Editing Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance:Volume2 Chapter9 Draft (section)

===Part 3===

Four years ago. A girl’s spirit was completely broken.

Being consumed by an overwhelming fear and sense of helplessness, she became unable to use her powers.

That girl’s dream, to become a splendid Queen like the one she admired, Rubia-sama, became impossible for her to achieve.

From that day, her parents, her sisters, and even the court ladies changed their attitude towards her.

Before she knew it, her strictness with herself and others incurred enmity from those who surrounded her.

Therefore, the moment the fact that she lost her power was revealed, everyone started ignoring her.

Before she knew it, the girl closed her heart towards everything.

Without opening her heart to anyone, without embracing any interest, she had been secluding herself inside the castle.

—But then, three years ago, the girl met him.

The Strongest Blade Dancer, who was advancing through the tournament with overwhelming strength.

The girl became engrossed in that person’s performance.

She felt like his blade dance had changed something inside her.

Once again, she was given the strength to stand up.

(Kamito-kun, the real reason that I came to this academy— I feel like I understand it now.)

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As long as she was alone, she would not have noticed it.

The «wish» that will be granted to her for the victory in the Blade Dance might be truly inconsequential.

Being with the person she admired was enough for her.

It might be that she just wanted to fight together with the boy from that day.

(...Kamito-kun, you told me that I am your comrade.)

He said that despite knowing that she couldn't use her contracted spirit.

(And Claire... She also came in contact with me without being indifferent.)

Four years ago, that time when she stood against the Calamity Queen, she was all alone.

But now she had comrades that she had to protect.

Holding her iron-ribbed fan in both hands, Fianna Ray Ordesia danced the Kagura.

(Dance, you many spirits, be released from that binding body, and dance wildly together with me!)

She was the second ranked princess maiden of the only Queen training institution on the continent— «Divine Ritual Institute».

That Kagura she was dancing was not a combat, but a support dance that strengthened spirits.

Hearing Kamito and Jio's conversation from the other side of the wall, she knew what to do intuitively.

Kamito had conveyed the things she could do as a Kagura dance expert.

If assumed that Jio Inzagi was using mere sealed spirits—

Time ticked away as she moved with fluid grace.

Those were the perfect movements that maidens at the «Divine Ritual Institute» started training at an early age.

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"The seventh dance of the ritual Kagura, the mad banquet, I dedicate it to this shrine!"