Editing City Series:Volume3b Chapter 8 (section)

===Part 7===

Double Lee looked to Akira.

He stared at her.

He turned his powerful gaze her way and nodded.

“…”

Then he gave a slight smile.

Two simple words escaped his opened lips.

“Thank goodness.”

A moment later, he took action.

The tip of his raised Device drew an upwards-facing arc to point downwards.

As darkness flowed down the blade, it stabbed into Double Lee’s own body.

Akira heard it plunge into his flesh.

“!?”

She gave a voice of surprise more than a scream.

At the same time, her brother’s body collapsed backwards.

His six-wings bent deeply as if to support his collapsing body.

Needless to say, that was not enough to stop him.

His body fell toward the water.

Blood seeped out from where the short sword had stabbed him.

He spoke quietly with his eyes closed and his hands around the hilt.

“Word Accel. Oh, you Lives with an Octave of 120,000,000.”

Just as he finished his Over Up, he landed in the water.

The soft sound of the splash almost sounded like flapping wings.

“…!”

Akira ran over to the spring and reached out a hand toward him as he started sinking. Her well-formed hand plunged into the water to touch her brother’s wings, but she could not quite reach.

He sank further down with his wings pointed down.

His blood flowed out into the water, but it did not dissolve. Instead, it formed a pattern on the spring’s wide surface.

It created a Tune Emblem.

As it was drawn, his body slowly came apart. He was making his own body a part of the Earth Serpent.

“Wait… Brother!”

As soon as she shouted to him, his blood completed the Tune Emblem on the spring’s surface.

And…

“!”

The ground shook vertically just once.

Akira nearly lost her balance, but she used Wild Königin to support herself. Then, she looked to the Tune Emblem drawn on the water.

It was large enough to fill the entire spring and a single blade was sticking down from the center.

It was Double Lee’s Device.

That Device was made by Hong Kong’s greatest Buster and it had floated up to act as the Baton.

That meant two things.

First, the Tune Emblem had been activated.

Second, her brother’s body had been Tuned and had sunk to the depths of the earth.

She wordlessly gasped for breath.

She was sweating.

“I’m nervous.”

She spoke to herself and wiped the sweat from her brow.

A moment later, an intense pulse-like shaking rose from underground.

The Earth Serpent was waking.

She checked her watch to find it was 11:53.

With seven minutes left, Hong Kong would be utterly destroyed.