Editing City Series:Volume8b Chapter11 (section)

===Aoe’s Sight Mode: In DT Castle===

'''<Aoe’s Over Reload>

Aoe switched to Sight Mode as if to cut off Yuo’s words.

He was still in a push-up pose on the floor with the metal staff against his back.

But he didn’t care about any of that as he pushed the breath from his lungs.

“Kah!”

The shout came more from his gut than this throat.

The person next to him flinched back. But…

<nowiki><I</nowiki> don’t care!”

“Ohh!” he shouted while swinging up his right hand.

“Daikatana.”

His quiet voice signaled the beginning.

Daikatana spoke a Text directly above Aoe while jabbing his metal staff into Aoe’s back.

'''“Perish.

'''“For that will solve everything.”

Several windows opened in an instant and a splitting stone sound came from his metal staff.

'''●Type-XX049 – Imperial-class – Moebius●

Aoe took action before the text string could appear around the metal staff.

He sank down all of a sudden.

'''“Mh.”

A shattering glass sound came from his arms and a metal spear emblem floated above the backs of his hands.

He grabbed at the carpet with both hands to pull himself down faster than the force from above could push him down.

The force on his back vanished.

A moment later, he gathered strength in just his right hand and pulled himself to the right.

The swift movement meant the nagamaki blade intended for his back only graved his left flank and stabbed into the carpet.

The force of the strike sent the blade right through into the floor below.

“Kh!”

Daikatana sliced through the floor to swing the staff up again.

But Aoe looked forward instead.



'''<Aoe’s Over Zoom>

His enemy was there. He ignored Suedomsa and Alternative to focus on Algo.

When his mouth opened, a yell shot out.

“Damn you!” he roared, ignoring Daikatana to race forward.

He stood up and swung his right fist as he ran.

The clenched first flew forward with the metal spear emblem floating above it.

A tearing sound surrounded the fist directed at Algo’s face, but Algo easily dodged it.

“You are overexcited. You can control your power better than that.”

At the same time, Aoe’s fist passed below Algo’s head.

The attack never could have produced any attack power, but by not hitting, it whipped up the wind.

Algo’s robe fluttered up in the gentle breeze, revealing half a body in a white tank top and with a prosthetic left arm.

Aoe also saw Algo’s left chest. He noticed a different color between the white artificial muscle and black connection material where the prosthetic arm was attached.

There was a point of green there.

It formed a 1-inch jewel near Algo’s left chest. It looked like glass and glowed with a faint green light.

“What is that?”

“You have already been shown the answer. This contains Alternative’s Mind Lives and is the most important part of me. She gave me her Words Warn, which left me with no choice but to live in the x100-boosted Minus world.”

Algo took a breath, raised his left hand, and slowly brushed Aoe’s right arm away.

“For your information, Alternative’s Words Warn day of destruction is today at 3:40 PM. If you stop us here, both of us will be destroyed at that moment.”

“Kh!”

Algo took a step forward, so Aoe reflexively took half a step back.

Aoe saw Algo clenching his right fist He also saw the pearl ring on his middle finger.

Algo and Alternative opened their mouths in unison.

'''“What will you do?”

With Algo’s words, an emblem symbol appeared on his raised right fist.

It was colored white and it depicted a long nail surrounded by a square.

The same emblem glowed on Alternative’s back.

Then they both spoke their Texts. The Texts for a Grandload.

'''“Is that all you can do?

'''“If so, this ends here.”

A wind blew out and hundreds of windows opened.

'''<Opening Joint Load Emblem>

“Joint!?” shouted Aoe when he saw the windows.

“Yes, because Alternative and I are together. We support each other’s Minus side.”

A text string emerged from the emblem as Algo responded.

'''●Type-Origin: God-class: Sudden Strike●

The rest only took an instant.

Algo stepped forward.

Aoe tried to take a defensive stance with his foot still half a step back.

Algo’s fist surpassed his defense speed.

“…!”

Aoe more sensed than saw the clenched fist strike him in the chest.

The moment after he realized something had hit him, he was slammed into the floor.

Not on the carpet.

Into the bare stone floor exposed by the hole Daikatana’s nagamaki had torn in the carpet earlier.

His back hit so hard he bounced back up.

All the air was knocked from his lungs and he doubled over, feeling oxygen deprived.

<No, not here!>

“I won’t give up! Not while I still don’t know if I am really and truly unable to ever obtain the strongest power!”

Algo sent out a second attack.

Aoe twisted his body to escape it.

A moment later, he saw a girl’s face.

'''<Aoe’s Over Zoom>

<Yuo.>

His upward-facing vision saw a pair of eyes looking down at him.

Her pale face contained a look of surprise.

Just as he realized it was the look of someone seeing a stranger, a window opened over his head.

'''<Over Zoom of Unknown Name confirmed. Unknown Name’s ID Name has been updated from Yuo Natas Wav to Yuo Suedomsa Wav.>

The words he read there made him stop moving.

Algo’s second attack crashed into his chest.

“Gah!”

The voice that left his throat was really more of an abnormal breath.

But another sound brought that to a stop.

A crack ran through the exposed stone floor below his back.

That was where Daikatana’s nagamaki had sliced the floor. The white cement joining two stones there was beginning to break.

The collapse did not stop. The floor gave a great groan to let everyone know what was happening.

The floor gave way.

By the time Aoe tried to stand up, he was already positioned lower than the floor. A 2yd section of floor fell and the red carpet dented in like an antlion pit.

He didn’t have time to say anything before he was thrown into the darkness below.

“…!”

He fell into the abyss.

He could not return.

'''<Aoe’s Sight Mode has updated>

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