Editing Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut:Volume 12 Prologue (section)

==Prologue – Right Under the Heavens==
A female Drag-Knight wearing a pilot suit was staring at a chalk white space.

Glamorous brown skin and black hair, and then a crimson tattoo that was engraved on her cheek. The girl’s name was Soffice Xfer.

She was the Seven Dragon Paladin of the Turkimes Confederation, at the same time she was an existence that was called as Key’s {{furigana|Key’s Supervisor|Xfer}}.

And then, just the other day, using the function of the Ruin Moon, she made a war declaration towards the world.

「Fuu……」

She dodged the countless bombardment, weapons, and Divine Raiments approaching her and shifted into counterattack.

After she finished defeating a great number of Drag-Knights, Lux wearing a jet black huge dragon Bahamut appeared in the end.

He employed a varied offense and quickly took countermeasures against Vritra that Soffice was wearing.

It seemed that Lux with Bahamut was specialized for offense, but contrary to expectations he was greatly persevering in his defense too, not giving Soffice the chance to execute a winning move.

「Persistent man, will get hated.」

「Sheesh Soffice, even though you have never even gone out with a boy.」

「……Animal ear, just shut up, focus on operating the device.」

It was a spherical space that was surrounded with chalk white walls──a battle space.

An Automaton was looking down at Soffice from the viewing room that was separated from the space by glass to overlook from above.

This battle was an image battle that made use of the simulator that was a facility within the Moon.

The enemy’s movement was produced as a virtual image based on the information that the Gear Leader Re Plica recorded.

The opponent wasn’t limited to Lux.

All the battles of the Seven Dragon Paladins’ members had been recorded, with the exception of Magialca. Even the main force of the New Kingdom like Lisha and the others had their data recorded too.

What they understood from that was that their strength really couldn’t be underestimated.

If it was an opponent she couldn’t match, she would exercise her ingenuity and escape.

Winning without fighting was Soffice’s ideal, but as expected the Seven Dragon Paladins wouldn’t be that naïve.

「Haa, haah……!」

Soffice activated Vritra’s Divine Raiment and like that she shot down Lux’s Bahamut.

With this, she had managed to defeat most of the opponents that could possibly stand in her way as enemies.

「That’s amazing desu, Soffice. With this your preparation is perfect desu!」

Re Plica turned off the simulator and came down from the viewing room and went to Soffice’s side.

The fox ears growing from her head which was the special trait of an Automaton were happily twitching──but,

「Unfortunately, a simulation will only be a simulation in the end. Especially the survivor of that family of traitors, Lux is very troublesome. The strength to create new tactics in the middle of a fight cannot be measured in here.」

Soffice replied bluntly while dispelling her armor with an expression that contained no carelessness.

She put on a robe and like that she exited the room along with Re Plica and headed to the corridor.

「The situation is advantageous for us, but we will get surrounded if the enemy outwits us even once. If that happens then even I won’t be able to escape……. I especially don’t want to face Singlen.」

「You are absurd as usual desu. More importantly, is this really alright? Turning the world into an enemy──」

「…………」

Re Plica looked down anxiously. In response Soffice fell silent.

「It’s scary. My body is still shivering.」

Soffice was talking with an emotionless tone without any inflection, however she spoke out her true feelings.

Yes, it was scary.

But she couldn’t take it back anymore.

She used the function of the seventh Ruin, the Moon to control the remaining two Ragnarok and threatened all the countries including the New Kingdom.

She told them to not interfere from now on until she installed all the Grand Forces into the Ruins and reached Avalon.

She understood that she was causing a great chaos.

Even so──Soffice was convinced that this was the best method for the world’s sake.

She couldn’t hand over Avalon to that family of traitors or to anyone else.

Soffice was fighting in order to fulfill the will of Uruk Xfer, her little sister who was betrayed and killed in the past because she was wishing for peace.

Two months were remaining until the world ended due to Sacred Eclipse.

Surely the world alliance and also the imperial family of the Lords would oppose her with great desperation.

To the degree that there was a possibility that just the Ragnarok and Moon’s attacks wouldn’t be enough to hold them in check.

No, if it were the remaining opponents, they would surely launch their countermeasure at the opening that Soffice exposed from here on.

She didn’t want to borrow Dragon Marauder’s strength anymore, but she wouldn’t be able to win if she didn’t make use of them well.

「Uruk……. What you left undone isn’t something easy.」

The expressionless Soffice put on a faint self-depreciating smile.

The entrance to Avalon would appear soon in the abandoned capital Guernica in the Marcafal Kingdom. (TN: In vol 11 the name of the capital was Gelsera, but in here it’s changed like this. Don’t know why myself.)

Even the enemy surely understood, that the greatest opening would show up when the gate was opened after the seven Grand Forces were installed.

The seventh Ruin, Moon.

Under the sky that was nearest to the heavens.

The girl renewed her determination while overlooking the capital of the New Kingdom.


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