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

===Part 15===

「What is going on!? What should we do about that Ruin Gigas!? What happened to the mixed army stationed at the hidden fortress!?」

On the other hand, a tense war conference was opened in the conference room of the castle and many angry yells and screams flew around.

The Drag-Knights that the New Kingdom military and the Four Great Nobles rounded up.

Almost all of them, six hundred Drag-Knights fell into Hayes’s scheme and got scattered, more than half were annihilated and the rest were forced to retreat.

Furthermore the Drag-Knights stationed at the northeast for monitoring the area and the scouts altogether failed to notice the Gigas, making them late to deal with it. The dispersed Drag-Knights took flight where they were then crushed quickly.

The radical and large change in situation that was too much made the second and third defense plans that were prepared to be of no use and they fell into a kind of confused state.

「Confirm the situation! What happened with the force there!? How many Drag-Knights remaining that can fight!?」

「Half the number of Lord Dist’s force is rescuing the people and defending the surrounding blocks you say!? If they have that kind of free time then tell them instead to go suppress the enemy! What are they going to do if the enemy reaches until the castle! The safety of her majesty is number one!」

The remaining senior statesmen raised their voices roughly while gasping for breath.

Amidst that, suddenly a voice came from beside the room.

「How ugly. So any authority figure is all the same when they are cornered.」

「Sto, stop it! This room is──guhah!?」

*DON!* Two palace guards were blown through the conference room’s door from the shockwave of Howling Howl.

「──Wha, what’s going on-!?」

After the panicked consuls yelled, three Drag-Knights were standing at the other side of the broken door.

At the front was a girl with trait of brown skin wearing a B-blood Wyvern──Saniya.

And then right behind her was a man wearing a B-blood Wyrm, Egnid, and lastly a masked girl wearing a B-blood Drake, Kirly. Both of them were accompanying Saniya.

Hayes’s direct subordinates──the three Drag-Knights who were called Cerberus.

「Yo, you bastard, who are──hih!?」

The moment one of the consuls raised his voice, several shots of light and sound of destruction reverberated inside the conference room, blowing away several desks, flower vases, and documents.

The shooting of Breath Gun from Saniya’s B-blood Wyvern threatened everyone there.

「All of you don’t have any right to ask anything. Just answer my question truthfully.」

Saniya directed a cold gaze at the speechless consuls and quickly told them.

「Where are you guys hiding the Gran Force you brought from Cross Field’s Academy?」

「Wha……what are you talking about?」

Several consuls paled at Saniya’s question and replied like that.

Saniya who saw that pointed her gun muzzle on a consul’s head while smiling.

「I see, a splendid resolve. If perhaps you really don’t know about it, then I’ll ask someone who definitely knows about it. ──Where is the queen?」

「Tha, that’s──!?」

When one of the consuls was faltering to speak, the fingers of the B-blood Wyvern Saniya was controlling touched the trigger of the Breath Gun.

But at that instant, a territory of faint light spread inside the conference room and the space wavered.

「──!?」

Saniya reflexively leaped behind, right after that a girl clad in armor appeared along with a seven colored halo.

In the past when Saniya infiltrated as a spy into the Academy, she idolized this girl like a big sister──a daughter of one of the Four Great Nobles, Celistia Ralgris, it was her figure.

「Celistia……! Why are you here!?」

「To pay back my debt──no, to take responsibility.」

Celis told while directing a sharp eye glint towards the bewildered Saniya.

「In the past, I didn’t know anything about you even though I was trying to understand you. That’s why──I will settle this right now.」

It was a reunion with the girl who betrayed her.

However, different from the past, now even when Saniya looked at that figure, there was no more hesitation inside Celis.

Celis’s consciousness was sharpened pointedly like a spear’s tip, her body was clad in an aloof atmosphere.

Celis’s stance that was polished to the utmost limit from the accumulation of diligent constant training had not even the slightest opening.

「Fuh……」

Saniya who should know about Celis’s strength from staying closest to her more than anyone smiled without any fear.

「Is it the instigation from that ruined prince? That’s just fine……I’ll show you! The power I obtained, I’ll show it to you bunch of noble bastards who went through a lukewarm way of life all this time!」

Saniya drove her B-blood Wyvern and slashed at Celis with swift action.

When Celis blocked that with her Lightning Lance, Egnid and Kirly started giving cover fire.