Editing City Series:Volume8b Chapter13 (section)

===Excel’s Continued Sight Mode: In DT Castle===

'''<Excel’s Over Reload>

Excel saw Aoe raising both arms while diving rapidly down.

He held a data trigon in his hands.

Yuo had created it by sealing the explosion produced by the knight the Quartet had unleashed the day before. The blast was contained inside that trigon.

Aoe’s voice rang from the sky.

“Eat Yuo’s custom attack!”

The sky was engulfed in flames.

The explosion carried the momentum of Aoe throwing the trigon down, so it flew toward Excel.

The flames crashed into the top of the giant black orb Excel had launched from below.

The impact sounded like two stones colliding.

The two attacks bent, swelled, and whipped up the wind, but then something unusual happened.

A text string formed a long elliptical orbit around the flames.

That was a buffering program Yuo had included.

The light raced around the flames, transforming them.

The mass of fire had been radiating outwards and attempting to envelop the black orb, but it rapidly gained a sharper shape.

It became a spear.

Excel responded by activating his own text string to reinforce the gravity orb.

“I don’t believe it. I never imagined I would be competing with Master Yuo in this manner!”

He smiled.

His deteriorating fingers raced full speed across his keyboard to create new celestial orbits.

The orbits created by Yuo and the ones created by Excel rotated at the exact same speed.

The flames attempted to pierce the darkness as a spear.

The darkness attempted to expand and envelop the spear.

The speed of piercing and expansion were identical.

Both orbits were vanishing as the evolution of both attacks came to an end.

The smile on Excel’s face grew.

“Will they cancel each other out!? Are Master Yuo and I on the same level now?”

“No!” Aoe’s voice rang down from the sky. “This is a power she never told you about!”

'''<Excel’s Over Zoom>

The spear accelerated.

It flew straight along its intended path.

A new acceleration boosting program was cast on top of the spear program, creating a second layer of celestial orbits.

Excel’s eyes widened when he saw the flaming spear’s further burst of speed and the double layers of orbit.

“How can she possibly cast a spell as complicated as the Celestial Program Activator twice!? That means twice the number of text strings! She couldn’t possibly control them all!”

'''<Excel’s Over Zoom>

The answer was displayed before his eyes.

This program did not use text.

It used song.

A song provided the program around the explosion that was gathered and sharpened into a spear tip.

Yuo’s voice sang comfortably but loudly.



''The distributed lines go to the multitude. The variable numbers bring us all together.

''The power I produce goes to your pure arms and pure legs.

''You carry no restrictions. This city has forgiven you. I have forgiven you.

''I use the forgiveness of all as the signal for the running program.



The voice-input celestial program appeared on top of the one Yuo had typed in.

Excel’s typing could not keep up with the double-speed program.

The spear completed its transformation and reached the upper limit of its acceleration.

The attack instantly reached and burned away the gravity with its flames.

The gravity shattered with a burning sound and changed to the bluish-white shards of a grid.

The explosion’s momentum carried it straight down.

Excel stood in the flames’ path and his hands had stopped moving.

'''<Excel’s Over Zoom>

He stared at the color of the approaching fire.

The shards of his program orbited around the scorching attack that formed a giant spear.

He viewed that shattered light while his own body grew transparent, the glow of the flames passing right through him.

But he was smiling.

“Yes, I had forgotten. Master Yuo sang in order to assist that young man yesterday.”

He watched the scattering and vanishing program shards while listening to the song.

“She had already developed a program superior to my own.”

He slowly looked further up past the flame spear to look at Aoe.

Their eyes met.

Excel bowed even as his body flashed.

He placed a hand on his chest, lowered his head, pulled Yuo’s hearing program from his pocket, and tossed it to Aoe.

“You may pass.”

With those final words, Excel vanished and the spear pierced the lift, splitting the steel panel.

'''<Excel has been fully eliminated>