Editing Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut:Volume 5 Episode 4 (section)

===Part 13===

A battle between fellow Divine Drag-Rides had began on the right shoulder of Gigas.

At the opposite side, a girl was standing on the deck.

「──I’ve been waiting, Aruji-sama.」

The black clothed girl displayed a smile that was filled with deep affection and bowed elegantly.

The last servant who swore with that body of the Old Empire’s restoration, the Empire’s Assassin Blade, Kirihime Yoruka.

「It seems various things happened below hasn’t it? That princess also said it, something about someone’s Drag-Ride getting manipulated──. Aruji-sama, are you suspecting me of that?」

「──No, that wasn’t your doing.」

Lux shook his head toward Yoruka’s question and declared so.

The Divine Drag-Ride she controlled, Yato no Kami.

Its Divine Raiment, Spell Code. Certainly, there was a time when Lux suspected her because of that ability.

But, there was something he noticed from talking with Yoruka several times.

This girl’s principle wouldn’t trifle with that kind of petty trick.

What happened was most likely──Hayes’s schemes.

It was a trap to provoke and incite the Vanheim Principality that had a grudge against the Old Empire, making them aim at the members of the New Kingdom that included Lux, and at the same time made Lux and the others to doubt Yoruka as the perpetrator to make them fight each other.

「But if that’s the case, this is a bit strange isn’t it? Then why does Aruji-sama appear in front of this me? Isn’t Aruji-sama’s first priority to beat this Gigas first, which you can do by ignoring this insignificant battle against me?」

Yoruka tilted her head slightly and asked in wonder.

「That──I cannot do.」

Lux answered with a calm face while slowly closing the distance between them.

「With you the strongest one in this place waiting here, I won’t be able to pass even if I avoid you, besides I believe that surely there is a reason for me to fight you.」

「…………」

Yoruka didn’t reply anything to Lux who muttered that calmly. She was only deepening her smile.

Without defeating Yoruka, Lux wouldn’t be able to break through the path until Gigas’s deepest part.

But, Lux himself had his own thinking that differed from that objective.

Others might laugh if they heard his reason but──he wanted to save Yoruka.

She was controlled by the Old Empire, exchanged contracts with the emperor, and even now she adhered to it, tied by that curse.

「──Erode, the serpentine dragon of massacre that is the personification of evil omen. Exercise the authority of unworshipped god, Yato no Kami.」

Right after Lux spoke, Yoruka also drew out her Sword Device and summoned Yato no Kami.

The Drag-Ride of darkness color was clad with a blade’s majesty, worthy of its name. It immediately split into countless parts and transformed into an armor that covered Yoruka’s body.

「I thank you, Aruji-sama. Then, it will be a discourtesy if I make you wait for more than this.」

Yoruka declared with a smile and took a stance with her katana type Blade.

At the same time, Lux also held aloft his Chaos Brand.

「Here I come, Yoruka.」

「Yes.」

At the same time with that voice, Lux’s Bahamut kicked on the shoulder of Gigas that became the floor and soared.

The remaining expenditure time of Bahamut’s operation limit was approximately nine minutes.

If Lux’s assumption wasn’t mistaken, he would consume seven minutes here.

The curtain of that mortal combat had been cut off and fallen down.