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

Episode Two Thousand and forty-five: To Mount Kyouo (V)

Kuo Oyama.

White-haired nine-tailed fox, or a giant beast called Nine-tailed, emerged by rounding it up, which, in the long run, only appears to be a mountain. But if you look somewhat closer and harder, you will see that it is always slightly up and down. That alone always seems to be the only thing that is happening in an earthquake, but it's actually not. It is proof that Kuo Mountain itself is breathing.

Mount Kyouo is alive.

White-haired nine-tailed fox - Heart of Beast Ninetail - lives and breathes.

I mean, Sheila should be alive again. Heart of Beast is a summoning weapon. She recognized Sheila as the Lord and was helping her. Unless Sheila wants it, she won't activate the ninetail, nor will she maintain it. You can assume that the status quo is exactly what Sheila wanted.

But that's why it remains unclear whether Sheila is safe at all as things stand. There is something called a reflux phenomenon in summoning armies. It is that the immense power of the summoning armed refluxes to the user, burning down consciousness as it is and making it as obsolete as ever, something that Miliu once experienced and nearly lost sight of himself.

The regurgitation phenomenon is a phenomenon that can occur if one tries to use a summoning arm that does not fit his strength, and is encountered in the case of Miliu not only because of the fact that the power of the black spear was too powerful, but also because of the characteristic that it could not be controlled except by Setuna. You shouldn't have to worry if you have as much skill as Sheila, but it doesn't make you feel safe.

Emotional audacity can sometimes be beyond control and lead to outbursts.

I can't even imagine how Sheila's mental state was during the battle with the Vashtarian army. Maybe it's not unlikely that he even let go of control, not too much of the passion. Isn't that why Sheila was drunk by reflux phenomena and forgot me?

Otherwise, it's hard to think, such as staying ninetailed for more than two years. Considering the physical and psychological strain on Sheila, it's impossible.

Setsuna admitted that her feelings for worrying about Sheila grew as she approached Mount Kyouo.

Stay safe, Sheila.

Strongly wishing, he descends at the foot of Mount Kyouo. It was just in time when the sun was located in the center of the clear sky. Spring. On the desolate earth, there was a gentle breeze blowing through, ravaged by a very “great destruction”, cheerful not to resemble a changed sight.

It circles like a mountain and tries to get close to it that it doesn't make it slight other than breathing, making sure there's no reaction whatsoever, getting closer. We know from the story of the Gracias and from the information obtained from the Observatory that Nine Tails does not respond to every call. Setsuna just approached, same thing.

Perhaps you know that something is approaching. Whether Sheila's consciousness is there or not, the five senses of the Heart of Beast user are sharpened and sharpened more than usual while using the maximum ability of the Summoning Army. If you listen to the sound of shoes trampling the earth, you may even know the size and shape of the proximity from the flow of the atmosphere. That'll be easy.

Reinforcement of the five senses by the Summoning Army is overwhelming.

But there was no response from Kuo Mountain as to whether it should still be said or not.

Setuna could not forbid some disappointment. Because if Sheila was alive in Mount Kyouo, if she was keeping consciousness, she could have reacted in some way to Setsuna's proximity. The more Ninetail, the more you would know about the exchange at the observatory, and it wasn't surprising to understand that Setsuna went from the observatory to Mount Kyouo. Yet Kuo Mountain does not wander.

Remaining as still as a mountain, I just keep breathing.

Look, look.

Mountain skin is covered in pure white body hair. Rather than mountain skin, it is the body of the nine-tailed body, but the white furrows covering its gigantic body glowed painfully vividly in the midday sunlight. The body hair that swayed in the wind was like rice ho in the wind, even like white waves. That continues to far altitude. It was so enormous that there was no way to even compare it to the ninetails that once manifested themselves in Abard.

It drew so much power.

Sheila's consciousness was less and less likely to be safe, and Setsuna gave her a harsh look. If Sheila's consciousness is not safe, it is also obscure whether she can discuss it with these nine tails.

Summoning armies have a will.

Therefore, if Nine Tails can utter words, there is room for negotiation, but Heart of Beast recognized Sheila as the Lord and even seemed to be drowning. Whether such a Heart of Beast fulfills and responds to negotiations with Setuna.

(Ugh, you can't help thinking about it)

When Setuna scolded herself, she approached the Nine Tails further and called.

"Sheila."

A pure white body that shines brightly in the sun does not react immediately. He just stands tall as a white mountain. Again, call.

"Sheila, are you not hearing me?

Again, there's no response.

No, it's a little different.

From the earth's point of view, the mountains so huge as to rush through heaven did not make them so slightly mobile as they were unnaturally. It's like you forgot to even breathe. Doesn't that just mean I reacted? Listening to Setuna's call, I get the impression that I lurked my breath.

"You don't know what I'm talking about. It's me. It's Setuna."

There was no significant change in Setuna's three calls either. Nine-tailed giant remains round and even stops breathing. Doesn't it, then, seem to expose a certain emotion to Setuna's call? That's a dull spot.

"... maybe you're angry... right. Yeah."

Setuna felt a deep pain imagining the mood Sheila would have against herself. I don't even have to think deeply about what caused my chest pain. It's all Setuna's fault. Setuna's spinning words, her actions, are tearing herself apart like a blade.

"I'm sorry"

I just have to apologize. Full of spirits, all I can do is apologize.

"I've kept you waiting for so long. I promised. I said I'd protect Sheila. Yet to this day, I left you alone."

Promises are meant to protect.

Setsuna herself, believed so, and even publicly said so. And I also know that everyone believed in Setuna and followed me because I had ever lived with that sign. That is why Setuna must continue to keep her promises, and there must be no such thing as breaking them. That is what concerns my existential significance. Breaking the promise I made once could have been called betrayal of myself.

Setsuna has never forgotten the promise she made with Sheila. It was always in my head, and I always breathed as one of my principles of action.

But with the final war, Setuna's promise floated in the universe. I forgot to protect Sheila and even fulfill my promises to Faria, Miliu and Lem.

Setuna fought and lost as she wished.

That was all about the final war for Setuna, and as a result Setuna was going to hell, but it was heartbreaking that she failed to live up to her promise to Sheila because of it.

"Forgive me, my God, I'm not going to say anything shameless. Just let me apologize. And I want you to listen to me. My apologies."

Setsuna knelt before the giant body of Nine Tails and seriously hit her head.

At that time, suddenly a white mountain rang.

"Sheila......!

Setsuna looked up in joy, thinking it was something she had reacted to.

Shivering as if the trembling mountains had been engulfed by white flames, the giant innumerable tails swirl around the heavens and the earth and dance into the void.

And the white mountain changed its shape to a nine-tailed fox that was not long enough hundreds of meters long, and the beautiful blue eyes silenced Setuna.

White-haired nine-tailed fox kicked the earth.