Editing City Series:Volume6a Chapter3 (section)

===Part 6===

Hearing a scream by his ear, Schweitzer looked up into the sky.

Hazel had been positioned on his shoulder like a priestess praying toward heaven, but all of a sudden, she held her right eye, curled up, and took the fetal position while releasing a quiet breath.

He viewed the limp girl’s face.

Her right eye had undergone a change. That eye remained open like it had a mind of its own and its blue color had changed to a deep crimson.

“Is this the Eingeweide eye Messiah?”

Without responding to his voice, Hazel shut her eyes.

She had passed out.

A moment later, the air erupted and scattered above his shoulder. A chilly smoke of water vapor spread out from the wind and was scattered by the wind. Only one thing remained.

“So that cat this morning ''was'' her.”

Some half-human Heidengeists would undergo a defensive transformation when they were in danger. As a half-Werecat, this girl had that ability.

A kitten with white and gold fur was sleeping but breathing heavily on his shoulder while practically buried in clothing.

He gathered the transformed girl in the clothing and raised his voice.

“Withdraw immediately! The Sylphide is coming!!”

His warning came too late.

A shadow appeared over the moon as something descended from the sky.

The first thing to reach them was a powerful gust of wind dropping straight down on them with incredible pressure.

Then came the giant shadow of blocked moonlight. The rumbling of the air arrived third.

It all happened seemingly without warning.

“–––––!!”

It was all so powerful and heavy.

The wind, shadow, and noise were all mere preparations for what flew down from the sky.

It whipped up the wind as it dropped toward them. Schweitzer kept his eyes open in the blowing wind and saw a blade-like shape descend within the moonlight. The ship was bluer than the moonlight.

It flew along a sharp arc that nearly tore into the ground as it charged toward them.

“!”

With a roar, it instantly passed over their heads.

Then it vanished into the sky above the city while whipping up further wind there.

The soldiers let out relieved sighs.

But that was when the blue craft returned along the exact same path like watching a cinema film played in reverse.

At less than 20 yards off the ground, it whipped up the wind and slid overhead in reverse.

It was large. The sharply angular blue craft was around 30 yards long.

Its mere size overhead seemed to create waves of pressure. It slid slowly above that pressure as if searching for something and it passed above the campus’s main gate.

On occasion, it would tilt as if checking below it and then continue on in reverse.

That giant mass of metal was floating in midair and moving.

It did not produce the flames of the spirit rockets and jets used for airplanes, not did it have any nozzles those flames could come from. It was no more than aerodynamically-shaped metal, yet it floated and moved.

“…”

No one – not even the Grösse Panzers on the road – dared move, but not just because of its oppressive presence.

The two devices on its front and three on its rear were Kunst Eyes which could weaponize ether. Some light had already gathered on the surface of those orbs, so they could attack at any time.

They all knew it would attack the instant any of them did.

And one person identified the craft.

Berger did.

“During the Armored Hammer of God Incident two years ago, a single aerial warship obliterated the German Air Force’s 5th Division. It used inertial flight and transformed each time it fought.” A breath. “It’s said the Kaizerburg was modeled after the Messiah’s dragon in the Unreif Germane and its presence as history’s strongest warship pushed the world toward militarism. …But this is shaped differently. It looks more refined than the Kaizerburg.”

Schweitzer realized Berger was looking to him, so he explained.

“This is the Sylphide prototype built by Marsch Gant.”

He started to say more but was cut off when the blue Sylphide suddenly dropped down as if it were feeling blue after giving up on finding whatever it was searching for. It almost seemed to be sinking down on a spring, so he barked a command again.

“Withdraw immediately! Shockwave incoming!!”

The blue craft immediately hopped skyward as if it were making a side flip.

The air burst around it with a sound like tearing paper.

The atmosphere was shredded and a chilly white ring spread out and burst, producing a shockwave.

Their surroundings were pummeled by a heavy roar reminiscent of a waterfall.

The soldiers on the road were blown away and their weapons skittered across the pavement or flew through the air. Their screams joined together as one, but Schweitzer remained motionless as he stood their holding Cat Hazel.

The figure in a black coat was no longer on the road in front of him.

Schweitzer simply held the sleeping cat there on his shoulder.

“All that remains is a girl with a will much like ''hers'' and the Messiah implant!?”

His words were drowned out by the wind. The wind of that winter night grew stronger and stronger as it crashed into him.

The wind never stopped blowing.

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