Editing Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance:Volume19 Chapter6 (section)

===Part 3===

The imperial council was forced to end amid chaos.

First there was the Holy Capital's disappearance, followed by the Holy Lord's oracle to erase the world.

One could hardly blame them for panicking.

"The Holy Lord's oracle just now has apparently reached all the shrines across the continent."

While traveling through a corridor to her room, Fianna spoke.

"In other words, every nation is in chaos too."

"Yes, apparently..."

Fianna answered gravely to Claire's whispers. Having sent away her bodyguard knights, she only had Claire and the rest of Team Scarlet by her side.

"A one-side declaration to erase the world, who could accept that!?"

"Too unreasonable!"

Ellis and Rinslet protested in anger.

Wearing a mask, Rubia remained silent.

"By the way, I didn't think they'd work this fast."

Opening the gate to the Otherworld, seizing the power of angels, recreating the world.

Was the Holy Lord's plan finally going to be implemented?

(She mentioned some kind of gate of termination. Where the heck is that gate...?)

&mdash;Just as Kamito was lost in deep thought...

Fianna suddenly halted in her steps.

"What's the matter, Fianna?"

"&mdash;A spirit sent by the Divine Ritual Institute."

Fianna pointed into the air.

Small dots of light were gathering there, forming a spirit in the shape of a three-legged bird.

"&mdash;Yatagarasu, huh? Among messenger spirits, it is considered the highest ranked."

Rubia instantly discerned its identity.

The black bird with three legs flapped its wings and landed on Fianna's left arm.

"Uh, who sent this?"

Just as Fianna wondered in puzzlement...

'It has been a while, Senpai.'

(Hmm, where have I heard this voice before...)

Kamito found the voice a bit familiar.

"...Reicha?"

Fianna widened her eyes slightly.

The voice belonged to Fire Queen Reicha Alminas.

She was junior to Fianna and Rubia. Before the Blade Dance tournament, this princess maiden had helped out Kamito.

With a serious expression, Fianna looked at the spirit on the left arm.

"&mdash;The Sacred Maiden's oracle, right?"

'Indeed.'

Hearing that, the Yatagarasu with Reicha's voice nodded. Sending a messenger spirit at this point in time could only be because of that incident.

"About the oracle just now, what is the Divine Ritual Institute's interpretation?"

"It is unmistakably the Holy Lord's oracle. However&mdash;"

Saying that, Reicha paused.

"The Divine Ritual Institute cannot accept such an oracle."

"I am relieved to hear that."

Fianna exhaled.

She had been worrying whether the Divine Ritual Institute would end up mired in disagreement over the oracle.

'Uh, there is one thing I must tell you, Senpai.'

"What is it?"

Hearing Reicha's nervous voice, everyone present paid extra attention.

Apart from the Holy Lord's oracle, did something else happen at the Divine Ritual Institute...?

'The Holy Capital of Alexandria has appeared on Ragna Ys.'

"What!?"

"What did you say!?"

Even Kamito could not help but shout after hearing the shocking report.

(The Holy Capital is at Ragna Ys...?)

Ragna Ys was the stage where the Blade Dance had been held.

For Team Scarlet, it was a place filled with special memories.

Of all places, who could have thought the Holy Capital would appear there&mdash;

"Wait a sec. Ragna Ys is quite large, you know. Where exactly is it?"

Claire asked.

'Well&mdash;the location where the Holy Capital appeared is the shrine of the Five Great Elemental Lords.'

"What!?"

Kamito and the others stared at one another.

The shrine of the Five Great Elemental Lords.

It was a place where only victors of the Blade Dance were eligible to enter.

"...Why is it there?"

'No idea. It is hard to believe it is mere coincidence&mdash;'

The Yatagarasu conveying Reicha's voice shook its head.

&mdash;Naturally, it could not be coincidence.

"Is there anything happening on Ragna Ys?"

Fianna asked.

'No, not at the moment. But&mdash;'

After a pause, Reicha continued.

'I have an extremely bad feeling.'

&mdash;It was no mere feeling.

This was the instinct of a Queen, a supreme princess maiden of the continent.

"So the plan is to open the gate at the Holy Capital that is superimposed with the Elemental Lords' shrine, huh..."

"I guess&mdash;"

Although it was unknown how the Holy Lord was going to open the gate to the Otherworld&mdash;

"..."

After a brief silence, Claire spoke.

"Let's go, to Astral Zero&mdash;"

"Alright." "Yes." "...I agree."

The trio of Fianna, Ellis and Rinslet nodded at the same time.

Once the Holy Lord opened the gate, whether the human realm or Astral Zero, both would probably disappear as a result.

If not that, the army of angels would surely crush everything.

...No matter which outcome, neither was acceptable.

Even if this was a flawed world that had erred&mdash;

(...This is the world where we live in.)

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