Editing The Unexplored Summon Blood Sign:Volume1 Chapter4 (section)

===Part 8===

Cut, bite, crush, pierce, shoot, squeeze, scrape, repel, soak, burn, sever, uproot, freeze, beat, squash, strangle, split, break, throw, twist, gouge, rip, absorb, and smash.

It only lasted a few seconds, but after the light and darkness caused enough destruction and catastrophe for the world itself to crumble around them, only one of the white and black remained.

“Heh…heh hah.”

It had come down to a hint of exhaustion or a slight scratch.

That had determined this battle between Materials with identical specs.

Just as Kyousuke had expected.

“Ah hah…ah hah hah… Brother. Oh, brother…”

It had been cannibalistic. It had been the slaughter of one’s own. It was amazing that the black-dyed Queen could even stand. In fact, she did not even have all four limbs anymore.

She may have been standing and she may have been floating, but she slowly approached all the same.

“Now, that nuisance is gone… No one in the world can stop me. Ah ha, ah ha ha. It’s time to chew you apart…from head to toe…”

“That’s one idea.”

Kyousuke smiled a little as he spoke.

The Black Maw was a symbol of the taboo. Once she devoured the offending summoner, she would vanish on her own. To save Meinokawa Higan, he needed to have the Black Maw leave as soon as possible. Her actions were restricted by a clear objective and set rules, so there was a lot more hope than with the White Queen who had gone on an indiscriminate rampage with the power of the “spring”.

A sticky sound spread as what had once been the beautiful Queen approached.

If she devoured him, it would all be over.

In exchange for Shiroyama Kyousuke’s life, Meinokawa Higan’s life would be saved.

“Yes.”

But a certain thought came to his mind.

He considered what that meant He wanted to live and see what happened afterwards, but what was it he wanted to see?

“Your idea…”

“?”

“Wouldn’t count as saving them…”

He had told Meinokawa Renge that sacrificing someone would not truly save her sister Higan.

Meinokawa Higan had said they were both Alice (with) Rabbit and that she could support him.

So in that moment…

“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!”

Shiroyama Kyousuke fought back. He raised his Repliglass Blood-Sign and used his one and only chance by forcefully launching a White Thorn.

The black Queen did not even bother looking that way.

She bit at the feast before her eyes. The protective circle was meaningless. Kyousuke kept his eyes on the White Thorn while ignoring the intense pain and disturbing chewing noise coming from his shoulder.

It was a simple method listed even in Government’s strict textbooks.

The White Thorn flew straight out and hit a low sound Petal. That Petal was absorbed by a nearby Spot and a single pure sound rang out.

Yes.

This abnormal Material had been created from the even number of low, middle, and high sounds, so this shot broke that balance.

“Ah.”

“Th-this might be a first. Normally, the Black Maw kills the summoner as soon as it appears, so they don’t have time to try this.”

“Ahhh, ah.”

“Farewell, Black Maw. …I don’t need to cheat, so I’ll defeat you within the rules. You’re still a Material. And even if I lost control as a penalty for the Taboo, you’re still a Material under my command!!”

The balance had been broken.

She shifted to another Material.

“Brother. Oh, I can still taste you, brotherrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!”

That catastrophic love was swallowed by a vortex of transformation and erased from this world.

The Material became one of the Unexplored-class, but once the ninety seconds of the Chain waiting period passed, it too would be released. The enemy was gone. With no one left to fight, the summoning ceremony could not continue.

Still covered in blood, Shiroyama Kyousuke watched as the strange monster transformed into a certain girl.

“…Uuh…?”

As the girl collapsed from extreme exhaustion, she groaned and that told him she had been freed before her heart was entirely eaten away.

He determined he had fulfilled both sisters’ requests to save the other.

“Now, then.”

He slowly breathed out.

He grabbed the Blood-Sign with a hand that had nearly been torn to pieces, used his unharmed hand to place Meinokawa Higan over his shoulder, and slowly looked up at the ceiling.

He heard quite a few hurrying footsteps. He had taken the shortest route here while avoiding as much combat as possible. He had defeated the White Queen at the center of it all, but Guard of Honor’s elites were still active.

And his goal had not been to save the world or defeat the Queen.

It had been to bring Meinokawa Higan safely back to her sister Renge.

“It isn’t over until we’re back home.”

The door was thrown open from outside.

Kyousuke looked over.

He could no longer use the summoning ceremony that used the Blood-Sign.

They would have put together a countermeasure for his surprise attack using eye drops and darkness.

But he had not given up.

After all, he was Alice (with) Rabbit.