Editing City Series:Volume6d Chapter5 (section)

===Part 5===

Hazel noted the lack of wings on Neue Kaiser’s back.

Meanwhile, Neue Kaiser moved its hand toward its right leg and lowered it with her on top.

…''Riding it out of here would be best.

She realized Neue Kaiser had been staring straight ahead this whole time. It was looking west, toward the enemy.

“What are you-!?” she shouted but stopped midsentence.

An explosion erupted in the direction it was looking. It was a much louder version of the air explosion when a Heavy Barrel took flight.

She turned that way to find a wall rushing toward her.

That was Karl Schmitt. His Heavy Barrel was like a 20yd-tall fortress and he was using his thrusters to fly above the road toward her. His left shoulder was held out front for a shoulder charge.

He was after Neue Kaiser.

The explosive clash only took an instant. Hazel watched as Karl passed in front of her, plowing into Neue Kaiser. Their weights made a horrible metallic crash and Neue Kaiser was pushed away.

With a sound like shattering glass, the road broke into a spray of asphalt. They were headed toward the bridge and their weights would be enough to destroy it.

But Hazel caught Neue Kaiser in her gaze.

It was being pushed away by Karl’s great size, but it was still in control of itself and it had not been crushed. It held onto Karl’s left shoulder with both arms.

It had not given up, so she raised her voice.

“Neue Kaiser!”

<The Messiah commands the emperor to fight.>

She raised her right arm.

“Show me what you can do!”

Her request was answered before it was even complete. A second explosion of air erupted shortly before the bridge.

But this one did not come from Karl. It came from Neue Kaiser.

The two machines’ movements were evenly matched, so they poured in all of their power but remained motionless.

And it did not end there.

Wind Lives were gathering behind Neue Kaiser. It could keep going.

Seeing that, Hazel nodded with strength in her eyebrows. She swung her raised arm forward. She swung it forcibly down toward the blue and red Barrels standing on the road.

“Full power!”

Neue Kaiser answered her shout with a roar from its voice device.

All of its thrusters produced a third air explosion behind it.

Slowly but surely, it gathered acceleration and pushed Karl back.

“Mh!?”

An unthinkable voice came from Karl’s voice device.

Wind blew from his leg armor and back as well.

The wind raced down the road, rustled the leaves of the trees lining the road, and shattered the thin windows one after another.

Standing within the scattering leaves and glass shards, Hazel snapped her right fingers.

“Don’t give up!”

Neue Kaiser accelerated again, producing another air explosion to push further forward.

Karl could not stop himself from being pushed back by the overwhelming movement of the air.

Neue Kaiser accelerated with great force to keep pushing. It never came to a stop and accelerated further.

The white Heavy Barrel instantly pushed through a lot more ground. It pushed through Karl’s great size and the air resistance. It raced past Hazel and even past the hole it had created.

Sparks scattered rom Karl’s feet. He had given up on pushing back and cut his rear thrusters. He instead planted his feet on the ground to stop Neue Kaiser with this own weight and balance.

But Neue Kaiser would not stop. The Messiah eye would not allow it.

<The Messiah hears the emperor’s victory song.>

Neue Kaiser roared and lowered its hips.

At max thrust, it held Karl’s left shoulder and bent backwards.

It whipped up the wind while attempting to lift Karl.

Its roar never ceased, joining the cry of the blowing wind.

Just as the massive green Heavy Barrel attempted to lower his hips, the Neue Kaiser lifted him as if placing him on its chest.

“–––––!”

In less than a second, Neue Kaiser twisted its body and threw Karl. He was thrown 20 yards down the road where the red and blue Heavy Barrels waited.

Karl fell back-first onto the pavement, his metal crying out in protest and his limbs bouncing once while his Panzer Kleid and armor panels slid along the road due to his inertial weight. The red and blue Barrels quickly fled into the sky while Karl slid down the road and crashed into a building.

The sounds of the crumbling building rang out for a while.

All the wind blowing down the road rose skyward in search of an exit.

Hazel looked to Neue Kaiser’s back where it stood at the ready about 20 yards away.

…''It’s time to leave.

She brushed back her windswept hair and prepared to speak her Aerial Words.

But she instead heard the Aerial Words of someone else’s Beweisen.

<The Emperor believes in himself.>