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

===Part 4===

『Next, the second battle today. The battle between the New Kingdom Atismata versus Markafar Kingdom will begin. The participants of the first match, please come up to the ring!』

When the New Kingdom’s referee who was wearing a Drake prompted the participants, the representative from Markafar, a male Drag-Knight walked towards the arena first.

Markafar Kingdom had a wide territory, but perhaps because there was no Ruin existing in their territory, their Drag-Knight’s nurturing wasn’t that advanced.

Therefore, deciding that they would be able to take advantage in the pair battle using things like cooperation and so on, it was decided that in the first one-on-one battle Lisha would come out as the vanguard.

They obtained victory from the previous battle against Heiburg with two straight wins, so they had some leeway for this battle.

「Now then, I’ll win and create the momentum.」

Lisha exited the waiting room and whispered that before she wore her Divine Drag-Ride, Tiamat.

When she entered the passage that connected to the ring’s entrance, a figure clad in black robes ran in a straight line towards her.

「Lisha-sama!」

Airi who was similarly going out of the waiting room to look at the situation saw that and yelled reflexively.

「Hm……? What’s the matter little sister? Is there something?」

「Eh……?」

There was nothing behind Lisha and Tiamat who turned around. No, Airi saw that the moment the black robed shadow touched Tiamat, it looked like it vanished as though melting into the air.

「N, no, it’s nothing……. It was just, my imagination.」

「……Strange girl. If it’s about Lux, then he is surely fine.」

Lisha showed a smile before walking through the passage toward the venue.

But, Airi rushed through the stair towards the audience seats still with an uneasy look.

 

『Both sides are in position, so the first match of the second battle, the New Kingdom Atismata versus Markafar Kingdom shall begin. Battle, Start!』

Finally, the match started.

The vanguard of Markafar Kingdom was a user of a general purpose Drag-Ride Wyvern.

As long as there was no large incident, the victory of Lisha who was a user of a Divine Drag-Ride was unshakeable.

Lisha herself also sported a composed smile, and when she was about to press towards the opponent who was forced into a one-sided defensive battle──

「……Wha-!?」

Her expression instantly stiffened and agitation emerged on her face.

『Oh, is there some kind of trouble? The Drag-Ride of her highness Lizsharte is──……-!?』

The announcer Drag-Knight saw that and tilted his head. Lisha’s Tiamat moved right after that.

The cannon that was charged until maximum was aimed at the audience seat that was in a completely different direction from the opponent, and the trigger was suddenly pulled.

*DOUNN!*

The cannon roared and a single beam of light ran through the air.

The defense Drag-Knight in front of the audience seat was shocked while blocking it with his strongest barrier.

Although he barely blocked the attack completely, scared voices arose from the audience seats behind him.

「Wa, wait-!? I’m not doing any──!?」

In contrast with Lisha’s bewildered words, Tiamat started charging the cannon’s energy once more.

And then, it ignored the Drag-Knight of Markafar Kingdom who was the opponent and once more aimed without the slightest deviation──toward the audience seats that were fired at just now.

「──Why!? Why is Tiamat’s control──!? STOOOPPP……!」

Lisha screamed. At the same time a scream arose from the whole venue.

The defense Drag-Knight was still unbalanced and was unable to deploy the next barrier.

The moment the cannon which was charged to maximum output was fired once more towards the spectators behind, a faint territory of light spread in front of Lisha.

「Divine Gate」

Celis’s Lindwurm appeared before her eyes and deployed the maximum output barrier.

Celis was blown backward from blocking it, but the attack was somehow held back so that no damage to the surroundings occurred.

In addition, the armament of Krulcifer’s Fafnir, the Freezing Cannon fired its freezing bullet and instantly froze Tiamat’s cannon, both legs, and its back wings.

With that──Tiamat was completely suppressed.

『Ho, how could this be!? The Drag-Ride of her highness Lizsharte suddenly rampaged. However, this──』

Right after the commentary voice was raised,

「Be silent! This match is suspended because of the trouble’s occurrence!」

The referee official landed down on the ring together with several Drag-Knights.

After that, Lisha’s Tiamat was dispelled, and using a Drake’s megaphone function, a formal judgment was handed down.

「It’s deemed as an attack that intentionally aimed at the audience! The second battle is counted as the loss of the New Kingdom due to rule breaking!」

「……!?」

A great commotion spread out like ripples from the audience seats and people raised their voices.

「Is her highness still unable to handle a Divine Drag-Ride that it rampaged at this kind of time?」

「The aimed audience seats, the VIPs from the Vanheim Principality were sitting there right? Perhaps this will become an international problem──」

「Was she trying to kill them while pretending it was an accident? Don’t tell me, such thing……」

「──That’s wrong-!? I didn’t do it! Such thing, absolutely──!」

Krulcifer gently put her hand on the shoulder of Lisha who lost her self-control and shouted with a trembling voice.

「Let it pass for now. No matter what happened, right now──it’s still」

Hearing those calm and serious words, Lisha lowered down her hand that was reaching to empty air.

And with that, the curtain fell on the New Kingdom’s second battle.