Editing Hagure Yuusha no Aesthetica:Volume 7 Chapter 4 (section)

===Part 11===
 
Although she had stopped thinking, Nanase Haruka immediately understood what that scene represented.
 
They didn't trip, they didn't fall asleep, and they didn't faint. The object she almost tripped over was Ryohei's right leg -- from the knee it was broken in two places. Not just the bone but the entire leg itself.
 
Both of them were covered in a white powdery substance.
 
It was frost.
 
Ryohei and Minami's bodies were frozen.
 
And......
 
They -- have been killed.
 
"H-how can......"
 
Dumbfounded, Haruka couldn't help muttering.
 
She had convinced herself that she envisaged all the worst case scenarios.
 
She even thought about the possibility of being attacked as soon as she opened the door, and even thought of countermeasures for that situation.
 
But......
 
Ryohei and Minami -- her two close friends dead was completely beyond Haruka's imagination.
 
"...... What...... have you."
 
Haruka could only stare, frozen in place.
 
-- Still, it was less than a few seconds that Haruka had stopped thinking.
 
However, it was a opening that could be exploited.
 
In that split second.
 
"-?"
 
Haruka felt a tremendous murderous intent run through her back.
 
She thought she was dead.
 
Then suddenly a heavy thud was heard behind her.
 
"-- Miu!"
 
Haruka instinctively screamed.
 
She immediately turned back to look. Miu was lying unconscious on the ground, and her long double ponytail was still floating down to the floor.
 
"Hmm...... I didn't expect it to go that easy."
 
Kyouya sneered, it seemed like he was a little disappointed.
 
"President......!"
 
Haruka was biting her lower lip as she stared straight at Kyouya.
 
-- Ryohei and Minami's death, and now Miu's attack cause her to be shaken.
 
In her mental state she was not in any position to put up any defense, when Kyouya's sudden murderous intent was released.
 
However, Haruka and Miu were not defenseless.
 
They had set up an invisible barrier around them.
 
But, the magical barrier's protection would only be effective against a magical attack. There was no no defense from "murderous intent." Moreover that wasn't just any ordinary murderous intent.
 
Rather it was from one of the world's strongest in COCOON -- Kyouya unleashed his murderous intent in earnest. Even just standing nearby Haruka thought she was dead.
 
The impact might not have any effect on the building, but Miu received a direct impact and as expected lost consciousness.
 
Haruka was now alone to face Kyouya, it became almost impossible for her to move. Still, she desperately began to squeeze out words.
 
"Why would you do all this......"
 
"-- In order to realize my ideal."
 
Kyouya did not hesitate to answer in a cold voice without a trace of emotion.
 
"However, this is not COCOON's ideal, but my own."
 
"To achieve that -- it was necessarily to kill Uesaki and Minami?"
 
Haruka couldn't help but raise her voice.
 
The fact that her two friends are dead was not easy to accept.
 
But now was not the time to escape from reality.
 
So Haruka accepted the facts, and an intense emotion emerged inside her –- anger.
 
Whatever the reason it was unforgivable.
 
But......
 
"......There was no other choice."
 
Kyouya said while smiling wryly.
 
"Before you came, Aihara-kun and Ryohei notice that I was moving secretly and came to find me. They wanted to know what I was thinking so I informed about my plans thinking that maybe they would want to help with it. Unexpectedly...... they wanted me to carefully reconsider."
 
And Kyouya lightly sighed "What a pity,"
 
"I didn't want to do it this way, but they both refused to quite about it. This plan must absolutely be keep secret from COCOON, any possible risk factors must be eliminated on the spot."
 
"They were not only your loyal subordinates, but also your best friends...... they could of constituted a risk to achieving your ideal so you had to kill them. This is your so called "no choice"......!"
 
Her suppressed anger turned into words, that overflowed from Haruka's mouth.
 
There was no way such simple words, could be used for justification.
 
After all, her original reason for joining the student council was because she believed in Kyouya's ideal.
 
But......
 
 
 
"Is it so wrong to prefer one's ideal over their friends?"
 
 
 
Kyouya had an ice-cold smile.
 
Haruka instinctively swallowed as if she was looking into a dark abyss in his eyes. Suddenly she had a feeling of deja vu from that coldness.
 
...... Those eyes......
 
She has seen the same eyes as Kyouya before.
 
So......
 
Back when she visited Alayzard with Akatsuki and her other friends.
 
In the religious kingdom of Aleclasta there was an archbishop in the church of Richard.
 
...... If she remembers correctly she was called Miranda......
 
The face that woman had when she crushed Haruka's theory at the peace negotiations.
 
She always felt she looked like someone very similar.
 
At last, Haruka understood the answer.
 
Hikami Kyouya is simply a second Miranda Quenty.