Editing Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance:Volume11 Chapter5 (section)

===Part 5===

Enduring the girls' icy gazes on his back, Kamito was led to the room.

Greyworth sat down on the sofa and picked up a wine bottle from the table.

"Just sit down there. Want a drink?"

She poured the amber liquid into a glass.

"You're still recuperating, right? Watch what you drink."

"Oh my, how rare. You're worried about me?"

"...Like anyone would worry about you."

Kamito silently took the glass away.

"...Fine, what's this about? That final secret technique you mentioned just now."

The night before the final round, Kamito had inherited the Absolute Blade's secret technique.

Last Strike&mdash;A countering sword skill for using against humans. Due to teaching this sword skill, the Dusk Witch had lost her power as an elementalist.

"Don't be so impatient. Once you master this blade dance move, you'll became the true Demon King."

"...True Demon King? What's this about?"

Kamito was shocked.

Greyworth lay down on the sofa and said:

"Let me teach you now&mdash;Bursting Blossom Spiral Blade Dance ''of the Night''."

"..."

"..."

Silence fell. 

"...You fiend."

Kamito could not help but grab Greyworth by the collar.

"Fufu, once you learn this secret technique, all the girls in the Academy will quickly fall. However, if you're the one using it, perhaps they'll lose their minds because it's too intense."

"H-How can you still consider yourself the headmistress!?"

Kamito roared angrily.

"In that case, you may test it out on me. After all, I can't commune with spirits anymore. There's no need to stay pure, right?"

Using her fingers to push her neckline open, her black underwear came into view.

"S-Stop toying with me..."

Kamito blushed and turned his gaze away.

"Fufu, the lad is so cute."

Greyworth laughed in her throat then sat properly on the sofa again.

"First of all, allow me to praise you. Well done. As expected, summoning you to the Academy was not a waste of effort."

"Receiving praise from you makes me feel worse."

While retorting&mdash;

"...Oh well, in any case, let me thank you. Thanks to you, I was able to meet my comrades at the Academy&mdash;"

Kamito took off his glove, revealing the spirit seal on his left hand.

"I've also retrieved what's precious to me."

"It's your own power that allowed you to retrieve the darkness spirit. I didn't do anything."

Greyworth shrugged.

Kamito sat down on the opposite chair then&mdash;

"...Greyworth, let me ask you something."

He posed a question.

"Oh?"

"&mdash;Twenty-four years ago. What happened on the day you obtained victory in the Blade Dance?"

"...How nostalgic."

"Twenty-four years ago on that day, you prayed to the Elemental Lords for a miracle and obtained eternal life and youth."

"...It's not really eternal life and youth, that."

Greyworth's gaze turned sharp.

"Yes, you did say that before. The elemental lords' miracle is not actually omnipotent."

"However, the ability to achieve something like that can only be called a miracle. At the time, I needed to guard the Empire, even if it meant planting the seeds of disease personally into my own body."

The witch pointed to her heart.

"A Cursed Armament Seal. Transplanted on the heart."

"Lurie Lizaldia of the Numbers already told me."

"...That talkative lass."

Greyworth clicked her tongue.

"You, what did you see inside the Elemental Lords' True Sanctuary?"

"You should know about the Geis, right? What is seen and heard in the Elemental Lords' True Sanctuary cannot be disclosed at all. That is the strictest contract."

"You don't need to say it out. Just answer a question."

Kamito shook his head.

"Did you see that darkness inside the True Sanctuary?"

"Darkness?"

She displayed a surprised expression.

"What is that about?"

(...Greyworth didn't see ''that''?)

Kamito was surprised.

&mdash;At this moment, suddenly, the window in the room opened and black wings fluttered and spread.

"Wha..."

Kamito stood up from his chair.

Landing on the windowsill&mdash;

The darkness spirit whose dress was colored like night.

"It's been a while, Dusk Witch."

"Hmph, the darkness spirit huh."

Greyworth smiled impertinently.

"Restia, what happened? Where did you go just now&mdash;"

"Kamito, the Theocracy's flying vessel is secretly heading towards the abandoned city..."

"...What?"

An ominous feeling flashed across his mind.

"The Blade Dance already ended. Why return to the abandoned capital..."

"She is likely targeting&mdash;"

Saying that, Restia looked up into the sky&mdash;

"The Water Elemental Lord's alter ego, right?"

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