Editing City Series:Volume6c Chapter8 (section)

===Part 2===

Hazel watched the badly damaged Requiem from atop Scwharz Löwe’s shoulder.

The moon was fading from the sky as morning approached.

A powerful wind surrounded her.

The colossal aerial warship could no longer fight and shimmering heat rose from where it had been hit.

Scwharz Löwe passed by its port side at a distance of more than 300 yards.

“It’s so big.”

She could appreciate its size from up close now that they were flying at the same altitude.

A powerful air current had formed around it.

The atmosphere had already been forced out of the way to the point of an explosion, so the air current wasn’t going to settle down for days to come. And once the wind did die down some, it would begin to rain.

Hazel looked through the wind to see the aerial warship starting to list.

It slowly tilted to port with the city it had protected below.

“I-isn’t there something we can do, Berger?”

“Oh, I don’t think it’s over yet,” muttered Scwharz Löwe so quietly the wind nearly drowned it out.

She looked out ahead in confusion.

Then she noticed a girl standing atop the bridge of a broken aircraft carrier.

Her body was transparent like a ghost.

…''Who is that?

She didn’t know, but the girl was looking her way. With a blank expression.

Feeling uncomfortable, Hazel brushed back her windswept hair and lowered her head a little.

The girl smiled at Hazel’s action.

She grabbed her skirt and calmly curtsied back.

Then she disappeared.

Hazel’s eyes darted across the top of the ship to see where the girl had disappeared to, but she soon gave up.

She no longer sensed anyone on the ship.

But there was a different change. Light began to glow from the gaps in ship’s damaged armor. It appeared especially bright to Hazel’s eyes.

“That’s ether!”

It covered the entire ship.

Pale opened the copilot cockpit and stuck his upper body out to shout what it was.

“That’s an Armed Emblem!!”

“But why!?” asked Berger. “Does it want to fight!?”

“No…it must be to protect the city. To ensure it doesn’t fall on the city it shielded from the bombing and the Babel Gun.”

Hazel’s response silenced Berger. She narrowed her eyes a bit before continuing.

“Sorry, Berger, but can you keep us up here for a while longer?”

“Probably.”

He didn’t sound displeased. The light covering the massive ship slowly and gradually grew before their eyes. It was the bluish-white of ether light.

The flow of light was supported by the girl’s voice ringing through the sky in a song covering a sound range similar to a brass instrument.

She spoke her Aerial Words.

<The Requiem march traverses the sky.>

A deep male voice spoke over hers.

“I have a message for all Neue Kavaliers still living in Germany.”