Editing City Series:Volume8b Chapter13 (section)

===Excel’s Sight Mode: In DT Castle===

'''<Excel’s Over Reload>

The 20yd metal panel crashed loudly into the stopper on the roof.

The stopper’s structure could not suppress the lift’s abnormal acceleration.

The metal panel tore apart the stopper and loudly threw its components into the air.

The lift panel tilted a bit and then fell. Its corner made a heavy metallic groan as it caught on the edge of the pit.

The lift would not fall.

Only one person stood on the lift anymore: Excel who was looking into the sky.

Aoe was no longer on the lift.

He was in the sky directly above the lift, where Excel was watching.

Someone had been thrown into the false sky surrounded by the defense shield.

That was Aoe.

After confirming Aoe’s presence there, Excel held his punched side.

“I will not allow you to fall to your death!”

He created a black orb about 10 yards across in front of him. It was formed from gathered and compressed gravity.

While the gravity orb expanded by the second, Excel loosened his tie.

And he glared up at Aoe in the sky covered by the beams of light coming from Babel.

“We of the Quartet were originally meant to manage the amusement park under Master Suedomsa’s command. We were meant to entertain and comfort the terminally ill and children whose parents were busy with research.”

He inhaled and crossed his arms in front of him.

“Master Yuo fell into the latter category and I was so happy when she said she wanted to learn my programs. The girl who had only ever cried wished for my help when I had only ever dealt with programs before.”

A smile on his lips, he pulled the white gloves from his hands.

His fingers were starting to break apart.

Cracks formed across his body and his textures unraveled, but he still spread his arms to the sides. He threw away the gloves, which slowly fell to the floor in the gradually returning gravity.

He opened a transparent keyboard and typed rapidly at it.

He used his Celestial Program Activator.

He instantly typed out several text strings that formed celestial orbits. The texts rotated, intersected, and spun before disappearing. The gravity orb in front of him grew even faster in response.

But his body grew transparent at the same rate.

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Maintaining his Load Emblem and activating so my programs was draining his heat energy stores.

But he did not stop himself.

“Aoe Shouzou. I have heard you taught Master Yuo to never give up. But…even if you did teach her that, you cannot defeat us!”

His fingers raced.

All of the text strings forming the celestial orbits vanished, bursting into particles of light.

The gathered gravity orb had taken its final form.

The black orb was now 20 yards in diameter.

But his eyes were on Aoe overhead, not on the gravity directly in front of him.

'''<Excel’s Over Zoom>

Aoe was about 200 yards up. He was still rising even as his speed dropped.

“You have no footing to throw a punch and no ground to jump from. You shall die in the void.”

Excel raised his arms, which had begun to flash.

The 20yd gravity orb crushed the wind as it was launched.

The dark power roared up toward Aoe.

“Myst. I am afraid we cannot thank Master Yuo after all.”

The tension left his face as he watched the compressed power and his target beyond it. His raised eyebrows lowered and his powerful smile became a gentle smile. He clenched his vanishing hands.

“She really is the same as she was back then. She remains the divine child, left in our care by her father.”

He opened a window while letting his words spill to the floor.

The clock window provided the current time.

The time until the Day of the Oracle had fallen below 100 seconds.

'''<Excel’s Over Zoom>

His eyes were on the clock, but the corner of his eye caught Aoe still attempting to resist.

'''<Excel’s Sight Mode has updated>