Editing BlazBlue:Calamity Trigger Part 2 Epilogue (section)

==BBCT2 Epilogue==

In a corner of the middle layer city, destroyed by the explosion of the underground facility, a pile of rubble, collapsed by the blast, crumbled and fell.

As one piece fell, the rubble began to collapse one after another, as if being impacted from the other side, and soon a gap opened up, large enough for a person to pass through.

Then, a human hand covered in a black glove emerged from the gap. Grabbing the edge of the rubble, a man crawled out, dragging his body.

"''Cough''... ''cough'', ugh... damn, I inhaled dust... ugh..."

The one who came out, hunched over and coughing, was Ragna, his white hair and red jacket stained with dust.

Exhausted, he climbed over the rubble with unsteady steps and set foot in the long-unseen city, breathing roughly.

The light of the morning sun poured down on the area, dazzlingly bright to his eyes, which had been in the dark rubble until then.

"Ugh, damn... that rabbit bitch... if you're going to send me somewhere with teleportation, at least send me to a decent place... Right under the collapsed rubble, she definitely did that on purpose..."

Ragna, who had been thrown out by the teleportation magic, had been dropped onto a building that had collapsed in the explosion.

Fortunately... because he would have died otherwise, the building was buried in waves of rubble and bedrock, but the main framework was solid, and it was not immediately crushed.

However, the mission immediately after the teleportation was quite difficult: digging through the rubble from the inside without knowing the direction, and getting out of an outer shell that would collapse even if he tried to break it down.

And here he was, injured and with another person to carry. As always, that vampire's mischievousness was physically exhausting.

"Hey, are you okay?" Having coughed out most of the dust he had inhaled, Ragna put his beloved sword, which had been used as a pickaxe, beside him and returned to the gap in the rubble.
Reaching into the darkness, he grabbed the wrist of the woman he saw, and pulled her up with a strong tug.

"W-wait, please! Hyaaa!" Having been forcibly pulled out from the inside, Noel - unsure of where to put her feet- slipped and fell spectacularly from the rubble.

"It hurts..."

After bouncing once in the middle, she landed on the ground with her butt. Noel let out a pathetic cry, rubbing her butt as she staggered to her feet.

"You're clumsy."

Noel's eyes filled with tears out of patheticness or pain. Ragna gently grabbed her arm and helped her up. Her steps were unsteady, but still, she somehow managed to stand on her own two feet.

There, finally, Ragna was able to see Noel under the gentle sunlight, not the dim light or the flames of the cauldron. Looking at her again, he couldn't take his eyes off her.

The smooth texture of her golden hair that fell over her slender shoulders, her teary eyes, her small nose, the color of her lips. As she lightly brushed off the dust and dirt from her clothes, the image of his sister flickered in his mind, and her voice grazed his ears.

"Are you alright?" Ragna's mouth naturally asked that question.

Finally realizing that she was being watched, Noel let out an "ah" and hurriedly straightened her back, making a serious expression typical of a soldier.

"I'm fine. Thank you for your concern."

"I see. That's good." He couldn't help but smile at that serious face. 

Thinking she was being made fun of, Noel's expression crumbled for a moment as if she had lost confidence. After adjusting it a bit, she once again bowed her head politely to Ragna.

"Thank you so much for helping me so many times. If you hadn't been there, I... "

She would have died, her emotions swaying behind her words told him.

Ragna frowned uncomfortably. He wasn't good in this kind of atmosphere.

"I told you earlier, you helped me too. Let's call it even. I don't want you to owe me anything."

Such things were heavy and troublesome. He also wasn't good at being connected by troublesome ties because of such things.

Unaware of his true feelings, Noel took his reply as one of humility and kindness.

"Um... would it be okay if I used your name?"

"Name? Ah..." Ragna hesitated for a moment. This girl was a soldier of the NOL, after all. Giving his name was not a wise choice. But... he somehow thought that it would be okay with this girl. He decided to answer honestly.

"Ragna the Bloodedge."

The moment she heard that name, Noel's movements stopped completely.

"Eh? Ragna... the... Bloodedge?"

With a questioning expression, she remained frozen, repeating Ragna's name falteringly. Before long, understanding slowly came.

"Ah, you- you are- are you Ragna the Bloodedge?! The vicious criminal, the wanted fugitive!"

"Well, yeah. What about it?"

Only the external features of his white hair and red jacket were incorporated into the wanted poster, which didn't even resemble him that much, so she should have noticed it sooner.

Ragna thought to himself that the soldier in front of him was not only clumsy, but also stupid.

While Ragna scratched his cheek in confusion, Noel pulled out her two handguns, awkwardly aiming them at Ragna.

"P-please be quiet! If you don't run or hide, you have the right to remain silent and the right to a lawyer, and I will arrest you!"

"W-whoa, calm down, you're not making sense!" It was nothing short of incoherent. Surprised by her confusion more than the arrest or the wanted poster, Ragna involuntarily pulled his upper body back. Then, he put his hand to his head with a troubled look. He was at a loss for how to handle her and how to react.

For the time being, he couldn't consider her an excellent soldier, but he could at least tell that she was doing her best. Such a clumsy stance. Of course, Ragna didn't know what that hard work was for.

"Ha... jeez. You should look at the situation before you say anything. I'm battered, and you're battered. How can you arrest me in this state?"

If Ragna ran at full speed with all the power he had now, Noel wouldn't be able to catch up. He was also confident that he could get through the city without being shot by that gun.

Putting aside the ability of this slender female soldier, she didn't seem to have much combat experience. If he was just going to escape, she was an opponent that Ragna could easily manipulate.

"That's..."

Disappointed, Noel withdrew the firmness that she had desperately created from her tone and attitude. Noel didn't think it was something necessary for them now.

Above all, she didn't want to threaten and arrest "Ragna," who was kind as the mysterious premonition had told her, with a gun. But that was something that Noel couldn't convey to Ragna in words.

"So? What's your name?" Ragna asked bluntly, looking at Noel sideways.

The eyes that were directed at Noel were just on the left side. Ragna's green eye reflected in Noel's green eyes.

Suppressing some kind of feeling that welled up, Noel clasped her hands in front of her chest. While staring back at Ragna's left eye, she replied.

"Noel... Noel Vermillion."

Neither Noel nor Ragna noticed that what she had told him was not her name and rank as an NOL soldier, but her name as a girl.

The sunlight that reached here, unfiltered by the upper layers, was soft and gentle.

While warming their cheeks with the temperature of the sunlight, Ragna and Noel finally learned each other's names at this time.




'''The 3rd Hierarchical City of Iwasu'''

In a certain office of the NOL branch on its highest floor, a woman entered.

Her dignified demeanor could be seen in some places, and it made her feel that she had been raised well.

The color of her uniform's poncho was white. Her beautiful crimson camellia red hair, which flowed down her back, was beautiful. The hat, which had a unique color and was on her head, was also white, the same color as the poncho.

"Lieutenant Tsubaki Yayoi, I have arrived." Her line, spoken with a dignified posture, was directed at a man leaning against the desk in the office.

He was not wearing the NOL uniform, but a black suit and a black hat. He was a slender man, and green hair could be seen peeking out from under the hat, which hid his eyes. The green-haired man remained in his relaxed posture, and moved his lips, a deep smile on his face.

"Ah, thank you for your hard work. I'm sorry to have called you here, but actually, I have a top-secret imperial order for you."

"An imperial order... for me?" Tsubaki widened her eyes slightly in surprise and frowned.

An imperial order was a direct command from the Novus Orbis Librarium's integrated headquarters... in other words, a direct order from the 'Imperator', the head of the NOL.

"Yes, of course, it's genuine. Would you like to check the documents? I have the Imperator's signature." Seeing Tsubaki's suspicious expression, the man asked, somewhat mockingly. It was a tone that seemed to be testing her inner thoughts.

"No, it's not necessary. May I ask about the details of the mission?"

"Oh, is that so? Well, about the details of the mission... it's a top-secret mission, you see. I'll tell you the details verbally. But don't worry, it's a very, very simple mission."

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With a weightless tone and attitude, the man, still leaning against the desk, told Tsubaki the details of the imperial order.

The contents made Tsubaki's expression stiff. It didn't immediately register in her mind. 

That's how shocking the assigned mission was to her.

The direct order from the Imperator, which the man in the black suit told Tsubaki... that order, which she could never disobey as one who swore loyalty to the NOL...

"Lieutenant Tsubaki Yayoi, of the Zero Squadron. I order you... to assassinate the traitors, Major Jin Kisaragi and Lieutenant Noel Vermillion."

The destination was the 13th Hierarchical City of Kagutsuchi. The departure date was soon.


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