Hybrid x Heart Magias Academy Ataraxia Vol 9 Chapter 4

Chapter 4 – Creator and Creation

 

Part 1

Yuris.h.i.+a who finished the reinstall was released from the curse of Osiris. And then as expected, the information Osiris taught her was left behind in her memory. Working under that information as the base, now they were discussing the way to invade Necropolis and Osiris.

“This is how Necropolis look in the whole.”

Zelcyone pointed at the floating window floating at the center of the bridge. The data that Zelcyone, Grace, and Quartum recorded from infiltrating Necropolis were shown in several windows floating around.

And then in the biggest window, the map of the whole Necropolis was projected. The people looking up to that window were Zelcyone, Grace, and Quartum from the Vatlantis group. In addition Kizuna, Himekawa, Yuris.h.i.+a, then Reiri, Kei, and Nayuta of the Lemuria group.

Kizuna who had never gone to Necropolis fixed his eyes upon the picture and video that shown the city.

“Somehow, it has the air like Egypt or the area around it in the earth huh……”

Kei operated a table furniture and projected a picture of earth. She displayed things like desert city and pyramid as comparison target.

{It appears that the civilization of Nil river basin come from the influence of Osiris’s world.}

Reiri also nodded.

“Let’s reconfirm our objective. It’s to recover the configuration data of our worlds that is in Osiris’s possession. For that sake, it’s necessary to defeat Osiris.”

“If we do that, can my Oldium escape from the sand then?”

“That’s right. Above all, at the time Osiris is defeated this world itself will be crumbling after all.”

Kizuna faced Nayuta and asked her.

“Then, about the way to overcome Osiris……how can we defeat her?”

“Osiris is a queen of the dead. Since the beginning she has lost her life. It’s impossible to kill her.”

Agitation spread among them. Among them it was only Zelcyone who wasn’t shocked.

“That’s the truth. When I manipulated that woman using Heart Rebuild, I thought I already made her suicide but it was impossible. Most likely even that woman herself is unable to sever her own life.”

“Then, what should we do so we can defeat Osiris?”

As though to evade the impatient Kizuna, Nayuta moved the talk toward Yuris.h.i.+a.

“Before that, there is something I want to ask Yuris.h.i.+a.”

“Wha……what is it I wonder?”

“Inside you, there should be the memory as the loyal servant of Osiris, and then as the vessel of her daughter soul still remaining.”

“……Yes.”

“You said, that the one leaving behind Genesis in Atlantis was Osiris weren’t you?”

“Yes. Of course I don’t know that directly. Mother……Osiris taught me that knowledge.”

“I don’t mind that――now then, there is something in my mind about that information.”

Reiri murmured in irritation.

“What? Don’t put on air.”

Nayuta shrugged her shoulders toward that th.o.r.n.y voice.

“Osiris’s objective is to obtain flesh for soul vessel. And then she would make Necropolis get a fresh start of life. However, Genesis that was made by Deus ex Machina had the power to create life. Isn’t that right?”

Being asked that, Zelcyone answered reluctantly.

“Yeah. Although there is the need to offer blood of two people, and a part of the flesh……”

“That’s right. That’s the two required things in order for Genesis to create life. Those are the genetic information that becomes the base for the born life. And then there is one more thing.”

The four people of Quartum looked at each other’s face. Lunorlla whispered with a complicated face.

“Is there really……something like that?”

Ramza tilted her head and groaned.

“Uuu―n, we still don’t have any experience in creating children though―”

Nayuta abruptly loosened her lips.

“That is energy of life. Namely the magic power.”

Kizuna recalled that in the first place that was the cause that made Lemuria and Vatlantis fought.

“Atlantis fell into serious lack of magic power, and because of that life couldn’t be born anymore. Because of that too the AU collision was generated.”

“Aah……after that a lot of tragedy happened.”

“If there was no Genesis in Atlantis, perhaps there will be no such unnatural consumption of magic power, and both worlds can keep existing without problem.”

Grace crossed her arms and let out a low voice.

“……In other words, the cause of Atlantis’s desolation and AU collision is Osiris. Is that what you are saying?”

Yuris.h.i.+a’s shoulders trembled with a jolt. And then her gaze fell.

‘――Yuris.h.i.+a…….’

Kizuna was concerned with Yuris.h.i.+a’s condition. Inside Yuris.h.i.+a there was still the knowledge as Osiris’s daughter remaining there. That was the same like having the past as Osiris’s daughter. Her heart was put between two pasts, perhaps that made her suffered.

Nayuta spread open her fan in a flash and showed a bright smile.

“Certainly that is the case, but in the first place our worlds were things created by Deus ex Machina for the sake of experiment. If for example Genesis wasn’t there in Atlantis, we wouldn’t even notice that we are experimental object and perhaps we would be exploited and culled. It’s also the truth that because Genesis was there, we were able to obtain the power to oppose those Deus ex Machina.”

With a snap the fan closed as though to tell to return back to the track.

“This world cannot create life is because there is no life energy existing here. Osiris also don’t have life energy, She is moving using energy of the same kind with magic power, but it’s different with our magic power. In a certain meaning, perhaps it can be said that it’s an energy of exact opposite.”

Kei displayed the text she inputted in a window.

{Then, is there any danger for us staying in this world?}

“Yes, even while we are staying here right now, our life force and magic power are being lost. The stone of sun that Osiris is operating. That thing is sucking all the life force. That thing is the main culprit that plunder all the life in this world, bringing death to the pharaoh and Osiris’s daughter.”

“……Stone of another world. Father, summoned it.”

Yuris.h.i.+a murmured with a faint voice. Everyone turned at her hearing that voice.

“That thing was……something the pharaoh, obtained in the attempt to make the world abundant. It was by no means, something summoned to kill everyone!”

“Yuris.h.i.+a……”

Yuris.h.i.+a returned to her sense from Kizuna’s call.

“Ah……”

Yuris.h.i.+a forcefully smiled with pale face, then she sat down on the sofa nearby.

“Go, good grief me……don’t mind me, continue the talk.”

Inside the suffocating atmosphere, Nayuta made a pondering gesture for a little and immediately continued the talk.

“Certainly that might be the intention. However, that thing invited the ruin of this world so that was an irony. If I have to say further, Osiris became machine G.o.d with that power, so that was also something ironic.”

{However after hearing Professor Nayuta’s story, what Osiris is thinking about, her attempt to use our body to resurrect the people of this world is――}

Nayuta sharply pointed her fan at Kei.

“Exactly. Even if she prepared container flesh, it won’t be a solution. To solve this problem fundamentally, it’s by filling this world with life energy, with magic power.”

“Wait a second Kaa-san. Something like that is――”

Nayuta’s eyes looked back at Kizuna’s eyes.

Those eyes told him. That Kizuna should have known it already.

――That method.

That’s right.

It was possible.

For Kizuna, he had a clue about that method.

“That method is――”

At that time, the battles.h.i.+p Ataraxia shook hard.

“Uwaa!”

Kizuna unintentionally stumbled. The floor tilted and small vibrations kept happening through the whole s.h.i.+p. The only one who could stand straight was only Nayuta, the other crews were grasping at the nearby furniture like desk in panic.

“What happened!”

Reiri yelled while holding at the back of a sofa to support her body.

{Unknown cause. However battles.h.i.+p Ataraxia is in abnormal gravity. Something sticking at the front surface of the s.h.i.+p is pulling Ataraxia to the ground.}

Elma scowled.

“At the front…..you say?”

“Don’t tell me!”

Clayda ran on the tilting floor and clung on the window even while she almost stumbled. The night outside was bright from the moonlight. At that night sky, something like black smoke was jetting out from below.

“It’s sand! Sand riding the wind is blowing up!”

“What did you say!?”

The alt.i.tude of battles.h.i.+p Ataraxia was ten kilometers. In that height even the sand wouldn’t reach, even if a shape like the giant attacking them before was created, it would take time. They were under the a.s.sumption that they were in the range where they would have enough time to deal with it.

However the dark mist visible outside the window made Kizuna felt a chill.

“Impossible! Sandstorm is reaching this high!?”

Zelcyone turned to Kei and yelled.

“Oi! The alt.i.tude of this s.h.i.+p is decreasing here. Raise the output!”

{We are doing it. But, it’s impossible for more than this. The engine died.}

Ataraxia pa.s.sed through the cloud and further fell in alt.i.tude. It was just like when a plane was landing, the s.h.i.+p was descending, heading to the surface little by little with certainty.

A gigantic triangle appeared from the horizon.

It was Necropolis’s pyramid. Using the power of that pyramid, the sand was controlled. Ataraxia was being pulled straight toward the gigantic pyramid.

“Ku……Kei! Soften the impact of the landing!”

Kei didn’t even have the leisure to type the keyboard, she desperately operated the panel floating on the desk. From the bottom of battles.h.i.+p Ataraxia, large type creation control engine that couldn’t be compared with magic armor ejected large amount of particles. The speed lowered slightly, but it couldn’t overcome the strength pulling the s.h.i.+p to the ground. The vibration was fierce, if they carelessly talked they would bite their tongue.

“……-!”

The bow of the s.h.i.+p touched the surface of the desert.

“UWaAAAAAAA!”

They attempted to land as softly as possible, but even so fierce impact attacked battles.h.i.+p Ataraxia. The sand burst up violently, the bow of the s.h.i.+p was sliding above the sand. And then the hull was gradually sinking into the sand. The s.h.i.+p was advancing into the sand as though cutting through water. The sand blown up at both sides reached until the height of a hundred meter.

Necropolis was rapidly approaching before their eyes. At this rate the bow of Ataraxia would charge into the pyramid.

The color of Yuris.h.i.+a’s face changed.

“Stop! Please!”

With thick cloud of sand raised, Ataraxia finally halted.

It was only a kilometer until the pyramid. It seemed that there was quite a distance still, but when considering that battles.h.i.+p Ataraxia itself was nearly two kilometer in total length, then it was just within a stone’s throw. It was a good luck that the s.h.i.+p stopped without collision.

Yuris.h.i.+a stared at the pyramid and she heaved a relieved sigh unintentionally.

“I’m glad……”

“Are you okay Yuris.h.i.+a?”

Yuris.h.i.+a returned to her senses from Kizuna’s worried call.

“Eh? Yes. I’m glad no damage happened to Ataraxia, that’s what I thought. That’s all.”

Her made up smile created a slight anxiety in Kizuna’s heart.

He didn’t think that she would betray them. However because of how she knew about Osiris and her people’s circ.u.mstance from real experience, it couldn’t be helped that she couldn’t consider it as other people’s problem. Surely it would be painful for her to fight Osiris.

“Yuris.h.i.+a, can you stay behind in Ataraxia and protect this s.h.i.+p?”

“……Eh?”

“The sand Osiris controlled can change shape into monster like giant or dragon. If Ataraxia is destroyed while we are confronting Osiris, we won’t be able to make any move.”

Grace also nodded in understanding.

“Right. In fact my Oldium too has also fallen into Osiris’s hand. Like that if Ataraxia is also stolen, it will develop into Osiris’s advantage in one go then.”

Reiri was holding on the sofa’s back and stood up. Zelcyone threw such Reiri a proposal.

“Reiri. We once fought Osiris and exposed our trump card. If we are going to split into two groups, we will be the one remaining here. Is it fine like that?”

Reiri nodded and gazed at Kizuna and Himekawa’s face.

“Machine G.o.d Osiris is strong. Advantage of number won’t work against her. Rather it’s better to prepare battle force that can possibly resist the machine G.o.d……Kizuna, also Himekawa.”

Kizuna and Himekawa’s faces were colored with nervousness.

“It’s you two who defeated Hokuto. Can you two do it?”

“Roger.”

“Please leave it to us! Kizuna-kun and my ka……combination, is the strongest!” (TN: I don’t know what Himekawa is going to say here, it’s a word beginning with ‘ka’ in j.a.panese)

Himekawa puffed her chest with rough excitement.

“I, I too――”

Yuris.h.i.+a was about to say that, however she lost her words receiving Kizuna and Himekawa’s gazes.

“Ah……that”

She faltered and averted her gaze. She bit her lips from an emotion inside her that she herself couldn’t understand. In front of Yuris.h.i.+a who was like that, a young girl with low height came.

“It’s fine even if you don’t force yourself. Osiris’s mind control is something really deeply rooted.”

“But……”

Nayuta looked up at Kizuna and smiled.

“It’s strange to call this as replacement, but I’ll go.”

Reiri lifted her eyebrows.

“What? However……”

Nayuta had divided almost all her power at the three battles.h.i.+ps and Kizuna, she had almost no combat ability. Reiri also understood that.

“My, are you worried about me?”

“Don’t sleep talking. I’m only worried that you b.a.s.t.a.r.d are planning something dirty.”

Nayuta opened her fan and hid her smiling lips.

“Fufufu, I won’t be a bother to everyone. I will only accomplish my objective. My objective to know about the matter of machine G.o.d.”

Nayuta had evolved into existence that surpa.s.sed human. However her state was that of an incomplete G.o.d. Nayuta held the objective to further evolve herself into a perfect being.

“I see. Kaa-san have an interest for the information the machine G.o.d have……at the existence of the machine G.o.d itself huh.”

Kizuna sighed deeply as though it couldn’t be helped.

“But, don’t be a hindrance okay? Also, leave the fighting to us.”

“I understand. Also Hayuru.”

“Eh……yes. What is it?”

For Himekawa being talked by Nayuta was something that almost never happened. Himekawa answered with a dubious face.

“Whether you are worthy for my son or not. Show it to me clearly okay?”

Himekawa held her breath reflexively.

‘――Worthy for her son, she said!? Wa, tha, that meannnnn!?’

Himekawa’s face was dyed red in the blink of eye.

“U, understood! This Himekawa Hayuru, will surely complete the group work without fail. Okaa-sama!”

“There is no need to call a woman like that Okaa-sama! Even before that there is also no reason for you to call her that!”

Himekawa who was yelled by Reiri went out from Ataraxia as though running away.

 

Part 2

Kizuna, Himekawa, and Nayuta, the three of them were walking beside the pyramid. With the emergency landing of battles.h.i.+p Ataraxia, the pyramid was located between the opposite side of the city and the s.h.i.+p.

There was not a single sound, it was a silent night. There was no animal to raise a sound in the desert, only the moon rising above the pyramid was reflecting bright light. The shadows of Eros and Neros were falling on the sand of the desert.

Kizuna and Himekawa were already wearing their magic armor. Himekawa’s armor were enlarged from the reinstall, it was the new type Neros. Kizuna also had a new type armor, yet there was no change in its appearance compared to the old Eros.

“It’s a really eerie silence isn’t it?”

“I think so……I thought that they would come attacking right away.”

Different from usual, now when he was talking with Himekawa he had to look far up. Himekawa was opening several floating windows around her body. Thanks to the enlargement, now she was able to display several screens larger than everything until now. Himekawa was glaring at those windows, her eyes s.h.i.+ning with vigilance of anything strange that would appear.

Nayuta who was walking in front raised an ‘ah’ sound.

“That is……”

The moment she said that, Nayuta broke into a run.

“Ah! Don’t go as you ple――”

Nayuta dashed close into the pyramid and then she happily stroked around one of the stones.

“Just what are you doing, so suddenly like that.”

Kizuna stared at the stone Nayuta was stroking around. However he completely didn’t understand what difference it had compared to other stone.

“This stone is the control panel of the pyramid.”

“Control panel? That thing?”

“Yes. Take a look.”

Nayuta’s hand s.h.i.+ned. Thereupon that light spread onto the stone’s surface while drawing detailed pattern. It was like the inside of a computer’s integrated circuit, an a.s.sembly of mechanically detailed pattern.

The light spreading from Nayuta’s palm was moving from stone to stone, before long it covered the whole pyramid. The circuits covering the surface without leaving any nook behind made the pyramid brightly s.h.i.+ning in the night sky conspicuously.

“I see……I understood it really well.”

Nayuta released her hand from the pyramid’s stone. Thereupon the light settled and the pyramid’s appearance immediately returned to its former look.

“Understood you say, what is it you understand?”

Nayuta answered full of smile.

“The way this world is constructed, and about the machine G.o.d Osiris. Inside this pyramid there are not only the undead filled with Osiris’s husband and daughter’s souls, the information of this whole world is also stored here. It seems that the thing we heard from Zelcyone and Yuris.h.i.+a is the truth.”

“The whole world’s……that means, if it’s with Kaa-san’s power”

“I think so. It cannot go perfectly by any means, I guess it’s possible to restore them tolerably. Although――”

She put her fingertip on her cheek and tilted her head.

“The magic power is insufficient.”

“But if it’s with Eros’s power, it’s possible to produce magic power. The problem is, how to create the amount that can fill a world……”

Previously they had once produced magic power that filled the whole Atlantis. At that time it was something possible only by means of a ceremony of Climax Hybrid with the emperor sisters Aine and Grace, and then also the cooperation of all the people of the empire.

“It’s Osiris.”

Nayuta talked alone.

“What?”

“Machine G.o.d Osiris. Her body so to speak is a magnification device. She is operating with the power of the sun that was summoned from another world. Because of that, this world turned into a world of death but……”

Kizuna suddenly realized and he leaned his body forward.

“What are you saying, if we use Eros as the replacement of that sun!?”

“Exactly. Climax Hybrid with Osiris and the magic power generation from that. Surely it will become life force that is sufficient to revive this world with the power of the machine G.o.d Osiris.”

Kizuna stared with serious eyes at Nayuta who looked really boastful somewhere.

“Kaa-san……can you do it?”

Nayuta shrugged her shoulders and answered like it was troublesome.

“Ok ok.”

Kizuna and Himekawa faced each other anxiously.

Was she really going to do it? This half-a.s.sed G.o.d of a mother.

Even while complaining like that in his heart, Kizuna was feeling bewilderment to the recent change of Nayuta.

Since her appearance changed into a little girl――especially since Deus ex Machina appeared, the words and deeds of Nayuta changed into something that couldn’t be thought of from the previous Nayuta. Possibly something happened during the time they pa.s.sed in the Ataraxia that Nayuta created.

Her personality and behavior were strangely like a human.

Even further, childishness and innocence could be felt from her. The one feeling that was not just Kizuna. Surely the one feeling it the most was Reiri. Kizuna had talked before with Reiri for just a little about Nayuta’s change. However, it was only to the degree of voicing his doubt, it didn’t go any further than that.

‘――Just what in the world happened to Kaa-san? Or else, this too is her usual method to confuse people with smoke screen?’

“And so, Kizuna.”

“Eh?”

Kizuna was lost in his mind too much that he didn’t listen to the voice around him.

“My, you are not listening to what Okaa-san is talking?”

‘puku―’ Nayuta inflated her cheeks in dissatisfaction.

“Aah, sorry. Err……what is it again?”

“By knowing about Osiris, I also understood a little about machine G.o.d Thanatos too……that’s what I was saying.”

‘――Thanatos?’

Kizuna held an impression that resembled terror toward that name.

Thanatos. The person who demolished Lemuria and Atlantis. However, just like the other remaining machine G.o.d, her true ident.i.ty was wrapped in mystery.

The last time they met, the world was completely destroyed without him being able to do anything.

“Do you understand the way to defeat Thanatos?”

“The way to defeat her is it? That is――”

“Don’t touch that pyramid!”

A sharp voice resounded, cutting off Nayuta’s voice.

Nayuta grinned broadly and turned around with her head tilted.

“Nice to meet you……that doesn’t seem like the atmosphere that we have here.”

A G.o.d with strange shape was standing with Necropolis in her back.

He had seen that figure at the image that Grace and others brought back. However, when he actually looked in confrontation like this, he was overwhelmed by her presence.

Black hair with tanned skin. Large b.r.e.a.s.t.s and slender waist created a lascivious bodyline. However her lower body was combined with lion’s body. The lion body that was large like an elephant and four legs. Giant wings were spreading on her back. A golden machine G.o.d possessing human and beast body.

That figure made Kizuna sweated coldly on his forehead.

“Machine G.o.d……Osiris.”

The golden eyes under her black hair were burning in hatred. The flickering red lights rising from her whole body was also like a representative of Osiris’s fury.

As though she was inciting Osiris who was like that, Nayuta tapped the pyramid *pon pon* with a chuckle.

“Is this data storage really that important?”

“You-!”

Osiris kicked on the sand.

“What are you doing getting her angry like that!”

However Nayuta was smiling cheerfully without feeling remorse.

“As promised, I’m leaving the battle in your hand.”

“Geez! Here we go Hayuru!”

“Yes-!”

When she replied Himekawa was already letting loose her Blades. The four flying swords a.s.saulted Osiris, stopping her in her track. The Blades were changing direction while cutting at Osiris over and over.

“Ku……what a hindrance!”

Osiris stretched her hand and a sword of obelisk appeared from inside the sand. After she grasped that sword, she face the coming Blades and swung down. The Blades scattered intense sparks in the air.

“Aah!”

Himekawa raised a voice that sounded like scream.

The Blade that was locking blade with the obelisk was severed right into two.

Kizuna also spontaneously opened his mouth.

“What-!? The new type Blade is?”

“Don’t think that something like this can destroy me and this world!”

Osiris lifted the obelisk to the sky. And then the sun on her back began to s.h.i.+ne brightly. The red light of the sun was running along the pattern carved on the blade of the obelisk.

‘――This is bad!’

Kizuna’s instinct was ringing alarm bell.

“Wait, Osiris! We want to save this world! Listen to us!”

Osiris shown a ridiculing expression as though mocking them.

“Experimental animal like you need to stop sleep talking. All of you cannot do anything. Much less saving this world, that’s just an impossible delusion.”

“You are wrong! There is no life force in this world. Even if you prepared replacement flesh, it will only end up the same! You will only repeat the ruin!”

“Is that why, you stole my daughter’s body?”

“Something like that is unneeded! I’ll give this world a fresh start in life!”

Osiris gritted her teeth in irritation.

“Is that all the joke you have to say?”

The obelisk lifted over her head was emitting dazzling light.

“I am the queen protecting this Necropolis! No one, will steal this world, my husband, my daughter, from me!”

“Hayuru! Dodge!”

However faster than they could escape, the brightly s.h.i.+ning red obelisk was swung down.

“UoOOOOOOOOOO-!?”

“KYAAAAAAAAAAA!”

The red light launched along the sword streak of the Obelisk swallowed Kizuna and Himekawa. That light was a light that stole life. The light of the sun s.h.i.+ning on Osiris’s back. The sun of another world that plundered all the life and all the magic power in Osiris’s world.

Osiris’s lips distorted in madness.

 

Part 3

“Hm? That’s, what light is that?”

One of the Quartum standing guard on the deck, Ramza pointed at the direction of the Necropolis. Red light that pierced the sky was stretching up from nearby the pyramid.

“Seems like, they are starting already……”

Elma made a grim face while staring at the fiercely rising red light. But Lunorlla was staring at a completely different direction while murmuring.

“Un……looks like it’s starting. At this side too.”

“Eh?”

Elma chased after Lunorlla’s gaze and there she found a sand hill that was piling up a little more compared to the surrounding. But that hill was approaching Ataraxia while gradually increasing in height.

“It’s coming here!”

Elma summoned her hammer from the air. At the same time with that the sand exploded up largely. The sand looked like water pillar spurting toward the sky. The jumping sand was heading to the sky without stopping before changing shape into dragon.

A transmission came in from Clayda who was holing in the stern of the s.h.i.+p.

{Oi, something’s coming from this direction too!}

The image sent from Clayda was projected in front of Elma. There a giant with height that might reach a hundred meters was reflected waking up its body from the sand.

Elma opened a new window and reported to Grace who was in the bridge.

“Grace-sama! The sand monsters are coming! They are from the port and the rear!”

The bridge also confirmed the appearance of the monsters. The students of the research department were running around in the bridge, carrying out the a.n.a.lysis by controlling the light panel floating on the desk.

“Yes. This side is also confirming it. After this I and also Zel will come out.”

After she closed the window, Grace turned at Reiri.

“You don’t mind right, headmaster?”

“Yeah, we are counting on you. You too Zelcyone.”

Zelcyone didn’t reply and followed behind Grace.

Grace was going to get out of the bridge gallantly, but her legs stopped in front of Yuris.h.i.+a who was standing nearby the entrance.

“What are you going to do?”

“……I’m going, that’s obvious.”

Without meeting Grace’s gaze, Yuris.h.i.+a kept staring at the floor, Grace heaved a sigh with a purposeful gesture.

“No. Don’t come. You can just stay here.”

Yuris.h.i.+a snapped up her face as though she was just got hit.

“Wha……what does that mean! I have finished the Core’s reinstall, right now my battle strength is even……stronger, than Grace you know? Yet despite so……”

However when Yuris.h.i.+a looked at Grace’s red eyes that were staring back fixedly at her, Yuris.h.i.+a’s voice was gradually losing its momentum.

“It’s a bother to let you enter the battlefield with that kind of half-hearted feeling. It will be unbearable to be shot from the back.”

Yuris.h.i.+a bit her lip.

“Something like that, I won’t――”

Grace removed her gaze from Yuris.h.i.+a and went until the entrance, before she stopped.

“I understand, the feeling of regretting the error of the past.”

“Eh?”

“Speaking honestly, I too don’t understand what I should do. However, we have to take responsibility toward the people of Lemuria. After all I too am in the position of governing a country.”

“What……are you talking?”

“Are the current you Yuris.h.i.+a or Isis, I don’t know. But, if you are a princess, then you understand what I am saying right? Shouldn’t you fulfill your responsibility too?”

“……”

Grace tilted her head back and stared at Yuris.h.i.+a who was looking down.

“If you have the will for that, then you should go not with me but toward where Nii-sama is.”

“Eh……”

When she lifted her face, Grace was already turned her back on Yuris.h.i.+a.

“Now that Nee-sama is not here, originally it should be me that has to help Nii-sama. But, with my magic armor I cannot win against that Osiris. I will only become a hindrance for Nii-sama.”

Leaving those words behind, Grace walked away in the corridor. Zelcyone also gave Yuris.h.i.+a a glance before chasing after Grace right away.

“Grace……”

Yuris.h.i.+a clenched her fist tightly.

 

Part 4