Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance:Volume2 Chapter5
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Chapter 5 - The One Who Will Succeed the Demon King
Part 1
“What on earth is this—“
Clad in the devastating winds of the magic wind spirit, Ellis, who appeared gallantly, was speechless.
There was an unbelievable scene spread out before her eyes.
The knights of the Sylphid Knights, who maintained the public order of the academy, were collapsed on the ground in heaps.
Only academy students with excellent results could enroll into the Sylphid Knights. That was—
(Don’t tell me, they were defeated by just one intruder!?)
In the middle of the darkness, where there was a drizzle.
A small figure, who put on an overcoat with a hood, was standing in the middle of the collapsed girls.
“Was it you, bastard? The one that did this!”
Ellis asked a direct question. Her hand was already armed with the elemental waffe –<Ray Hawk>.
It was just about 30 minutes ago that she heard the report that an intruder had appeared in the academy and plundered the classified materials of the seal specification from the library. Ellis immediately put out a pursuit order to a platoon of the Knights, and while she used her wind spirit to give instructions to every platoon, she was pursuing the intruder by herself.
And then, upon travelling at high speed to the place where she lost contact with them, they were in that state.
The spirit contractor before her eyes kept quiet. Just a scorning presence was transmitted.
“—I see, in that case, I’ll make you talk whether you like it or not.”
The <Ray Hawk>, which Ellis took a stance with, got filled with wind thunderously.
Just by looking, the figure of a contracted spirit could not be found in that person’s surroundings. It seemed like that person wasn’t holding an elemental waffe either.
However, the spirit contractor, before her eyes, had already defeated 5 girls from the Knights.
(Is she using a type of spirit that possesses the flesh?)
The opponent’s identity was completely unknown. Or, far from not finding the figure of a contracted spirit, was the opponent not a spirit contractor?—No, that can’t be it. For example, even if one launched a surprised attack, something like a person, who wasn’t even a spirit contractor, to defeat five Knights members alone was impossible.
(In that case, I’ll have to ascertain it with these eyes of mine—!)
Ellis took a stance with Ray Hawk and attacked like a gale.
The opponent finally reacted. A muffled voice was heard from under the hood—
“—Manifest, Wolf Fang.”
At that moment, a pattern of lines appeared on the ground, and a spirit with the appearance of the ferocious wolf was summoned.
“That’s your spirit, huh? However, it isn’t a match for my magic wind spirit!”
As she ran, Ellis wielded her lance perfectly horizontal.
The lump of violent winds she released mowed down the roadside trees while rushing toward Wolf Fang.
Ellis accelerated like she was being sucked in by her self-made wind vortex, ignoring the stranded Wolf Fang, and aimed directly for the spirit contractor.
Tan!—She kicked the ground. Her academy skirt waved about and Ellis had jumped.
She was about to do her specialty, a nose-dive attack from the sky. It was a technique that had defeated all the upperclassmen during the practice matches.
With the contracted spirit stranded, the spirit contractor, who became defenseless, looked up.
And then, the person faced Ellis and turned his palm towards her.
“What!?”
“—Manifest, Blast Gear!”
At that moment, a bluish-white lightning, released from his palm, was fired at Ellis.
Ellis, who had not been expecting anything like an attack coming towards her, received a direct attack and was blown away without being even able to dodge in mid-air.
Without delay, Wolf Fang rushed in and attacked. It pushed down on Ellis, who was thrown onto the ground, and tried to bite down on her windpipe. On the verge of that—
Hyuu! She thought she heard a sound that ripped apart the air, then, Wolf Fang’s body was severed into four parts in an instant, burning up into ashes.
“…!?”
Eliis raised her face, and traced the crimson remains that ripped apart the night sky with her eyes—
“You owe me one, Ellis Fahrengart.”
Raven Class’s Claire Rouge descended with her Flame tongue in her hand.
And then—
“Ellis, are you alright?!”
Armed with a silver sword, Kazehaya Kamito came running.
Part 2
Kamito rushed over beside Ellis, who had already fallen.
Armed with the elemental waffe—Terminus Est, he stood with his arms apart as if protecting her.
Claire was a short distance away, and even later, Fianna also came running and was out of breath.
“Ellis, are you alright?”
“…I-It isn’t a big deal.”
Kamito lifted Ellis up by her shoulder, and she turned red and turned her face away.
“What on earth happened? Who is that person?”
“It is nothing concerning you guys. This is entrusted to the Knights, so step back.”
“That won’t do. We are spirit contractors. For example, even if there weren’t the Knights, we have the obligation to fight to protect the academy.”
“It’s like that. Besides—“
Staring directly at Ellis’s face, Kamito said.
“Our precious comrade was hurt; do you think we could stay silent?”
“Kamito…”
Ellis’s face turned bright red , and she tightly pressed down on her chest.
—At that moment.
“Hey, I can’t believe you came. Kazehaya Kamito.”
The spirit contractor before his eyes raised his voice. For some reason, it was an irritating voice.
“…Who are you? Why do you know my name?”
“Your name is famous, you know. You’re the same as me, a male spirit contractor.”
“What!?”
The spirit contractor before his eyes slowly took off his overcoat with a hood.
At that moment, all of them at that place gulped.
Coming to sight from under the overcoat was—
His dark brown skin, which had tattoos applied all over his body; with glaring and shining red eyes, it was – a boy.
“Such a thing… don’t tell me, there are male spirit contractors other than Kamito!?”
Claire raised a surprised voice.
It wasn’t a girl disguising as a boy.
Not just his voice and face, no matter how he looked at that physique, it was that of a male.
(This guy, who on earth… No, leaving that aside now –)
Before Kamito’s eyes, the injured Knight girls had collapsed.
“—Was this done by you?”
“Yea. However, I didn’t kill them. That lot was raised in a lenient miniature garden and had no value to be killed.”
“What did you say!”
“Calm down, Ellis, it’s just a cheap provocation.”
Ellis grinded her teeth and whispered near Kamito’s ear.
“Be careful, Kazehaya Kamito. He has a double contract with the spirits.”
“A double contract?”
A double contract was, in other words, to contract to two spirits at the same time.
By using several spirits, one could compensate for the weakness of his battle style.
However, exchanging contracts with several spirits could only be of demerits for most cases.
The fellow contracted spirits caused interference, thus it became impossible to manifest their original powers.
Kamito was certainly in that situation right now. As the contract with the darkness spirit was not broken, it ended up shutting out Est’s power, who was originally an even more powerful spirit.
“…A male spirit contracter. In addition, a double contractor?”
Ellis nodded.
“Hey, could you overlook this for today? I don’t have the mood to fight you now.”
“What was that?”
Kamito frowned at the boy, who waved his hand flutteringly like he was making fun of him.
“As long as I obtain this, that’s fine.”
The boy took out a small black lithograph from his chest pocket to show them.
“What is that?”
“The classified materials of the seal specification that I stole from the academy library. By using a special spirit device, it is filled with high density information that can be deciphered.”
While arming with her magic lance of wind, Ellis muttered.
“The classified materials of the seal specification? Why did you steal such –“
At that moment, a leather whip flew with aim at the boy’s hand.
It was Claire’s surprise attack. Was it foreseen, the boy easily dodged the whip—
“—Kamito, Ellis!”
“Ahh!”
Before Claire shouted, the both of them were moving.
“Tch, every one of them are one stupid lot—“
“You bastard—“
Feeling that her comrades of the Knights were insulted, Ellis was enraged.
She swung her Ray Hawk perfectly horizontally – the wind blades, dancing boisterously, severed the roadside trees.
“Huh, another charge? You have no ingenuity!”
As he dodged the raging wind blades, the boy jumped.
It was a superhuman jumping power. In a manner of passing each other with movements like those of a shadow – he drove a counter punch into Ellis’s stomach, who came charging.
“Guu—“
“Ellis!”
Kamito shouted.
(With just one strike to that Ellis…)
The boy, who made Ellis fainted, had already jumped into the darkness.
“Don’t escape!”
Claire immediately let loose her Flame Tongue. Beautifully drawing an arc, the red hot killing brandish stood out vividly in the black night.
A sculpture, modeled after the appearance of the elemental lord, was severed in an instant, and was blasted with a flashy sound.
Kamito took a stance with Terminus Est, and jumped into the rising cloud of dust.
The attack just now shouldn’t have made a direct hit. He searched for the enemy’s figure by his presence—
At that moment, bloodlust was felt from behind.
Kamito immediately jumped horizontally. The killing flash of a dagger mowed down at the place, where his head was a moment ago.
The boy stepped in without a sound. He didn’t give him a chance to get some distance between them.
There was nothing futile in his movement—It was like those movement of Silent Killing.
(This guy – his occupation is assassination!?)
Kamito barely stopped the blow of the drawn sword, flashing in the darkness, with his sword.
At that moment, there was a strong impact to his stomach. A strong punch was thrown, and Kamito’s stance crumbled. An assassin dagger swooped over – but Kamito knocked off the dagger with the bottom of his fist, and rolled on the ground with the force, getting some distance.
“Hey, aren’t you pretty good, as expected of the strongest blade dancer.”
“What!?”
Kamito’s eyes widened in surprise.
(This guy, does he know my true identity!?)
In a moment’s opening, when his consciousness went astray, the boy smiled and came jumping once again.
There were no weapons in his hands. Kamito was armed with Terminus Est—
“—Manifest, Falchion!”
“Wha!?”
A violent firework exploded. Terminus Est, which was horizontally mowed down on, was repelled.
What the boy was holding in his hand was a large blue shining sword.
It wasn’t an ordinary sword—It was an elemental waffe of a sword spirit.
“His third contracted spirit!?”
He had crossed swords several times with spirit contractors that used two spirits at the same time.
However, he had not heard of anything like a spirit contractor using a third or more spirits.
“This isn’t something to be that surprised about. The demon king Solomon was said to have used seventy-two spirits, you know.”
“Don’t mess around… that’s just a legend—“
“What if the existence of that legend was now right before your eyes?”
The boy warp his lips was laughed.
“I am Jio Inzagi – The one who will succeed the demon king.”
“Kamito, get away!”
At that moment, countless fireballs were released from behind. It was Claire’s spirit magic.
Kamito immediately reacted and jumped.
It was a downpour of fireball. However, the boy –Jio Inzagi held out his hand with a calm composure,
“—Manifest, Aerial!”
A lump of compressed winds was release radically.
The violent whirling wind erased the fireballs and blew away the surrounding rubbles together with Kamito.
(Aerial…His forth spirit!?)
Jio’s shadow appeared aright above Kamito, who looked surprised.
At the same time as releasing Aerial, he used that force and jumped.
There was the edge of the silver-shining sword spirit in his hand.
“Die—Ren Ashbell.”
“…!?”
Towards Kamito’s heart, the tip of a shining sword approached—
At that moment, a pebble came flying from the side.
“Tch—“
Jio repelled that off reflexively, at that moment.
A flash like broad daylight filled his field of vision.
Jio, whose eyes were disoriented, lost his sword and it pierced the ground.
Kamito quickly regained his stance—
Katsun! –There was a dry sound. A smashed transparent stone fell at Kamito’s feet.
(…This is a spirit ore?)
Kamito was taken aback and turned around.
Over there—
“Hey, I wonder, could you please not forget about me?”
Fianna was standing with her hands at her waist.
Part 3
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