Editing Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut:Volume 10 Episode 2 (section)

===Part 1===
The smell of salty sea breeze and the quiet sound of waves were filling inside the room.

「N, nn……fua」

Lisha was waking up while yawning. There a beautiful scenery was unfolding.

Blue sea and a harbor made from stone entered the eyes from the window of the small and clean bedroom.

The signboard of Triport, a port city in the western territory of the New Kingdom could be seen from there.

Because it was a city of commerce, it wasn’t a city where one could enjoy swimming in the sea, but it was quite interesting in its own way that the sea and ships were nearby.

It was also fun thinking of using Drag-Rides for crossing the sea or diving into it, and there was romance in ships crossing the sea.

For Lisha, whose hobby was to fiddle with Drag-Rides, this too was a scenery that invited her interest considerably, but──

「Something like patrolling is boring. Hearing the lectures of Instructor Raigree in the Academy is still better.」

She changed into her pilot suit even while complaining and put on a robe above it.

She opened the door and exited the government building, then she walked towards the opposite side of the port.

At the east of the city, there was a base that was surrounded by a stone rampart, the soldiers greeted her while she was heading there.

「Good morning, your highness Princess Lizsharte!」

「Morning. No need to greet so stiffly like that. It just makes me tired.」

Lisha brightly exchanged light talk while advancing deeper into the base briskly.

At present, there were two forces that were present in this place that was a defensive base from the first Ruin──Babel.

The first one was the force of Drag-Knights possessed by Dist Ralgris, the feudal lord of the western territory.

The other one was the main force of Heiburg’s military that obtained the investigation rights for the Ruin for a month.

A female general of the blooming age called Gutefelica took command of the army and progressed the conquering of Babel every day.

Inside Babel that was composed of thirteen floors in total, there was no conquer method other than climbing up from the first floor.

Although the Ruin was discovered in quite the early stages of the New Kingdom, the conquering itself stopped until the second floor.

The first floor was abnormally spacious. Because almost all the Drag-Rides had been carried out from the warehouses that existed in dozens of place there, and the appearance rate of the Abyss was also increasing from the second floor onward. The risk of conquering further didn’t match the possible gains.

「Good morning Lizsharte. Did you sleep well yesterday?」

When Lisha climbed to the lighthouse where Babel could be observed, a girl with the same outfit as her was standing by on the highest floor.

The daughter of one of the Four Great Nobles and the third year student who was the strongest in the Academy──Celistia Ralgris.

Lisha greeted back while sitting down beside her.

「I’ve got a good room prepared for me, but the sleeping comfort is the worst. I cannot sleep from feeling uneasy about the Heiburg bunches in this city.」

「I can sympathize. Its not just the fear against the threat of the Abyss, the air is also tense from the uneasiness Heiburg’s soldiers are bringing. We won’t last for a month like this.」

「In fact, they also cannot spend that much time conquering the Ruin.」

If the prediction from the Lord’s imperial princess Listelka was correct, it would be about five more months until the danger of world destruction by Sacred Eclipse.

Considering that there were still five Ruins that hadn’t been liberated, they didn’t even have the leeway to spend one month per Ruin.

Thus the world alliance leaders proposed that they should split their battle force into two and assault two Ruins simultaneously, but in reality they were indecisive.

The Seven Dragon Paladin of the Ymir Theocracy, Mel still hadn’t recovered completely. And above all else, since then Dragon Marauder was completely in hiding.

If they got attacked from the back by Dragon Marauder after they gave it their all in conquering the Ruins──thinking that caused the countries to become unable to make drastic moves.

When also considering the possibility that they wouldn’t be able to oppose a Ragnarok’s appearance and their country got destroyed, it was natural to consider to first take the wait-and-see approach at another country’s attempt.

In a sense it could be called as the natural conclusion when thinking that they would be unable to concentrate their forces in case all five Ragnarok got away simultaneously, but──

「This is troubling. When thinking about dealing with the Abyss that appear from Babel, we cannot leave from this place.」

It was already five days since Heiburg started conquering Babel.

Although at least there was an agreement that their exploration would be from dawn until sunset, there were countless transfer devices set up inside Babel to get outside the Ruin.

It was nice that there were a lot of escape routes, but even the Abyss would get invited by that and escape outside.

Those escaping enemies would fly to Triport, so Lisha and Celis were posted here to defend against those.

「Around ten Abysses came to Triport for the whole day yesterday. If there isn’t at least one Divine Drag-Ride user here, the battle line won’t hold with just father’s force.」

「You’re right.」

Lisha nodded and gazed at the townscape from the lighthouse.

Her gaze caught the sight of Rosa Granhide, the supreme commander of Heiburg’s force this time.

「It looks like that woman is really here huh. Though I don’t know why she is walking around the city like that.」

「It’s certainly strange. On the first day she only went to greet the city mayor, then she only looked around the city, leaving the conquering of Babel to her subordinate──」

Even if Heiburg planned to preserve their battle force until the shortest route inside Babel was confirmed, it was suspicious that Rosa’s aide, Calensia didn’t show up.

Because, in any case if they couldn’t arrive until the floor where the Ragnarok was at, sending out powerful Drag-Knights in the early stage would make the conquering progress faster.

「Either way, this time we cannot enter the Ruin. In a few more days, Krulcifer and that ero woman will come to relieve us from the defense role. Until then we can only accomplish our duty.」

「Come to think of it, recently it seems like you have a good relationship with Yoruka. I am still unable to interact well with her, so I’m envious.」

Celis suddenly said such thing.

It was about the former assassin girl who possessed the alias of the Empire’s Assassin Blade, a problem child who couldn’t blend in into the Academy at all.

Lisha’s cheeks blushed and she got flustered when Celis pointed that out.

「Tha, that’s not true at all-!? I’m meddling with that woman because she cannot just be left alone, it’s not what you think──or rather, what about you yourself!? Even though it was you who got taught to do that absurd thing in the Campus Festival’s punishment game!」

This time it was Celis’s turn to become red faced from Lisha’s objection.

She waved her hands around while making excuses about that time in panic.

「Tha, that was just me getting tricked by her! That’s, if I knew that kissing is fine with just touching the lips lightly, such a thing wouldn’t──」

「Well fine……. More importantly, I’m also worried about Lux.」

「You’re right. The high level Drag-Knights of Heiburg are all coming to conquer Babel, but it’s still somewhat worrying that he is infiltrating enemy territory.」

In case there was really a backroom deal happening there, the situation might even develop into battle there.

Even Celis and Lisha knew that the division commanders of Dragon Marauder were powerful enemies from their confrontation against Drakkhen.

「There is that but, that damned headmaster. She tried to make Lux and that airhead girl to get hitched with each other using all kinds of reasons──and of all things, it became a honeymoon!」

Lisha’s face reddened with a dissatisfied expression.

This time in order to avoid confusion, all members of Syvalles received an explanation before Lux departed, but it was still fresh in her memory how everyone except Philuffy and Yoruka were bewildered.

「It can’t be helped. After all, there is no doubt that she is the one qualified for the mission this time based on the circumstances.」

「But still──」

When Lisha said that stubbornly,

「You promised not to say that. Haa……even so, I also wanted to accompany him in a role as his guard or subordinate. If it’s me who is Syvalles’s captain, then there won’t be any violation of the norm even if I’m together with Lux.」

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「…………」

Lisha was staring suspiciously from the side at Celis’s face that looked somewhat sorrowful.

「Hah……. N, no, personally I’m not feeling envious towards Philuffy. Till the end it’s only because of my duty as an aide──」

「Honestly I’m still doubtful about your statement just now but, well fine. After all surely it’s a good thing that you can reveal your true self like that.」

Thinking back, Celis being a 『man-hater』 and also her personality that was stricter than necessary weren’t the real Celis.

With Lux’s influence that undid her obstinate feeling, Celis was gradually becoming able to show her true self even to people like Lisha and the others who were close to her like this.

「It’s mysterious. Even though we are separated, thanks to him we can be connected like this.」

Seeing Celis’s relieved smile, Lisha also nodded in satisfaction.

At that moment, they could hear the bell sound that informed the attack of the Abyss.

The signal of the bell came five times. The sign meant that five Abyss had appeared from Babel and they were heading here.

「Then, how about we test this so called power of unity right away?」

Lisha smiled boastfully and stood up. Celis stood beside her and unsheathed her Sword Device.

Even though they were burdened with the heavy responsibility of defending against large quantity of the Abyss that were just a stone throw away from them, it was as though the willpower inside their eyes wasn’t affected at all.

「Come back quickly okay, my knight!」

Lisha wore her Divine Drag-Ride Tiamat while pouring her wish into it.

In this conquering, the number of the Abyss that got outside from Babel just for today reached until thirty.

The long battle that threatened the New Kingdom was starting even today.