Editing Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance:VolumeEF Chapter7 (section)

===Part 15===

The venue of the Elemental Festa was instantly plunged into massive chaos filled with screams.

The two giant divine dragon spirits unleashed fire and water breath. Gone berserk, hundreds of spirits were flashing intensely while crashing towards surrounding buildings.

The two thousand spectators gathered at the venue screamed, trying to escape.

"...What on earth happened!?"

Claire cried out.

"I have no idea either!"

"...Th-That's the Kagura of the Mad Banquet."

Fianna spoke in a nervous tone.

"What is that?"

"It is a type of dark kagura for making spirits go berserk. I read about it from a sealed book back when I was at the Divine Ritual Institute."

"What? Why would something like that&mdash;"

Claire widened her eyes in shock and met Kamito's gaze with her own.

Most likely, Kamito had thought of the same thing.

The darkness spirit who had given her a frenzy in the past and plunged the Academy town into chaos&mdash;

(...Could it be Restia?)

At that moment, one of the divine dragon spirits struck the stage hard with its massive tail.

Craaaaaaash!

The stage's stone wall instantly collapsed, producing a huge cloud of dust.

"...Oh no, Dark Evangel!"

"Don't worry, they're fine."

Fianna reassured the screaming Claire.

Kamito looked more closely. At some point in time, Georgios had raised a large shield under the falling rain of debris to protect the members of Dark Evangel, who had fallen unconscious.

"Princess, why are the spirits still berserk when the kagura has already stopped?"

"All is in vain once the Kagura of the Mad Banquet activates&mdash;"

The two great spirits roared and kept unleashing fire and ice breath.

...At this rate, not only the venue but also the neighborhood could end up destroyed.

(...This is really giving me no choice.)

Kamito was probably the only person present who was capable of fighting two high-level spirits at the same time.

...No time to hesitate. Kamito took the hand of Est, who was standing by his side.

"Est, let's go!"

"Yes, I am your sword, Kamito. Your wish is my command&mdash;"

Est's body turned into particles of light and vanished. The Demon Slayer appeared in Kamito's hand.

This was the ultimate elemental waffe, even capable of destroying high-ranked spirits.

However, Claire grabbed Kamito's arm just as he was about to rush in.

"No, Kamito, you can't! If you erase the two great spirits, the Academy won't be able to function!"

"Indeed, you should consider that the last resort&mdash;"

Looking at the silver-white sacred sword, Fianna nodded and concurred.

"Yeah, but at this rate, the town will..."

"We will take action. Kamito-kun, you go protect the people."

Fianna asserted clearly.

"...What do you mean by take action?"

"We will use our kagura to calm down the spirits."

"...Is that possible?"

"Yes. Thanks to the many idols here, if we all cooperate, it should be possible to break the Kagura of the Mad Banquet&mdash;"

"I see..."

Quelling berserk spirits was a very tough mission. However, if every princess maiden at the scene performed a calming kagura as an offering, perhaps it would work&mdash;

"...I guess we've got no choice. We're doing this, girls."

"...Understood." "You can count on me."

Faced with Claire's call, Ellis and Rinslet nodded with determination.

Ha~ha~ha~ha~, ha~ha~ha~ha~&mdash;

The song Gospel's Elementalia was playing at maximum volume&mdash;

With the song playing, Claire and the girls deployed their elemental waffen, dividing their efforts to handle the berserk spirits while calling for the remaining Festa participants to cooperate.

"Captain, our orders please!"

The members of the Wind Fairies, hidden behind the rubble, ran over to Ellis' side.

"Follow the princess' directions. Offer a calming kagura together."

"Understood."

"We will help too."

"Shareilia-san, thank you so much!"

With Team Cernunnos, dressed in animal costumes, leading the way, the other teams also came forward to gather one after another.

"Everyone, gather in front of the stage!"

Constructing an isolation barrier to defend against spirit attacks, Fianna gave directions to the princess maidens.

Conducting herself nothing like a princess usually, she was currently exuding royal solemnity.

Using Flametongue, Claire drew two spirits' attention. Rinslet struck down spirits that were aiming to attack Fianna. During this time, Ellis and the members of the Sylphid Knights swiftly rescued audience who had not run away in time&mdash;

(...The girls have progressed so much.)

Kamito was working to protect the audience too. He muttered to himself in his mind.

Despite quarreling all the time in the beginning, coming into conflict&mdash;

Now they had come to understand one another's strengths and weaknesses, able to coordinate and cooperate.

The gathered princess maidens began to offer kagura to the two great spirits that had gone berserk.

The young maidens' prayer-like singing voices turned into a powerful chorus, sending unruly spirits to Astral Zero one after another&mdash;

However&mdash;

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

The two divine dragon spirits roared at the same time, firing their breath at the stage.

"...Kyahhhh!"

The raging breath easily broke the barrier, sending the entire stage flying.

(...Sure enough, it didn't work...!?)

Kamito poured divine power into the Demon Slayer.

The silver-white blade glowed with blinding brilliance.

He could not allow this to go on any further. To prevent the town from getting caught up in danger, there was no solution but to erase the two great spirits.

Just as Kamito was going to charge at the stage...

"Kamito&mdash;"

"...?"

Unexpectedly, a shadow at his foot shook and a figure appeared.

Kamito could not help but halt.

"Freya-sensei!?"

Out appeared from the shadow was his homeroom teacher, Freya.

"Why are you here...? No wait, now's the time, please help!"

"Well, calm down&mdash;"

Freya quietly shook her head.

"The headmistress asked me to come over. To give this to you."

She handed out a large bag, carried in her arms.

"...What is this?"

"No idea. The headmistress says you'll understand."

"...?"

With a question mark over his head, Kamito opened the bag to peer inside.

The bag contained&mdash;

A clean and tidy costume of pure white and brilliantly shining blonde wig.

"...!"

Kamito instantly understand Greyworth's intent for delivering this to him.

...He clutched his head after he figured it out.

(...Argggggggh, I see now, damn it!)