Editing Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut:Volume 7 Episode 4 (section)

===Part 10===

「Lux-kun-!?」

Lux whose armor was smashed by Mel’s attack fell to the snow field below.

But, before Krulcifer who flew her Fafnir in order to save him, Mel Gizalut was standing in the way.

「──Stop acting like you are worried about other people. Even though you aren’t even a human of this world.」

Mel muttered with bottomless hatred and rage filling her voice.

The Elixir that Mel used was negligible compared to Dilwy who used it on his whole body, but it strengthened her immature body and caused her to possibly use Divine Drag-Ride for a long time.

On the other hand, Krulcifer’s mind was wrapped with confusion. She was unable to even control Fafnir satisfactorily.

「Why──」

She barely defended against Mel’s attack while muttering with pained expression.

「Why, is it……」

She had no leeway to go help Lux who was struck down from covering her.

The Drag-Knights of Sanctuary Knight Order suffered damage from the remaining swarm of Abyss and they were defeated one after another.

Krulcifer herself had been thinking all this time.

That even if she originated from the Ruin and she wasn’t recognized by her family, she still had a place to belong.

But──, if it was her who caused the Ruin to rampage and brought calamity to this country──.

「Why am I──」

Things that everyone else had, the place to belong, family, homeland. Even though she couldn’t be accepted by all of those, even so she would fight in order to obtain them. She should have resolved herself like that, and yet.

If she was the cause of the calamity, then even protecting her family using her own hand would be beyond her reach.

If the incident of rampage was the truth then, ──there would really be no place for her to belong at anymore.

「──There is no need to feel lost. I’ll give you your end here.」

Mel muttered with empty gaze.

And then, from above Krulcifer who took stance trying to rally Fafnir, a large cannon was aimed to below.

「Ground BusterEarth Smasher Horn Bullet!」

*GAUNN!* Along with such thunderous roar, a streamlined warhead that looked like a spire was fired to below.

The moment Ddraig Gwiber in Wyvern Mode fired its one other special armament, a shudder ran through Krulcifer.

「Ojou-sama, please escape! That’s a wide range annihilation weapon for use against ground surface! It will break even bedrock underground, a weapon to change terrain──」

Alterize’s voice came from afar.

At this rate, everyone would get mixed up into it, along with the old sanctuary site.

「Stop it already, Mel!」

With a tone that sounded like praying, Krulcifer fired the freezing bullet of Freezing Cannon in the attempt to prevent the attack.

But, Mel muttered right before the frozen warhead hit the ground.

「──Dual Shift」

The Divine Raiment of Ddraig Gwiber was activated, and the freezing was dissolved instantly.

The shell that pierced the stone paving of the old sanctuary site and the ground exploded deep underground.

「──!?」

The stone building of old sanctuary site and the ground broke into pieces and earth and sand were rolled up like tornado.

Krulcifer herself was also mixed up into the explosion and she was blown away far to the back.

──Annihilation.

The power that was to the degree it also dragged Lux and her families into it turned her sight total darkness.

When strength left her whole body and even her consciousness became distant, the scenery around her suddenly changed completely.

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「Krulcifer-sama! Are you safe dearimasu!?」

「-……, you are──, Ney?」

Krulcifer was lying on the ground with her armor dispelled. The Automata girl she ordered to stay put was rushing to where she was.

Tears were gathering in her eyes while she softly lifted up Krulcifer’s body in her arms.

「This place──the viewing room? Did you, bring me here?」

「My deepest apologize for acting impertinently dearimasu. But……, I cannot bear to look supervisor-sama getting even more hurt than this dearimasu.」

Ney casted down her eyes with drooping dog ears.

Several images of light were floating at the surrounding metal wall, reflecting the scene on the ground.

There she could see the figure of the Sanctuary Knight Order members in disadvantage from the assault of the remaining Abysses.

There were also the figure of Alterize, and Zain who fought even while in confusion.

She couldn’t see Lux’s figure.

He was directly hit by Mel’s attack from covering her, she remembered until she was injured but──,

「This is not the time for rest. If I don’t go back, to help──」

She stood up and headed to the pedestal at the center of the viewing room.

In order to use the teleportation device and returned to over there,

「For what──you will return dearimasu?」

But, Ney’s question that sounded sad stopped Krulcifer on her track.

「I overstepped with my words dearimasu. But, in this situation there is nothing that can be done dearimasu. I who haven’t gone to the control room is still not connected with the Ruin’s system. I cannot control the Abyss dearimasu. So──」

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Ney gazed up to her with the imitation eyes that looked pleadingly.

「It’s fine even if you don’t go anywhere anymore dearimasu. After all, this place is the homeland of XferKey’s Supervisor-sama.」

「What do you mean……? Your memory, should not──」

When Ney got out of the Ruin to the outside world, she forgot most of her internal information.

She should have ordered her so she couldn’t remember unnecessary memory, and also so she couldn’t investigate.

When Krulcifer recalled and pointed that out, Ney averted her gaze guiltily.

「I’m sorry……, when I was asked to decipher that three 『books』 and confirmed them, I remembered completely then. Regarding the way this Ruin came to be, and the existence of all of you──」

The Automata who temporarily disconnected her memory and ability as Gear Leader for the sake of going outside the Ruin.

If she was able to return to Ruin, even if she didn’t reach until the control room, it wouldn’t be strange even if she had the function to supplement her ability to a certain degree.

By chance──or perhaps she should have associated the idea seeing that the place was called archive, Ney seemed to have recovered a part of her memory.

「Then, even my true identity──」

「Yes, Xfer-sama. You are this place’s──, one of the ancient human race who established the Ruin. You are the last survivor existing in this Hall dearimasu.」

「……I am, this Ruin’s last──」

Krulcifer who heard what Ney said lost her words from that fact.

Right after that, a terrific impact attacked from above the Hall’s viewing room.

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