Editing City Series:Volume6e Chapter4 (section)

===Part 15===

The Aerial Words continued.

<The sky contains the colors of morning, a chilly wind, and the fresh air.>

<The artificial sky cannot be severed by destiny.>

Gelegenheit’s blade caught on the empty air, bent, and broke.

Neue Schwarz immediately flapped its wings.

The ground had disappeared below its feet, replaced by a white sea of clouds.

It was surrounded by the morning sky colored a light purple.

The thrusters in its wings gave a blast to propel it forward with sufficient initial velocity. Neue Schwarz shouted in recognition of a sky it had once flown in as Schwarz Löwe.

“Kaiser’s sky!”

The second barrage was incoming. And unlike the first volley, this one had no homing rounds.

The lights of a third barrage were visible past this one.

Its opponent was not found past that third one. He had disappeared.

“Did he already shoot enough!?”

That man had said to make it through what he fired.

Not to dodge it.

So Neue Schwarz roared. It slammed its wings into the air behind it to start forward with a loud boom.

It left behind the white smoke of bursting air as it raced forward through the sky. It flew toward the space behind the two incoming barrages – toward where Karl Schmitt had withdrawn.

Its wings’ thrusters sucked in more wind and created powerful turbulence behind it.

A roar briefly exploded behind it.

Then all sound in front of it vanished.

Its head, the center of its torso, and its shoulders broke through a barrier of air.

It had broken the sound barrier.

The barrages were coming.

The physical projectiles distorted the air as they flew in.

But the racing black Heavy Barrel did not hesitate to charge in shoulder first.

It closed its wings and flew with its legs behind it. The leading bullet grazed the right side of its head.

It used its neck to absorb and correct for the impact. It had entered the barrage.

It opened its wings just enough to soar through the destructive rain.

It spun right, up, left, and then left again. And it never forgot to be moving ever forward.

Just one shot was on a collision course for its left chest. There was no dodging it.

So it swung its left fist out in front and struck the shell’s extrapolated course before the shell actually arrived

The punch created a shockwave that collided with the shell.

With a roar of air and a crash of metal, the shell was diverted off course.

Neue Schwarz made it through.

The Heavy Barrel and the barrage intersected over a distance of about 400 yards, but it took less than half a second.

However, the next barrage – the third one – was already incoming.

There was nothing past it.

Distance-wise, passing through this barrage would mean reaching Karl’s previous position.

So Neue Schwarz flapped its wings to fly forward.

The color black accelerated through the artificial emptiness of the dawning fictional sky.

It advanced.

Then it caught sight of a shape flying in even closer than the barrage.

It was hard to notice with the bright lights of the thick barrage spread out behind it, but that was definitely a single physical bullet.

It was an 88mm armor-piercing round. It flew in like a black arrow surrounded by distorted air and it must have been fired by Neue Blau’s rifle.

The entire barrage behind it had been camouflage for this one shot.

“That was your plan!?”