Time returns a little. Just when Liliana and the others arrived in the royal palace.
pacaaaaaaaan!!
"Huh!? What the hell!?
To the unpleasant noise of the glass being smashed, Shizukuru Yae, who was sleeping in his room, jumped the sheets and took the black knife on his pillow, instantly took a critical stance. Obviously, it is the movement of those who have not rested their minds from time to time and remain vigilant.
……
It was Shizuku, who had been lurking his breath for some time with a harsh look on his sword pulling attitude, but when he found out there was no abnormality indoors, he slightly leaked a relieved exhale.
Shizukuishi has become more alert because of Liliana and Aiko, who have been unable to face each other for the past few days.
For some time now, I had noticed the discomfort drifting within the royal palace. I also suspected that something bad was happening to Aiko that day because she couldn't see her when she broke up because she had important stories at dinner on the day she returned.
Naturally, looking for the whereabouts of both of them, Ishtal told me that Aiko and the others were discussing heretical interrogation at the main mountain, but I couldn't get them to meet me in person. It should be noted that it was a devoured Shizukuishi, but I was told that I would be back in a few days, and if Elihid, Liliana's father and king, told me not to worry, I would have to back off first, though reluctantly.
But still, the vague sense of anxiety did not disappear, and, as it is now, he slept with vigilance like a spy here.
Shizuku, when he got out of bed without a sound, geared up in seconds and carefully stepped out of the room. Shizuku has been alone since Kaori embarked on a journey with Hajime. When I made sure there were no anomalies in the hallway, I immediately knocked on the room of the Shining Men across the street.
The door opened immediately and Kwang-hyun showed himself. There's Ryutaro in the back of the room and it looks like he's already awake. Apparently, he woke up just like Shizuku in the loud acoustics earlier.
"Kwong Fai, you, be a little more vigilant. You know, all of a sudden you open the door... who doesn't have as much trouble doing what, right?
Shizuku lurks his eyebrows into the glow that normally opened the door without any alarm. In contrast, Kwong Hsien has a Kyotong look. He heard the crushing noise, but he didn't think there might be a crisis in the hallway inside the royal palace, which was also right outside. It is also likely that he has not yet fully awakened.
Over the past few days, Shizukuishi has been giving advice about the discomfort and Aiko in the royal palace that "something is wrong, we should be vigilant," but I didn't take it too seriously that either Kwanghui or Ryutaro would think too much.
"From that, Shizuku. What was that? It sounded like something broken..."
"... I don't know. Anyway, let's wake everyone up and go get some information. I have a bad feeling..."
Shizuku said that, turning his heel and slamming the other classmates' room from one end. Most of the students apparently had a crushing noise earlier, and the gathering was prompt. Luminous brilliance sums up his voice to all the students who came out in the hallway looking anxious, or annoyed by a sudden sleep disturbance.
And, at that time, one of the samurai, who was cordial with Shizuku, rushed in. She was keen on swordsmanship in the knight's lineage, and the connection made her close to Shizuku.
"Shizukuishi..."
"Nia!"
The samurai, called Nia, walks by Shizukuishi with a look somewhere lacking in hegemony. Shizuku frowned because of such discomfort, as shadowed by the usual Rin atmosphere, but the information brought to him by Nia drained him of his temper, and his discomfort also blew away.
"One great junction has been broken"
"... what?
To Shizukuishi, who overheard him, Nia tells the facts pale.
"It's a demon invasion. A large army has been deployed near Wangdu, and their attacks have broken the Great Junction."
"... how the hell..."
The resulting information is too distant, and Shizukuishi the boulder is also flabbergasted by a slight loss of calm.
That seemed to be the same for the other classmates, and the hustle and bustle spread deliberately. It is also hard to believe that the great army of the demons will break the Great Junction after invading the King's capital without anyone blaming them. I can't help it if they can't stay calm.
"... Is the Great Junction the only first barrier?
In the meantime, a glow with a rugged look asks Nia. The great junction that protects the Wang capital consists of three pieces, called the first, second, and third barriers from the outside, making it the most robust barrier for the minute that the inner third barrier is also small in scale of deployment.
"Yes. So far...... but the first barrier was broken in one blow. It's only a matter of time before everything breaks through..."
To Nia's answer, Kwang-hyuk suggested that we discuss it from ourselves.
"We're gonna buy you a little time. If in the meantime we evacuate the people of the King's Capital so that the soldiers and the Knights can set their minds..."
Only a few gave a resolute look to the words of the glow. Shizukuishi, Ryutaro, Bells, Nagayama parties and other front-line groups were the only ones.
Other classmates have a dark look just to distract them. They are the ones who have lost their willingness to stand on the front lines. I can't challenge a very large army opponent to buy time.
Then an unexpected person, Eri Nakamura, waited for us and for the glow that would make our hearts roll even more.
"Wait, Mitsuhei-kun. I think we should rendezvous with Mr. Meld and the others sooner rather than later."
"Eri...... but"
"Nia, what is the Great Army... do you know how much?
"... a hundred thousand or so."
To that number, the students are breathtaking.
"Mitsui. We can't help it.... we need to counter numbers by numbers. We're stronger than normal people, so I think we should be where we need to be when we need to be most. I don't think we should work properly with Mr. Meld and the others..."
The intensity of the light that dwells in the eyes never takes a pull on the glows, even though it is Kelly's modest way of saying it. And the opinion was the best.
"Yeah, I guess the bell agrees with Elilyn, too. It's Elilyn the Bell! Your glasses are not Dade!
"Eyeglasses don't matter... bells"
"Hehe, I agree with Eri too. Looks like he lacked some calm. What about the glow?"
To the opinions of the three women, Gwanghui patrols. However, Hikaru sometimes trusted Eri's judgment, who usually took a big step back and looked at things, and eventually decided to rendezvous with the Knights of the Melds and the soldiers, as Eri put it.
Gwanghui and the others ran out for the gathering place of the soldiers and knights at the time of their departure. Don't notice the ripped grin like the Three Sundays Moon right next to you...
When Kwanghui and the others visited the designated outdoor meeting point in the event of an emergency, there were already many soldiers and knights lined up neatly there, and Jose Langkaid, Deputy Commander of the Knights of the Kingdom of Heilich, had just given a vocal account of the situation on the previous stage. In the moonlight, the soldiers all stood staring at Jose with a blue-eyed look.
And Jose stops the words and invites the glows when he notices the glows who came into the square.
"... you've come a lot. Do you understand the situation?
"Yes, Nia told me. Uh, where's Mr. Meld?
Mitsui nodded at Jose's welcome words and questions, and asked him where he was as he roared in search of the invisible meld.
"The captain has a little something to do. More than that, come on, to our center. Because the brave are our leaders..."
That's what Jose said and led them to the center of the soldiers aligning the glows. The rest of my classmates said, "Huh? So are we? He showed confusion in the wind, such as," but followed the Kwanghui as they were flushed without being able to say anything in the place where the silent soldiers hissed.
The discomfort in Shizuku swells to the appearance of the surrounding soldiers, knights, who pass silence and whose expression hardly changes. That, coupled with the unpleasant feeling I've felt since I woke up, made Shizuku's heart noise. Within unconsciousness, a force enters the hand holding the black knife.
And Jose resumed his speech just as Kwanghui and the others surrounded themselves with soldiers and knights.
"Guys, the situation is pressing. But there's nothing to be afraid of. We have no enemies. We have no defeat. Death never strikes us. Come on, guys, let's welcome our brave men. We exist for this day. Now, take the sword."
A soldier, a knight, pulls out his sword in unison.
"It's the beginning wolf smoke. Keep an eye out."
I put something over my head that Jose took out of my nose. Follow his words and pay no attention not only to the soldiers but also to the glows.
And...
Kah!!
The light blew up.
Something in Jose's possession emitted a ray of light that also caused Hajime to flash. The indefensibly attentive luminaries, each distracted or covered with a short scream, temporarily smeared their vision into the light by looking directly at them.
And the next moment......
Zubri
countless such vivid sounds,
"Agu?
"Ha!
"Ugh!?
Then there was a creeping scream from all over.
It's not a scream that surprised the light earlier. It's a painful, unintentionally leaking, distressed voice. And right after that, you start to hear countless sounds of dosadosa and people falling.
In the meantime, Shizuku alone understood the cause. I've been on maximum alert ever since I walked into the square. Jose's speech was also somewhere uncomfortable. So even shortly after the light exploded and burned his eyes, he remained relatively unsettled, and soon afterwards managed to prevent the murder blade that attacked him with a black knife. It would be the gift of training that could have prevented me from relying solely on signs in blind situations.
And what Shizuku saw, who looked around with his flashing and recovered vision, was all the classmates, quotes pierced by the swords of soldiers and knights from behind, assembled on the ground.
"Hey, this..."
He is held down to be stretched down from the top as he groans, and furthermore, Shizuku clogs his voice when he sees his classmates stabbed with a sword from his back. No way, the worst imagination I can imagine is that they've all been killed, but they all seem to live in agony while raising their voices.
While slightly relieved by that, Shizuku pointed a harsh gaze at the soldiers around him in a situation that did not allow prediction, but a strange sight appeared in his eyes and he stiffened unexpectedly.
"Oh, should I call it a boulder?... Hey, Shizuku?
"Huh? What... what!?
Yes, there was only one student standing flat as the dying classmates fell and fell. The student speaks to Shizuku with an unusual, somewhere sticky voice. Because the atmosphere was changing so much, Shizuku tried to question it reflexively while clogging the words.
At that moment, again, from behind Shizukuishi, a knight protruded his sword.
"Damn!?
While upset by the leopard of the familiar counterpart, the student still turns a frightened glance at Shizukuishi, who flirts hard.
"You know, avoid this too... really, Shizuku is a hassle, right?
"Say what!
A storm of swords that is more intense and protrudes with the addition of other soldiers and knights. Shizuku, all of them too, but all of a sudden, his name screams and he turns his gaze to you.
"Shizukuishi! Help..."
"Nia!"
There, from the state of being pushed down by knights and horseback riders, was exactly what Nia was about to get his sword protruded now. Shizukuishi reached Nia in an instant with a sword strike that was swung down by a fast move from "unclamped", knocking a sheath on the knight riding on her and blowing it from the top of the Nia.
"Nia, are you okay?
"Shizukuishi..."
Shizuku turns a vigilant eye around her as she wakes up supporting her falling near.
Such a Shizukuishi name, Nia turns her hands and squeals.
And
... I put my sword up on Shizuku's back.
"Agu!? Ni, Nia? Duh, why..."
……
Shizuku looked down at Nia hugging herself with such expressions as incredible with her face distorted by the severe pain running on her back.
Nia had no usual familiar look or pleasant expression, she just looked back at Shizuku without expression.
Shizuku finally realized there. At first, I thought that the cause of Nia's strangeness would be the invasion of Wang Du, but it wasn't, and that the atmosphere was exactly the same as that of the soldiers and knights whose condition surrounded her without expression, and there was a cause elsewhere.
Nia assembled herself on the ground and restrained herself as she took Shizuku's arm and twisted it, putting a magic sealed shackle on her just like she was doing to the other students.
"Ahahahaha, even Shizukuishi the boulder didn't think the kid would stab you? Yeah, yeah, right? Is that why you prepared it on purpose?
While devouring his teeth at the burning pain felt on his back and the cold on the ground felt on his cheeks, Shizuku realizes that Nia, like the other insane soldiers, did something. And I don't want to admit it, but I would have created this miserable state of affairs, and still, I called the name of my best friend, who has an unpleasant grin that I don't normally think of as Niyaniya.
"What do you mean... Eri"
Yes, the person was Keiri Nakamura, one of Shizukuta's best friends who had had a hard time with Shizukuta, who was modest, adult, attentive and heartfelt.
Students who are seriously injured, but are able to survive with a distressed look on their face that seems to have been targeted for a place that won't die soon, also stare at Eri, who walks gently among the ghostly soldiers with tricks and footsteps.
Eri walked over to Shizukuishi, laughing at Niyaniya about what was wrong, without answering Shizukuishi's often interrupted questions. And he smiles glossy when he removes his glasses and pulls the collar gleefully, one of the magic seals nestled in the glowing neck.
"Eh, Eri... what the hell... what's going on..."
Shizukuta Not as familiar as childhood, but a glow desperately hits the question as she endures the pain of a sword piercing her body at the difference in the extra atmosphere of Eri, a very close friend and one of her companions. But Keiri ignores the question of Shining with a look somewhere like she was floating in heat.
And
"Aha, Mitsuhei-kun, Tsu-Kama ~ Eh ~"
With that said, I lay my own it on Shining's lips. As the strange silence surrounded the area, the pizza and vivid sound sounded soberly clear. Eri devoured the glow with obsession as if to spit out everything she had been accumulating for years.
Hikaru tried desperately to wield it without knowing why, but besides being held down by a few people, he put a magic sealed shackle on his hands and feet, like the rest of the students, and remained powerless because of the sword that pierced his body.
Eventually you're satisfied, or Eri releases her lips as she plays the silver thread. And when he licked his tongue with a narrower, tranced look, he rose, falling down, and gagged at the students bleeding. There is a line of anguished expressions and flashy expressions. When I nodded satisfied with such a sight, I finally set my gaze on Shizukuishi and smiled.
"And well, here's the thing. Shizuku"
"What... what the hell... Kofu..."
With such expressions as I don't know why, when I shook my head with a face that said that Eri was poorly informed to Shizuku, who vomited blood while staring at Eri, I told him as if to teach a toddler the logic of things.
"Um, don't you get it? I've always wanted Hikaru. [M] So I did what I needed to do for that. That's all, isn't it?
"... if you like glow... even confession... something like this..."
To Shizukuishi's objection, Eri becomes, for a moment, faceless. But he told me again that he would soon return to his niggered grin.
"No, no, no, da-me. You can't confess. Mitsuhei-kun can't make special because he's sweet. Even if we only have garbage around that's not worth anything, we're too kind to leave it alone. So, in order for me to be the only one, I have to do my best to clean the garbage."
Don't you even know that? and Keri flattering her shoulders as if she were a little fool. Even if they call me garbage, I'm too surprised and angry for the rest of the leopard weirdness. It had even changed its name to a single person, and honestly, Shizukuishi could only see the girl in front of her for the first time.
"Hehe, I'm glad you came to the other world. In Japan, it's really hard to clean garbage, and I shouldn't have lived there. Of course, I won't admit to winning the war like this and going back to Japan. Mitsuhei-kun lives here with me, not with me."
To Keiri, who laughs and says so, Shizuku spills a fuzzy, head-on guess out of his mouth, wondering no way.
"... no way... the Great Junction was easily... broken by..."
"Ahaha, have you noticed? Yes, it's me. I used them to break the Great Junction artifact."
Shizuku's worst guess seemed to be a hit. It didn't even occur to me why the Demons were able to invade the suburbs of Wang Capital, but it seemed that it was Eri's fault that the Great Junction was easily broken. Keiri's gaze made them do it because she was amused to see the knights and soldiers nestled like ghosts beside her.
"If I kill you guys, I can't stay in the kingdom anymore... so I decided to make contact with the Demons and ask them to put the guide to the King's capital and the murder of the otherworlds, and the dedication of the Knights who made you dolls, into the Demons' Land, and just leave me and Kohinoo alone."
"Stupid... I can't believe I'm in touch with the Demons..."
Mitsui manages to regain it from the shock of the kiss and squeals with the look on her face that she says is incredible. Eri worked out with herself all the time in the royal palace. I make an awkward objection from my desire to believe in Eri that it is impossible to make contact more than the Demons cannot get inside the Great Junction.
But Eri smashes such hope lightly.
"The demonic woman who attacked me in [the Great Labyrinth of Orcs]. Just a little while on the way home, with the demoralization, right? As expected, the Demons came to collect it and let me use it there. That incident caused your liver to get cold on the boulder. I tried to meet them so they wouldn't kill me and they would dismiss me... I didn't even think I'd use the demonization... I wanted to make the impression that I couldn't use the demonization because I didn't want to be suspicious... well, I felt like an O'Rei as a result..."
As Keiri said, she left a message for the demon tribe, who would come looking for her by not returning by performing a demon magic on the demon tribe woman. That's why Mikhail knew the truth about Katrea's death. It should be noted that the communication from the demon tribe uses the appropriate "human" corpse.
Hearing Keiri's story, she remembered her demoralization and Shizukuishi lost her blood and blued her blue and white face even more.
Psychiatry is magic that acts on the residual thought of the subject of death (...). I wanted to keep it a secret that I could use it fully, which means that it can actually be used perfectly. If it is, then the worst answer comes from the ghostly soldiers and knights that surround Shizuku and how Nia suppresses herself.
"What's... strange about them..."
"It's a magic trick. We're all dead." Ahahahahahahaha! "
Shizuku devoured his teeth with gibberish and desperate objections to the ruthless answers brought.
"... lying... psychic. Then... I can't believe I'm answering... I can't...!
"Is that Hola, my strength? I added lifetime memory and thought patterns to the psychic technique so that I could get some answers. I wonder if my original psychic technique is" Tied Souls "? Oh, still uncomfortable ~. It wasn't something I could do in a day, and I was just worried about what was going on there... Someone offered to help me one day. Beautiful person with silver hair. I was surprised that the plan was being found out, and for a moment, I decided I was ready for a lot of things... and I was sure I wasn't accusing you at that point, and I can't trust you, but I was wondering if I could use it."
Really, I was in a hurry, and Eri pretended to wipe the sweat off the skin. Probably had a lot going on in the process, but I wouldn't even let that happen every time.
"In fact, it's awesome because you put the nearby anomaly through to the king, isn't it? Instead, I was like someone who was kidding with dangerous drugs. Well, that allowed me to speed up the plan at once. Kufu, it's okay! Because we don't waste everyone's death. Heh heh, I'll reuse it so the Demons can use it!
Originally, descent is a technique that can act on residual thought to extract the lifetime will of the dead from it, move as the surgeon wishes after magically coating residual thought to have an entity, or possess the body to move it.
Its performance naturally deteriorates compared to its lifetime, and it does not move unless instructed by the operator because it does not possess the ability to think, etc. Of course, it is possible to keep moving without detailed instructions by giving continuous orders such as "Keep attacking".
In other words, things like Nia and Jose normally had conversations with Shizukuda should not be possible in a psychic technique more than they are incapable of thinking. This could be achieved to such an extent that it feels uncomfortable because Eri's technique of "bonding the soul" is a technique that allows the memory and thought patterns of the subject to be extracted from the soul and added to the body.
This, if I may say so, is interference with the soul. In other words, Eri put his hands on the realm of divine magic on his own, even though the ends were terminal. Exactly what I used to say about cheats, bad psychics, etc., and that drilling and genius talent is something to be stunned about. Or maybe paranoia up to awesome is the driving force.
Incidentally, Eri doesn't kill his classmates instantly because this "tied soul" can only be used one person at a time immediately after death.
"Gu... stop... Eri! If you do that... I..."
"Don't you forgive me? Ahaha, I thought you'd say that. Mitsuhei-kun is sweet. Besides, the garbage comes out as much as it takes to clean it... so I'll" tie up my soul "and make it just for me, right? Nobody else sees it, just stares at me and gives me the words I want! It's just me, Hikaru! Oh, oh! Just imagine it. It's going to be a good idea!
Eri gets bored hugging herself with a tranced look. There, none of the gentle, attentive librarian girls were shadowed. My classmates think. She said she was crazy. "Tied soul" is no different to being a puppet and doll of an operator simply because it makes the dead more user-friendly than the spirit of descent. I knew that, and it should be noted that I didn't think it was sane such as wanting such a glow.
"It's a lie... it's a lie! Erilyn... Eri... I can't do this! … something… yes… they are just being manipulated! Ah... wake up, Eri!
Keri's best friend, the bell, distorted his expression in pain and gasped in pain, but raised his voice. The hand is scratching the ground galloping as if it were about to go to Eri. Eri turned a nickel and grin at Bell's words of faith in herself and their straight eyes. And, by the way, I walk over to Reiichi Kondo, who had fallen nearest me.
Kondo tried to get away from Eri, who screamed "hiccup" even with a bad feeling. Naturally, it is perfectly assembled, and the magic is sealed with shackles, so I can only do things to the point of being squatted.
Eri, who walked over beside Kondo, turned again to Kondo, who shuddered in fear, perceiving what would be done, and smiled nicely. Kwong Fai and the others said, "No!" "Stop!" and raise the voice of restraint.
"Ya, stop!? but, ah, agu..."
Kondo's creeping screams rise. On Kondo's back, a sword was once again protruding in his heart position. For just a few moments Kondo wanted to show his tough status late bump, but eventually he turned the move into something weak, and... stopped moving.
Eri chants like no one has ever heard a chant before when she hands on that Kondo. When the chant was complete and the magic name of "Tied Soul" was finished, the translucent Kondo appeared and blended in to overlap his own body.
Shortly afterwards, the knight who had previously detained Kondo rises and takes a step back. Kondo, who was supposed to have destroyed his heart and died as Kohinoo and his men sat up slowly, with a ghostly look as did the soldiers and knights around him.
"Ha ha. The doll can do it!"
Keiri's bright voice echoes among her classmates, who stare at Kondo in silence. Just now, the phrase that killed every man, the voice that I don't even think of as the one who killed him.
"Oh, Eri... why..."
To a bell that spills doubt with a stunned look like a shock, Eri hears the worst story that can be described as a chase.
"Hey, bell? Thank you. You were very convenient to be beside Hikaru, both in Japan and here, weren't you?
"... Huh?
"Coming, right? Shizuku and Kaori are next to Kohinoo-kun, and the air is spreading. When we approach it inadvertently, the other women will see us... because there was no power over there, it would take time to fit in or destroy ourselves. I appreciate the presence of the bell in that regard. You can make me smile at anything you do with stupid rounds, right? What no one blames for entering the circle of Kwong Fai and his men. Therefore, the position of" best friend of Tanimura Bell "was really convenient. Thanks to you, I was beside nature and Shining over there, and I put you in the same party even when you came to another world... yeah, ho ho ho bells were handy! So, thanks!
"... ah, ah, ah..."
Shocking Keiri's confession echoed the sound of something crumbling in the bell. A bell reminded me that everything I've built with my best friend, everything I've always believed, was a fantasy. The light disappears so that it can escape reality from its eyes.
"Eri! You are!"
The extra strike, Shizukuishi raising his anger. Nia, turned into a puppet, grabs Shizuku's hair desperately and slaps it to the ground. But Shizuku's eyes were burning with anger just to say what happened to it.
"Hehe. Are you mad at me? That look on Shizuku's face is really good. Me, I hated you so much. I didn't care about all the faces that seemed natural to be beside you, or the sight from the top that I was struggling to do. So I'll give you a special, very nice role."
"What... role..."?
"Duh, hey? How does it feel to be killed by a best friend I haven't seen in a long time?
In one word, Shizuku's eyes, which he perceived as to what Eri was going to do, are opened wide.
"... No way, Kaori!?
Well done! Like I said, however, Eri rang her hands patsy and pasted a nibbled grin on her mouth. Using Shizukuishi as a puppet, Eri is trying to kill Kaori.
"If Nagumo was going to take it, he could have left it... I want to make that kid a doll and like him! There's someone there ~. He asked me for a lot of help, and I thought I'd give him a reward. I'm a man of my word! Isn't she a good woman?
"Bullshit, bullshit! Ohhhh... agoo!?
With anger, Nia stabbed her sword further into Shizuku, who tried to move even after spreading her wound herself.
"Aha, painful? Ouch? Because I'm sweet. Now, make it easier..."
Eri walks over with a grin with Niyaniya, as if it was Shizukuishi's turn now. Did Shizukuishi fantasize about the sight of being killed and puppeted just like Kondo? Shizukumi and the others attempt desperate resistance.
In particular, the resistance of the glow began to crack in the shackles of the magic seal, which were attached to a total of five, while desperately raising the voice of restraint. A tremendous amount of pressure is overflowing from that body to use even the hegemony of "breaking the limit".
However, the perfect restraint using joints with knights whose brain limiters come off and show unparalleled strength, no matter what happens, can't be undone immediately. Despair came to the look of the glow.
Shizukuishi desperately connected the consciousness that had been hazy because of the bleeding, and at least continued to stare at Keiri with fierce anger as to whether only her eyes would deviate until the end.
Looking down at it, still with a niggered grin, Eri ended up wanting to give herself guidance, receiving a sword from a nearby knight and wielding it.
"Bye? Shizuku, your friend was about to throw up, right?
Shizuku stared at Keiri, but in his heart he turned to his best friend. Knowing it couldn't have arrived, I nevertheless pray to my best friend, who is supposed to be traveling somewhere in the world thinking about the tragedy that might happen.
(Sorry, Kaori. Don't trust me the next time I see you... survive... be happy...)
A knight's sword held backwards reflected the light of the moon and glowed sparklingly. And as he punched a pile of white wood into the vampire, a sharp cut swung down at once for Shizuku's heart.
Staring at the impending murder blade, Shizuku prays. Please, may your best friend survive, please be happy. I'll pass away first, but I'm dead. I'll hurt you, but I'm sure I'll be fine because I have him beside you. Live strong, be happy with your loved ones... please...
Fade, everything that's been behind Shizuku's brain in a world where everything's slowed down in an instant. Oh, so this is the running light...... and finally, the murder blade thrust down by Shizuku who thinks that her life
............... didn't take it away.
"Huh?"
"Huh?"
Shizukuishi and Keiri's voices overlap.
The knight's sword, poked down by Eri, was stopped by a shining barrier the size of a palm. The voices of those who are not supposed to be here echo to the two who are stunned by what has happened. Badly chopped, full of agony. Shizukuishi is the voice of her best friend, the one who wished her happiness.
"Shizukuishi!