Editing City Series:Volume8a Chapter6 (section)

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

'''<Aoe’s Over Reload>

Silence hung over the Yard HQ command center.

Everyone had frozen in place when Fooblicky revealed the identity of their enemy. Everyone, that is, except for Aoe. Deciding to pay the castle a visit, he looked to the window in Sight Mode to view the castle there.

But as he turned around, something in the opposite direction caught his eye: the southern amusement park.

Below the blimp floating in the distant sky, he could see the white castle and the Ferris wheel in the blurry amusement park.

And that Ferris wheel suddenly disappeared.

“Mh?”

“What is it?” asked Telyb.

Aoe was preparing to do an Over Zoom when more buildings in the amusement park disappeared too. Five at once this time.

But that wasn’t all.

A light appeared in the amusement park. Five beams of light stretched toward the blue sky marred by Babel’s towering silhouette.

The light curved through the sky, gathered together, and wrapped themselves into a single thick thread.

They dropped back down nearby.

Someone in the Yard spoke up in confusion.

“Something’s wrong with the boost supply to the southern district?”

Before the confused observation was complete, the light landed in the street directly in front of the Yard.

The light shined on the interior of the Yard and everyone in Sight Mode turned toward the window.

“…!?”

While everyone else was reacting in surprise, Aoe reflexively ran toward the window.

Then he saw what was outside that window.

The image was blurry since it was in an adjacent Page, so he willed a clearer image.

'''<Aoe’s Over Zoom: Full Sight Open>

At 3 steps until the window, he gained a clear view of the large dirt road.

Two people stood in the very center of the dirt ground there.



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'''<Aoe’s Over Zoom>

One was an enormous man with short brown hair and a square face.

His thick body was covered by a navy blue military uniform with torn shoulders.

The one standing in front of him was a slender woman in a white dress. She had long blonde hair and a face that hinted at a strong will. The arms emerging from the puffy shoulders of her dress carried a giant staff.

The staff was in fact a giant white virtual pen. It was a large Mouse Device.

The descending light was crashing into the pen.

“–––––!”

When the light burst, Aoe saw both of them were looking up at him.

They were separated from him by the window between Pages, but their gazes clashed with his.

Their gazes audibly shattered against each other.

The force of their gazes made him blink and step more forcefully against the floor. He still had 2 steps until he reached the window.

<This means trouble!>

He had no proof of that. It was an intuitive thought.

But Telyb noticed the thought.

“Is there something out there!?”

At the same moment, Aoe saw the woman outside moving.

She easily swung around her virtual pen Mouse Device that looked to be a yard and a half long. First, she swung it to the right, twirling her entire body along with it.

The pen tip accelerated and drew out a line of light that blossomed into a self-expressive Download Text.

'''“Behold the eminent Myst’s mastery of art.”

With a sound like struck stone, the woman calling herself Myst’s arms and the tip of her pen flickered with a crimson light. A crimson emblem floated on the backs of her hands and the pen tip. The emblem used a writing slate symbol.

'''<Myst: Gabriel Word Race Conversion: Switching to Avi Word Race Traits: Limiter Off: Accelerated Drawing>

Myst opened her mouth.

She gave an additional shout on top of her Download.

She expressed the free will of her Grandload – the variable Text that only applied to the present.

“Listen, everyone. I, Myst Gabriel, am fond of accuracy!”

'''“Grant me something immediately recognizable.

'''“Grant me a hammer to purge silly selfishness.

'''“Grant me the power of a master artist’s brush!”

'''<Pseudo Grandload: Running Pseudo Load Emblem: Premier: Preparing to Activate>

A sound like splitting rock came from her Mouse Device and the arms holding it.

Around a dozen see-through windows opened in the air around her.

'''<Activation authorized for 28M Lives within the virtual space>

'''<Pseudo Load Emblem: Activating: Run>

Strings of text grew from the emblems on her arms and pen tip.

The arm emblems grew to her shoulders and the pen tip one to the back of the pen.

●Type-XX076: Imperial-class: Premier●

'''<Activating Pseudo Grandload of Myst’s technical abilities: Loading highest-level subprograms and releasing upper limit on art ability>

A large diskette appeared halfway down the pen and rotated.

It only produced the sound of splitting rock.

She swung her virtual pen’s tip toward the sky as if letting that sound carry it.

At the same time, Aoe arrived within one step of the window.

This close to the window, he had a wider view of the high-quality outdoors scene.

He could now see into the sky above where something appeared above the Yard.

It was a hammer. It was just like the kind used for DIY home improvement work, except that it was massive and floating in the sky.

The striking surface alone had a diameter of about 100 yards. Its length was at least 400 yards.

The steel edge and the cross-section of the striking surface were visible too. It was as realistic as could be aside for its size.

However…

“Is that a drawn image!?”

The hammer was moving – swinging down toward the Yard.

Aoe attacked the window to leap outside.

He gave the shout needed to punch through the glass.

'''“Mh!”

He Downloaded his fist with a sound of shattering glass.

But his fist failed to shatter the actual glass. His fist hit the glass and stuck there.

As a criminal, his attack power was sealed.

“Mh?”

His puzzled grunt coincided with the hammer striking the Yard.

'''<Aoe’s Sight Mode has ended>