Editing City Series:Volume6c Chapter6 (section)

===Part 4===

…''Killer intent!?

Hazel immediately got down when she sensed the chill down her spine.

Shortly after she felt the dry sand across her entire body like when napping as a cat, the killer intent piercing her spine was joined by three gunshots.

…''I was shot!?

In that brief moment, her gasping thought was joined by a voice.

<Destiny is with the Messiah.>

She heard three clapping sounds.

She frantically looked up and then stood up.

A dark shadow hung before her.

It was the bottom of a black coat.

That coat flapped in the heated crimson wind, revealing the man who wore it.

Dog Berger had raised Gelegenheit’s hilt in front of his face to catch the bullets.

She looked down and past him to see a woman standing in front of the abandoned motorcycle.

“Jeanne Schmitt,” said Berger, lowering Gelegenheit. “That was pathetic. Why are you firing on the Messiah you wanted so badly?”

His question was answered by a deep voice from the sky.

“I don’t expect you to understand!!”

“––––!?”

Berger suddenly picked Hazel up and swung her around.

He took a leap of several meters to avoid the metal fist that dropped directly in front of him.

Hazel had seen that same fist in the Village of Pardons during the day. It belonged to the Der Held arm.

It dropped from the sky and tore into the ground where Berger had been standing a moment before.

A large man in civilian clothing stood up from there.

By then, Hazel had already been released from Berger’s arm.

<Destiny strikes the hero.>

Black light raced out before her eyes, flying straight toward Schweitzer.

<The Hero resists destiny.>

<Destiny slices through the hero.>

<The Hero untangles the threads of destiny.>

Der Held’s ether field and Gelegenheit’s dark blade repeatedly clashed before Hazel’s eyes. Countless sounds of shattering glass echoed off of the school building.

The black light vanished from Gelegenheit and Berger swapped Phlogiston tanks. Hazel noticed hesitation in the Lives she could see in his back. They were directed at her.

…''He wants to say something.

She realized what it was he wanted to say.

This was so much like the scene from her nightmares. It was a schoolyard below a crimson-dyed night sky.

She was always alone in her nightmares, so she knew what Berger would ask of her now.

…''Will he ask me to go on ahead?

“Hazel,” he said. “Can you hear me, Hazel Mirildorf!?”

“Y-yes.”

He immediately answered her reply with another shout.

“Give me a hand!!”

She didn’t know what he meant at first. After a pause, she heard a gunshot from Jeanne on their left and saw Pale knock the bullet from the air with his prosthetic arm.

She looked to Berger wielding Gelegenheit in front of her, smiled, and nodded.

“Of course!!”

<Destiny paves the Messiah’s path.>

<The Hero seeks the Messiah.>

The two Erklärungs crashed together and negated each other.

So Hazel sucked in a breath and shouted her own Erklärung.

<The Messiah does not want the Hero’s assistance.>