Capítulo 31: Chapter 6
She put the bottle on the table and dropped her body heavily on the sofa.
"No."
"――I see."
Silence flowed between the two.
"Kei, you want to meet that person?"
Kei's lips looked slightly smiling.
"I don't know. But, perhaps that's so. That person is...a genius after all. She is something like a target of worship."
"Even you are a genius you know?"
Kei shook her head with a wry smile.
"The dimension is too different. In front of Professor Nayuta, someone like me is a mere ordinary person."
Reiri once again gulped her beer.
"...Re-ri yourself, Professor Nayuta...your mother, what do you think about her?"
Reiri put the bottle she finished drinking on the floor.
And then, she spoke while looking at something far away.
"――My ultimate enemy."
Part 3
Yurishia and Aine were standing in front of the US military base at the northern part of Guam Island.
The sun had sunk into the sea already. There was not a single artificial light, only the moonlight was creating silhouettes of the building where the headquarters and office were in, and the hangar of the aircraft jets.
"When there is no human presence here, it feels like a different place.
Yurishia boldly entered inside the grounds from the entrance that was left ajar.
Aine too continued after her.
"Has nothing changed since the last time you came?"
"Hmmm, it was only two, three days for me, so honestly I don't remember thoughh...but, I think nothing really changed. That's what makes it eerie instead."
"Eerie?"
"Because, there is no sign of battle see?"
Aine once again looked around at the entrance they came through and the fence, then the buildings inside the grounds.
Certainly there was nothing destroyed here. On the contrary there was not even a single bullet mark. People were only gone from here, leaving only large containers without anything inside. That was her impression.
"Did they escape...or else, they surrendered without resistance I wonder..."
Yurishia pondered with a difficult face.
Aine manifested several windows around her face and searched the surroundings with all sorts of sensors.
"There is nothing really standing out. Just completely abandoned buildings, I wonder if it's fine to call them so?"
"What happened here, it's great if we could just find some clue thoughh."
Yurishia whispered with a carefree tone, but her eyes were vigilantly observing the surroundings.
Aine too responded while staring at the sensor.
"And, we also want information regarding the AU. We are the first ones infiltrating a place that had come under enemy control right?"
"Perhaps. At the very least, I have never heard of any story about information brought from this kind of place."
After walking ahead, they found a large steel tower. Yurishia stopped walking in front of the building without lighting in front of that tower.
"There should be a communication facility here. First, let's confirm this place."
After they entered through the door left ajar, there was a pitch dark corridor continuing to the inside.
Yurishia drew out the gun on her waist. It was a [particle gun] that fired particles produced by the Heart Hybrid Gear as bullets.
"I'll go first. Aine, please take care of my back."
"Roger."
The dark corridor was dimly illuminated by the luminescence of the Heart Hybrid Gear.
The two of them were advancing forward while paying meticulous attention.
"Everything...is really spotless."
"....Rather, there is nothing here."
Rather than calling the place clean, there was nothing.
Not to mention traps, even equipment and machine was not left behind sufficiently. The isolated bookshelves left didn't have a single book in it. The drawer of the desks were empty. And then, not a single electronic device like PC or anything could be found.
Although this was a military base, the operation here was similar to a government office. There should be a mountain of books and paperwork here, without PC or monitor here there would be no work that could be done.
"Hey, Yurishia. Is the US army destitute? I wonder if they sold their furniture to the pawnshop."
"There is no way that's true..."
The dark corridor continued straight. A few meters ahead was only darkness. That darkness felt like it was continuing towards a different world.
"?"
Ahead of the corridor, a dim light was visible.
"That's――"
Yurishia erected her index finger in front of Aine's eyes. Don't talk――looking at such sign, Aine nodded silently.
Both of them killed the sound of their footsteps and advanced.
Little by little the light became bigger.
'――A door.'
Light was leaking out from the door.
Yurishia's heart beat became faster.
'――Is there, someone?'
Yurishia prepared her particle gun.
She clung beside the door without raising a single sound, with a hand sign she called for Aine.
Aine and Yurishia nodded at each other, then Aine opened the door slowly. Yurishia separated herself slightly from the door, matching herself with the angle of the opening door, she confirmed the inside of the room.
"Clear, there is nothing."
When Yurishia entered the room, she lowered her gun.
Aine who entered from behind asked Yurishia.
"This is?"
"...Who knows?"
In front of the eyes of the two, there was a communication device that still had electricity.
From the large console, a low noise could be heard slightly.
"The light emitted by the communication device's monitor was illuminating the wondering face of Aine.
"I wonder if it was only this thing that had been connected to electricity all this time? Or else..."
Yurishia put the headphone connected to the device on her ear.
"Someone, was coming here recently...I think?"
"There is still time until we meet up. Let's try investigating a little bit more."
Yurishia nodded to Aine's words and put back the headphone on the console.
Jarring noise was continuing to flow out from the headphone.
Part 4
Kizuna and Himekawa were standing in Guam's city that was illuminated by moonlight.
Once it was the main street intended for tourists.
However, right now not a trace of it could be seen.
"How cruel..."
Himekawa stared at that scenery with blank amazement.
What spread in front of the two was a complete ruin.
Not a single one of the buildings lining up the two sides of the street were safe. From the information before the 2nd Another Universe Conflict that they studied yesterday, there should be shops selling high class brand products lining up this place. But right now, it had been turned into a mountain of rubble.
There was also buildings that were still standing, but whichever it was, all of them were tilting and many holes were opened in them. Those might be the traces of bombardment. Surely there was also a large fire that happened here. Any building had the burned black traces remaining.
Even buildings that had comparatively few damage had all the doors of the shops broken, any kind of glasses were scattered about everywhere. When they peeked inside the store, there were shelves collapsed without any merchandise remaining.
The shell of burned cars were scattered about all over the places on the street.
So this was...a world trampled about by magic weapons.
"What a terrible state...damn it all."
Kizuna's back teeth was clenched so hard that it made a sound.
"Hida-kun. Let's try searching. Perhaps there will be something, a clue to know about the AU."
"Perhaps..."
He was about to say that there might be survivors, but he stopped.
There shouldn't be anyone surviving here.
The condition of this place was enough to make him think that.
Kizuna and Himekawa walked through the streets that had become ruins.
Broken glass and trash, wreckage was scattered on the ground, sound was created each time they stepped forward. The sounds echoed through this ghost city.
The pavement was broken that made it hard to walk. He guessed that it was the trace of the magic weapons' advance. The street had caved in all over the place.
After progressing forward, there was a collapsed building blocking half the street. Circling the wreckage of the building, they stared ahead of the street.
There was no presence of living things.
"The residents and travelers in this place, where did they all go..."
Himekawa answered while paying attention to the surroundings.
"That's so isn't it...besides, not to mention the figures of AU people, there isn't even any figures of magic weapons here...but, looking from the state of the city, it seems to be a certainty that this place was occupied once..."
It was once occupied, but then it was immediately abandoned?
Just what in the world was going on?
After advancing for a while, there was a wall of concrete and steel frame standing tall as if growing from the ground like a giant tree. Looks like it was the result of a collapsing building.
They cut across through that obstruction with bad visibility by using the gaps between.
And then, their field of vision suddenly opened.
In the middle of the scenery where there were only rubble all over the eyes could see, there was a beautiful woman sitting elegantly on a Victorian-style chair.
"....-!!"
In front of the beautiful woman, there was an elaborately decorated round table and afternoon tea set placed on it. Alone by herself, she was bathed in moonlight while enjoying tea.
Her age was probably around twenty years old.
With long green hair and slender body, she was a really pretty woman.
She was wearing clothes that fitted tightly on her body line, releasing attractive sex appeal.
The clothes that was inserted with deep blue and golden lines had an atmosphere like a military uniform from somewhere. However, it had a different quality where the valley of her breasts and her thighs were exposed defenselessly.
That beauty was idly staring at the sky, perhaps from not noticing Kizuna and Himekawa yet.
The purple pupils inside her narrowed eyes were shining. Just what in the world those joyful eyes were seeing? Her glossy lips were gently smiling, she looked like she was going to hum a song anytime.
She was waiting expectantly for someone to arrive. That was how her atmosphere looked like.
"Is that a survivor!?"
Himekawa called out to that woman.
Kizuna that was watching completely in fascination also returned to his senses suddenly.
Himekawa approached closer for two, three steps, then she opened her hands with a smile for reassuring the woman.
"You are safe already, so please be reassured. We have come from Megafloat Japan."
The woman slowly faced toward Himekawa. The purple eyes were reflecting the red Heart Hybrid Gear.
"We came to investigate this place. Excuse me...are you someone who live in this place? Or else are you a traveler?"
The glossy lips of the woman opened.
"My...my, my, my my my myy"
Wha, what?
Her state was strange for someone who was happy that help came.
The woman stood up from the chair.
She was tall, and her legs were long. She was like a foreign model that ran around barefooted, her figure was perfect. It was a miraculous molded beauty. The clothes that he thought as a skirt was terrifyingly short when she was standing up. The body suit on her nether region worn under that skirt was in plain sight.
However that woman didn't show any shyness about her own clothing. She joined her hands and smiled in great happiness.
"You are not the one I'm waiting for...but, to be able to meet with Neros of all things. I'm really happy."
――What?
Why, did she know Neros' name?
Come to think of it, her clothes.
――It looked like, a pilot suit.
Himekawa spoke after realizing that.
"By any chance, are you someone from America's Heart Hybrid Gear team? If that's the case, then are you carrying out some kind of operation here?"
America?
No.
Green hair.
That suit.
Something was tugged inside Kizuna's memory.
Inside his heart, something big raising tremor was approaching near.
The woman raised her voice happily.
"But this is a good omen. Like this, perhaps I can soon meet her."
No way.
This woman was?
This woman was!?
From the amorous lips, a cheerful voice resounded.
"Zeel."
From her body, green particles overflowed.
"This, this is-!?"
Himekawa raised a flustered voice.
The green light began to solidify. The particles of lights became armor covering that body.
Together with a conspicuously radiant light, the green radiance was dispelled.
Looking at that appearance, Kizuna unconsciously murmured.
"Heart Hybrid Gear..."
An austere armor was created as if in protection of the beauty's slender body. Several shields were protecting her, giving the impression like a personal solid fortress, it was undoubtedly a Heart Hybrid Gear. However, its atmosphere was different somewhere compared to Kizuna and the others' gears.
And then he recognized that silhouette.
"The one before..."
The mysterious Heart Hybrid Gear that deflected Pulverizer.
"Yo...you! Who the hell are you!?"
That woman calmly smiled still the same like before.
"I am Aldea. Kindly take care of me."
"...!!"
She easily introduced herself.
No, but surely that was a fake name. Just which country's instigation this――
"Which country do you belong to-? And that Heart Hybrid Gear!?"
Himekawa represented Kizuna's doubt.
"I belong to the Vatlantis Empire."
Va...Vatlan...tis, Empire?
This woman, was she screwing around?
Just where did such a country exist?
Most likely she was only making fools of them.
Aldea pressed her finger on her lips and tilted her head as though being troubled.
"And so, that...what you called gear, are you talking about magic armor I wonder? If that's so, I think I had spoken it before, but this is [Zeel]. Kindly observe as you see fit."
'――Damn it, just how brazen can you be!'
Kizuna's head was in chaos.
Just how much could he trust what she said?
N, no, if he thought about it calmly, then surely he couldn't trust even a single thing about it.
But...certainly she called out the name of the Core to put on that gear.
Besides in the previous battle, this Heart Hybrid Gear...no, this magic armor repelled Aine's Corruption Armament [Pulverizer], that was an unmistakable fact.
Kizuna fell quiet with a grim face. Cold sweat was flowing from his whole body.
Himekawa also tensed similarly like him. Her opened mouth was literally gaping open.
Aldea was wearing a gentle smile, as if to say 'Are you okay?'
Just what was with this woman?
Even though she answered all their questions, they couldn't understand her true identity at all.
Inside Kizuna, a feeling of anxiety was welling up.
'――Damn it-!'
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