Editing Hyouketsu Kyoukai no Eden:Volume 4 Chapter4 (section)

===Part 6===

The time was about one hour ago.

Jyuuuuu……

Even now, the scars upon the earth continued to give up smoke. Grass and earth had fused, and the trees had withered and died standing without a single leaf. The smoldering deep purple groaned just like a living creature and that cursed area was spreading even more.

───The corruption of mateki.

Glancing at the wounds from the Yuugenshu’s escape route, Nash leaked a slight smile.

“There’s barely been any time since the corruption; it’s been driven into a corner.”

It was easily several hours since they’d made their report to the examiner. It had taken a considerable amount of distance but that would come to an end shortly.

“Kimberly, Lasdax, just like always. It’s a single Yuugenshu.”

The great sword user and heavy spear knight each moved up wordlessly.

“Myun-fa, at the same time the Yuugenshu flies out, '''play one shot'''.”

“Leave it to me, I’ll play it flashily.”

The shinryoku practitioner woman prepared a koto with grace. <ref>[T/N: A koto (琴) is a 13-string Japanese instrument. It's ancient.]</ref>

───It will happen before we go on a mission. With the merit points from defeating this Yuugenshu, everyone will become a Regular Guard.

There was the merit system which granted merit points for completing a mission, but there were also ways to gain merit points dubbed the “back rules”.

That was when one resolved a case that went beyond expectations. Rescue operations during a calamity and discovering a Yuugenshu while on patrol were also included, and defeating it alone could be used to request additional merit points.

……That’s right, that’s how it should be.

……Like I can always be dallying around in this place. <ref>[T/N: "this place" has kanji for "the status of a Cadet Guard".]</ref>

It wouldn’t end with becoming a Regular Guard. In the future, he would become an Elite Guard and then a Sennenshi.

Though that was so, he was being ordered around by that examiner as she liked and in the end, even received orders that engaging the Yuugenshu was not permitted and he was to stay on standby? This was no joke, since they had enrolled to fight Yuugenshu.

……Who knew that he would hit a standstill at that time.

“''There are no enemies before my [Golden Hexahedral].''“

The rescue unit pulled together by the Instructor’s command. Being chosen for the unit that selected only the best of the best even amongst the Cadet Guards, while heading to the scene with enthusiasm.

“''Now beginning intervention. Commencing elimination of the witnesses.''“

In the face of the monster they met with on the meadow, Nash had been unable to do anything. When he came to, he was lying in the medical wing. That was his first and last humiliation as a Cadet Guard.

……I have no more intention of being content with the status of a Cadet Guard.

“A person who will become a Regular Guard……can’t be afraid of a single Yuugenshu.”

Leading the unit, they moved to the backside of a large tree.

At the base of the large tree ─── not hiding or planning a surprise attack, a beast swathed in a dark purple mist stood there boldly.

……You won’t attack?

It was just prepared without even twitching.

“Haa, there are also pleasant Yuugenshu. It’s just revealing itself boldly even though it’s alone……Myun-fa, cease your ritual. Observe its condition.”

A transparent blue bullet.

Loaded with bullets that utilized the Hyouketsu crystals from Hyouketsu Kyoukai, a large revolving pistol was readied.

“I wonder where that fearless confidence is coming from.”

Nash looked down the sight and pulled the trigger.

The blasting sound of gunpowder. But───

The bullet simply passed through the body of the beast wrapped in dark purple mist.

“…………Wha!?”

What’s going on, this is a bullet made from the Hyouketsu crystals formed with shinryoku. It should be a fatal wound with just one shot against a Yuugenshu but there’s not a scratch?

“Nash, behind!”

He felt a shiver at Myun-fa’s scream and turned around while ignoring the Yuugenshu before him.

North, northeast, east, southeast, south, southwest, west, northwest.

In all eight directions with them at the center ─── a Yuugenshu just like the one ahead of them was standing there; they were encircled.

“……There are eight Yuugenshu.”

What is the meaning of this. No matter how you look at them, the traces of corruption left behind by the escaping Yuugenshu were only caused by one. Though that’s so, there are eight. And when did they appear? They completely had no presence.

……Why did the shinryoku bullet have no effect?

……How did eight of them hide in this forest?

He didn’t understand at all.

“……No way.”

We had the intention of pursuing, but instead we were guided?

Fifteen minutes after that, communication with Nash’s unit was lost.

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