Prologue

Part 1
The place was an oasis in the middle of a desert.

Greenery was spreading in the vicinity of a large river where people

gathered, creating a city. The town made one imagine such a
procession.

There was no wall around the city, but trees with a tall height were
planted, starting the city leniently. There was no external enemy that
the city had to be vigilant towards. The bright light of the sun was
reflected by the buildings built from brick and stone of beige color that
were standing in rows.

“……Is that the place?”

A girl covered in a mantle attached with a hood was staring at that city.
Standing on the sand, her hood was deeply lowered to evade the bright
sunlight.

It was as though the buildings were made from piled up square blocks.
Generally there were a lot of buildings that had two or three floors, but
it wasn’t a city that was that tall. Because of that, the presence of the
gigantic structure on the outskirts of the city felt even more bizarre.

A gigantic rectangle cone built from piled up stones. The so called

pyramid.

Its height was about three hundred meters.

It was unclear just for what it was built and what kind of role it carried
out. However, the gigantic structure that was enshrouded in mist, its
mysteriousness made the person seeing it to keep guessing such thing
and caused them to harbor indescribable thoughts of awe.
After staring at that pyramid glaringly, the girl began to walk while
leaving behind footprints on the sand. The sleeve of the mantle flapped,
the girl entered the lone city of the desert.

When she entered inside the city passing through the trees that blocked
the wind, a well ordered townscape was spreading out before her. The
buildings made from beautifully carved stones were lining up properly
at both sides of the street. The buildings facing the main street seemed
to be shops. Signboards and wide frontage, and counter and shelves
inside could be seen. The street was completely made from stone
paving, The sand blown in from the desert was swept by the wind,
flowing away smoothly.

At a glance, the scenery was like a city that often existed in the middle
of a desert.

But there was one thing, that was obviously eerie.

That was the residents of this city.

In the end, was it okay to call them as humans?

On the limbs that were slim like a branch, was a smooth head. A body
that exposed out a frame that resembled a rib cage. The residents of this
city were all in possession of machine bodies. Perhaps it was for
maintenance, or maybe it was for anti-corrosive, or possible because it
was a sand repellent, their bodies were wrapped with long pieces of
cloth that were like bandages. Their appearances were just like that of a
mummy.

Without uttering a single word, the residents were groaning out low
sounds of mechanical movement while loitering in the city
staggeringly. That sight was abnormal, even though the city was
beautiful, it was eerie. The sight was as though a great number of
ghosts were roaming the city.

Among that, the girl was walking without fear. She moved out her hand
from below the mantle and lowered down her hood even lower to hide
her face. Those fingers and hand were wrapped in bandages.

Her injury was still not completely healed. However when she thought
that the bandage unexpectedly also became a camouflage, her feeling
became a little comforted.

Nevertheless, the eerie residents walking throughout the city, were

they moving with some objective in mind? Some were walking the
street with shaky footsteps, some were standing still at the shops’
counters.

By any chance, were they dead people, and now they were repeating
their act like they were still living? Such thinking suddenly welled up.
However, there was no way to ascertain that.

In front of the girl, a gigantic wall was standing in her way. There was a
huge gate with a height that was reaching ten meters. Human statues
with the same height of the wall were built on both sides. They were
statues of females sitting on a chair with their upper body naked.

The girl looked up at the gigantic statue. Hairstyle that was cut and
evened up. Beautifully arranged face.

‘――This woman, is she the god of this place?’

“Then this place is a shrine, or maybe a palace……”

After whispering that, the girl passed between the two statues. For a
place where the authority was living, there was no presence of people.
Or rather, there was no scent of the living from this whole city.

After walking for a while there was a stair with a wide width. After
climbing that stair, she came out to a place with a high ceiling and a
decorated wall that was more extravagant than the lower level.

Perhaps the master of this building was here. The girl was being careful
while advancing through the corridor.

“Hm?”

Her legs stopped when she felt a human presence.

There was no door at the entrance that was gouged out in the white
wall. There was only thin pieces of cloth hanged down as the
replacement of a door. After the girl approached near the entrance, she
peeked inside the room from the gap between the fabric.

While simple, it was a beautiful room. There was no splendorous

decoration. The height of quality of the material itself was bringing out
the high class impression. The wall and also the floor were covered with
white stone that was polished like a mirror. Two directions of the wall
were largely opened wide, it was as though the blue sky outside was cut
square and put inside.

With that blue sky as the background, there was a familiar person
standing straight ahead. Golden colored hair and blue eyes. And then
large breasts that were filled to bursting. On her chest was a wide
necklace of gold and jewels hanging down, but her essential breasts
were exposed without anything to hide them. On her waist was a thin
cloth wrapped around, but it was only something simple to lightly be
tied there. That person’s voluptuous body was hidden unsatisfactorily
while the person was standing still like a maid standing by in front of
her master.

‘――That person.’

The girl opened the fabric that was the replacement for a door and
entered inside the room.

“So you were in this kind of place, Yurishia Farandole.”

As though noticing that voice, Yurishia lifted her face.

“……ah”

“Are you the only one here? Where is Nee-sama?”

The girl whose head was covered by a hood ran towards Yurishia.
However, looking at the figure approaching her, Yurishia’s expression
became dangerous.

“Such impertinence to enter Osiris-sama’s room without permission!”

“――!?”

Yurishia’s killing intent stopped the girl’s legs.

“Cross!”

In a moment Yurishia’s body was equipped with an armor that was

shining blue. And then the Differential Frame on her back spouted out
fire. The large caliber particle cannon was assaulting the girl.

Intense particles of light erased the body of the girl. The hood and also
the mantle were torn apart and blazed up. Naturally, the girl’s body was
also scattered apart in an instant, it might even be possible that the
body had been evaporated into nothing.

However――,

“What an unexpected greeting.”

It was as though the golden particles Yurishia launched were coiling

around the girl’s body before they were absorbed into that small body.
Each time some particles were absorbed the girl’s skin was increasing in
glossiness and tightness, her pink colored hair was shining even more
beautifully.

“This is! Don’t tell me……”

Yurishia opened her eyes wide in shock.

“Or else is that your idea of a welcome? That might be your toast of
gratitude towards me who finally came here to meet you.”

After receiving the attack of Yurishia at full power, a hearty laughing

voice was raised. After receiving the attack of a Heart Hybrid Gear, far
from receiving damage the girl made it into her own power in reverse.
There was only one person who could do something like that.

At the back of the girl, gold and silver wings were spreading wide.
Wings of only bones. And then every single one of those bones became
blades that were shining coldly.

The Magic Armor Koros that was called as the angel of slaughter. And
then, the owner of that was――,

“Grace……why, are you here?”

Cold sweat was trickling down Yurishia’s cheek.

As though to ridicule Yurishia who was like that, Vatlantis Empire’s
emperor Grace Synclavia stood imposingly with her body bending
backward.

“That’s my line. Moreover, just what were you thinking to suddenly

launch an attack on me?”

“That’s because Yurishia has become my loyal servant.”

A clear voice rang out.

The floor of the room became stair shaped ahead, the more one went to
the center the higher the floor became. At the highest spot, there was a
chair. A single female was sitting there. Grace didn’t notice that
presence until now. No, when she entered the room that presence
shouldn’t be there.

Grace stared at that female to appraise her.

The female had an elegant smile with queenly behavior. She possessed
tanned skin with straight black hair that was beautifully cut evenly.
That figure completely resembled the statue at the entrance of this
shrine.

And then at the side of the chair there was a golden lump that was like a
small mountain. When that lump raised its neck, it faced towards Grace
and bared its fang.

That was a mechanical lion. And then at the back of the chair, there was
a mechanical bird with metallic wings perching. Its face was round, its
image was closest to a falcon. But the size of the body wasn’t close.
When it spread its wings, the length of the wings might have reached
six meters.
Yurishia kneeled and lowered her face towards that female.

‘――Judging from this, Yurishia blurted out just now that this woman
is [Osiris-sama] huh. I don’t know how this woman made her submit
but……I cannot let my guard down.’

Grace heightened her vigilance towards the woman in front of her eyes.

“Are you, the master of this place?”

The female smiled gently to Grace’s question.

“Yes. My name is Osiris. The queen of this world.”

“……I see. So you are one of the Deus ex Machina, Osiris. What
fortuitous luck. For the first place I arrived at after being swallowed
inside the space-time tsunami to be the world we searched for.”

Osiris narrowed her eyes towards Grace who was smiling proudly.

“That’s because I guided you here.”

“――What did you say?”

“That space-time tsunami was something I caused. So that all of you

will arrive in our grasp.”

Grace thought of her words as falsehood. Certainly it might be possible

for the Deus ex Machina to do that. But, if that was really the case then
everything was dancing on top of this Osiris’s hand. That was
something she didn’t want to recognize.

“Hou. You said something interesting. If that’s the case, then why did
you intentionally summon us, the enemy?”
Osiris chuckled ‘fufu’ joyfully.

“I’m not thinking of you as an enemy. All of you, are our experiment
results.”

Grace gritted her teeth. It was an irritating way of saying it, but that
was also the truth.

“But, all of you are failed products. I was thinking that Thanatos would
surely lose interest and abandoned this result. However, Thanatos
collected all of you and planned to erase you all. But, like that, I will be
troubled.”

“……?”

‘――What does that mean? Is this woman saying she is going to help
us?’

“I want living, organic, biological bodies.”

Grace immediately threw away the slightly budding hope. From this
Osiris, she could smell the same scent as that Nayuta.

“You should understand after watching this city, haven’t you? There is
no living human here. What are here, are all undead(undying
machine).”

“True, there are only those eerie bunches here. As expected those guys
are really dead people then.”

“They are not dead people. I cannot say they are living, but the most
correct way of calling them are people who are not dead I guess. They
were once living in this world, they were human. However, everything
in this world was gnawed by death. I didn’t want to let the people die
with all my heart. So that the soul wouldn’t leave this world even
though their flesh died, I commanded to mechanize the corpses. And
what resulted from that, are they, the undead.”

A tone of sadness was coloring Osiris’s voice. That was the proof that
this world wasn’t something she even wished for, that making the
people into that appearance was unintentional.

“I am the queen of this Necropolis(City of the Dead). I have the duty to

guide them.”

Osiris stood up from the chair. As though possessing the same will, the
kneeling lion also stood up, the falcon also spreading its wings.

Osiris’s eyes were shining gold.

“Not the living but also not the dead. For the sake of saving them who
are such existences, the existences of all of you are necessary. Now,
offer that body to me.”

The graceful tanned arms pointed at Grace. Thereupon a noise ran in

front of those arms. From there blue blocks materialized and a strange
pyramid was piled up instantly.

That was an object like a reversed pyramid. The material forming it

looked like blue glass. Near its surface was a transparent blue color, but
nearer to its center part the darker the color became, one couldn’t see
through the pyramid. From ultramarine to black. It was as though
something was lurking in its depths, Grace could feel such eeriness.

‘――What in the world, is that?’

That pyramid was floating in the air as though to protect Osiris. And
then it produced a faint vibrating sound while approaching Grace
gradually. There was the decoration of a closed eyelid at its sides,
making it even more eerie looking.

Sweat trickled down Grace’s back.

The opponent was a Deus ex Machina. It was still fresh in her mind how
Hokuta made her meet with a painful experience. Even the slightest
carelessness would became fatal, that understanding had been deeply
rooted in her bone.

“I see. Well, if that is what our creator is telling us, it cannot be helped
then.”

Putting her hand on her cheek, Osiris smiled happily.

“My, what an obedient child you are. It seems that you are Yurishia’s
friend, then I will especially use your body as the body of my daughter’s
friend.”

“Hou, your……what!?”

Once again Grace stared at Osiris’s body as though she was licking all
over the body. The largely jutting out breast and the tight stomach and
the constricted thin waist. And then the stretching ass below.

‘――That body doesn’t look like a body that has ever been pregnant at
all…….’

At Atlantis where Grace lived, there were only woman. Children were
born by using Genesis. However, while she was spending her time in
Ataraxia, she was able to obtain the knowledge of the reproduction act
of males and females.
Nevertheless, how to do it physically using the body. For Grace, she was
unable to understand that meaning. But, in any case it shouldn’t be
something enjoyable.

“I am greatly obliged for that consideration. Also……there should be,

one more person who is our companion but, is that person not here?”

“One more person? No, I don’t know about that……most likely that
person was collected by the other Deus ex Machina I guess.”

Grace clenched her fist hard, to the degree that her nails dug into her
flesh.

‘――So this was a pointless waste of time.’

Osiris moved her tanned arm forward as though to command the blue
pyramid.

“Now, you too become one of the people of Necropolis.”

The eyelids attached at the sides of the blue pyramid opened slightly.
From the gap several streaks of light shined. A luminescent globe
appeared from inside. That was exactly an eye. A golden pupil was
floating in the bright white globe.

‘――Dangerous-!’

Detecting danger instinctually, Grace averted her eyes. And then she
kicked on the floor and ran towards the opened wide window. And then
just like that she jumped towards the sky.

“Ah-!”

The unexpected movement of Grace made Osiris late to react. Grace

spread her wings and flew towards the sky.
“I won’t let you get away!”

Yurishia converted her Differential Frame into mobility mode. But then
a cool voice came while large amounts of particles were spouted out.

“Wait, Yurishia.”

Osiris raised her palm and stopped Yurishia.

“However……”

Yurishia looked up to the sky in vexation. The blue sky was spreading
wide there, but the figure of Grace was already lost from sight.

“I don’t mind. At any rate, she cannot escape from this world after all.”

“……My deepest apologies.”

Perhaps thinking that Grace’s escape was her own failure, Yurishia
dropped her gaze to the floor dejectedly.

Osiris descended the stairs and then when she arrived in front of
Yurishia she stroked her cheek.

“Ah……Osiris, sama.”

“If you fret, I have to give salvation to that soul of yours then, isn’t it?
It’s painful for me however……it’s fine even if I give punishment to
you, you know?”

The cheeks of Yurishia were dyed red in the blink of an eye. Then after
she hung her head down, she whispered with a voice that was like a
fly’s buzzing.

“……Please, do.”
After removing Cross away, Yurishia returned to a state where there
were only accessories and a waist cloth on her body. Osiris pinched up
the tip of her breast.

“NNAaAHn-♡!”

“Does it hurt? But, this is punishment so……endure it okay.”

Yurishia lowered down her head that became red until her ear and
murmured inside her mouth.

“Ye……yes, forgive me……”

“Then next will be an even more painful punishment you know?”

Osiris lightly lifted her hand. With that as the signal, the pyramid
arrived until in front of Yurishia and it toppled sideways.

“Now, straddle it.”

The bottom and the side of the pyramid was made to be in straight line.
Osiris ordered Yurishia to straddle there.

Yurishia was bewildered to that command. This pyramid should be

Osiris-sama’s important thing. Was it really okay? Yurishia sent Osiris a
gaze that was filled with such question. Osiris answered that gaze with
a silent nod.

She thrust her hand at the base with an acute angle. She thought it was
unsightly, but she spread her legs wide and straddled the pyramid. And
then Yurishia timidly lowered her waist on the straight line of the base
area.

“Hih……uuu-!”
With her own weight, her important part was pressed on the base of the
pyramid. It was as though she was straddling a triangle wooden horse.

“Kuh……aa♡ Aah-!”

Pain, and then sweet sensation was welling up from between her groin.
The sensation was ruling over Yurishia’s inside.

The treatment that should be painful made Yurishia’s cheek redden and
her body twisted. The figure of such Yurishia made Osiris float a
bewitching smile.

“My……you look so pained. How pitiful, however I too am also feeling

pained you know?”

“Haau-, fo, forgive me-eee! A, a, haan!”

The pitifully small cloth wrapping around Yurishia’s waist, Osiris put
her hand on that cloth and tore it off to let it gently fall.

“Aa, noo-! That’s, embarrassing”

Yurishia pleaded sorrowfully with completely blushing face. Her

blonde hair stuck on her face due to her sweat, she begged for
forgiveness with tears floating in her eyes.

“No good. This is also for the sake of compensating for your sin. My cute
daughter, Isis……”

“Eh?”

Yurishia couldn’t understand what Osiris was talking about.

“Excuse me, Osiris-sama……haauu-!”

Together with a sharp ripping sound, pain traveled through her back.

Osiris’s hand was clutching something that was like a duster made
from leather.

“If you can endure this whip……I will forgive your sin.”

A sound that was like a slapping sound resounded. A red mark clung on
Yurishia’s white ass.

“MMAaAH!”

Osiris circled to the front of Yurishia and she swung down her whip on
that large breast.

“!! ……-HHaAAA♡”

Coquettish sound resounded amidst the shriek, Yurishia twisted her

body.

‘――Yah, e, even though it hurts……it feels, good♡’

Yurishia tried to avert her attention from the pleasure welling up from
her groin, she lamped her thighs on the pyramid. However, she was
unable to support her weight, granting even more stimulation at
Yurishia’s sensitive part. And then, from Yurishia’s valley, the proof of
pleasure that was her dew began to trickle down.

Osiris caressed Yurishia’s cheek lovingly.

“Your appearance, is the spitting image of my daughter Isis. My

husband that was the king of another country……he possessed blonde
hair and white skin, a unique, the greatest pharaoh there ever was. My
daughter deeply inherited the blood of my husband.”
“I am……?”

“My beloved daughter……Isis.”

‘――Isis.’

That name was carved inside Yurishia’s head.

Osiris lowered her gaze sadly.

“Leaving me behind……heading towards the world of death alone, bad

daughter.”

Brushing up the black hair clinging on her cheek, Osiris then stared at
Yurishia with wet eyes. Inside those eyes where tears piled up, her
golden pupils were shaking.

“Until now I disciplined you as a slave. That was for the sake of granting
punishment to you who died alone, breaking your promise to me.”

‘――I was……dying alone, betraying mother.’

Yurishia’s consciousness was cloudy, she was becoming unclear of just

who she was.

‘――I am, Yurishia Farandole. And then, I’m Mother’s daughter Isis. Yes,
I am both of them, the two of them are me. I am not just, one of them.’

“Until now I have given you harsh trials but, you have really endured
well. You even looked as though you received the pain happily. Your
attitude that can accept and advance through your atonement, is truly
wonderful. With this, your sin has been absolved. From here on, live as
my daughter, get your heart closer to Isis too.”
Inside her hazy consciousness, Yurishia stared at the huge golden pupil
floating in front of her eyes.

That wasn’t Osiris’s pupil.

It was the pupil floating in the blue pyramid.

However, the current Yurishia couldn’t even understand that.

The information sent to her from the golden pupil of the pyramid was
being carved inside her mind.

“I can, live……as the daughter of Mother, from now on……”

That was a happiness so great that it shook Yurishia’s body. She didn’t
understand what she was happy for. But her heart was naturally
shaking, her tears were overflowing.

“Exactly. And then the time when your body is sufficiently prepared
that it can accept Isis’s soul……you will become one with Isis. At that
time, you will truly become my daughter.”

“I will, become Osiris-sama’s daughter……”

A large drop of tear wet Yurishia’s eye.

“Aa……I’m happy♡”

That happiness heightened her pleasure even more.

“Fuah! Aaa-! Mother–! Quickly, my punishment. Please give me the

punishment so I can become Mother’s daughter-!”

“Geez……what a hopeless daughter aren’t you? Then, I will give you

forgiveness with the next strike. Now, cum.”
After Osiris whispered joyfully, she swung the whip lightly at
Yurishia’s lower body. The tip of that whip grazed at the most sensitive
part, located even lower below the stomach.

‘――!?’

At that instant, Yurishia’s consciousness became pure white.

“I’m♡ cuUUMMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINGGGGG-♡♡!”

Yurishia’s body bent into ‘<’ shape and convulsed twitchingly.

“Ah, a, aa……a”

Her eyes were closed, Yurishia’s body tilted powerlessly. Osiris

embraced the body of Yurishia that was going to collapse.

“Fufu……my cute Isis. This is the softness of living beings, how warm
this is……it has been so long, I have forgotten this.”

Osiris continued to stroke Yurishia’s soft blonde hair many times

lovingly.

Part 2
Yurishia was seeing a dream.

That was the memory when she was a child.

“Kyaa, Yurishia is always cute.”

“Besides you are really a clever child.”

The happy times when she passed the time together with her parents. A
happy memory.

Her parents were always busy, but they took time to accompany
Yurishia.
“Look look! That jet coaster is amazing! I want to ride that.”

“Hahaha. That’s still too early for you, Yurishia.”

“That’s not true. I’m already an adult!”

“I guess. Yurishia is more adult even compared to other children, you

really progressed. But you see, your height is not enough. Let’s do this
when you become a little taller okay?”

“How about that Yurishia? Let’s see the rabbit attraction over there.”

“Ee? That gun shooting at that side is better for me. Hey, father please!”

However, her mother always stopped that.

“That’s no good Yurishia. Yurishia is a lady, so you must not play that
kind of vulgar game.”

Yes.

Since she was a child, beautiful and cute, a sweet image was demanded
from her.

Girlish, like a princess, become a lady, that was what was wanted from
her.

But, rather than a story of a girl that became a princess and became
happy with a lovely prince, she liked superhero comics better.

Obtaining the strongest power, and beating the bad guy.

That was her dream as a kid.

And then, on a certain day, her mother was gone.

A few days after she became unable to see her mother’s figure, she
couldn’t endure it, and asked her father.

“We are divorced.”

She didn’t understand the meaning of those words, but she understood
that she couldn’t meet her mother anymore. And then, she also
understood that her mother made another family.
Am I, abandoned by mother?

I, already became unneeded?

Like throwing away old toys and buying a new toy, did mother now
want a new daughter?

Since then, everything felt empty somehow.

She became the best in everything she did in school no matter what.

Whether in study and also in sport.

It became natural to be the best in whatever she did, there was no

challenge, that it was boring.

Toward such me, it was as though everyday there were boys coming to
confess. But, I rejected them all. I couldn’t show any interest no matter
what towards someone who couldn’t win against me in even just a
single thing.

And then I was taken by father, into my debut in high society.

However, even this world of high society, in the end, it was just like a
higher version of school community. I was fed up with the wearisome
conversations.

What would become of me from now on? It was at that time when I was
harboring that kind of worry.

I saw that.

――Heart Hybrid Gear.

It’s not an exaggeration, it felt like destiny.

My dream when I was a kid, had come from the other side.

By no means was it that anyone could become this.

The elite among the elite. Only a few names from the whole of America.

This was just what I wished for.

It was also only natural for me to obtain that kind of thing.

The reason was that, until now, there was nothing that I couldn’t
become.

I became the hero that I yearned for,

and then, I truly became,

America’s ace,

a national hero,

a superhero.

If it was now perhaps even mother wouldn’t abandon me.

I had become this splendid.

If it was for the sake of mother, then I would fight even if the whole
world become my enemy.

When I thought that, I came to think that I’m really a human that can
act heroically, my feeling became really good.

“I will kill, the enemy that threatens mother……every single one of

them.”

Chapter 1 – Osiris

Part 1
“Then to celebrate the victory……cheers.”

Nayuta raised her glass smilingly.

It was at the highest floor of a high class hotel in Ataraxia, [Royal

Ataraxia Hotel]. Inside the Chinese food restaurant that was among the
lined up high class restaurants there, Kizuna and the others of the Heart
Hybrid Gear squad and the Magic Knight of Vatlantis were gathering.

As expected from a hotel that was usually a purveyor for VIPs, it had a
magnificent view of Ataraxia’s night scenery from the large window.
However, Megafloat Japan that was usually visible was nowhere to be
seen right now. When the sight was moved to inside the restaurant, the
combination of Chinese outfits that made one recall the world of
Hokuto and the modern design was really pleasing to the eyes. Even
while proclaiming the high class perception, the atmosphere was
mysteriously calming.

However, the gathered members were similarly making disheartened

faces.

“Che……cheers.”

Inside the strange atmosphere that was drifting, whispering voices of

cheers with timing really late and that didn’t match with Nayuta’s rally
were raised.

Certainly, they had defeated one of the Deus ex Machina, Hokuto and
had recovered a part of the world’s configuration information. that was
a great achievement.

On the large round table in front of their eyes, high class Chinese food
were lined up in an astonishing amount. Starting from Peking duck,
there was also whole shark fin, crab soup with swallow nest, dried
abalone steak, Ise prawn, foie gras, sea urchin and so on, high class
ingredients were used generously. Cooking that one usually couldn’t
witness were being lined up.

There were also dishes that they had familiarity with, like mapo tofu or
steamed meat dumplings, gyoza, xiaolongpao, chop suey, pepper steak,
fried rice and so on, but even those were somewhat different from what
they could eat at the school cafeteria. Most likely their ingredients, the
effort for seasoning and the skill to make them were not merely
somewhat different, but at another level entirely.
The aroma of those dishes were mercilessly stimulating the appetite of
everyone in attendance. However――,

Right now wasn’t the time or situation to celebrate so carefree like this,
wasn’t it?

Which reminded him, that until now, he had never thought about it
but, just from where were these high class ingredients coming from?

Such questions kept bothering the minds of the participants here.

“Hmm, what’s the matter? Even though we finally manage to defeat a

machine god and recover half of Lemuria after a great pain……aah, the
people of Vatlantis still haven’t recovered their own world’s data, so
because of that you all cannot get in the mood for celebration, is that
it?”

“……That’s not it.”

Hyakurath who was wearing Ataraxia’s uniform with a napkin held

between her collar was forming a wrinkle between her eyebrows.

There were two large round tables. In one table was Sylvia, at her left
was Kei, Reiri, Nayuta, then Kizuna, Himekawa, in addition was
Vatlantis’s Hyakurath, Mercuria, Valdy and Ragrus, they were sitting in
that order.

At the other table were Masters’ Scarlet, Henrietta, Clementine, Sharon,

and Leila. Also Gertrude who obtained permission for going out was
participating in a wheelchair.

“My, then is it the food? For the celebration of defeating Hokuto, isn’t
Chinese food the most fitting for this occasion?”
As though to say that she couldn’t hold back anymore, Reiri hit the
table.

“Stop joking around! Just when I thought what were you planning to
gather everyone like this. You are just making fun of us!”

“I’m not making fun of everyone or anything. I only want to give

appreciation for everyone’s hard work. And then I’m thinking that with
this everyone’s willpower can be maintained for the battle we will be
heading for after this. Also, for those who are still unable to return
home from the battlefront too, I prepared cooking with good
nourishment. With the feeling of gratitude towards everyone who had
worked hard, I arranged this place, but……is this a bother?”

“Uu……”

What she was saying was extremely proper. There was no ground to
complain where they could only express gratitude.

But that was the story for a normal person.

The one they were talking with, was that Hida Nayuta.

No matter how, they couldn’t possibly honestly accept this.

Himekawa also knitted her eyebrows and stared fixedly at the food.

“There is nothing inserted in this food right……?”

That worry wasn’t too excessive, Kizuna thought that.

{There is no need to worry on that point. These dishes are undoubtedly

created in the kitchen of this restaurant. There is no strange point at all,
starting from the ingredients, the cooking, until the food that was put
on the table.}
Kei typed on her portable keyboard and opened a window in front of the
face. Together with the text Kei was typing, the image of the
transportation of the ingredients and the cooking in the kitchen, and
then the image of monitoring camera inside the restaurant were
displayed one after another.

{By the way the ingredients are somehow delivered to the market each
morning. Tracking from where it was sent to the market is impossible.
However, the confirmation of the safety of the ingredients has been
finished.}

“For some reason, it’s really suspicious……”

Towards the frowning Kizuna, Nayuta put her fan covering her mouth
and raised a chuckle.

“Fufufu, so you are scared. If it is ingredients that originally existed in

Ataraxia, then it’s possible to reproduce it. Saying it in reverse,
ingredients that didn’t exist when the data of this Ataraxia was
collected is impossible to be obtained though.”

“……For example what?”

“Let’s see……something like grasshoppers or frogs.”

Kizuna replied with a disgusted face.

“That’s unneeded. But――ah”

When he noticed, Scarlet and the others were beginning to eat.

“Hee, isn’t this really delicious, this is shark fin you say? The texture is
interesting. Isn’t it, Henrietta?”

“I think so. Putting together shark fin and ham is also delicious.”
Clementine was sampling every single kind of xialongpao.

“This is tasty! Inside it there are sea urchins or shrimp inserted, yeah!
The spring roll too, it has a lot inserted in it!”

Sharon was putting crab soup of swallow nest mechanically into her
mouth.

“It’s said that swallow nest, is good for beauty……fufu, fufufufu, I’ll eat
as much as I like.”

Leila was checking the menu of the hotel’s restaurant in her

smartphone while reaching out her hand to the cooking with a difficult
expression.

“In what way I can eat the expensive one with the most
effectiveness……as expected, abalone is 30,000 yen! No, that highest
grade shark fin has unit price of 40,000 yen! Kuh! What’s with this
market value! Eei, I’ll call them directly!”

While eating Chinese ham and spare rib, beef fillet meat black pepper
stir fry, Scarlet noticed Gertrude who wasn’t moving at all.

“Hey―, you aren’t eating? It’s delicious you know? Or rather, it’s a loss
if you don’t eat.”

Gertrude that was staring fixedly at the table with resentful eyes
howled.

“You are noisy asshole! I’m still in the middle of hospitalization, there is
this thing called eating restriction! Just why did you bring me here!”

“Ah, is that so. Sorry. Well, I thought that it would be pitiful if you are
the only one left behind that’s why.”
“Don’t you asshole talk like that while stuffing your cheek with food-! I
cannot see any pity in you for me at all like that-!”

Gertrude yelled with teary eyes. Sharon tilted her head with a slightly
pitying expression.

“But……at the very least, if you can taste the place’s atmosphere……
you will have fun?”

“It’s nothing at all except being tortured you asshole-!” (TN: Seems like
the anime attached asshole in Gertrude’s speech, so I’ll also use that
here for Gertrude’s characteristic way of talking.)

Leila was typing on her calculator while smiling nihilistically.

“This place is a battlefield! My bad but there is no free time to take care
of other people! We have never gone anywhere but fast food joints,
school cafeterias, or convenience stores. A chance to eat this kind of
celebrity food will never come again!”

“Eating celebrity food that is pointlessly expensive like that is just

degradation! Doing something like mimicking those rich people, you
don’t have any pride of the commoner at all you asshole!”

No matter what Gertrude said, Leila’s will wasn’t shaken in the

slightest.

“The motto of the commoner, is to eat free food without mercy! You
won’t be able to eat this kind of high class food if not with other people’s
money! Just how much money you think is needed so that you can eat
this……fufufu”

The food on Masters’ table were decreasing in the blink of an eye.

Kizuna could only smile wryly.
“Even if the food is poisoned, it’s already too late isn’t it……let’s eat
too.”

Kizuna reached out his hand towards the mapo tofu in front of his eyes.

“!? Wait Kizuna. I’ll taste for poison first.”

The moment Reiri said that, she rotated the part of the round table that
was a level higher. The tofu that was dyed with the redness of chili oil
and the black of minced meat finally arrived in front of Reiri’s eyes.
Immediately the fragrance of capsicum, black pepper, and Japanese
paper stimulated her nasal cavity.

“Fufufu, but perhaps that deep vigilance is advantageous in battle.

Here, Reiri.”

Nayuta scooped up white rice into a bowl and gave it to Reiri. Reiri was
staring at that bowl with a face as though she was looking at a monster
that sprang out from the abyss.

“……What are you doing?”

Nayuta tilted her head in puzzlement at Reiri who was having cold
sweat.

“What a strange child. I’m handing over rice to you see? Are you feeling
a little nostalgic?”

“……No. Since I was born, not to mention handing over rice to me

which you had never done even once, in the first place I don’t have even
a single recollection of you cooking.”

“Is that so?”

After Nayuta made a slightly puzzled face. She put the rice bowl in front
of Reiri. And then she prepared the next bowl and served white rice
again.

Reiri was having cold sweat while glaring at the bowl put before her
eyes with a grim face.

Hyakurath who was sitting beside Himekawa who was sitting beside
Kizuna, was holding chopsticks while biting her lips with a troubled
feeling.

“Excuse me, Himekawa-san. This thing called xiaolongpao, what is the

correct way of eating it?”

“Is this your first time eating this Hyakurath-san? Err let’s see, first take
it using your spoon, then break the skin and let out the meat juice
inside, put sauce and black pepper……”

“Oi, Hyakurath. Why did you ask Himekawa? How about asking me
first.”

Mercuria murmured with a dissatisfied face. However, Hyakurath

answered nonchalantly.

“You don’t know anyway Mercuria.”

“Wha-! It’s not about that. Go to me first before Himekawa.”

“Himekawa-san is different than Mercuria, she possesses common

sense, intelligence, and also a sense of duty, she is a really diligent
person. Rather than someone with bad behavior like you, she is far
more reliable.”
Himekawa could only laugh dryly at the exchange of the two. When her
gaze was swimming around looking for help, her eyes suddenly met
Kizuna’s. “Hayuru is really popular.”

“Can someone like you really say that……”

She looked up at Kizuna with moist eyes.

“Captain―, is it okay if Sylvia rotates the table desu?”

Sylvia who was sitting at the opposite side was waving her hand. After
Kizuna nodded, he rotated the table. In the middle Sylvia took after him
and brought the Peking duck in front of herself.

“Is, is that……the Peking duck?”

Ragrus who was sitting beside Sylvia stared doubtfully at the duck meat
with thinly sliced skin.

“Somehow……it looks, mostly like skin though.”

“This is that kind of food desu. You eat it by wrapping onion and
cucumber together around it desu. It’s delicious desu!”

And then Valdy that was beside Ragrus, she was also not touching the
food like Gertrude though because of a different reason. Ahead at the
direction where she was staring fixedly was Reiri. If she averted her
eyes even for an instant, in that opening Reiri might be attacked.
Thinking that, Valdy didn’t let her eyes move from Reiri even for a
moment. That Reiri wasn’t touching the rice that was served in the
bowl, she was carrying a steamed dumpling into her mouth while
murmuring towards no one.
“Good grief……even though Oldium and Golden Dragon’s whereabouts
are unknown right now. This carefree gathering is just……”

Nayuta stared at Reiri as though she noticed sharply.

“If it’s their location then I know it you know.”

“――What?”

“Oldium and Golden Dragon are applied with my remodeling, I shared a

part of my body with them. And so, I understand in which world they
are in.”

“Wh……why, didn’t you say that sooner!?”

Reiri hit the table and stood up vigorously.

The two ships other than the battleship Ataraxia who departed on a
journey to search for the Deus ex Machina, Oldium that was boarded by
the Vatlantis Empire’s members, and the Golden Dragon that was
boarded by the alliance of Izgard and Baldein. Nayuta knew the
whereabouts of those two ships. That truth also shocked Kizuna.

“That’s right! Then, we have to head there immediately!”

However, Nayuta was scooping apricot pudding while replying in a

calm state.

“Just wait. Even if you rush, there will be nothing good coming out from
it.”

Hyakurath also raised a condemning voice.

“But, even while we are doing this, Grace-san and student council
president……no, Grace-sama and Zelcyone-sama, also……Gravel-san
too.”

Everyone didn’t hide their irritated feeling and waited for Nayuta’s
reply.

“I understand your feelings of wanting to hurry. But even the battleship

Ataraxia is largely damaged because of the emergency landing in
Hokuto’s world and the escape from the world’s crumbling. A little
more time is necessary until it is repaired. Until then, please set aside
this time for resting.”

Even if he was told that, Kizuna couldn’t calm down. The other two
ships were in a similar situation as them, they were swallowed by a
space-time tsunami and should be landing on an unknown world
somewhere. Right now, he couldn’t even imagine what kind of
situation those girls were in. Perhaps they arrived at a terrifyingly
dangerous world, perhaps they had fallen into a terrible danger.

They themselves unexpectedly arrived at machine god Hokuto’s world

and narrowly obtained victory. That was because he and Hayuru who
had finished the Core’s reinstall and also Nayuta were there. However,
the other two ships beside Ataraxia were――,

“It’s fine you know.”

Nayuta smiled thinly.

“In those two ships, there are Magic Knights that had done Core’s
reinstall too isn’t it?”

“!?”
Himekawa didn’t miss that conversation.

She didn’t know that there was anybody else that had done Core’s
reinstall. Together with a light shock, she felt desolateness that it
wasn’t just her. And then, she became fiercely concerned who were the
ones who had the reinstall done on them.

Kizuna was completely ignorant of what was happening inside

Himekawa’s heart. He was anxious about the safety of the crews of the
Oldium and the Golden Dragon and dropped his gaze on the table.

Nayuta who was sitting beside him looked up at Kizuna as though she
had just remembered something.

“――By the way, Kizuna.”

Was there any other information!? Kizuna turned to Nayuta vigorously

thinking that. Kizuna’s desperate expression was met by Nayuta’s lax
smile.

“Do you want seconds?”

Part 2
After evading Osiris and Yurishia, Grace who safely escaped Necropolis
was flying in low-altitude above the desert. She was flying at quite a
speed, but no matter how much she went, the horizon of the desert kept
continuing without end.

Finally at the beyond, something swaying like a mirage could be seen. It

was a gigantic structure that was half-buried in the desert. Looking
from afar it was like a small mountain, but when it was approached it
could be understood that it was a man made structure.

It was a tilted palace that suddenly appeared in the desert.

The flagship of the Vatlantis Empire, Oldeum had to make an
emergency landing into the desert. The ship’s prow part was buried in
the sand, it was tilting to the left while inclining forward.

Looking at that appearance, Grace talked to herself in complaint.

“Good grief. For Oldeum to look like that, how pathetic this is.”

The hazy figure of the flagship was gradually becoming clearer. When
looked from afar, its appearance looked like a castle and its castle city
below it. Even when seen from near it couldn’t really be noticed as a
battleship. The moment it was recognized as a battleship by the one
watching, they would be surprised by its astonishing size.

It had a gigantic body that easily surpassed two kilometers. The castle
towering on the hull reached a hundred meters. Grace raised her
altitude and she headed towards the highest level of that castle. After
she flew inside the balcony that was opened there, she gently landed on
the floor.

Suddenly, Elma and Clayda of Quartum who were facing the control
panel with difficult faces raised shocked voices towards Grace who
entered from the window.

“ “Grace-sama-!?” ”

Clayda whose right eye was covered by an eye-patch had her left eye
opened so wide as though to represent the surprise of the right eye too.
She stood up in a fluster but then she spontaneously staggered, perhaps
from having forgotten that the floor was tilted.

“What’s the matter, you two? To be that flurried.”

Towards that carefree Grace, Elma was unable to say anything for a
moment.

“Tha……that question should not be asked! We could not find Grace-

sama’s figure, so we were really worried. Where had Grace-sama gone
to?”

“Yes. Those guys’ city……Necropolis, I went to see the situation there

just for a little.”

Clayda dropped her shoulders with an exasperated face towards Grace

who was broad-heartedly nodding.

“What recklessness……it was just like Zel-sama said.”

“Zel? Now that you mentioned it I don’t see her. Lunorlla and Ramza are
also not here?”

Elma’s white haired head was pointing up at the left and right like beast
ears. Those ears twitched and she talked with a blaming tone.

“The three of them had gone searching for Grace-sama!”

Grace looked aside feeling that the angry Elma was troublesome.

“It would be better if they just waited obediently……good grief, this is

really a bad timing.”

‘That’s because you were gone as you pleased!’ Clayda and also Elma
murmured that inside their hearts. However Grace didn’t notice and
puffed her chest proudly.

“I found out that Nee-sama isn’t in this world. We have no more

business in this world.”
“What did you say!?”

“Does Grace-sama know the whereabouts of Ainess-sama!?”

Clayda asked enthusiastically.

“I’m only guessing, but it seems that Nee-sama is with the other Deus ex
Machina. However, I don’t understand the concrete location of Nee-
sama.”

“The other Deus ex Machina is it……however, how did Grace-sama find

that out?”

“The Deus ex Machina ruling over this world, Osiris, I met her. That
woman said, that Nee-sama is not in this world, and perhaps Nee-sama
is being held by the other Deus ex Machina. I don’t think that she is
lying.”

Grace’s casual answer shocked the two.

“There was Amaterasu’s Yurishia working under that woman. If

possible I wanted to save her but……from that Osiris, I felt some kind of
indescribable dreadfulness. We cannot approach that woman
carelessly.”

“That’s……for someone to possess strength to the degree of Grace-sama

is just……”

Elma shook her head with an expression of being unable to believe.

“With our current battle strength, it’s dangerous to fight that woman
from the front. As soon as Zel, Lunorlla and Ramza return, we will
escape this world. And then we will search for the other Deus ex
Machina!”
Grace proclaimed powerfully, but Clayda shrugged her shoulders
apologetically.

“About that…..we are unable to escape from this world.”

“What? What do you mean?”

“Since a while ago we were trying to move Oldium, but some kind of
strange power is being generated, the ship cannot fly……”

Clayda touched the shining control panel floating on a Victorian-style

desk. Thereupon a large window was opened in front of the three.

There Oldium that was being buried in the sand was projected.

“This is the current situation of Oldium……please take a look.”

From the bottom of Oldium toward inside the sand, red line was
stretching.

“What’s this?”

“This red light is displaying the strength affecting Oldium. A strange

power is coming out from the sand, it is trying to drag Oldium into the
sand.”

Grace made a difficult face.

“Just what in the world this power is?”

“We don’t understand. However, we were able to confirm the source

that generated this power.”

As though pulling the camera, the image was rapidly becoming smaller.
Then, there was the generating source of the red light at the far beyond.
“Most likely it was the place where Grace-sama had gone just now, it
was at the Necropolis, that is what we think.”

The screen was enlarging once more, it was possible to confirm that the
red light was flowing out from a point in Necropolis.

“I see……so this spot is nearby the shrine of Osiris.”

Staring at that map, Elma scowled.

“Then, this too is the work of a machine god……is it?”

Grace fluttered her shining pink hair and turned on her heel.

“I don’t know. But we can only return to Necropolis.”

Grace spread the wings on her back.

“And then, we will destroy the source of this power. Let’s go, Clayda,
Elma. Follow me.”

Just when Grace was about to fly out from the balcony, her legs stopped
still.

“Or else, are you two going to say that this is reckless and stop me?”

Clayda and Elma reflexively faced at each other, they floated wide,
daring smiles.

“Fufu, if Grace-sama take us with her from the start, then we won’t give
any complaint.”

“We will be honored to accompany you.”

“Hmph. That’s exactly how the Quartum should be.”

The wings of Koros shined, Grace’s body flew out from the balcony
then, like a bullet that was fired. And then after her, Clayda and Elma
wearing magic armor on their bodies chased after her.

The three lights flew above the desert, heading towards Necropolis
where Osiris was waiting.

Part 3
It was a country that slowly arrived to death.

Once there was a material that became the energy which moved this
world.

“All of you people! See the radiance of this sun. This is exactly what we
summoned from an alternate world, an eternal power! This radiance
will illuminate this world far and wide, promising eternal prosperity in
the future.” (TN: The we used here is royal we.)

The words of the pharaoh who proclaimed loudly made the people go
into a wild enthusiasm. And then the pharaoh floated the shining
bright globe.

That was the sun that descended to the surface. With the power of the
pharaoh, it was the ore that was summoned from a different world. It
had a round shape, it was exactly the sun itself. It emitted high
temperature, continuing to burn. And then before long it burned up
and became a rock that lost its light. However after a while it recovered
its radiance once more. It was an infinite energy that repeated death
and rebirth eternally. That was what was supposed to become the
dream energy in Osiris’s world.

However, the dream turned into a nightmare.

The wavelength emitted by that energy little by little was gnawing at
the body of living things. The cause was unknown. However, starting
from a certain time children couldn’t be born, plant couldn’t be grown.
Verdant land was transforming into desert.

The pharaoh who summoned the alternate world material received that
influence the strongest. With the nonexistence of a method to cure the
influence, the stamina of the pharaoh was decreasing, he became
unable to wake up from his bed. Sensing his own last moments, the
pharaoh called Osiris and Isis to his side.

“We will leave this world. This too……might be the punishment for
touching what humans must not touch, of summoning the sun of an
alternate world……it concerned us to leave the two of you behind,
traveling to the world of after death but……”

“Dear……o the great pharaoh.”

Tears flowed from Osiris towards her beloved husband who was at
death’s door.

“Father……mother……”

And then the still young queen didn’t understand what was happening.
But, her parents were being sad, so she also became sad.

“Osiris, and then you Isis……survive for us. And then, if it is something
possible, this world, the people, we want you to save them……”

“Yes, for sure……for sure, I will! That’s why don’t die!”

For the sake of saving the pharaoh that was heading to death, the
people began to build a structure of gigantic stone. That was a huge
pyramid for the sake of the pharaoh, the queen, and the princess. That
was an act in the attempt of leaving behind the proof of one’s existence,
and was also an act of groping for a way of surviving.

In this world the stone itself was an integrated circuit, by carving in

program onto the stone, it would follow the instruction and carry out
the processing. That stone was piled up in many amounts, a vast array
processing was carried out, constructing a special magic system.

That system put the pharaoh into the state of temporary death, it was
something for the sake of reviving the pharaoh once again after a set
period of time passed, repeating the death and rebirth.

But the wish of the people ended up in vain, the light of the pharaoh’s
life vanished.

The completion of the pyramid didn’t make it in time. However, it

barely transformed the pharaoh’s soul into data, succeeding in
preserving the pharaoh into a cyborg. That cyborg didn’t resemble the
pharaoh’s figure when he was alive, it was fitting to call it as a machine
mirror. That cyborg was named as undead.

After the pharaoh died, the queen Osiris was enthroned as the ruler.
The queen who lived in sadness and her single daughter the princess, in
addition the people of the country were attacked by an even harsher
fate.

The material of the alternate world stole the lives of the old with weak
bodies and the children next. The scientists banded and worked
together striving for the elucidation and the countermeasure of the
cause, but they couldn’t discover any valid method.

They had let the pharaoh to die, but they had to protect the queen and
the princess. The result of the whole country offering up their whole
strength was the completion of the pyramid in an astonishing speed.
That pyramid granted life force that transcended humans for the queen
and the princess.

However that was nothing more than lengthening the timing of death.
The pyramid was a gigantic magic system developed for the sake of
buying time. The scientists were also desperately continuing their
research for the sake of the true immortality, the true rebirth.

And then a few hundred years passed.

The queen and the princess commenced sleeping. Each time they woke
up the desolation of the world and the decrease of population were
advancing.

The people somehow evaded complete death by transferring their souls

into undead, in order to wait for the time of recovery that would arrive
eventually.

And then when Osiris commenced sleeping for the nth time, when she
opened her eyes there was nobody else. Even the figure of her beloved
daughter that should be sleeping beside her was nowhere to be found.
“Anyone……is there anyone here?”

Osiris searched for her daughter Isis who was the one who supported
her heart.

“Isis!?”

What Osiris found was the figure of her daughter that had been
completely transformed.

She found the record the scientists left behind. There it was written
that Isis was tormented by despair, and in order to accept the ruin she
severed her own life. However the retainers sealed the soul of Isis into
an undead. That was the undead in front of Osiris’s eye right now.
“Why……Isis”

Isis who had grown tired didn’t commence sleeping, just like that she
ended her life.

Osiris grieved in sorrow. After her husband even the daughter she
treasured was also lost from her.

Since the last time she went to sleep ten thousand years had passed.

There was only the pyramid and palace built from precious stones and
the Necropolis city around it left behind. Everything else became sand
and the world accomplished the transformation into a world where
there were no living humans.

Only machines survived, repeating self-recovery and self-improvement

without stopping. There was no one to confirm that result, no one that
rejoiced. In such a world, there were only machines continuing to work,
earnestly remaking the body of the queen, the only existence that
would evaluate their result.

During that ten thousand years, the queen was also reborn into a
different living being.

The fusion of machine and living being. No, it was a body that couldn’t
be differentiated from a living being due to the evolution of machine.
And then the technology that had evolved until the utmost limits was
fitting to be called as the miracle of god.

Osiris was created from the machine’s self-evolution, a god of

machines. She was a new god.

However, all those too were only empty.

Even with the power of god she possessed, she was unable to revive the
flesh of her husband and daughter. Creating the same body like her and
granting it to them was also impossible. For the sake of creating Osiris’s
new body, what was used was that hateful sun which was summoned
from the alternate world.

Making use of that energy, Osiris materialized supernatural power.

In the country of the dead, Osiris looked up to the sky alone.

“I want to die……”

Killing herself who had become god was impossible. Unable to even
sever her own life, unable to even save the people, Osiris stood still by
herself in the palace together with her despair.

However at that time, the sky split and light shined in.

“……That is?”

――AU Collision.

If she remember correctly, it was the phenomenon that occurred when

the pharaoh obtained the sun of the alternate world.

And then from the split of the sky, one more god descended.

A figure that was far more sublime than even herself. In opposite of her
tanned skin and black hair, she had white skin and golden hair. Huge
wings and armor that were like a shrine worn on her body, one more
machine god.

Looking up at the descent of god as though in a dream, Osiris asked that

god.
“Are you……god?”

Lowering her golden eyelashes, the melancholic god answered.

“My name is Thanatos. You are?”

“Osiris……Osiris of Necropolis.”

With a face that was unclear whether it reflected sadness or apathy,

Thanatos descended down towards Osiris.

“Are you a living thing? Or else a machine?”

“I am human……no, I was human. However, in order to keep me living,

the people recreated my body into a machine……”

Thanatos stared fixedly at Osiris with her drooping eyes.

“I see……it seems that you are an existence that is close to me.”

Osiris pleaded to the god descending before her eyes.

“O god, this world and its people……my daughter, please save them!”

“What need to be done to save them?”

“That is……something like rolling back time, or to make the world not
crumble, there must be something you can do!”

“That is a meaningless thing.”

“Why!?”
“There are countless worlds. Even worlds that have reached the fate just
like what you are talking about exist everywhere. Isn’t it fine if you go
there?”

“There is no meaning like that! I, this world where I am in, where my

daughter is, if this world doesn’t change then there is no meaning!”

“Something like that, is impossible even for me.”

“Why!? You are god aren’t you!? Even though you are god, you cannot
even do something like that!?”

“What is so strange about that? You are an existence of the same kind
like me. If it’s something you cannot do, then I too cannot do it.”

‘――I am, god? This me who was only played around by this
unreasonable fate? Even though there is not a single thing that goes
following my will?’

Osiris looked down at her own body. A body that was a fusion of living
being and machine. This body wouldn’t even age, it promised eternal
life. Certainly this was something to be pursued. She understood the
potential of her body. The battle ability to sweep away any kind of
external enemy. No matter how much the environment changed, she
had the survival ability that could deal with anything. A perfect living
being.

But everything was too late. With only herself alone obtaining the
eternal life, there was nothing that came from it.

Thanatos murmured with feigned ignorance of Osiris’s worry or

anything.

“I want to know what I am.”

And then she stared at far away with a sad gaze.

“When I came to my awareness I had already been in this appearance.

What happened in the past, in what way was I born. Who was the one
giving birth to me.”

Thanatos was provided with every wisdom, she was created into an
omniscient being. A purely ignorant and innocent being. She was a god
who held such contradiction.

‘――This pure god, can I make use of her?’

Osiris’s information processing circuit that had been created through

several tens of thousands years searched for an answer. And then, she
reached a certain conclusion.

“……Thanatos. You said that you want to know who you are, correct?”

“What kind of meaning my existence hold. What happened that led to

my birth. What worth there is in the things that I accomplish. And
then――”

Thanatos’s expression clouded in melancholy.

“What should be done, so that I can die.”

What Osiris’s mechanical brain cell snapped out, the way to save this
world, and also her husband and daughter.

“If that’s the case then I have a good way.”

Thanatos directed eyes that were tinged with sorrow.

“We are going to do an experiment. With our power, we will once again
create something that is the same with the world where we existed. If
we do that, Thanatos will understand how you were born.
Moreover……”

The tone of Osiris’s voice lowered.

“You will also understand what to do to destroy your existence.”

“I see.”

“Can you do that, Thanatos?”

“I cannot create living thing itself, but I am able to arrange an

environment where living things will be born. We just need to prepare a
new box of world.”

“Box of……world?”

“However, it is a work that will take too much time with only the two of
us. It’s better to search for partners that will lend us a hand. Let’s go,
Osiris.”

“Eh……?”

“You too lend your power, Osiris.”

Mechanical strong arm that didn’t match Thanatos’s slim body moved
towards Osiris.

“Ye……yes.”

Osiris too took that hand and entered the Entrance.

And then Osiris and Thanatos tied a strange cooperative relationship.

Before long Hokuto and Odin were added as their comrades and they
were able to create a new world in resemblance of their world.
However, it took time for living things to grow in that world.

While waiting for that, Osiris returned to her own world. She
performed guard so that the receptacle of soul wouldn’t break.
Especially the undead where her husband and daughter’s souls were
inserted which were enshrined in the pyramid, she paid thorough
attention to there.

Staring at the pyramid from the window of the palace. Osiris’s chest
was filled with expectation.

Osiris purposefully left behind the tool to create worlds, [Genesis] that
originally should be collected back. If living beings were born in the
newly created world and they had evolved into about the same level like
Osiris’s world in the past, that Genesis would send notification to
Osiris.

‘――That is the time for harvest. In the new world, surely there will be
living being with the same appearance like us born there. The souls
sealed inside the undead, they can be revived by obtaining new flesh.’

She would make Thanatos think that the experiment failed. With that
Thanatos should lose interest in the world that was created for the sake
of the experiment――that was what she thought.

She planned to annihilate the world and she would collect all the data.

“I never thought……that Thanatos and also the other two will be that
obsessed with the data, how unexpected.

By chance she collected the sample of a woman called Yurishia who had
the spitting image of Isis. From the result of her investigation, she was
able to confirm that there was no problem at all to make her into the
receptacle of her daughter’s soul.
“However, the data that I have is only a fourth of the whole……”

It was insufficient with this.

Furthermore the problem was, for some reason there was not even a
single man there.

To revive all the people and the greenery throughout the world, a lot
more data was necessary.

She would collect all the remaining data.

She had captured the escaped data with the space-time tsunami. It
seemed that some also crossed over toward Hokuto and Odin’s location,
but there was no problem. She intended to plunder the data from those
two.

“――However, for Hokuto to be defeated by the experimental organism.

That means I will meet a painful experience if I let my guard down isn’t
it.”

Osiris looked out over Necropolis from the window. The sky was
colored with the setting sun, the gigantic pyramid received the light of
the evening sun and shined.

Even though this scenery didn’t change since several tens of

millenniums ago, but they had changed really much.

With a sad gaze, Osiris continued to gaze at the sunset.

Chapter 2 – City of the Dead

Part 1
“Grace-sama……is this place, the Necropolis?”
Illuminated by the sunset, the city existed in the middle of the desert.
Looking at the city that felt pleasant with the verdant green, Clayda
heaved a sigh in relief.

“It doesn’t feel like a ruin that is really that bad. If I have to say, it has
the air of a resort instead.”

However Grace frowned and shook her head.

“This is only the outside appearance. The power flowing in this city is
strange no matter what. It’s like something that was originally here is
being covered on top to avert the attention from it……”

When Grace approached the tree planted outside the city, she touched it
with her hand.

“Mu……this is”

Raising one of her eyebrows, Grace pulled out a single feather of Koros.
She changed the shape of that feather into a sword before directing it to
the tree and slashed from diagonally above.

Thereupon the thick tree trunk was quickly bisected.

“Ah-!”

Clayda and Elma spontaneously raised their voices.

The cut tree didn’t collapse, it changed into faint golden sand. And then
the sand spilled down and raised sand cloud, forming a hill of sand.

“This is……Grace-sama?”

“I also don’t understand, but this is possibly something created by the

machine god.”
Elma looked over the city.

“Then, everything of that city is also……created by the machine god, is

that what Grace-sama is saying?”

“No. I think that city of stone is the real thing. Only living things like
the plants are counterfeit.”

Grace passed through between the trees and entered the city. Following
after her the expression of Clayda and Elma showed traces of
nervousness once again.

Grace peeked at the situation of the street from the shadow of the
buildings.

“That is……people?”

At the street were undead walking around in staggers like ghosts.

Under the orange light, the shadows of the undead were elongating
from the street until the walls of the building.

The setting of the sun was approaching Necropolis. The sun had been
sinking until it was almost touching the horizon.

“What an eerie place……the city is beautiful, but how should I say it?
That mechanical people, they are really like corpses or deceased spirits.”

Clayda’s body was shivering as though she was feeling cold.

“They are actually deceased spirits. Don’t worry, those guys are
powerless. They aren’t even attacking. You can just ignore them.”

Without any vigilance, Grace came out from her cover to the street.
After her Clayda and Elma followed while being alert of the
surrounding.
“Then where is the source of the power that is pulling at Oldium?”

Clayda displayed a floating window and confirmed the location.

“Ahead of here……it looks like it’s in that huge pyramid.”

There was a huge pyramid at the other side of the city. It was made by
piled up blocks of stone, the height of that monument might even reach
three hundred meters.

Grace and the others couldn’t even imagine just for what purpose it was
created for.

“Then let’s go take a look.”

After saying that Grace moved into a run.

“A, please wait, Grace-sama!”

Far above the heads of the three, a single bird was flying.

The figure of the three running through the street was reflected on the
eyes of the flying falcon overhead. The image reflected in those eyes
was projected before the eyes of Osiris who was in the palace.

“They came back unexpectedly fast.”

What was flying overhead the three girls was the mechanical bird that
was a part of Osiris’s body, [Horus]. Everything that Horus saw was
shared with Osiris. That function was also possessed by the lion
[Sekhmet] that was currently sleeping besides Osiris.

When these Horus and Sekhmet combined with Osiris, they would
become the true machine god Osiris.
“Well then, go ahead, hold back your friends in place.”

Osiris commanded so towards no one. Then, Yurishia and two other

shadows that were waiting at the corner of the room were standing up.

Yurishia brushed off her golden hair and floated a composed smile.

“As you commanded, mother.”

“Wait, Isis. You are to remain here.”

Yurishia directed a reluctant face at Osiris.

“No way! Even though I too want to become mother’s strength!”

Leaving behind Yurishia, the two shadows kicked on the floor and ran
towards the window. And then, without stopping they jumped outside
at the air without hesitation.

Osiris spoke with gentle voice towards Yurishia who was chasing at the
two shadows with her eyes.

“I want you to be at my side. By doing that you will become my strength

above all.”

“Mother……”

Yurishia’s cheeks were turning red and she stared at Osiris with moist
eyes. Osiris faced Yurishia who was like that and spread open both her
hands.

“Now, come here.”

“Yes……”
Yurishia looked down shyly and she advanced forward towards Osiris
timidly. She kneeled under Osiris who was sitting on the chair and put
her head above Osiris’s knee like a spoiled child.

“Mother……you won’t abandon me right?”

“My. That is my line. You won’t die as you please and leave me alone for
the second time won’t you?”

The two naturally smiled.

Osiris caressed Yurishia’s head as though she was admiring a work of

art that could break easily.

“Fufufu, you are cute. My Isis……”

Part 2
The space that existed between world and world where there was
nothing. It was a pitch black place. Moving inside that darkness was
colorful light. That was energy that was moving between alternate
worlds. A phenomenon where the energy of certain worlds were
moving into other worlds.

The moving energy would someday arrived at another world

somewhere. At the world where that energy arrived at, a mysterious
phenomenon would occur.

Perhaps it would appear as an unidentified flying object(UFO), or

perhaps a monster or an OOPArt would appear, or perhaps even a
supernatural phenomenon that couldn’t be explained would occur.

But, when looking outside from the window of the battleship Ataraxia,
those lights coming and going between the worlds were reflected in
people’s eyes as a really beautiful phenomenon. It was like they were
light a show for people to enjoy.

Kizuna was standing at the bridge of the battleship Ataraxia, staring at

the wild dance of those lights.

“Our direction is not mistaken right?”

On a specially installed chair that was even more splendid than the
captain’s seat, Nayuta’s small body was sitting there.

“Yes, there is no mistake.”

Nayuta snapped her fingers and a large screen was floating at the center
of the spacious bridge. Over there was a display image of boxes lining
up in rows at left and right, top and bottom.

“This is the map of the worlds. Every single boxes represented a single
world. The world where we came from is here.”

Responding to her voice, one of the box shined blue and a line of light
elongated from there.

“And then, currently we are here.”

The box shining blue was the world where they were at and where
Ataraxia was, the elongating line was the path thd battleship Ataraxia
was traveling.

“And then, the location of Oldium and Golden Dragon are here.”

Among the boxes lining up at every direction, one of them was shining
red. And then one more box was shining yellow.

“So Oldium is at the red one, and Golden Dragon at the yellow one?”
From the current position of the battleship Ataraxia, the red box was
overwhelmingly closer. The yellow box was twice or thrice farther.

“Exactly. Currently we are heading in the direction of the red box, in

other words, towards Oldium.”

Certainly it was correct to aim for the closer place.

――However,

Kizuna’s expression turned grim.

At the aspect of battle strength, Golden Dragon was the weaker one.
Their main force was Gravel and Aldea. Kizuna was unable to grasp
regarding the strength of the other members.

On the other hand, at Oldium they had Grace and Zelcyone, the
Quartum was also there.

Indeed each ship had someone who had Core reinstall done to them.
However, if he was not there then it would be difficult to defeat a
machine god.

The [way to deal the finishing blow to a machine god] used when
defeating Hokuto.

What was possessed by Corruption Armament [Nayuta], the combo of

anti-machine god trump card [Reincarnation] and Climax Hybrid.

Reincarnation inflicted attack to the machine god’s body and at the

same time it sent the destruction program that Nayuta prepared. The
destruction program destroyed the target’s existence from the inside of
the machine god. While that program was in effect, the machine god’s
ability was also suppressed, causing them to only be able to use the
strength of a normal human.

Aiming at that timing, Climax Hybrid was performed on the machine

god.

The reproduction act that had became unnecessary for a machine god.
The sexual pleasure that was abandoned because it became
unnecessary, that sensation which the machine god was inexperienced
at became the greatest attack towards the machine god.

But, something that was effective against Hokuto, would it also be

effective against the other machine gods in the end?

Besides, in battle strength they were also still grievously lacking.

Sylvia and Masters were still not healed completely. Also Ragrus, Valdy,
Hyakurath, and Mercuria were also the same. All of them were in the
middle of treatment, whether it was at the hospital or at their own
residence.

――At least Sylvia has been discharged from hospital so that helps
but……if possible Ragrus and Hyakurath too……Ragrus can be grouped
with Sylvia, Haykurath’s partner is Mercuria but, her affinity with
Himekawa is also good, forming a combination with two sword users is
also――,

“Kizuna-kun.”

Kizuna who was absorbed in his thinking didn’t notice the appearance
of the person who arrived right beside him.

“That’s right Himekawa is……woah!”

Kizuna was surprised at the real Himekawa who was at his side.

“Aah, sorry. Hayuru huh. What’s the matter?”

Himekawa made a face that was a bit sullen.

“There is something I want to ask. It seems that at Oldium and Golden

Dragon, there are also those who had done the Core’s reinstall just like
me isn’t it?”

“Eh? Ah, yeah……”

The pressure of the sharply glaring Himekawa made Kizuna

unconsciously step back.

“Who are they? Please teach me.”

“E, err……”

“Don’t tell me……all of them!?”

“Wrong! That’s impossible.”

“Possible, at the staying behind group of Ataraxia too, you have done
reinstall with……”

“No, that’s also not yet――”

“Not yet you say, so that means you will do it after this! That’s impure!
Indecent!”

“N, no, this is something necessary right? Besides, Hayuru yourself

have also done it already.”

Himekawa became red in a flash.

“Thi, this is not about me! Doing it without caring about who it is done
with is just preposterous! Doing that, with……all of them, that’s just,
such shamelessness cannot be permitted-!”

“That’s why, I told you I didn’t do that!”

“Then, who did you do it with? Yes, I understand already. After all the
one in Golden Dragon who did it was Gravel-san right? Then the one in
Oldium who did it was Grace-san right? Good grief……just Aine-san
doesn’t satisfy you, to even put your hand on her little sister too……”

Towardd Himekawa who kept talking in rapid succession, Kizuna was

panicked.

“Aah-, geez. Just what with you Himekawa!”

“It’s Hayuru-!!”

Kizuna who poured oil on the fire kept being criticized by Himekawa
even after this for three hours.

In the end, she calmed down four hours later.

Doing Climax Hybrid in preparation of the emergency was done after

that matter.

Part 3
“When looking from nearby, this thing is quite large.”

Grace looked up at the pyramid that was towering high to the sky.
When they approached near, they understood just how big the stones
that were forming the pyramid were. One of the stones was three
meters tall, there was also a stone that was five meters long. Only by
piling up that kind of stone in numbers that reached a few million
stones that this pyramid was created.

After coming out of the city and advancing through a wasteland for
about a kilometer, there was this pyramid standing tall. Grace and the
others searched for the entrance by walking around the pyramid.

While walking for some reason Elma let out a high-spirited voice that
seemed excited.

“This is really big isn’t it……isn’t this bigger than even the pyramids of
Giza?”

“Though it’s not as big as Genesis.”

Clayda talked with nostalgic feeling somewhere. Honestly what came

to her mind first was the knowledge regarding the pyramids of Egypt
that she learned at Ataraxia’s class and everyday life. As if to erase that
away, she purposefully searched for fragments of Vatlantis inside her
memory.

“Yes. Even that Genesis was a relic that the Deus ex Machina left behind.
Indeed, perhaps there are some things that correlate with it.
Nevertheless……just where in the world is the entrance of this thing?”

Grace casually put her hand on the stone of the pyramid.

“What?”

Line of light stretched from her palm. It was as though a ripple was
spreading, small lines were floating on the surface of the pyramid. The
shape was like the inside of a computer’s integrated circuit, countless
small circuits were joined in a complex pattern.
Light lines were running around the surface of the pyramid. Those lines
now reached the summit and even now were going to circle the
pyramid’s side.

“What……this is?”

“Don’t touch that!”

A sharp yelling voice resounded. Grace and the others were familiar
with that voice.

From the sky two silhouettes descended.

Their figures wearing magic armor were familiar.

“Lunorlla! Also Ramza too!”

Grace’s face split open into a wide smile of joy. The ones who appeared
before her eyes were two people of Quartum, Lunorlla and Ramza.

Lunorrla was a beautiful woman with long blue hair. Due to mortal
combat in the Colosseum, her beautiful body was carved with scars that
were painful to look at. Her arms and legs, her stomach were all riddled
with scars. In addition the scar running from her forehead to her cheek
told the story of how severe the mortal combat she went through were.
She was a warrior that was even called as the death god of the
Colosseum from the way she fought.

On the other hand Ramza tied unruly red hair behind her. She was a girl
with a bright and frank personality. She possessed the special ability to
manipulate flames, but when that ability ran wild even the earth’s crust
would be melted, even herself would be burned to ash, that ability
contained such danger.
Even among the imperial guards, these two possessed fighting strength
above the rest. Grace joyfully called out to those two.

“It seems that we passed each other on the way but, where had the two
of you gone until now?”

However Lunorlla and Ramza looked at each other with troubled faces.

Seeing that, Clayda made a dubious face at the state of the two.

“Oi, what’s wrong both of you? Grace-sama is asking. Answer it

properly.”

While saying that Clayda reached out her hand at Selene she carried on
her back. Elma also materialized her large hammer that was as tall as
herself in her hand.

“Both of you, what’s the matter?”

Grace frowned at Clayda and Elma who suddenly armed themselves.

Clayda went forward as though to protect such a Grace.

“Grace-sama. Please be careful. The state of those two is strange.”

As though to support those words, Lunorlla unsheathed the two short

swords integrated in her magic armor. Two swords style. With one
short sword each in her left and right hands, she lowered her waist.

And then Ramza raised a huge axe from her back, a tomahawk. The
tomahawk that was shining bright red was as though something that
was dyed red from absorbing human blood. Swinging around that
tomahawk that a normal human wouldn’t be able to lift, Ramza made
an apologetic face.
“Sorry―, this is the order of Osiris-sama see. We have to defeat you all
see―”

“What did you say!?”

Clayda raised her Selene in front of her face.

“Have you lost your mind-!?”

Elma raised the hammer’s handle with both her hands and moved it
behind her so that she could swing it anytime.

“That body……offer it, for the sake of Osiris-sama.”

Lunorlla emitted light from her thruster and approached in front of

Elma instantly.

――Fast-!?

The large hammer had destructive power, but it couldn’t deal with
Lunorlla’s speed. Lunorlla mercilessly ran a blow towards Elma.

The moment before the shining sword touched the thin neck of Elma,
fierce sparks were scattered.

“-! ……”

Lunorlla’s short sword was blocked by Clayda’s Selene.

“What are you planning, Lunorlla!”

“…….Clayda, surrender obediently.”

“Haa? Don’t joke……with me-!”

Clayda threw Selene from super close range. Selene that flew while
rotating attacked Lunorlla as though it was a living thing. Just when it
seemed like it would hover in the air, it suddenly moved, its trajectory
suddenly curved. Just when it seemed like it would pass far through, it
suddenly returned back. It was like a yoyo with a string attached, it
came and went at the close range while slashing at Lunorlla.

Lunorlla too didn’t take distance, she continued to evade the attacks in
close range. And then the moment an opening showed, her sword
attacked without negligence. However Clayda also got out a second
Selene and repelled Lunorlla’s attack.

“Clayda. You, cannot win against me. That’s why, surrender.”

“Don’t joke! I don’t like you from a long time ago! What death god of the
Colosseum! That’s why, now I’m going to kill the death god!”

Offense and defense that the eye couldn’t follow were unfolding
between the two.

And then between Elma and Ramza were a large hammer and a large
tomahawk. The two weapons that were similarly large-type were
swung around, attacks where each one was a sure kill if they hit
clashed.

“Oi, stop it! All of you!”

Even when Grace raised her voice, her words to stop didn’t enter the
ears of the four people. Cold sweat trickled down the cheek of Grace.

“……Just what in the world is this?”

“I had those two become my servants.”

That voice made Grace looked up at the pyramid. At the center of the
pyramid, a single female was standing.

“Osiris…..so this is your work.”

“Yes. Because I cannot let you approach this pyramid.”

‘――You. Far from releasing Yurishia, even Lunorlla and Ramza now
fell into her hand.’

“Clayda, Elma! We are at a disadvantage. We are pulling back for the

moment!”

“ “Yes-!” ”

Hearing Grace’s command, Clayda and Elma took distance from their
respective opponent.

They turned on their heels and tried to get away from the battlefield.
However in front Elma, a strange object appeared.

――Osiris’s blue pyramid.

“Wha…..what? This is!”

“No good! Don’t look at that thing with your eyes!”

Grace yelled desperately. But at that time a certain eye at the pyramid’s
side opened.

“This is-!”

The glaring eyeball moved quickly at all direction. And then when it
stared at Elma’s face, its movement stop still. Severe gaze entered from
Elma’s eye into the nerve inside and even until the brain tissue, it
burned new information on it.

“Oi! Elma! What’s wrong!?”

Clayda yelled, but Elma was staring at empty air and didn’t move as
though she had frozen.

“Oi, get a hold of yourself Elma! Avert your eyes from that weird thing!”

As though noticing Clayda that was calling at Elma, the blue pyramid
directed its golden eyes at her glaringly.

“!? Dam-……”

That moment, Clayda’s eyes also lost its focus. A clattering sound could
be heard, it was Selene falling on the ground.

“What’s wrong, the two of you!”

However it was like Elma and Clayda didn’t hear at all.

Grace tried to analyze the situation desperately. Looking from the state
of Yurishia, Lunorlla, and Ramza, this was――,

“Mind control, that’s what this is huh?”

“Fufufu, I am the queen of this Necropolis. Everyone who exists in this

world kneels in front of me.”

“Although it is only because Nee-sama is not here, I too am the emperor

of Vatlantis Empire. I cannot kneel that easily!”

Feathers of light flew from Grace’s wings. They became sharp arrows
and pierced Osiris’s body.
“What?”

Koros’s special move was Harvest. It was a technique that plunders the
opponent’s magic power, that was to say their life force. Opponent
whose life force was sucked dry would lose their life. However――,

‘――What’s with this woman! It is as though there is no feedback at all.

I cannot feel magic power at all.’

Harvest also didn’t work at Hokuto at all. However that was because
Hokuto’s energy was at the amount that couldn’t be sucked dry. In
contrast this Osiris didn’t have any energy. Her life force was empty.

“Does this mean, that Osiris has already died……”

Grace suppressed the impatience she felt inside her chest and took out a
blade of wing this time, changing its shape into a scythe.

“Then, I’ll cut you apart!”

She headed to Osiris and flew up in one go. Staring at Grace that was
approaching before her eyes, Osiris smiled with eyes as though she was
looking at a mischievous kid.

“It seems you are a little too special to be used as a vessel.”

Osiris’s golden eyes shined.

“Stop speaking!”

Grace’s scythe drew an arc and attacked Osiris.

‘――You are finished!’

A dull metallic sound rang as though stone and metal clashed. And then
fierce sparks were scattered.

“Wha……”

The blue pyramid protected Osiris. Grace’s scythe bit into the pyramid
and its movement stopped. And then the eye of the pyramid shined.
That golden light covered Grace’s sight.

“-! Get away.”

Grace closed her eyes and opened her thrusters in full throttle and took
distance all at once.

However there was no pursuit. Besides her consciousness was also

clear.

‘――It seems I avoided the mind control.’

And then she opened her eyes.

“What……the?”

There, it was a wide and spacious corridor with a ceiling that was
shockingly high. Decorated with gorgeous Gothic-style, it might be
better to call it as a huge hall rather than a corridor.
A familiar corridor. It was the capital of Vatlantis Empire, Zeltis where
she was born and raised. It was inside the palace there.

“Grace, what’s the matter?”

“……Eh?”

A very beautiful girl followed by ten-odd maids was standing there.

Silver hair and red pupils. Her bare skin was only covered by accessory
and thin fabric, she looked nearly bare naked. That person was the one
she was looking for, wearing the outfit of the emperor.

“Nee-sama!?”

Her beloved big sister, Ainess Synclavia also known as Chidorigafuchi

Aine, it was that person.

“Nee-sama! So you are in this world!”

She rushed towards Aine with a joyful face.

“What’s wrong with you Grace? Your condition seems strange since a
while ago.”

“Mu, however that cannot be helped. Rather than that Osiris is……”

However Aine knitted her eyebrows.

“Osiris? Just what’s this about?”

“That’s……hm?”

‘――Well, what was I thinking about?’

“I’m sorry. I had a lapse in my mind just for a little.”

Aine smiled feeling that it couldn’t be helped. Emotion of deep affection
colored that smile.

“Let’s go Grace. Kizuna is also waiting.”

With a light step Grace stood at the side of Aine who started walking.

“Ooh, so Nii-sama is also here.”

Aine made an exasperated face at the joyful Grace.

“That’s obvious. Because, Kizuna is the new emperor of Vatlantis

Empire right? He has married us after all.”

‘――What?’

Grace spontaneously stood still.

“Marriage? I and Nee-sama……with Nii-sama?”

Aine also stopped walking and looked back.

“That’s right. You strange child……just what’s the matter?”

Grace didn’t have any memory of that. No, now that she thought hard,
she felt like such a thing really had happened.

“Bu……but, what I had done to Lemuria, such act should be something

that is hard to forgive for the people of Lemuria. No, it couldn’t possibly
be forgiven. Even if I have to throw away this body, I have the
responsibility to better the relationship between the two worlds. And
then, when I accomplished that, this life will be……”

Aine stared at her little sister with a sad smile.

“Grace, that was a sad crossing of path. That was the result of the two
sides jumping at shadows and thinking only of one’s own self-
protection and profit……”

“However still!”

“The one launching attack at the magic weapon first was Lemuria, as a
matter of fact Vatlantis is the victorious country. We have already
entered the unconditional peace treaty based from that.”

“――Wha,”

“Geez, really what is going on with you since a while ago Grace?”

“So that’s……what happened.”

Now that she though hard, it was as though the memory was late in
accompanying her, she recalled the sight of the time when the treaty
was made.

“What was carried out as the symbolic ceremony for that treaty, was
the marriage ceremony of the three of us don’t you remember?”

‘――That’s right. With all the people of the empire as the beginning,
Izgard and Baldein, even Lemuria also gave their blessing, a grand
ceremony was carried on. Just what was I talking about? To completely
forget something this important, what a blunder.

Yes.

I became together with them.

My beloved Nee-sama.

And then with Nii-sama.

From now one we can live together forever.

The three of us combined our strength.

The two worlds will take each other’s hand, creating a splendid country.

Can something this happy exist?’

“What’s the matter Grace? You are crying?”

When Grace returned to her senses in realization, tears were gathering

in her eyes where it almost spilled out.

“It, it’s nothing.”

Grace wiped her tear with her hand and showed a bright smile.

“Now, let’s go. Kizuna is waiting.”

Aine offered her hand. Grace took that hand and grasped back.

“Yes. There is no way we can let Nii-sama wait.”

With a full smile Grace walked beside her sister.

After walking for a while, there was a balcony there. Below there was a
plaza where ahead it continued towards the city. It was a place for the
sake of greeting the people of the empire. Even now it was filled to the
brim with a large number of people, they waved their hands and raised
cheering voices.

And then there was already someone waiting at the balcony.

“Aine, Grace. You two finally came.”

“We made you wait Kizuna. No, your majesty the new emperor of
Vatlantis.”

Aine embraced Kizuna while grinning. And then she kissed Kizuna’s
cheek. And then Kizuna also kissed Aine in return.

“It’s fine to call me just Kizuna. Even if you call me emperor, I just
cannot feel it for real.”

“Nii-sama……is that you?”

Kizuna spreads open his hands toward Grace who was standing still in
dumbfoundment.

“What’s the matter? Come here Grace.”

“……Nii-sama.”

Grace approached timidly and brought her body into Kizuna’s chest.
Kizuna tightly hugged Grace’s slender body. His arms were warm and
strong. His affection towards Grace could be felt from those arms. Grace
felt a deep relief, pleasantness, and serenity, she entrusted her body to
those sweet affection.

“This is like a dream……for this day, to really come.”

Tears floated on Grace’s eyes once more.

“Oi Grace. It’s no good if you cry.”

“I, I’m sorry. But, this cannot be helped. I’m happy.”

Grace rubbed her face on Kizuna’s chest, wiping her tears.

“Really Grace, because you are such a crybaby……come on, everyone,
the people of the empire are watching.”

When she glanced below the balcony, the plaza was packed full with
people. And then even ahead at the city, the street was filled to the brim
by people.

“Tha, that’s true. As the queen of Nii-sama, I cannot show my

embarrassing side.”

And then with Grace at the center, one of her hand grasping Aine, and
her other hand grasping Kizuna, they went until in front of the railing
of the balcony. And then with their connected hands raised high, they
greeted the people of the empire. At that moment, applause and cheers
that were even louder were raised.

“Until now I have shouldered this alone, but from now on it will be the
three of us together.”

“Grace……”

Kizuna stared at Grace.

“Yes, Nii-sama doesn’t need to say it. From now on I together with Nee-
sama will support Nii-sama! Nii-sama can rest assured having gained
reliable foundation and safe condition! The three of us, from now on
too, for a long, long time, will be togethe――”

Kizuna’s calm voice cut her off.

“No, for you Grace it will be only until today.”

“――eh”

Kizuna and Aine separated their hand that was connected with Grace’s.
“A scapegoat is needed to save this world. One with a soul of high status
at that too.”

“What are……you saying?”

Grace was unable to understand the meaning of the words. Her thought
circuit stopped working from the too sudden happening.

“Thanks for all your work till now. From now on, I and Kizuna will
support this country.”

Aine passed in front of Grace, walking towards Kizuna’s side.

“The world looks like in peace, but that’s because Osiris-sama is

watching over this world. To show our gratitude, we have to offer a
sacrifice.”

“Yeah. So that we and Vatlantis Empire can live in happiness, we want

you to die.”

“For the sake of me and Kizuna, can you die for us?”

Aine presented her a short sword decorated with jewels.

Cold sweat was flowing from Grace’s whole body. Despite so her body
was cold. Her ears were ringing, the voice of the two people who should
have loved her sounded like they were far away.

Those two, in front of her eyes were clinging close to each other as if
they were embracing. Whether it was in front of them or at their side,
there was no place for her to stand.

“I see……so that’s how it is……”

With shaking hand, Grace accepted that short sword.

“Nee-sama and Nii-sama, wants me to die right?”

“Yeah. For our sake, die.”

Grace unsheathed the short sword and stared at the blade that was
shining coldly. She held the sword in reverse grip and aimed the tip at
her own throat.

She faced up and looked at the sky.

Tears were naturally falling from her eyes.

Actually, she wanted to live with the three of them together. But, if this
way was the only way for these two to live the happiest, she should
offer her life happily. Yet――,

“Uu-……hic”

Her tears were spilling down unstoppably. Sadness, frustration, herself

was just too miserable.

It was no good already.

If she had to feel like this, then it was better to die.

“Sayonara……Nee-sama, Nii-sama.”

The wasteland spreading before the pyramid. Grace looked up at the

night sky with tears flowing. Both of her hands were pointing at her
neck as though she was holding something.

There was nothing in Grace’s hand. But, in exchange Osiris put a sharp
sword at her grasp.

And then the point of that sword, was stabbing at Grace’s neck.
“Fufufu. The moment when happy dream is turned into nightmare
feels good right? The people of this country, all of them tasted that
before they died. With this now you are also a resident of Necropolis.”

The tip of the sword touched Grace’s slender neck. Her skin broke from
the impact and red blood flowed out from her white skin.

Osiris turned at the four Quartum standing behind.

“Even though if you are easy to control like these children, I will let your
flesh properly alive……but, I have properly prepared an undead body
for you. You can be together with us, so you can rest assured. Eternally
in the future……”

And then, Osiris deeply plunged the sword into Grace’s neck.

At that moment, fresh blood spurted out like a fountain from the
beautiful white neck. The overflowing blood seeped into the sand,
creating a red river.

“This is……?”

Along that river verdant plants were growing, flowers were blooming.
The river was heading toward Necropolis and following it, a wide area
was turning green. Tall tree was growing one after another, around
Necropolis greenery was growing abundantly. Springs were welling up
here and there, right now as far as the eye could see the land was
changing in appearance into a grassland. That miracle made even
Osiris’s lips tremble.

“By no means……such thing”

From the direction of the city that was enveloped in green, she could see
human silhouettes coming. Before she realized the night had also
passed. Beneath bright sunlight, that silhouette was running to here.

‘――Running, to here?’

Osiris doubted her eyes.

There was only undead in the city. The undead couldn’t run. Yet despite
so, just what in the world was that?

“Don’t tell me……living, human?”

It wasn’t undead. It was a human with living flesh. A girl with blonde
hair that was really similar with Yurishia.

“Mother―!”

Osiris opened her eyes wide.

“That’s……Isis?”

Osiris’s body was trembling.

‘――Don’t tell me, Isis is? Impossible. But, that’s undoubtedly my

daughter, Isis. And then, that person from behind her. That person
is――,’

“Dear!”

“Osiris!”

It was a tall male with splendid build. A pharaoh with white skin and
golden hair. Osiris dashed and leaped into the chest of her missed
husband. The pharaoh too embraced Osiris’s body firmly.
“This is……a miracle has occurred?”

While trickling tears in happiness, Osiris pressed her cheek at her

beloved pharaoh. Her daughter Isis was also hugging at the mother that
was like that.

“Mother!”

“Aa, Isis……my cute daughter.”

Osiris detached her body from her husband’s arm and embraced her
daughter’s body.

“But, just how……?”

“I don’t know. My mechanical body was rapidly becoming my former

body……when I noticed I had become exactly like before. I wanted to
meet mother immediately……”

Tears were overflowing from Isis’s eyes. Staring at that face Osiris’s
eyes were also shining with tears.

“Aah……Isis!”

She embraced her daughter’s body strongly once again. And then to
make certain of that existence, she caressed her daughter’s back many
times over. After that, Osiris looked up at the face of her husband the
pharaoh.

“We too were the same. When we noticed, we were at the pyramid
having come back to life. How and why, we don’t understand but……”

People were spilling out from the city one after another. Everyone was
the undead people from before. They clapped at each other’s shoulder,
rushing around on the desert while laughing.
“It seems, that everyone is saved……”

“Yes……this miracle……it’s unbelievable.”

Tears of happiness overflowed from Osiris’s eyes. When that tear fell on
the ground, the ground vibrated.

“Eh? This is……”

The next moment, shockwave that blown away at them assaulted.

Osiris and Isis, the pharaoh too collapsed on the grass.

“Earthquake!?”

Isis pointed at the city.

“Mother, the Necropolis!”

They could see the palace crumbling. And then the buildings of the city
were crumbling one after another, swallowed by the sand. The verdant
land once again changed in appearance into a desert.

“Aah-! Our city!”

“Anybody, help!”

Voices of lament were raised from many mouths. But, those voices were
suddenly blocked.

“Wh……what, this is!?”

The bodies of the people were crumbling. Their skin instantly rotted,
their flesh crumbling down. And then from beneath those, undead
body appeared.
“N, no! Help, help me!”

The people whose body began to crumble looked for salvation from
Osiris.

“Aah-, Osiris-sama! I beg you! My body, my bodyyyyyyyyy!”

“Hiiiii-! Osiris-sama! Osiris-sama!”

The too sudden happening made Osiris dumbfounded while still

hugging Isis.

“Mo……mo, ther”

“I, it’s fine. It’s fine Isis. I will――”

The face of Isis in her arms was crumbling down. The beautiful face
that was like a goddess of beauty was erased, a smooth steel mask
without individuality was there in its place.

“I, Isis……”

“Mo, the……r,”

Flesh tissue was also torn off from the body, returning into the undead
body that was only like a bone frame.

“I, ISIS―!”

Osiris’s shriek thundered. However Isis’s crumbling was unstoppable.

Not only her flesh, even the undead body that should be immortal
began to break. The metal rusted, breaking into scraps.

“Dear! Dear, help――”

The face of the pharaoh she looked up at, was the steel mask of an
undead.

“NOOOOOOOOOOOO!”

And then the undead filled with the soul of the pharaoh also had its
joint slipped, falling on the ground in pieces.

“Stop! Please! My daughter! The pharaoh, they cannot be revived like

this! I beg you please stopppp!”

However even her pleading words came to nothing, the bodies of the
people, even the undead filled with the soul of Isis and the pharaoh
were rusting and crumbling. And then they were blown away by the
wind.

The warm body that was just in her arms until just now was nowhere to
be found. The rusting undead that became dust couldn’t be
differentiated with the sand of the desert. She thought to search for the
dust of her husband and daughter from every single sands in this
desert. However, she understood how impossible that was.

Frustration that she couldn’t do anything about was raging through her
body towards the unreasonableness that suddenly visited. What could
she do to kill this feeling of regret.

When she thought that, a short sword half-buried in the sand entered
her eyes. It was a short sword for ceremonial use. However, it could be
used to cut the skin and flesh of human, even gouging out the throat or
piercing the heart were possible.

Osiris picked up that short sword and pointed it on her chest.

“Dear……Isis. I too will follow the two of you soon.”

And then without hesitation she thrust the sword. The sharp blade tore
her soft skin and pierced deeply until the handle part.

However, nothing happened.

There was not even pain.

“No way……”

After she pulled out the sword, she stabbed her stomach next. Then she
stabbed at the other side of her chest, and at her throat.

She couldn’t die at all.

This body as the machine god Osiris wouldn’t even give her the
permission to die.

“I……have to live, holding this bitter feeling, for eternity?”

Dropping the short sword, she didn’t even have the will to wipe away
the tears that were flowing without end.

‘――Please. Someone, kill me.’

“UAaAaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-!!”

Above Osiris who let out her shriek, the moon was floating.

“――a”

What was spreading in the sky wasn’t blue sky, it was the night sky.
Osiris stiffened with a face that was wet with tears.

“How is it, the feeling of seeing a dream.”

Receiving the moon light, a silver armor was shining. And then inside
the unfolded wings, a magic circle was beautifully changing color like a
kaleidoscope.

“What in the world just now……you are……”

“Heart Rebuild(Heart and Soul Remodelling).”

A magic armor possessing wings like a butterfly. The woman wearing

that beautiful armor whispered.

“!?”

“The moment when happy dream is turned into nightmare feels good
right? Osiris.”

Osiris’s face distorted in rage.

“How dare……how dare, how dare you!”

Tears of sorrow changed into tears of rage.

After standing up unsteadily, she glared at that woman with eyes filled
with hatred.

“Who……are you? For this me to not notice you”

At that time, Grace and Quartum who collapsed on the sand opened
their eyes.

“Wha……eh? I……”

Grace noticed how she was sleeping while trickling tears.

“Nee-sama, Nii-sama……they?”
When she raised her body, there was the Quartum with wondering
faces like hers.

“U……my? I, what am I doing I wonder……”

Elma tilted her head, besides her Clayda was looking around in circle
below her as though searching for something.

“Hm? Eh, the children……”

“The live show is……”

“Ha? What are you saying? Rather than that, *cough*……eh?”

Lunorlla and Ramza also seemed confused in the head. Each of them
was pulled into a mental world that they were watching until now.

“Stop being careless and wake up. If you cannot protect Grace-sama,
then what use is there in Quartum.”

“!?”

The four Quartum jumped to their feet from that familiar voice. And
then they showed expressions of surprise and happiness.

The one who was there was a female who was wearing a splendid
military uniform like a commissioned officer, yet her lower body had
underwear appearance as though she forgot to wear the trouser. Her
four limbs and at her back were wearing magic armor that was shining
silver.

Grace and the Quartum had remembered seeing that magic armor.
However, compared to the one in their memory, it was far larger. Its
shape was just like the machine god. No, it was obvious that it was the
same type like Himekawa Hayuru’s Neros that had been reinstalled.
An armor that described beautiful sleek curves. The leg units were
large, making the body height a meter taller. And then the large type
thruster on the back and the unit that imitated wings had the design of
a straight line as the basic tone.

However right now those wings were unfolded, showing a biological

form. The beautiful pattern drawn at the inner part giving off colorful
luminescence that was just like a butterfly flapping its wings.

That was the magic armor [Teros].

The only magic armor that could possibly launch mind attacks. And
then its possessor was the most terrifying magic knight in the Vatlantis
Empire.

All the members of Quartum raised happy voices all at once.

“Zelcyone-sama!”

The captain of Vatlantis Empire’s Imperial Guards, Zelcyone, it was that

person.

Grace also made a smile and her voice was excited.

“Zel!”

“Grace-sama, my deepest apologies. I was late in rushing here.”

Toward Zelcyone who was apologizing from the bottom of her heart,
Grace wordlessly shook her head side to side.
Osiris glared at Zelcyone with a demonic look.

“I see……you, seem different compared to these bunches.”

Osiris whispered after looking at Zelcyone’s Teros from top to bottom.

Grace showed a joyful expression, but she noticed suddenly and looked
up at Zelcyone with a grim face.

“That’s right! That figure……you left me alone and did reinstall with
Nii-sama then!?”

Zelcyone’s face also made turnabout into a bitter face.

“……Grace-sama. Right now that matter is――”

Quartum also had their cheeks reddened and their eyes shined.

“Zel, Zel-sama was……with Kizuna!?”

“Zel-sama, finally made a male lover!?”

“Lies-, I cannot believe it!”

“The……the detail……”

All at once strange voice of ‘kya―’ or laughing voice or awkward voice

were raised.

Zelcyone looked at the Quartum with an irritated face.

“Shut up! Just who is going to do that kind of act because of liking! This
too is for the sake of protecting Grace-sama’s personage that I went as
far as picking this bitter choice!”
“Ma’am!”

The four Quartum instantly straightened their back and saluted.

Osiris lifted up her chest and crossed her arms.

“Indeed that compared to the others you seem strong, but even so you
cannot compare with me who is a machine god you know? But still you
are planning to fight me?”

“No, I don’t have any intention of fighting or anything.”

Osiris tilted her head.

“Then, what?”

Zelcyone’s lips showed a wicked smile.

“I’m going to execute you.”

“……My.”

Osiris narrowed her eyes.

From Zelcyone’s waist unit, something like a silver string was pulled
out. A whip that was like a sword thinly stretched out was condensed,
its shape transformed into a sword in Zelcyone’s hand.

“Then, how about I use a sword too.”

Osiris put her hand at her front and spread her fingers. Thereupon, like
a plant growing from below the soil, the sand parted and a thin and
long stone rose up.
An octagon shape that was vertically long with pointed tip. Letters were
carved at its surface. It was the spitting image of Egypt’s relic, an
obelisk.

The obelisk that appeared from inside the sand settled itself inside
Osiris’s hand. She lightly swung it around like a sword. From a glance it
was a stone sword that looked like it would easily break. However, it
was a weapon of a machine god. There was no way it was a mere stone.

Zelcyone readied her sword and pointed the tip to Osiris.

“Here I go!”

Particles of light scattered from the thruster of her back, pushing

Zelcyone towards Osiris. Osiris’s golden eyes captured that figure.

“I will make you into a slave too and discipline you back to the correct
path!”

Osiris kicked on the sand.

The two bodies accelerated in the blink of an eye to a speed that was
nearly the speed of sound. And then the moment Zelcyone crossed with
Osiris, the magic circle and pattern drawn on Teros’s wings that was
like a butterfly began to shine.

Zelcyone’s sword and Osiris’s obelisk scattered fierce sparks. Sword and
sword clashed, fierce shockwave blew away the sand. The crossing two
women passed each other and when they distanced themselves from
each other, a crater appeared between the two of them.

Osiris’s lips slackened and she turned at Zelcyone. At the same time
Zelcyone fell on her knee.
“Guh……”

Her left arm armor cracked and she pressed on that wound with her
right hand.

“Zelcyone-sama-!”

“Zel!?”

Quartum and Grace yelled worriedly.

Osiris thrust the tip of the obelisk into the sand and then looked down
at Zelcyone with a smile full of composure.

“Zelcyone. As expected it’s impossible for you to defeat me. To try to

defeat me with an attack of that level is……”

“I wonder about that.”

Zelcyone grinned widely.

“What are you bluffing fo――”

A splitting destructive sound came and one of Osiris’s legs broke.

“――Wha”

“The instant we passed each other, I shifted your space recognition

with Heart Rebuilt. Its ability is not only showing any kind of
nightmare or brainwashing. Using it in this way is also possible.”

Osiris looked down at her own leg that was broken.

“How dare you……how dare you!”

From her body that was trembling in rage, black aura was rising. As
though invited by that darkness, a mechanical bird descended down
from the sky to Osiris.

“Horus!”

Osiris’s leg folded and the torso opened. Thereupon her mechanical
inside became obvious to see.

“Sekhmet!”

The lion lying down on top of the pyramid sprinted down. The head of
the lion unfolded as though it was disassembling, transforming into a
state without head. When it arrived at Osiris’s back, Osiris slid in her leg
into the part where the head was.

Osiris’s legs were stored into Sekhmet’s inside, with the lion torso as the
replacement of her broken leg, her appearance turned like a centaur.

And then on her back her shoulder armor opened and a link unit
showed its face. There Horus’s body combined. Like that, what was
created was a human that possessed lion torso and falcon’s wings. It
was the figure of Sekhmet and Horus and Osiris’s combination.

――And then, one more thing.

From Osiris’s back, a round object was floating.

That was the sun that symbolized the death and rebirth.

That was the stone that was the main cause which cornered this world
into ruin.

That sun emitted red light.

“Wha……what, this is!?”

Zelcyone felt strength leaving her body. If she let her mind relax, it felt
like she would fall on her knees.

“Uh!?”

From Osiris who had become the figure of a machine god, a wavelength
that shook the mind spread. It was like an impact of heavy bass
explosion. It felt like her body would be blown away a few meters back.

That wavelength shook the body on a cellular level jolted awake the fear
lurking in the body. The fear that living things instinctually possessed.
The despair of encountering a natural enemy that one couldn’t possibly
match.

It was the sensation of a bare handed human facing a lion with an

empty stomach.

That much fear and despair attacked Zelcyone’s whole body.

Zelcyone gritted her teeth and raised the corner of her mouth with the
muscle of her cheek.

“An existence that introduced herself as a god, should at least be able to

do this much huh!”

As if looking down at Zelcyone who roused up herself, Osiris showed a

cruel smile.

“This is the true appearance of machine god Osiris……Zelcyone. Only

you I will kill in this place. I will erase you from all time and space!”

Readying her obelisk sword, Osiris headed towards Zelcyone.

“HAAAAAA-!”

Zelcyone brandished her whip. The metallic whip was a thin blade. It
was terrifyingly long and moved freely. It was the same like swinging
around an absurdly long sword. That sword attacked Osiris. The long
and heavy obelisk couldn’t deal with this speed. Aiming at the spot
where Osiris’s stance would be hard pressed to deal with it, the whip
assaulted.

Sand pillar rose explosively. Osiris kicked on the ground and evaded the
whip. That movement was fast, she leaped towards the bosom of the
whip in an instant.

“Chih!”

Osiris swung down the huge stone sword. Zelcyone changed the shape
of the whip into a sword and blocked the attack of the obelisk. It was a
heavy attack that was swung down from overhead.

A sword that was broken into two flew in the air.

Although she defended against an attack of the obelisk, Zelcyone’s

sword snapped.

“What stupid strength-!”

Opening her thruster in full throttle Zelcyone took distance in one go.
However, Osiris’s speed was fast. In the blink of an eye, Zelcyone was
overtaken and she was hit by a pursuit attack.

“Guoh-!”

The obelisk attack that hit her back snapped off one of her wings.

‘――Damn it!’
“Fufufu, without that wing it’s impossible to plant suggestions in me
right?”

“Hmph, well it’s just like you said.”

Zelcyone was trickling with cold sweat while she was grinning.

“Then die!”

Osiris headed towards Zelcyone and she was going to swing down the
obelisk. However,

“Wha……?”

She had lifted her obelisk, but it didn’t move as though someone had
caught it.

“This is-!?”

Zelcyone’s whip was entangling the obelisk. The whip came from inside
the sand.

When Zelcyone flicked her finger, from inside the sand whips raised
their head in succession and entangled on Osiris. Both arms, wings, and
then the lion’s four legs were restrained.

“Guh……since when……”

“This whip is quick witted see. While it was pretending to run around
from you, it was scattering itself inside the sand. Quartum!”

“Ma’am!”

Clayda, Elma, Lunorlla, and Ramza, the four people carried their
respective weapons and attacked from four directions. The opponent
was in the state that couldn’t make any movement. They unleashed an
attack filled with all their strength.

“YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-!”

The round bright thing at Osiris’s back emitted light.

“What-!?”

The next moment, the round object was shining like a sun. Quartum
had their eyes blinded by that light. Lights that were like lasers were
fired to all direction from the sun.

“Shield!”

Zelcyone’s yell made Quartum deploy their Life Savers even while their
eyesight was stolen. The laser fired from Osiris’s sun opened holes on
the desert and destroyed even the Life Saver.

“UWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!”

Although Quartum’s members weren’t damaged fatally, they got hit

directly by the laser and got blown away while their Life Saver was
pulverized.

“This cheap trick……”

The laser of the sun also severed the whips of Zelcyone that were
entangling Osiris’s body. When she spread her arms, the whips that
were dissected into pieces fell on the sand.

With this it looked like all of Zelcyone’s plans had ran out their course.
However――,

“You all did well in buying time. I give you my praise.”

“What?”

An anxiety that Osiris couldn’t comprehend was spreading in her. She

looked at Quartum that should be defeated. Even while collapsing on
the sand, the four people floated satisfied smiles. And then, Zelcyone
was,

“Even if Heart Rebuild became unusable with just one wing, if it’s heavy
work then there is no problem.”

Zelcyone’s butterfly wings had its left side half broken. However
colorful light was rotating at the right wing. It was like a kaleidoscope
that was emitting light.

“Eat this! Kaleid Breath(Thousand Color of Every Flower)!!”

The butterfly wing released explosive light. That was a surge of light
that shined in various colors. Every single patterns of the wing emitted
light, those lines of light attacked Osiris. Several hundred, several
thousand lines of light each drew different color and trajectory, hitting
directly at Osiris’s armor.

“Kuh……what, pressure!”

Osiris’s armor was overwhelmed and that large body was pushed down.
Osiris deployed shield at her front and she curled herself as though she
was laying on the sand. Her wings burned and its surface began to melt.
Cracks entered the four legs of Sekhmet and the armor split. And then
the torture of light that seemed like it would continue forever suddenly
informed its end.

“Fufu. How is that? It feels good right?”

Zelcyone sounded like she was enjoying herself, but sweat was trickling
down on her cheeks.

‘――My magic power will also hit empty soon. Can you just stay down
already?’

Zelcyone’s secret wishing came to nothing, Osiris’s four lion legs didn’t
lose their strength. That large body stood up once again.

And then the hateful eyes of Osiris captured Zelcyone.

“It was a mistake, to think that if I use my body just a little it will be
fine……but, it’s enough already. All of you, will have those bodies of
yours perished by me.”

Lines of light floated on Osiris’s body. Blue light was rushing on the
body of the golden lion. It looked like power was traveling all over that
body. And then that light was restoring the armor that received
damage. Before long, Osiris recovered back her shining golden armor
into just like before.

That figure felt like she had liberated the power that had been put
under limiter until now.

‘――How troublesome.’

Zelcyone murmured inside her heart.

“Zel!”

Grace yelled in a loud voice.

“This woman is a machine god! Exchanging blows with her honestly

from the front is not a smart plan!”
“……It cannot be helped.”

She shrugged her shoulders and floated a nihilistic smile. And then she
turned and yelled sharply.

“Retreat!”

Sand rolled up explosively. Zelcyone opened her thrusters in full

throttle and escaped from in front of Osiris. Following after her the
Quartum and Grace also flew away.

“You knaves-!”

Osiris was staring with eyes filled with hatred. However she didn’t try
to move from that place. Looking at that state of Osiris across her
shoulder, Zelcyone whispered in surprise.

“……She won’t come in pursuit?”

A floating window opened and Elma’s face was projected.

{Might she possibly have grown scared of Zel-sama’s strength?}

Grace nodded in a different window.

{Possibly she harbored a feeling of danger to leave Necropolis

unattended. Receiving Zel’s mind control without her realizing it must
be something really shocking for that woman.}

Clayda murmured with a complicated face.

{Possibly, she feels no need to chase……or something.}

Zelcyone sensitively reacted to those words.

“What? What do you mean?”

{Ah……no, it seems that she is manipulating the sand so that a strange

power is affecting Oldium that it cannot take off. Therefore, that
woman might have another method to obstruct us.}

“You fool! Say that quicker!”

Yelling ‘hi-‘ shortly, Clayda then instantly closed the window.

Zelcyone pondered while gnawing at her nail.

‘――What to do? In the end we have to return to Necropolis once more.

Besides if there is this manipulation of sand…….’

“Even in the case that Osiris cannot come out from Necropolis, no
matter where we run away in this world, that woman’s pursuer will
catch up……”

At that time, Ramza’s window suddenly opened.

{Zelcyone-samaaa! That, that!}

Suppressing her feeling that wanted to complain that she didn’t

understand of her only saying ‘that, that’, Zelcyone looked back across
her shoulder.

“What’s, that?”

Bulging up sand was moving with terrific speed inside the desert. There
was something under the sand that seemed to advance underground,
but it was faster than Zelcyone and the others who were flying in the
sky.

{For some reason I have an unpleasant premonition heree―!}

{I agree……Grace-sama! Please raise your altitude!}

The purusing sand overtook Zelcyone and group.

{Eh? Its business isn’t with us?}

“You think that’s possible! It’s coming!”

The sand swelled up as though blocking their way, it towered up in one

go until the height of a hundred meters.

“What’s this thing!”

It was a sand giant. It had no face with black holes opened like a cave at
the location of the mouth and eyes. Its body surface was constantly
flowed with sand, like water circulating.

Although Elma was holding her hammer in hand, but she was at a loss
of how to hit.

Its height was already two hundred meters with only its upper body
appearing. Its body was rapidly lengthening as though slipping out
from the sand.

“Anyway, we have to try attacking it!”

Ramza held aloft her tomahawk and went toward the sand giant.

“HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”

With flame rolling up, a terrific shockwave severed the arm of the sand
giant.

“I did it! Go me!”

That happiness only lasted for a moment. When she turned back, the
arm that should have been severed was growing again.

“Eh! Lies!?”

Lunorlla’s window opened besides Ramza.

{That thing’s body is made from sand. Even if we fight it normally we

might not be able to inflict damage to it.}

“Even if you say that, then just what are we going to do-!”

When she yelled that, a bundle of light came flying from far beyond the
sky.

“GUWAaAAAH!”

{Ramza!?}

A particle cannon possessing golden brightness. That bombing hit

Ramza directly. Ramza who lost consciousness was falling.

“Get a hold of yourself!”

Lunorlla kicked on the air and pursued Ramza’s body. However the arm
of the sand giant came flying at her.

“NNKYAaAAAAA-!”

The gigantic lump of sand had the total weight of a few dozens of tons.
Lunorrla’s body was easily blown away. And then one more giant
appeared from the ground. The bodies of the two were swallowed into
the rising sand.

“Ramza! Lunorlla!”
Grace pulled out a scythe from her wing and took a stance. However she
only kept clutching the scythe’s handle without moving.

‘――Even if I go helping those two, how should I do it? Should I dig

them up from the sand? However the sand is constantly flowing like a
river. The bodies of those two must have been washed away already.’

While thinking that the bombing came again.

Elma repelled that particle cannon with the shield of Life Saver.

“Kuh……just who in the world!?”

She magnified the image in the floating window. What was reflected
there was a blue magic armor.

“That’s……Yurishia Farandole!”

Clayda clicked her tongue.

“So that girl has really become Osiris’s underling!”

{She is only being controlled! Zel! Can you release Yurishia from the
brain washing?}

Zelcyone’s window also opened.

{My deepest apology. Because of the damage I received from Osiris……I

am unable to do it.}

{Ku……the troublesome opponents just keep increasing.}

{Grace-sama. If it’s Yurishia then I understand the way to defeat her. I

will go ahead to――}
{No good. If Yurishia get hurts then, Nee-sama and, Nii-sama……will be
sad.}

Zelcyone was about to say something but it was clear that she
swallowed her words back with effort.

“By your will.”

Answering with just that, Zelcyone stared at the window that reflected
Yurishia’s image.

Yurishia was smiling with the joy of capturing her prey.

“Finally I caught up. I won’t forgive those who went against mother.
Now, swallow up them all!”

When Yurishia raised her hand even more sand was swelling up. Like a
round pillar, the sand was rising up.

“What is it this time!?”

Elma’s yell was answered by Clayda’s trembling voice.

“That’s……a dragon, I wonder?”

Torso with a diameter around ten meters was endlessly continuing. A

face showed out from the sand before diving into the sand once more.
And then it suddenly appeared from right under Elma.

“Kya……!?”

A big mouth opened and swallowed Elma.

“Elma!”
Clayda yelled. But Elma’s figure was already nowhere to be seen.

“Shit……just what should we do”

Grace bit on her lips. Her hand that was gripping the scythe became
white from pouring too much strength.

‘What should I do. Teach me,’

“……Nii-sama”

It was at that moment when those words unconsciously rushed out

from her mouth.

The sky split open.

“What-!?”

It was like glass breaking, the sky was smashed apart. And then from
that hole the bow of a giant battleship peeked out. That bow became a
giant drill, that drill was rotating and scattered apart the fragments of
the sky. That drill displayed how it broke this sky.

A function that forcefully caused AU collision, Excavator. There was

only one battleship that was equipped with that other than Oldium and
Golden Dragon.

Clayda reflexively yelled.

“Battleship Ataraxia!”

Grace looked up at the giant shadow covering above their heads.

“Nii-sama……”
And then from that battleship a black shadow was flying down. That
man wearing only pilot suit was yelling with his body dancing in the
sky.

“Eros!”

Instantly a jet black armor wrapped his body. Pink light ran across the
armor. That was without any doubt, a Heart Hybrid Gear.

“Nii-samaaa-!”

“Grace! You are safe!”

The sand giant discovered the falling Kizuna and reached out its hand.
Kizuna immediately controlled his posture using his thruster and
evaded the giant hand that was like a wall approaching him.

“What’s this thing!?”

The window of Zelcyone opened besides Kizuna’s face.

{It seemed that these things are controlled by the machine god Osiris.
But we don’t understand the way to defeat it. Can you do something?}

“Machine god’s……”

Kizuna thought for a moment and he immediately answered with a

smile.

“I’ll do something about it somehow!”

Kizuna ignited his thrusters and quickened his falling speed.

“Nii-sama!?”
He passed through Grace’s side in one go.

“Here I go! Corruption Armament [Nayuta]!!”

Several magic circles opened in front of Kizuna. The corridor from the
line of the magic circles reached until the ground. Each time he passed
through a magic circle, Eros’s figure was transforming.

“That’s!?”

Grace opened her eyes wide at that appearance.

The reason was because that appearance resembled that Nayuta when
she became god. Also, what did he say? Corruption Armament, Nayuta?

Zelcyone was also staring at the transforming Eros with a shocked

expression.

“Is that the power of god, that you obtained……Hida Kizuna!”

Kizuna who became the figure of a machine god pulled his arm in order
to let his fist fly.

“UOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”

Without slowing his speed, he dropped into the desert just like that.
And then just before he crashed, his right arm punched the desert.

“Reincarnation!!”

Eros’s right arm sunk into the sand. The shockwave from that blew
away the sand like an explosive. And then, at the same time the virus
that destroyed a machine god was sent from the right arm into the
sand. If it was only normal sand, there wouldn’t be any effect. But, if it
was something that became a part of a machine god――,
Clayda who looked up at the sand giant raised a shocked voice.

“Ua!? What the?”

The three holes on the face of the giant were crushed and the face itself
was crumbling. And then it became unable to support its whole body,
the giant was falling towards the ground.

Inside the giant familiar silhouettes came in to view.

“Lunorlla! Ramza!”

Clayda ignited her thruster and headed to extract the bodies of the two
from inside the sand.

The effect of Reincarnation was transmitted like a spreading ripple

with Eros as the center. After the giant, the sand dragon began to
crumble.

Looking at that figure, the color of Yurishia’s face changed.

“No way! The protector gods that borrowed the power of Osiris-sama
are……”

The alert window of Cross naturally blared, informing Yurishia of the

approaching enemy.

“YURISHIAAAAA-!”

Looking at the approaching Kizuna, Yurishia directed the nuzzle of the

Differential Frame at him.

She matched the target. What was left was only the firing.

“……ku”
She mysteriously hesitated.

Even though he was supposedly the hated enemy that was a hindrance
for her mother.

‘Defeat him quickly’, inside her head she could hear a commanding
voice.

However, when she looked at the face of Kizuna that floated in the
target, her fingertips stiffened.

‘Why can’t I pull the trigger!?

It’s no good already.

Only a few seconds left until contact.’

“Aah, geez!”

She converted the Differential Frame from offensive into mobility. She
turned right and opened her thrusters fully. She had to return to
Necropolis in a hurry.

“Blade!”

From far above, a sword was suddenly flying at her.

“Wha-!?”

It was already too late when the sensor detected it. One side of the
Differential Frame was crushed.

‘――Damn!’
Even thinking that was too late. Getting her attention taken only by
Kizuna, she didn’t notice at all the other enemy.

“Hayuru……you really did it just now!”

With the moon at her back, Himekawa was floating with the reborn
Neros equipped. Yurishia glared hatefully at that figure while falling.

With Yurishia’s Cross unable to control her posture, she was falling
towards the desert where Osiris’s authority had been already unable to
reach.

Chapter 3 – S&M

Part 1
The stadium in the high school department of Ataraxia. It was a facility
mainly for the sake of carrying out the activity of track and field
competitions, but it was twice as spacious as a normal stadium. That
was because it was also used as the practice of the combat department.
There was consideration for practicing Technical Gears and depending
on the situation it could also be used for mock battles.

However it wasn’t assumed that it would be used for the match that
was currently carried out.

The students of the research department were observing that match

with their feelings in suspense.

“I beg you~, don’t destroy the stadium too much okayyy……we are the
ones that will get scoldeddddd-!”

Huge metallic lumps were clashing.

The shockwave and the clashing sound reached even the students who
were observing on the stands. As though their eyes reflexively closed
and their bodies stiffened as though hands were clapped in front of
their eyes.

“Kyaa!”

“A, amazing……this is, a battle between fellow super large types……”

Just by looking the pressure was overwhelming.

The observer stand vibrated, making those standing stagger on their

feet. The raised wind flapped the skirts. Because of the uniform with
short skirts, the underwear beneath became fully exposed, but it wasn’t
the time to look at that because all the eyes were fixed on the
impressiveness in front of their eyes.

Two large type magic armors. One of the pilots raised a yelling voice.

“I will receive the victory mark today! Sylvia!”

Ragrus’s small body was settled in the huge magic armor. Demon was
charging as though it was sliding on the field of the stadium. And then
it raised its fist. The strong arm that was the largest weapon of Demon
struck.

“Sylvia won’t let that happen desu!”

Sylvia’s Taros blocked that strong arm.

“Kuu!”

The impact shook Taros and Sylvia that was settled at its center. The
slight groan leaked from that small mouth, and then Sylvia’s grimacing
face made Ragrus’s movement stop.
“Sylvia?”

“It’s fine desu! Sylvia is still continuing desu!”

This time Taros’s strong arm attacked Demon. Rather than calling that
an arm it was more of a hammer. A metallic lump like a large vault with
a door attached. That was Taros’s right arm.

“HAAAAAAA!”

And then the left arm was a flat cube. Just by getting struck with that,
even concrete would be easily pulverized, but one could understand
from the two opened muzzles that it was the barrel of a particle cannon.
A distance of just a few meters were closed with the thruster of posture
control and then that muzzle was directed at Demon.

“From this near!?”

Ragrus was driven by nervousness. She wasted no time to move

Demon’s left hand to the front. Life Saver was deployed on the palm.
However Sylvia instantly lowered the muzzle and aimed at Demon’s
leg.

The purple light particles that were fired hit Demon’s knee.

“Chih! The right leg got hit!? The damage?”

Ragrus’s eyes roamed through the window opened in front of her body
that displayed Demon’s condition. There the display that the right leg
was unable to be used was flickering.

“Cheh! Troublesome!”

While spitting that out she cut the driving force of the right leg.
At a mock battle projectile weapons like the particle cannon had the
output set to the lowest setting. In exchange the state of the impact was
analyzed and it decided how much damage was received. Following
that decision the match was continued with the assumption of
receiving that damage. What Ragrus was doing right now was
following that rule.

“It’s uncool so I don’t’ want to really do it but……”

Ragrus thrust both of Demon’s arms to the ground and did a handstand.

“Eeh!?’

Sylvia was also taken by surprise at that stance.

“Here I go Sylvia! After all I also hate consecutive losses!”

Demon dashed using the hand like legs. It passed through Taros’s side
and disappeared from Sylvia’s field of vision.

“Fast-!?”

Demon’s speed was even faster than when it was running with its legs.
And then its posture control using the huge palm was far more nimble
than usual.

As expected even Sylvia got led around by the nose.

‘――But, if it is with the combination of the left hand’s particle cannon

and the main cannon(Ignis)!’

Sylvia made Taros turned around and ignited her large rocket. Ragrus
opened her eyes wide towards Taros that was heading to her with a
body blow.
“No way-!?”

‘Even though I thought I had taken absolute distance!’ While cursing

inside her heart, Demon bent its arm and gathered strength before
straightening all at once, jumping to the air.

Taros passed through below Demon. However Taros stuck an anchor

from one of its legs and faced the falling Demon with its hammer
striking.

“HAAAAAAAAAAA!”

“SYLVIAAAAAAAAAAA!”

Even while receiving intense impact, the hammer of Taros’s right arm
was blocked.

“Guh……u!”

Igniting the thruster, Demon matched the motion of the hammer to

escape from the impact.

“!?”

Taros’s posture broke with its inability to stop the momentum.

“I got you!”

Ragrus got away from Taros’s hammer and landed at a close range. At
that time she had already made the preparation to strike a punch.

But, at that time what was reflected in Ragrus’s eyes was the
appearance of Sylvia’s grimacing expression with a pale face.

“!!”
Ragrus floated a console of light and touched the button for emergency
suspension of the match. Sirens immediately resounded inside the
stadium and the magic armors stopped functioning.

“Sylvia!”

Ragrus got out from Demon and leaped at Taros. When Ragrus’s body
separated from Demon, the magic armor became beads of light and
vanished.

“Eh, Ragrus-chan. What’s the matter desu?”

Ragrus shouted with a voice that was colored by anger.

“What do you mean what’s the matter! How can you say that with that
kind of face!”

Ragrus lent her shoulder to Sylvia and she pulled her out from Taros.

“Good grief……it’s still impossible for you to do anything like a mock

battle!”

“Ehehe, recently Sylvia felt good so I thought that perhaps it’s fine
already desu……”

“Everyday life and battle is completely different!”

After Sylvia’s body got down on the ground, Taros’s body became light
similar to Demon and vanished. The ambulance came at that timing.
The research department and the rescue squad department came
rushing after receiving the contact of the emergency suspension. A
stretcher was carried from the car and the rescue students dashed
towards Ragrus.

“Ragrus-san, please put Sylvia-san on the stretcher.”

“No need! I’ll carry Sylvia to the hospital!”

Ragrus said bitingly while embracing Sylvia’s body.

A cool voice cut in from behind the bewildered rescue squad.

“Ragrus, leave this to the specialists.”

“Hyakurath, sama……”

With her golden ponytail swaying, the captain of the Leon squad of
Vatlantis Empire’s imperial guard, and also the class representative of
second year first group, Hyakurath had come. And then beside her was
Mercuria of Tigris squad.

“But-! I’m!”

Mercuria put her hand on her waist and talked admonishingly.

“However Ragrus, the place she will be carried to is not the hospital, it’s
Nayuta Lab.”

“Uu……!”

“You don’t even understand where she will be carried to in the first
place――”

Hyakurath raised her hand and stopped Mercuria.

“Everyone of the rescue squad, please.”

Following Hyakurath’s instruction, the relief squad took over Sylvia

from Ragrus’s arms, they put her on the stretcher and brought her to
the ambulance. The moment the door closed, the car dashed away with
its sirens roaring. Ragrus was staring at the back figure of the
ambulance with worried gaze.

“It will be fine. There is no danger to Sylvia-san’s life.”

Hyakurath gently put her hand on Ragrus’s shoulder.

“……I guess. That’s right, that’s only obvious.”

Ragrus recovered her calm a little and looked up to the sky. Over there
the result of the match was displayed. Two minutes fourteen seconds
after the start, it was Ragrus’s defeat due to her surrender.

“Aa―aa, it became consecutive defeats……”

Sounds of applause reached the ears of Ragrus who looked up to the sky.
When she looked around thinking what happened, the students who
were watching the match from the stands were clapping towards
Ragrus.

“What? What’s this?”

Ragrus looked up to Hyakurath looking for an answer.

“Everyone is moved you know?”

“Ha?”

Ragrus’s face scowled.

Hyakurath also looked at Ragrus with a happy face and applauded.

“They applauded your friendship with Sylvia-san, and your noble

heart.”
“Eh……”

Ragrus’s face became red in a flash.

“Tha, that’s stupid!? So, something like that”

However the thundering applause was growing increasingly louder.

“Aah―, geez! I’m going already!”

She rushed out as though running away. Mercuria called out to that
back with a mean face.

“Ah, Ragrus! It’s not the hospital but the lab remember! Don’t get
mistaken!”

“SHUUUUUUUUUUUT UP-!”

Ragrus’s figure vanished towards the exit while it looked like she
almost tumbled.

Part 2
Battleship Ataraxia was cruising at an altitude of ten kilometers in the
sky. Beneath a sea of cloud spreading, they couldn’t confirm what was
happening in Necropolis, but in return surely Osiris also couldn’t see
Ataraxia from where she was.

Inside the ship’s cell, an investigation was happening.

“Yurishia Farandole. Answer my question.”

Zelcyone who was equipping Teros was peering into the eyes of
Yurishia who was sitting on the bed. Inside Zelcyone’s eyes, a magic
circle was floating. It was the proof that Zelcyone was using her ability
to rule over the opponent’s mind and controlled her as she pleased.
“What are you planning? There is no way that this me will listen to
what you are saying don’t you think? There is only one person in this
world who can command me. Only my mother Osiris-sama.”

She glared at Zelcyone with a gaze filled with hatred.

“Yurishia……”

That abrupt change of attitude also inflicted shock to Kizuna who was
present there.

Reacting to Kizuna’s murmur, Yurishia directed a piercing gaze at him.

“This coward. To put this kind of thing on me and rob me of my

strength……”

Yurishia touched the ring of magic power control wrapped around her
neck. That was something used once on Yurishia and the others when
they became prisoners in the Vatlantis Empire. It caused the wearer to
become unable to use magic power and also made it impossible to equip
magic armor.

“What happened Yurishia? Don’t you know me?”

Yurishia gritted her teeth audibly.

“I know you. Hida Kizuna……as the captain of Amaterasu, you made

use of your position to do as you pleased with my body, a cowardly
man.”

“Eh……?”

Kizuna’s heart spontaneously jumped in shock.

“I really wondered just what was going on with myself until now. But,
after meeting mother I understood my true self. I am not Yurishia, I am
fated to become Isis. After accepting Isis’s soul I will be able to become
mother’s daughter, yet!”

She stood up from the bed and instantly assaulted Kizuna.

“Yurishia!?”

A sharp punch aimed at Kizuna’s jaw.

“Kuh!”

Stepping back, Kizuna barely dodged. However Kizuna’s back bumped

into the wall of the cell. There Yurishia’s leg leaped up. The muscle
hidden by the plump thigh drove her supple long leg like a whip and
struck at Kizuna’s head.

“Guah!”

Kizuna’s body was thrown to the wall and he was assaulted by light
concussion. Yurishia immediately circled on Kizuna’s back and
constricted his neck.

“Zelcyone! If you don’t want Kizuna’s neck to be broken, free me from

here!”

With a bored looking face Zelcyone heaved a deep sigh.

“Do as you please.”

“-……I’m really, going to kill him here!”

“――So, you hear that right? What are you going to do Kizuna?”
“Gu……”

While his neck was constricted, Kizuna touched the controller put on
his finger.

“Kyaaaa-!”

At that moment a magic circle shined on Yurishia’s choker. A shock that

resembled electricity traveled through Yurishia’s body, paralyzing her.

“Ku……, you……”

Even when she tried to curse, her tongue was in a paralyzed state.
Kizuna separated from Yurishia’s arm and he gently lied down her body
on the bed.

“I’ll come again……Yurishia.”

Leaving those words behind, Kizuna and Zelcyone came out from the
cell.

Listening to the sound of the door locking, Kizuna heaved a deep sigh.
And then he directed a grim face at Zelcyone.

“How is it? Can you remove Yurishia’s hypnotism?”

Zelcyone shook her head side to side at Kizuna’s question.

“It’s no good. Even when I equipped Teros thoroughly, there is no effect.

It seems a really powerful hypnotism is affecting her.”

Teros became light and vanished from Zelcyone’s body. From

underneath the sexy Zelcyone in her military uniform appeared.
“Don’t tell me……for her whole life, she will be under the impression
that she is Osiris’s daughter, that’s not it right?”

“I don’t know. I’ll leave the rest to you all.”

He walked together with Zelcyone. Coming out from the block where
cells were lined up, they moved towards the space for the crew’s living
activity.

They came out at a spacious viewing room. From the floor until the
ceiling it was made from transparent wall like a glass. It was scary if
one wasn’t used to it, but it was also a place where one could get the
feeling like walking on the air. Currently it was the time of sunset, so
the surface was wrapped in orange light. The cloud sea showered in the
light of the setting sun was beautiful like a painting. The rim that
reflected the light brightly and the shade that became the thick cloud’s
shadow were like a paintbrush, creating a grandeur view. It was a
beautiful scenery that touched the heart.

Inside such space, a single figure was standing still.

“Grace?”

Noticing Kizuna, she turned her face.

“……Nii-sama. And also Zel.”

‘――What’s wrong?’

Grace’s condition was different from usual. Even though she was
usually a lump of energy that was full of confidence, now he couldn’t
feel any ambition from her. Even her expression felt like there was a
shadow hanging over her.
“What’s the matter? Are you feeling unwell?”

“No, there is no such thing……why?”

“Why you ask……you don’t look energetic. You look different from
usual.”

Grace looked slightly surprised.

“Nii-sama……you really paid attention.”

Saying that, her face turned a little bashful.

“Nii-sama……”

“Hm?”

“What should I do, to make reparation……”

She whispered with a voice so small that he almost couldn’t hear it.
Kizuna wondered if he mistook what he heard that he couldn’t reply for
a while.

Grace pursed her lips as though changing her mind and shook her head.

“No, it’s nothing. We also have to take back Oldium. Let’s think of the
way to do that.”

Grace abruptly turned her back at Kizuna and Zelcyone, before leaving
that place.

“Then I’ll return to my room. Call me when it’s time for the strategy
meeting.”

“Yeah, got it.”

Grace’s figure vanished behind the automatic door.

“She said that but, as I thought isn’t her condition strange?”

Kizuna asked Zelcyone.

“……Grace-sama, she feared that she will become a hindrance for you
and Ainess-sama. And then she is feeling responsible towards the
sacrifice that was caused from the war between Vatlantis Empire and
Lemuria. By some chance, perhaps she is thinking that if she doesn’t
take responsibility, then it will influence the future of you and Ainess-
sama.”

Kizuna frowned, not understanding what she meant.

“Grace-sama was shown that kind of illusion from Osiris’s mental

attack.”

“I see…….”

Kizuna showed an expression where he was enduring a pain.

“It’s a difficult problem but……but, at the very least Aine and I won’t
treat Grace like a hindrance.”

“That’s obvious. If you do that kind of thing, I’ll lop off your neck that
very day.”

Something cold ran through Kizuna’s spine. That wasn’t a mere threat,
she was seriously saying that. That was what Kizuna felt.

“But the nightmare that was shown in the mental world inflicted severe
impression and influence. In a certain meaning, its influence if far
larger than even reality. Due to that, it makes Grace-sama worried.”
“Hey, Zelcyone. Is there, any way to make Grace cheerful you think?”

Zelcyone glared at Kizuna with a vexed face.

“Think about that yourself, you good-for-nothing.”

“……I cannot object anything to that.”

‘Hmph’, snorting her nose, Zelcyone walked towards the window.

Kizuna also stood beside her.

“Zelcyone. You know a lot about Aine and Grace that I don’t know. Can
you teach me about various things from now on too?”

Zelcyone clicked her tongue and suddenly gripped Kizuna’s collar.

“You bastard, you are acting too familiar with me.”

Kizuna was perplexed to that threatening look of hers.

“I, is that so? But, having good relationship, is not a bad th……”

“Annoying! I am the captain of Vatlantis Empire’s Imperial Guard. I’m

not the student council president and also not your lover! Don’t you
misunderstand demon king of Lemuria!”

“Heh?”

Kizuna stiffened with a convulsing face.

Zelcyone separated her hand from Kizuna’s collar as though tossing

him away. She turned on her heel and walked towards the corridor.

“Don’t get elated just because you have done as you pleased to my body
for just once!”
Zelcyone got out and the door closed. Was it just his feeling, it was as
though the door that should be automatic felt like it was closed rougher
than usual.

“O……ou.”

Kizuna who was left alone cocked his head in puzzlement while
watching the sunset turning into night sky.

‘――Certainly Grace is Vatlantis Empire’s emperor. But, she is a girl

even younger than me. To just weigh down all the responsibility on a
girl like her, I cannot think of that as something right.

Besides right now we are fighting together for the sake of saving both
Lemuria and Atlantis, she is a reliable comrade. Even about Aine and
also Yurishia, if we combine our strength then surely we can save
them.’

“But, so she is actually worrying that much. Grace……”

He unconsciously murmured to himself.

Was it because of the time they spent together in the Ataraxia that
Nayuta created, he completely considered her as a comrade that he
didn’t realize until that far.

“Certainly, it cannot be helped that Zelcyone called me a good-for-

nothing huh……”

The cute little sister was worrying and suffering. If he didn’t become
her strength, then what use was this Nii-sama for.

“Yosh, let’s call Grace――”

At that time the summon announcement resounded inside the ship.

{Hida Kizuna, the strategy meeting will be carried out after this. Come
to the first laboratory urgently.}

“Nee-chan?”

Just what in the world was it about?

Kizuna turned on his heel and walked in the corridor with a fast pace.
He got into the elevator and headed to the first laboratory nearby the
battleship Ataraxia’s stern. Inside the room that had a size similar to a
classroom, Reiri and Kei were already waiting.

“What’s the matter? So sudden like this.”

What was inside the room was only a set of desks and chair. There was
nothing else, it was a deserted room. At the center of that room, a screen
was floating that projected the state of Yurishia inside the cell.

“You have seen it already……as expected it’s difficult to release Yurishia

from the brainwashing.”

“Yeah, but there is a way.”

“Eh!?”

Kei that was facing the desk typed on the keyboard fast.

{The only way to release Yurishia’s brainwashing. That is――}

Continuing where Kei’s typing left off, Reiri proclaimed.

“The Core’s reinstall!”

Kizuna repeated that sentence inside his head many times over.
“Wait a second. What relation is there between releasing the
brainwashing with powering up the magic armor?”

When Reiri nodded, Kei began the explanation.

{The suggestion that Osiris gave Yurishia produced a strong binding on

the brain’s nerve tissue. To untie this binding is not an ordinary
undertaking. However, by giving her even more intense experience,
when there is information even more beneficial than Osiris’s
brainwashing, it can give Yurishia’s body another impression.}

“……What do you mean?”

{When a Core is installed, a certain kind of reset phenomenon will occur

inside the body. That is in order for the Core to activate, it will remove
information that became a hindrance. By using that the body’s bad
condition like illness will be improved and mental difficulty will also be
removed.}

“Heee……that’s amazing. It seems that the Core is useful for medical

treatment.”

{However, this is only limited if there is even more beneficial

information by the time the install is happening. For example, if the
body doesn’t have the information of the original healthy state, then
there will be nothing that will be particularly improved.}

“That’s……what you just said, the more intense experience?”

Reiri crossed her arms and nodded.

“We had Zelcyone slipping into Yurishia’s mind to investigate, she said
that when Yurishia received brainwashing from Osiris, there is a
memory where she was given strong pain together with pleasure.
However, she doesn’t know as far as the specific way……”

‘――Pain and pleasure she said……don’t tell me!’

“About that, I can imagine it in general.”

Reiri stopped crossing her arms and grinned widely.

“As expected from you, then we can keep this short.”

Reiri’s eyes shined glaringly.

“Grant the true desire that Yurishia is looking for! Pleasure that makes
that girl scream both in her heart and flesh! Ecstasy that she has never
experienced before! A climax so great that it smashes the memory given
to Yurishia!”

“I have to, do to Yurishia……something even greater than what Osiris

did?”

{If the reinstall succeeded in that situation, the effect of the install will
be able to erase the control of Osiris that is deeply rooted in Yurishia.}

Kizuna pursed his mouth strongly, he stared at Yurishia who was

projected on the screen.

She was sitting on the bed with a grim face.

‘――This is a match between me and Osiris.’

Yurishia’s face distorted in bitterness and tears dripped out. He had

never seen Yurishia looking that bitter.

“That’s not all you know?”

Unnoticed there was a young girl standing at Kizuna’s side.

“!? ……Since when!”

{Professor Nayuta?}

“You bastard! I told you already to not enter as you please!”

Ignoring Reiri who lost her temper, Nayuta walked until the center of
the room.

“It seems that how each machine god became how they currently are
and their very existences itself are different from each other. A method
that is effective against Hokuto doesn’t mean that it will be effective
against the other machine gods.”

Reiri glared at Nayuta with an irritated look.

“Then what are you saying?’

“In order for Yurishia to receive the soul of Osiris’s daughter, she should
also have the information about Osiris and Necropolis driven into her.
Even if her brainwashing is released the information about them will
remain. That’s why……”

Kizuna nodded.

“We can obtain Osiris’s information from Yurishia. Perhaps we can

even understand what kind of attack will be effective, is that it?”

Nayuta nodded in satisfaction.

“Exactly.”
Kizuna talked to Yurishia inside the screen with a gaze filled with
determination.

“I’ll surely save you without fail……Yurishia!”

Part 3
Light shined into the gloomy room. The blonde haired girl wearing
Ataraxia’s uniform was illuminated by spotlight. Surely even among
foreign pin-up girls, there wasn’t that many who possessed a style this
magnificent. Because such selfish body was forcefully imprisoned into
the uniform, the breasts and also the butt looked like they were going to
burst out. That was Yurishia Farandole of Amaterasu.

That former ace of America had handcuffs fixed on her, she was
suspended by a chain from the ceiling. Even her mouth was filled with a
ball that had holes opened on it, it was fitted on her face with a leather
band.

Kizuna stared at that figure with a nervous look.

Yurishia’s fate hung on this mission. Not only that. The configuration
information of Lemuria and Atlantis that Osiris possessed. Whether
they could take back that data also depended on this mission.

Even though he was motionless, sweat was flowing out.

“Is the preparation finished?”

A young girl entered inside the light that illuminated Yurishia. The
young girl wearing a strange kimono with the lower part becoming
tights smiled proudly.
“My side’s preparation is perfect. I finished taking out Cross’s Core from
Yurishia and improved it. Besides, the equipment and the placing of the
stage are also complete.”

“……You are really able to prepare something like this huh.”

Kizuna looked around inside the room. Various kinds of whips and
torturing devices were lined up on the wall. There were props like rope
and candle, then there were also big tools like the pulley where Yurishia
was currenly suspending from or the x-shaped cross stand. When he
turned around, the room was partitioned with iron bars like a prison,
the exit was at the other side of the bars.

This place was a special laboratory inside the battleship Ataraxia.

Originally it was a room used for experiments with weapons and
dangerous things, but Nayuta reformed it. The variety of tools prepared
here was also assembled by Nayuta.

“Generally all these existed in Ataraxia. Reproducing them is something

easy.”

As though putting spirit into himself, Kizuna strongly breathed.

“Yosh. I’ll leave it to you.”

Nayuta put her index finger on Yurishia’s forehead.

“Mm, mmm……”

After lightly groaning, Yurishia’s blue eyes opened.

“Then, I’ll leave the rest to you two, the young people.”
Leaving behind a sentence like a match-making auntie, Nayuta who
had the youngest appearance slipped through the iron bars and left the
room.

‘Even though it’s better if she acts a little more like a human’, Kizuna
thought inside his heart. He pulled himself together and gauged
Yurishia’s state.

“Yurishia. How do you feel?”

Yurishia’s eyes were gradually opening wide. She was completely

awake now.

“Mm―! Nnuuuuuu!”

The chain clinked with her raging trying to escape, but there was no
result except her big breast shaking. Her beautiful blonde hair became
disheveled and she glared at Kizuna with a furious expression.

“Nfu-! Unauuuuuh, aunu!”

She looked like she was hurling angry words at him, but the holed ball
was bitten in her mouth so the words were unclear. From the hole
opened on the ball, saliva was dripping glisteningly.

“I will train Yurishia from now on. Just who is it that is your master, I
will properly make you understand it.”

“! Nnnnbohauuannnn!”

Yurishia howled. He didn’t understand what she was saying, but

Kizuna understood painfully well what she wanted to say. Honestly
speaking, Kizuna himself was also hesitating.
‘――No, don’t get cold feet. In order to take back Yurishia, this is
necessary.’

Besides, the thing that Yurishia was actually looking for, that was
something she herself wasn’t aware of and expected it unconsciously.
He had to give it to her.

From the Heart Hybrid experience until now, it was obvious that
Yurishia had the taste for S&M. However there was a stopper hanging
on somewhere in her. Perhaps it was Yurishia’s pride as the world’s
strongest, or possibly her up bringing as a celebrity that was a
hindrance.

But breaking that wall and liberating her self would become the
strength to take back the true Yurishia.

Osiris too must have make Yurishia fall with that same act.

‘――However, I’ll give Yurishia something even better than that!’

Kizuna approached Yurishia, and then the raging Yurishia, especially

her fiercely raging breasts, he grabbed them.

“Nnuu!”

The bulging that was too big in his hand changed shape elastically.

“Nn! Mmmuuhnnnn-!”

The sensation his palm felt was soft even while it had firmness. But
there was something he was concerned with. There was no sensation of
the underwear that should be under the uniform.

“Yurishia, you have no bra. Since when were you like this? How lewd.”
Yurishia’s cheeks reddened and she shook her head.

“You are saying, ‘It doesn’t matter since when, I want you to grope me”,
that’s it huh.”

‘――Actually we didn’t put the underwear when she was changed

though.’

Yurishia sent him a gaze filled with anger. Kizuna accepted that gaze
calmly and continued rubbing the breasts without caring.

“Uu……fu, fuu―, nnu”

He continued to rub the breast with one hand and his other hand
caressed around her body. As though confirming Yurishia’s body, his
hand moved on her suspended arm, and then below her armpit.

“Nkuuh!”

Yurishia became standing on her tiptoes. It seemed that she was feeling
it more than he thought. And then his hand moved from her side to her
stomach, and then to her ass. The large butt was truly worth it to be
caressed. He flipped up her skirt and exposed her white butt that was
wearing black lacy panty.

“So this part is wearing something. Normally you didn’t wear anything
right? It’s fine to not force yourself you know?”

“Nn-! Unnunnn!”

While purposefully saying mean things, Kizuna caressed her large butt.
It was truly big, that his hand grasping it didn’t even cover half of it.
Even so when he caressed and rubbed the butt to his heart’s content, he
could see her waist shivering. It seemed that these shivers weren’t
caused by her breast but because of the stimulation to her lower body.

When he looked at Yurishia’s face, the strength in her glaring eyes was
growing weak. Perhaps she was desperately trying to rally her feelings,
sometimes her look became grim. However it would soon become an
intoxicated look completely once more.

“What’s the matter Yurishia……even though the one doing this is

someone hateful that you want to kill, it looks like you are feeling it.”

Inside the palm that was busily massaging the shaking breasts,
something stiff could be felt.

“Uu……u……”

Yurishia was shaking her head in refusal. However, the sensation that
Kizuna’s hand was feeling didn’t lie. Kizuna pinched at the tip of
Yurishia’s breast and slowly pulled it.

“Looks like it’s completely standing up here huh?”

“Nn……u……”

“It’s fine okay? You can just feel good.”

Kizuna brought his mouth close to Yurishia’s ear that had been dyed red
completely and whispered. ‘fuh’ when he blew his breath, it shook her
body shiveringly.

Tears gathered a lot in Yurishia’s eyes, she glared with eyes that were
holding back sorrow.

“What’s wrong? Is there something you want to say?”

“Nn―! Nnunna―!”

She desperately yelled, but it didn’t become any word. In exchange

saliva was flowing down from the opened holes of the ball gag. The
image of the beautiful and elegant Yurishia dripping down drool
slovenly looked immoral somehow that it made something chilling ran
inside Kizuna’s heart.

‘――But, it’s not good to be too fixated. From here on I‘ll also break
Yurishia’s defense by dialogue. Let’s do this!’

After giving such pep talk to himself, Kizuna circled his hand behind
Yurishia’s head. And then he untied the clasp and took off the ball gag
pressing on her mouth.

‘Puhah’, Yurishia spitted out the ball gag and thrust out her tongue.
From the tip of her pink tongue a line of saliva stretched down.

“Dripping saliva like that, you look like a baby like that.”

Kizuna excessively fanned up Yurishia’s shame. However with her

restricted state, Yurishia couldn’t even wipe out her mouth. Yurishia
yelled out angrily with a big voice in order to divert her shame.

“Doing something like this to me, do you think I’m going to obey Kizuna
from this!? Don’t look down on me! I absolutely won’t lose!”

“That’s really reassuring huh……”

Kizuna walked until the wall and scrutinized the torture devices lined
up there. He felt Yurishia’s gaze on his back. Even though she talked
confidently, but she was anxious about what would be done to her.

‘――Yurishia’s body is already warmed up, then first…….’

When Kizuna returned with a scissor in hand, Yurishia twitched in fear.

“What are you……planning to do?”

That voice was trembling in fear.

“You don’t need to worry. It’s only a change of clothes for you.”

He put the scissor at the stomach part of the uniform.

“Don’t move because this is dangerous.”

Yurishia obediently listened to him. Perhaps because of the fear, her

body was trembling. The cutting edge of the scissor was good, it easily
tore apart the uniform. It reached until the chest and completely cut
open the front of the uniform. And then after he finished cutting the
sleeves too, her upper body became cleanly naked.

Continuing, Kizuna put the scissors on Yurishia’s skirt. He cut from the
stomach part to the bottom. After he cut until the fringe, a soft sound
was raised and the skirt fell on the floor.

Yurishia was standing with only a single black panty without even
being able to hide her body.

‘――Now then, how should I torment her next?’

Kizuna went to the wall once again and pondered. And then his two
hands took the tool that he decided in his heart, before returning to
Yurishia. He put the prepared tool on the floor for the moment and
reached his hand at Yurishia’s handcuff.

“I’m going to release the chains now.”

“Eh?”
Yurishia made a surprised face.

What happened so suddenly? Even though she was thinking that he

was going to torment her. Yurishia was half in doubt, but Kizuna really
released Yurishia’s wrist from the restriction.

Yurishia’s eyes shined glaringly. The moment her hand became free,
she grappled at Kizuna.

“――Wha-!?”

She intended to break Kizuna’s balance and constrict his neck from
behind. However Kizuna’s body that she was pushing with her hand
didn’t even take a step back.

“This is……ah!”

She got her arm twisted by Kizuna in reverse.

“There was what happened before this. So I had the restriction tool
newly increased.”

“!”

Yurishia noticed the rings wrapped around both her wrists. It was
really similar with the one wrapping around her neck.

“This thing is an improved version. It’s not only limiting your magic
power, it also steals your physical strength. The current strength of
Yurishia is equal to a child.”

In addition the current Yurishia didn’t have a Core, so the magic power
limiter was mostly meaningless. But stealing her physical strength was
greatly useful for the success of the mission.
“Kuh……how low are you going to fall, you coward.”

Kizuna unconsciously smiled wryly.

‘――Indeed. But that’s because it’s absolutely impossible to do the

reinstall while fighting Yurishia who is skilled in hand to hand……just
insult me however much you want right now.’

Kizuna picked up the torture tool he selected before. It was a hexagon

block with length around ten centimeters. An explanation was written
at its surface.

“Automatic binding device……so this too is a kind of [installer].”

――Installer. It was a necessary assistance device for the sake of the

reinstall preparation.

Even at the time of Himekawa’s reinstall, he also used an installer as

expected although the shape was different.

According to Nayuta’s explanation, the installer would stimulate the

body with delicate vibration and electricity, at the same time it seemed
that it would permeate out the medicine to assist with the reinstall
loaded in the device with an appropriate timing.

Like that, the most optimum environment for the sake of inserting the
Core was created. At the same time it also had the measuring device for
analyzing the body’s condition, he could monitor whether the flesh had
reached the most optimum state for reinstall or not from the remote
control.

Kizuna grasped one of Yurishia’s hands and his other hand touched the
automatic restraining device on Yurishia’s chest. While doing that he
was hit by Yurishia several times, but it was only to the degree of
raising weak sound. The pain and damage he got was almost zero, he
finished what he was doing easily.

“I wonder……is it okay with this?”

When he pushed the switch, rope flew out from the automatic
restraining device.

“Uwaa!”

“Kyaa!”

The two spontaneously raised a yell. The red rope that was yarned from
special fiber entwined through Yurishia’s body. It detected Yurishia’s
body size and the rope entangled at each other, it created knots by itself
and bound down Yurishia’s body.

After around five seconds, Yurishia’s body was completely tied up. The
red rope was covering Yurishia’s body in a shape that joined up
hexagons. Depending on how one looked at it, it also looked like a turtle
shell. Both her hands were tied at behind, her chest became shaped
from the binding of the rope. That way of tying emphasized the breasts
even more. And then the rope also dug into her crotch. The rope
stretching from her lower body parted her crotch, it was sandwiched
between her bottoms and then fastened on her waist.

“Wha, what with, this”

“That’s why I told you already this is a change of clothes. It really suites
you yeah.”

“Do, don’t say something stupid. There is no way something like this is
a clo――aaahn!”
Kizuna gripped the rope on her crotch and pulled it up.

“What’s the matter? You raised a voice that sounded like you are feeling
good just now.”

“The, there is no way it feels go……nnah! Yah, aaaaan”

Yurishia raised moaning voices while desperately shaking her head side
to side. She began desperately protesting that she was not feeling
anything.

However the rope that was digging into her crotch was steadily
absorbing moisture and changed color.

“Even though you claimed that I’m wrong, but this thing cannot give
you any excuse huh?”

“You are wrong, such thing…….is not truee-! Auhn, ah ah, don’t-!”

“Despite what you say, it looks like you are really pleased with it.”

Kizuna pulled up the rope digging into her crotch and then shook it to
the left and right.

“Kuau! Sto, stopppppmm-“

She quickly began to raise a pained voice.

“Honestly recognize that you are feeling good because of me. If you do
that, then I’ll do something that feels even better to you.”

“Tha, that’s……”

Yurishia’s throat gulped audibly.

“…….There is no way, I’m feeling it.”

Even while answering so, her body was convulsing in shivers. It was the
proof that she was struck with pleasure.

‘――Yurishia is feeling it just from being tormented with words.’

The tips of her shaking breasts were also standing tautly. Kizuna
pinched at that tip of the breast with his fingertips.

“Hii! Aaaa-, stop it, don’t pull it!”

He twisted the tip of the breast with his fingertips. There, Yurishia’s
whole body twisted back and forth.

“As I thought, you are feeling it even more than usual. You liked being
tied huh, Yurishia.”

Kizuna continued massaging the breast with one hand while his other
hand gripped the rope on her crotch. And then he shook the rope back
and forth once more.

“Tha, that’s not true! That’s not trueeee-!”

Honey was trickling along Yurishia’s thigh. Power left her legs and she
kneeled on the floor. And then the rope dug into her crotch excessively
from that motion.

“Noooooooooo-, don’t, that place is, nnnun!”

Kizuna released his hand from the rope. Yurishia’s waist lost strength
and she collapsed on the floor.

“Haa……ha……aaan”
The moist eyes on her flushing face were already drunk in pleasure.
Kizuna seized Yurishia’s chin and made her face above.

“How is it? Have you become a prisoner of the pleasure already?”

Feverish breath leaked out from Yurishia’s lips. Her eyes were
wandering in fluster.

“The……there is no way, that happened. Something like this……

compared to Osiris-sama, is completely, nothing…….significant.”

From how she acted, she still had the composure to bluff.

‘――Then, a stronger stimulation is needed.’

Yurishia’s body had warmed up, she was sweating moistly. There was
also the temperature of the room that had been slightly heightened,
causing Kizuna to also sweat.

“I too should prepare for battle.”

After murmuring that, Kizuna began to take off the uniform he was
wearing. He felt the presence of Yurishia getting nervous. However, he
didn’t mind it and took off his trousers too, now he was only in his
underwear.
Kizuna who was left only in his underwear picked up one more torture
tool. Looking at the thing in Kizuna’s hand, Yurishia gulped. Back in her
mind, she recalled the punishment Osiris had given to her.

“Hm? By some chance is this it?”

Kizuna lightly swung the whip in his hand. The leather whip with a
duster shape resounded out sharp ripping sound. Yurishia’s body
jumped up in surprise.

“No, nothing……I don’t know what you mean.”

‘――That’s, the same whip that Osiris-sama lashed…….’

Kizuna took off the tag attached at the handle of the whip. There was an
explanation written there.

{The electromagnetic waves emitted by the whip will invigorate the cell
of the struck part. That will assist spreading the Core’s information to
the whole body at the time the Core is installed.}

Kizuna tested it by swinging it at his own leg. *pushu* a sharp sound

could be heard which made Yurishia twitch in reaction.

‘I see. The sound is big but it’s not that painful. If I properly control the
strength, it will make the skin a little red but it won’t injure the body.’

Kizuna was relieved and grasped the chain hanging down from the
ceiling. When the chain was separated from the handcuffs, it could be
seen that the tip of the chain had a metallic hook there. He hooked it at
the rope on Yurishia’s back.

“Ah……wha, what?”
Kizuna pressed at the switch on the wall and the chain was slowly
pulling up with a motor sound. Pulled by that, Yurishia’s body was also
dragged up, she was forcefully made to stand.

“Then, here I go Yurishia.”

“Wai……sto, stop it! That’s――”

Kizuna swung down the whip on Yurishia’s butt. A fierce ripping sound
resounded and Yurishia’s body bent.

“Kyaaaaaaaaaah!”

The white large butt had faint red mark left there. Yurishia’s legs were
shivering convulsively.

‘――Keep going!’

Next he hit the back.

“NNAah! Yaah! Stop! Please-!”

Kizuna circled to her front and then he teasingly pressed the tip of the
whip on the breast that was shaking left and right .

“Aaa……no, stop it, that place……”

“That place, where do you mean? I won’t understand if you don’t say it.”

Yurishia bit her lip.

“My……my breast.”

“Got it. You want your breast hit right?”

Yurishia unconsciously opened her mouth in bewilderment.

“Tha, that’s not……just who is saying something like that!”

Kizuna lifted the whip and hit even stronger than anything until now.
And then together with a sharp blow sound, Yurishia’s white breast had
a red streak carved on it.

“-!? Ih-……-!”

The pain that traveled through her like a thunder made Yurishia clench
her teeth. Tears blurred her eyes.

The moment the pain changed into a paralyzing itch, a sharp sound
resounded once more.

“Haua-!”

Red streak ran on her breast crossing through the first one. And then
her stomach, side, thigh, all those were also hit by the whip.

“Noooooo! Aaaaaah! Stooooop-!”

Yurishia’s hair was disheveled while she was crying out loudly.
However――,

‘――You really feel it……Yurishia.’

The installer shining at the center of her breast had a monitor attached,
there it displayed the numerical value of Yurishia’s state whether the
reinstall could be done or not. That was to say, from that number it
could be understood how much Yurishia was feeling it.

That number was rapidly increasing.

The maximum was 1000. At the beginning it was around 80, but it was
rapidly continuing to increase, especially since he was hitting her with
a whip that the degree of the increase was great. Right now it had
reached until 500.

When his hand stopped, Yurishia was breathing heavingly. It was like
she had ran a marathon with all her strength, her shoulders were
moving up and down several times. Sweat was trickling down like a
waterfall, her face was also flushing.

Holding her chin, Kizuna lifted her face. There, a pained expression
wetted with tears appeared. Her lips were half opened, she was
breathing feverishly.

If he had to say with words, that expression was pleading at him [do it
more].

However, since the time when the number had surpassed around 400,
the increase of the number was weakening in speed. Perhaps he
couldn’t hope for further increase with whipping more than this.

‘――For doing the reinstall, at the very least, I want the number to be
above 800. For that, something even more intense is needed. And in
addition it must be something Yurishia is wishing for…….’

Kizuna stared at the torture tools lining up inside the dark room.

If he didn’t hurry, then Yurishia’s body that was in the process of

surrendering to pleasure after much effort would cool down.

Kizuna desperately thought while repressing his impatient feelings.

‘――What kind of things did Osiris do to Yurishia? And then, what

should I do to give her a memory even more intense than that!’
At that time inside Kizuna’s head a certain thing flashed.

‘――I can just make Yurishia choose.’

Kizuna pressed the lighting switch on the wall. Thereupon the indirect
lighting other than the spotlight lit up, and the torture tools that were
hidden from Yurishia’s eyes by the darkness became plain to see.

“This is……”

Kizuna fixedly observed Yurishia whose breath was caught in her

throat. And then her gaze stopped at a certain spot, he noticed how she
was continuing to stare fixedly. Yurishia’s throat was moving up and
down.

Ahead of her gaze was a device like a horse riding machine. However, at
the part where the rider’s waist would be lowered down, the shape was
made into a triangle shape.

‘――That’s……a triangle wooden horse?’

At the spot for sitting, it was shaped like a triangular prism with
triangle cross section. There was no flat surface, the angle was at the
above, so if someone straddled it they would have their legs forcefully
opened and their crotch would come into contact with the triangular
angle. Naturally it would be painful, they would be pressed down by
their own weight so the rider wouldn’t even be able to escape.

“So Yurishia want to ride that.”

When Yurishia returned to her sense with a ‘hah’, she looked up to

Kizuna. And then with an expression that was begging for forgiveness,
she shook her head to left and right.
“You’re wrong……you’re wrong. So, something like that, stop it……
seriously, I beg you!”

In contrast with her words, at the inside of Yurishia’s thighs, honey was
dripping down from the rope that tied at her crotch.

Kizuna lowered the chain and he unfastened the hook from the rope
binding Yurishia. And then he picked up a scissor and squatted in front
of Yurishia.

“I’ll make you a little comfortable. Don’t you move.”

“……Nn-”

Yurishia felt the coldness of the scissor on her lower body. And then the
rope parting her crotch was quickly cut. And then, next the scissor
entered beside her waist and the string of her panty was cut.

“Aa……”

The panty fell to the floor gently, now there was nothing hiding the
between of Yurishia’s nether region. A golden bush wet with dew
appeared.

“Ya-…..ya, yaaa! Don’t look! I, I don’t want thisss!”

She desperately rubbed her thighs to hide it, but it was a pointless
effort.

The number displayed at the installer on her chest rose to 540. Kizuna
embraced up Yurishia whose body was only wearing rope and led her
towards the triangle horse.

She stopped her legs in resistance, but she was dragged away forcefully
towards the horse.
“Nooooo! Please! I’ll do anything else other than that! That’s why spare
me from that!”

But the current Kizuna was able to understand what was Yurishia’s
body was saying.

Yurishia’s body, was very happy.

The triangle wooden horse was currently set to be at its lowest height,
he was able to easily make her straddle it. Kizuna circled behind
Yurishia and made her crouch. And then he put his hand under
Yurishia’s knee and lifted her up.

“Yah, stop, this posture-! Don’t spread me!”

Yurishia whose legs were spread raised a voice of lamentation. Her pose
was like that of a small girl made to pee. Surely it was humiliating for
her.

And then Yurishia’s body was lowered to even more humiliation than
that.

“Don’t, don’t don’ttttttt!”

Kizuna stepped on the foot switch attached on the foot of the wooden
horse with his right leg. There a quiet mechanical sound started out and
the triangle wooden horse was rising.

“Hih!”

Yurishia’s shuddering became more fervent. She was sweating from her
whole body.

“I beg you! If you stop right now I’ll forgive you! That’s why――”
‘――Don’t get tricked, Kizuna.’

Kizuna persuaded himself.

――Don’t listen to the word coming from her mouth. Listen to the voice
of Yurishia’s heart.’

Kizuna’s leg that was stepping on the switch didn’t waver, the triangle
wooden horse continued to rise without stopping.

“Do, don’t don’t! Kizuna! Just this is no good! Please stop it!”

However the triangle wooden horse didn’t stop moving.

“I beg you Kizuna! If it’s something else――hih!”

The summit of the triangle touched Yurishia’s secret place. And then
Kizuna separated his hand from her, entrusting Yurishia’s body on the
wooden horse.

“――,!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”

A scream burst out.

At that moment, in Yurishia’s brain the sensation of the punishment

she received from Osiris was resurrected.

“Kuh! HaAAAAN♥”

Sensation that couldn’t be recognized whether it was pleasure or pain

attacked Yurishia. And then the wooden horse rose even higher,
Yurishia’s tiptoes left from the floor. Right now Yurishia’s body was
completely lifted up.

“Kah! ……haaa-! Ku……”

It was as though Yurishia couldn’t breath, her mouth was flapping close
and open.

“Ple, please……help me, Kizuna. At this rate, I……my feeling to mother

will……”

Tears were flowing from her eyes.

Yurishia was begging for pardon from her mouth, but that face was
completely changed into a female in heat.

And then the number on her chest was rapidly continuing to rise, it was
already crossing over 650.

This wooden horse was naturally not just a mere torture tool. This too
was one kind of installer. This device gave direct result when Core’s
reinstall was carried out.

Surely it could be said that it was a good luck that Yurishia showed
interest to this tool. For that reason there was a need to make her fold in
one go.

Kizuna’s foot pressed on a different switch.

“Kyahn! Aa, wha, what are, you do……aaAAAAAAAAA♥!”

The wooden horse began to subtly vibrate with motion the eyes
couldn’t see. It was sending sweet, and also severe sensations from
Yurishia’s nether region towards the inside of her body. It was a
tremendous feast of pain and pleasure mixing with each other. It was
enough to take away Yurishia’s sanity from her.

“Nooo-, no, stop ittttttttt-♥! I’m, a, already, turning strangeeeee”

‘――Thi, this is amazing-, something like this, perhaps this is even more
than Osiris――no, than mother-!’

The number on Yurishia’s chest reached 700.

Kizuna glared at that number and though about his next move.

Currently he was still not surpassing Osiris. Only one more step, what
to do to smash Osiris’s control?

Kizuna chose from the torture tools something primitive but effective.
Carrying that, he returned to Yurishia one more time.

“I’ll present to you Yurishia an accessory.”

“Hah, wha, what……aaahn!”

Yurishia saw the thing in Kizuna’s hand with blank eyes.

“Clothes……pin?”

Kizuna opened the clothes pin and brought it near the tip of Yurishia’s
breast. Yurishia’s eyes was getting moist with intoxication.

“Do……don’t put something like that on me! It’s scary, scary, I don’t
want, getting hurt anymore-“

However the tip of Yurishia’s breast was standing tautly in

anticipation. It was as though it was looking forward to it, begging that
it wanted to be adorned with that accessory quickly.

Yurishia’s shook her body trying to escape from the clothes pin. Kizuna
held down the shaking breast and pinched that tip with the clothes pin.
Pain she never felt until now and a pressing strength were continuing
to attack the tip of Yurishia’s breasts. It wasn’t something that ended in
a moment like whipping. It continued to torment Yurishia’s breast
without any gap.

“Aa, aaaa……ta, take it off. Please, take it offaaaahn”

With the tip of her breast flattened down, it was like Osiris’s something
inside her body was pushed out completely.

And then the number reached 800.

‘I did it!’ Kizuna yelled that inside his heart. However, he had no
intention of stopping here.

He would aim at increasing the number as much as possible. Besides he

still hadn’t manage to erase Osiris’s presence in Yurishia.

What in the world could he do even more than this?

Pain, and pleasure. Those two.

He had used tools enough already.

Next it must be something that Kizuna gave to her directly.

And then, he had to make her recognize her defeat to him completely,
making her submit.

‘――And for that!’

Kizuna stopped pressing the switch of the wooden horse and the
vibration stopped.

“Aaahn! Aa……eh?”
Yurishia who was breathing roughly stared at Kizuna with a face that
seemed to say ‘what’s the matter?’

Kizuna reached out his hand and caressed Yurishia’s cheek.

“It’s my bad to make you feel painful.”

“……?”

“If you hate it that much, then I’ll stop tormenting Yurishia even more
than this.”

“Eh……bu, but”

In shock, Yurishia’s eyes that were wet with tears were blinking
repeatedly.

“Yurishia.”

Yurishia’s breath hitched on her throat, wondering what Kizuna was

planning to say.

“Become my slave.”

The moment she heard that sentence, Yurishia felt the inside of her
stomach tighten hard.

“If Yurishia becomes my slave, then I’ll do something that feels even
better to you.”

Yurishia’s throat gulped audibly.

“But, if you really hate it, then I won’t do it anymore. Yurishia, you
choose what you like.”
Yurishia was obviously flustered. She looked around at the
surroundings, her eyes roaming everywhere.

“That’s……but, I, belong to mother……I have to become Isis. Besides, I

am a celebrity of high society you know? I’m also the strongest pilot in
the world……besides, mother said, something like S&M is vulgar……”

The confused Yurishia began to talk incoherently. Osiris’s

brainwashing and Kizuna’s training were conflicting inside her.

Kizuna pressed on the foot switch. There the wooden horse lowered
down and it would lower Yurishia to the floor.

“Aa……aa!”

And then her toes reached the floor. Kizuna’s hand reached toward
Yurishia’s breast and he was going to take off the clothes pin.

“Aa, aaa…….wait. Wait.”

Yurishia’s face almost broke into crying.

Her mother that left the house from divorce.

That mother was fastidious, she loathed something vulgar.

She especially wouldn’t tolerate the existence of a thing like S&M.

And then she hoped for Yurishia to become a celebrity of high class
society.

An elegant lady that would be envied by anyone.

But, she wanted to become a hero rather than a lady.

And then, it actually weighed on her mind.

She felt that the restrained and whipped figure was beautiful.

‘Mother, Yurishia is――,’

Yurishia’s shoulders trembled and she murmured with a small voice.

“……I will.”

Kizuna stopped the wooden horse. And then he stared at Yurishia, but
her face looked down and on that note her mouth kept pursed tightly.

“Say it properly. What does Yurishia want to be?”

“……”

Kizuna was going to lower the wooden horse once more. At that
moment, Yurishia raised her face.

“I’ll be your slave!”

Hot tears flowed down from Yurishia’s eyes. The number displayed on
the installer at her chest went over 900.

“Please, make me Kizuna’s, master’s slave!”

“You said it well, Yurishia.”

And then he made the wooden horse vibrate once more.

“nooOOOOOOOO-!♥”

Yurishia raised a coquettish voice. Kizuna pressed on a switch and the

wooden horse raised in height. Yurishia’s tiptoes floated in the air.
“Kuh, haa……it, it’s the first time, I feel this good!”

And then Kizuna circled behind Yurishia who was writhing in pleasure
and he stared at her big butt.

“Here I go Yurishia. This is, my love to you.”

And then Kizuna spanked as hard as he could at Yurishia’s butt.

A ripping sound that was conspicuously loud resounded.

That sound and impact pierced Yurishia’s body, rippling through her
whole body.

Just who was her master, it was being taught until every corner of her
body.

“Hiii-! Aaaa♥ aa♥♥ aaa♥ AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAh! ♥♥♥”

She raised a scream and her body bent like a bow. She raised a joyful
voice so loud that all her breath was spent out from her body, Yurishia
lost her consciousness then.

Catching the body of Yurishia that was going to fall, Kizuna got her
down from the wooden horse.

The number at the installer on her chest stopped changing. The number
was 1000. It had reached the max value.

‘――Yurishia recognized me as her master. Right now is exactly the

time for the reinstall!’

Kizuna took off the installer and carried Yurishia in princess carry. And
then he pressed a switch on the wall. Thereupon the iron bars quickly
opened. After he got outside carrying Yurishia, he went to the room at
the side.

There a room with white as the base that was a complete change from
the previous room appeared. It was a comfortable room with a clean
impression. At the center of the room was a king sized bed. He laid
down Yurishia above it.

A silver attaché case was put beside the bed. When he opened the case,
there, a metallic capsule with a diameter of three centimeters and
length of five centimeters was put in.

“This is Cross’s Core……”

“Mm-……”

When Kizuna murmured that, Yurishia’s eyes opened.

“Aa……I, am……?”

“I’m glad. Looks like Osiris’s brainwashing is released already.”

Kizuna gently caressed Yurishia’s cheek. There Yurishia’s eyes closed

and she rubbed her cheek on Kizuna’s palm like a spoiled child.

“Yes……but, it’s mysterious. I’m still thinking that I want to be

mother’s daughter. It’s like there are two of me.”

According to Kei’s story, if the reinstall was finished in this state then
Yurishia would be able to escape completely from under Osiris’s
control.

“I’m going to reinstall the Core in Yurishia after this.”

“Core’s……eh? Then, inside my body…….there is, no core right now?”

Kizuna lifted Cross’s Core in his hand in front of Yurishia’s eyes.

Yurishia stared at the metallic capsule with a face that couldn’t believe
what she saw.

“Lies……because, if the Core is extracted, I should die shouldn’t I?”

“This is possible if it’s with the current Kaa-san. It’s doable with the
power equal to the machine gods that she obtained.”

Yurishia leaked out a sigh of admiration.

“She really is a god isn’t she……then, even if my Hybrid Count becomes

zero I won’t die?”

“No, that’s still……hm?”

Yurishia didn’t lead the life in the Ataraxia that Nayuta restored. That
was why she shouldn’t know about the death that would happen when
the Hybrid Count was used up.

“Yurishia, how do you……”

However, Yurishia showed a smile that seemed to want to say what are
you getting confused for after this late.

“Something like that, I can understand from looking at the atmosphere

of Kizuna and the commander.”

“Is, is that so?”

Yurishia nodded.

“But pretending to not notice it will be better for Kizuna……that was

what I thought so I stayed quiet.”
Suddenly strength left Kizuna’s shoulder.

“What’s that…….so that’s how it is. Even though I was doing my best so
that it wouldn’t be noticed.”

Yurishia chuckled and sent him a wink.

“Because it’s Kizuna you absolutely won’t do something that will kill us,
I believe that. Honestly, I wasn’t really bothered with it☆”

‘……I’m really not a match against Yurishia huh.’ Kizuna whispered

that inside his heart and brought the Core close to Yurishia’s mouth.

“When the Core is warmed to human’s temperature, it will become the

shape suitable for the install.”

Just with that explanation Yurishia understood what she should do.

She opened her glossy lips and stretched out her light pink tongue. The
tip of that tongue touched the Core.

“――ku”

Breath leaked out unintentionally from Kizuna’s mouth.

Kizuna’s senses were shared with the Core. That stimulation urged a
change in Kizuna, the shape of the change was also reflected on the
Core. In that state the Core could be inserted into Yurishia’s womb.

Yurishia licked the Core all over with the tip of her tongue. That way of
licking was lovely and also stimulating. The Core quickly began to
change shape. That change made Yurishia’s eyes turn round.

“……This is”
“Yeah……that’s how it is.”

Yurishia’s throat gulped. Her eyes were tinged with obscene light.

“But, then I might as well…….Kizuna’s, master’s thing……”

Yurishia raised her upper body and looked pleadingly at Kizuna.

Kizuna nodded and he stood up on the bed. Yurishia made a happy face
and kneeled on the bed. And then her hand reached at Kizuna’s
underwear.

She pulled it down swiftly and Kizuna’s thing jumped out from inside.

“……!!”

Yurishia gulped her saliva audibly. And then she licked her own lips as
though to moisten it. It was a very obscene gesture.

“It’s, already……”

With her white palm she lifted up the whole of Kizuna’s thing from
below.

“Yeah. With this it’s enough for doing reinstall――aaah!?”

Yurishia kissed at the tip. And then without stopping her face
advanced.

“Yu……rishia-”

Kizuna’s thing was getting inserted into Yurishia’s mouth. Yurishia

didn’t stop and finally her nose tip touched Kizuna’s abdomen.

‘――The whole thing, is swallowed!? Does, it reached until her throat?’

And then Yurishia slowly pulled out. Kizuna’s thing was shining wetly
from Yurishia’s saliva. And then when the whole thing was pulled out,
this time her tongue licked it around to her heart’s content. That
stimulation was ticklish, the sensation was like the backside of his
waist was being tickled.

Like a dog expressing its affection to its owner, Yurishia was licking
around Kizuna with everything she had. It felt very good and gradually
led Kizuna towards climax.

“Yurishia……it’s, fine already. If you do more than this――”

Hearing his voice, Yurishia finally separated her tongue.

At the brief moment when Kizuna sighed in relief, Yurishia opened her
mouth and immediately swallowed Kizuna’s thing.

“Yuu, Yurishia-!?”

Kizuna reflexively grasped her blonde head. Yurishia kept sucking

Kizuna’s thing while looking up at him. Those eyes were whispering to
him.

――More, treat me like Kizuna’s property♡

Kizuna understood. A relation of master and slave wasn’t a relation that

was only one way from just one of the sides, it was a two-way relation.
Similarly like the master dominating the slave, the slave also chose the
master. The slave decided whether the master was someone worthy of
her, whether the master was someone that could give her the pleasure
she wished for.

The slave constantly evaluated the master like that.

Kizuna grasped Yurishia’s head with both his hands.

And then he began to move back and forth fiercely.

Yurishia’s back was shuddering shiveringly.

‘――That kind Kizuna who always acted like a gentleman, is doing

horrible things like this to me.’

When she thought that, she was able to feel for real that she belonged to
Kizuna. And also how he wouldn’t do this kind of thing except to her.
When she thought that, she felt ecstasy and pride that she was Kizuna’s
slave.

Kizuna’s thing fiercely went in and out at her throat.

Tears blurred Yurishia’s eyes. She desperately endured her rising urge
to vomit.

Strength entered Kizuna’s waist.

‘――It’s coming-!♡’

The moment she thought that, hot energy was ejaculated into
Yurishia’s throat. It was flowing from inside her throat directly into her
stomach. Hot liquid also overflowed from Yurishia’s nether region. Her
waist was trembling. Yurishia also tasted a light climax.

‘――Aaa♡ Happiness……♡’

Yurishia narrowed her eyes ecstatically while feeling Kizuna’s pulsation

inside her throat. Tears were flowing from the corners of her eyes.
When Kizuna’s thing became docile, she slowly distanced her face.
From inside her mouth, Kizuna’s thing was spitted out with warm
steam rising.

“Gehoh! Geho, gohoh!”

“A, are you okay Yurishia?”

Yurishia showed a brave smile towards the worried Kizuna.

“My deepest apologies. To be choked only by something of this degree.”

Kizuna shook his head and patted Yurishia’s head.

“No. You have worked hard. It was really good.”

Hearing Kizuna’s words, Yurishia felt happiness overflowing from

inside her chest. Each time she serviced Kizuna, she felt like Osiris was
growing thin inside her heart.

Yurishia looked down with an apologetic face.

“But……I’m really hopeless that I couldn’t moderate what I did, I made

master come already. Like this the preparation need to be done
again……”

“No need to worry.”

Kizuna picked up the Core that was put at the side. He pushed it at
Yurishia’s cheek. The Core was retaining its hardness without change.

“Aa……aaaa……it’s still, this hard♡♡♡”

With enraptured eyes Yurishia stared at the Core that had the same
shape with Kizuna’s thing. Those eyes were intoxicated, her face
changed into captivation.

“It’s finally the time. Okay, Yurishia.”

Yurishia smiled lewdly and she nodded.

And then she laid upside-down on her hands and knees, she reached out
both her hands behind, then below her butt, her most important place,
she opened it with her fingers and showed it to him.

“I beg you……please, put it here.”

And then she directed an intoxicated face at Kizuna.

“Please, give Yurishia the proof, that she belongs to master.”

Kizuna fitted the Core at the spot, feverish breathing leaked out from
Yurishia’s lips.

“Aaan, it’s enter――!!”

The Core was entering into Yurishia’s body.

“NOOOOONNNNNaaHAAAAAN!”

At the same time with that a merciless pleasure also hit Kizuna. This
pleasure was the culmination from all of Yurishia’s disgraced state that
she had displayed thoroughly until now. If he let his guard down even
just for a moment, it felt like it would immediately end.

‘――Fu, furthermore, what pleasure! It’s fine, even if she is not the
world strongest even in this kind of aspect too right!?’
“Fuah, ah ah, a, amazing-, it’s the first time, I feel this good-! Aaah!”

Yurishia rubbed her face and breast on the sheet to suppress the
pleasure, she lifted her butt high.

“E, even though this is my first time, it’s not pa-uuuh, ahaaa! Not
painful……at allll-!”

‘――That’s because the Core doesn’t injure the body!’

He wanted to say that, but it felt like his limit would arrive if he opened
his mouth. He pushed the Core into Yurishia’s inside where it was filled
with her honey. When her wall was parted open by the advance, the
pressure from that overflowed the honey to the outside. And then if he
tried to pull the Core out, the wall was sucking as though it wouldn’t let
go. It felt like the pleasure would make his waist melt. Stimulation that
could make the inside of his head go white made him writhe and grit
his teeth.

“Ah, aaaahahaaannuuh! Ma, master, do, do I, feel good?”

“What are you saying! I, I’m enduring here! Kuh……you!’

Yurishia narrowed her eyes from happiness that came from the bottom
of her heart.

“I’m happy-, I’m happy! Master-♥”

“Guah……-!?”

Even more severe tightening attacked Kizuna.

‘――Yo, you! If it comes to this then this will be a short decisive battle!’

Kizuna looked at Yurishia’s large butt and swung down his palm.
“Hi!? –kyaaaaaaaaa!”

Sharp ripping sound resounded, Yurishia’s white ass was faintly dyed
red. That stimulation made Yurishia bend her body.

“HAAan! Doon’t, master! Forgive me! Hyaaan!”

Yurishia’s hand clutched the sheet strongly. Her eyebrows knitted and
she gasped in agony.

Kizuna didn’t stop his hand and struck Yurishia’s butt many times.

Each time that happened Yurishia’s body bent backwards and drool
trickled down from her opened mouth.

“Aaah, I, I’m……ah, something, is coming, com…..ah, a! Aaah!”

Yurishia’s back curved, she began to convulse shiveringly.

‘――I’m at my limit too!’

“Here I go, Yurishia!”

“MASTERRRRRrRRrr♥ AAAAAAAaa♥ AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH♥”

Yurishia raised gasping voice that trailed out for long, her body was
violently convulsing as though she was being electrified.

And then at the next moment, explosion of magic power that dazzled
the eyes occurred.

It was so bright that nothing could be seen.

But, the beads of light covering the body were calming the heart and
body, it was literally giving them a dreamy state of mind.

His consciousness was getting far away while drifting inside that light.

Suddenly the next thing they knew, both Yurishia and Kizuna were
lying down on the bed like empty husks. The particles of magic power
covering their sight cleared up and their breathing calmed down.

Kizuna and Yurishia kept lying down, their eyes gazed at each other.

“Yurishia……we did it.”

“Yes……master.”

Kizuna raised his body and scratched his head in embarrassment.

“Stop it already with the master.”

Yurishia also raised her upper body and looked up shyly at Kizuna.

“Nope. When the two of us are alone…..you are master♥”

Saying that, she kissed Kizuna’s cheek.

Chapter 4 – Creator and Creation

Part 1
Yurishia 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 with 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 was 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 the Quartum from the Vatlantis group. In addition Kizuna,
Himekawa, Yurishia, and 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 showed the city.

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

Kei operated a table furniture and projected a picture of earth. She

displayed things like a desert city and the pyramids as comparison
targets.

{It appears that the civilization of the Nile 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 crumble 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

towards Yurishia.

“Before that, there is something I want to ask Yurishia.”

“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’s soul still remaining.”

“……Yes.”

“You said, that the one who left behind Genesis on Atlantis was Osiris,
didn’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 on my mind about
that information.”

Reiri murmured in irritation.

“What? Don’t put on an air.”

Nayuta shrugged her shoulders towards that thorny voice.

“Osiris’s objective is to obtain flesh for soul vessels. And then she would
make Necropolis get a fresh start of life. However, Genesis that was
made by the 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 others’ faces. 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 the energy of life. Namely the magic power.”

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

“Atlantis fell into a 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 on Atlantis, perhaps there would have been no
such unnatural consumption of magic power, and both worlds could of
kept on existing without any 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?”

Yurishia’s shoulders trembled with a jolt. And then her gaze fell.

‘――Yurishia…….’

Kizuna was concerned with Yurishia’s condition. Inside Yurishia 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 suffer.

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 the Deus ex Machina for the sake of an experiment. If, for
example, Genesis wasn’t there on Atlantis, we wouldn’t even notice that
we are experimental objects and perhaps we would have been 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 because there is no life energy existing
here. Osiris also doesn’t have life energy, She is moving using energy of
the same kind as 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 the
exact opposite type.”

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 the sun that Osiris is operating. That
thing is sucking all the life force. That thing is the main culprit that
plunders all the life on this world, bringing death to the pharaoh and
Osiris’s daughter.”

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

Yurishia murmured with a faint voice. Everyone turned at her hearing

that voice.

“That thing was……something the pharaoh, obtained in an attempt to

make the world abundant. It was by no means, something summoned
to kill everyone!”

“Yurishia……”

Yurishia returned to her senses from Kizuna’s call.

“Ah……”
Yurishia forcefully smiled with a pale face, then she sat down on the
sofa nearby.

“Go, good grief……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 a machine god 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 bodies to resurrect the people of
this world is――}

Nayuta sharply pointed her fan at Kei.

“Exactly. Even if she prepared a container of 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 battleship Ataraxia shook hard.

“Uwaa!”

Kizuna unintentionally stumbled. The floor tilted and small vibrations

kept happening through the whole ship. The only one who could stand
straight was only Nayuta, the other crew were grasping at the nearby
furniture like a desk in panic.

“What happened!”

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

{Unknown cause. However, the battleship Ataraxia is in an abnormal

gravity. Something sticking at the front surface of the ship 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 altitude of the battleship Ataraxia was ten kilometers. At 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 assumption 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! A sandstorm is reaching this high!?”

Zelcyone turned to Kei and yelled.

“Oi! The altitude of this ship is decreasing here. Raise the output!”

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

Ataraxia passed through the cloud and further fell in altitude. It was
just like when a plane was landing, the ship 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 towards 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 battleship
Ataraxia, large type creation control engine that couldn’t be compared
with magic armor ejected large amounts of particles. The speed lowered
slightly, but it couldn’t overcome the strength pulling the ship to the
ground. The vibration was fierce, if they carelessly talked they would of
bitten their tongues.

“……-!”

The bow of the ship touched the surface of the desert.

“UWaAAAAAAA!”

They attempted to land as softly as possible, but even so, fierce impacts
attacked the battleship Ataraxia. The sand burst up violently, the bow
of the ship was sliding above the sand. And then the hull was gradually
sinking into the sand. The ship was advancing into the sand as though
cutting through water. The sand blown up on both sides reached until
the height of a hundred meters.

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

The color of Yurishia’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 battleship Ataraxia
itself was nearly two kilometers in total length, then it was just within a
stone’s throw. It was good luck that the ship stopped without collision.

Yurishia stared at the pyramid and she heaved a relieved sigh

unintentionally.

“I’m glad……”
“Are you okay Yurishia?”

Yurishia 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 circumstances 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.

“Yurishia, can you stay behind on Ataraxia and protect this ship?”

“……Eh?”

“The sand Osiris controlled can change its shape into monsters like a
giant or a 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 god Osiris is strong. Advantage of numbers won’t work

against her. Rather it’s better to prepare a battle force that can possibly
resist the machine god……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 Japanese)

Himekawa puffed her chest with rough excitement.

“I, I too――”

Yurishia 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 Yurishia
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 to the three battleships and
Kizuna, she had almost no combat ability. Reiri also understood that.

“My, are you worried about me?”

“Don’t sleep talk. I’m only worried that you bastard is 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 god.”

Nayuta had evolved into an existence that surpassed humans.

However, her state was that of an incomplete god. Nayuta held the
objective to further evolve herself into a perfect being.

“I see. Kaa-san has an interest for the information the machine god
has……in the existence of the machine god 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 to 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 an 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 at by Reiri went out from Ataraxia as though
running away.

Part 2
Kizuna, Himekawa, and Nayuta, the three of them were walking besides
the pyramid. With the emergency landing of the battleship Ataraxia,
the pyramid was located between the opposite side of the city and the
ship.

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 shining 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
stones.

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

“Control panel? That thing?”

“Yes. Take a look.”

Nayuta’s hand shined. Thereupon that light spread onto the stone’s
surface while drawing detailed patterns. It was like the inside of a
computer’s integrated circuit, an assembly of mechanically detailed
patterns.

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 shine 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 with a face full of smile.

“The way this world is constructed, and about the machine god 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
Yurishia 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 of
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 god 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 a life force that is sufficient to revive
this world with the power of the machine god 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-assed god 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 the

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 passed 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 a 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 god
Thanatos too……that’s what I was saying.”

‘――Thanatos?’

Kizuna held an impression that resembled terror towards that name.

Thanatos. The person who demolished Lemuria and Atlantis. However,

just like the other remaining machine god, her true identity 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 god with a strange shape was standing with Necropolis at her back.
He had seen that figure in the images that Grace and the others brought
back. However, when he actually looked at her in confrontation like
this, he was overwhelmed by her presence.

Black hair with tanned skin. Large breasts and slender waist created a
lascivious bodyline. However, her lower body was combined with a
lion’s body. The lion’s body that was large like an elephant with four
legs. Giant wings were spreading on her back. A golden machine god
possessing the body of human and beast.

That figure made Kizuna sweat coldly on his forehead.

“Machine god……Osiris.”

The golden eyes under her black hair were burning in hatred. The
flickering red lights rising from her whole body were 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 hands.”

“Geez! Here we go Hayuru!”

“Yes-!”

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

“Ku……what a hindrance!”

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

“Aah!”

Himekawa raised a voice that sounded like a scream.

The Blade that was locking blades 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 shine brightly. The red light of the sun was running along the pattern
carved on the blade of the obelisk.

‘――This is bad!’

Kizuna’s instincts were ringing alarm bells.

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

Osiris showed a ridiculing expression as though mocking them.

“Experimental animals 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 jokes 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 shining red obelisk
was swung down.

“UoOOOOOOOOOO-!?”

“KYAAAAAAAAAAA!”

The red light launched along with the sword streak of the Obelisk
swallowed Kizuna and Himekawa. That light was a light that stole life.
The light of the sun shining 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 surroundings. 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 a water pillar
spurting towards the sky. The jumping sand was heading to the sky
without stopping before changing shape into a dragon.
A transmission came in from Clayda who was holing up in the stern of
the ship.

{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 have reach a hundred meters was
reflected as it was waking up its body from the sand.

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

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

The bridge also confirmed the appearance of the monsters. The

students of the research department were running around on the
bridge, carrying out the analysis by controlling the light panels 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 to 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 Yurishia who was standing nearby the entrance.

“What are you going to do?”

“……I’m going, that’s obvious.”

Without meeting Grace’s gaze, Yurishia kept staring at the floor, Grace
heaved a sigh with a purposeful gesture.

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

Yurishia snapped up her face as though she was just 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 Yurishia looked at Grace’s red eyes that were staring
back fixedly at her, Yurishia’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.”

Yurishia bit her lip.

“Something like that, I won’t――”

Grace removed her gaze from Yurishia and went until the entrance,
before she stopped.

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

“Eh?”

“Speaking honestly, I too don’t understand what I should do. However,

we have to take responsibility towards the people of Lemuria. After all I
too am in the position of governing a country.”
“What……are you talking?”

“Is the current you Yurishia 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 Yurishia who was looking
down.

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

“Eh……”

When she lifted her face, Grace already turned her back on Yurishia.

“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 Yurishia a glance before chasing after Grace right
away.

“Grace……”

Yurishia clenched her fist tightly.

Part 4
When the sure kill red light enveloped Kizuna and Himekawa, Osiris
made a satisfied smile.
“Fufufu, how is that? My strength. The likes of experimental animals
like you all――”

‘――What?’

An impossible phenomenon made Osiris lose her words.

Inside the red light, inside the light that brought death to everything,
that man was standing.

He covered the girl behind him and lifted a shield in front of his hand.

‘――A, shield?

Impossible. There is no way this light can be blocked. If there is

someone that can do that, then it’s only an existence with power that is
the same like mine or Thanatos. This kind of experimental
animal――no, this man’s armor. Since when did it have that kind of
shape?

The female should be the one wearing the large armor. But, right now it
looks like the male is the larger one.

It’s a strange armor. That appearance, it’s as though a machine god is

standing there.’

Osiris’s eyes opened wide.

“Something like that……you, just what in the world, are you?”

That man answered.

“Just a human.”

And then he smiled widely.

“Although, I borrowed the power of a fake god just for a little.”

“Kuh!”

The red light emitted from the obelisk vanished. The obelisk emitted
high heat and white smoke was rising from it. And then, white smoke
was also rising in large amounts from Kizuna’s armor.

Eros’s Corruption Armament [Nayuta]. With its effect Kizuna’s Eros had
its appearance changed into a hybrid with Nayuta’s armor as a machine
god.

However, although he obtained a power that was close with a machine

god, it wasn’t something ordinary to stop the full power blast of the
obelisk. The tip of his right wrist that deployed the shield was changing
color to bright red as though it was burning.

“Ki, Kizuna-kun. Are you okay?”

Himekawa who was protected behind him was worried about Kizuna’s
body.

“Yeah, no problem at all.”

Kizuna’s face that answered so was drenched in sweat. There was no

way he would be okay.

“Osiris. You said it, right, that the likes of an experimental object cannot
do anything. That it’s a delusion to even try saving this world.”

“Naturally! Something impossible for I the creator, there is no way it’s

possible for you all who are the creation!”

Osiris’s eyes were moist with tears.

“Do you think that I was only lamenting doing nothing for these tens of
thousands of years? While working so that not even a single soul of the
people will be lost……I only kept dreaming of resurrecting that world
where the people, my husband and daughter are there……”

Tears were overflowing from her golden eyes.

“The bodies of all of you, are the sacrifice for that sake! You all are
existences that were created to be offered for this world since the
beginning! Yet despite so……despite so!”

The beautiful face of Osiris distorted in anguish.

“Why……are you doing, something like this. Even though……I

thought, that this time for sure……it will go well.”

The god shed tears of grief like a girl. That figure made Kizuna hardened
his resolve inside his heart once more.

“If, I can defeat you……at that time, lend us your strength.”

“……That’s something impossible, but let me dare to ask you……what

do you want me to cooperate with?”

“There is a way to restore this world. For that Osiris’s strength is

necessary.”

Osiris made a faint smile.

“How long you are going to talk about a pipe dream……that’s fine, do as
you like. Either way, something like the creation surpassing the creator
is impossible after all.”

Kizuna showed a daring smile.

“I will defeat you, without fail. And then I’ll teach you……something
like the creation surpassing the creator, that’s just something
common.”

The temperature of the arm that blocked the attack of the obelisk
lowered and it returned into the jet black armor.

The new armor that he obtained from defeating his real mother and
also a god Nayuta. With its arm, he embraced the body of Himekawa
who was wearing Neros.

“Ki……Kizuna-kun?”

Kizuna faced the dignified face of Himekawa.

“Kischarge Hyrbid! Hayuru.”

“Ye-, yes-!”

Himekawa’s face turned bright red instantly. And then she closed her
eyes and looked up. Her hands joined together, making her look like a
princess waiting for the kiss of the prince.

Kizuna’s face approached and their lips touched each other.

That soft sensation made the two drunk.

And then a miracle occurred.

The miracle named Kischarge Hybrid.

When their lips separated, the eyes of the two were instantly changed
into battle readiness.

“Hayuru!”
“Gladius!!”

In respond to Himekawa’s call, a magic circle unfolded before her eyes.

And then from inside it, the Corruption Armament of Neros [Gladius]
made its appearance.

It would cut even god, a sword with three blades.

“Let’s go, Hayuru!”

Both of them grasped the hilt of that sword. And then the both of them
opened their thrusters at full throttle simultaneously.

“UOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”

With the sure kill sword in hand, they headed toward Osiris.

“These……experimental animals!”

Osiris also readied her obelisk. The sun behind her emitted light once
more.

“HAaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”

Both swords clashed.

Intense powers opposed each other. And then blinding light and
shockwave that felt like it would break their bodies assaulted.

“SHI-TTTTTTTT! DON’T LOSE HAYURU!”

“THA-, THAT GOES FOR YOU TOO KIZUNA-KUUUN!”

Both of them combined their powers and pushed back at the obelisk.
Osiris’s body was gradually pushed behind.
“Thi, this power…….this should be, impossible!”

Himekawa made a bright smile looking at Osiris who raised a pained

voice.

‘――We can do this!’

At that moment, the blue pyramid appeared in front of Himekawa’s

eyes.

“!?”

The eye at the side of the pyramid opened.

“Wha-……”

The eye that was shining gold was staring at Himekawa. Golden light
flew into Himekawa’s eyes, passing through the retina and invaded the
nerve cell.

“Hayuru!?”

Strength left Himekawa’s fingers that were holding the hilt.

“What’s wrong, Hayuru!”

‘――That blue thing!?’

The blue pyramid was also going to direct its golden eye to Kizuna’s
direction. At that moment, strength completely left Himekawa’s body
and the two of them were blown away by the obelisk’s shockwave.

“UWAaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”
Kizuna and Himekawa’s body were blown on top of the sand. They
rolled for even two hundred meters on the sand.

“Shi, shit…….-!”

Kizuna adjusted the thrusters of his whole body and rallied his stance.

“Hayuru!”

However, Himekawa’s body was carried by the momentum and rolled

above the desert. He wanted to go help her. However, he couldn’t turn
his back against Osiris who was readying the obelisk. Furthermore
Gladius was also sent flying somewhere.

“You have good luck, black one. Just a little more and I would of been
able to rule your heart too.”

Standing in front of the floating blue pyramid, Osiris approached

Kizuna. Her four lion legs stepped on the sand, the wings on her back
were opened proudly in conviction of victory.

Kizuna gritted his teeth.

‘――I can win if I can just hit her with Reincarnation. However, it’s
impossible to make the opening for that.’

“Kuh……what to do!”

Dragging the shining red obelisk, Osiris approached while drawing

behind a line on the sand.

“I planned to kill you, but you look healthy, so let’s make you a slave.
And then you will continue to work for my sake for eternity.”
The blue pyramid faced towards Kizuna. And then they eye on its side
leaked out golden light.

‘――Shit!’

The moment he yelled so in his heart, a streak of sharp light cut

through his sight.

“!?”

The golden light that blinded the eye filled his field of vision.

In front of Kizuna’s eyes, a violent explosion occurred.

A golden light that cut through the sky. That streak of light accurately
struck the blue pyramid. The fragments of the pyramid that exploded
into pieces rained down from the sky.

“Wha……what in the world, just happened?”

Osiris directed a shocked gaze to the sky.

With the moonlight on its back, a blue armor was floating. That blue
was giving off a really beautiful color. Receiving the moon light, its
surface was a transparent aqua blue like water. And then the armor that
was piled up in many layers was transforming into deep ultramarine
color farther inside, a coloring with depth like peering into a deep lake.

And then a streamlined frame. Aerodynamic shape that made one

image water and wind. There, golden light was running, a gorgeousness
with nothing that could match it.

On its back were two huge units to the left and right, the Differential
Frame, those too were also different in shape compared to until now.
The whole thing was a Heart Hybrid Gear that was custom made for the
owner.

“Haai, Kizuna☆”

Yurishia Farandole closed one of her eyes and waved her hand.

“Yurishia!”

“Isis!?”

In contrast with the happy Kizuna, Osiris furrowed her eyebrows.

When Cross’s Differential Frame ejected particles, she had landed on the
ground instantly. She came down in front of Kizuna’s eyes with
terrifying speed.

“I made you wait♥ Well, even if said that, I wonder if I made you wait
too long?”

It was a carefree bright smile.

Kizuna opened his mouth and he was about to say something. However
he changed his mind and shook his head.

“……No. Making a man wait is the special privilege of a good woman

after all.”

Yurishia narrowed her eyes. Something bright came to the surface at

the corner of her eye. Yurishia nonchalantly wiped the corner of her eye
with her fingertip. Kizuna caught that hand and brought her face close
to him.

“Eh……Kizuna?”
The faces of the two approached to a distance they had never
experienced until now. Even when they were doing Climax Hybrid,
even when their face had got close before this, one of them would dodge
to the left or right. But, right now was different. They mutually
approached close as though being sucked to each other. Their noses
touched and they could feel each others’ breathing.

“Ah……Ki, Kizu――”

Yurishia’s lips were blocked by Kizuna’s lips.

Just with that it felt like Yurishia would greet a climax. The cells of her
whole body were trembling happily. Yurishia’s cheeks were dyed pink,
her eyes were faintly closed in intoxication. Her lips parted and
Kizuna’s tongue entered. At first she was surprised, but she had no
intention to protest at all. Rather, she was happy. Inside her mouth,
Kizuna’s tongue was freely moving around. Tongue and tongue
touching each other felt good, but having her gums licked felt ticklish.

As if paying back the favor, Yurishia also invaded into Kizuna’s mouth.
And then she fully tasted him stickily. Her head felt blank, her thinking
ability fell. Right now she already could do nothing but entrusting her
body to the pleasure she felt inside her mouth.

She was being connected, with her beloved person.

The moment she thought that once again,

Magic power exploded violently. Fierce surge of magic power to which

the expression of explosion was truly fitting. That large amount of
magic power was whirling with the bodies of the two at the center.

――The first Kischarge Hybrid with Yurishia.

The mouths of the two separated with a pop. While that happened a
string of saliva was forming a bridge between them.

“Yurishia……”

When Kizuna called her name, Yurishia quietly nodded.

And then she opened her right hand and thrust it forward.

“Crosshead!!”

A magic circle opened in front of Yurishia. The magic circle that was
drawn by golden light slowly rotated. From its center, something like a
handle came out. Yurishia grasped that and pulled it out. It was
something like a huge tube. But, its full appearance couldn’t really be
seen.

And then after pulling it out for nearly five meters, finally its tip
appeared.

What appeared from the magic circle was a huge nail driver machine.

The sides of its barrel that had a diameter of nearly a meter had a long
and thick cylinder part stretching out, looked from above, it was like a
huge cross. What was buried at the center inside the barrel was a huge
sharp stake. Its tip showed out its face, emitting a terrifying light.

That stake would pierce the enemy and strike with a large amount of
particles.

This was the new type, Crosshead.

No matter what kind of enemy, they would be pierced and pulverized

from the inside, a cross of destruction.
That cross was supported from left and right respectively by Yurishia
and Kizuna, they grasped the grips attached at the sides of the barrel.

Looking at their appearance, Osiris’s voice turned rough.

“Isis! Just what in the world are you doing!”

That voice made Yurishia hold her breath for a moment.

“Throw away that thing, come here!”

Yurishia looked down.

“Yes……I will, go there right away.”

Her expression that was clouded by shadows made Kizuna call out to
her worriedly.

“……Yurishia?”

Yurishia lifted up the Crosshead for a little and fixed its aim at Osiris’s
sun.

“Kizuna……the weak point of Osiris is that sun she holds on her back.
Optics weapon and particle cannons won’t be effective, but it can be
destroyed using physical attacks.”

“――What?”

Kizuna glared at the shining sun on Osiris’s back. Even when she used
the obelisk she was borrowing strength from that sun. It was the power
source of Osiris’s strength and her weak point.

And then having been told the method to destroy it, Yurishia’s
determination was also transmitted into Kizuna’s chest.
“But, by aiming there, we will also get hit by Osiris’s attack.”

Yurishia abruptly leaked out a smile.

“What are you saying. We are trying to defeat a god right? Let’s go with
the resolve of giving her one or two arms!”

That way of talking startled Kizuna.

“Oi, Yurishia――”

“It’s not like I’m getting suicidal. Rest assured.”

Yurishia shook her head with a wry smile.

“Depending on what we want, the risk we need to brave changes. If we

are going to do a large gamble, then a fitting resolve is necessary.”

“Certainly……all the more when humans are trying to challenge a god

huh.”

“If you decided to fight then don’t hesitate. Calm down, then carry out
what you decided calmly, with all your strength. If you do that,
naturally the result will come.”

Yurishia moved her sight to Osiris’s sun. The side face of Yurishia who
found her objective was refreshing.

“Is that the instruction of the ace of America and the world’s strongest
pilot?”

Yurishia glanced at Kizuna and winked with a composed smile.

“Well, something like that☆”

Kizuna strongly grasped the grip.

“Bring it on! We are going to win this battle for sure!”

“Yes, from here on, it’s the showtime of me and Kizuna!”

Kizuna’s Corruption Armament [Nayuta], and Yurishia’s Differential

Frame ejected fire. Explosive ejection of particles instantly accelerated
the bodies of the two into the speed of sound. However, their
momentum didn’t know any stop and further rose in speed.

And then the Crosshead that they raised to the front.

“ISISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS-!!”

With fury and despair mixing in her face, Osiris raised her obelisk. The
sun on her back was burning, dying Osiris’s golden armor in scarlet.

The brutal stake was advancing straight to the sun shining on Osiris’s
back. Eros and Cross’s full power. Ejecting vast amounts of energy of
gold and pink, Kizuna and Yurishia’s bodies brought the Crosshead
until the shooting range with speed that surpassed even time.

The sure kill Corruption Armament. Its shooting range was, a meter.

“GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”

Crosshead grazed above Osiris’s head and captured the shining sun on
her back.

The stake thrust stabbed, thrusting from below to above.

“You two, my sun-!?”

At that time, her eyes met the eyes of Yurishia who was supporting the
Crosshead. The girl who she treated as a daughter for a time, a girl who
really resembled her daughter. The girl who ought to be her daughter’s
body. The moment she saw those blue eyes shining brightly with strong
will, Osiris realized. This girl, wasn’t her daughter.

“UuAaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-!”

Osiris howled.

The tip of the stake was going to break the shell of the sun. The sun was
trying to repel that intruder. Both sides were fiercely clashing, intense
light gushed out. Shockwave and radical change of atmospheric
pressure were causing a tornado in the surrounding.

The sand storm rolled up and inside electrical discharge ran.

Eros and Cross were pushing the Crosshead with their greatest driving
force. Kizuna and Yurishia’s bodies were fiercely vibrating. The
boisterous dance of light blocked their sight. At the other side, Osiris
was readying her obelisk horizontally and its blade emitted a
conspicuously bright red light.

She was planning to cut down Yurishia and Kizuna in one go with a side
sweep. Kizuna’s face distorted bitterly.

‘――It’s coming!’

“Disappear! Black armor! And then, my daughter’s vessel!”

The obelisk was running while trailing red light behind. From
Yurishia’s side radiance that would vanish her body was attacking.

“Differential Frame!”
Yurishia yelled and then the Differential Frame on Cross’s back slid in
between the obelisk and Yurishia.

“What!?”

The obelisk cut apart the armor of the new type Differential Frame. The
armor danced in the air, the machine inside was exploding while
scattering apart. The radiance of the obelisk also easily destroyed the
armor of the new Cross.

However, for just a moment the obelisk was obstructed by the

Differential Frame. That instant decided the match.

Kizuna and Yurishia’s voices overlapped.

“ “Drive!!” ”

The internal stake of the Crosshead caused a severe explosion. Particles

of magic power were compressed and caused explosion in one go. The
large barrel was something for the sake of restraining that explosive
power. The way that explosive power could escape was only through a
point.

The energy of the explosion was looking for an exit and headed towards
the end of the barrel.

Hiding the power to pierce all of existence, it rushed out with speed
even faster than light.

And then the stake of destruction pierced the sun.

Summoned from another world, that sun continued to burn by

absorbing all the life in this world.
The stake of the Crosshead destroyed its shell, stabbing into the inside
of the sun. At that moment magic power energy that contravened it
struck. The shell that was broken in one spot was brittle, in an instant
small ruptures ran all over its surface.

The eternal sun that repeated death and rebirth was smashed apart into
pieces.

The sword of obelisk cut into two the Differential Frame. It dug into
Cross’s armor without stopping and tore off the armor from Yurishia’s
body. The armor of Cross broke, Yurishia’s finger separated from the
Crosshead and her body was blown away in the air.

Gashes were carved on Yurishia’s whole body, blood was spurting out
all at once. However her expression was overflowing with the
happiness of a sense of achievement. Her blood soaked face addressed
Kizuna.

‘――I’m leaving this to you, Kizuna.’

Kizuna took off his hand from the Crosshead and clenched his fist. He
concentrated all his magic power into his right arm.

“Thanks! World’s Strongest!”

Kizuna’s face approached as though it was going to touch Osiris’s face.

And then his raised fist lunged in a straight line filled with all his
strength.

“――Wha”

Kizuna’s burning fist struck on Osiris’s chest.

“Reincarnation!!”
The Corruption Armament [Nayuta]’s special skill. The curse sorcery
exclusive for anti-magic god.

“Thi, this……is-”

Feathers were falling off from the wings on her back. The feathers
danced like withered leaves riding the dancing wind. And then the
wings itself crumbled into pieces as though losing its foundation.

Not just that. Sekhmet’s body that became Osiris’s lower body was also
disassembled. It was as though the parts connecting the whole
suddenly vanished, all the components from its armor until its internal
structure were torn off and falling down.

“This……this, is”

Osiris’s legs appeared from inside Sekhmet’s body. She attempted to

stand on the sand with those legs, but she couldn’t put strength in her
legs.

“Aa……-”

Just like that she fell on the sand. She couldn’t put strength in her whole
body, she couldn’t even stand up.

“This……for me who is a machine god, who should have the power that
surpassed humans……”

Reincarnation was the program that Nayuta specially wrote to disrupt

the internal structure of a machine god. That virus was rampaging
inside Osiris right now.

“Kuu……aaa-”
She frowned painfully, her cheeks blushed and her body twisted. That
state of hers was strangely erotic. Her appearance was young, but her
appearance and gesture emitted sex appeal that had been piled up
throughout the years.

“Haah――”

Strength was leaking out from the whole body of Osiris. It seemed she
lost consciousness.

Kizuna sighed in relieve and opened the floating window.

“This is Kizuna. I succeeded in stopping Osiris to function with

Reincarnation. However Yurishia is injured. Send the rescue squad here
with urgency!”

{My, I’m fine you know♥ Don’t worry.}

A window started and Yurishia soaked in blood was projected there.

“Fi……fine you say, you are soaked in blood!”

{It’s not as bad as it looks, so I’m fine. When I was still in Masters,
something to this degree often happened.}

‘Really?’ Kizuna whispered in his heart.

{Rather than that what about Ataraxia?}

{There is no need to worry for our side.}

Grace opened a window.

{Battleship Ataraxia is undamaged. Also, perhaps it was right when

Osiris was defeated. The sand monsters crumbled and vanished.}
Kizuna breathed in relieve.

“I’m glad……”

However, there Reiri and Kei’s windows came to the front.

{It’s still too fast to feel safe. From now on it will be the crucial moment
of your battle, Kizuna!}

{Right now we are sending the equipment for your next battle. Evade.}

“……What?”

Kizuna focused his eyes and he could see a large missile fired from
battleship Ataraxia.

“Wait a second……don’t tell me”

That missile was flying straight at Kizuna.

“JUST AS I THOUGHTTTTTTTT!”

Lifting up the collapsed Osiris, Kizuna kicked on the sand and flew up.
After just a tiny interval, the spot where Kizuna was at before was
impacted by the missile.

However, that missile didn’t explode and stabbed into the sand. And
then the cover was disconnected and a capsule shaped container
appeared from inside.

“Somehow……it feels like a long time since I last saw this thing.”

The container fell down from the missile, it ignited its main part’s
posture control thrusters and automatically landed at a level ground.
――Middle range mobile tactical supply room. Alias: Love Room.

“No, is this the ballistic style?”

Kei’s window had text running on it.

{As the additional option for this time, we drew up the data of the room
that Osiris shared with the pharaoh.}

“Whattt?”

{It’s something we drew up from the testimony of Yurishia and

Zelcyone. It’s a rush work, but its level of completion is good.}

“Is……is that so.”

The door of the Love Room automatically opened.

“Err……actually, there is something I’m bothered with since a long time

ago.”

{What?}

“Osiris has a husband and a daughter right? That’s, that’s to say she is a
married woman or something……with someone like that, that’s……is it
okay? In various meanings.”

Kei looked back at Kizuna stoically.

{What are you saying this late. You have been with your real mother
and sist}

“UWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-! Got it! I understand! There is no

problem at all!”
After taking off Eros, leaving only his pilot suit behind, Kizuna rushed
into the Love Room as though he was running away. Thereupon the
hatch closed and the environment setting program was automatically
activated. The scenery around was being rewritten along with noise.

“……This is”

The wall and the floor were both created from marble, it was a splendid
room. The ceiling was high, its size must be more than a hundred
square meters. Even with just that it was a room that cost a lot of
money to make it this extravagant, but it was further decorated with
geometrical patterns made from gold, making out the room to be
luxurious and gorgeous even while being refined.

Outside the window was dark, right now it seemed that it was set to be
night. Inside the room was illuminated by the warm light of the lamps.

At the center of the room, a bed with size larger than king size was put
there.

Kizuna laid down Osiris’s body on the bed.

Right now looking at her like this, she didn’t look any different from a
human. Her appearance seemed to be around the middle of her
twenties until her late twenties. Her tanned skin and black hair were
overflowing with oriental charm.

And then her huge breasts. Certainly, even if he was told that she was
Yurishia’s mother, he felt like he could accept it. Her waist was tight
that it was unbelievable that she had given birth to a child. On the
contrary her butt was the type that could give safe birth. She was a
goddess, but rather than a goddess of death, being a goddess of fertility
and harvest suited her more.
“Nn……”

Her black eyelids blinked, her golden eyes peeked out.

“This place……don’t tell me”

She woke up with a panicked state.

“My bad, but this place is a made up room. This room was reconstructed
with the room you once spent your time in as the base.”

It was the Love Room so it was slightly different, but it was

meaningless even if he explained in detail. Rather than that the sense of
relief that Osiris felt by being in this room, and then the sense of
immorality, was important.

“You are……the black armor’s”

“Call me Kizuna. That’s my name.”

Osiris was staring fixedly at Kizuna’s face.

“So I lost……to you, Kizuna……”

Kizuna was going to sit at the edge of the bed.

“Don’t-!”

Osirs raised a panicked voice. Kizuna stared at her wondering what was
up, but Osiris looked down and murmured with a small voice.

“No, those who can climb to this bed are, only me and……my husband.”

‘I see’, Kizuna understood. And then at the same time he also felt heavy.
Although they had been separated by death, this was a woman who had
a husband and a child……to be forced to do Climax Hybrid with her like
this.

Furthermore the souls of her husband and child were preserved inside
the pyramid. If this mission succeeded, perhaps they would return to
life.

But, even that wouldn’t come true without doing this.

‘――I will make it work for sure. This Climax Hybrid with Osiris!’

“……Is this place, really the room where you lived in the past?”

“Yes. In this place with my husband……we spent the night on this bed,
and affirmed our love of each other. Isis was also given to me here.”

That vivid explanation made Kizuna reflexively swallow his saliva.

“For the sake of resurrecting that husband and Isis, I want to borrow
your strength.”

With a half-doubting gaze, Osiris looked up at Kizuna.

“You also said that before didn’t you? But, how can I believe that……”

When she was about to say that, she suddenly closed her mouth.

“No, you have defeated me. The creation has surpassed the creator……
so something like that is possible……if that’s the case, then perhaps
even something that I cannot believe, a possible method, really exists.”

“It’s fine even if you don’t believe it from the bottom of your heart. But,
only for now I want you to believe me.”

Osiris nodded slowly.

“I understand. Then……what do I need to do?”

“That is……do Climax Hybrid with me, no. I want you, to do male and
female activity with me.”

“……Eh”

Osiris slowly raised her hands and wrapped her own body as though
protecting her breasts. And then she crawled on the bed, distancing
herself from Kizuna.

“No……that is, no good. My body is my husband’s. There is no way I can

let another person lay their hand on……”

“However, this is for the sake of saving that husband.”

“But……”

“It’s only once, if I can do it with you, with that your husband and
daughter, no, not just them. Perhaps everything in this world can be
saved!”

Osiris kept hugging her body and looked down. Her face was covered by
her black hair hanging down. She bit her lip and looked like she was
enduring something. Before long she released her hands from hugging
her body and opened her arms, she presented her arms as though
inviting him on the bed.

“Please……feel free……to climb on the bed.”

When she lifted her face, tears were bloating her eyes.

“But……it’s only this once. I’m doing this for the sake of saving this
world.”
“Yes, I understand.”

Kizuna climbed the bed and sat in front of Osiris. Once again he looked
at Osiris’s body, her beauty and sexiness overwhelmed him. As
expected from the beauty that the pharaoh chose as his queen.

Osiris was also staring all over at Kizuna from the top of his head until
the tip of his toes as though licking him with her eyes.

“Aah……someone this young. Dear me, just what am I doing.”

Being told that, Kizuna once again felt the difference in age between
him and Osiris. However, she was a machine god who had live for
several tens of thousands of years, so he also felt like things like age
didn’t matter anymore. If speaking only from her appearance, then she
was almost no different from Reiri.

“Even you Osiris look young though.”

However Osiris talked back with a troubled face.

“Such thing is not true. I have a daughter whose age is about the same
as you, you know?”

That was a fact that was hard to believe.

“I got married when I was eleven years old though.”

“That’s young!”

But after saying that, he recalled that his mother was also a fair match.

Kizuna scooped up Osiris’s hair. Her hair was silky and felt pleasant to
touch. And then he touched her cheek. Her tanned skin was lustrous, he
couldn’t help but felt doubt whether she was really made from
machine.

“Aa……”

His finger was touching gently from the nape of her neck towards her
chest. The mellow skin felt like it was absorbing his fingertip. And then
his hand stopped at the middle of the largely swelling up breast.

“Nn……what’s the matter?”

“No……”

“It’s fine, so please continue. Besides, I also don’t really feel it compared
to my husband, so rather you have to do better.”

Osiris didn’t look like she hated it. Kizuna’s hand crept on her whole
bosom that was hidden by accessory, and the he slowly put more
strength.

“Nn-! HaaAAAAAA-!”

It was unexpectedly a large reaction, Kizuna spontaneously pulled back

his hand.

“Are you okay?”

Thereupon Osiris’s cheeks shyly turned red.

“Ye-yes……that, something like this, has been too long, so……

that’s……”

Inside Kizuna’s heart, his feeling that was thinking that Osiris was cute
was growing larger. Kizuna circled to Osiris’s back and caressed her
body from both sides.
“Hyaaahn, tha, that place……”

He traced her body line from her waist until below her armpit. While he
was doing that, Osiris’s body was shivering continuously. And then
after watching for an opportunity, he scooped up the ripened large
breast that was drooping heavily from below. His arm felt a profound
weight.

“Haan……aa, ah”

‘――Certainly, it feels almost the same like Yurishia.’

However compared to Yurishia the sensation of touching this one gave

the impression of a little bit firmer. Kizuna put strength into his fingers
and began to massage, then the accessory that was clinging on her
breast until now to hide her nipple went out of place with rustling
sound. It was as though Osiris was unconsciously coaxing loving caress
from him.

In order to answer that expectation, Kizuna pinched that tip with his
fingertips and twisted.

“Nnaaa! Hauh, nnaaauaaAAAAAAAAAAAA!”

“Eh? Huh”

Osiris’s body stiffened and then she convulsed twitchingly many times
over.

‘――This is. She is, climaxing……already?’

“Errr……are you, feeling it easily since the past?”

“I, I don’t know-, such thing-……yah, yaaaan!”

‘――Osiris who became a machine god didn’t need sexual pleasure, she
also has no chance to experience it. Because of that her endurance
become nothing……is that it?’

Kizuna changed the way his hand held the excessive breasts many
times and obstinately rubbed it thoroughly. Thereupon the tip was
little by little becoming stiff.

“Aah, aa! Please, wa, wait. I will, a, again――”

When the tip of her breast was rolled with his palm, Osiris bent her
back backward and convulsed.

“A, a, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-!”

‘――A, again!?’

“Haa, haa……haaan. Wa, wait. Let me, rest a little……”

“You are really……sensitive aren’t you?”

Thereupon Osiris’s face was increasingly getting red and she rattled on.

“I, it’s not like I’m feeling it or anything! It’s only because it has been
quite long……co, compared to that person, this is nothing big. The way
that person did it, felt really good!”

‘――Then, if that’s the case, that’s more reason for me to work even
harder.’

“Hm?”

Osiris’s waistcloth was disarrayed and it got rolled up.

Unconsciously his eyes couldn’t turn from there.

“…..Is, something the matter?”

Osiris whispered with heated breath mixed in her voice.

“No, there is nothing.”

It was at that moment where Kizuna became aware that Osiris wore no
panty. And then, he also noticed how abundant liquid was overflowing
from there.

“Then, I’ll make you feel even better next.”

Kizuna embraced Osiris’s shoulder with his left hand and pulled her
body towards him.

“Aa……”

Osiris’s weight leaned on his chest. That weight felt pleasant somehow.
And then his right hand flipped up the waistcloth that had turned into
the shape like a loincloth, exposing her important spot.

“Has this place, been seen by other people?”

“Never……it was only that person.”

“Then, I’m the second person who has seen it.”

Kizuna touched at that chasm.

“Hii!”

Osiris bared open her eyes wide.

“Keep at it, Osiris.”

“Kuh……so, something like this, compared to that per……son,
aaaaaann♡!”

He gently traced at that chasm and rubbed it up.

“Ah! Ah! Fuah! Aaaan! Yah, yaaan!”

His finger was sandwiched between the walls of that chasm. It was as
though it wouldn’t let go of Kizuna’s finger, it closed and he felt like it
was sucking him in. It felt pleasant, a pleasure that felt ticklish.

“Hiiiiih! Kuh……kuuUUUNNNN!”

Osiris clung at Kizuna, her body trembled and she welcomed a climax
once more. Kizuna’s hand was drenched with warm honey. Sweet
aroma was drifting up from between Osiris’s crotch.

Osiris was staring at Kizuna with a dizzy gaze. Her hand that was
clinging at Kizuna moved, she began to proactively caress Kizuna’s
body.

“Hey……Kizuna……you won’t take it off?”

Osiris’s eyes told him to take it off.

“……I guess. I want to directly feel Osiris with my skin.”

After saying that Kizuna stood up. For a moment Osiris smiled happily,
but she immediately changed her face into a solemn look.

“Actually, having my skin touched directly cannot be permitted

but…….this is for the sake of saving this world, so this cannot be
helped.”
Kizuna took off his pilot suit with familiar hand movement. The pilot
suit was worn directly above his bare skin, so he wore no underwear.
Kizuna’s thing was exposed in front of Osiris’s eyes without anything
hiding it.

“……-!!”

Osiris’s eyes was staring at it with intense concentration. Her throat

was moving up and down with a gulp.

Kizuna purposefully thrust it out in front of Osiris.

“……”

Osiris was breathing roughly while staring at that fixedly. Her cheeks
and around her eyes were dyed red, her eyes were completely moist.

Osiris was waiting motionlessly. However, Kizuna didn’t move closer to

her more than that.

“Ki, Kizuna……”

“What?”

“You won’t, make me try consoling this?”

“If you want to touch, it’s fine you know?”

Osiris gulped again with audible noise.

“N, no……if Kizuna, tell me to touch it……”

Kizuna brought it closer until a distance where it almost touched

Osiris’s cheek. Osiris’s eyes that were staring with desiring face looked
like she had almost broken into tears.
‘――Good grief.’

“Osiris, can you touch it, making me feel good?”

The moment he said that, Osiris rubbed her cheek at Kizuna’s thing.

“Aah……this sensation♡”

And then she reservedly let out her tongue, touching at Kizuna’s thing.

“Nn-♡ This, taste……is nice”

Once she stepped over, her limit was gone already. Osiris crawled her
tongue and enjoyed Kizuna’s thing until every corner to her heart
content. Her slippery tongue entangled and caressed Kizuna’s thing.
Rather than a technique it was a hungry passion, it made him felt this
thing called affection.

That pleasure was reliably piling up inside Kizuna. Osiris opened her
mouth and led Kizuna’s thing inside her mouth.

“Hamu♡……nhnnannh, nh, nh, nh”

Osiris’s tongue was writhing inside her mouth. Her face was moving
back and forth, caressing Kizuna’s thing inside her cheek. That warmth
and softness was pushing Kizuna to his limit in one go.

“O, Osiris-, soon it will be, bad!”

However Osiris didn’t show any sign of releasing him. Far from that,
her tongue moved even stronger instead.

‘――I’m at my limit already!’

Kizuna’s pleasure gushed out in one go. Large amount of energy filled
Osiris’s mouth.

“Nh! Nku♡ nh♡ nh♡”

Without hesitation Osiris swallowed it in. She showed no sign of pain at

all, rather she was smiling happily.

And then matching the timing of her throat gulping down, hot liquid
spurted out from her crotch. Osiris’s waist was trembling.

And then even after drinking up everything, Osiris didn’t separate her
mouth from Kizuna’s thing from reluctance. She persistently kept
sucking up, as though she was trying to suck out everything, even what
was remaining inside it.

“Osiris, can you let it go for a moment?”

However Osiris was only looking up at him with questioning eyes, her
mouth didn’t seem like it would let go.

“It’s fine. It won’t go anywhere.”

Saying that Kizuna caressed her head. It was a small head that felt good
to touch. It could become a habit caressing this soft and silky black hair.

Osiris slowly took out Kizuna’s thing. Finally Kizuna’s thing touched
outside air. However, Osiris’s slender fingers immediately entwined
Kizuna’s thing. She grasped it firmly and wouldn’t let go.

As expected even Kizuna made a wry smile.

With a thick cushion on her back, he made her sit in a posture like
sitting on a reclining chair, Kizuna and Osiris lined up on the bed.
Osiris was staring at Kizuna with a heated gaze. Even during that time
Osiris’s fingers didn’t let go of Kizuna’s thing for even a second.

“Say……are you pleased?”

“Ah……”

It was as though she finally noticed how she kept holding it all this
time, her face became red and she let go with an embarrassed face.

Kizuna embraced Osiris’s body close to him. Osiris followed him in

silence and moved her body close to Kizuna.

“It’s fine to hold it you know?”

When he whispered that into her ear, she went bright red until her ears.
She lowered her head on Kizuna’s chest and her hand reached towards
Kizuna’s crotch.

‘――Ah, but I want to hold it.’

“Though your husband’s thing might be better than this.”

“……”

He tried saying that with a little mean streak, but Osiris didn’t reply.

Kizuna also inserted his hand between Osiris’s crotch. Osiris didn’t
resist, rather she opened her legs so Kizuna could touch easier.

Osiris’s legs were soaked with hot honey from the inside of her thighs
until below her knees. And then, the place where the honey was welling
up was heated, steam was rising from there.

Kizuna’s hand crawled, looking for the overflowing spring.

“Haaa-! Aaahn, the, there-, aa, great-”

His fingertips got caught by a protrusion. He rubbed it with a little

strength.

“HyaAAAAAAAAAAAAADON’T-――IT’S NO GOOD ALREADY

AAAANNNNNN-“

Osiris spurted out hot liquid once more and her body became a bow.

How many time has she climaxed already? However, Kizuna

mercilessly continued to torment her. Also whether it was consciously
or unconsciously, Osiris’s hand that was grasping Kizuna’s thing was
also moving up and down.

She rubbed him as though saying that she wanted to pay back the
pleasure that she felt even just for a little. Her tanned palm was soft, the
strength she was gripping him with was also superb, she continued to
maintain Kizuna’s vigor.

With his fingers Kizuna opened the entrance of Osiris’s hot source.

“Haa……nn”

“How is it? Osiris. Does it still not feel as good as your husband?”

Osiris frowned and she bit her lip.

“……it’s good.”

“Eh?”

From her golden eyes, tears were spilling out in large drops.
“It actually, feels good! More than that person, than my husband! It feels
good!”

Kizuna’s finger invaded into Osiris’s honey pot.

“IT COmEEEEEEEEEE-MMMMMMMM♥♥♥♥”

It was as though it had been waiting for him, the soft flesh was pulling
in Kizuna’s finger inside.

Kizuna also whispered into Osiris’s ear.

“You are really cute, Osiris.”

At that moment, Osiris’s inside tightened hard on Kizuna’s fingers.

“Kuuuh! Fuh!”

Osiris’s body that was tightening got done in by that pleasure instead.
Her lips were trembling, her teeth was clattering. The climaxes that
happened in succession repeatedly severed and threw her mind into
confusion. And then, hot liquid spurted from the gap that was holding
Kizuna’s fingers.

“Aah……forgive me, dear……”

Kizuna’s fingertip rubbed the inside of Osiris’s wall.

“HIUuaaAAAAAAAAA-! Aa, that feels good-♥ Kizunaaaa nn♥”

Each time he moved his fingers inside, Osiris tasted a climax. The
everlasting climax continued to torment Osiris. Sweat was flowing
from her whole body, making her tanned body damp and made her
shine. Each time her body trembled, her large breasts shook and sweat
scattered.
The stimulation that Osiris’s hand gave him also severely attacked
Kizuna’s waist.

“Ku……Osiris-!”

Kizuna’s eyes had pink light floating there.

And then Osiris’s eyes were also shining gold.

“Kizuna is better than my dear! It feels far betterrrrrrrrrrrr!”

The Core in Kizuna’s chest emitted light, pink colored particles were
overflowing from his body.

“Success!?”

The moment he raised his voice happily, thick cale was stretching out
from under the bed.

‘――What!?’

That thing looked like a hose for drainage use, or possibly for a vacuum
cleaner. The white hose’s diameter was around ten centimeters. Its
mouth was opened as though to have something plugged in there. It
was moving around as though looking for something to connect with,
but when it faced at the direction of Kizuna’s abdomen, its motion
stopped still. And then as though it was sucking in Kizuna’s thing, it
connected with Kizuna.

“Wha, what the hell, is this? Shikina-san? Or else is this Kaa-san’s

doing!?”

Nayuta’s voice resounded without any window in display.

{It’s something Kei made from my instruction.}

“As I thought! Just what is the meaning of this?”

{It’s a connection cord for the sake of effectively pouring the magic
power generated from Kizuna’s body into Osiris.}

The tip of the cord that was fixed on Kizuna appeared from under the
bed. And then like a living thing it presented its neck in front of Kizuna.
Its shape and size was just like a Core when it is going to be reinstalled.

“Don’t tell me……with this”

{Exactly. Link that connector into Osiris, joining her body with Kizuna.}

‘――Seriously?’

However, did Osiris felt any opposition against this?

Thinking that, he turned to Osiris.

“Aaa……please, Kizuna.”

Osiris opened her crotch, she opened that part with her own fingers.

“Quickly, come here♥……until the inside.”

{If you miss this timing, then there will be no next time. Osiris who lost
the sun of another world will have her body crumble before long. As
long as she doesn’t recover her original body, Osiris cannot be saved.}

“Shit-!”

Kizuna grasped the cord roughly and fixed its end on Osiris’s body.

“Ahn♥”
That tip touched the lower lips of Osiris. And then, at that moment a
sweet sensation also ran through Kizuna’s crotch.

“As I thought, it has that kind of mechanism……”

{Naturally.}

Kizuna opened his eyes.

“Here I go, Osiris!”

“Come, Kizuna!”

The connector of the linking cord entered into Osiris.

“♥♥♥ -aaAAAANNaAaAaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-!!”

The moment it entered, the moment it advanced deep inside, the

moment it hit the wall inside, everything of those moments made
Osiris climax. That intense pleasure went through the linking cord and
got transmitted to Kizuna.

And then, at the same time when the lump of pleasure from Kizuna was
attacked, a vast magic power was emitted from Eros’s Core. It was
directly poured from the linking cord into Osiris. It filled the inside of
Osiris’s womb and made her body’s structure ran in adverse tide.

Those particles were divided by the inside of Osiris’s womb, increasing

it in number. And then sublime light was overflowing from her body.

The energy filling inside the Love Room was sent to the pyramid
through Nayuta who was outside. The pharaoh and the princess, and
then the configuration information of this world preserved in the
pyramid. All of those were revitalized and revived.
With the pyramid as the center, the brightness of life energy was
spreading.

That brightness crossed the desert. After that light was running
through, grass was growing, trees were born. The yellow desert was
changing to green. They weren’t sand objects that were fakes Osiris
made to decorate Necropolis. They were real plants that possessed life.

The desert split and water spurted out. The overflowing water created a
river, the river turned into a large river and large amounts of water was
flowing. The water gathered ahead where it was pouring and a sea
began to be created.

The love overflowing from the heart granted moisture to the dried land.

Osiris leaned 0n Kizuna’s shoulder and went outside the Love Room.

“This is……!?”

There was Necropolis between overflowing green trees. A river was

flowing at its side where ahead of it were green grassland and forest, a
city of people was spreading.

“Even though all those were desert just now……”

Kizuna was also looking around the surroundings dumbfoundedly.

“So you really……spoke the truth, Kizuna.”

Osiris stared at her own body in wonder, she touched her hand and
confirmed its existence.

“My body too……it’s returning to human flesh.”

Osiris linked her fingers, she stared at the world overflowing with
greenery as though she was in a dream.

“Thank you……truly.”

“No, that’s……”

Kizuna felt awkward having that straight forward gratitude thrown at

him.

“Ah, that’s right. Rather than that, you better try to go to the pyramid
quickly. Surely……”

Osiris suddenly noticed and turned on her heel before breaking into a
run.

However, her legs came to a stop and she returned back to where
Kizuna was standing. And then she embraced his neck and she pressed
her lips at Kizuna’s lips.

‘――Eh?’

“Fufu, keep this a secret from the pharaoh okay?”

And then she turned her back on him again and dashed.

“I will tell the next generation, that Kizuna is the savior of this world!
For eternity!”

She yelled that with a loud voice and waved her hand.

After Kizuna waved his hand back, this time for sure Osiris ran towards
her husband and daughter.

“Then, let us depart too.”

“Uwa!”

Kizuna was so shocked towards Nayuta who was standing beside him
without his realization that it felt like his heart would stop.

“The thing that we can obtain has also been obtained.”

In Nayuta’s hand, a red crystal was shining.

“That is, what Osiris had……”

“Yes. It’s half of Atlantis’s configuration information.”

“Just two more……”

Kizuna looked up to the sky.

There were two Deus ex Machina remaining. Thanatos and Odin.

Did the Golden Dragon that Gravel and the others boarded arrive at a
world with a machine god in it?

Where was Aine, whose whereabouts was still unknown?

Kizuna’s thoughts ran towards another world at the other side of the
sky.

“Be safe……Aine.”

Part 5
Two petite girls came out from Nayuta Lab in the company of each
other.

“With this, Sylvia can also return to the front lines desu!”
Her small body stood on her toes as though to make her body as large as
possible.

“Just what are you saying? You only just got better, so don’t get carried
away.”

Ragrus’s largely rolled twintails shook while she gave a warning in

exasperation.

“Ragrus-chan is a worrywart desu.”

“I don’t want the girl who collapsed in the mock battle before this
saying that like a big shot-!”

Sylvia made an apologetic face and she bowed her head with a bob.

“Sylvia is sorry desu. Sylvia keeps being a bother to Ragrus-chan desu.”

“N, no……it’s not like I want you to apologize.”

Ragrus awkwardly turned her back on Sylvia.

“Geez, enough already, we are going. It’s a celebration for you leaving
the hospital, so I’ll treat you to something.”

She said that before breaking into a run.

“Well, my recommendation is the crepe stand at the shopping mall near

the station I think. How about that, the cream bean jam beside it is
also……”

However, Sylvia’s presence wasn’t following behind her.

‘――Just what’s with her, really!’

Cursing so inside her heart, she turned back.

Sylvia didn’t move even a step from the spot where they were standing
still before. She was staring fixedly at the sky.

“Hey Sylvia? What are you doing standing absentminded――”

A crack ran on the sky.

“Eh?”

Something chilling ran inside Ragrus’s heart.

The crack widened and the sky was peeled off.

‘――AU collision.’

“Sylvia!”

Ragrus immediately dashed towards Sylvia.

“Ragrus-chan, look at that desu!”

From the gap of the torn sky, a god was descending.

It was too beautiful to be called armor. It was as divine as a work of art.

That figure was colored by beautiful decorations.

On the armor that was like a shrine, were elegant wings that ruled the
sky.

At the center of the luxurious and gorgeous armor, a peerless beautiful

girl opened her sorrowful eyes.

“Machine god……Thanatos.”
“No way, why……why, is she here……”

Kizuna and the others were heading to battle.

Despite so.

Or else, was the departed force obliterated?

Along with that anxiety, the hearts of Sylvia and Ragrus were trembling
with a feeling of terror.

The enemy they should defeat. The opponent they had to fight.

Despite so, the moment they saw that figure, their bodies couldn’t
move.

That presence was just too immense.

Even though Hokuto was the same machine god like her, the status was
just different.

They couldn’t even rouse any will to fight.

They were helpless.

They noticed of their own recklessness, of planning to fight that kind of

thing.

It wasn’t the matter of winning or losing.

They didn’t even understand in what way they should fight this.

Thanatos stared at Ataraxia, and murmured with a melancholic tone.

“Let’s grant the time of ruin. This world will be eternally――”

 Afterword
Eros! This is Kuji Masamune!

Everyone, do you all watch the TV anime [Masou Gakuen HxH]? This
work that had caused various controversy before its broadcast was
meeting several difficulties, yet all the staff and cast combined their
strength to somehow overcome all those!

I was writing this volume just about when the climax of the early stage
battle was happening. I think that is the period of time when even the
people who at first thought this work is simply a stupid ero story began
to think that it’s not all this story has.

The lewd scenes of [Masou Gakuen HxH] is supported by the heavily

serious setting and the drama that the characters are burdened with.
The characters are becoming desperate in their attempt to overcome
that kind of difficult problem that they go to an unexpected direction
(lol). But exactly because they are doing it seriously that I think it is
interesting.

If you aren’t watching the anime, then by all means please watch it
through the net transmission or from the DVD package. However, the
battle from there will be where this work shows its real ability, so by
any means please realize its second season! I pray for my wish that the
story of Aine and Kizuna can reach its conclusion! I beg everyone too to
please give your support too without fail!

From the fifth volume Ger-san makes great contributions doesn’t she!
Gravel also became cute, Kizuna and Aine’s battle too, I want to see
them in the anime!

…..But well, let’s stop talking about the anime here, about this ninth
volume――,
We touched Yurishia’s past that we have never even imagined before
this, Yurishia actually knew about the secrets regarding Heart Hybrid
Gear, I’m glad that I am able to collect the part that I wrote with the air
like foreshadowing. Even Zelcyone who had few chances to contribute
until now has a lot of turn! But there is no scene of her reinstall here!?
All of you who lamented that! After this afterword, the scene that you
cannot see in the main story, the reinstall scene of Zelcyone that was
really unthinkable before is compiled there, so please have fun with
that too!

And then with the amazing character design & illustration power of
Hisasi-san, the new character Osiris can also become a cutely erotic
character. Be that as it may, Kizuna-san now conquered even a married
woman! Truly a pro! Kizuna-pro! (lol)

Oh man―, writing that one was really fun. The depiction of

Necropolis’s scenery also felt like I was going to keep writing it forever
if I got careless. I was writing that while recalling the Egypt where I
went before. It was really fun you know! Egypt! It is a culture sphere
that is totally different, so the feeling that it’s like another world is not
half-assed! I never thought that it will be useful as a writing material
even after many years had passed! If I have a chance, I want to go there
again without fail.

Speaking of overseas, it has ended when this volume comes out, but at
the middle of August Kuji Masamune conducted his first autograph
session! Furthermore it’s at Taiwan!

What makes me so thankful, I was invited by Sentan Publication that is

publishing [Masou Gakuen HxH] in Taiwan. I like Taiwan a lot, I have
gone there a few times to play, but I have never even dreamed that I
would be called there for an autograph session!
And then what is important, is [Extas Online] that was released at the
same time with this ninth volume! Please treat me well with this series
too. In regards with the characters and the story they are more
interesting then Masou!? Is what I’m thinking so please, I think you can
enjoy it together with [Masou Gakuen HxH]!

Well then, for thanks. Thank you very much for always drawing the
greatest illustration and character design! Hisasi-san! And then
Kurogin-san who did the mecha design. The editor in charge O-san of
Sneaker’s editing department. Everyone of the anime staff and cast!
And then, all of you readers who always support this series. Truly thank
you very much as usual!

From here on too please treat well [Masou Gakuen HxH] and [Extas
Online], Eros!
 HxH Volume 9 Special Short Story – Reinstall in Hot
Spring Inn Special

Part 1

Regardless of how the starting time for the class at the classroom of
Ataraxia high school department second year first group was close,
more than half of the seats were empty. Due to Hokuto’s attack there
were a lot of students that were resting from injury or running around
as the labor service for the reconstruction support.

Kizuna was sitting on his own seat while staring outside the window.
The city where the reconstruction was progressing was reflected in his
eyes, but inside his head he was thinking about a different matter.

At present, the battleship for the use of another world exploration was
in the middle of construction. When it finishes, they would
immediately embarked to search for the Deus ex Machina, but before
that there was something Kizuna ought to do.

It was the Core’s reinstall.

{That’s so. The search will be carried out by splitting into three teams,
so at the very least reinstall one person for each team.}

His mother who had the appearance of a young girl told him that. He
had already finished the reinstall on Himekawa. Two people left.
Kizuna was worrying about who he should do that to.

“Kizuna, what’s the matter? You are making a gloomy face.”

A voice called at him from behind suddenly. When he looked up, there
was a tanned smiling face with blonde short hair there.
“Gravel. So you came to school.”

When Kizuna let out a joyful face, Gravel was also looking at him fondly
with delight.

“Yeah. As expected it seems that my body has become completely used

to this routine right now. I spent my time leisurely for two, three days
after I got discharged from hospital, but I couldn’t calm down no matter
what.”

Gravel sat at the seat behind Kizuna.

There were two teams remaining that needed reinstall. Most likely they
would be split into the Vatlantis group and the Izgard & Baldein group.
If that was the case, then obviously Gravel would be the one from
Izgard.

Only Vatlantis remained.

“Kizuna, what about the others?”

“Aah, Himekawa……Hayuru is energetic. Grace is still in the middle of

rehabilitation. Hyakurath will be discharged soon, she should be under
home recuperation after that I think.”

For the candidates from Vatlantis, first was Grace. And then next was
Hyakurath. Putting aside the past, in this reborn Ataraxia he had spent
time with those two as classmates. Both of them could be trusted, their
strength was also certain.

However, they were still not in the condition that could do the reinstall
weren’t they……. However, if speaking about another powerful person
in Vatlantis then…….
At that time the chime of the whole school broadcast sounded. At a
glance, the monitor that was visible on the blackboard turned on and a
face of a female student was projected. It was an adult face and figure
that really couldn’t be seen as a high school student at all. Her sharp
eyes were shining on her crisp expression.

{This is the student council president Zelcyone. Today after school, a

combined battle practice will be conducted. The students who are
scheduled to participate are to come without exception. Also, the
student mentioned――}

“Zelcyone……”

The captain of the Vatlantis Empire’s Imperial Guards. As a matter of

fact she was the person who was standing at the top of Vatlantis’s
army. With her mind attacks that other magic armors couldn’t do, she
was a terrifying magic knight.

Kizuna was staring fixedly at that face which was largely projected at
the front of the classroom. Zelcyone was one of the few magic knights
that weren’t injured when Hokuto attacked.

‘――No no! No matter how, that woman is just impossible.’

He put a lid on his thought before it could become a clear idea. Be that as
it may, was there anybody else? A powerful person of Vatlantis, with
perfect health, and that could possibly have their Core reinstalled…….

“……”

Kizuna decided in his heart the remaining candidate.

 Part 2
Inside the grounds of Nayuta Lab, there was a stylish hot spring inn
that was newly made jointly with its reconstruction. It was something
built for the solace of the personnel, so it was set up with a wooden
Japanese architecture, a verdant Japanese garden with boulders and
pond placed there, and then an open air bath, all in pure Japanese style.

The hot water of the hot spring didn’t come from nature, but its
composition was created to be very close to the real thing. They had
once discovered a hot spring at the bottom of the ocean and pumped up
hot water from there, but right now there was no way they could do
that. However, this hot water was of a good make that couldn’t be
differentiated with a natural hot spring without getting told that.

After they recovered their memories, they became nostalgic of the

facilities that existed on Megafloat Japan but none in Ataraxia, so a lot
of facilities were constructed, this was one of those.

Kizuna was waiting for someone in one of the rooms there.

The room deep within the second floor was the best room in this inn.
The ceiling was high with spacious and luxurious construction, even
the furnishings like the chair and table were all high class items with
high quality. On the other side of the paper sliding door created from
hinoki cypress like a bamboo screen, there was a long and narrow small
room, refreshing wind was flowing in from the window.

Kizuna was looking down at a beautiful Japanese garden from that

window. The greenery was beautiful, the placement of the stones
forming the pond and stream was flowed by water, it was a garden that
had a close resemblance with a famous temple in Kyoto. The scent of
new tatami and hinoki cypress filled the room, in addition the
refreshing wind flowing from the garden also mixed with it, creating an
atmosphere that really calmed down the person inside.
It softened the nervousness of what he would do after this.

When he was deeply breathing in the air outside, there was the sound
of the sliding door at the entrance being opened.

“Just what business do you have with me, Hida Kizuna?”

A voice that was sharp like a blade resounded, causing Kizuna to

instinctively feel choked. His peaceful feeling instantly got blown away,
nervousness ruled over his heart.

“It’s nice for you to come, Zelcyone.”

Zelcyone who was wearing Ataraxia’s uniform was crossing her arms
with a disappointed expression.

“Well, sit down.”

Kizuna separated from the edge of the window and returned to the
room, he then sat down on a tatami chair. They sat surrounding a too
wide lacquer table, he was facing each other with Zelcyone.

“I haven’t finished taking care of the student council’s work. If you have
business with me then finish it quickly.”

“My bad to call you when you are busy. Even so……although you are
complaining, you are continuing to act properly as the student council
president huh.”

Zelcyone scowled sharply and let out a low voice.

“I’m not doing this because I like it. I’m only thinking that making the
students agitated even more than this, and in turn lowering our combat
potential, is not a good plan.”
At that time “Excuse me” a voice could be heard from outside. The
sliding screen was quietly opened and a female servant wearing a
kimono in seiza posture appeared.

“I bring the tea for the honored guests.”

“Listen well. I have no intention to get along with you. I came because
you said that this talk concerns the search of Ainess-sama that will be
carried out eventually. Say your business quickly.”

Zelcyone didn’t even pay any attention at all to things like the existence
of the female servant entering the room, she threw her irritated feeling
at Kizuna.

――And so,

She didn’t notice the hand of the female servant behind her sinking into
her back.

That small hand felt unpleasantly groping around inside her chest. It
was already too late when she felt that uncanny sensation.

“――!?”

She slashed with a hand chop while turning back. However, behind her
there was no figure of anybody.

There was only the dark entrance at the other side of the sliding door
that was left open.

“Wha…..just now?”

“It’s this way, Zelcyone-sama.”

Zelcyone turned back in a flash.

“However, Zelcyone-sama too has completely grown soft after living for
so long in Ataraxia. Well, for me this is also something desirable
though.”

Settled snugly above Kizuna’s knees, Hida Nayuta was fanning herself
with her fan.

“Hida……Nayuta!”

Zelcyone’s face distorted hatefully.

“Say, Kaa-san? Can you not sit there like it’s only natural?”

“Isn’t this fine. You need to fulfill your filial piety sometimes.”

Rather than a parent, she only looked like a daughter sitting on the lap
of a young father.

“So you are going to toy with me until that far……Teros!”

Zelcyone called the name of her magic armor.

“……What?”

Normally the armor should be equipped on her body instantly, but it

didn’t appear. Silence spread inside the room, the trees at the garden
were giving off the sound of their rustling.

“This is, impossible……Teros!”

“Are you looking for this?”

Nayuta’s fingertips were holding a silver capsule.

“――That’s-!”
The color of Zelcyone’s face changed. She had seen that capsule before.
Originally it should be inside her chest, the Core of the magic armor
Teros.

“You bastard……you took it out just now. In that short time, without
even any wound……”

“It’s something trivial for the current me.”

Zelcyone’s gaze glared at Nayuta, as though saying that she would kill
her.

“Well, please don’t make that scary face. It’s not a lie that we are going
to talk about something related to the search for Aine. If I have to say it
directly, this talk is about the power up of your magic armor Teros,
that’s what this is about.”

Zelcyone closed her eyes and her mouth pursed tightly, but before long
she opened her eyes slowly.

“Let’s hear the details.”

Part 3
The sound of hot spring flowing was quietly resounding. The evening
sun already disappeared between the trees, the curtain of night was
lowering. Above the stones surrounding the open air bath, lanterns
were placed, that orange light was swaying and got reflected on the
water surface.

Facing the lighted up beautiful garden, the open air bath possessed a
profound beauty. Zelcyone and Kizuna were in front of that open air
bath, both of them were standing still.
“……Why, do I have to enter the bath together with you. If you are
going to do the Core’s reinstall, then do it quickly.”

“That’s why I explained it already right? There is the need to share the
two people’s affection and pleasure. Also things like trust, various
things…….”

Zelcyone sighed with a bothersome feeling, she put her hand on the
jacket of her uniform.

“Good grief……this really cannot be shown to my lot.”

Without showing any embarrassment, she took off her jacket with light
motion as though she was changing clothes for PE lesson, she then
unbuttoned the buttons of her shirt. From the gaps of the clothes, her
purple bra could be peeked.

“What’s wrong, you need to undress too right?”

“Ye, yeah.”

Kizuna also began to take off his uniform, but no matter how he got
bothered about Zelcyone. When he took a glance at her, she already
lowered her skirt and now she was only in her underwear.

Her underwear was setup in above and below. Her panty looked
elegant, created from really expensive, delicate, and beautiful laces.
Furthermore her garter belt and stockings further increased her
sexiness. Her bewitching look didn’t seem like a high school student at
all.

Inside his heart, compared to his big sister Reiri, was she older? Was
what he spontaneously thought.
When Zelcyone took off her brassiere, her splendid breasts spilled out.
Kizuna was reflexively driven by impulse that wanted to move his
hands to support those breasts. Zelcyone’s breasts were drooping
heavily as though they were just flicked. It moved up and down for a
while from the pull of gravity. It wasn’t extremely big like Yurishia, but
it was big enough. Her slightly big nipples strangely made him feel that
they were obscene.

Next she put her hand on her panty, and then she pulled down without
hesitation. From underneath it, a bush in a color that he couldn’t
possible see on Lemuria appeared. That bush which was the same
purple color with her hair somehow gave him a noble impression.
Furthermore, it was beautifully ordered including their length and
shape.

Kizuna was completely fascinated, wondering whether she was also

properly trimming that kind of place.

‘――Whoops. I cannot just only keep looking like this.’

Kizuna also took off his underwear in fluster and now he was in a state
that could enter the bath anytime.

At that time Zelcyone was taking off her garter belt. Even though she
had already taken off her brassiere and panty, yet her appearance that
was only wearing garter belt and stockings was really inflammatory.

He even thought that it was a shame that they were taken off, but with
that on she couldn’t enter the bath. Kizuna wrapped a towel around his
waist and waited for Zelcyone to prepare.

“What, you are waiting?”

“Yeah…..more or less.”
Zelcyone took a towel in her hand, but she didn’t even try to hide her
body and faced Kizuna still naked.

She was in the position of giving out order, but looking at her body he
understood that she didn’t slack in training. Her tight waist and her
faintly formed abs made that apparent. On the whole she was slim, her
butt was also smallish. Compared to when he just looked at her breasts,
now that he looked at her whole body like this the largeness of her
breast looked standing out. He felt that it wasn’t really that large, but
surely the slenderness of her body made it look larger.

“Wha……what’s wrong? What are you looking hard at like that?”

“N, no. That’s right. It’s no use just facing each other like this huh. Let’s
go.”

Kizuna unconsciously offered his hand. However Zelcyone only glared

at that hand and she wasted no time heading towards the bath.

Kizuna scratched his face and pursued the butt that was shaking left
and right.

The bath was too spacious when it was reserved just for the two of
them, The surface of the boulders were smooth, it felt just right to sit
there or to lean on. Kizuna and Zelcyone sat side by side with their
backs on the boulder and soaked in the hot water.

“Come to think of it, is there any hot springs or open air baths on
Vatlantis too?”

“Obviously. I often went there together with my lovers and mistresses.”

“Let me ask just in case……what you mean by lover is woman right?”

“Obviously don’t you think? What are you saying?”

‘――Of course it’s like that. There is nothing but woman in the world of
Atlantis after all.’

“But you have also become completely used to males now that you have
lived in Ataraxia right? If it’s you Zelcyone, surely there must be a lot of
boys that have approached you with good will isn’t it?”

However Zelcyone made a disagreeable face, then she said as though

spitting out.

“Yeah, it’s depressing. I don’t have any interest in men. I have also never
let any of them touch this body, not even once. I even thought that if it’s
possible let’s just make Ataraxia into a girl school.”

“That’s surprising that you had that kind of plan……realistically that’s

impossible though.”

“Also a discipline room. The unpleasant lot and the lot I’m pleased with
can be brought there to be trained. No matter how you think of it, that’s
a really necessary facility.”

“That’s impossible no matter how you think of it!”

Having been told that clearly how she hated men, for Kizuna who had
to do the reinstall with Zelcyone after this it felt like he got the wind
taken out of his sail.

However, Zelcyone who had her cheeks reddening from soaking in the
hot spring looked really erotic. Her hair was also tied up into a side
ponytail hairstyle where her hair was hanging down, so her nape was
beautifully visible. That white neck was faintly colored pink, causing
Kizuna’s chest to beat fast.
However, he found it difficult to find the timing for broaching the
subject.

‘――Yosh. Let’s try doing it daringly.’

Kizuna stood up and sat down on the boulder surrounding the bath.
And then without even hiding his body with a towel, he cooled down
his flushed body with the night wind.

Zelcyone who was soaking beside Kizuna was startled for a moment the
instant Kizuna stood up. And then after that her eyes couldn’t move
away from there.

“……”

She was staring fixedly with a heated gaze. That shape that she was
seeing for the first time was as though she was tracing it with her eyes
to burn it into her memory.

“As expected it’s rare seeing it huh.”

Zelcyone abruptly returned to her senses and averted her face.

“Hm, hmph. I’m just looking at it thinking how ugly it is. As I thought,
girls are beautiful. Atlantis is an evolved world. Lemuria too should
quickly throw away the gender of male.”

She rattled on in one breath.

And then she pretended that she wasn’t bothered for a while, but she
kept sending him peeking glances.

He approached Zelcyone’s direction for a little, but she didn’t specially

act as though she hated it. And then finally he had approached until
Zelcyone’s shoulder clung to Kizuna’s leg closely.
Zelcyone’s small and well shaped head was right there. Looking at her
from above like this had never happened before. His hand
unconsciously reached out. Will she get angry? Kizuna hesitated for a
moment, but he resolutely touched her purple hair.

However there was no reaction from Zelcyone. Kizuna moved his hand
and caressed her head as though praising a little kid. Thereupon
Zelcyone leaned her cheek on Kizuna’s knee as though asking to be
spoiled, she was staring at between his legs.

“What beautiful hair. There is no color like this on Lemuria.”

“……Even in Vatlantis there are not many with this color. This is the
uniqueness of my family lineage.”

“Is that so. It’s my honor that I can touch them.”

‘If I think carefully, does that mean I’m the first man that touched
Zelcyone?’

“Nn…..that’s, is its size changing?”

‘Don’t ask something embarrassing like that straightly’, Kizuna

thought.

“Yeah. With girls, there are also places that can change in size right?”

“Uh huh……certainly.”

Zelcyone lifted her waist and stood up. Hot water was flowing down
that beautiful body.

“Kizuna. By all rights, it’s intolerable for this body to be touched by the
likes of a male. But the circumstances is how it is. I’ll tolerate it just for
this time. That’s why――”
Zelcyone’s eyes were lit in resolve.

“Present to me the strongest magic armor. Grant me the strong power,

that can protect Grace-sama and Ainess-sama as much as possible.”

Kizuna also stood up and received Zelcyone’s gaze right from the front.

“Yeah. Even I understand that Grace and Aine need Zelcyone. Let’s
combine our strength, and create the power to protect those two.”

Zelcyone’s grim gaze slackened a little. Combined with the blush on her
cheeks thanks to the warmth of the water, she suddenly looked lovely.

That face was rapidly approaching Kizuna.

“Eh……Zel――”

Kizuna’s mouth was blocked by Zelcyone’s lips.

Even while being shocked by the sudden proactive action, Kizuna

responded to that act. And then he also passionately welcomed the
tongue that was parting through his lips. Zelcyone’s tongue was soft
and slightly longer compared to other people. It was a mysterious
sensation to have her caressing freely inside his mouth.

That pleasantness made Kizuna circled both his hands on Zelcyone’s

back and embraced her. Zelcyone also responded to that and she circled
her hands on Kizuna’s waist. The bodies of the two clung at each other
tightly, Zelcyone’s breasts had their shape distorted from being pressed
on Kizuna’s chest.

With the addition of the pleasantness of the sensation of those breasts,

Kizuna fell into a daze.
Their lips suddenly separated. The saliva of the two that were mixed
with each other formed a bridge between their mouths. And then
Zelcyone smiled sweetly.

“Fufufu. How about I take a look at your skill, o demon king of

Lemuria.”

“While it’s only this inexperienced me, I’ll do my best to make you feel
good.”

Kizuna lifted up the breast of Zelcyone with his right hand.

“Nn-……fufu, I am, formidable just so you know……after all for me,

there is no woman that I cannot make fall.”

“That, really makes me want to enter apprenticeship under you.”

His right hand kept moving to gently massage Zelcyone’s breast.

“What an anathema.”

‘――Eh!? Already?’

“That makes me lightly shocked. Am I that unskilled?”

However Zelcyone glared at him sullenly.

“You already have no need to make any more woman fall. You have
Ainess-sama and Grace-sama right? What need do you have to make
other woman fall.”

“Eh? That’s――”

Kizuna had his lips blocked once again. And then Zelcyone’s supple
fingers crawled around Kizuna’s body. And then her palm that was
circled on his back lowered down along his spine toward his butt. And
then Zelcyone began to rub Kizuna’s butt.

“Nn……fufu-, as expected it’s hard.”

“That’s obvious. But……Zelcyone’s is soft.”

Kizuna also fought back, he grasped Zelcyone’s butts and massaged

them while pulling to left and right.

“Anh, yo, you are rough……but, this too, is unexpectedly……aaan-”

Kizuna felt strangely excited hearing her unexpectedly sweet gasping

voice.

One of his hands caressed up from her butt along her spine.

“UaAAA-!”

Zelcyone’s spine shivered, her body bent backward. Zelcyone’s stomach

was pressed on Kizuna’s thing.

“Nnhaa……wha, what……it’s actually this hard.”

Zelcyone stared at that with moist eyes.

“Are you curious of it?”

“No, not really……uaAAN-!”

He groped Zelcyone’s breast once more. And then his mouth held its tip.

“Hih! Oy, so suddenly……AAaAAAAAAAA……yo, you stupid fool……”

Zelcyone’s face floated an intoxicated smile. When Kizuna understood
that Zelcyone was happy, he attentively began to lick her breast.

Inside Kizuna’s mouth, Zeclyone’s nipple was pointing up. And then its
stiffness was also increasing. At the same time with that, the way
Zelcyone was feeling it was also growing fiercer.

Kizuna separated his mouth from the breast’s sensitive spot and then
he also caressed around that part with his tongue.

“Au…..an, doing it, that thoroughly……”

He was caressing by drawing circle, his tongue was gradually moving to

the outer part. And then from the side of her breast to above. It was
right at that time that Zelcyone was lifting her arm, without stopping
he licked up at her armpit.

“NnhyaAAAAAaaNNNNN!”

She shrieked joyfully with her voice breaking into falsetto.

“Zelcyone, does this place feel good?”

“Yo-, you are wrong. It felt a little ticklis――hiiIIIIyaaAAAAAn! Wa,

wait-don’t-! That spot-!”

Kizuna held back Zelcyone’s arms and forcefully put his mouth there.
He licked up with his tongue, and then he strongly sucked to leave
behind a kiss mark.

At that moment, Zelcyone’s body stiffened.

“Hiiih! Nh! Aah! AAaAAAAAA……”

Her whole body convulsed and she trembled all over.

‘――She really feel it at her armpit.’

Kizuna grew to feel slightly mischievous, he caressed her body while

only his mouth didn’t go away from her armpit. He licked thoroughly
and each time Zelcyone’s body trembled.

After doing that for around five minutes, strength left Zelcyone’s body
and she went limp.

“What’s wrong, Zelcyone?”

“Shu……shut up. Never mind, just let me go.”

However she looked like she would sink into the water if he let go.
Kizuna lifted up Zelcyone in a princess carry.

“Aa……”

She looked up at Kizuna with blank eyes as though she was a young girl.

“My bad, Zelcyone. I got too carried away I think.”

Zelcyone shyly averted her gaze with a dizzy expression. That was a face
that he couldn’t imagine coming from the usually gallant Zelcyone at
all.

“Re, really……the humans of Lemuria, are lacking in elegance.

Really……are you a hungry beast……because of that even my rhythm
got deranged.”

After apologizing once more, Kizuna kept embracing Zelcyone and got
out of the bath.

Kizuna carried Zelcyone until the changing room and made her sat on
the bench. And then perhaps she had no strength on her waist, Zelcyone
couldn’t stand up that he was the one who put a yukata on her. It was
difficult to neatly fix her clothes, but today this whole inn was reserved.
Kizuna lent his shoulder to Zelcyone whose yukata’s front was still
slovenly and returned until the room.

After opening the sliding door and entering the room, the inside was
dark, there a futon was already spread. It was two futons for two
people, but looking at how the two futons were spread sticking at each
other it could be felt how intentional it was.

“We arrived already Zelcyone. Hold tight.”

Kizuna laid down Zelcyone on the futon where they almost fell in the
middle. The lighting of the room vanished and the only light came from
several indirect lighting put on the wall.

From the gaps of her opened yukata, he could clearly see her voluptuous
breasts until its tips. And then her thighs were exposed without
reservation from her flipped up yukata’s cuff.

Inside the dim room, Zelcyone’s body that was illuminated by orange
light was distinctly covered by shadow, she looked even more lewd
compared to when in the open air bath.

“Zel……”

When he patted her head, she narrowed her eyes from the pleasant
feeling. And then she grasped Kizuna’s hand and brought it towards her
mouth.

“Zelcyone, what are――”

She held Kizuna’s finger in her mouth, licked it diligently with her
tongue, and then she sweetly bit with her teeth. His finger felt really
pleasant, that it felt like he was hallucinating that his arm too would be
swallowed by Zelcyone.

“Nh, chuu……ha, the likes of man……chuu, in front, of me……

nkuu……isn’t something, worth mention……ing haa……”

Perhaps from her competitiveness, Zelcyone tried to make Kizuna feel

good, this time she opened the front of Kizuna’s yukata, kissed at his
chest and crawled her tongue on it.

‘――Uu, it, feels good! Just what is this woman’s tongue made of? Even
though I’m just getting licked, my body feels like it’s melting!’

“Ze, Zel……it’s enough already right? I’m taking the Core, so wait a
little.”

Saying that he tore off Zel’s body from him and tried to stand up.
However Zelcyone grasped the cuff of his yukata.

“Oi, Zelcyone……”

The front of Kizuna’s yukata was bared open and Kizuna’s thing
appeared in front of Zelcyone’s eyes. Zelcyone’s throat that was staring
fixedly at that gulped audibly.

“A……are you running away, Kizuna.”

“What running away……”

Kizuna smiled wryly and then without stopping he went away from the
futon as though dragging along Zelcyone with him. His yukata was
bared open from the pulling and it was mostly taken off.
After he picked up the attaché case that was left on the floor and
returned, Zelcyone was looking up at him with a dissatisfied face.

“I told you I was just picking this thing up.”

He opened the attaché case and inside a Core shining silver was put
there. While Kizuna and Zelcyone were going to the open air bath,
Nayuta was adjusting this Core.

“You are going to……install that in me?”

Zelcyone crawled her finger between her powerless legs.

“In my place here……”

That inflammatory gesture made Kizuna gulp his saliva unconsciously.

“So, something like that. For that, Zelcyone and I have to be even more
intimate.”

Sitting in front of Zelcyone, Kizuna stared fixedly at her eyes.

Perhaps due to the hot spring, or possibly from shyness, Zelcyone’s

cheeks were blushing, her yukata was slipping down from her
shoulders.

“You can……do as you please. Show me, your……skill.”

As though he was invited by her shaking breasts, Kizuna’s hand reached

out.

“Aaa……♡”

He thoroughly rubbed and lifted up the breast that was large for her
slender body. The breast that had been warmed in the hot spring felt
like it became even softer and sucked in his hand. The tip of her breast
had been kept standing from a while ago.

“HAaAh! If you, doing it, tha, that strongly-……aaah”

He stimulated that stiff tip by pressing it with his fingertip. And then
when he gently pinched it, feverish breathing leaked out from
Zelcyone’s mouth.

While he was playing with her breast a lot and thought of the next
development, shuddering pleasure ran in Kizuna’s abdomen.

“O, oi-, what are……”

“Fu……fufu, yo, you too……don’t forget……nn, that you are also

receiving attack.”

Zelcyone’s both hands went between Kizuna’s crotch, One hand traced
along his shaft, and the other hand gently lifted up the things dangling
down below it.

“U……kuh”

“Fufu, ho……how is it Kizuna? Yo, you look like, ahn, you’re enjoying it
too much, nnh!”

Kizuna also tried to oppose her, his hand went into between Zelcyone’s
legs.

“NNAaAAH! O, oi-, there……haaah! Aaan♡”

Zelcyone twisted her body in obvious pleasure. That high pitched voice
of hers, her knitted eyebrows and smiling face, it was all different from
the usual Zelcyone, she looked really lovely.
“I, idiot-, don’t move insi――hiaaah! YaAHN, an”

“Zelcyone yourself, you let out a lot of cute voices huh……it’s a little
unexpected seeing you like this.”

“Yo, you, fool……the, there is no way, that’s true, I……ha, am the side
that makes people scream.”

However, right after saying that her body bent backwards and she
raised a sweet voice.

“NOOoOOOh♡ Thi, this is……ku, your body, is not a woman so……

shit-, I, I’m not familiaaaaAAAAAAANNNNN-“

Strength left her body and Zelcyone collapsed towards Kizuna.

“Oops.”

Zelcyone leaned her head on Kizuna’s shoulder. Kizuna gently

embraced her body so that she wouldn’t fall. She was breathing sweetly
while sometimes her body would shiver.

Looks like she welcomed a light climax. However, even while her
consciousness was hazy, her lips pressed on Kizuna’s nape and her
tongue caressed his skin. And then both her hands kept grasping
Kizuna’s thing firmly.

“Zelcyone, then can I rely on you for the Core? I want you to stimulate
and warm this thing.”

It was a preparation for the reinstall. The Core was synchronized with
Kizuna’s sense, so from here on Kizuna also couldn’t let his guard down.

However Zelcyone alternately looked at the Core that Kizuna presented

and the thing that she was holding. And then she separated for the
moment from Kizuna and laid down her body erotically on the futon.
And then she brought her face near Kizuna’s thing on all fours.

“This is……both of them are synchronized right? Then……I want to

warm this one here but……is it no good?”

Her eyes that were looking up at him beggingly made his chest jolted.
Obscene light was shining in her moist eyes. Perhaps taking Kizuna’s
silence as approval, Zelcyone brought her face even closer and opened
her lips. And then she kissed at the tip with her soft lips. Instantly
pleasure ran from Kizuna’s crotch towards his waist. And then in the
blink of an eye Kizuna’s thing was swallowed by Zelcyone.

“O, oi……don’t suddenly force yourself.”

He touched Zelcyone’s head gently to separate her from him, but then
Zelcyone hugged Kizuna’s waist. She put strength on her arms
obstinately that she wouldn’t release it.

“Go, got it! You can do as you like.”

He said that and caressed her head, feeling relieved she unfastened her
hands around his waist. And then her hand propped the thing she was
sucking and moved up and down, the things dangling down below it
were massaged greedily by her other hand.

That awkward hand movement flamed up Kizuna’s pleasure instead.

That Zelcyone is……just thinking that made him excited.

Kizuna glanced at the Core he put beside the futon. It seemed that it was
already thoroughly prepared for the install.

“Zelcyone, aren’t you tired? Besides you are bored right? It will be
soon……”
However Zelcyone shook her head with the thing still in her mouth.
And then she let out Kizuna’s thing that had been warmed so much in
her mouth that it felt like there was steam there, she looked up at him
with entranced eyes.

“It’s mysterious……why, is something like this……making me calm

down, my chest going warm from sucking it……I don’t get tired of
it……I can keep licking it, for the whole night……”

‘――No, if you do that that will be too wasteful for me.’

He reached out his hand and touched Zelcyone’s body. He lifted her
voluminous breast and caressed it. Her body that was already feeling it
reacted sensitively to Kizuna’s hand, honey was overflowing from
inside her body.

“Let’s feel even better. After that I’ll have you lick it again.”

“……Really?”

He soothed Zelcyone who was looking up at him doubtfully and

somehow made her hand released him. And then he opened the legs of
Zelcyone who was now lying down on the futon facing up.

“Now, here we go……”

Zelcyone looked fondly at the nervous Kizuna and showed him a kind
smile.

“Yes……let’s make it, with the two of us?♡”

That smile which was really obscenely cute made Kizuna smiled
reflexively too.
‘――That way of saying it makes me think of various other things
though.’

Kizuna brought the Core close to Zelcyone’s crotch, he touched its tip at
Zelcyone’s entrance.

“aaHN-!”

Zelcyone’s body jolted in shivers. And then without stopping Kizuna

sunk the Core into her body.

“Ah……kuh……nnha, aaa, AAAAAAAAAAAAAA-!”

As the Core was progressing inside, Zelcyone’s body was convulsing.

And then, both her arms reached out as though searching for
something.

“YaaAAAHN, Ki, Kizuna-! KIZUNAaAAAAA-!”

“It’s fine. I’m right here.”

“Aahn……♡”

When she found Kizuna’s body, she made a relieved sigh and expression
and embraced his body.

“O…..Ze, Zelcyone?”

When he was embraced strongly like this, it was really difficult to

move.

“I’m sorry, just for a little……”

When he was trying to separate their bodies, Zelcyone entangled both
her legs on Kizuna’s body in panic, holding Kizuna’s body tightly with
both her arms and legs.

“Ya, no, NNoOOO”

She threw a tantrum with a face that almost broke into tears so that he
wouldn’t go away. This must also be because of the effect that was
similarly generated in Heart Hybrid. Perhaps she was feeling it too
much that her head didn’t work properly.

Kizuna relaxed and put his body weight on Zelcyone’s body. And then
he whispered sweetly into her ear.

“You don’t need to worry. I’m right beside Zel here.”

“Fua……nn♡”

In her eyes that let out tears on her joyful smile, a purple light was
swimming.

After he thrust deep into Zelcyone, he slowly pulled it out.

“Ah, yah, it, feels good-! So, something like this, is-, the first♡”

Zelcyone rained down kisses on Kizuna’s ear and cheek fawningly. And
then as though she was thanking him for the pleasure he gave her, she
stretched out her tongue and licked him all over. It felt ticklish, but it
made him feel Zelcyone’s lovely expression of affection and made him
feel happiness. It felt like his affection towards the pushed down
Zelcyone beneath him was increasing.

“Are you okay? You don’t feel pain?”

Zelcyone shook her head toward Kizuna’s question with an expression
that was desperately suppressing the pleasure.

“I, it’s all right…ahn……Ki, Kizuna, can do…….as you please, already♡”

“Zelcyone……”

“Kizuna……”

Particles of light were floating up from the bodies of the two who were
staring at each other.

Kizuna went into his last spurt and accelerated the coming and going of
the Core as though to familiarize it with Zelcyone’s body.

“Aah! Kizuna-! KizunaaAAAhn!”

Zelcyone’s face was bright red, sweat was flowing from her whole body
and she gasped a lot.

And then both of them rushed towards climax together.

“Hih! ……-uh! ……
aaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA♡♡♡♡♡”

Intense light snapped out and warm divine radiance wrapped the two
of them.

“Aa……this is, the mix of affection and pleasure……” (TN: The words
affection I have been using until now can also be heard as love in the
original language)

The Core was melting inside the body of Zelcyone who was murmuring
intoxicatedly.
It was the moment when the reinstall of Teros succeeded.

Part 4
Both of them fell asleep right after and passed the night.

When Kizuna opened his eyes due to the morning sun that shined from
the window, there was Zelcyone that was softly breathing cutely inside
his arms. It was an innocent sleeping face with a slight smile tugged
there.

‘――I never thought that I would spend a night with Zelcyone.’

Even after the reinstall Zelcyone kept fawning at Kizuna a lot. It made
him recall that dazzling night.

“Zel, it’s morning now.”

He called at her while caressing her head, Zelcyone opened her eyes
with a faint voice.

“Good morning, Zel.”

“Nn……”

Along with the strength of will that was gradually filling her eyes,
expression was vanishing from her face.

She raised her head slowly from Kizuna’s arm pillow and stood up on
the futon.

“Zel?”

And then she put on her underwear with sluggish movement and she
put her arm through her uniform’s sleeve.
“Aah, are you going to school? Or else to the dormitory――”

She glared at Kizuna who was calling out to her with eyes as though he
had killed her parents.

“Shut up! Don’t you push your luck Kizuna!”

“……heh?”

That drastic change of attitude made Kizuna stiffen with a cramped

smile on his face.

“Last night, to my shame, I got taken by surprise, but that was an

accident. Don’t you think that the likes of you can do whatever you
please with me! That doesn’t mean that I now belong to you!”

“Eh, a, yeah…..but about yesterday……”

Perhaps she was recalling what happened last night, Zelcyone’s cheeks
reddened and she pursed her lips tightly.

“For, forget about last night! Or, or else, do you need me to erase it for
you huh!?”

“N, no, stop that please!”

Kizuna immediately covered his eyes.

“……Listen well. About this matter, don’t you tell even a single soul.”

Kizuna thought that was only par for the course, but he didn’t dare to
open his mouth.

“I got it……so, if you are going home then I’ll send you off――”
“No need! Don’t put on an air like you are my master! I’ve not become
your woman at all! Engrave that into your heart! Hida Kizuna!”

The sliding door was closed with a bang and Zelcyone’s figure vanished.

“Aa……got it.”

While being half dazed from that complete change of attitude, Kizuna
looked around the room where Zelcyone had left. He slowly stood up,
put on his yukata, and then while thinking about going for a morning
bath because this was a rare chance, he approached the window.

“……ah”

Outside the window, there was Zelcyone in the middle of the path
towards the gate looking up to here.

The gazes of the two met and Zelcyone’s cheeks reddened before she
turned her face. And then, she headed towards the gate with large steps.

While looking at her back figure, he wondered what he should talk

about with her the next time they met face to face?

――Like that, Kizuna pondered.

HxH Volume 9 Electronic Special Short Story –

Zelcyone’s Discord
Swallowed by the space-time tsunami generated by Osiris, Oldium that
Grace and the others of the Vatlantis group boarded drifted ashore at
Osiris’s world.

Clayda glared at the monitor which had its searching range turned to
max.
“There is nothing but sand as far as the eye can see. However, based
from the image we saw when we did emergency landing, we know that
there is something like a city at the other side of the horizon.”

Grace nodded in understanding.

“Then we can only go there to see. I will go for a bit and look at the
situation there.”

Grace was about to go out of the bridge while saying that, but Zelcyone
stopped her in panic.

“Please wait. We don’t know what kind of danger is waiting there. The
Quartum and I will depart for reconnaissance.”

However, Grace pouted her mouth in dissatisfaction.

“What are you saying? Exactly because we don’t know what kind of
enemy is there and the possibility of danger that I have to go. If there is
a machine god there……all of you should know how strong those
bunches are. Isn’t it only natural for me who has the greatest combat
strength to go?”

“You must not. Grace-sama can just prepare on the bridge. Please leave
that kind of trivial work to us.”

“What are you saying Zel? That you have power even stronger than me?
Are you saying that you possess a strength that can possibly oppose a
machine god?”

At that time Zelcyone looked startled. Clayda, Elma, Lunorlla, and

Ramza of Quartum felt a faint out of place feeling.
Zelcyone’s reaction didn’t seem to be something simple like having been
offended where it hurts. The four people who were always at Zelcyone’s
side as her close aide were able to sense the slight difference in
Zelcyone’s reaction. That difference made the four people feel
dissatisfaction inside them.

“Tha, that is……there is no way that is true.”

Zelcyone’s eyes were wavering. Seeing her like this was really rare. The
four Quartum displayed pure interest rather than anxiety at Zelcyone’s
agitation.

“A, at any rate, for the emperor herself to perform reconnaissance is just
outrageous. Please leave it to us.”

After saying that Zelcyone turned on her heel.

“Ah, where are you going! Zel!”

“I will be doing the preparation for my sortie. The Quartum, too, do

each of your own preparation.”

Without waiting for any reply from the four Quartum, Zelcyone left the
bridge as though she was running away.

She crossed the corridor with fast pace and entered the elevator with a
leap, she then pressed for the floor where her room was. Oldium had an
emergency landing in a tilted state, so the elevator was also tilting
diagonally. Leaning on the tilted wall, she heaved a deep sigh.

“Even though this is not something that can be hidden forever……”

Zelcyone was able to obtain the power that could possibly oppose a
machine god.
The new power she obtained was the result of the Core’s reinstall with
Hida Kizuna. Of course it was an act for the sake of protecting Grace and
searching for Aine. She had no other sentiment except those.

But, when she thought about the feeling of Aine and Grace, doing
reinstall with Kizuna felt like betraying those two somehow, she
couldn’t talk about it honestly.

In the back of her mind, what happened in a room of Ataraxia’s hot

spring inn flashed.

“Kuh……”

Zelcyone’s cheeks boiled red and she bit her lip.

“Good grief. This is that guy’s fault too.”

The memory of what Kizuna did to herself was rising to the surface of
her mind. The tip of her breast that was touched by Kizuna. Her own
finger touched that place as though to recall that sensation.

“……Nn”

At that moment, a sweet sensation came from the tip of her breast to
her waist, and then went to her brain through her spinal cord.

“Haaa……♡”

Unconsciously a sweet sigh leaked out from her mouth. Her fingertip
continued to rub her breast searchingly as though to pursue that
sensation.

The fabric of her military uniform was a bother that she strengthened
her finger’s movement. Electrifying sensation resounded on the
pointed end of her breast.
“Ahn!”

‘――The place……Kizuna touched. The place where the Core was

installed into me…….’

Zelcyone described the pleasure at that time to ruminate on it, she

caressed all over her body. Her fingertip was unconsciously reaching
out to her crotch.

“……-!?”

Zelcyone was surprised at her fingertip’s sensation and in panic she

peeked at her own nether region.

Over there was already damply wet, the nectar overflowing from
between the high legging became drips along her thighs and flowed
down towards her calf.

“Wha……”

Zelcyone’s face turned red inside the elevator where she was alone.

‘――Wh, what? Just by recalling that, I become this……it’s like I’m

having a craving like this.’

She had to wipe up the overflowing nectar before anybody else entered
the elevator. For the Imperial Guards captain Zelcyone of all people,
walking around while her nectar was dripping from recalling her tryst
with Lemuria’s demon king, it would be a matter of her honor if such
thing became known.

After thinking so, she then ‘What tryst! That was just work!’ scolded
herself like that.
She tried to wipe her nectar with her fingertips and touched between
her crotch.

“!? Hih……aaAAAAAAAAAAAAH♡!”

She plugged her mouth in panic.

‘――Wha, what, what is that girlish voice just now?’

She clenched her teeth and took out a handkerchief from her breast
pocket, hesitantly she wiped up the drips along her thighs.

“You bastard……Hida Kizuna. This too, everything is that guy’s fault!”

That man was stealing her important things one after another. Ainess
and then Grace. And then by any chance, even the Vatlantis Empire
itself.

‘――Ainess-sama and Grace-sama too are infatuated with that man. I

cannot deny their feelings. But, if that’s the case then what will happen?

Will that man become Vatlantis’s emperor? In that case will I serve that
man, that I have to protect him, Ainess-sama, and Grace-sama?’

Inside Zelcyone’s chest, a strange feeling that she couldn’t decide

whether it was disgust or amusement attacked her. Certainly he was
the leading actor that once saved Atlantis from that Nayuta. She also
understood that his feeling that treasured Ainess and Grace wasn’t a lie
or false.

“No, screw that. Even the reinstall before this……his caress was crude.
Compared to my technique his couldn’t possibly compare. There is no
way he can satisfy Ainess-sama and Grace-sama with that.”

――Then what should she do?

“It’s necessary for me to teach Kizuna the techniques of night acts……”

After she murmured until there, her face turned bright red and her lips
pursed tightly.

‘――Am I sane? Just what foolish thing was I thinking just now!’

{Zelcyone-sama!}

“Uwah!”

A floating window appeared before her eyes at the same time when the
elevator door opened.

“Wha, what! What happened, suddenly calling me like this?”

Inside the window, the faces of the four Quartum were pressing against
each other while peering at her. She somehow felt like the full
particulars of what she did just now was seen, causing the beating of
her chest to grow violent.

{Grace-sama is not here!}

Blood quickly left Zelcyone’s face.

{Most likely, Grace-sama is heading alone towards the place that seems
to be a city――}

Before she finished speaking, Zelcyone went out of the elevator and
searched for the nearby external hatch.

“We are heading to that city right now. Lunorlla and Ramza follow me.
We have to think about passing over Grace-sama too. Clayda and Elma
are standing by in Oldium.”
After listening to the reply of the Quartum, Zelcyone opened the hatch
and stared at the desert that was continuing until the horizon. No
matter what happened, it didn’t change that Ainess and Grace were
important existences. Right now she wouldn’t think any needless
matter and just protected her master. That was the first priority.

Zelcyone went out from the hatch.

“Teros!”

After she yelled so, the newly reborn Teros was equipped on her body.

This was the new power she obtained for the sake of protecting her
master.

“Zel-sama!”

There Ramza and Lunorlla were descending from above wearing their
magic armor.

“Eh? Zel-sama, is that……Teros?”

“True, somehow it looks different……”

“……Don’t mind it. Rather than that let’s hurry!”

“Ah! Wait, Zel-sama!”

Zelcyone flew away with a force that left the two behind.

Was that because she was worrying about Grace, or else because she
was running away from being questioned about the reinstalled Teros?

Even Zelcyone herself didn’t understand which reason was the correct
one.