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

===Part 21===

Inside the castle──at the reception hall in front of the conference room, countless light bullets and blades were flying about.

The three Drag-Rides that were planted with the seed of Yggdrasil. Horn flute was played to strengthen them.

The grotesque Drag-Rides that were called B-blood were pushing back Celis’s Lindwurm.

Inside the complicated structure inside the castle where countless marble pillars were standing, Celis’s options in fighting were extremely limited.

Her special armament, the huge assault lance, Lightning Lance was too big to be wielded freely indoors, and Starlight Zero that fired light bullet of wide range destruction was impossible to even be used here.

Therefore she was forced into a one-sided defensive battle against the teamwork of Saniya, Egnid, and Kirly.

「What’s wrong Celistia! Can you still call yourself as a Drag-Knight of a prestigious noble family like that!?」

The Blade of Saniya’s B-blood Wyvern sharply slashed through, furthermore her other hand pulled the trigger of a Breath Gun and attacked further with rapid-fire.

Holding a Blade and a Breath Gun in her left and right hands, she continued to attack without pause. That style of hers was the same as in the past, but her skill and power were far increased than in the past.

Furthermore the support of Egnid who was wearing a Wyrm and Kirly who was wearing a Drake that were similarly B-blood allowed them to completely grasp the initiative of the battle.

「Kuh……!」

Celis was sent flying by the impact and crashed onto the stone wall inside the castle. She groaned faintly.

Saniya who was convinced of their superiority slackened the tension in her lips there into a smile.

「With this──my dear wish will finally come true. All of you will be defeated and put under the rule of our Heiburg. All of you who are standing above other people only because of your lineage, but from now on the time has come for you to be the ones to obey us!」

「Is that your objective? You took part in this plan for the sake of something like that?」

When Celis asked that, Saniya exposed her rage.

「You who were born from the house of a great noble won’t understand, about us who were used by them and had our everything snatched away! My life will start from here! I will stand on the top of this country, and then I’ll make all you bastards pay what you owe us without fail!」

「Is that so──but, I reject that.」

In response to Saniya’s words, Celis slowly stood up and took a stance with her lance.

「I understand your circumstance but, that kind of wish is pointless. You only want to torment other people with weaker position than you, just like what happened to yourself in the past. ──There is no way I can let such wish be accomplished.」

「Fuh, that’s what I thought you would say. Do it! Egnid! Kirly!」

Saniya grinned fearlessly and called out to her two subordinates.

The three Drag-Rides simultaneously attacked Celis all at once.

「If it’s the me of the past, I would surely have been shaken by your words. I would wonder whether my actions are really correct. Whether the current rule is actually just the same as the rule of the Old Empire in the past──but」

But, Celis’s eye glint wasn’t wavering at all.

Instantly, Lindwurm’s armor shined and a territory of faint light was spreading around.

「……-!?」

At the same time Celis rotated a Dagger in the air. She accurately thrust at the butt of its handle and fired it like hammering a nail.

「────」

Saniya who saw that movement instantly guessed what was happening.

A double attack. It was Cross Fire from two directions by using Lindwurm’s Divine Raiment, the Divine Gate’s instant teleportation.

The strength of that special technique that only Celis could use was something that Saniya had witnessed many times.

「Damn idiot! We have prepared──countermeasures against that!」

Saniya quickly flew backward until near the wall, threw way her Breath Gun and readied her Blade with two hands.

The countermeasure was to limit the directions she needed to be on guard against by making it impossible to attack her from behind.

With the strengthened barrier of B-blood Wyvern, she could repel the Dagger flying to her from the front.

Next if she could just drive away the lance attack, Egnid and Kirly would take advantage of the opening──but,

「Crossing──Multi Attack.」

Celis appeared in the space right before her eyes, at the same time her lance that was tinged with electricity lunged diagonally downward.

And then, the Dagger that she was throwing just now, the Dagger that was similarly tinged with electricity, its tip hit the same spot of the lance’s target.

It was an attack focused to one spot from two directions that was done with a flawless timing.

After receiving Lux’s advice in the training camp, Celis devised this new tactic by herself.

「Gu, AAaAAH!」

The impacting attack easily pierced through the Wyvern’s barrier that was strengthened by Yggdrasil’s ability and the readied Blade, furthermore even its Force Core was pierced and destroyed.

「What-……!?」

Even Egnid who was trying to attack from behind stopped moving seeing that unimaginable result.

「────」

Celis finished Saniya and turned around, then in a flash she aimed her lance at Egnid before firing a Dagger wrapped in electricity once more.

Staying on guard against the Crossing Multi Attack just now──the attack that focused its hit on one spot, Egnid resolved himself to block it.

He poured all his energy into his barrier, strengthened it to maximum, and deployed it facing the front, but,

「──That’s a bad move.」

「Whaa-……!?」

Using Divine Gate, Celis circled behind Egnid this time, launched a thrust of her lance that was tinged with electricity, and smashed apart the armor of the B-Blood Wyrm.

「Gahah……!? Bi, bitch──that’s just, cheating……right?」

It was Cross Fire attack from two directions of back and front, right after she showed the Crossing Multi Attack that was an attack that focused on one spot simultaneously from two directions.

Pressed with two options that would result in his instant defeat if he chose mistakenly, even Egnid was tragically defeated.

「Winning percentage is sharply reduced──retreating.」

The remaining Kirly activated her B-blood Drake’s camouflaging and began escaping, but Lindwurm that circled right in front of her eyes smashed the armor with one lance attack.

「──Escape is not permitted. I’ll have you receive a slightly painful experience too.」

*BASHIiIII-!*

Blinding electricity spark scattered and Kirly’s mask slowly fell.

Behind the mask, there was the face of a little girl with special trait of ears that looked like a bird feather.

「Second clone──serious damage.」

Kirly whispered while at the same time her body crumbled into sand──no, into something powder-like that was even more minute than sand.

From her heart area, a mechanical lump that had countless steel wire growing from it spilled out and in the end only her head retained its shape.

「This is……what in the world!? Your true identity is──」

Right after Celis reflexively raised her voice, something strange occurred.

「Kukukukukukukukukukukukukukuukuku
kekekekekekekekekekkekekekekekekeke」

The head of the girl who until now persisted in her artificial silence started laughing like a broken record.

And then, the Automaton borrowed Hayes’s words and muttered something terrifying.