Editing The Unexplored Summon Blood Sign:Volume4 Chapter3 (section)

===Part 3===

'''(Timeline “Now”)

It was not so much his head as his heart.

An incredible shock raced through the center of his chest.

“Ah, gbah!!!???”

And inside the luxury hotel room, Shiroyama Kyousuke finally understood everything. He knew why he had lost his memories, why the White Queen was smiling by his side, where his vessel Himekawa Mika had gone, why Max Layard and Ellie Slide of Perfect Game had attacked him, and who had attacked the head of the Deltaston family and took control of Pandemonium to help summon the Queen.

The one piece of luck was that he could guess he had not been repeating this farce over and over.

Ellie Slide had said “this phase was a failure” and not “this phase was a failure too”.

(But it sounded like people other than me have tried a great number of methods. How long has it been since the beginning? Are the vessels’ souls still unharmed?)

He bent over with sweat pouring from his body, but he did not have time to wait to recover both physically and mentally.

How much time had he lost?

What were Ellie Slide, Max Layard, and Himekawa Mika up to?

Had they already reconstructed a new stage?

“Oh?” calmly said the White Queen.

Kyousuke also took just a half step to the left.

The very next moment, a deafening sound reached his ears and several slicing lines burned orange through the wall bordering the hallway.

No, it was not accurate to say it had cut through the wall. The opposite wall and window had also been sliced through. Needless to say, so had everything in between. If Kyousuke had not shifted his position, he would have been sliced to pieces along with the furniture.

There were a total of 32 slicing lines.

Just as the hallway-side wall fell apart and collapsed, several strange silhouettes rushed in.

They were Repliglass soldiers.

They had two extremely thick legs and slender feminine upper bodies that almost looked human. They held a two meter scabbard upright in their hands and the sword itself was attached to the end of a part shaped like a scorpion tail.

These were based on the Emperor Scorpion, a Quad Motors local suppression weapon.

But these were special models that borrowed Pandemonium’s power to summon and install just the weapons of Divine-classes.

These weapons fought summoners without a vessel or a Material.

They could be seen as the great insolence of stealing god’s punishing hammer while ignoring god’s judgment.

It went without saying that these soldiers were connected to the Deltaston family.

“The Attach Saint Project, huh? They’re only one of Pandemonium’s side shows used for camouflage, so it’s impressive that they’re willing to die for their master.”

Kyousuke was surrounded by more than 30 special weapons which raised long lightning-enveloped swords over their shoulders.

“Oh, dear. Oh, dear.”

But the White Queen’s smile maintained its elegance as she stood by his side. Her white clothing wriggled like a living creature as if to say it would soon become thousands if not millions of weapons that could carve away the fundamental materials of the world.

“I appreciate your effort if you are giving me a chance to shine, but I still cannot approve of you interfering in this tryst with my brother. That would normally be worthy of 10,000 deaths, but yes, as a compromise, I will cut that in half and have you die 5000-…”

But she was cut off.

However, that was not due to the Deltaston family once they noticed something was wrong.

It was the opposite.

After pulling his Blood-Sign from his back, Kyousuke raised his arm to the side to hold her back.

He used his body to shield the Queen and spoke without looking her way.

He used two simple words.

“''Stay back.''”

“My.”

The White Queen brought her hands to her mouth, seemingly without thinking.

She was enjoying this wonderful situation.

“My, my!! Brother, oh how lovable you are, my brother!! Hee hee hee. If that is how you want it, I suppose I can play the role of the cute princess.”

(If she takes action here, I can’t even predict the scope of the damage. So I’ll protect her…to save those poor Repliglass soldiers!!)

The Repliglass Emperor Scorpions had rushed into the hotel after receiving confused reports from within, but they were far from confident.

Their opponents were the legendarily skilled Freedom Award 903 and what was almost certainly the White Queen, peak of the Unexplored-class.

And ferocious beasts grew most violent not when they were hunting their prey, but when they were cornered and protecting themselves.

“You’re kidding. This was a surprise attack, but he still dodged Divine-class weapons!?”

“Data link established. Takemikazuchi 01 through 32 charge complete!!”

“The summoning system is unknown, but the summoner and vessel are in contact with no sign of a protective circle.”

“Kill the summoner.”

“Don’t try to fight the Queen; it’s a waste of time!! Crush the summoner now and it will all fall apart for them!!”

The Repliglass soldiers thought they knew the situation but actually knew nothing, so they rushed in to attack. The scorpion tail parts had 2 meter Japanese swords attached and electricity scattered from those. Those divine weapons could slice right through a tank like a hot knife through butter and more than 30 of them rushed in at speeds and angles far surpassing the greatest swordsman.

But with Blood-Sign in hand, Kyousuke took an extremely simple action.

He took one flowing step to the side.

That was all.

And despite that being all, the countless slicing lines failed to reach his body as they rushed in like a storm. Of course, this would never occur by pure coincidence. Even if the action had been simple, the process had involved extremely complex calculations.

Meaning…

“Even if those are divine weapons, they are equipped on Repliglass and are being controlled by mere humans.”

A light sound followed.

The tip of his Repliglass lightly tapped the slender feminine arm of one of the Emperor Scorpions.

“You are trapped by the concepts of distance and time, you follow your designs, you cannot escape your joints’ range of movement, and you cannot surpass the limits of inertial Gs.”

“Gh, ah!?”

The elbow and the shoulder.

The Blood-Sign immobilized the joints and swung them around to shake the Emperor Scorpion. The tail was also swung around wildly…and the sword of Takemikazuchi sliced through the air.

The damage mostly spread to the other Repliglass soldiers. Some had the arm or leg armor cleanly cut away and some had the feminine upper body shallowly split open vertically. And as the armor or helmets fell away, the surprisingly slender and cute girls inside were revealed.

“So it’s simple. With the Blood-Sign method, I need excellent spatial awareness and I need to determine the enemy summoner’s range of movement by observing their joints, muscles, and center of gravity. Those techniques are just as valid here.”

A powerful wind followed.

The Emperor Scorpions rushed toward Kyousuke in a state of panic instead of using a controlled fighting instinct. Kyousuke spun the captured one around and shoved it into the enemies after a single beat. He was trying to get them to destroy each other. He would guide a scorpion tail to stab into another one or he would use his Blood-Sign to knock one off balance such that it knocked another one down as well.

This was no longer a battle.

It was nothing more than a group of nails being pulled around by a magnet.

“You probably needed a human being as a summoner to summon the Divine-class weapons, but that worked against you.”

Kyousuke spun his Blood-Sign around.

He rested his weapon on his shoulder and spoke.

“If you had thoroughly eliminated all human elements and sent in entirely unmanned machines that ignore the human limits of inertial Gs, muscle strength, and skeletal structure, you might have been able to kill me pretty easily.”

He was surrounded by a pile of rubble.

And despite the storm of cuts, not a single soldier had been bisected or lost an arm or leg. They had all been defeated while just barely avoiding any injures. They shuddered at the thought of those perfect calculations and slumped to the floor.

“Brother.”

The White Queen decided it was time and spoke up.

She was in a very good mood after being protected by the ideal knight.

“What should we do now?”

“…Good question.”

The White Queen had already been summoned. Himekawa Mika and the rest of the 353 vessels had already been combined, so it might have been impossible to return them to their original bodies.

However, he had no real reason to continue obeying her request to destroy Pandemonium.

However.

There was something Shiroyama Kyousuke could not let stand: Government Award 501, Perfect Game. Max Layard and Ellie Slide had met Himekawa Mika and the others much earlier, but they had wasted any chance of truly saving them and had worked toward this conclusion instead.

He had business with them.

He also needed to pay them back for what they had done to him.

And if Perfect Game was attempting to guide Shiroyama Kyousuke…no, the White Queen, then it was obvious where they would be waiting.

He would not rely on the strongest of the strongest.

Kyousuke started toward his new destination with only his human willpower.

“I’m on my way to Pandemonium’s central processing core. I should be able to settle this there.”