Editing Hyouketsu Kyoukai no Eden:Volume 5 Final Chapter (section)

===Part 4===

“Do you like that poem collection?”

“That’s not it, I just brought it to kill time.”

Vaiel averted his face.

……It looks like his taste in books contrasts with his appearance.

Stealing glances at him reading the thick poetry collection, Kagura smiled wryly without him noticing.

“I’ll step out for a bit. I want to drink some coffee to keep myself awake.”

“Kagura, you still haven’t fixed your nocturnal lifestyle?”

“It’s been a routine for some years now after all. Before noon like this is the peak of my sleepiness. I’ll somehow make it to night if I manage to pull through this.”

She lightly shook her head and held fast to her consciousness.

“Are you three okay with coffee?”

“Ah, Kagura for me──”

“Remember the milk, right? I know Monica’s usual.”

She went towards the far side door while holding {{furigana|machine pearl|Machina}}. Ahead of the vast hall lay the intersection that split into a labyrinth.

“……If I remember, there should be a vending machine in the lobby.”

With {{furigana|machine pearl|Machina}} ahead of her, she left the room. She at times made a turn at an intersection and sometimes went straight down a passage, taking the shortest route to the lobby. Just before she turned the last corner.

Clatter.

With a mechanical sound, all the ceiling lights went bright red.

 

“''Warning: The Administrative Department is declaring a state of emergency in Building Two.

I repeat. The Administrative Department has declared a state of emergency in Building Two.''“

 

“!?”

She stopped and turned around without thinking.

A building-wide warning? That and these red lights are anything but normal. It’s on the level of emergency training or having a great number of Yuugenshu attacking this {{furigana|floating archipelago|Lagoon}}.

“No way, could it really be Yuugenshu!?”

The Governmental Sector workers around her as well didn’t know the situation and had stopped. The meeting room’s door in the distance opened and the staff that had been conducting the meeting also stepped out into the passage.

“''Intrusion from the front gate. The intruder has passed the gate’s security and is currently closing in on Building Two.''“

……An intruder?

……They passed through the Governmental Sector’s front gate with force?

The security personnel, guards and automated mechanical weapons should have been deployed there. Special units for combating Yuugenshu shouldn’t have been lacking in numbers either.

“Jeez, what’s happening!”

{{furigana|Machine pearl|Machina}} started moving again and she ran after it. She sprinted at full speed down the straight path and ran into the lobby packed with people.

At the end of this hall, Kagura saw something dreadful.

The glass door at the other end of the hall.

The two intruders approaching from the other side of the glass.

 

Black and Gold.

A man wearing a suit and pitch black hat which was pulled low over his eyes.

And the ominous spell caster in an ocher robe who was even larger than that man.

“…………Ah…………”

Her throat went dry and not even a scream came out.

……No……You’re kidding……It can’t be.

She didn’t know the Black one. However, she had seen the other spell caster before. She hadn’t forgotten, couldn’t forget. The spell caster that had wiped out consecutive units from {{furigana|Tenketsu Palace|Sophia}} by himself.

“'''My Golden Hexehedral is invincible.'''“

The spell caster swung up his right hand.

The ground ── the brown asphalt swelled up and created an avalanche of rocks pretty much like a tsunami. The armored vehicles and specially armored weapons surrounding the intruders as well as the guards were all swept away by the avalanche to a distant location.

In just dozens of seconds, the entire defense force outside Building Two went silent.

……It’s the real one……these overpowering spells.

……There’s no way it’s a fake……

‘''Golden''‘ Maha.

The opponent that she and Sheltis had once repelled in a life or death battle. But why was he attacking the Governmental Sector? It was believed without a doubt that he was an assassin of the Governmental Sector’s that time he had wiped out {{furigana|Tenketsu Palace|Sophia}}’s units.

……Then Maha isn’t a part of {{furigana|Tenketsu Palace|Sophia}} or the Governmental Sector?

He’s part of a completely different group?

“……Igun-I.”

“Yes, yes.”

The pitch black man answered Maha’s mutter with a smile.

……Igun-I? That’s the other one’s name?

Kagura’s ears which were longer than a human’s ears picked up a little of that conversation.

The enemy was outside and she was in the lobby. They shouldn’t be aware of her existence so they wouldn’t consider being overheard.

“Well then, Maha-san, we’ll meet at the arranged location.”

Pulling the hat far enough to hide his eyes, Igun-I bowed. Like that, he turned his back on his companion, Maha, and headed off in the direction of Building Four.

Is it a two-pronged attack? No, right now, there’s something more important than that.

“…………”

She could feel cold sweat upon her cheek under the machine helmet.

I can’t stop it myself. No, all the guards in the Governmental Sector can’t stop these monsters. Only one person can do it.

……I have to tell him.

……I have to tell Sheltis.

Kagura ran to the break room that the dual sword-wielding boy was waiting.