Editing City Series:Volume6e Chapter6 (section)

===Part 7===

She ran.

She ran through the darkness, broke through another door, and found a lit corridor just like Witzmann had said she would.

The place was deserted. She focused all her attention on her vision, ignoring all the sounds around her.

There was a door ahead, so she swung Rein König to break through. She didn’t need an Up. Her heightened will and her experience from battling Lillie let her Tune with just her words.

She didn’t know what it was she said.

But a piercing power emerged from the corridor’s thin air.

The power raced out and broke through the door, revealing the space on the other side.

It was another corridor with another thick door at the end.

A man stood to the side of that door. The tall, skinny elderly man wore a Geheimnis Agency Air Force Division combat coat. It was Schweitzer’s aide.

She felt bad that she couldn’t remember his name.

He faced her and bowed. The hand he held toward the door held a pistol.

She heard his voice with her will, not with her hearing that had faded away thanks to her intense concentration.

“Eingeweide gun Freischütz – Ober Beweisen.”

<One body gathers everything inside it. Another releases everything into the world. Which will you watch over? Which will you abandon?>

The muzzle flashed, but no bullet emerged.

Instead, Hazel saw a power. It flew toward the door and destroyed it.

But instead of destroying it in an ordinary fashion, all the screws and rails used to construct the door came apart in an instant. The door became no more than a few metal panels and other components and collapsed away from him.

Hazel bowed toward the elderly man as she ran by. She passed through the collapsing door in just three steps.

The door past it had been dismantled as well, so she ran through the gap that created.

She found a large space beyond.

The tall cylindrical space was the core of Tristan.

She found herself on a walkway crossing a seemingly bottomless pit.

…'' Neue Erde is here!

She saw a pillar running through the center of Tristan. There was a control panel where the walkway reached the pillar and a window was installed on the wall above that.

“That must be it!”

The sound returned to her ears then.

She heard Tristan’s pulse and a deep tremor of the air. They both rang loud like a shouting voice.

But she did not fear those sounds. She ran forward with Rein König ready in her right hand.

The window was right in front of her. The metal and plastic tubes on the other side were pulsating to show the massive device was reaching the height of its activity.

Something odd stuck out from the artificial veins that twisted around like serpents.

Hazel confirmed it was a woman’s hand.

The right hand had its palm up and an ear of golden wheat sat in that palm.

She leaped, raised Rein König in her right hand, and slammed it directly into the window.

The tip shattered the glass and pierced the metal pipes to stab deeper.

She felt it reach something.

Then she raised her voice to return the target’s Lives to normal.

“Ah.”

There was no hesitation in her voice.

…''Because she’s so much like me!

Rein König’s blade shined bright, that light burned the pipes, raced across the control panel, and accelerated along the outer surface of the giant metal pillar.

She reached out her left hand and grabbed the outstretched right hand, pressing down on the ear of wheat.

“That’s enough. This can end.”

She sent her thoughts into Rein König, trusting it would reach the woman.

“This nightmare can finally end!”

Light exploded inside Tristan.

Everything was ending.