for transmission. That dotted line is displaying the direction from where the radio wave was sent.}

The map was scrolled following the stretched dotted line.

Before long the scrolling of the screen was stopped at the end point of the line which was an island.

“……Guam?”

Yurishia raised a questioning voice.

“Correct. The transmission wave was delivered from around Guam. Yurishia, have you ever been to the American military base in Guam?”

“Only to the degree of stopping by there. It was before the 2nd Another Universe Conflict, so I didn’t have any impression of it other than a normal resort area…… but, naturally that place also has an Entrance right?”

The origin was unclear, but Entrances that occurred due to the collision of world space existed only above land. In addition, it only appeared on land with a certain degree of size, it wouldn’t appear in a place like a small island.

But, Guam’s land size was more than 500 square kilometers, it was a large island. There was a high chance that an Entrance with AU existed there.

{There is a record that an Entrance appeared there in the 2nd Alternate Universe Conflict and it turned into a battle. However, after that no one knows how it turned out there.}

Kei’s words were not generated as sound, but conveyed to them as text on the window. It was not like she had a disability that made her unable to speak. She was just extremely poor in communicating with people.

“We don’t know if there is anyone in Guam, or if it was the people of AU using human facility. However, in any case there was supposedly someone there sending us a transmission. The mission this time is to infiltrate an area under the control of AU, and to make clear of the source of the transmission. All of you are to land at Guam Island.”

“What!?”

Kizuna reflexively raised his voice.

“There is an Entrance there right? That’s too dangerous!”

“The situation won’t change for the better if we keep getting scared of the enemy’s shadow forever and only run around.”

Reiri said flatly.

“Then, we are going to march into the enemy’s controlled land……and start a full-blown war?”

Even until now they were using the phrase of war with AU, but in reality there was no battle or anything. Mankind was only one-sidedly exterminated, their countries stolen, and they escaped above the sea where the hand of the enemy couldn’t reach.

And then even now, they were cowering from that shadow, running from place to place above the sea.

Certainly, they defeated the enemy’s battleship with Zeros’ Corruption Armament, but saying it in reverse, they were merely sinking one battleship after all this time.

“Before the war happens, we first need to know about the enemy. Our knowledge about the AU, is nonexistent.”

The map projected under their feet began to move once more.

Kei manipulated the console and tapped the keyboard.

{The main objective of this mission is to collect information of the area that fell under the control of the enemy. Originally, we want to perform investigation of mainland Japan and the neighboring islands, but in the current situation the danger is great. From our experience until now, when we entered the range of two hundred until three hundred kilometers from the land, the possibility of the enemy detecting us is high. In other words, the more we are approaching a large land, the danger is also increasing. In that meaning, the land of Guam which doesn’t have any other Entrance in it’s vicinity is suitable as the first test.}

“First Megafloat Japan will approach Guam until 300 kilometers from it. Amaterasu will all take off from there. Separate into two groups, then investigate the center urban area Hagania and Tamon, and Andersen airbase at the north side. For the dividing of the group and the instruction on the actual scene……Kizuna, you take control.”

“Eh! Me?”

Kizuna was shocked from the sudden appointment.

“N, no, it’s impossible even if you suddenly told me to do it……”

The shoulder of the panicked Kizuna was lightly tapped.

“Fufufu, take care of us. Novice captain-san★”

Yurishia showed a wink from a close distance.

“No, really, there is no way me as a captain…”

“It’s not impossible or anything, perhaps this can be said as the right man in the right place.”

Aine unexpectedly talked as if in endorsement of Kizuna.

“Aine……no, I never thought that you will say that about me. Now I feel a little shy.”

“Because, Kizuna usually doesn’t have any combat ability, you are just being useless. That’s why, I think it’s fine for you to be the captain in a place far from the front line. So that you won’t be a hindrance to us.”

“So you are just getting rid of a nuisance!”

Having said that, what Aine said also made sense. Kizuna’s Eros almost didn’t have any combat ability, it had no redeeming feature other than its Life Saver.

However, even such Eros had a method to obtain a wonderful combat ability.

――[Climax Hybrid]

With that phenomenon which was even more superior than Heart Hybrid, it would bring result that was truly miraculous. It could power up the partner’s Heart Hybrid Gear, and added a special weapon called the [Corruption Armament]. And then at the same time, Eros would copy the ability of the partner Heart Hybrid Gear, making it possible for Eros to exhibit similar combat ability.

“However, just by getting near, the enemy will quickly find us isn’t it? Besides, if there is an amazing number of army stationed there, we are going to fall into a really bad situation……”

As if to flaunt off, Aine brushed off her silver hair that was shining from the lighting.

“Well, at that time I will show you how I exterminate the enemy with my Corruption Armament [Pulverizer].”

She was truly smug. Her face looked like it couldn’t be more triumphant than that.

Yurishia chuckled mockingly ‘fufun’ to that.

“Myy, aren’t you unable to use Pulverizer anymoree?”

“……u”

Aine’s mouth was shut tightly.

“It disappeared when time passed correct? That prided Corruption Armament♪”

After that battle, Zeros was tested in Nayuta Lab. However, when Aine tried equipping Zeros, Zeros had returned to its default state and Pulverizer was also gone.

Kizuna’s Eros was also the same, it was reversed back to the usual useless gear.

“The, then, I just need to do it one more time, the Climax Hybrid.”

“My, this time I should be the one testing it though. Hey? How about around tonight? Let’s go on a date, and together to a hotel――”

“Please stop! That’s really shameless!”

Himekawa yelled with a bright red face.

“You all, stop playing around.”

With a single sentence from Reiri, the place returned to dead silence.

“Well then, breakup. The operation will begin tomorrow night. Until then, study the necessary information like the local map.”

Reiri said that and exited from the room.

Her head hurt from watching the three continuing to quarrel.

A window appeared in front of Kizuna who heaved a deep sigh.

{If you find yourself in need of a love hotel, say it anytime. I’ll prepare it.}

……Shikina-san.

From the other side of the console, he could see Kei making a reserved thumbs up.

===Part 2===

The sunset of southern country was really beautiful, one wouldn’t get tired of seeing it no matter how many times.

Standing at the edge of Ataraxia, Kizuna was gazing at the horizon that was dyed by the sunset.

The large sun was sinking on the sea, the curtain of night was gradually lowered down above the head. That state which kept changing moment by moment was exactly the showtime of mother nature.

This spot was the testing ground that was adjacent to Nayuta Lab. The width was close to a 400 hundred meters track-and-field running track. Since the past, this was the facility used for Heart Hybrid Gear activation experiments and the like. Kizuna too had his first flight in this place when he was a child.

At this time he had already finished wearing Eros. At the same time, Aine, Himekawa, and Yurishia too were also wearing their respective Heart Hybrid Gears.

In front of Kizuna, Kei’s floating window appeared.

{The check of all gears is finished. There is no problem, you can go anytime.}

Kizuna raised his hand to Shikina Kei who was in a slightly separated place to show his acknowledging thought.

“Then, let’s depart soon. We will separate into two groups, me and Himekawa, Aine and Yurishia. We are going to the urban area in the center, Hagania and Tamon, Aine and Yurishia are to investigate Andersen air force base in the north.”

Yurishia nodded.

“Roger. I more or less know about that base.”

“After separating on-site, start the investigation. Two hours after that, we are going to meet at the airport site in the center of the island. The enemy might be intercepting, so we basically won’t use our communication. However, emergency situation doesn’t count. That’s all, any questions?”

Aine raised her hand.

“Why are Kizuna and Hayuru together?”

“Eh? No, it’s better for Yurishia who has familiarity to go to the base right? If Yurishia and Himekawa are grouping together, then that means me and Aine will group together.”

“Is there any problem I wonder? Though depending on your answer, your neck might break.”

“Don’t say anything scary! A group with me who doesn’t have offensive power and you who is a specialist of super close range, the balance is just bad.”

“If, if that’s the problem, then it’s fine if we just do Climax Hybrid isn’t it?”

“Certainly Pulverizer has an amazing power, but it’s big, just shooting it once will make a large commotion. It cannot be used in an infiltration investigation right? Even I will only get the ability of Zeros, so it will only become two people with the same ability.”

“……What a useless man.”

“Next, there is also a choice where I go to the base but……”

Aine compared the face of Yurishia and Himekawa.

“It can’t be helped then……”

Aine faced away with an irritated face.

She looked dissatisfied, but for the time being it seems she understood the situation that Kizuna could be relieved inside his heart.

“Yosh, all gears take off!”

Together with Kizuna’s command, the four Heart Hybrid Gears flew to the sky.

Light was ignited from the thrusters, four colors of light drew lines in the madder red sky. Before long those lights separated into two, becoming two streaks of blue-golden light and red-pink light.

After Amaterasu departed, Reiri and Kei were watching over the progress of the operation in Nayuta Lab.

Nonetheless, they couldn’t understand the situation detail from Ataraxia. In the end, they were just waiting for contact. Reiri and Kei separated from the other staff and secluded themselves in the center control room.

“Re-ri, want a drink? There is also local beer you know?”

“Aah, that thing created in Ataraxia. Where, let’s try drinking it.”

Because both of them were best friends since their time as students, the atmosphere between them was amiable. They were supposedly in the middle of duty, but the atmosphere was actually relaxed.

Reiri took out a beer bottle with Ataraxia label on it from the refrigerator and opened the cork with the corkscrew that Kei handed to her.

Kei opened a bottle of cola and held it out towards Reiri.

“For the success of the operation.”

“Cheers.”

The bottles raised clanking sound.

The two put their mouth directly on the bottle. The cold carbonic acid stimulated the tongue, watering the throat.

“Fuh, it’s unexpectedly good.”

“Right?”

After drinking the bottle dry in the blink of an eye, Reiri opened a second bottle.

“Re-ri. That radio wave, what do you think of it?”

“Nine out of ten, it’s just a coincidence. Something like an old communication facility malfunctioning……or something.”

“I think that’s a sensible judgment……but, by some chance, it might be human.”

“Do you know something?”

“That radio wave is sending data. Some kind of theory and…..graphic file like a map.”

Reiri raised her eyebrows.

“The detailed content?”

“That’s still unknown. But, perhaps it’s related to the Entrance.”

“I see……however, the sender might be an AU person.”

Kei nodded briefly.

“Re-ri……you don’t think, that it might be Professor Nayuta?”

Reiri’s hand that was carrying the bottle to her mouth stopped.

“……”

She put the bottle on the table and dropped her body heavily on the sofa.

“No.”

“――I see.”

Silence flowed between the two.

“Kei, you want to meet that person?”

Kei’s lips looked slightly smiling.

“I don’t know. But, perhaps that’s so. That person is……a genius after all. She is something like a target of worship.”

“Even you are a genius you know?”

Kei shook her head with a wry smile.

“The dimension is too different. In front of Professor Nayuta, someone like me is a mere ordinary person.”

Reiri once again gulped her beer.

“……Re-ri yourself, Professor Nayuta……your mother, what do you think about her?”

Reiri put the bottle she finished drinking on the floor.

And then, she spoke while looking at something far away.

“――My ultimate enemy.”

===Part 3===

Yurishia and Aine were standing in front of the US military base at the northern part of Guam Island.

The sun had sunk into the sea already. There was not a single artificial light, only the moonlight was creating silhouettes of the building where the headquarters and office were in, and the hangar of the aircraft jets.

“When there is no human presence here, it feels like a different place.

Yurishia boldly entered inside the grounds from the entrance that was left ajar.

Aine too continued after her.

“Has nothing changed since the last time you came?”

“Hmmm, it was only two, three days for me, so honestly I don’t remember thoughh……but, I think nothing really changed. That’s what makes it eerie instead.”

“Eerie?”

“Because, there is no sign of battle see?”

Aine once again looked around at the entrance they came through and the fence, then the buildings inside the grounds.

Certainly there was nothing destroyed here. On the contrary there was not even a single bullet mark. People were only gone from here, leaving only large containers without anything inside. That was her impression.

“Did they escape……or else, they surrendered without resistance I wonder……”

Yurishia pondered with a difficult face.

Aine manifested several windows around her face and searched the surroundings with all sorts of sensors.

“There is nothing really standing out. Just completely abandoned buildings, I wonder if it’s fine to call them so?”

“What happened here, it’s great if we could just find some clue thoughh.”

Yurishia whispered with a carefree tone, but her eyes were vigilantly observing the surroundings.

Aine too responded while staring at the sensor.

“And, we also want information regarding the AU. We are the first ones infiltrating a place that had come under enemy control right?”

“Perhaps. At the very least, I have never heard of any story about information brought from this kind of place.”

After walking ahead, they found a large steel tower. Yurishia stopped walking in front of the building without lighting in front of that tower.

“There should be a communication facility here. First, let’s confirm this place.”

After they entered through the door left ajar, there was a pitch dark corridor continuing to the inside.

Yurishia drew out the gun on her waist. It was a [particle gun] that fired particles produced by the Heart Hybrid Gear as bullets.

“I’ll go first. Aine, please take care of my back.”

“Roger.”

The dark corridor was dimly illuminated by the luminescence of the Heart Hybrid Gear.

The two of them were advancing forward while paying meticulous attention.

“Everything……is really spotless.”

“…….Rather, there is nothing here.”

Rather than calling the place clean, there was nothing.

Not to mention traps, even equipment and machine was not left behind sufficiently. The isolated bookshelves left didn’t have a single book in it. The drawer of the desks were empty. And then, not a single electronic device like PC or anything could be found.

Although this was a military base, the operation here was similar to a government office. There should be a mountain of books and paperwork here, without PC or monitor here there would be no work that could be done.

“Hey, Yurishia. Is the US army destitute? I wonder if they sold their furniture to the pawnshop.”

“There is no way that’s true……”

The dark corridor continued straight. A few meters ahead was only darkness. That darkness felt like it was continuing towards a different world.

“?”

Ahead of the corridor, a dim light was visible.

“That’s――”

Yurishia erected her index finger in front of Aine’s eyes. Don’t talk――looking at such sign, Aine nodded silently.

Both of them killed the sound of their footsteps and advanced.

Little by little the light became bigger.

‘――A door.’

Light was leaking out from the door.

Yurishia’s heart beat became faster.

‘――Is there, someone?’

Yurishia prepared her particle gun.

She clung beside the door without raising a single sound, with a hand sign she called for Aine.

Aine and Yurishia nodded at each other, then Aine opened the door slowly. Yurishia separated herself slightly from the door, matching herself with the angle of the opening door, she confirmed the inside of the room.

“Clear, there is nothing.”

When Yurishia entered the room, she lowered her gun.

Aine who entered from behind asked Yurishia.

“This is?”

“……Who knows?”

In front of the eyes of the two, there was a communication device that still had electricity.

From the large console, a low noise could be heard slightly.

The light emitted by the communication device’s monitor was illuminating the wondering face of Aine.

“I wonder if it was only this thing that had been connected to electricity all this time? Or else……”

Yurishia put the headphone connected to the device on her ear.

“Someone, was coming here recently……I think?”

“There is still time until we meet up. Let’s try investigating a little bit more.”

Yurishia nodded to Aine’s words and put back the headphone on the console.

Jarring noise was continuing to flow out from the headphone.

===Part 4===

Kizuna and Himekawa were standing in Guam’s city that was illuminated by moonlight.

Once it was the main street intended for tourists.

However, right now not a trace of it could be seen.

“How cruel……”

Himekawa stared at that scenery with blank amazement.

What spread in front of the two was a complete ruin.

Not a single one of the buildings lining up the two sides of the street was safe. From the information before the 2nd Another Universe Conflict that they studied yesterday, there should be shops selling high class brand products lining this place. But right now, it had been turned into a mountain of rubble.

There were also buildings that were still standing, but whichever it was, all of them were tilting and many holes were opened in them. Those might be the traces of bombardment. Surely there was also a large fire that happened here. Any buildings had the burned black traces remaining.

Even buildings that had comparatively little damage had all the doors of the shops broken, any kind of glass was scattered about everywhere. When they peeked inside the store, there were shelves collapsed without any merchandise remaining.

The shells of burned cars were scattered about all over the place on the street.

So this was……a world trampled about by magic weapons.

“What a terrible state……damn it all.”

Kizuna’s back teeth were clenched so hard that they made a sound.

“Hida-kun. Let’s try searching. Perhaps there will be something, a clue to know about the AU.”

“Perhaps……”

He was about to say that there might be survivors, but he stopped.

There shouldn’t be anyone surviving here.

The condition of this place was enough to make him think that.

Kizuna and Himekawa walked through the streets that had become ruins.

Broken glass and trash, wreckage was scattered on the ground, sound was created each time they stepped forward. The sounds echoed through this ghost city.

The pavement was broken and made it hard to walk. He guessed that it was the trace of the magic weapons’ advance. The street had caved in all over the place.

After progressing forward, there was a collapsed building blocking half the street. Circling the wreckage of the building, they stared ahead of the street.

There was no presence of living things.

“The residents and travelers in this place, where did they all go……”

Himekawa answered while paying attention to the surroundings.

“That’s so isn’t it……besides, not to mention the figures of AU people, there aren't even any traces of magic weapons here……but, looking from the state of the city, it seems to be a certainty that this place was occupied once……”

It was once occupied, but then it was immediately abandoned?

Just what in the world was going on?

After advancing for a while, there was a wall of concrete and steel frame standing tall as if growing from the ground like a giant tree. Looks like it was the result of a collapsing building.

They cut across through that obstruction with bad visibility by using the gaps between.

And then, their field of vision suddenly opened.

In the middle of the scenery where there were only rubble all over the eyes could see, there was a beautiful woman sitting elegantly on a Victorian-style chair.

“…….-!!”

In front of the beautiful woman, there was an elaborately decorated round table and afternoon tea set placed on it. Alone by herself, she was bathed in moonlight while enjoying tea.

Her age was probably around twenty years old.

With long green hair and slender body, she was a really pretty woman.

She was wearing clothes that fitted tightly on her body line, releasing attractive sex appeal.

The clothes that were decorated with deep blue and golden lines had an atmosphere like a military uniform from somewhere. However, it had a different quality where the valley of her breasts and her thighs were exposed defenselessly.

That beauty was idly staring at the sky, perhaps from not noticing Kizuna and Himekawa yet.

The purple pupils inside her narrowed eyes were shining. Just what in the world those joyful eyes were seeing? Her glossy lips were gently smiling, she looked like she was going to hum a song anytime.

She was waiting expectantly for someone to arrive. That was how her atmosphere looked like.

“Is that a survivor!?”

Himekawa called out to that woman.

Kizuna that was watching completely in fascination also returned to his senses suddenly.

Himekawa approached closer for two, three steps, then she opened her hands with a smile for reassuring the woman.

“You are safe already, so please be reassured. We have come from Megafloat Japan.”

The woman slowly faced toward Himekawa. The purple eyes were reflecting the red Heart Hybrid Gear.

“We came to investigate this place. Excuse me……are you someone who lives in this place? Or else are you a traveler?”

The glossy lips of the woman opened.

“My……my, my, my my my myy”

Wha, what?

Her state was strange for someone who was happy that help came.

The woman stood up from the chair.

She was tall, and her legs were long. She was like a foreign model that ran around barefooted, her figure was perfect. It was a miraculous molded beauty. The clothes that he thought was a skirt were terrifyingly short when she was standing up. The body suit on her nether region worn under that skirt was in plain sight.

However that woman didn’t show any shyness about her own clothing. She joined her hands and smiled in great happiness.

“You are not the one I’m waiting for……but, to be able to meet with Neros of all things. I’m really happy.”

――What?

Why, did she know Neros’ name?

Come to think of it, her clothes.

――It looked like, a pilot suit.

Himekawa spoke after realizing that.

“By any chance, are you someone from America’s Heart Hybrid Gear team? If that’s the case, then are you carrying out some kind of operation here?”

America?

No.

Green hair.

That suit.

Something was tugged inside Kizuna’s memory.

Inside his heart, something big raising tremor was approaching near.

The woman raised her voice happily.

“But this is a good omen. Like this, perhaps I can soon meet her.”

No way.

This woman was?

This woman was!?

From the amorous lips, a cheerful voice resounded.

“Zeel.”

From her body, green particles overflowed.

“This, this is-!?”

Himekawa raised a flustered voice.

The green light began to solidify. The particles of lights became armor covering that body.

Together with a conspicuously radiant light, the green radiance was dispelled.

Looking at that appearance, Kizuna unconsciously murmured.

“Heart Hybrid Gear……”

An austere armor was created as if in protection of the beauty’s slender body. Several shields were protecting her, giving the impression like a personal solid fortress, it was undoubtedly a Heart Hybrid Gear. However, its atmosphere was different somewhere compared to Kizuna and the others’ gears.

And then he recognized that silhouette.

“The one before……”

The mysterious Heart Hybrid Gear that deflected Pulverizer.

“Yo……you! Who the hell are you!?”

That woman calmly smiled still the same like before.

“I am Aldea. Kindly take care of me.”

“……!!”

She easily introduced herself.

No, but surely that was a fake name. Just which country’s instigation this――

“Which country do you belong to-? And that Heart Hybrid Gear!?”

Himekawa represented Kizuna’s doubt.

“I belong to the Vatlantis Empire.”

Va……Vatlan……tis, Empire?

Just where did such a country exist?

Most likely she was only making fools of them.

Aldea pressed her finger on her lips and tilted her head as though being troubled.

“And so, that……what you called gear, are you talking about magic armor I wonder? If that’s so, I think I had spoken it before, but this is [Zeel]. Kindly observe as you see fit.”

‘――Damn it, just how brazen can you be!’

Kizuna’s head was in chaos.

Just how much could he trust what she said?

N, no, if he thought about it calmly, then surely he couldn’t trust even a single thing about it.

But……certainly she called out the name of the Core to put on that gear.

Besides in the previous battle, this Heart Hybrid Gear……no, this magic armor repelled Aine’s Corruption Armament [Pulverizer], that was an unmistakable fact.

Kizuna fell quiet with a grim face. Cold sweat was flowing from his whole body.

Himekawa also tensed similarly like him. Her opened mouth was literally gaping open.

Aldea was wearing a gentle smile, as if to say ‘Are you okay?’

Just what was with this woman?

Even though she answered all their questions, they couldn’t understand her true identity at all.

Inside Kizuna, a feeling of anxiety was welling up.

‘――Damn it-!’

“……Then, that, Vatlantis Empire you said……just what’s with that? I never heard of it.”

“It’s a great empire, ruling over half of the world you know? How unfortunate for you to not know of it.”

“There is no way something like that exists! Just where the heck can that large empire exist!”

Aldea cheerfully smiled and pointed behind her with an elegant gesture.

The scenery behind her was like a scenery that floated on a water surface, it was shaking gently.

――An Entrance.

The point of contact that connected the world of this side with another universe. It was a puzzling wall with rectangle shape. The size was varied, the big one had height of several hundred meters. The length could even reach several kilometers. It had no thickness, it was transparent, so its existence was hard to notice. However when it was looked carefully, the scenery on the other side of the Entrance was swaying like looking through a distorted mirror or water. Right now, such thing was certainly existing behind Aldea.

“It’s on the other side you know. Isn’t that obvious. Geez, please don’t make fun of me.”

She sent the two a lovely, reproaching gaze.

This woman, was she saying that she was an AU person?

Kizuna didn’t know which was which anymore.

Was this a joke,

Was this the truth,

Was she sane,

Was she mistaken,

‘――Nee-chan.

If it was Nee-chan, what would she do in this kind of time?’

“Are your questions over already?”

“Wha……n, no! Just wait. I cannot believe what you are saying, no rather than that, I cannot understand!”

“My my, that’s unfortunate. Then, I wonder if I can ask already? What is the name of your magic armor?”

“――Sh, shut up! I won’t say!”

‘Shit-! I don’t want to be asked that, even by a self-proclaimed AU person!’

“My, how unfriendlyy……well, it’s only something without signature anyway though.”

With a dubious gaze, Himekawa faced Aldea.

“Do you have proof about your claim as an AU person? Just what in the world are you doing here? What is your objective?”

“Yes, yes, about that. To start with my first objective is…”

Aldea’s eyes shone bewitchingly.

“to take out the core from inside your body.”

――She came!?

“Himekawa, be careful!”

Kizuna put up his guard.

Himekawa withdrew her Sword and pointed its tip at Aldea.

“Fufu-♪”

All of a sudden the parts surrounding Aldea detached from her.

‘Wha-!?’

This woman, she purged(released) her Heart Hybrid Gear!?

Normally when Heart Hybrid Gear was purged, it went back into light particles. But, Zeel’s parts that detached from Aldea didn’t vanish and stayed in the air, forming a line in front of Aldea. The detached parts had a shape like a long and slender shield of reverse pentagon. Round part was installed on top of it, it was like the circular shield of ancient Rome was combined with the reverse pentagon shield of middle age knights. There were six in total, all were lining up protecting Aldea.

“You intend to shield yourself? Something like that――”

Light ran through the Blades floating at Himekawa’s back. They raised a low rumbling and flew out in a glide.

“These Blades will pierce them!”

Like a shot arrow, the Blades flew heading to Aldea.

And then, they impacted the shields lined up before Aldea.

But――,

“Eh!?”

The Blades bounced back. It was not something simple like it was merely deflected by the shield.

The instant they hit the shields, the Blades distorted. They warped flexibly like rubber, in the next instant they flew away as if being pulled to a different direction. The control was completely lost and the Blades stabbed the ground and the mountain of rubble while rotating.

“Wha……”

Himekawa’s expression tensed from being taken aback by surprise.

“My my, I wonder if the famously rumored Neros is unexpectedly not a big deal?”

Aldea smiled and reached her hand to one of the shields.

The shield shined radiantly and transformed into the shape of a spear.

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Aldea held that spear in her hand and smiled happily.

Something shuddering ran through Kizuna’s back.

“Himekawa, run away-!!”

Igniting their thrusters, Kizuna and Himekawa fell back behind in one breath.

Pursuing after them, Aldea kicked the ground.

She was charging at them with her spear prepared.

Kizuna and Himekawa slipped through the steel frames that were like a forest. They glided at super low altitude and circled behind the tilting big building.

Kizuna deployed Life Saver while turning back. Himekawa readied her Sword and was alert toward the opposite side.

――Where would she come from?

“Himekawa. If that woman comes, I’ll block her attack with the Life Saver. At that opening――”

The wall of the building concealing them warped.

“……-!?”

As if forming a vortex, a huge hole was opened in the building’s wall. The wall was by no means crushed, the concrete was by no means smashed. It was not a realistic spectacle, it was like an image that was digitally processed. The edge of the hole distorted, it was like the hole was forcibly widened and it was visibly rippling.

And then Aldea holding her spear was walking gracefully inside that large hole.

It was an impossible sight.

That phenomenon that Kizuna’s common sense couldn’t understand made him unable to move his body.

“Hi……Hida-kun. This is?”

Himekawa was also the same like him.

“Ufufu. It’s no good. After all nothing exists that can obstruct my path.”

Aldea spoke so happily, then she waved the spear in her hand horizontally. The spear touched the wall of the tunnel.

At that instant, the building was destroyed.

“Wha-! Whaatt!?”

It was as though the building was blown away directly horizontally, the building was collapsing in Kizuna and Himekawa’s direction.

“UWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”

Kizuna activated his Life Saver amidst the raining down rubble and escaped. However, Kizuna and Himekawa’s bodies were sent flying, they tumbled around on the ground.

“Kuh……Himekawa! Are you okay!?”

He faced the densely enshrouding dusts and yelled.

“Ye, yes. I’m alri――”

Aldea with spear in hand flew out from inside the cloud of dust.

Himekawa immediately deployed her Life Saver.

――Eh!?

The moment the tip of the spear touched the Life Saver, the Life Saver’s light shield distorted.

From the gap of the Life Sphere’s distortion, the spear touched the palm of Himekawa.

The hand jumped.

As if it was pulled by an unseen power.

“Thi, this is!?”

Aldea pulled her arm and pushed out her spear once more.

This time the spear touched Himekawa’s stomach.

An impact that she had never experienced until now pierced Himekawa’s body.

It was as if the inside of her stomach broke through to her back, a strange sensation. And then, with that point as the center the whole body was pulled. As if the direction of gravity was changed, Himekawa was blown away horizontally.

“Guh, HAAaAAA-!”

Himekawa’s body was rotating strangely while plunging into a mountain of rubble.

‘――Wha, what was that, just now.

A spear attack?

The spear itself almost had no offensive power at all.

However, this is?’

“Himekawa, are you safe!?”

Kizuna’s figure was visible at the other side of the cloud of dust.

“Ye, yes! But, please be careful. Life Sphere doesn’t work against that spear!”

“What did you say!?”

When Kizuna stood up with tottering legs, he glared at Aldea who appeared from inside the dust smoke.

Aldea smiled cheerfully and thrust her spear on the ground. And then, she moved her spear to the side like that, drawing a line below her.

‘――What is she planning to do?’

The rubble under Aldea’s feet swelled up.

“Wha……”

The ground shook.

‘――Earthquake? No……this is.’

He got a bad feeling.

The rubble under Aldea’s legs undulated. Its height was gradually increasing while advancing here.

“That looks bad……Himekawa!”

Himekawa was collapsed several tens of meters from him.

“Hida……kun.”

He rushed to the location of Himekawa that was still unable to stand up, then he dragged her body along and ran away.

“We are escaping Himekawa!”

“Bu……but”

Himekawa’s eyes were opened wide in shock.

When Kizuna looked back, a gigantic wall made tremors in the land while approaching them.

That was a tsunami made from rubble.

Concrete and steel frame, fragments of building and car wreckage, all those became one mass approaching at them.

That sight was like the whole city was vertically towering over them.

Deploying Life Saver would leave them completely swallowed.

The gigantic tsunami of rubble covered the tops of their heads, the night sky was being encroached by the darkness of the rubble.

‘――Damn it all, we cannot escape!’

Kizuna and Himekawa were enveloped in the darkness and the sound of destruction raised by the rubble.

That darkness was pierced by a single golden light.

That light gouged out the darkness, from there the face of the starry sky and moon came out.

The next moment, dazzling lights and explosions spread, then shockwaves struck their face.

“Wha, what the!?”

The golden light evaporated the rubble, blowing away the tsunami.

This was――a golden large caliber particle cannon.

Differential Frame!

“Yurishia!”

He could see golden light hovering in the sky bathed in moonlight. Golden light was leaking out from the Differential Frame on her back.

“I thought it was strange that you two didn’t come no matter how long we waited! What is all this commotion!?”

And then one more light, a blue light rushed through the night sky and landed besides Kizuna.

Lightly brushing the shining silver hair with her hand, she gazed at Aldea with her red eyes.

“I want to ask in detail about this situation and who that person is, but……well, it’s all the same if we just capture that person and make her confess.”

Aine’s boastful talk felt reassuring for some reason right now.

“My my, further two more are coming. This saves me the hassle of searching……my?”

Aldea stopped her movement. For some reason, she was staring fixedly at Aine.

“White magic armor……you, you are the child firing that absurdly destructive large cannon aren’t you?”

Aldea’s eyes shined.

“As expected, it’s a magic armor I have never seen before. Silver hair……red eyes.”

‘――Aldea’s state is strange.’

She was oddly excited looking at Aine.

“Hey, what is your name?”

“I don’t have any name to introduce to someone like you, but I’ll teach you specially. It’s Chidorigafuchi.”

Aldea touched her finger on her cheek, making a thinking gesture.

“I wonder where is your birthplace?”

“…….It’s Tokyo in Japan. The place you all stole.”

“Hmm―m.”

Aldea hummed. And then――

{The goddess dance. Nothingness, and death, and emperor. And then to eternity.}

Aldea sang something like a song.

‘――Ha?’

Kizuna was reflexively taken aback.

Himekawa and Aine were also the same like him.

Only Aldea was staring at Aine with eyes shining in anticipation.

What was that spell just now?

Or else, was that a poem or something?

By any chance, did Aine understand its meaning?

However Aine was scowling her face with all her heart.

――What’s the meaning of that?

Her expression was telling so.

Aine stepped forward and stomped.

“I don’t understand what you are running your mouth about, but calmly let us take you away. That’s right……we will prepare a party for your sake. A brawling party though.”

Aldea’s shoulders dropped in disappointment.

“My, what a lovely invitation. But, I’ll refrain myself for now.”

She smiled elegantly while heaving an exaggerated sigh.

“Aa― aa, how unfortunate. For some reason, I suddenly lost my motivation.”

Aldea gracefully raised her hand and snapped her slender and willowy fingers audibly.

Thereupon, as if affected by that sound, the Entrance at her back swayed noticeably.

“What……the?”

Something, was coming?

Was that woman, ordering something to come out from the Entrance?

Something was coming out, a body.

Inside the landscape that was like a water surface, something was gradually becoming clear.

An object that seemed to be glowing was approaching from the other side of the Entrance.

As if emerging to the surface, that thing came out.

A gigantic sphere of light with diameter around ten meters.

A spiraling pattern was continuing to move on the surface like a whirl, it vaguely resembled Jupiter.

That sphere was floating in the air, it was slowly coming here.

“That child will become your opponent. The Core can be taken even after death after all, so rest assured and die, okay?”

She said that child……was that a living thing?

Even while he was wracking his brain about the thing’s true form, the mysterious sphere was rapidly approaching near.

“Tha……that’s……”

Himekawa’s eyes were opened wide in shock.

“Himekawa, you understand what that thing is?”

“……Dra…”

Himekawa’s body was shaking, her teeth were clattering audibly.

The sphere stopped still.

They were confronting the sphere with a length of a hundred meters between the two sides.

“Dragon……”

What?

A crack entered the sphere.

Intense light was gushing out from the crack.

“Just what in the world is inside――”

The sphere burst.

“――UOWAAAA-!”

A shockwave that was like an explosion crushed the street’s pavement. And then, the cars around were blown away like paper. The walls of the buildings distorted, they were being pushed down by the pressure.

Kizuna stood in front of Himekawa and Aine and deployed a large Life Saver. The terrific shockwave was assaulting him as if trying to crush his hands.

‘Shi, shit-! What is this? A bomb!?’

Mysteriously, the fragments of the cracked sphere were floating still in the air as if time was stopped.

However, a few seconds later it was like time began to resume once more, the fragments suddenly flew.

“――!?”

The radiant clumps that was like crystal rained down on the surrounding surface.

Those fragments caused large explosions the instant they touched buildings and the ground. The main street was enveloped in crimson flame in a flash.

“Wh, what kind of power this is!”

Kizuna put strength inside his hands and supported the Life Saver that he deployed in the front.

“Himekawa, Aine, you two okay!?”

“Ye, yes. Kizuna yourself, you okay?”

He could hear Aine’s worried voice from behind.

“Yeah! You don’t need to worry about me……wait, Himekawa come on, give your reply too!”

However, there was no reply.

“Oi! You’re okay right!? Hime――”

At that time, the explosion of fragments stopped.

And then from inside the sphere, a figure of an object wrapped in a flame that looked like magma appeared.

“Wha……what’s, that?”

While dripping with flame that was like magma, a round mechanical neck elongated, and a folded up pair of shining wings opened.

“Dragre? ……No.”

Kizuna recalled a category-A magic weapon, Dragre. However, this thing was obviously different with that. No matter how he saw it, it had the appearance like a legendary dragon, however――,

It had three necks.

Under its feet, there was Aldea who was protected by her shields.

When the shields opened, she displayed a wide smile.

”How is it? I wonder if you all are pleased?”

{Kizuna! That thing looks dangerous. It’s better to withdraw from here!}

Yurishia’s warning came from the floating window.

“I totally agree. We are retreating for the moment. Withdraw.”

“As I thought……the one from that time……”

Himekawa murmured deliriously.

“Himekawa?”

“What’s wrong, Hayuru?”

However, the voices, whether it was Kizuna’s or Aine’s didn’t enter her ears.

“……The three headed, magic weapon!”

Yelling such, Himekawa flew out.

“Hime……!?”

Readying her Sword with both her hands, she rushed forward with all her speed.

“UWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”

Looking at her appearance, Aldea clapped her hands cheerfully.

“That’s the spirit. Now, kill each other cordially okayy~”

“Himekawa! Come back-!”

Blades flew out with incredible speed, attacking straightforwardly at the three headed dragon. And then, they pierced the head and the neck of the magic weapon.

She did it!?

However, the three headed dragon didn’t even twitch. The Blades ignited light particle trying to cut apart the magic weapon, but their blade couldn’t break through the armor.

Kizuna was watching over that situation with held breath.

‘――That’s impossible.’

No matter what kind of enemy it faced, the Blades would defeat it in an instant.

“HAAAAAA!”

In the opening while the Blades were attacking, Himekawa was sliding in below the three headed dragon. She thrust the Sword that she gripped with both hands to the stomach of the magic weapon. Sword’s light particles scattered sparks against the armor of the magic weapon.

‘――Himekawa’s sword, doesn’t work?’

The armor of the three headed dragon repelled all of Himekawa’s swords.

That was a shocking truth for Kizuna.

Until now, those swords had carved apart magic weapons really easily. That was an obvious truth, he had never even thought that a magic weapon that Himekawa’s sword couldn’t cut existed.

The mouth of the three headed dragon opened.

Instantly, a sharp beam of flame was fired from that mouth.

“-!!”

Opening her thruster, Himekawa escaped from the flame. Chasing after Himekawa’s movement, the flame drew a line through the street and buildings. When the flame impacted something, explosions occurred from the inside of the street and building. The impact disturbed Himekawa’s movement. There the other neck attacked with gushing flame.

“KYAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”

The flame blown away Himekawa.

Although she deployed Life Saver, the moment the flame impacted, it caused an explosion in the Life Saver. That shockwave threw Himekawa to a wall of a building.

‘Damn it! That magic weapon is just too dangerous!’

Kizuna rushed to Himekawa’s location.

“Oi, Himekawa! You okay!?”

“U……kuh.”

“I’m going!!”

Aine faced the three headed dragon and jumped.

“TAAAAAAAAAAA-!”

The dragon ate a flying kick that was like a missile on its flank. Shockwaves spread to the surroundings and the armor of the three headed dragon distorted.

However――,

“It doesn’t go through!?”

If it was another magic weapon, that kick would have definitely pierced through the body, yet――.

It was as though there was no damage at all on the three headed dragon, the long neck turned and directed sharp fangs at Aine.

“Chih!”

Aine kicked the armor and took distance. She twisted in the air like a gymnast, landing beside Kizuna and Himekawa.

“My my, I never thought a movement like that will come from a magic armor……I think my interest is tickled a little.”

Aldea acted as if she was watching a sport.

‘――Shit, that woman, she has a screw loose in her head!’

Kizuna cursed inside his heart.

“Kizuna, what is that magic weapon? My attack doesn’t work at all!”

Aine asked while still fixing her gaze on the magic weapon.

“All members retreat! Himekawa, can you stand!? We are pulling back!!”

But, when Himekawa stood up, she shook off Kizuna and once again she headed towards the three headed dragon.

“Wai-! Hayuru, what are you doing!”

Aine too was confused at Himekawa’s unusual action.

“UOOOOOOOO-!”

Himekawa raised a war cry and slashed at the three headed dragon.

The three headed dragon’s neck aimed at Himekawa.

She avoided the spouted off flame with a rough movement.

In the opening when the magic weapon was concentrating on attacking Himekawa, the Blades dashing in the sky surrounded the three headed dragon and aimed at the center neck.

And then the four Blades slashed all at once from four directions, pressing on the neck.

The movement of the three headed dragon stopped.

‘――Got you!’

Kicking the ground, Himekawa’s body danced.

Heading to the neck of the three headed dragon, she slashed down her Sword.

“TAAAAAAAA!”

Together with a fierce metallic sound, her Sword was bounced back.

“Youu-!”

Over and over, she raised her Sword and struck.

“Youu-! Youu-! You! YOUUUUU!”

In her desperation of swinging down her sword, Himekawa didn’t notice that a different neck was aiming at her.

Flame was compressed brightly inside its mouth, it was going to spout it out.

“Himekawa! Run away-!”

The instant Kizuna yelled, golden light impacted the head of the three headed dragon.

“Yurishia!”

{What are you doing Hayuru! That’s too reckless! Kizuna, take her away quickly and withdraw! If she moves around like that, then I cannot even guarantee any covering fire here!}

Inside the window, Yurishia’s anger was exploding.

The Differential Frame fired a large caliber beam once more. Explosions also occurred at the remaining two necks. From that impact, the heads of the magic weapon were greatly repelled.

However, the neck that received the attack first was opening its mouth again.

“Himekawa-!”

Kizuna slipped between her and the dragon.

He instantly deployed Life Saver and blocked the flame of the three headed dragon.

“UWAAAAAAAAAAAAA-!”

Together with a fierce explosion, the Life Saver broke like glass.

Kizuna and Himekawa were blown away for tens of meters, they tumbled on the ground.

“Da, damn-“

What attack power.

The level was just too different with other magic weapon, whether in armor or weapon.

When Kizuna stood up, he took Himekawa’s arm.

“Oi! Himekawa. Can you stand? We are leaving right away!”

Himekawa shook off Kizuna’s arm in irritation.

“Release me! That thing, only that magic weapon, I’ll kill it!”

‘――Himekawa?’

A flame of madness was residing in her eyes.

The three headed dragon spread its wings largely. The wing’s surface gradually shined radiantly, it looked like it was charging in some kind of energy.

It elongated its neck facing towards Kizuna and Himekawa, then it opened its mouth. Painful metallic sound was ringing in the surroundings. Inside the body of the three headed dragon, something mechanical was beginning to operate. That sound sounded like the roar of this magic weapon.

That flame would come again. Furthermore, this time the three heads were aiming at them at the same time.

‘Damn it, no matter how low my Hybrid Count consumption rate is, there is still this thing called limit.’

The mouths of the three headed dragon were shining fiercely.

“Blade!”

With Life Saver in the front and Blades stood up behind it, the Blades served as a shield replacement. However, the Life Saver was smashed in an instant, and each time the Blade received attack it was creaking. Moreover, the Hybrid Count was noticeably shrinking down.

“At this rate-……there will be, no way left-!”

Bombardment of Differential Frame impacted the wings of the three headed dragon. The panel that was shining red visibly broke and scattered. In succession, golden flash also exploded at its flank.

The three headed dragon’s body tilted.

However, that was all. The broken wing was regenerated in the blink of an eye. The enemy was far from destroyed.

Kizuna turned to Aine and yelled.

“Aine! We are collecting Himekawa!”

Before those words even ended, Aine dashed at Himekawa’s position. She grasped the shoulder of Himekawa that was trying to go forward again.

“Hayuru, we are returning.”

“Release me! I have to, that thing, that magic weapon, I have to defeat it!”

“Himekawa!”

Kizuna grasped the opposite shoulder.

“We are pulling back. That is an order!”

“……-!!”

Himekawa gritted her teeth audibly.

“……Roger.”

“Yurishia! We are withdrawing from Guam from now. Give us covering fire!”

{Roger, leave it to me!}

While Yurishia was opening a full bombardment, the three escaped from the vicinity of the three headed dragon.

“My? Wait, what are you doing? Even though the best part is starting from here―!”

Ignoring Aldea’s voice, they fully ignited their thrusters and flew to the sky right away.

And then they headed to Ataraxia as fast as they could.

“Looks like they are not pursuing.”

Yurishia who readied her particle cannon and stayed alert to their rear was murmuring.

Kizuna also looked back and stared at the shadow of the fading island. Certainly, there was no sign of Aldea or the magic weapon chasing them.

Kizuna breathed deeply in relief. He opened the communication window.

“This is Kizuna. We are returning to Ataraxia now.”

Looking at the gently swaying sea that was bathed in moonlight, the previous mortal battle seemed like a lie.

So that, was a land under the control of AU…….

Guam city that had become ruins.

A self proclaimed person of AU who introduced herself as Aldea.

AU Heart Hybrid Gear that was called magic armor.

Vatlantis Empire that ruled over half of AU.

And then a magic weapon they saw for the first time.

Anyways, there were many things they didn’t understand.

However, talking about results, they might be able to consider this result.

They didn’t understand the opponent, but they were coming home bringing information.

Next, they just needed to wait for the analysis of Kei and the others.

――But,

Kizuna was staring at Himekawa who was flying with her head looking down.

Did something happen with that magic weapon?

No matter how long he stared, he couldn’t see inside Himekawa’s heart.

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Masou Gakuen HxH:Volume 2 Chapter 2

2018-01-31T11:09:46Z

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==Chapter 2 – The Beautiful Woman of Country of Ruin==

===Part 1===

“Well then, I’ll explain the outline of the operation.”

Hida Reiri looked over the Amaterasu members who were gathering in Nayuta Lab.

It was an emergency summon.

Kizuna, Aine, and Himekawa lent their ears to Reiri’s story with obedient faces.

In contrast, it was only Yurishia who looked around at the surroundings with a face that looked as if she would break out humming anytime.

Reiri was not even much concerned with Yurishia’s behavior, she turned to the console in the center of the room and called out.

“Kei, I’ll let you explain.”

In front of the console that looked like a cockpit, a petite girl was sitting.

She was the researcher in charge of this Nayuta Lab, the person in charge of Ataraxia’s research department, Shikina Kei.

Her hair was held back with several pins, her eyes settled behind the glasses didn’t show anything of what she was thinking about.

Kei didn’t reply back and only moved her fingers with amazing speed. Thereupon, in the middle of the research room, several floating windows appeared.

A window each appeared in front of Kizuna and the others, displaying the text that Kei inputted.

{Yesterday, at 2.10 AM of Megafloat Japan’s standard time, we caught a weak radio wave.}

On the floor surface, a map of the Pacific Ocean with Megafloat Japan as the center was displayed. Currently, the Megafloat was cruising between Papua New Guinea and Philippines. A red blinking line was stretching from Megafloat Japan on the map.

{When the radio wave was analyzed, we understood that it was undoubtedly something used by mankind for transmission. That dotted line is displaying the direction from where the radio wave was sent.}

The map was scrolled following the stretched dotted line.

Before long the scrolling of the screen was stopped at the end point of the line which was an island.

“……Guam?”

Yurishia raised a questioning voice.

“Correct. The transmission wave was delivered from around Guam. Yurishia, have you ever been to the American military base in Guam?”

“Only to the degree of stopping by there. It was before the 2nd Another Universe Conflict, so I didn’t have any impression of it other than a normal resort area…… but, naturally that place also has an Entrance right?”

The origin was unclear, but Entrances that occurred due to the collision of world space existed only above land. In addition, it only appeared on land with a certain degree of size, it wouldn’t appear in a place like a small island.

But, Guam’s land size was more than 500 square kilometers, it was a large island. There was a high chance that an Entrance with AU existed there.

{There is a record that an Entrance appeared there in the 2nd Alternate Universe Conflict and it turned into a battle. However, after that no one knows how it turned out there.}

Kei’s words were not generated as sound, but conveyed to them as text on the window. It was not like she had a disability that made her unable to speak. She was just extremely poor in communicating with people.

“We don’t know if there is anyone in Guam, or if it was the people of AU using human facility. However, in any case there was supposedly someone there sending us a transmission. The mission this time is to infiltrate an area under the control of AU, and to make clear of the source of the transmission. All of you are to land at Guam Island.”

“What!?”

Kizuna reflexively raised his voice.

“There is an Entrance there right? That’s too dangerous!”

“The situation won’t change for the better if we keep getting scared of the enemy’s shadow forever and only run around.”

Reiri said flatly.

“Then, we are going to march into the enemy’s controlled land……and start a full-blown war?”

Even until now they were using the phrase of war with AU, but in reality there was no battle or anything. Mankind was only one-sidedly exterminated, their countries stolen, and they escaped above the sea where the hand of the enemy couldn’t reach.

And then even now, they were cowering from that shadow, running from place to place above the sea.

Certainly, they defeated the enemy’s battleship with Zeros’ Corruption Armament, but saying it in reverse, they were merely sinking one battleship after all this time.

“Before the war happens, we first need to know about the enemy. Our knowledge about the AU, is nonexistent.”

The map projected under their feet began to move once more.

Kei manipulated the console and tapped the keyboard.

{The main objective of this mission is to collect information of the area that fell under the control of the enemy. Originally, we want to perform investigation of mainland Japan and the neighboring islands, but in the current situation the danger is great. From our experience until now, when we entered the range of two hundred until three hundred kilometers from the land, the possibility of the enemy detecting us is high. In other words, the more we are approaching a large land, the danger is also increasing. In that meaning, the land of Guam which doesn’t have any other Entrance in it’s vicinity is suitable as the first test.}

“First Megafloat Japan will approach Guam until 300 kilometers from it. Amaterasu will all take off from there. Separate into two groups, then investigate the center urban area Hagania and Tamon, and Andersen airbase at the north side. For the dividing of the group and the instruction on the actual scene……Kizuna, you take control.”

“Eh! Me?”

Kizuna was shocked from the sudden appointment.

“N, no, it’s impossible even if you suddenly told me to do it……”

The shoulder of the panicked Kizuna was lightly tapped.

“Fufufu, take care of us. Novice captain-san★”

Yurishia showed a wink from a close distance.

“No, really, there is no way me as a captain…”

“It’s not impossible or anything, perhaps this can be said as the right man in the right place.”

Aine unexpectedly talked as if in endorsement of Kizuna.

“Aine……no, I never thought that you will say that about me. Now I feel a little shy.”

“Because, Kizuna usually doesn’t have any combat ability, you are just being useless. That’s why, I think it’s fine for you to be the captain in a place far from the front line. So that you won’t be a hindrance to us.”

“So you are just getting rid of a nuisance!”

Having said that, what Aine said also made sense. Kizuna’s Eros almost didn’t have any combat ability, it had no redeeming feature other than its Life Saver.

However, even such Eros had a method to obtain a wonderful combat ability.

――[Climax Hybrid]

With that phenomenon which was even more superior than Heart Hybrid, it would bring result that was truly miraculous. It could power up the partner’s Heart Hybrid Gear, and added a special weapon called the [Corruption Armament]. And then at the same time, Eros would copy the ability of the partner Heart Hybrid Gear, making it possible for Eros to exhibit similar combat ability.

“However, just by getting near, the enemy will quickly find us isn’t it? Besides, if there is an amazing number of army stationed there, we are going to fall into a really bad situation……”

As if to flaunt off, Aine brushed off her silver hair that was shining from the lighting.

“Well, at that time I will show you how I exterminate the enemy with my Corruption Armament [Pulverizer].”

She was truly smug. Her face looked like it couldn’t be more triumphant than that.

Yurishia chuckled mockingly ‘fufun’ to that.

“Myy, aren’t you unable to use Pulverizer anymoree?”

“……u”

Aine’s mouth was shut tightly.

“It disappeared when time passed correct? That prided Corruption Armament♪”

After that battle, Zeros was tested in Nayuta Lab. However, when Aine tried equipping Zeros, Zeros had returned to its default state and Pulverizer was also gone.

Kizuna’s Eros was also the same, it was reversed back to the usual useless gear.

“The, then, I just need to do it one more time, the Climax Hybrid.”

“My, this time I should be the one testing it though. Hey? How about around tonight? Let’s go on a date, and together to a hotel――”

“Please stop! That’s really shameless!”

Himekawa yelled with a bright red face.

“You all, stop playing around.”

With a single sentence from Reiri, the place returned to dead silence.

“Well then, breakup. The operation will begin tomorrow night. Until then, study the necessary information like the local map.”

Reiri said that and exited from the room.

Her head hurt from watching the three continuing to quarrel.

A window appeared in front of Kizuna who heaved a deep sigh.

{If you find yourself in need of a love hotel, say it anytime. I’ll prepare it.}

……Shikina-san.

From the other side of the console, he could see Kei making a reserved thumbs up.

===Part 2===

The sunset of southern country was really beautiful, one wouldn’t get tired of seeing it no matter how many times.

Standing at the edge of Ataraxia, Kizuna was gazing at the horizon that was dyed by the sunset.

The large sun was sinking on the sea, the curtain of night was gradually lowered down above the head. That state which kept changing moment by moment was exactly the showtime of mother nature.

This spot was the testing ground that was adjacent to Nayuta Lab. The width was close to a 400 hundred meters track-and-field running track. Since the past, this was the facility used for Heart Hybrid Gear activation experiments and the like. Kizuna too had his first flight in this place when he was a child.

At this time he had already finished wearing Eros. At the same time, Aine, Himekawa, and Yurishia too were also wearing their respective Heart Hybrid Gears.

In front of Kizuna, Kei’s floating window appeared.

{The check of all gears is finished. There is no problem, you can go anytime.}

Kizuna raised his hand to Shikina Kei who was in a slightly separated place to show his acknowledging thought.

“Then, let’s depart soon. We will separate into two groups, me and Himekawa, Aine and Yurishia. We are going to the urban area in the center, Hagania and Tamon, Aine and Yurishia are to investigate Andersen air force base in the north.”

Yurishia nodded.

“Roger. I more or less know about that base.”

“After separating on-site, start the investigation. Two hours after that, we are going to meet at the airport site in the center of the island. The enemy might be intercepting, so we basically won’t use our communication. However, emergency situation doesn’t count. That’s all, any questions?”

Aine raised her hand.

“Why are Kizuna and Hayuru together?”

“Eh? No, it’s better for Yurishia who has familiarity to go to the base right? If Yurishia and Himekawa are grouping together, then that means me and Aine will group together.”

“Is there any problem I wonder? Though depending on your answer, your neck might break.”

“Don’t say anything scary! A group with me who doesn’t have offensive power and you who is a specialist of super close range, the balance is just bad.”

“If, if that’s the problem, then it’s fine if we just do Climax Hybrid isn’t it?”

“Certainly Pulverizer has an amazing power, but it’s big, just shooting it once will make a large commotion. It cannot be used in an infiltration investigation right? Even I will only get the ability of Zeros, so it will only become two people with the same ability.”

“……What a useless man.”

“Next, there is also a choice where I go to the base but……”

Aine compared the face of Yurishia and Himekawa.

“It can’t be helped then……”

Aine faced away with an irritated face.

She looked dissatisfied, but for the time being it seems she understood the situation that Kizuna could be relieved inside his heart.

“Yosh, all gears take off!”

Together with Kizuna’s command, the four Heart Hybrid Gears flew to the sky.

Light was ignited from the thrusters, four colors of light drew lines in the madder red sky. Before long those lights separated into two, becoming two streaks of blue-golden light and red-pink light.

After Amaterasu departed, Reiri and Kei were watching over the progress of the operation in Nayuta Lab.

Nonetheless, they couldn’t understand the situation detail from Ataraxia. In the end, they were just waiting for contact. Reiri and Kei separated from the other staff and secluded themselves in the center control room.

“Re-ri, want a drink? There is also local beer you know?”

“Aah, that thing created in Ataraxia. Where, let’s try drinking it.”

Because both of them were best friends since their time as students, the atmosphere between them was amiable. They were supposedly in the middle of duty, but the atmosphere was actually relaxed.

Reiri took out a beer bottle with Ataraxia label on it from the refrigerator and opened the cork with the corkscrew that Kei handed to her.

Kei opened a bottle of cola and held it out towards Reiri.

“For the success of the operation.”

“Cheers.”

The bottles raised clanking sound.

The two put their mouth directly on the bottle. The cold carbonic acid stimulated the tongue, watering the throat.

“Fuh, it’s unexpectedly good.”

“Right?”

After drinking the bottle dry in the blink of an eye, Reiri opened a second bottle.

“Re-ri. That radio wave, what do you think of it?”

“Nine out of ten, it’s just a coincidence. Something like an old communication facility malfunctioning……or something.”

“I think that’s a sensible judgment……but, by some chance, it might be human.”

“Do you know something?”

“That radio wave is sending data. Some kind of theory and…..graphic file like a map.”

Reiri raised her eyebrows.

“The detailed content?”

“That’s still unknown. But, perhaps it’s related to the Entrance.”

“I see……however, the sender might be an AU person.”

Kei nodded briefly.

“Re-ri……you don’t think, that it might be Professor Nayuta?”

Reiri’s hand that was carrying the bottle to her mouth stopped.

“……”

She put the bottle on the table and dropped her body heavily on the sofa.

“No.”

“――I see.”

Silence flowed between the two.

“Kei, you want to meet that person?”

Kei’s lips looked slightly smiling.

“I don’t know. But, perhaps that’s so. That person is……a genius after all. She is something like a target of worship.”

“Even you are a genius you know?”

Kei shook her head with a wry smile.

“The dimension is too different. In front of Professor Nayuta, someone like me is a mere ordinary person.”

Reiri once again gulped her beer.

“……Re-ri yourself, Professor Nayuta……your mother, what do you think about her?”

Reiri put the bottle she finished drinking on the floor.

And then, she spoke while looking at something far away.

“――My ultimate enemy.”

===Part 3===

Yurishia and Aine were standing in front of the US military base at the northern part of Guam Island.

The sun had sunk into the sea already. There was not a single artificial light, only the moonlight was creating silhouettes of the building where the headquarters and office were in, and the hangar of the aircraft jets.

“When there is no human presence here, it feels like a different place.

Yurishia boldly entered inside the grounds from the entrance that was left ajar.

Aine too continued after her.

“Has nothing changed since the last time you came?”

“Hmmm, it was only two, three days for me, so honestly I don’t remember thoughh……but, I think nothing really changed. That’s what makes it eerie instead.”

“Eerie?”

“Because, there is no sign of battle see?”

Aine once again looked around at the entrance they came through and the fence, then the buildings inside the grounds.

Certainly there was nothing destroyed here. On the contrary there was not even a single bullet mark. People were only gone from here, leaving only large containers without anything inside. That was her impression.

“Did they escape……or else, they surrendered without resistance I wonder……”

Yurishia pondered with a difficult face.

Aine manifested several windows around her face and searched the surroundings with all sorts of sensors.

“There is nothing really standing out. Just completely abandoned buildings, I wonder if it’s fine to call them so?”

“What happened here, it’s great if we could just find some clue thoughh.”

Yurishia whispered with a carefree tone, but her eyes were vigilantly observing the surroundings.

Aine too responded while staring at the sensor.

“And, we also want information regarding the AU. We are the first ones infiltrating a place that had come under enemy control right?”

“Perhaps. At the very least, I have never heard of any story about information brought from this kind of place.”

After walking ahead, they found a large steel tower. Yurishia stopped walking in front of the building without lighting in front of that tower.

“There should be a communication facility here. First, let’s confirm this place.”

After they entered through the door left ajar, there was a pitch dark corridor continuing to the inside.

Yurishia drew out the gun on her waist. It was a [particle gun] that fired particles produced by the Heart Hybrid Gear as bullets.

“I’ll go first. Aine, please take care of my back.”

“Roger.”

The dark corridor was dimly illuminated by the luminescence of the Heart Hybrid Gear.

The two of them were advancing forward while paying meticulous attention.

“Everything……is really spotless.”

“…….Rather, there is nothing here.”

Rather than calling the place clean, there was nothing.

Not to mention traps, even equipment and machine was not left behind sufficiently. The isolated bookshelves left didn’t have a single book in it. The drawer of the desks were empty. And then, not a single electronic device like PC or anything could be found.

Although this was a military base, the operation here was similar to a government office. There should be a mountain of books and paperwork here, without PC or monitor here there would be no work that could be done.

“Hey, Yurishia. Is the US army destitute? I wonder if they sold their furniture to the pawnshop.”

“There is no way that’s true……”

The dark corridor continued straight. A few meters ahead was only darkness. That darkness felt like it was continuing towards a different world.

“?”

Ahead of the corridor, a dim light was visible.

“That’s――”

Yurishia erected her index finger in front of Aine’s eyes. Don’t talk――looking at such sign, Aine nodded silently.

Both of them killed the sound of their footsteps and advanced.

Little by little the light became bigger.

‘――A door.’

Light was leaking out from the door.

Yurishia’s heart beat became faster.

‘――Is there, someone?’

Yurishia prepared her particle gun.

She clung beside the door without raising a single sound, with a hand sign she called for Aine.

Aine and Yurishia nodded at each other, then Aine opened the door slowly. Yurishia separated herself slightly from the door, matching herself with the angle of the opening door, she confirmed the inside of the room.

“Clear, there is nothing.”

When Yurishia entered the room, she lowered her gun.

Aine who entered from behind asked Yurishia.

“This is?”

“……Who knows?”

In front of the eyes of the two, there was a communication device that still had electricity.

From the large console, a low noise could be heard slightly.

The light emitted by the communication device’s monitor was illuminating the wondering face of Aine.

“I wonder if it was only this thing that had been connected to electricity all this time? Or else……”

Yurishia put the headphone connected to the device on her ear.

“Someone, was coming here recently……I think?”

“There is still time until we meet up. Let’s try investigating a little bit more.”

Yurishia nodded to Aine’s words and put back the headphone on the console.

Jarring noise was continuing to flow out from the headphone.

===Part 4===

Kizuna and Himekawa were standing in Guam’s city that was illuminated by moonlight.

Once it was the main street intended for tourists.

However, right now not a trace of it could be seen.

“How cruel……”

Himekawa stared at that scenery with blank amazement.

What spread in front of the two was a complete ruin.

Not a single one of the buildings lining up the two sides of the street were safe. From the information before the 2nd Another Universe Conflict that they studied yesterday, there should be shops selling high class brand products lining this place. But right now, it had been turned into a mountain of rubble.

There were also buildings that were still standing, but whichever it was, all of them were tilting and many holes were opened in them. Those might be the traces of bombardment. Surely there was also a large fire that happened here. Any buildings had the burned black traces remaining.

Even buildings that had comparatively little damage had all the doors of the shops broken, any kind of glass was scattered about everywhere. When they peeked inside the store, there were shelves collapsed without any merchandise remaining.

The shells of burned cars were scattered about all over the place on the street.

So this was……a world trampled about by magic weapons.

“What a terrible state……damn it all.”

Kizuna’s back teeth were clenched so hard that they made a sound.

“Hida-kun. Let’s try searching. Perhaps there will be something, a clue to know about the AU.”

“Perhaps……”

He was about to say that there might be survivors, but he stopped.

There shouldn’t be anyone surviving here.

The condition of this place was enough to make him think that.

Kizuna and Himekawa walked through the streets that had become ruins.

Broken glass and trash, wreckage was scattered on the ground, sound was created each time they stepped forward. The sounds echoed through this ghost city.

The pavement was broken and made it hard to walk. He guessed that it was the trace of the magic weapons’ advance. The street had caved in all over the place.

After progressing forward, there was a collapsed building blocking half the street. Circling the wreckage of the building, they stared ahead of the street.

There was no presence of living things.

“The residents and travelers in this place, where did they all go……”

Himekawa answered while paying attention to the surroundings.

“That’s so isn’t it……besides, not to mention the figures of AU people, there aren't even any traces of magic weapons here……but, looking from the state of the city, it seems to be a certainty that this place was occupied once……”

It was once occupied, but then it was immediately abandoned?

Just what in the world was going on?

After advancing for a while, there was a wall of concrete and steel frame standing tall as if growing from the ground like a giant tree. Looks like it was the result of a collapsing building.

They cut across through that obstruction with bad visibility by using the gaps between.

And then, their field of vision suddenly opened.

In the middle of the scenery where there were only rubble all over the eyes could see, there was a beautiful woman sitting elegantly on a Victorian-style chair.

“…….-!!”

In front of the beautiful woman, there was an elaborately decorated round table and afternoon tea set placed on it. Alone by herself, she was bathed in moonlight while enjoying tea.

Her age was probably around twenty years old.

With long green hair and slender body, she was a really pretty woman.

She was wearing clothes that fitted tightly on her body line, releasing attractive sex appeal.

The clothes that were decorated with deep blue and golden lines had an atmosphere like a military uniform from somewhere. However, it had a different quality where the valley of her breasts and her thighs were exposed defenselessly.

That beauty was idly staring at the sky, perhaps from not noticing Kizuna and Himekawa yet.

The purple pupils inside her narrowed eyes were shining. Just what in the world those joyful eyes were seeing? Her glossy lips were gently smiling, she looked like she was going to hum a song anytime.

She was waiting expectantly for someone to arrive. That was how her atmosphere looked like.

“Is that a survivor!?”

Himekawa called out to that woman.

Kizuna that was watching completely in fascination also returned to his senses suddenly.

Himekawa approached closer for two, three steps, then she opened her hands with a smile for reassuring the woman.

“You are safe already, so please be reassured. We have come from Megafloat Japan.”

The woman slowly faced toward Himekawa. The purple eyes were reflecting the red Heart Hybrid Gear.

“We came to investigate this place. Excuse me……are you someone who lives in this place? Or else are you a traveler?”

The glossy lips of the woman opened.

“My……my, my, my my my myy”

Wha, what?

Her state was strange for someone who was happy that help came.

The woman stood up from the chair.

She was tall, and her legs were long. She was like a foreign model that ran around barefooted, her figure was perfect. It was a miraculous molded beauty. The clothes that he thought was a skirt were terrifyingly short when she was standing up. The body suit on her nether region worn under that skirt was in plain sight.

However that woman didn’t show any shyness about her own clothing. She joined her hands and smiled in great happiness.

“You are not the one I’m waiting for……but, to be able to meet with Neros of all things. I’m really happy.”

――What?

Why, did she know Neros’ name?

Come to think of it, her clothes.

――It looked like, a pilot suit.

Himekawa spoke after realizing that.

“By any chance, are you someone from America’s Heart Hybrid Gear team? If that’s the case, then are you carrying out some kind of operation here?”

America?

No.

Green hair.

That suit.

Something was tugged inside Kizuna’s memory.

Inside his heart, something big raising tremor was approaching near.

The woman raised her voice happily.

“But this is a good omen. Like this, perhaps I can soon meet her.”

No way.

This woman was?

This woman was!?

From the amorous lips, a cheerful voice resounded.

“Zeel.”

From her body, green particles overflowed.

“This, this is-!?”

Himekawa raised a flustered voice.

The green light began to solidify. The particles of lights became armor covering that body.

Together with a conspicuously radiant light, the green radiance was dispelled.

Looking at that appearance, Kizuna unconsciously murmured.

“Heart Hybrid Gear……”

An austere armor was created as if in protection of the beauty’s slender body. Several shields were protecting her, giving the impression like a personal solid fortress, it was undoubtedly a Heart Hybrid Gear. However, its atmosphere was different somewhere compared to Kizuna and the others’ gears.

And then he recognized that silhouette.

“The one before……”

The mysterious Heart Hybrid Gear that deflected Pulverizer.

“Yo……you! Who the hell are you!?”

That woman calmly smiled still the same like before.

“I am Aldea. Kindly take care of me.”

“……!!”

She easily introduced herself.

No, but surely that was a fake name. Just which country’s instigation this――

“Which country do you belong to-? And that Heart Hybrid Gear!?”

Himekawa represented Kizuna’s doubt.

“I belong to the Vatlantis Empire.”

Va……Vatlan……tis, Empire?

Just where did such a country exist?

Most likely she was only making fools of them.

Aldea pressed her finger on her lips and tilted her head as though being troubled.

“And so, that……what you called gear, are you talking about magic armor I wonder? If that’s so, I think I had spoken it before, but this is [Zeel]. Kindly observe as you see fit.”

‘――Damn it, just how brazen can you be!’

Kizuna’s head was in chaos.

Just how much could he trust what she said?

N, no, if he thought about it calmly, then surely he couldn’t trust even a single thing about it.

But……certainly she called out the name of the Core to put on that gear.

Besides in the previous battle, this Heart Hybrid Gear……no, this magic armor repelled Aine’s Corruption Armament [Pulverizer], that was an unmistakable fact.

Kizuna fell quiet with a grim face. Cold sweat was flowing from his whole body.

Himekawa also tensed similarly like him. Her opened mouth was literally gaping open.

Aldea was wearing a gentle smile, as if to say ‘Are you okay?’

Just what was with this woman?

Even though she answered all their questions, they couldn’t understand her true identity at all.

Inside Kizuna, a feeling of anxiety was welling up.

‘――Damn it-!’

“……Then, that, Vatlantis Empire you said……just what’s with that? I never heard of it.”

“It’s a great empire, ruling over half of the world you know? How unfortunate for you to not know of it.”

“There is no way something like that exists! Just where the heck can that large empire exist!”

Aldea cheerfully smiled and pointed behind her with an elegant gesture.

The scenery behind her was like a scenery that floated on a water surface, it was shaking gently.

――An Entrance.

The point of contact that connected the world of this side with another universe. It was a puzzling wall with rectangle shape. The size was varied, the big one had height of several hundred meters. The length could even reach several kilometers. It had no thickness, it was transparent, so its existence was hard to notice. However when it was looked carefully, the scenery on the other side of the Entrance was swaying like looking through a distorted mirror or water. Right now, such thing was certainly existing behind Aldea.

“It’s on the other side you know. Isn’t that obvious. Geez, please don’t make fun of me.”

She sent the two a lovely, reproaching gaze.

This woman, was she saying that she was an AU person?

Kizuna didn’t know which was which anymore.

Was this a joke,

Was this the truth,

Was she sane,

Was she mistaken,

‘――Nee-chan.

If it was Nee-chan, what would she do in this kind of time?’

“Are your questions over already?”

“Wha……n, no! Just wait. I cannot believe what you are saying, no rather than that, I cannot understand!”

“My my, that’s unfortunate. Then, I wonder if I can ask already? What is the name of your magic armor?”

“――Sh, shut up! I won’t say!”

‘Shit-! I don’t want to be asked that, even by a self-proclaimed AU person!’

“My, how unfriendlyy……well, it’s only something without signature anyway though.”

With a dubious gaze, Himekawa faced Aldea.

“Do you have proof about your claim as an AU person? Just what in the world are you doing here? What is your objective?”

“Yes, yes, about that. To start with my first objective is…”

Aldea’s eyes shone bewitchingly.

“to take out the core from inside your body.”

――She came!?

“Himekawa, be careful!”

Kizuna put up his guard.

Himekawa withdrew her Sword and pointed its tip at Aldea.

“Fufu-♪”

All of a sudden the parts surrounding Aldea detached from her.

‘Wha-!?’

This woman, she purged(released) her Heart Hybrid Gear!?

Normally when Heart Hybrid Gear was purged, it went back into light particles. But, Zeel’s parts that detached from Aldea didn’t vanish and stayed in the air, forming a line in front of Aldea. The detached parts had a shape like a long and slender shield of reverse pentagon. Round part was installed on top of it, it was like the circular shield of ancient Rome was combined with the reverse pentagon shield of middle age knights. There were six in total, all were lining up protecting Aldea.

“You intend to shield yourself? Something like that――”

Light ran through the Blades floating at Himekawa’s back. They raised a low rumbling and flew out in a glide.

“These Blades will pierce them!”

Like a shot arrow, the Blades flew heading to Aldea.

And then, they impacted the shields lined up before Aldea.

But――,

“Eh!?”

The Blades bounced back. It was not something simple like it was merely deflected by the shield.

The instant they hit the shields, the Blades distorted. They warped flexibly like rubber, in the next instant they flew away as if being pulled to a different direction. The control was completely lost and the Blades stabbed the ground and the mountain of rubble while rotating.

“Wha……”

Himekawa’s expression tensed from being taken aback by surprise.

“My my, I wonder if the famously rumored Neros is unexpectedly not a big deal?”

Aldea smiled and reached her hand to one of the shields.

The shield shined radiantly and transformed into the shape of a spear.

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Aldea held that spear in her hand and smiled happily.

Something shuddering ran through Kizuna’s back.

“Himekawa, run away-!!”

Igniting their thrusters, Kizuna and Himekawa fell back behind in one breath.

Pursuing after them, Aldea kicked the ground.

She was charging at them with her spear prepared.

Kizuna and Himekawa slipped through the steel frames that were like a forest. They glided at super low altitude and circled behind the tilting big building.

Kizuna deployed Life Saver while turning back. Himekawa readied her Sword and was alert toward the opposite side.

――Where would she come from?

“Himekawa. If that woman comes, I’ll block her attack with the Life Saver. At that opening――”

The wall of the building concealing them warped.

“……-!?”

As if forming a vortex, a huge hole was opened in the building’s wall. The wall was by no means crushed, the concrete was by no means smashed. It was not a realistic spectacle, it was like an image that was digitally processed. The edge of the hole distorted, it was like the hole was forcibly widened and it was visibly rippling.

And then Aldea holding her spear was walking gracefully inside that large hole.

It was an impossible sight.

That phenomenon that Kizuna’s common sense couldn’t understand made him unable to move his body.

“Hi……Hida-kun. This is?”

Himekawa was also the same like him.

“Ufufu. It’s no good. After all nothing exists that can obstruct my path.”

Aldea spoke so happily, then she waved the spear in her hand horizontally. The spear touched the wall of the tunnel.

At that instant, the building was destroyed.

“Wha-! Whaatt!?”

It was as though the building was blown away directly horizontally, the building was collapsing in Kizuna and Himekawa’s direction.

“UWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”

Kizuna activated his Life Saver amidst the raining down rubble and escaped. However, Kizuna and Himekawa’s bodies were sent flying, they tumbled around on the ground.

“Kuh……Himekawa! Are you okay!?”

He faced the densely enshrouding dusts and yelled.

“Ye, yes. I’m alri――”

Aldea with spear in hand flew out from inside the cloud of dust.

Himekawa immediately deployed her Life Saver.

――Eh!?

The moment the tip of the spear touched the Life Saver, the Life Saver’s light shield distorted.

From the gap of the Life Sphere’s distortion, the spear touched the palm of Himekawa.

The hand jumped.

As if it was pulled by an unseen power.

“Thi, this is!?”

Aldea pulled her arm and pushed out her spear once more.

This time the spear touched Himekawa’s stomach.

An impact that she had never experienced until now pierced Himekawa’s body.

It was as if the inside of her stomach broke through to her back, a strange sensation. And then, with that point as the center the whole body was pulled. As if the direction of gravity was changed, Himekawa was blown away horizontally.

“Guh, HAAaAAA-!”

Himekawa’s body was rotating strangely while plunging into a mountain of rubble.

‘――Wha, what was that, just now.

A spear attack?

The spear itself almost had no offensive power at all.

However, this is?’

“Himekawa, are you safe!?”

Kizuna’s figure was visible at the other side of the cloud of dust.

“Ye, yes! But, please be careful. Life Sphere doesn’t work against that spear!”

“What did you say!?”

When Kizuna stood up with tottering legs, he glared at Aldea who appeared from inside the dust smoke.

Aldea smiled cheerfully and thrust her spear on the ground. And then, she moved her spear to the side like that, drawing a line below her.

‘――What is she planning to do?’

The rubble under Aldea’s feet swelled up.

“Wha……”

The ground shook.

‘――Earthquake? No……this is.’

He got a bad feeling.

The rubble under Aldea’s legs undulated. Its height was gradually increasing while advancing here.

“That looks bad……Himekawa!”

Himekawa was collapsed several tens of meters from him.

“Hida……kun.”

He rushed to the location of Himekawa that was still unable to stand up, then he dragged her body along and ran away.

“We are escaping Himekawa!”

“Bu……but”

Himekawa’s eyes were opened wide in shock.

When Kizuna looked back, a gigantic wall made tremors in the land while approaching them.

That was a tsunami made from rubble.

Concrete and steel frame, fragments of building and car wreckage, all those became one mass approaching at them.

That sight was like the whole city was vertically towering over them.

Deploying Life Saver would leave them completely swallowed.

The gigantic tsunami of rubble covered the tops of their heads, the night sky was being encroached by the darkness of the rubble.

‘――Damn it all, we cannot escape!’

Kizuna and Himekawa were enveloped in the darkness and the sound of destruction raised by the rubble.

That darkness was pierced by a single golden light.

That light gouged out the darkness, from there the face of the starry sky and moon came out.

The next moment, dazzling lights and explosions spread, then shockwaves struck their face.

“Wha, what the!?”

The golden light evaporated the rubble, blowing away the tsunami.

This was――a golden large caliber particle cannon.

Differential Frame!

“Yurishia!”

He could see golden light hovering in the sky bathed in moonlight. Golden light was leaking out from the Differential Frame on her back.

“I thought it was strange that you two didn’t come no matter how long we waited! What is all this commotion!?”

And then one more light, a blue light rushed through the night sky and landed besides Kizuna.

Lightly brushing the shining silver hair with her hand, she gazed at Aldea with her red eyes.

“I want to ask in detail about this situation and who that person is, but……well, it’s all the same if we just capture that person and make her confess.”

Aine’s boastful talk felt reassuring for some reason right now.

“My my, further two more are coming. This saves me the hassle of searching……my?”

Aldea stopped her movement. For some reason, she was staring fixedly at Aine.

“White magic armor……you, you are the child firing that absurdly destructive large cannon aren’t you?”

Aldea’s eyes shined.

“As expected, it’s a magic armor I have never seen before. Silver hair……red eyes.”

‘――Aldea’s state is strange.’

She was oddly excited looking at Aine.

“Hey, what is your name?”

“I don’t have any name to introduce to someone like you, but I’ll teach you specially. It’s Chidorigafuchi.”

Aldea touched her finger on her cheek, making a thinking gesture.

“I wonder where is your birthplace?”

“…….It’s Tokyo in Japan. The place you all stole.”

“Hmm―m.”

Aldea hummed. And then――

{The goddess dance. Nothingness, and death, and emperor. And then to eternity.}

Aldea sang something like a song.

‘――Ha?’

Kizuna was reflexively taken aback.

Himekawa and Aine were also the same like him.

Only Aldea was staring at Aine with eyes shining in anticipation.

What was that spell just now?

Or else, was that a poem or something?

By any chance, did Aine understand its meaning?

However Aine was scowling her face with all her heart.

――What’s the meaning of that?

Her expression was telling so.

Aine stepped forward and stomped.

“I don’t understand what you are running your mouth about, but calmly let us take you away. That’s right……we will prepare a party for your sake. A brawling party though.”

Aldea’s shoulders dropped in disappointment.

“My, what a lovely invitation. But, I’ll refrain myself for now.”

She smiled elegantly while heaving an exaggerated sigh.

“Aa― aa, how unfortunate. For some reason, I suddenly lost my motivation.”

Aldea gracefully raised her hand and snapped her slender and willowy fingers audibly.

Thereupon, as if affected by that sound, the Entrance at her back swayed noticeably.

“What……the?”

Something, was coming?

Was that woman, ordering something to come out from the Entrance?

Something was coming out, a body.

Inside the landscape that was like a water surface, something was gradually becoming clear.

An object that seemed to be glowing was approaching from the other side of the Entrance.

As if emerging to the surface, that thing came out.

A gigantic sphere of light with diameter around ten meters.

A spiraling pattern was continuing to move on the surface like a whirl, it vaguely resembled Jupiter.

That sphere was floating in the air, it was slowly coming here.

“That child will become your opponent. The Core can be taken even after death after all, so rest assured and die, okay?”

She said that child……was that a living thing?

Even while he was wracking his brain about the thing’s true form, the mysterious sphere was rapidly approaching near.

“Tha……that’s……”

Himekawa’s eyes were opened wide in shock.

“Himekawa, you understand what that thing is?”

“……Dra…”

Himekawa’s body was shaking, her teeth were clattering audibly.

The sphere stopped still.

They were confronting the sphere with a length of a hundred meters between the two sides.

“Dragon……”

What?

A crack entered the sphere.

Intense light was gushing out from the crack.

“Just what in the world is inside――”

The sphere burst.

“――UOWAAAA-!”

A shockwave that was like an explosion crushed the street’s pavement. And then, the cars around were blown away like paper. The walls of the buildings distorted, they were being pushed down by the pressure.

Kizuna stood in front of Himekawa and Aine and deployed a large Life Saver. The terrific shockwave was assaulting him as if trying to crush his hands.

‘Shi, shit-! What is this? A bomb!?’

Mysteriously, the fragments of the cracked sphere were floating still in the air as if time was stopped.

However, a few seconds later it was like time began to resume once more, the fragments suddenly flew.

“――!?”

The radiant clumps that was like crystal rained down on the surrounding surface.

Those fragments caused large explosions the instant they touched buildings and the ground. The main street was enveloped in crimson flame in a flash.

“Wh, what kind of power this is!”

Kizuna put strength inside his hands and supported the Life Saver that he deployed in the front.

“Himekawa, Aine, you two okay!?”

“Ye, yes. Kizuna yourself, you okay?”

He could hear Aine’s worried voice from behind.

“Yeah! You don’t need to worry about me……wait, Himekawa come on, give your reply too!”

However, there was no reply.

“Oi! You’re okay right!? Hime――”

At that time, the explosion of fragments stopped.

And then from inside the sphere, a figure of an object wrapped in a flame that looked like magma appeared.

“Wha……what’s, that?”

While dripping with flame that was like magma, a round mechanical neck elongated, and a folded up pair of shining wings opened.

“Dragre? ……No.”

Kizuna recalled a category-A magic weapon, Dragre. However, this thing was obviously different with that. No matter how he saw it, it had the appearance like a legendary dragon, however――,

It had three necks.

Under its feet, there was Aldea who was protected by her shields.

When the shields opened, she displayed a wide smile.

”How is it? I wonder if you all are pleased?”

{Kizuna! That thing looks dangerous. It’s better to withdraw from here!}

Yurishia’s warning came from the floating window.

“I totally agree. We are retreating for the moment. Withdraw.”

“As I thought……the one from that time……”

Himekawa murmured deliriously.

“Himekawa?”

“What’s wrong, Hayuru?”

However, the voices, whether it was Kizuna’s or Aine’s didn’t enter her ears.

“……The three headed, magic weapon!”

Yelling such, Himekawa flew out.

“Hime……!?”

Readying her Sword with both her hands, she rushed forward with all her speed.

“UWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”

Looking at her appearance, Aldea clapped her hands cheerfully.

“That’s the spirit. Now, kill each other cordially okayy~”

“Himekawa! Come back-!”

Blades flew out with incredible speed, attacking straightforwardly at the three headed dragon. And then, they pierced the head and the neck of the magic weapon.

She did it!?

However, the three headed dragon didn’t even twitch. The Blades ignited light particle trying to cut apart the magic weapon, but their blade couldn’t break through the armor.

Kizuna was watching over that situation with held breath.

‘――That’s impossible.’

No matter what kind of enemy it faced, the Blades would defeat it in an instant.

“HAAAAAA!”

In the opening while the Blades were attacking, Himekawa was sliding in below the three headed dragon. She thrust the Sword that she gripped with both hands to the stomach of the magic weapon. Sword’s light particles scattered sparks against the armor of the magic weapon.

‘――Himekawa’s sword, doesn’t work?’

The armor of the three headed dragon repelled all of Himekawa’s swords.

That was a shocking truth for Kizuna.

Until now, those swords had carved apart magic weapons really easily. That was an obvious truth, he had never even thought that a magic weapon that Himekawa’s sword couldn’t cut existed.

The mouth of the three headed dragon opened.

Instantly, a sharp beam of flame was fired from that mouth.

“-!!”

Opening her thruster, Himekawa escaped from the flame. Chasing after Himekawa’s movement, the flame drew a line through the street and buildings. When the flame impacted something, explosions occurred from the inside of the street and building. The impact disturbed Himekawa’s movement. There the other neck attacked with gushing flame.

“KYAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”

The flame blown away Himekawa.

Although she deployed Life Saver, the moment the flame impacted, it caused an explosion in the Life Saver. That shockwave threw Himekawa to a wall of a building.

‘Damn it! That magic weapon is just too dangerous!’

Kizuna rushed to Himekawa’s location.

“Oi, Himekawa! You okay!?”

“U……kuh.”

“I’m going!!”

Aine faced the three headed dragon and jumped.

“TAAAAAAAAAAA-!”

The dragon ate a flying kick that was like a missile on its flank. Shockwaves spread to the surroundings and the armor of the three headed dragon distorted.

However――,

“It doesn’t go through!?”

If it was another magic weapon, that kick would have definitely pierced through the body, yet――.

It was as though there was no damage at all on the three headed dragon, the long neck turned and directed sharp fangs at Aine.

“Chih!”

Aine kicked the armor and took distance. She twisted in the air like a gymnast, landing beside Kizuna and Himekawa.

“My my, I never thought a movement like that will come from a magic armor……I think my interest is tickled a little.”

Aldea acted as if she was watching a sport.

‘――Shit, that woman, she has a screw loose in her head!’

Kizuna cursed inside his heart.

“Kizuna, what is that magic weapon? My attack doesn’t work at all!”

Aine asked while still fixing her gaze on the magic weapon.

“All members retreat! Himekawa, can you stand!? We are pulling back!!”

But, when Himekawa stood up, she shook off Kizuna and once again she headed towards the three headed dragon.

“Wai-! Hayuru, what are you doing!”

Aine too was confused at Himekawa’s unusual action.

“UOOOOOOOO-!”

Himekawa raised a war cry and slashed at the three headed dragon.

The three headed dragon’s neck aimed at Himekawa.

She avoided the spouted off flame with a rough movement.

In the opening when the magic weapon was concentrating on attacking Himekawa, the Blades dashing in the sky surrounded the three headed dragon and aimed at the center neck.

And then the four Blades slashed all at once from four directions, pressing on the neck.

The movement of the three headed dragon stopped.

‘――Got you!’

Kicking the ground, Himekawa’s body danced.

Heading to the neck of the three headed dragon, she slashed down her Sword.

“TAAAAAAAA!”

Together with a fierce metallic sound, her Sword was bounced back.

“Youu-!”

Over and over, she raised her Sword and struck.

“Youu-! Youu-! You! YOUUUUU!”

In her desperation of swinging down her sword, Himekawa didn’t notice that a different neck was aiming at her.

Flame was compressed brightly inside its mouth, it was going to spout it out.

“Himekawa! Run away-!”

The instant Kizuna yelled, golden light impacted the head of the three headed dragon.

“Yurishia!”

{What are you doing Hayuru! That’s too reckless! Kizuna, take her away quickly and withdraw! If she moves around like that, then I cannot even guarantee any covering fire here!}

Inside the window, Yurishia’s anger was exploding.

The Differential Frame fired a large caliber beam once more. Explosions also occurred at the remaining two necks. From that impact, the heads of the magic weapon were greatly repelled.

However, the neck that received the attack first was opening its mouth again.

“Himekawa-!”

Kizuna slipped between her and the dragon.

He instantly deployed Life Saver and blocked the flame of the three headed dragon.

“UWAAAAAAAAAAAAA-!”

Together with a fierce explosion, the Life Saver broke like glass.

Kizuna and Himekawa were blown away for tens of meters, they tumbled on the ground.

“Da, damn-“

What attack power.

The level was just too different with other magic weapon, whether in armor or weapon.

When Kizuna stood up, he took Himekawa’s arm.

“Oi! Himekawa. Can you stand? We are leaving right away!”

Himekawa shook off Kizuna’s arm in irritation.

“Release me! That thing, only that magic weapon, I’ll kill it!”

‘――Himekawa?’

A flame of madness was residing in her eyes.

The three headed dragon spread its wings largely. The wing’s surface gradually shined radiantly, it looked like it was charging in some kind of energy.

It elongated its neck facing towards Kizuna and Himekawa, then it opened its mouth. Painful metallic sound was ringing in the surroundings. Inside the body of the three headed dragon, something mechanical was beginning to operate. That sound sounded like the roar of this magic weapon.

That flame would come again. Furthermore, this time the three heads were aiming at them at the same time.

‘Damn it, no matter how low my Hybrid Count consumption rate is, there is still this thing called limit.’

The mouths of the three headed dragon were shining fiercely.

“Blade!”

With Life Saver in the front and Blades stood up behind it, the Blades served as a shield replacement. However, the Life Saver was smashed in an instant, and each time the Blade received attack it was creaking. Moreover, the Hybrid Count was noticeably shrinking down.

“At this rate-……there will be, no way left-!”

Bombardment of Differential Frame impacted the wings of the three headed dragon. The panel that was shining red visibly broke and scattered. In succession, golden flash also exploded at its flank.

The three headed dragon’s body tilted.

However, that was all. The broken wing was regenerated in the blink of an eye. The enemy was far from destroyed.

Kizuna turned to Aine and yelled.

“Aine! We are collecting Himekawa!”

Before those words even ended, Aine dashed at Himekawa’s position. She grasped the shoulder of Himekawa that was trying to go forward again.

“Hayuru, we are returning.”

“Release me! I have to, that thing, that magic weapon, I have to defeat it!”

“Himekawa!”

Kizuna grasped the opposite shoulder.

“We are pulling back. That is an order!”

“……-!!”

Himekawa gritted her teeth audibly.

“……Roger.”

“Yurishia! We are withdrawing from Guam from now. Give us covering fire!”

{Roger, leave it to me!}

While Yurishia was opening a full bombardment, the three escaped from the vicinity of the three headed dragon.

“My? Wait, what are you doing? Even though the best part is starting from here―!”

Ignoring Aldea’s voice, they fully ignited their thrusters and flew to the sky right away.

And then they headed to Ataraxia as fast as they could.

“Looks like they are not pursuing.”

Yurishia who readied her particle cannon and stayed alert to their rear was murmuring.

Kizuna also looked back and stared at the shadow of the fading island. Certainly, there was no sign of Aldea or the magic weapon chasing them.

Kizuna breathed deeply in relief. He opened the communication window.

“This is Kizuna. We are returning to Ataraxia now.”

Looking at the gently swaying sea that was bathed in moonlight, the previous mortal battle seemed like a lie.

So that, was a land under the control of AU…….

Guam city that had become ruins.

A self proclaimed person of AU who introduced herself as Aldea.

AU Heart Hybrid Gear that was called magic armor.

Vatlantis Empire that ruled over half of AU.

And then a magic weapon they saw for the first time.

Anyways, there were many things they didn’t understand.

However, talking about results, they might be able to consider this result.

They didn’t understand the opponent, but they were coming home bringing information.

Next, they just needed to wait for the analysis of Kei and the others.

――But,

Kizuna was staring at Himekawa who was flying with her head looking down.

Did something happen with that magic weapon?

No matter how long he stared, he couldn’t see inside Himekawa’s heart.

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==Chapter 1 – Ataraxia==

===Part 1===

“Kizuna, the test for today is this program.”

A long haired female displayed the content for today’s experiment on the monitor.

Kizuna nodded largely after confirming that content.

“I got it, okaa-san. I’ll work hard too today.”

“Right, you really are a good child. Do your best.”

It was a pure white experiment room where there was nothing. There his mother spent all her time doing experiments day by day.

Those experiments were about the development of a new weapon called Heart Hybrid Gear.

That weapon seemed to make use of AU’s technology, a bundle of state of the art technology.

However, Kizuna didn’t understand well just what kind of thing it was.

What he understood was that a small thing like a capsule called core was embedded inside his body through an operation. And then, with the power of that core, a cool protector like an armor and a weapon would be equipped on his body.

And then when he used that and did the experiments, his mother would be happy, that was all he understood.

“You are the only one in the world who is in possession of Heart Hybrid Gear you know? The result of this experiment will become the key to save the world.”

He was proud to be relied on by his mother.

He felt triumphant that he was the only possessor of Heart Hybrid Gear in the world.

He was happy that he was useful to his mother.

He felt a little like a hero.

――Like that, on a certain day.

“Who is that?”

A girl put on a stretcher was carried into the laboratory.

“Looks like she is a lost kid. She was discovered in Tokyo recently.”

“Hmmm.”

He wondered why was she brought here then? While he was thinking of such thing,

“That’s why, it’s fine for Kizuna to not come here anymore.”

“……eh?”

“That girl’s aptitude ability for Heart Hybrid Gear is amazingly high. With Kizuna’s spec, it’s meaningless to experiment more than this. You are not needed anymore.”

Wa,

Wait, a second.

“Good bye, Kizuna. Sayonara.”

Wait!

Okaa-san!

I, will work even harder!

――That’s why!

===Part 2===

With a gasp, Hida Kizuna’s eyes were awakened.

He reflexively looked around him, he was currently inside a train.

It was the linear motor car that moved in the underground between the megafloats. He was nodding off while sitting in it just now.

――I was seeing a dream of the past in a long while huh.

He felt worried whether he was also talking in his sleep, but there was no one boarding the train other than him.

For him to see that kind of dream…… it had been a long time since he went to the academy float, so he wondered if he was nervous.

His image which was reflected in the window was not a kid, but a face of a highschool student. The digital synergy which was located near the door was displaying the map of the Pacific Ocean. On that map there was a red dot moving.

{{furigana|Megafloat|Extra-large Floating Ocean Structure}} Japan was in the middle of sailing the Pacific Ocean. Inside the train the air conditioning was working, but recently the Megafloat was nearing the equator, so outside was humidly hot.

The float was a giant city created above the sea.

Tokyo Float, Oosaka Float, etc, each created floats of Japan’s administrative divisions were joined, becoming a giant structure that was Megafloat Japan.

That largeness, if it was compare with something of the past, it could rival the hugeness of district 23 of Tokyo, but such scale was still small compared to super large countries like America and the like. The largeness of a megafloat represented the national power of that country. Each country was wandering the seas of the world with their respective unique megafloat.

Currently the very megafloat itself was exactly the country for the countries all over the world which lost their territory, that megafloat was all the territory that they had. The crews and residents of the megafloat were all the people of the country which could be confirmed as safe in the current condition.

For the megafloats that sailed the seas throughout the world, things like territorial waters held no meaning.

World map also didn’t exist.

Everything began since the day where the world was overturned.

――The First Another Universe Conflict

Fifteen years ago, without any omen at all, without any advance notice, it happened out of nowhere.

North America, South America, Russia, China, Australia, South Africa, France, {{furigana|Entrances|Collision Surface}} towards the alternate universe were appearing. And then, magic weapons that were a fusion of magic and science appeared from those Entrances.

Now that it had come to this condition, nobody understood which side was the one that started it. But, it was an unmistakable fact that it turned into battle situation. And then the fires of war spread in the blink of an eye.

The Entrances towards the alternate universe were opened only for two weeks, but hundred of cities and fifty million people lost their lives. Mankind was completely powerless against the army of the AU.

Like that, the first contact with an alternate universe ended in the worst shape.

Moreover, it was a disappointment that they didn’t understand anything about the AU.

They only kept getting attacked by the enemy and their side was unable to attack back. Mankind was still yet to understand the objective of the people of the AU or even their appearance.

And then, half a year ago.

――The Second Another Universe Conflict occurred.

It was a conflict on a scale incomparable with the first one.

Entrances were appearing on each continent and island country, without exception. From there the magic weapons of AU were surging in with great numbers.

Mankind attempted to resist desperately, but mankind’s conventional weapons were powerless in front of the technology of AU.

The army was ruined in a flash and the world was conquered.

From the experience with the First Another Universe Conflict, each country was building a megafloat as the ark for emergency use and also as the trump card of battle. So to speak, the megafloat was the country’s backup plan. Not to mention the city function, government, economics, etc, the megafloat was equipped with all societal mechanisms, the megafloats were a miniature version of the countries.

Each country that was invaded by AU abandoned their original territory and became a mobile country wandering above the sea with their megafloat.

However, the people unable to board the megafloat were still left behind in the old territory of the country. Right now the megafloat didn’t have any means to know what happened to those people. Was everyone massacred, or perhaps they were living safely under enemy rule, they didn’t understand the situation in Japan at all.

Even if they tried to make contact, electromagnetic waves were cut off in the land and they couldn’t get any transmission.

When they approached their home country, the magic weapons and fleet of AU appeared from the Entrance, that was why the megafloat couldn’t carelessly get near even if they wanted to confirm their people’s wellbeing.

Even while the people living above the megafloat were living a peaceful life above the safe area that was the sea, they were wishing to once again take back their country, rescue the left behind people, and return home to their city and house.

The linear underground train passed through the Tokyo station.

One wouldn’t understand from the underground, but supposedly above the ground there was the station building of Tokyo station that was dismantled from the original Japan and rebuilt here. At the occasion of the construction of each floats, famous buildings from the region of each respective administration divisions were dismantled and rebuilt back on the floats to keep living the characteristic of the regions, schemes to reproduce the scenery and the likes were performed in the construction.

Outside the window suddenly became bright.

His eyes were dazzled by that brightness. He narrowed his eyes and then looked out the window, outside was an endlessly continuing blue sea that glittered from the light of the sun. White clouds floated in the transparent sky, and then the sun of southern country was shining brilliantly.

The linear train ran above the sea crossing over a long bridge.

Ahead of this bridge Kizuna could see the destination where he was going. A special float that was isolated from this Megafloat Japan.

Buildings like a protective wall encircled the surrounding. Rapid fire cannons and missiles protruded out toward every direction at 360°. The atmosphere was exactly like a fortress.

――Tactical Defense Academy Ataraxia.

It was a self-supporting float with a diameter of three kilometers, it was also one of the oldest floats.

Every region’s floats were also equipped with unmanned city defense functions, but fundamentally the defense of Megafloat Japan was shouldered by this Ataraxia.

Right after the Another Universe Conflict, this Ataraxia was the foremost line of anti-AU technology, it was a research institution that constantly developed human resources and R&D, other than university, this float was also a joint establishment with high and middle school.

His mother owned a research facility in Ataraxia, so Kizuna was also living in this float when he was small. He was chased out from the research facility seven years ago and was forced to move into Tokyo float. Though it was only for a short time, but he began to live with his big sister there just the two of them.

However his big sister too soon enrolled into Ataraxia. It made Kizuna live alone by himself.

The only ones who could enter Ataraxia were just they who received permission. Kizuna was unable to even approach near Ataraxia.

Every month there was a public advertisement being held for several dozen people to go for a field trip there, but he had never got chosen even once.

He thought that by any chance he might be excluded from the lottery since the beginning, but every month he kept applying.

Although he had sent mail several times to his mother, but he had never received any reply even once.

For a while he also had some exchanges of conversation with his big sister, but it seemed that she was busy and the two of them gradually became estranged.

And then it was yesterday night that his big sister, Hida Reiri, called him by phone after a long time.

{Kizuna?}

“Nee-chan!? It’s been a long time, you never contacted me at all but…… what are you doing right now?”

{I’m busy with my work. Rather than that, I had arranged the procedure for your admission into Ataraxia. Tomorrow, come to the reception at noon. After you take care of the enrollment procedure, report yourself to the command headquarters. You got that?}

“Ha? What are you saying so suddenly Nee-san? My grade is not that excellent you know. There is just no way I can go to Ataraxia.”

Ataraxia was a place that gathered people in order to turn them into the cornerstone of mankind in various fields. No matter how he thought about it, it was not a place he could go to.

{I have business with your Heart Hybrid Gear.}

Kizuna’s chest felt a sharp pain.

“Ahaha, Nee-san said something really nostalgic…… but, this thing is not useful you know?”

Frankly, he didn’t want to activate the thing for a second time.

He didn’t want to recall how he was being treated like an unneeded child by his mother.

Moreover, there was also one other reason.

There was a necessity to call out the name of the gear inside oneself in order to activate the Heart Hybrid Gear. That was because it was the activation code.

He didn’t want to shout out that name.

When he was a kid he didn’t mind it at all, but right now it was a keyword that he didn’t want to say overtly.

{I’ll be the one to decide whether it’s useful or not. If you got it, then do as I say. If you are late tomorrow, I’ll make public all of your embarrassing secrets. For example, when you were a child you were trying to go to toilet――}

“I, I got it! I understand!”

The linear motor car arrived at the station and Kizuna got down from the train.

‘Just what is Nee-chan thinking? No, rather than that, why did Nee-chan make that kind of call? If I remember right, I heard that Nee-chan’s work is some kind of office work though.’

By any chance, was she employed in a company related with Ataraxia?

He didn’t know what his big sister was thinking, but honestly he was reluctant to do this.

This place was a place where he had an unpleasant memory as a kid, and it was also the same float where his mother was, those facts made Kizuna’s heart become heavy.

He might encounter his mother. He wanted to meet her, but he also didn’t want to meet her.

While still harboring such contradictory feelings, he received the entrance inspection.

The inspection was to restrict people without permission to enter Ataraxia.

The reception was not human, but a three dimensional CG character. A pink haired beautiful girl was talking with a synthetic voice that sounded really close to a human voice.

“Confirmation finished. You are Hida Kizuna-san that is arranged to enroll into Tactical Defense Academy Ataraxia today correct? Age is 17 years old, is there no mistake that you will be transferred as a second year high school student?”

‘Uwaa, I’m really going to be transferred here!’

“Ye, yes. There is no mistake.”

“Welcome to Ataraxia! May luck be with you.”

After he passed the inspection and went through the gate, he was met with the grounds of Ataraxia.

“Heee…… I thought it’s going to feel savage because this place is combined with military facility, but the townscape is really beautiful and stylish instead.”

Small type electric automobiles were coming and going through the main street and students and residents were walking through the road. Digital synergies floating in the air were lining up along the sidewalk. Advertisements of products and news and the like were projected on them. These things would supposedly also get used in an emergency for urgent information and evacuation instructions.

At both sides of the sidewalk, shopping malls and cafés, brand shops, etc, various shops were standing in a row. Ataraxia fundamentally had a boarding system where all students live in dormitories, houses were also prepared for the personnel and researcher here. There was also the inspection that was performed every single time someone entered and exited, and so there was a demand for the inside of the float to provide all the necessities for living.

In order to answer that demand, all kinds of shop, medical institution, and various recreational facilities were established inside Ataraxia. Everything in here was built under the hands of first class architects, so the design here became avant-garde and futuristic.

“Hee, even chain convenient stores have cool appearances here.”

When he got attracted by the coolness and tried to enter, inside the store was flourishing with Ataraxia’s students. Everyone was talking with their friends while happily choosing lunch or snacks.

‘I wonder if right now is lunch break? Or the convenient store also doubles as the school canteen?’

There was also exciting things like cup ramen or snacks limited for Ataraxia, but he would surely have many chances to buy them in the future.

He had arrived here after much trouble, so maybe he should try looking around at other stores too? His stomach was also a little hungry.

However, whether it was café, fast food, or gyudon shop, everywhere was packed with people. Furthermore, ninety percent of the customers were wearing Ataraxia’s uniform. <ref>Gyudon – Japanese food that is a rice covered in meat and vegetable.</ref>

‘How awesome. It’s like most of the place is the cafeteria for Ataraxia.’

Kizuna thought about the fierce battle for lunch that he would have to go through starting from tomorrow.

And then while he was walking around like that, he became increasingly fond of Ataraxia.

If the facility was the best, then the shop employees were also polite and kind.

The students were also the same, looking at him who was wandering around with casual clothes, they asked him where did he come from, was something troubling him, was he looking for someone, he was being called by many people in concern.

Above all, everyone looked happy.

At the plaza of the shopping mall, there was an amateur band doing a launching concert, at the game center too there were also some guys playing games while holding bento in one hand.

In outline, this place should be a military facility, but…… in reality this place was really full of freedom.

“Wait, this is bad-! I forgot to go to the command headquarters!”

Well, if he just walked through the appropriate streets, he would surely find a building that fits the bill, there must also be some guide board around. Even if not, everyone here was kind, so it would be fine if he just asked someone for directions.

Having an idea like that, he began to walk.

――But,

“I’m lost……”

Ataraxia was wider than he thought, he couldn’t find the high school or the command headquarters anywhere. Furthermore, along with the end of the lunch break, there was no more students walking around outside.

“Or rather, where is this place?”

For some reason he was walking inside a forest.

“Why is there a forest and river inside an academy float……”

Even if he tried to go back, he already didn’t understand which direction he should go to go back.

“Am I, going to get stranded on my first day going to school and die? It’s already past the level of being idiotic like that.”

Right when he was thinking that, he walked into an open space further inside the forest.

“I did it! I finally returned to the city!”

Happiness welled up inside him and he rushed ahead.

“……-!?”

When he got out of the forest, he found a sea there.

Kizuna stopped his run so suddenly that his body pitched forward.

The spot where he was at was the brink of the float. It was like a precipice cliff, the wall of the float’s hull was continuing until far below.

The hull of the megafloat was gigantic. The height could even reach several dozen meters.

“I…… I almost died.”

But, there was something that attracted his attention even more than that.

A large type rapid fire cannon was set at the outer edge.

A girl was standing at the tip of that cannon.

Her back was facing him, her silver hair and her Ataraxia uniform were fluttering from the sea wind.

He was going to call out to her, but he hesitated.

If he called out carelessly, she might fall.

Cold sweat flowed down Kizuna’s forehead.

‘This place looked deserted. Shit, what kind of scene I’m finding here.’

Should he call for help?

Kizuna was going to step back, but he stepped on a branch lying under his feet.

The sound of the branch snapping made that girl turn to him.

“Ah……”

Kizuna’s eyes were stolen by her appearance.

‘Aah, she is not a human, she must be a CG character like the receptionist. If that’s so, then it might be normal for her to stand so calmly in a dangerous place like that’……was what he thought.

He was thinking like that because he couldn’t think that someone like her was a living human.

Long silver hair and red eyes.

Delicateness and beauty that was like precisely crafted porcelain, it was a girl that gave the impression of hardness and yet also brittleness. There was no way that this much conveniently beautiful human could exist.

Her height was normal, but her head was a little small compared to her body’s tallness. She had slender proportions to the degree that it made him worry that she would break, but her breasts were so big in imbalance with her body.

Her skin was white and smooth as if it was highlighted and looked shining. Looking at her face from the side, he couldn’t think of any other word to describe it other than a perfect beauty. Her red eyes that looked as if they were emitting light themselves were filled with sadness, it was as if her long eyelashes were hiding that sadness. That sorrowful gaze was directed at Kizuna.

Those red eyes were reflecting light in a sparkle.

Was she…… crying?

But rather than that, a girl with a beauty this transcendent was looking at him. He was monopolizing this girl’s gaze. Just that fact made him feel as if he was soaring in the sky.

Even the idols that made appearances on TV, if they were compared with the girl in front of his eyes, they were just like normal people.

This girl was like a different living being from somewhere, he could feel that difference in dimension from her.

That girl, was walking to his direction.

‘Eh? Eehh-? A, a real thing?’

She lightly jumped, passing over the bumps, and moved back from the rapid fire cannon to Ataraxia.

Her glossy pink lips were moving.

“Who are you?”

‘She talked!’

‘Err, how should I reply? My, my name? Is it fine for me to introduce my name?’

The girl knitted her eyebrows and showed a face that was seriously glaring at him.

“I wonder if you don’t have the intelligence to understand words? This is the first time I saw an animal like this……”

Just now she said something really mean to him!?

“No, I understand your words but…… I’m Hida Kizuna. Since today I attend the high school here. You are, a student here right?”

“That’s obvious isn’t it? If I’m not a student then just what do you think I am, I wonder. Someone who purposefully ordered this uniform, slipped into this place of heavy security, and stared at the scenery in this kind of place?”

“No, you don’t need to find fault in me like that……” <ref>Finding fault here in the raw is written with the kanji of ‘raising foot’. Some kind of metaphor in Japan, but in English it means finding fault.</ref>

“Finding fault? Just why in the world this me has to take the foot of someone like you? Rather it’s a different story if you are the one that cries and begs to me, saying, ‘please let me kiss your beautiful foot’.”

“I’m not begging like that at all!”

“What a dishonest man.”

What was with this girl? Even though her appearance was the most beautiful and cute he had ever seen, but he couldn’t understand her strange thought process at all. Whether she had a bad mouth or a bad personality he didn’t know.

“I am Chidorigafuchi Aine, a second year. It’s fine if you want to worship me.”

“What I’m talking about doesn’t get through to you at all! Just how does it take this much just to hear your name.”

“Rather, you should express your joy that you can hear the name of this me this easily. Now, dance the dance of joy, make this me enjoy the attraction.”

This was hopeless. Her visual appearance was the greatest, but it seemed that not getting involved with this girl was for the best. He was thinking of asking her for directions, but like this his mind would be destroyed in return for the directions he asked for.

“Ah, well, I’ll be going――”

At that time, a loud siren was resounding.

“Wh, what!?”

What kind of alarm was this? At the very least, it was certain that it was not the signal for the class starting.

Or else, was this a disaster drill?

“Evacuate to the shelter immediately.”

Aine spoke to him with a serious expression.

“This is the air raid alarm.”

Ai…… air raid, alarm?

“Tha, that’s impossible. Because, right now we are in the safe area of the Pacific Ocean you know? Those AU bunch should not have cruising range this far……”

The army of AU for some reason couldn’t advance outside a certain range from the Entrance. That was why this megafloat was created.

“But, this should not be a false alarm. The enemy has appeared, that’s a fact.”

After saying that, Aine began to strip off her clothes.

“Wha, oi! What the hell are you doing!?”

After taking off her upper wear and hung it at the nearby tree, this time she unfastened the hook of her skirt. Like that she took off her skirt and hung it at the tree like her upper wear. Wearing a panty with amazing cut, when she turned her back to him, he could see almost half her butt bared naked to him. Furthermore, the fabric was digging into the crevice, so it made him fell into an illusion as if the fabric was not hiding anything.

“……You are still in a place like this?”

Her movements stopped from a little shock.

When he saw that her cheeks were a little red, it seemed that it was not like she was not embarrassed.

“I’ve told you already to go evacuate haven’t I? You dullard.”

“You yourself, just why did you suddenly begin to strip! What are you going to do if somebody sees you!?”

“The one looking here is only you. This molester.”

While saying that, she unfastened the buttons of her white shirt.

“Turn away your eyes. If you do that then there will be no problem at all. I’m the victim who got peeped at one-sidedly, while you are the pervert who is one-sidedly peeping at me.”

“You are the pervert who is showing all this to me one-sidedly!”

But certainly if he averted his eyes right now then all this would be settled. Though he couldn’t comprehend this at all!

“If we are going by your reasoning here, then that means exhibitionism is not something obscene you know…… hey, oi!!”

Aine unhesitatingly took off her white shirt.

Kizuna tried to avert her eyes in panic, but his movements stopped in the middle.

“……?”

What could be seen under the white shirt was not brassiere.

What she was wearing under her uniform was a leotard with surface area that was extremely small.

The center of the leotard was opened, it was as if the clothes were flaunting the valley of the breasts and the navel, exposing them to the open. The cut of the crotch also had a steep angle while her sides were virtually uncovered.

It looked really erotic.

Aine’s body line became completely obvious without anything hiding it, her large breasts were shaking in jiggles following her motion taking off her clothes.

However, this leotard with high exposure rate was not something for the sake of gymnastics.

“That’s…… a pilot suit?”

“Even though you are ignorant, but you are widely knowledgeable only in female underwear aren’t you? The way you are using your head is really troubling.”

“That’s not underwear in the first place! No wait, it looks like underwear though!”

He was staring fixedly at Aine once again.

There was no mistake, this was a pilot suit.

This girl, could she be――

“Zeros!”

When Aine shouted that, glittering blue lights surged out from her.

“You-, you have done {{furigana|Core’s Install|Internal Operation}}!?”

The blue light was turning into the shape of Heart Hybrid Gear.

The created shape of the gear was equipped onto Aine as if digging into her soft body.

Armor modeled after vertebral column ran on her back as if in protection of her spine. And then, the largest thruster appeared on her bottom. This part was responsible for the majority of her propulsion force.

On the other side, the front part of the body had surprisingly few areas which were protected. There was no conspicuous armor from her neck until her thigh. However attack from the front could be confirmed by sight, so evading was easy. Moreover, there was the basic function of Heart Hybrid Gear, the {{furigana|Life Saver|Absolute Territory}} system which gave protection to the wearer.

This was a sudden talk, but Life Saver was a powerful barrier equipped on Heart Hybrid Gear.

When the blue light enveloping her four limbs was burst open, standing there was a girl equipped with a gear that combined protector and thruster. There were a lot of thrusters on her whole body, so he could guess that it was a gear with fairly high mobility.

When her silver hair was brushed off smoothly, blue particles danced in the air.

“This is…… Zeros.”

Its brilliance was beautiful, blue light was running through the sleek white armor.

It was a simple but really sharp Heart Hybrid Gear.

He thought that this beautiful gear didn’t lose to that stunningly beautiful girl possessing silver hair and red eyes.

Heart Hybrid Gear was hiding a power that greatly eclipsed mankind’s conventional weapons. It was the ultimate anti-AU weapon. Behind this technology that displayed an unrealistic performance, there was a rumor that it incorporated the technology of AU from the enemy.

But, there was one point that bothered him from the Heart Hybrid Gear in front of his eyes.

――There was no weapon.

“Can I ask you a little? Is there no weapon in that Heart Hybrid Gear?”

Her red eyes glared at him.

“Please don’t say impolite things. Of course it has proper weapons.”

What? No wait, perhaps it was an internal type weapon. So even a gear this small had the parts fitted really well.

“It’s a weapon invisible for an idiot. So you cannot see it. How pitiful.”

“Rather than calling me an idiot, the one telling that kind of story is the one that sounded like an idiot!”

“This gear is paying serious attention to its stealth.”

“A technology that make you unable to see your own weapon is just something completely meaningless!”

Aine was crouching down on the ground and then she grasped something like a handle.

What was that? He didn’t realize something like that was there at all.

When the handle was twisted, the ground opened quickly, then a metal box appeared from inside it.

“Eh-?”

Inside the box was firearms lining up in a row.

Aine took one firearm from among them. It was a 89-style pistol.

There was nothing unusual about the gun, it was just the official firearm that the Ground Self-Defense Forces utilized once.

“Yo, you…… you are, using that?”

“What is it, you have complaints?”

No, he was not complaining though.

Heart Hybrid Gear was something that had armor and weapons combined into it. Even his own gear was furnished with a beam cannon although its offensive power was low.

But, Aine’s gear was not furnished with weapons from the beginning.

“You are going to fight with that kind of weapon!? Conventional weapons are ineffective against magic weapons right?”

A ring of blue light was floating around Aine’s waist.

The Heart Hybrid Gear was raising its output. That was the sign of commencing flying.

“It’s fine already, just escape, you are going to die if you stay here.”

Leaving those words behind, Aine faced to the sea and ran, then she flew away from Ataraxia. Blue light stretched out from the thrusters on her waist and feet, flying up Aine to the sky.

“Shit-!”

Kizuna started running.

‘Her mouth was bad, but what Chidorigafuchi told me is correct.

My aptitude with Heart Hybrid Gear is low, and to begin with I haven’t trained for battle with it since I was a child. So that I won’t drag her down, I should evacuate to the shelter.

――But,

I just can’t forget Chidorigafuchi who was standing still alone with tears shining in her red eyes.’

Kizuna was walking towards the direction where Aine was heading.

His speed was gradually turning faster, before long he had started to run.

From here he couldn’t see well the sky of the city. He had to go to a more open place!

When he ran along the outer edge of Ataraxia, before long he exited the forest and came out into a wide park.

“Wha――”

A gigantic object was flying above his head where it almost grazed him. A terrific gale attacked Kizuna.

Giant!? No, that was a magic weapon!?

By crouching on the ground, he somehow endured from being blown away.

That was the magic weapon of AU! He had seen it before from a photo.

It was a mechanized giant with a total height that surpassed ten meters. Even among the magic weapons which were designed with armor impression, this one had a pair of wings that possessed flying ability, an [Albatross].

No matter how he saw it, it shouldn’t be able to fly in the sky based on aviation mechanics, but it was soaring in the sky with mobility that was even higher than an airplane. He didn’t understand at all with what kind of technology it was flying in the sky.

The technology of the AU far surpassed the common sense of mankind.

And then, after that a small shadow was passing through him in an instant.

‘Chidorigafuchi!?’

He chased the back of the figure flying past him with his eye, but the figure was gone already. When he looked up, he could see a white Heart Hybrid Gear ascending high to the sky chasing after Albatross.

Aine pulled the trigger of the type-89 gun in her hand and scattered sparks on Albatross’ back.

That was a good skill.

If this was a dogfight, then this would be Aine’s victory.

However, the armor of Albatross repelled those bullets really easily.

On the contrary Albatross stopped still in the sky and directed its bayonet towards Aine while turning its body behind. Normally, a bayonet was a rifle which had a short sword fixed on its tip, but the bayonet of AU had the shape of sword blade fused with gun grip and trigger as its handle.

When the trigger of that bayonet was pulled, the sword emitted light and a bullet of light was fired heading to Aine.

The speed of the bullet was fast. It was hard to chase it with eyes, but Aine evaded that bullet nimbly. And then she was encircling Albatross and rained bullets from all directions.

But there was no effect.

Aine threw away the magazine that had become empty and inserted a new ammo magazine.

She beautifully evaded the bullet of light that Albatross fired again then she closed the distance in one breath.

And then――

She struck.

“Wait…… eeeh-!?”

A strong punch hit Albatross’s chin, making that giant body bend backwards greatly.

‘Eh…… isn’t that attack the most effective compared to all she had done until now?’

Aine thrust the muzzle of the type-89 gun into the gap of the raised neck and pulled the trigger. She kept shooting until her ammo ran out, then Aine kicked the Albatross and took some distance.

The kicked Albatross powerlessly began to fall, after a while it exploded largely. Its scattered fragments transformed into fragments of light while raining down to the ground.

‘Amazing! She really defeated a magic weapon with a normal weapon!’

Aine descended down to the ground. Kizuna hurried on to the location where she would land in order to greet her.

“Oi, that’s amazing just now! You did it! You defeated a magic weapon from AU!”

However, Aine ignored Kizuna, she once again crouched in the corner of the park and twisted a handle of a hatch.

The box that flew out from the opened ground was lined up with firearms.

“Wait, this kind of thing is everywhere in the float!?”

“Of course. We don’t know when the enemy will come attacking after all.”

This time Aine took out an even bigger gun than the type-89. It was a 12.7mm heavy machine gun. Normally it was not something that a human could use by carrying it by hand, but this one had been forcefully remodeled so it was usable by hand. Just its main part had the total weight of nearly 40 kilo, but Aine lightly lifted it up.

“Type-89’s firepower is just too weak.”

After wrapping ammo belt on her body, she flew up to the sky once more.

Seeing off her figure, Kizuna felt like he had been left behind.

In contrast with Aine’s action which had no hesitation, Kizuna didn’t know what he should do. He was standing still in that place for a while.

――’Shouldn’t I also fight?

No, no, just what kind of impertinent thought you had, me.

With my aptitude for Heart Hybrid Gear, I cannot properly fight the enemy’, that was what his mother told him. He had beam cannon, but it was hard to break through the armor of magic weapons, and even if he could fly in the sky, he couldn’t fly while carrying something heavy.

{Kizuna, it’s pointless for human without any talent no matter how hard he works. Talent will shine if it is polished, but if there was nothing to be polished in the first place, then it won’t turn into anything.}

The words of his mother were revived in his ear.

His mother was a genius. A person that was like a mass of talent.

His mother’s last academic background was as a third year student of elementary school.

At that time she was already publishing numerous reformative papers on the internet. She had tied contracts with several corporations and research institutes as a researcher and mysterious consultants at the same time. Even with her identity unidentified at that time, her existence was like a kind of deity.

The Heart Hybrid Gear was one of the inventions of such a mother.

His big sister was also an abnormally superior person since she was a child. It was overwhelming for him to always be compared with his sister.

But, that big sister herself was always kind to Kizuna.

{Kizuna. The worth of a human is not from the height or depth of their ability. It’s a problem of how you live.}

On top of being superior, she was a really good person.

‘Among such superhuman family, how should this me that is the most average should live?’

Kizuna stared at Aine who was fighting in the sky.

Even if he couldn’t fight directly, wasn’t there still something else he could help with?

To equip his Heart Hybrid Gear, there was a need to yell that, its name.

“E……”

‘No, no, no!

Calm down, Hida Kizuna!’

Courage was necessary just to shout that name.

Of course, courage was also needed for fighting.

Courage was also needed even for facing his past where he was abandoned by his mother.

And then, it was embarrassing to speak of the code for equipping his gear.

‘Shit-! Of all things, just why did that mother of mine pick a naming like that!’

He absolutely hated that name!

When he was a child he didn’t understand its meaning and he yelled that name innocently, but then he knew the meaning of that word at a certain time and he felt greatly wounded――

“Hm? What?”

A small shaking was repeating in the ground.

The tiles covering the park were beginning to open like accordion curtains.

“Uwaa-, this is bad-!”

Kizuna started to run.

“Shit-, so this park is using interception system!”

He crossed over the road and hid in the shadow of a building nearby.

From the opened ground, a missile was fired, rising to the sky while trailing flames behind. However, there was no figure of magic weapon where the missile was going.

“Just what are they aiming at?”

Suddenly the missile exploded in the sky.

He took a deep breath and then looked up to the sky once more.

“……hm? That’s, what’s that?”

The sky where he looked up was strangely distorted when he looked carefully.

When he focused his eyes, that distortion was like something rectangle that was slim and long. It was fairly big.

No way…… was that the battleship of AU!?

Shivers ran through his back.

It was mainly rumored that the ship from AU couldn’t be discovered by radar searching. If it couldn’t be identified by eyesight on top of that, then there would be no way to hit them.

And then from that warship, new magic weapons were descending down.

The second wave of missile was further fired from the park. When he turned back, the wall of the building behind Kizuna’s back was beginning to open like a shutter.

“Oi oi! This thing is also a camouflage!?”

Megafloat was constructed with the assumption of fighting the AU. Due to that, defense systems were incorporated everywhere.

From the defense system that was camouflaged as a building, a large type particle cannon appeared.

“Aa―, I cannot keep up with this at all!”

At the same time with him sprinting away, a tremendous roar resounded from his back.

He felt severe heat at his back, but he somehow managed to not end up dead by being roasted.

He patted his chest while sighing in relief before looking for a place where he could calm down, he continued to run recklessly.

After a while, he arrived at a place where there were many warehouses lining up.

Perhaps there were stray shots hitting this place, but there were many cardboard boxes scattered around haphazardly, the snacks stored inside the boxes were scattered everywhere.

Kizuna put his hand on the wall and tried to put his breathing in order.

“Haa, haaa…… a, anyway, seems like this place is not a dummy warehouse. As expected it’s not a defense system.”

At the other side of the warehouse was immediately the sea. In the end, it seemed that he had run along the edge of Ataraxia.

He could see explosions happening in the sky far away. A red light was drawing a line, flying around in the sky.

Was that Chidorigafuchi Aine?

Suddenly, while he was thinking about such thing, a gigantic hand appeared before his eyes.

“Wha-……!?”

That hand which had sea water dripping from it caught hold of Ataraxia’s edge.

With a pull-up trick, that body showed its figure.

A giant body with horn growing on it was overflowing with sea water, a magic weapon was landing on Ataraxia.

Its total height was ten meters. A category-B magic weapon, [Viking].

Shit-! Now that it had come to this, he wouldn’t be able to escape without making some sacrifice. There was nothing to do but equipping his Heart Hybrid Gear.

It was not for fighting, but for escaping.

“E――”

At that moment, a hole opened in the Viking’s body.

‘Chidorigafuchi!?’

Thinking that, he looked for the Heart Hybrid Gear with blue light running on that white body.

However, what entered his eyes was a girl holding a katana charging here.

“Go! Blade!”

Together with that calling voice, the black haired girl moved the swords floating at the surrounding air. With agile movement, the swords flew in the air and assaulted the Viking. The Viking tried to intercept them, but the blades skewered it like a joke.

“Haaaa!”

The girl took a stance of holding her sword above her head and slashed at the Viking.

The Viking was bisected into two from its head.

The girl landed in front of Kizuna and waved her sword as if assuming a posture.

The Viking raised an explosion as if that gesture was the signal.

The splinters turned into clusters of light in the air.

‘E, eh?’

Was he, saved?

However, when that girl swung her sword, the tip was directed right at Kizuna’s nose.

“What is an ordinary student doing in this kind of place! Furthermore in casual clothing like that!”

“Eh, who, are you?”

“You don’t know about me? I am Himekawa Hayuru, a public morals committee member of Ataraxia! What year and what group of students are you!?”

“E, err, I’m a transfer student, this is my first day……”

The girl who introduced herself as Himekawa Hayuru was taken aback before she stared fixedly at Kizuna’s face.

“Then you are the new team member then! Do you have a Heart Hybrid Gear?”

Kizuna nodded his head repeatedly.

“Then, please fight together with us! Right now is an emergency situation!”

‘Eeeeeeeeeeeeee! That’s, even if you suddenly told me! No, rather please don’t expect any fighting ability from me!’

Himekawa seems to be losing her temper when Kizuna didn’t reply, she snapped at Kizuna.

“What are you doing! Please hurry! We who possess Heart Hybrid Gear are existences that should become the shield of the people! We have to become the sword of the powerless people!”

Himekawa talked passionately, but Kizuna could only feel uneasy.

That was because new magic weapons were descending down to here.

Furthermore, this time their number was many. There was ten category-C Blue Head. Also, there was even a larger group of Brigands coming down here.

Even when looking at that large group of enemies, Himekawa didn’t falter at all.

“Hmph. Again they come…… come! You too, let’s fight together!”

“No, that’s why, I――”

Blue Heads raised a tremor in the ground with their landing, they brandished their swords and headed here.

At that time, flashes and sound of shockwaves pierced the sky of the park.

Wind hole was opened in a Blue Head’s body, then it exploded greatly.

He thought that it was Himekawa launching her Blade once again, but the Blades were still floating around the back of Himekawa this time.

“Hayuru? Can you stop playing around I wonder?”

There was one more person in the air, a girl with Heart Hybrid Gear put on her body.

It was a beautiful girl with blonde hair and blue eyes.

‘So this is what they mean by dynamite body’, Kizuna thought.

From her large breasts, to her waists that radically turned slim, and a butt that was stretching as if it were going to explode in a turn.

She was glamorous and gorgeous.

The gaps between her gear were shining, that luminescence which was golden in color also played a part in her gorgeous impression.

And then, the armaments which were fixed on her back and around her hips also showed the powerful fire power at her disposal.

The cannon muzzles that could possibly fired in all directions were moving separately, each of them was establishing a different target.

All of them spouted out fire all at once.

“Uwawawawawawa!”

Intense explosive sound rumbled, particle bullets were grazing Kizuna from all directions.

The shockwave from that made his body stagger.

Until the bombarding was over, he didn’t feel like he was going to stay alive.

The bombarding was over after a few seconds, the surroundings were wrapped in silence.

When he timidly observed the surroundings, the Blue Heads and Brigands had been wiped out.

‘A…… amazing.’

It was not just because the firepower was powerful. That was an accurate shooting. It looked like she was firing randomly to all directions, but not to mention himself and Himekawa, there was no damage at all even at the surrounding facility. She was attacking only aiming accurately at the magic weapons.

When the girl softly landed on the ground, she faced Himekawa and continued talking as if there was nothing.

“That’s why, it’s hard doing this alone. It’s severe doing this when Hayuru slacks off.” <ref>Yurishia had a characteristic way of talking. She often drag off the end of her sentence a little. For example ‘that’s whyy’ ‘slack offf’ like those, I wonder if I should write it like that here or it’s better to just write it normally?</ref>

Hearing those words, Hayuru stepped forward with a clink.

“Yu, Yurishia-san-! This I is a committee member of public morals! And you called me slacking off!? That’s an offensive insult! Please take your words back right now!”

Her face was bright red and she kept talking on and on.

“Araa, I wonder if I stepped on a landmine here?”

The blonde beautiful girl called Yurishia parried Himekawa’s fury with a smile.

“Rather than that, I wonder who is that boy over there―♪ Hayuru’s boyfriend?”

“Boyf……-!?”

Her face that was already too red became even redder.

“I-i-i-I, impossible-! Licentious! Filthy! In the first place even touching a boy is something that is not allowed! We, we are shouldering a lofty goal of――”

“Ok, ok, I understand. Then, let’s just clean up the descending down magic weapons. If we don’t quickly tidy this up, then not only Ataraxia, even Megafloat Japan as a whole will be sunk down you know?”

With a bright smile, she said something terrifying.

“Guh…… I, I understand. Certainly right now is not the time to argue. Let’s properly talk about this matter later on!”

The Unit at Yurishia’s back emitted light. The next instant she flew up to the sky. Her figure turned small in the blink of an eye. Himekawa also followed after her.

Kizuna was left completely by himself alone in that place.

{You too, let’s fight together!}

He recalled back Himekawa’s voice.

Even if he was told that, there were things he could do and couldn’t do.

Just as his mother told him, he couldn’t even stand at the start line if he didn’t have the talent in the first place.

When he moved his gaze to the city’s direction, Chidorigafuchi flying in the sky drawing blue tracks behind her entered his eyes.

‘Even I actually want to be like that――,’

However, Chidorigafuchi’s condition was strange.

Her movement was dull. Her nimble body movement like before this had disappeared, even the machine gun she held in her hand was hanging down heavily.

What? Just what in the world was going on?

And then finally, her movements stopped.

‘D, dangerous!’

Direct hit.

The enemy’s cannon hit Aine. Flame explosion spread in the sky like a blooming flower.

“……That’s”

Kizuna was dumbfounded.

From inside the flame, the figure of Aine with smoke trailing behind her appeared.

However, power had left her whole body, she was falling to the ground.

‘O, oi! That’s seriously bad right there!

Kizuna’s eyes wandered. His gaze roamed the sky, he was desperately looking for the Heart Hybrid Gear of Yurishia and Himekawa.

‘Save her quickly! Your comrade is in danger!’

Even when he yelled so in his heart, there was no signs of those two coming.

‘What to do?

What to do!’

{Kizuna. The worth of a human is not from the height or depth of their ability. It’s a problem of how you live.}

His sister’s words resounded in his mind.

‘That’s right isn’t it, Nee-chan. If not right here right now, then just when I’ll use it!’

Kizuna took off his jacket.

He wasn’t wearing a pilot suit, that made his affinity with the Heart Hybrid Gear even lower.

“Kuh, can’t be helped!”

In order to make up for the demerit of not wearing pilot suit even for a little, he also took off his T-shirt vigorously. When his upper body became naked, Kizuna took in a large deep breath.

“EROS!”

All over his body was wrapped in pink light.

This sensation…… how many years has it been already.

The pulsation of his heart released particles of light, those particles united and created magic armor that wrapped his body.

Kizuna put on the Heart Hybrid Gear [Eros] on his body.

On the black armor, pink streaks of luminescence were running.

When he concentrated his consciousness, he raised the output of the thruster and beads of light danced from the jet propulsion nozzle.

The sensation was not different at all with what he felt as a child.

“Okay-, I can do this!”

Kizuna flew to the sky.

With all the speed that he could muster, he headed to Aine’s falling point.

Aine’s natural falling continued, it would only take 100 meters more before she crashed.

“Make it in time!”

The yell of his heart accelerated the Heart Hybrid Gear.

Kizuna’s arms caught Aine’s body.

“I did it! E, eh?”

It was all fine that he caught the body, but he couldn’t support Aine’s weight. That was just how weak the output of Eros was.

“U, uwaaa!”

He was dropping diagonally and fell on a field that had grass growing.

He embraced Aine to protect her before he slid on the lawn.

After rolling for several tens of meters, he finally stopped.

“So…… somehow, it looks like I’m saved.”

‘So I can actually do it when I try.’

He soaked in a prideful feeling for a moment. Aine was still breathing, but she looked as if she was in a great pain.

“Oi, Chidor――gah……”

Aine was hit by enemy attacks and bore damage.

There was no problem in her Heart Hybrid Gear, but the damage to her pilot suit was great.

In other words, it was torn.

The suits already had great exposure rate in the first place, but it became even more terrible with this damage in addition. Like this he guessed that it could actually put up a challenge against a micro bikini.

Around the collarbone and around the stomach were holes opened from tears of the fabric. Like this, it was nothing more than some sorry patches that hid the breasts and nether region.

<nowiki>*</nowiki>gulp* Kizuna made a noticeable sound from his throat.

‘N, no. This is not the time to think about perverted thoughts.’

He persuaded himself like that, but he still wasn’t able to oppose the absolute eroticism of the beautiful girl.

He had seen erotic manga on the internet before, but the presence and pressure of the real thing far surpassed his imagination.

Moreover, this was a girl with transcendental beauty. Trying to resist was an impossible talk from the outset.

He barely mobilized all his remaining reasoning before talking to Aine.

“O, oi, Chidorigafuchi. You okay? Get a grip of yourself.”

There was luminescence everywhere on her body that was the proof that the Heart Hybrid Gear was operating. However, Aine’s light looked dim, it looked like the light would go out anytime.

But anyways, she was safe for the time being. However, he better bring her to a hospital as soon as possible――

At that time, in front of Kizuna’s eyes a floating window opened. Projecting monitor window in the air where there was nothing could be done by using Heart Hybrid Gear’s communication function.

“What is it, at this kind of time!”

A close-up of a beautiful woman was projected on the window.

{Kizuna. It’s me.}

“Ne-, Nee-chan!?”

The transmission was from his sister, Reiri.

“Ne, Nee-chan!? Right now, I got a serious――”

{Shut up.}

“-……!!”

He reflexively swallowed his words.

{I understand your current situation. Listen well to what I’m going to say after this. Understand?}

He didn’t know what was going on, but for the time being he nodded.

“I got it. Then, what should I do?”

{First, rub Aine’s breast.}

Kizuna reflexively held Aine’s breast.

……What?

“Uwawawaaa! Wh-, what are you making me do!”

He released his hand as if it was repelled away.

{Kizuna, do it more gently. Gently, but slowly put more strength into it, rub and wrap it in your hand.”

“No, listen! Why do I have to rub the breast of a girl that I just met for the first time!?”

{Don’t think. Feel.}

“Feel what!?”

{Aine’s heart and body. Unless you can do that, you guys will die for real.}

He could see an Albatross landing down on the roof of a nearby building.

If that thing came here, it would be seriously bad.

{Then touch Aine’s body to make sure if she has wounds or not. Look through every nook and cranny of her body.}

“A…… go, got it. If it’s something like that then……”

With trembling fingers, Kizuna touched Aine’s body.

‘Shit-, don’t get nervous.’

Kizuna was sliding his finger tips from her shoulder to her arm while looking at the girl’s reaction.

The thin glove that reached until her upper arm was torn and had holes opened in it. However, it seemed that she was not injured. The softness of her arm was directly transmitted to his hand.

“Uu……n”

“Chidorigafuchi?”

She was groaning, but it seemed that her consciousness hadn’t returned.

{Don’t mind, just continue.}

“Ah, yes. I got it.”

He ascertained other places similarly like that. From her armpit to her side, her waist, and then her thigh, her calf.

Was the body of a girl really this soft?

He thought that because they were the same human, even though they were male and female it was only their shape that was different, but it was like they were made from different raw materials.

{Open up her legs. Enter between, then pay thorough attention to her leg one by one.}

“Ri, right.”

Before he realized it, Kizuna had already become absorbed in the pleasant feeling of touching Aine’s body.

“Aa…… n, haa……”

The girl’s cheeks were colored red.

Somehow, the feeling of fondling the body of a beautiful girl earnestly was not bad.

Furthermore, in the current situation, he opened her legs and right now he was in a position between those legs where he was holding in his arm her thigh.

Suddenly he could smell a nice aroma like a flower.

He didn’t notice it in his fluster, but this was the aroma of a girl.

Her blushing face was truly bewitching.

He unintentionally gulped his saliva.

Sweat flowed down the nape of her neck.

Her breasts largely moved up and down.

And then, the tips of the breast were obviously conspicuous even more than before. It was standing up as if going against the suit, pushing up the fabric from below.

‘No, no good! My eyes cannot move!’

He put all his power to the muscle of his neck and tore away his gaze from the breasts.

Far below her breasts, there was her navel.

The navel itself was not a big deal, but the fact that the shape of the body under the suit was blatantly displayed uplifted his mind mischievously.

‘Shit-! Even though I’ve finally get away from the breast’s binding spell! What a body that I can’t let my guard down with!’

However, ahead from that area was a spot that was even more dangerous.

The triangle zone made up from the body and the thighs. For Kizuna it was an unknown territory.

The pilot suit was digging into that between, shadow and highlight were creating a valley that looked soft.

His head was dizzy from the charm of her body. The throbbing of his heart was strong, becoming faster. The desire welling up from his depths was driving his body mad, as if an unendurable pain was going to explode.

And then, pink radiant light particles were born inside Kizuna’s eyes.

A painful sounding voice leaked out from Aine’s lips.

“Nn…… haa…… an”

Aine twisted her body as if she was feeling Kizuna’s gaze on her.

At that instant, blue particles scattered from Aine’s body.

This was…… the light of Heart Hybrid Gear?

“Uu…… n”

Aine dimly opened her eyes.

Her expression was entranced, she looked completely defenseless, she was irresistibly lovely.

The moment he saw that, pink particles of light also raised from Kizuna’s body.

{Right now, Kizuna! Grab her breasts!}

When he returned to his senses in surprise, he moved faithfully following his sister’s instruction.

His hand reached out heading towards the magnificent breasts which were drawing beautiful lines.

Just how could this thing possibly draw a line this elegant?
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It was exactly like a work that god accomplished.

He wanted to touch this miracle of god.

White, with pink tips blooming on top of the soft hills.

――Right now, that summit was conquered.

His eyes met Aine’s.

Under the silver hair, there were the red eyes.

Those eyes which were even redder than her red blushing cheeks were unfocused inside the widely opened eyelids.

“Ah……”

“Eh……”

Both of them were wordlessly staring at each other.

Shock, confusion, passion, all of those became one, making the throbbing of the heart unstoppable.

Aine’s red eyes were moist, shining sparklingly. Her pink glossy lips was slightly opening, sweet breath was leaking from there.

She was truly beautiful and lovely.

“Pretty……”

“<nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>-!! !?”

Her red face became even redder to the degree as if one could hear a *puff* sound.

At the same time, the pink particles emitted from Kizuna’s body and the blue particles produced from Aine’s body mixed with each other. Belt of light was enveloping the bodies of the two.

{Success! You did well Kizuna!}

The voice of his sister was unusually excited.

“Su, success you said!?”

The light particles melted into Aine’s body. Following that, sparkling radiance was appearing inside her red eyes and power filled her eyes.

{This is {{furigana|Heart Hybrid|Union Remodelling}}.}

Aine raised her upper body. It was like she was still in a dream, her body was wavering unsteadily.

“This is…… what in the world”

She spread both her hands and stared mysteriously at the flow of light clinging around her body.

{The mixing of heart and affection. That is exactly Heart Hybrid Gear’s true ability!}

Aine was looking at Kizuna with heated eyes.

{I see. It seems that the Heart Hybrid makes her sexual desires still in a heightened state…… Kizuna, try to hit Aine’s cheek.}

“Eh!? Is it okay doing something like that?”

{If you don’t do something like that, Aine is going to coax you for even more erotic actions you know.}

Just what the hell did that mean? He couldn’t understand this at all!

“Eei, what the hell, whatever!”

Saying that, he hit her cheeks sharply with both his hands as if to restrain her head.

Thereupon, Aine’s eyes recovered their focus.

At the same time, the thruster on her elbow was gushing out light.

Aine’s shooting punch buried itself into Kizuna’s stomach.

“GUWAAAAA!”

He was lightly blown away for twenty meters and crashed into the field’s wall.

After taking a glance at Kizuna, Aine put out a floating window and checked the condition of her own gear.

“This is…… what is the meaning of this? The Hybrid Count is rising…… even though, it should have been used up already.”

{Aine. The Albatross heading to your spot is in the middle of descending. You can do it?}

A new window opened up in front of Aine’s eyes and projected Reiri’s face.

Even before Reiri’s words ended, Aine sharply directed her face to the blue sky.

The figure of the magic weapon swinging the bayonet was reflected on her red eyes. It was falling straight down with a speed that was faster than a natural fall should be.

The girl who until just now was in a condition where she had used up her strength stood up gallantly. Her white skin was shining beautifully while her red eyes were radiating luminescence.

“I’ll do it.”

Her eyes where no vitality could be felt before now changed into a gaze that possessed strong will. Several streaks of light flowed on the surface of her gear, she understood that energy was supplied to her whole body.

Aine bent her knee and dropped her body with a jerk.

The next instant, Aine’s figure disappeared. Shockwave blew through the stadium field.

‘Buha-! Wha-, what happened?’

Kizuna warded off the wind with his hand while looking up to the sky with narrowed eyes.

Like a launched rocket, Aine flew up to the sky. Ahead up there was the magic weapon possessing tremendous mass falling down.

A girl with body height of 160 cm and the magic weapon with height of ten meters clashed.

Aine should be crushed from the extreme difference in mass.

She pulled back her arm largely.

“HAAAAAAA!”

Large amount of light exploded from her elbow thruster.

With a terrific speed, Aine’s fist was buried into Albatross’ stomach.

The astounding destructive power smashed the armor into pieces.

Like that the armor warped, broke in, and the back was pierced through.

‘――What the hell, is that?’

Kizuna murmured while looking up at the Albatross which had a hole opened in its stomach and was now falling down.

“That’s absurd……”

At the other side of the hole opened in Albatross, there was a girl with silver hair.

Aine was staring at Kizuna.

Albatross’ body became fragments of light and disintegrated.

Kizuna noticed that the warship of the enemy at the back was changing its direction.

{It seems they are returning. Himekawa, Yurishia, you don’t need to pursue. Come back.}

{Aa―, geez, that’s unfortunate! As expected, a mother ship is tough!}

A new window was opened and it projected Yurishia’s sulky face.

{It can’t be helped. The majority of the enemy’s magic weapons are beaten, so let’s look at this positively.}

The relieved gentle smiling face of Himekawa was projected.

{Rather than that, what about Aine-san?}

Himekawa questioned worriedly.

“There is no problem with me.”

He could hear her natural voice rather than from the transmission device.

Aine was coming down from the sky and landed in front of Kizuna.

“Rather than that……”

And then she walked closer in front of Kizuna.

“What kind of person are you? What in the world did you do to me?”

‘Hee? Why is she asking me a question like that――wait, aahh-!’

No matter how it was the instructions of his sister, he had done erotic things like that to her while she was losing consciousness.

This was not a mere outcry about sexual harassment! If he thought carefully, wasn’t all of that already a crime!

Cold sweat came out like a waterfall.

“No, I’m just a normal transfer student…… no, it seems that today is really busy, should I excuse myself with this……”

{Wait, Kizuna.}

Reiri’s window circled and cut in front of the nose of Kizuna who was trying to leave.

{I still have business with you. Aine, take Kizuna and come to the usual place. Himekawa and Yurishia too.}

“……Roger.”

Aine answered with a dissatisfied voice and caught the nape of Kizuna’s neck.

“Wa, wait!”

“It’s fine already, just come. This is an order so it can’t be helped, I’ll guide you. It’s great isn’t it, you have made a good memory to take to the afterlife.”

“Don’t say something ominous! You, where are you planning to take me!?”

Kizuna was literally dragged away somewhere.

===Part 3===

‘――So, why am I in this kind of place?’

Kizuna was made to stand in front of the students of the whole school.

The destination where he was taken away was a large auditorium that could accommodate several thousand people.

He was made to change his clothes that had become scraps into Ataraxia’s uniform, now he was standing on the stage in a row with Aine and the others.

The seats were filled with all the students of Ataraxia gathering here. Combined with the middle school, the number of the students approached near four thousand people.

“Well then, this time the enemy’s attack has also been splendidly repelled, by the pride of our Ataraxia, the members of the Heart Hybrid Gear team [{{furigana|Amaterasu|Heaven and Earth Goddess}}]. Ladies and gentlemen, give them a grand applause!”

The inside of the building was wrapped in loud applause that could crack the building.

“Well then let’s continue, we will have some words from the principal of Ataraxia who is also our commander-in-chief.”

Someone was holding the post of the principal and commander concurrently? Just what kind of pers――,

The one who appeared from the side of the stage was, a young female.

Her long black hair fluttered while she was walking on the stage. She had a slender face and sharp almond eyes. A military uniform was fitted smartly on her body, it had a tight design that firmly clung to the body line, even the shape of her large breasts could be understood over the clothes, it was truly a sexy figure.

But, the most important thing was,

――He knew that face really too well.

“Ladies and gentlemen, Hida Reiri.”

‘Ne-! Nee-chan!?’

“Regarding the emergency situation on this occasion, the accurate actions with calmness of you ladies and gentlemen deserve praise.”

‘Just what in the world, that person is doing in that place―!? Quickly, quickly get back!’

In panic, Kizuna talked on and on at Himekawa who was standing beside him.

“Wa, wait! I don’t know the reason for this, but my Nee-chan, she is doing something like that! I’m truly sorry! We have to drag her back immediately!”

Himekawa frowned her face in wonderment.

“Err, I don’t understand what you mean. Is there something wrong with the commander giving out words in this general meeting?”

“Aah, geez, you don’t get it at all! I’m saying that person there is my Nee-chan!”

“That seems so.”

“No, that’s why――……eh?”

“I’m aware that you are the little brother of the commander.”

‘……eh!? She is joking, right?’

Putting aside the dumbfounded Kizuna, the meeting was progressing.

Reiri that was supposed to be the older sister of Kizuna spoke to the four thousand people with a dignified behavior.

“Well then, I want to introduce a new comrade in this chance. He is a transfer student but, for certain circumstances a Heart Hybrid Gear is residing in his body. Therefore, together with his enrollment, it has been decided that he will also enlist into Amaterasu.”

‘This talk…… I don’t think it’s possible but, is this talk about me?’

“Then, I’ll introduce him. High school second year first group, Hida Kizuna.”

Reiri on top of the stage reached out her hand as if inviting him.

No, that was impossible.

Kizuna made a right-about face and tried to head to the wing of the stage.

“The way is not there you know. O-ver-there.”

Yurishia stood in his way and pressed at Kizuna’s chest with her index finger.

Reluctantly he walked towards the center of the stage.

When he climbed on the stage, Reiri was there holding out her hand with a smile. He took that hand and made a handshake, the applause inside the building became even louder.

“Kizuna, you did well until here.”

Reiri talked to him in a way that was not broadcasted by the mic.

“……After this, I got a mountain of things I want to ask Nee-chan.”

Reiri laughed in a huff and once more stood in front of the mic.

“The strategy that I will explain after this will become the most important and the most prioritized strategy. And then, this new team member will shoulder the most important role in that strategy.”

The lighting on the stage dropped down a little and an image was projected on a screen.

He wondered if perhaps the data for the strategy’s outline would be projected on that screen.

The instant the image was projected, it felt like Kizuna’s breath was going to stop.

The image that was projected was the one taken when Kizuna was looking after Aine.

However, looking from just the image, there was nothing that could be seen except him carefully touching all over the body of the unconscious Aine with thoroughness.

The inside of the auditorium turned noisy.

“Wai……”

“No way, what is, this”

“Pe, pervert?”

Kizuna timidly looked at the direction of Aine and the others.

Aine’s face was pale. If this was a manga, than surely the upper half of her face would be shaded off by gradation.

‘This is baddd, she is angry! She is really angry! She is extremely angry!’

Himekawa’s mouth was half opened, she was looking up at the screen dumbfounded.

As for Yurishia, she was tilting her head as if saying ‘What is this I wonder?’

And then, the moment where Kizuna’s hand was touching Aine’s breast, the auditorium shook from screams and angry roars.

“Kyaaaaaaaaaaa!”

“What the hell, is thisssssssss!”

“Don’t shit with meee! What are you doing to our goddess there!”

“How envious! That’s just too envious, die!”

Even none other than Kizuna himself was also screaming.

“STOPPPPP! STOP THIS, QUICKLY! GYAAAAA!”

“KILLLLLLL! KILL THE TRANSFER STUDENT!”

“Yo, you’re wrong! This is a mistake! This is, listen to my explanation!”

Aine was unchangingly staring fixedly at the screen.

Himekawa’s face turned red and she pressed her mouth with her hand, but before long she couldn’t hold herself back and murmured with a voice of deep resentment while her shoulders were shaking.

“Wha…… what, is this, picture. This thing, this thing”

“Err, Himekawa…… san?”

“How…… how, cowardly!”

Shout of anger pierced him.

“While other people were fighting the enemy, just what in the world were you doing-! Furthermore you did that while the other person was fainting, unbelievable! Impossible! Filthy! Disgusting! Repulsive! Indecent! You coward! Pervert!”

And then, similar vilification were mercilessly raining down on him from the audience seating.

‘Aah, why, why does it become like this!?’

“You really did it didn’t you― even though I thought you were just the typical herbivore♪”

Yurishia was making a mean smile at him.

Kizuna grasped the shoulder of Reiri while crying.

“Aah! Geez! This is all Nee-chan’s fault! You have to settle this down somehow!”

Reiri held the mic and declared.
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“ALL STUDENTS, QUIET DOWN!”

With that thundering voice, silence returned to the auditorium.

“Listen well! This is not a joke or game or anything. This is a fully-fledged strategy. Until now even when Heart Hybrid Gear consumed their energy, there is no other method to replenish that energy except by slowly waiting for natural recovery. However, after a long time of research, we finally obtained the answer for this! That is by a man and a woman possessing Heart Hybrid Gear to join their body and heart into one and share their affection and pleasure.”

On the screen, the scene where particles of light were overflowing out from the body of Kizuna and Aine was repeated.

“By doing this, the energy of the Heart Hybrid Gear is replenished and [Heart Hybrid] becomes possible.”

Aine parted her eyes from the screen and stared fixedly at Kizuna’s person.

‘Wh, what? Just as I thought she might be really angry. Well, that’s just obvious. Aa…… how should I apologize for this to her?’

“In the image you can see that the energy of Aine’s Heart Hybrid Gear ran out, but she succeeded in doing Heart Hybrid with Kizuna. The result is just as you can see.”

The scene where Aine destroyed a magic weapon with one attack was replayed.

Certainly, her movement and power were completely different compared to before. That was the true power of Aine. Had her energy been consumed until that much before the Heart Hybrid? Or maybe by doing that right now her battery was already in a state of almost running out again.

“Listen well! In order to continue fighting the enemy from AU, from now on the members of Amaterasu are going to endeavor to replenish their energy and power up themselves!”

Reiri’s index finger was directed at Kizuna as if it would pierce through him.

“Do erotic things with this Hida Kizuna here!!”

Once again the auditorium was turned into a feverish state of pandemonium.

Himekawa snapped at Reiri.

“I, I cannot accept this! If we need to do something like making our heart as one, then it should even be fine to use other methods than this! Just why do we have to use a shameless way like that!?”

“Listen well Himekawa, love is the strongest emotion that humans possess. And then, sexual desire strongly connects two people. This is the emotion and impulse that are rooted in our instinct as a living being. There is no method more effective and stronger than this.”

“Kuh-……such, such thing”

“It’s also the same for all of you who wish to enlist into Amaterasu. Carve into your hearts that it will be indispensable to perform Heart Hybrid with Kizuna after enlisting into the team!”

“EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!?”

The shouts of all the students roared inside the auditorium.

“Wha, what the hell is thattt! Just how could such thing be possible!?”

The agonized screams from the male students were especially loud.

Kizuna couldn’t endure it and yelled into the mic.

“E, everyone, don’t misunderstand! I never had that kind of intention at all! Something like erotic things…… is not something that can be done with just anyone. It’s something that should be done between two people loving each other, it’s mistaken to force it due to a strategy or whatever!”

The angry roars inside the hall began once more, the commotion was pushing back like a wave to him.

‘If it keeps like this I won’t be able to stay here. At best, it will be like lying in a bed of nails, at worst, I’ll get killed. If I don’t resolve the misunderstanding somehow――’

At a great timing, the screen was projecting the scene where Kizuna was renewing his determination just before he was going to save Aine.

‘Great. If they see this scene, then there is no doubt that my feeling of just wanting to save Chidorigafuchi will be conveyed to everyone!’

“Everyone, see here! This is when I was going to save Chidorigafuchi――”

And then the Kizuna inside the scream stripped naked his upper body and yelled gallantly.

{EROS!}

“This bastardddd! Ain’t you really eager there huhhhhhh!”

“Disgusting-!”

“Unbelievable! Beast!”

“Pervert! Pervert! Pervert!”

Merciless vilification were thrown at Kizuna on the stage. It was a barrage of words.

Kizuna was burned out into pure white.

‘――It’s over…… my school life.’

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