Editing City Series:Volume8b Chapter14 (section)

===Aoe’s Continued Sight Mode: In DT Castle===

'''<Aoe’s Over Reload>

Aoe’s attack shattered the glowing wall.

The light shattered, several windows immediately opened, and nothing more remained between him and Yuo.

Within the blizzard of shattered light, Yuo’s missing sense of touch kept her from standing on her own.

The light shards still had physical form, so they lacerated her in a few places, producing blood.

But she still managed to take one step through the light before collapsing.

Aoe silently caught her in his arms.

An alarm rang especially loud in the ceremony room.

A moment later, the metal spear emblem vanished from both his arms.

The spear symbol drawn in a see-through black rapidly grew and glowed, but it vanished a moment after that.

Yuo opened her mouth and her unfocused eyes in his arms.

<Ah!>

Tears began to spill from her eyes.

<Ahh!>

The tears soaked into the cuts from the shield, drawing red lines down her cheeks.

The only words she spoke were the weeping of her will. Her trembling came from an emotion unconnected to the sense of touch.

He held her around the hip and let her head rest against his chest.

“It’s okay.”

He nodded and repeated himself.

“It’s okay.”

She nodded in his arms.

Still crying, she rubbed her forehead against his chest and nodded. Tears fell, her long ears were squashed and bent, and her head was shaking.

<nowiki><I’m</nowiki> sorry.>

She sucked in a rough breath.

<nowiki><I</nowiki> even asked for this myself!>

“Which is why you gave in for a time!” he shouted. “But not even you yourself can force you to give up anymore!”

His voice was joined by a sound from the surface portion of the castle.

A great chorus drowned out even the alarm.

Outside the x1000 boosted defense shield, joyful music indicated the arrival of the Day of the Oracle.

<The time prophesied by the great god has arrived, but Yuo remains with us.>

He held Yuo in his arms and turned around.

Suedomsa stood atop the diskette program beyond the defense shield Akalabeth had erected.

Aoe stared straight at gray-haired Suedomsa.

“Now the past has come to an end! Yuo does not fear the Plus and will not give up!”

Then he looked to Algo standing behind Suedomsa.

He held Yuo in his left arm and raised his right hand.

His extended index finger pointed at Algo.

He opened his mouth and spoke.

“No longer will I doubt my power! Because I have reclaimed it and reached my goal!”

Algo’s face twisted into a slight smile.

And he spoke.

“Then what will you do now?”

“Defeat you!” roared Aoe, stepping forward and scattering the sweat from his brow. “Listen. It’s time to take another look at your so-called strongest power, my weakness, and my resignation! And I will make you accept your defeat! I swear it!!”

Algo nodded.

And he looked away, turning ever so slightly to view Suedomsa atop the diskette emblem.

“Master Suedomsa.”

“Yes, I heard.” Suedomsa shut his eyes. “You are about to be very busy, Algo.”

That reminded Aoe of something. Suedomsa was scheduled to succumb to his Word’s Warn at 3 PM. He gasped and looked up, hearing Suedomsa’s voice.

“Akalabeth. Is this your answer? Cooperation between the Plus and the Minus?”

His question was addressed to Akalabeth, but Aoe could tell the man’s voice and gaze were directed at him.

“So you say the Plus and the Minus can do more than destroy each other? Just like the Minus Elites tried to save the outside world or like my Plus brother tried to teach Algo the strongest power?”

“Yes, anyone who belongs squarely on one side will seek out someone on the other side.”

Aoe saw a slight smile on Suedomsa’s lips as he looked his way.

“But the answer for you is that Yuo had not given up. The great god has left it to us to make our own decisions. What more do you need?”

Akalabeth had grown pale as she looked to Suedomsa and then smiled toward Aoe.

She met Aoe’s eyes and nodded.

“You must ask. You now possess the strongest Plus power and have Minus Yuo with you, so you must ask how you can understand and surpass the Minus anxieties and fears.”

Aoe nodded back with Yuo in his arms, but then he heard someone else.

It was Suedomsa.

“I see. Akalabeth, so you too think their battle has only just begun?” He lowered his head a little and raised his right hand. “The past has recalled its truth and reached a conclusion, so now a new, modern battle is beginning!”

'''<Aoe’s Over Zoom>

Suedomsa held two program trigons in his right hand.

He swung that hand backwards, throwing the trigons.

The yellow tetrahedrons flew toward the man standing behind him.

That was Algo.

Algo easily caught the two flung trigons despite the shaking of the floor.

“Take these. These are the programs you need for the next – the modern – godtact experiment.”

After that, a tremor ran through Suedomsa’s body.

He was coughing.

A deep rumble came from the ceiling and the floor shook violently.

“…!”

The ear-splitting noise made Aoe frown.

He saw the hole in the ceiling he had used being blocked up.

The thick steel panel covering it was the lift that should have been up on the roof.

Their escape route was gone.

'''<Aoe’s Sight Mode has ended>