Editing Hagure Yuusha no Aesthetica:Volume 1 Chapter 4 (section)

===Part 5===
 
A nostalgic feeling. It was as if the atmosphere had changed, a single breath caused stinging pain in the body.
 
Akatsuki was very used to this — It was the atmosphere that only battlefields had.
 
After his left hand blocked the Cockatrice’s giant claws, Akatsuki looked up at the giant body in front of him.
 
“Cockatrice…A chimera made out of a chicken and a snake.”
 
Akatsuki swiftly moved and took a few steps forward.<!-- Original translation: "Only to see Akatsuki figure swiftly moved and had taken a few steps forward.". There seems to be something missing/wrong. This edit only keeps the understandable part. -->
 
His right palm was against the giant body, his right leg stepped firmly onto the ground.
 
“—Let me see you fly away!”
 
After a loud noise, the Cockatrice’s giant body was lifted into the air, and flew backwards.
 
This was the activation of Renkan Keikikou. The cockatrice flew a certain amount of distance in the air, then fell down heavily on the floor.
 
A powerful impact shook the entire first arena.
 
Akatsuki turned and looked behind him at Miu.
 
“Sorry, I made you wait, I didn’t expect that there would be such a situation…Are you alright?”
 
“Yes…”
 
Akatsuki’s appearance made Miu feel relieved. But her legs were still soft, and it looked like she was about to topple down any moment.
 
“—Be careful. Are you really okay?”
 
Akatsuki immediately supported Miu up, and let her slowly sit down on the floor.
 
“You’ve worked hard enough, you did well. Just leave the rest to me.”
 
Then he turned again to face the Cockatrice.
 
“It will end soon.”
 
“J…Just the strength of one person is not enough, you must first think of…”
 
The gasping Miu tried to stop Akatsuki, but Akatsuki shook his head.
 
“Sorry, but there’s no time left — Look.”
 
“—?”
 
Akatsuki lifted his left hand. Miu was completely shocked. The lower part of his arm was completely petrified, all the way to his elbow. It looked like the Cockatrice’s petrification ability had already extended from its beak and feathers to the claws.
 
The petrification effect was slowly eroding into Akatsuki’s arms. It should be said that Akatsuki should have already turned into a stone statue, but luckily Akatsuki used Renkan Keikikou to manipulate his body’s ki, and was barely able to slow down the petrification speed. Of course, this was not a permanent solution.
 
There’s no time left. Akatsuki turned around, but the sound of “stop” suddenly appeared from behind.
 
“—Don’t try to be a hero, Ousawa Akatsuki!”
 
The sound came from the combat skills instructor who had luckily avoided the mess.
 
“The system is already out of control, there’s no way anyone can take it down. The only way is to forcibly stop the training program to let the Cockatrice automatically disappear.”
 
But Akatsuki shook his head.
 
“Sensei, I advise that you give up on this train of thought. Since the system is already out of control, how could we place our hopes on the system? What if it causes serious consequences, can you afford to take this risk?”
 
So Akatsuki stepped towards the Cockatrice, only to notice that his petrified left wrist was held by someone behind.
 
“W…What do you plan to do?”
 
Miu tried to conceal her inner fears.
 
“Do you really understand the situation? Just by a person who can’t use magic… No, a person who can’t even use an AD, how would he be able to defeat his enemy who isn’t afraid of weapons and magic. Even if you attack it unarmed, it will only speed up the petrification process…”
 
Akatsuki listened, then looked at Miu and laughed.
 
“You’re right, if I only had unarmed attacks. But right now I’ll accept your advice, and use a weapon that belongs solely to me.”
 
After saying this, Akatsuki raised his right hand. Black light particles immediately began to gather.
 
His AD seemed to be responding. Miu widened her eyes in shock.
 
“D…Did you learn it? How do you do this?”
 
“I didn’t do anything, I simply increased the amount only.”
 
Akatsuki raised his sleeves. On his right arm were seven ADs.
 
— According to the combat skills instructor, the feeling of using AD to materialize a weapon was equivalent to chanting magic.
 
Akatsuki did not know magic, he could only use Renkan Keikikou to follow the concept.
 
…The results were disastrous.
 
What magic really was was by borrowing the chanting actions and concentrating into your consciousness, then slowly increasing the magic power, enhancing its power. In short, magic activation was to allow the magic power gradually increase from a minuscule value to its maximum, but Akatsuki’s Renkan Keikikou was to release the large amount of power inside the body to the outside. It could also mean that the power released was already at its maximum state. If the AD’s characteristic was to start from a low gear, Akatsuki’s Renkan Keikikou started at a high gear, thus they did not correspond to each other well.
 
…But in the end, he finally found a short cut.
 
Onizuka’s AD made Akatsuki discover this possibility, thus he borrowed the ADs from the other students in the second arena, attempting to materialize his weapon. After each attempt failed, he added another AD, until he was wearing 7 ADs. Those were finally able to accommodate Akatsuki’s Renkan Keikikou.
 
“Come.”
 
Akatsuki muttered. At the same time, following a black flash of light, Akatsuki’s weapon appeared out of thin air.
 
“—“
 
A greatsword with an abnormal look and a pitch black blade. Its length was nearly 3 meters, and the blade was wider than Miu’s shoulders. It was wide in the front and the rear ends of the sword, but the middle section was slightly recessed, making its appearance look complicated. In the center of the hilt and the blade were various red crosses and crystal balls, creating a ghostly atmosphere.
 
<Demon Sword> — Anyone who saw this weapon would naturally blurt it out.
 
Akatsuki held the great sword in his hands<!-- translation had "sword on his swords", "hands" is guess-->, and leisurely walked towards the Cockatrice.
 
The Cockatrice seemed to recognize the sudden appearance of Akatsuki as a threat. It immediately spreaded its wings and prepared a petrification attack.
 
“Be careful, that is…”
 
From behind, Miu cried out aloud. She saw a flash of light pass by and Akatsuki’s black great sword swung across the air.
 
The petrification feathers did not come. The wings on both sides of the Cockatrice were cut apart by the black great sword. Feeling the pain, the Cockatrice suddenly cried out.
 
“How is this possible? Shouldn’t weapon and magic attacks have no effect against it?”
Miu could hardly believe her eyes, but Akatsuki only smiled calmly.
 
“Of course it will work, this sword contains my own ki inside of it.”
 
Then he looked at the hand holding his sword.
 
…Looks like he hit the jackpot this time.
 
A suitable weapon for him must take a lifetime’s worth of time before he could find it. Some people would spend a lifetime and still not be able to find a weapon truly suitable for them. Akatsuki did not imagine that he would be able to achieve his wish in this world.
 
—AD, matching the user’s abilities and talents, and providing the most suitable weapon to materialize.
 
Was this really true?
 
“Once I try it out, I’ll know.”
 
Akatsuki took a few steps. His right hand held the hilt, his petrified left wrist held onto the right wrist. He pointed the sword tip forward, and assumed an assault posture.
 
The Cockatrice moved its long neck, its hard beak aimed at Akatsuki, and pecked. A large noise occurred, and the ground suddenly had a huge hole.
 
But as the huge hole appeared, Akatsuki’s demon sword was already stabbed into the Cockatrice’s body. Holding the sword hilt, he activated Renkan Keikikou and inserted his body’s ki into the sword and then into the Cockatrice. The Cockatrice’s giant body suddenly swelled up.
 
“—Ohoh, this toy is pretty useful.”
 
Thus Akatsuki turned his back towards the Cockatrice and slowly walked towards Miu.
 
“W…Wait! It’s dangerous!”
 
“It’s not dangerous one bit, it is already over.”
 
Holding Miu’s hands, Akatsuki pulled her up from the ground.
 
Then he wrapped his hands around Miu’s waist, and turned to look at the Cockatrice, his face filled with a gloating smile.
 
“Three seconds before countdown. Three, Two, One…”
 
Once Akatsuki counted to one, the Cockatrice’s huge body suddenly shook the ground violently.
 
“—“
 
The next second, the humongous body suddenly exploded into pieces. Akatsuki used Renkan Keikikou and inserted his own ki into the Cockatrice through the Demon Sword, successfully destroying it from within. Before the Cockatrice’s fluttering pieces landed on the floor, it all disappeared as a puff of smoke, representing the end of the training program.
 
“—See, I told you so.”
 
With a smile, Akatsuki held up his left hand. The black demon sword drew a beautiful arc in the air and landed slowly. Akatsuki held onto the hilt and successfully caught the demon sword that was coming down from the sky. Signs of the petrification had already disappeared from his left hand.