Editing City Series:Volume3a Chapter 7 (section)

===Part 3===

Akira watched as the city fell apart.

The scarlet Live flying her way tore through the center of a fifteen-story park hotel located along the road.

The white building was destroyed in an instant.

“…!”

The smashing of the stone, metal, and glass mixed together into a rumble much like that of a waterfall.

And it did not end there.

Perhaps due to colliding with the massive object, J-Gun’s Live literally exploded.

Briefly, a near-indescribable smell of sweet fire hung in the air.

Immediately afterwards, a deep sound was let loose.

The four or five buildings around the park hotel collapsed from the speed of the blast.

The multiple roars resonated with each other and numbed Akira’s ears.

The smoke of the scarlet killer intent wrapped the buildings in red flames.

…''What is this?

Akira watched on while kneeling on the asphalt, but…

“Akira! Ahead of you!”

Rin’s voice brought her back to her senses.

The enemy’s convertible was stopped up ahead and J-Gun was no longer standing on top of it. The Galgallin named Fei was there instead.

…''What is he going to do!?

Her question was immediately answered.

Just as when they had met underground, he raised his arm and a mortar jutted out.

White light was already gathering in the barrel.

…''Heat!?

Just as Akira realized what his attack was based on its Live, an explosion shook Hong Kong for the third time that day.

“!”

Heat lost all color once it reached a certain temperature.

It would roast the air and only contain the color white.

That was the identity of the white pillar that shot horizontally along Chatham Road.

“Kyah!”

She did not have time to dodge.

The white heat filled both sides of the road and vaporized the asphalt.

“You goddamn idiot!!”

A man’s shout collided head-on with the mass of pure white heat.

The clash was settled in an instant and it ended with a surprisingly refreshing sound of steam.

Fei’s heat projectile had been utterly destroyed.

“!?”

It had all happened in an instant.

The white heat, the intent to kill, and everything else had vanished and it had all become a still wind.

Only the melted road remained up ahead.

The melted portion ended less than ten meters ahead of Akira, but she could no longer detect even a hint of heat.

The heat Live had been destroyed and she saw its many pieces floating through the air and vanishing.

“…”

She was speechless.

She had her Device raised as if to Tune because she had instinctually prepared to Tune the heat Live as it flew toward her. She could also tell her fingers were stiff with tension.

She checked and found that Fei and J-Gun had vanished from the road up ahead.

The convertible was gone too, so they must have escaped.

However, she no longer had the energy to give chase.

Strength left her body and she sighed.

She trembled and almost succumbed to the desire to drop her spear Device and fall to her hands and knees, but she just barely managed to move her wings and withstand that exhaustion.

She then looked to the destruction before her eyes.

“That’s unbelievable. And…”

…''They eliminated it in an instant.

All she knew was that a powerful Live had flown in from behind.

It had been a shockwave produced by the action of “slicing the air”.

The Live had been produced with a strange sort of Busting and not many people could pull it off.

“…”

To confirm her suspicions, she turned around.

There, she saw the tram Rin rode on stopped in the road.

Kouga sat atop a thoroughly modified motorcycle, and next to him was…

“Gunmal.”

He stood with his Device in hand.

…''Did you eliminate that just now?

He did not answer.

He only smiled bitterly, looked her way, and said something else.

“Thank goodness. Are you alive?”

He asked in his usual tone.

And as always, his Live was hidden from view.

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