Armed Summoners - Black Spears and the Brave Men of the Other World

Both of you, you're breathing rough.

Both were depleted.

It was Setsuna and Niewe, both of them, who were deprived of their mental and physical abilities that rewarded the attack to the point of being awesome in exercising their repeated abilities. Though we can still fight, we have little leeway left. In Setuna's case, it hurt to have used full force offense twice. If it hadn't been for the second all-powerful attack, I'd have had a little more room, but it's still too late where I regretted it. There's no other way to counter that ability. The ability to appear close to the moment you disappear from your sight does not require an instantaneous attack on the entire perimeter.

(But that's it too)

Setuna, while relieved somewhere in her mind, did not resolve the tension.

Niewe's eyes look up at this one chilly. The left-hand edge ob-thurst has been destroyed and is no longer in use. The more subpoenaed the weapon is destroyed, the further away it is from the prototype, the less power it loses, he said. Does the summoning armed of a short-knife destroy your body amount to losing a large part of its power? The short knife on his right hand remains. But one of the two swords and one pair of subpoenas was lost. Edge of Thurst cannot give its full strength. Not to mention the ability to hunt down Setuna is no longer available. None of the losing elements equals nothing.

If you can fight the black spear Setuna with only one side, you must have fought as it were when you transferred to the Forest of the Apostles. The inability to fight properly on one side alone was more proof than anything that he had re-summoned Edge of Thurst.

Niewe sits on the ground, crushing at me.

"Win…?"

"Oh. My win. You lose."

Setuna realized she would have a spicy tone, but couldn't stop it. You have to plant defeat on your opponent. Otherwise, he will strike again. The Summoning Army will be restored one day, as long as it is returned.

"Lose? Me?

"Right. Edge of Thurst is a two-dagger pair of summoning arms. One of them is useless. There's no longer a chance you can beat me."

"... sure"

Niewe admits quietly.

"Sure, Edge of Thurst is a two-dagger, one-on-one subpoena weapon. Two swords together to show true value for the first time. That's why I needed a re-summons."

Niewe's explanation was like proving Setuna's assumptions were correct.

"I didn't expect it to be destroyed."

"Now. Let's end this."

"... why?

His chilling doubts arose.

"Me and you, we're the same. It can't exist in the same world, the same existence. It's not just the figure. Even the soul is homogeneous. You know that, don't you?

"... oh"

"I don't know how you exist in this world. How did you come to this world? I don't care why you live in this world. The thing is, I can't even exist to not kill you."

"Niewe......"

"And vice versa. If you want to continue to exist in this world, you need to get rid of me, who is the same. Otherwise, either will be excluded from the world or both will disappear from this world. I can't do that. I can't just disappear."

Niewe lay her eyes down.

"Even for that one"

That one would mean the person he cares most about. Setuna doesn't know who that is, but the fact that he cares about the person above all else is painfully conveyed from his words and actions.

"But you have no more chance of winning."

"Right. Exactly. If you stick a spear in it, you win."

Niewe's eyes looked at the black spear. Setuna is sticking a black spear cut to Neewe's neck. The further you move, the further you touch. That's also why Niewe doesn't make it faint. If you move, Setuna could kill him.

Niewe laughs.

"But you can't. You know best that you can't kill me. Wouldn't you?

Nothing, I admit it. Again, that's true. Setuna can't kill him. To kill him is to ignore the king's life, and nothing more than treachery to the king itself. Sometimes about the Empire. There's nothing like how little interest Niewe has in the Empire that can even overshadow the fact that he's an Imperial Prince. It's hard to imagine an empire silencing the death of a prince. Even if you don't take any military action to name all the troops, you're sure to take some kind of retaliatory action first.

Therefore, I cannot kill you.

If you can kill him, you're killing him.

"That's why I'm asking you to surrender."

"Surrender?"

"Yes. I win, that's it."

"... so you think I'm convinced?

"If you destroy the Edge of Thurst, you'll have to be convinced."

Setuna glanced at Niewe's short knife in her right hand. Though it was the short knife on the left that succeeded in destroying it, the short knife on the right remains intact. Setuna's aim is more the complete destruction of the Edge of Surst than the former, and the consequent completions of the black spear. The aim is not to make Niewe admit defeat, but rather to follow.

If Niewe is treading that black spears cannot be countered unless they are edge-obsursts, then if even edge-obsursts are completely destroyed and black spears become complete bodies, he will never be attacked again. Don't try to fight someone you can't kill.

Of course, if measures are taken, it is not impossible to kill Setuna. But given Niewe's character, he wouldn't do that.

Even this time, taking one of the hostages at the Royal Summoner's School would have been as easy as killing Setuna. Setuna, too, would have gladly given her life if it had been for Leongand and Phalia. But Neewe didn't do it. I wanted a life-threatening battle with Setuna the Black Spear. I just don't think it makes sense to fight.

"... right. Absolutely right. If the Edge of Thurst is destroyed and taken in by a black spear, that's it. If I do, my winnings will disappear. Even if you let me live. How powerful a summoning weapon can be invoked, shall we be enemies to the complete black spear? I can't imagine."

"I would. So admit you lost."

"... right. That's good too."

I guess Niewe did that to alarm Setuna even slightly. It was the moment Setuna was relieved. He did not miss Setuna's slight relaxation and moved his right hand. Setuna reacted instantly, but it was too late. He stabbed the right knife in his chest. Setuna didn't know what he had done for a moment, not much of a shock.

"What...!?

"That just hurts...... nah -"

Neewe leaked her distressed voice as she plugged a short knife deep into her chest. And as it was, it crept to the front.

Setuna, holding onto the black spear, just blurred. I didn't have to. Niewe committed suicide. Is it to admit defeat, or not? I don't know why. I don't know, but it's true that he stabbed a knife in the chest from Mizu, and it's also true that he stopped breathing.

"Dead...?

Setsuna had no choice but to be stunned. Setuna didn't kill him. Not really, but it doesn't change the fact that he fought Setuna and died at the end of it. What happens if this fact is passed on to the mainland of the Empire? Isn't there retaliation by the Empire? No, rather than that, how could he have chosen death? Even if we lose this battle, shouldn't we live? Setuna was confused by the unexpected. I don't know what to think.

A vague sense of loss had made a big hole in Setuna's heart.

Another self died in front of me. I had to tremble at the fact that I couldn't do anything about it and had no choice but to see it through.

Two, I noticed that Niewe's body was shaking slightly.

(Alive...?

Though I didn't think so, Setsuna, clarity of ear, heard his heartbeat. My heart is moving. I didn't get a penetration into my heart, did I? Setuna was watching him with an incredible face. And the moment the change came, though I pointed the cutting edge of the spear at him, I hesitated. I can't kill you. I can't kill you. No, you should kill him. I just have to kill him. Kill him. Kill him now and prove to this world that you are alone. Otherwise it is destined to disappear. If you want to fight your fate, kill Niewe... The urge to have to kill the same existence pushes you like hell. Unstoppable temptation. But we have to fight it. If you kill him, everything could be ruined. It could be a water bubble. Leongando dreams. Setsuna's dream of fulfilling Leongand's dream may disappear as bubbles.

That led to a delay in judgment.

We were supposed to see the transformation that began to happen to Neewe's flesh. Niewe's transformation was happening to his right half body. He rose quietly as that black object formed a sharp exoskeleton, beginning to be covered with something black on his right half. At that time, his transformation was over. Only the right half was anomalized and the left half remained the same as he had been before. And then the edge of the thurst, which remained pricked in the chest, disappeared to be sucked into the chest. He gives in to the front. The exoskeleton of his back protruded when he thought he trembled painfully. I wonder if it swelled all at once, forming a single black wing.

"Sweet, sweet, Setuna"

That has been said in a tone that is very much the same as earlier.

Niewe, whose right half turned into a black demon, stares at this one and smiles coldly. Only the right half of the body is alienating, but behind Setuna's brain came to mind the end of Wayne Bersein-Teulos and that man who named him Craig Zem-Midnas. The same phenomenon is happening to both of us. I mean, alienation.

Both Lance of Designer and Mask of Disper were family members of Black Spear.

It was no surprise that Edge of Thurst, also a member of the Black Spear family, had similar abilities.

"That sweetness always kills me."

Niewe spread her wings.

The force exploded and the blast blew Setuna away.