Editing Hyouketsu Kyoukai no Eden:Volume 5 Final Chapter (section)

===Part 11===

A cloud of dust hung over the area.

In the world of dust from rubble, flashes that made one think of lightning drew arcs.

“───”

Landing on the rubble piled in the passage and once again jumping off there without a moment’s delay.

From the floor to the wall, from the wall to the ceiling, from the ceiling to the floor and then again to the wall. She was closing in using that method which would cause dizziness just by looking at it for a person with a normal sense of balance.

That was the lean spear user who clearly stood out even amidst the dust.

“Heaven Piercing Mother Earth.”

The one waiting was the shinryoku practitioner donning an ocher robe.

“Fire a hundred spears.”

From underfoot, overhead and to the sides. The bare rock walls that had their paint removed pulsed, and stone spears with a sharp outline flew out all at once. Even if it was wide, it was still a corridor. She couldn’t dodge spears approaching from every single direction. But──

Seeing that in front of her, Ishtar didn’t stop running or have any hesitation.

“Is just a hundred okay?”

The spear’s tip blurred from an instant.

Immediately after, the stone spears all broke apart with a dry sound. Iai. And it was with a sequence of movements at a speed where none of it could be seen.

“A hundred isn’t enough.”

Four metres until Maha. If she put strength into her step, it was well within her spear’s reach. Just before that, the wall directly to the side of Ishtar collapsed.

“!”

A giant forelimb stretched out from the large black hole created by the cave-in. The slimy claw with a brown sheen ripped the shoulder portion of her formal wear ── before her brain registered that, Ishtar jumped in the opposite direction.

A flash while she was flying.

She severed the claw that was sticking to the cut on her formal wear down the middle.

“I see, so you expected that I’d break through the stone spears and set a trap.”

She looked at her right arm which was exposed up to near the elbow and smiled. Only the formal wear was torn; there was not a single wound on her smooth flesh. Despite having taken such a perfect surprise attack.

“I haven’t had my clothes torn in anything other than a spar with Sennenshi recently. ……You’ve brought out something quite large.”

A giant shadow appeared and broke through the wall to the side without leaving a trace.

An earth dragon. Its mouth could open as much as a person is tall and it had the body size to match. It’s black scales were hard enough to deflect steel swords and even a machine gun couldn’t do any effective damage. It was a large carnivore that served as the symbol for dangerous species in the Biotope.

“Well, however,”

Standing in front of the beast which let out a roar, Ishtar just shook her head carelessly.

“This isn’t all, right? It’s not enough, you’re not thinking that you can satisfy with just this, right?”

“…………”

The two transcendentals glared at each other in that spot where the dragon was raging.

The one who disrupted that unnatural silence was the silent Golden spell caster.

“……It’s about time he returned.”

“For Sheltis?”

“……Igun-I……it was a whim but……it isn’t going to be a hindrance.”

Maha said that with absolute confidence.

“I will……not lose. All creation, in other words……no unforeseen incidents…………the balance will be kept in this place and be resolved at the other locations.”

The other locations.

In other words, the Holy Hall that she’d sent Sheltis to.

Then there was Monica’s unit whom she’d entrusted the Priestess’ guarding to.

“Therefore, I will just buy time──”

“Shall we make a bet?”

Ishtar’s fearless smile cut him off.
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“Whether or not the results for the other locations will be as you’ve exaggeratedly predicted. I’ll bet that you’re ‘''wrong''‘. If I get it wrong, then I’ll become your subordinate?”

“…………”

“The tower is a gathering of weaklings. But they have strong fighting spirits. The Priestesses and Guards alike.”

“……So?”

The Cadres Guard silently raised her spear at that question.

“What creates a reform in the world has always been peoples’ resolve.”