Editing City Series:Volume6a Chapter6 (section)

===Part 6===

The Sylphide slipped past the twin-fuselage ship’s Drache Kanones with a combination of sword strikes and an ascent.

The twin-fuselage ship targeted its belly as it flew up, but the twin-fuselage ship only fired 16 shots from its diffusion Kunst Eyes. One of its two Eyes on each side had been destroyed and there were faint marks from hits on its armor.

The barrage was thinner than before, but it was fast. Nevertheless, the Sylphide charged in while Erklärunging.

<The Wind never flees.>

The 30-yard craft easily slipped through the gaps and attacked the twin-fuselage ship from above.

The twin-fuselage ship responded by accelerating. It blew the white clouds away as it ascended somewhat. It matched the Sylphide’s altitude and showed off its six Schwerts and its rear rockets.

The shimmering heat of its rockets grew all the larger.

It slowly moved forward as if showing off its abilities.

It sped up, more and more lines of white water vapor trailed back from the Luftram projected out ahead of it, and it left those lines in its dust.

The Sylphide ducked below those after making it through the thinner barrage.

<Not a single other gust can blow ahead of the Wind.>

The shots stabbed into the clouds and the clouds erupted like pillars of fire before vanishing behind the ships.

The two ships only ever moved straight ahead.

When the Sylphide closed in, the twin-fuselage ship pulled away. When the twin-fuselage ship pulled away, the Sylphide would close in. And when a barrage was launched, the Sylphide would slip through the shots and move forward.

<All sound and speed are created by the Wind.

That which breaks through the air itself bears true strength.>

The two ships obeyed the wind to continue soaring.

Black smoke suddenly erupted from the holes on the top of the twin-fuselage ship. Those holes were from the hits it had taken and from the missing Kunst Eyes. The smoke formed long lines billowing back behind the ship.

The six Schwerts vanished from the rear of the ship and the barrage ended.

But the twin-fuselage ship’s speed did not fall.

It had chosen to prioritize speed even if that meant losing all rear defense and offense.

It could no longer support combat and speed simultaneously.

The Sylphide was not going to overlook even a momentary opening. It fired metal bullets from its forward Kunst Eyes. The metal bullets were made by providing the simplest Rätsel to their Ton, so they did not even have a homing ability.

They flew in a straight line and struck the rear of the twin-fuselage ship.

The Sylphide continued firing.

Two of the other ship’s six rear Kunst Eyes erupted into flames.

Then the twin-fuselage ship performed a forceful roll.

The wind blew, the clouds were scattered, and a few pieces of the ship’s armor peeled away.

The Sylphide’s next bullets missed.

As soon as it moved to pursue the fleeing twin-fuselage ship, that other ship used hits four remaining rear Kunst Eyes to fire the same sort of metal bullets at the Sylphide instead of more Schwerts.

The surviving diffusion Kunst Eyes on the top of the ship began to repeatedly fire as well.

There was no hesitation in the rapid-fire attack.

All the gunfire produced a monotone rumbling in the wind.

The metal bullets and glowing bullets crossed paths as they attempted to destroy everything.

The power consumed for this destructive act very clearly reduced the twin-fuselage ship’s speed.

<Slow and weak are synonymous here.

Thus, the Wind must continue ever onward.>

It rapidly slipped between the bullets and dove within the shockwave produced by the twin-fuselage ship’s Luftram.

It flew just a few yards above the right fuselage’s upper armor and raced forward. It drew a single glowing sword to slice through the armor and cut away the Drache Kanone there.

The sounds of destruction were swept away by the wind.

The severed cannon flew through the air and was torn to pieces by the shockwave produced by the Luftram.

The Sylphide pierced the shockwave with its forward-thrust Schwert and continued onward. The glowing sword burst through the umbrella-shaped shockwave, producing a new shockwave of its own and instantly negating the original destructive wave

The crashing of the waves produced a white vapor cloud the Sylphide flew into.

A moment later, the Sylphide was already flying through the windy sky.

It threw on a burst of acceleration, leaving behind the twin-fuselage ship with its starboard side destroyed.

The left side fired its Drache Kanone, but the Sylphide avoided it as if flying around the light. It slowly put away its Schwert and slipped behind the twin-fuselage ship.

It approached the four rear Kunst Eyes that continued firing and it destroyed them one by one.

Fire burst from all four of them.

That fire rapidly spread across the holes and wounds opened across the ship, creating a great conflagration.

The twin-fuselage ship burst into flames.

Its great speed sent the black smoke and red flames flying backwards. It remained flying, but it was slowly losing altitude.

The Sylphide ignored its falling opponent.

The blue blade of a craft mercilessly resumed accelerating. It left the slowed ship behind as it shot forward. It surrounded itself with several different water vapor explosions while skimming just above the clouds.

A few seconds after the Sylphide passed by, the clouds would rupture and burst.

The sun was starting to descend in the sky and that warm light washed over the Sylphide while it tilted a bit to the right. Its curved wings jutted out to the sides and the starboard tip touched and gouged into the clouds.

The fluffy white clouds flew wildly into the air.

After two seconds, the Sylphide straightened out as if satisfied.

Then a giant shape approached from behind it.

It was the twin-fuselage ship. The giant ship looked like it was flying through a great cloud of black smoke at this point, but it managed to catch up to the accelerating Sylphide even as it shuddered violently.

Its roar and the atmospheric pressure it produced were enough to shake the clouds.

It could not even produce a Luftram since it was pouring all power into acceleration.

The two ships skimmed just off of the cloudy sea.

They were moving fast.

The twin-fuselage ship tried to move out ahead with its injured acceleration and the sole remaining Drache Kanone on its top side slowly, slowly aimed toward the Sylphide to its side.

The cannon was shaking too much to take aim normally, so it had been fixed aiming straight back, parallel to the ship’s direction of movement, since that was its most stable position. That was why the ship had to move out ahead of the Sylphide to fire at it.

Shimmering heat burst from the rockets on its back.

The twin-fuselage ship moved out ahead. The Sylphide accelerated too. It raced through the sky with all its strength, but it could not catch up.

The enemy moved out ahead and its stern was fully in Sylphide’s view.

It spewed flames and smoke while accelerating further. The Sylphide had been fully passed, just like when this enemy had first appeared.

The Drache Kanone filled with light while aimed straight back.

And that was as far as it got.

While silhouetted by the sun, the ship’s central bridge broke apart and then the entire thing fell to pieces.

The twin-fuselage ship split into something like two swords that bounced up into the air and were swept away behind the Sylphide. The long ship was torn to pieces after a blow from the fist of air resistance. The metal flying object was reduced to scraps in no time, creating a blossom in the air behind the Sylphide.

The Sylphide shook off the flames and smoke and dove through the cloud of scraps.

An explosion erupted behind it.

Large pieces flew past the Sylphide, plunged into the cloudy ocean, and sank into its depths.

Several white pillars rose from the clouds, but even they were left behind as the Sylphide flew onward.

All the remained were the sky, the clouds, the wind, and the roar.

And the Sylphide angled upwards.

It began a vertical ascent. To test itself, it set its goal at a position higher even than the heavens.