Editing City Series:Volume8a Chapter3 (section)

===Aoe’s Sight Mode: In DT’s Central Detroit District===

'''<Aoe’s Over Reload>

Light rushed in.

Before Aoe could even question it, the light entered his right fist and then flames enveloped his entire right arm up to the shoulder.

“What in the world!?”

“That’s Spell Breaker! Telyb and Fooblicky activated their Demigod Program using their joint Grandload and gathered the entire Yard’s attack power here!”

Aoe grasped the gist of what Yuo was telling him.

<nowiki><I</nowiki> don’t really get it, but that sounds strong!>

“It is!”

He looked at his fist. He did feel strength there for the first time in a while. And he had Yuo behind him.

<Just like 6 years ago.>

His Grandloaded fist was so much better than the Downloaded one and it reminded him of many things.

He recalled who he had once been.

And he recalled who he was now.

It felt like having a great weight dropped into his gut.

He wrinkled his brow and felt like something was going to spew from his mouth.

That something was a shout.

His emotional vomit was about to escape him in vocal form.

So he clenched his teeth and neutralized his expression.

<Mh.>

He faced forward. The knight was nearly within arm’s reach and his spear was raised.

So Aoe took action too.

He stepped forward.

The Dummy Data roof bent with the ideal curve below his foot.

The creaking of the wood combined with the whoosh of the spear through the air.

Aoe took a quick breath.

That was his start sign.

He gathered strength in his gut and stepped carefully on the wood panel to continued forward.

The knight was charging in to jab with his spear. He pushed his stomach toward the edge of the roof where Aoe stood.

He swung his spear with great speed.

But Aoe showed no fear. He didn’t have the time. He immediately stepped forward.

Feet, ankles, shins, knees, thighs, butt, hips, back, chest, right shoulder, right arm, and right wrist.

After crouching down, he successively gathered strength in each body part, throwing it all forward.

'''<Aoe’s Over Zoom>

The incoming spear tip flew over his head.

The knight’s gut was 2 yards in front of him.

Aoe took another step, but instead of sending the force of the step down into the roof, he clenched his fist harder and threw the force of the step behind that.

A sparking line of light ran through the black Load Emblem on his right arm. It ran from back to front.

Yuo took the same action as if pushed on by the racing light. The two Mice on her shoulders did the same. They all launched their right fist forward.

“Mh!”

Aoe’s fist shot out and broke through the upper limit that a program usually placed on destructive force. His fist landed at full strength.

'''<Aoe’s Over Zoom>

The fist struck the knight’s side and the force propagated out from there.

All the power in Aoe’s fist was slammed into the knight’s entire body, like he was pushing a cylinder.

At the same time, Aoe and Yuo’s Load Emblem symbols grew larger. But that vanished after a mere instant and they shattered into light.

The attack was already over.

All that remained was a sizzling sound.

The back of the knight’s armor had ruptured.

Fire was burning in the hole in his back.

His black skin and black blood were dyed crimson as they burned.

A scream erupted from his entire body as he began to collapse.

He burned and his data as an NPC Body broke down. The textures forming his armor, skin, hair, and blood came apart as tiny chips and scattered. They flashed in midair before disappearing.

The fire burned his entire body evenly and he finally exploded.

Light scattered from him, and…

“––––!”

Aoe braced for the coming blast.

Just then, Yuo opened a window behind him.

'''<13th Demigod: Ranged Effect – 5%: Shadow Keep: Degradation Seal: Run>

A wall of light appeared in front of him.

That was in fact one side of a giant cylindrical protection shield. The shield of bluish-white light towered high into the sky and had to be at least 100 yards wide.

In an instant, the impact struck the shield’s inner wall and the flames pressed against it.

The sound of the scorching wind and expanding air came from the blast and flames spreading beyond that wall.

But Aoe felt no heat.

<So this is the proof Yuo is a Demigod.>

“Yes, I couldn’t show you this in Japan since it’s limited to DT!”

Yuo shouted her response just as the 100m-wide cylinder transformed.

Aoe watched as the shield shrunk down to a single point only a yard away from him.

Past the flames and smoke and wind, the walls forming the cylinder degraded. With repeated sounds like glass breaking underfoot, the wind and flames were absorbed directly in front of Aoe.

In two seconds, all of the destruction was gone. The wind and smoke had all been concentrated down in front of him.

A single data trigon now floated in the air at his eye level.

The yellow pyramid of data shined once, rotated horizontally, and…

'''<Blast contained within shield: Transferring to your care>

It fell.

“Oh,” he said while reaching out and catching the falling data trigon.

'''<Aoe’s Sight Mode has ended>