Editing City Series:Volume6e Chapter8 (section)

===Part 3===

Hazel scattered sparkling light from the Sylphide dragon’s back.

She took the memory offerings from the box at her feet and threw them into the air one by one.

The rings, coins, and such shined in the moonlight as they danced through the wind and sank into the Panzer Emblem’s ether.

The dragon gradually grew each time.

Hazel pulled some red objects from her pocket: a red ring, a red earring, and the bracelet she had found in Sylphide.

She let them all sink into the roaring dragon as fuel. Not one of the offerings was wasted.

The last things left in the box were a metal plate and a journal.

She picked one up in each hand and offered them to the sky simultaneously.

The journal’s pages audibly flipped as it sank into the wind.

Lastly, she threw the empty box itself.

Sylphide consumed it as well.

“Oh, dear,” she said with a hand on her cheek.

“It’s not a trashcan,” said Berger.

“I didn’t mean it-”

She stopped before saying “like that”. She had noticed Berger was facing the ground rushing by behind them. Gelegenheit had already grown a black blade in preparation to fight.

She knew why. Something was rushing through the dark forest below to pursue them.

She tried to get a better look at it, but Berger stopped her.

“Hazel! Do your Ober Beweisen now!”

“Eh?”

“You can’t do it on a moment’s notice, right? I saw enough of your memories to know that. The Messiah’s Ober Beweisen requires a lot of Aerial Words to see all of the Lives!”

“But,” she said before hearing him laugh.

“Leave the fighting to me and Sylphide. Don’t hog all the best parts for yourself, Hazel.”

She paused but finally nodded at his statement and the raised Gelegenheit.

She felt her eyebrows about to droop and stopped them while sucking in a breath.

She faced forward and saw the dark clouds in the eastern sky had spread out a lot. She also saw a village in the forest.

…''Borderson!

She took a breath, choosing to trust that Berger and Sylphide would take care of whatever was pursuing them below.

She raised her sword atop the Wind Dragon’s back. She gripped the hilt of the Device that linked her and Sylphide’s wills.

She opened her mouth to speak. She had seen her Ober Beweisen Text in Berger’s Lives.

…''But…

“There is no set form! There is no single answer for the Aerial Words that provides all the answers!”

“Eingeweide eye Messiah – Ober Beweisen.”

In the corner of her eye, she saw something like black serpents burst from the forest below and fly up into the air.

Those serpent dragons were one type of lesser dragon created from the Lives breaking down. Six of them were attacking now.

But she kept her eyes directed forward. She spoke the Text that she felt proved who she was in the present – the Text that had brought her to this point.

<In the deep darkness of the Black Forest>

Berger rapidly swung his black blade every which way behind her.

<Born from the abyss>

<The wheel emerges>

Sylphide accelerated its dragon body.

<It whips up the wind and speaks with the dragon>

They broke through the wind.

<It reads the wind and weeps>

Hazel gripped Rein König’s hilt.

<It carries power in its hand and hesitates>

She shook her head.

“I have no hesitation right now!” she shouted as two serpent dragons rose up out ahead.

They had been lurking in the forest and were preparing to leap up at her.

But she heard a voice from below.

“So you’ve finally made it this far, fellow werecat! I will clear your path as an AIF member!”

The pair of serpent dragons flew into the sky.

Instead of jumping on their own, someone had hit them hard enough to propel them skyward.

Hazel saw several people running through the forest below.

The man in an AIF uniform in the lead was Coolers.

“It’s true there is no set answer and the questions will never end! I’m sure this fight will never end either!”

More serpent dragons attempted to attack from the forest, but the soldiers and Neue Kavaliers in the forest swiftly crushed them.

“But that’s why you need to make what progress you can when you find no hesitation in yourself! Don’t let your strength fade!”

Sylphide raced forward while the serpent dragons were held back.

Then Hazel saw a clearing in the forest. That was where a village had once existed.

The village’s houses had been burned away and some gray smoke continued to rise here and there.

However, several people were gathered in the center of the village.

They weren’t just Glossolalians. The gathered people were likely all the people who had been evacuated from the nearby villages.

“Oh.”

Hazel narrowed her eyes, flipped her skirt around, and bowed toward them as she passed by.

Then she checked her watch. It was 4:28 AM.

“Another 110 miles!”

With those words, they left Borderson and she turned to face Berger.

<The one-armed youth holds the Messiah>

Berger swung his black blade at the pursuing dragons while he viewed the village behind them.

<The moonlit pair returns to the earth>

Sylphide roared and accelerated toward Germania.

<The dragons gather and dance tonight>

<Every last thing returns home>