Avaritia storms toward enemies in the air, spraying massive amounts of magic from the booster.

Ella also continued in line.

Until now, Xynia and Crypt had won the fight against normal (...) anima, albeit inferior in numbers.

But not this time.

The specs, the numbers, they're up there.

Only skill and experience outweigh the two.

"Xenia, don't leave me!

"Hey buddy, but that's not bad either. Yep!

I notice the anima approaching from the front, and the leading enemy approaches this way as well.

It was Anima on the kingdom's side who took the lead.

When you pull out a solid sword with a wide blade width, you cut it off with a quick move.

Xynia and Krypto dodged it at the same time and circled behind enemy anima.

"I got it!

Ella quickly swings a sword (floss) at her back.

Gaggin '!

But the enemy turns around and takes it as if to perceive it.

The output is over there, and Ella's sword is about to be bounced off.

"Eat this, too. Ah!

Gagong!

Avaritia adds a pursuit with a parashrama from above the great sword of Eela (...).

With two planes of power, it was the enemy who was bounced off.

Brace backwards, and don't miss the gaps that have arisen, General of Hundred Wars Smelting.

"Apertio Floris!"

"Ahhhhhhh!

A blow to the body bursts at the same time.

The blade of floss, divided into four parts with the parashurama, plunged into the torso of an enemy aircraft that could not even be guarded, slamming it on the blown ground.

But I haven't been able to handle it yet.

Sure, we should have let the fatalities go after us, but HP seems to remain.

On the surface, the kingdom's anima was engaged with the troops of Xynia - the animators of the lawless zone (Laures).

No less than the two of them, they are struggling to fill the difference in numbers with strength.

I couldn't lose, and when Xynia looked back, the blade was looming in front of me.

"Come on!"

Tilt your body away.

Enemies were similarly attacked by Eela and dodged in the same way.

"Xenia, don't be alarmed!

"Wow!

They don't have a reason to fight one plane at a time.

It is natural to use both advantages in power and advantages in numbers.

Towards two people who managed to avoid slaughter, a large number of sausage guns loom next.

Dodge this as you move forward, wield your weapon as you mistakenly do.

"Chee! This is too light!

On this level of attack, it won't do much damage to the Anima opponent wrapped around Orihalcon.

But they don't have any other means to keep fighting in a completely unfavourable situation than to make sure that they do damage.

Bullets looming from all sides again, dodging again, and

But soon, each surrounded by another enemy, they are forced into a situation where there is no escape.

Xynia and Crypto make eye contact.

"Skill Activated (Boot), Desire Is Gravity (Hold On Me) Huh!

Skills drew Ella closer to herself.

And the attracted Eela immediately advances to the forward enemy.

When the opponent is pushed out with the power of a prosthetic hand, Xynia continues to add an axe chase from the rear, breaking the siege net.

An attack by multiple animators cut the sky with Xynia's successful escape.

"Now. Ahhh!

Xynia to see this as an opportunity to launch an attack, but

"Don't push it, we're leaving once!

Crypt stills it.

Xynia honestly swallowed the words she would not have heard before and stopped the attack.

Still, not without dissatisfaction.

Xynia asks for a crypt while distancing herself from the enemy Anima.

"Why did you stop!?

"You forgot what His Majesty the Emperor said? What we have to do is not destroy the enemy."

Before the raid, Riatoris had issued certain orders calling four people: Erlea, Francus, Xynia and Crypto.

"Take him down whenever you can, but don't die, right? Kississi, all I can do is laugh, and I think that's what you call unscrupulous."

"There's more. It's just - Wow!

Eela flushes an attack by enemy Anima spears with her sword, slamming floss into her flank as she slips.

"Run when you see the light, was it?

"We have a secret for victory, His Majesty the Emperor. But to do so, we have to survive."

"I mean, you prioritize survival!

Where he dodges a spike caused by an enemy aircraft dagger, kicks his wrist and breaks down his posture, Avaritia smacks his brain with a parashrama.

"Oh, while drawing as many enemies as possible, but the top priority is not to destroy them"

"Nacrypt."

"What?

"That's not helpless, either."

"Ha-ha-ha, I guess. But isn't it time to get it done?

"Kissississi, superior wo! Let's do it!

The Royal Army's outrageous attacks, however, do not reach the two.

We know that if we hit it, it will be a fatal fight, so we just have to keep avoiding it.

I've become quite used to air warfare using boosters, and over time it will be easier to dodge them.

On the other hand, there is also MP depletion due to boosters.

By then, will Liatrice's "light” save them - and now believe it, the two of them will continue their fight for survival?

◇ ◇ ◇

On the east side, on the other hand, the war between Ellea and Francus was - clearly, it sucked.

It is true that Teneritus is strong, and there is also the flexibility to use various shapes of armed.

Even the Arkedia is strong, it's pretty advantageous to say they don't look like enemy planes.

However, dexterity alone does not inflict enough scratches on animals wrapped around Orihalcon, nor does this shore of good and evil (Invisible) work.

And Animus' troops, who were supposed to cover them, were being swallowed up and devastated by the kingdom's Anima.

Regardless, Ellea and Fran were not given orders to ”survive" - it was possible because Xynia and Crypto were superhuman.

Dozens of mercenary units were finally arriving as reinforcements, but they would also exterminate the anima on the ground, so best of all.

The war situation remained unchanged and Ellea and Francus were forced to struggle alone.

"Tentacles - Ray!

Bind the tentacles of both hands and deform them into one large Sorcery Gun to unleash a Special Strike.

If the opponent is a regular animator, you can drop hundreds of planes just by ripping this off, literally a "special” weapon.

But the multiple animators that were on the ray easily avoided it with high mobility, and the animators that plundered their shoulders floated there flat.

"Ha, ha, ha -"

Tension that grips your stomach.

How can I win? What's gonna be an effective hit?

Even if I think so desperately, my head just turns white and the right answer doesn't come to mind.

Naturally.

Because there's no such thing anywhere.

"Here I come... inevitably!

Even if you focused on avoiding it for survival.

They don't have the skill to escape all attacks.

When you flank the Anima attack slashed from the front, the light of the Sorcery Gun approaches the dodging point immediately.

A new anima appeared ahead, armed like a blunt weapon, even as it cut a magic blast from the booster, claiming his life in a drop due to gravity, but even more so as if it had been prefaced.

Am I going to die - the girl's voice echoed on Ellea, who was sure of death.

"Ellea, over here!

It's Francus.

Seeing the arkedia reaching out, he reaches out to Scylla in that hand and moves the entangled fuselage.

Boom!

The blunt instrument that was trying to take Ellea's life, but never captured Teneritus.

"Glad we made it."

"Thank you, François"

"It's okay, I just got help."

Two people who are helping each other and surviving hard.

But compared to less drained Frances, Ellea was trying to reach limits - physically, mentally, and magically.

The meat wings growing on Teneritas' back certainly do not suck perfectly with the booster made by Neura.

But there's no way a replica that just mimics the shape forcefully beats the real one with fuel consumption.

I can't even move anymore.

Ellea, whose MP numbers were visible, knew that.

"We have to survive properly, for Misaki's sake."

Listening to such Francus' words of encouragement, what floated behind Ellea's brain was the conversation she had with her before she went out.

"I'm about to say something really cruel to Ellea."

It's painful, but you can't just not say it.

That's right. Forward, the Cape told Ellea.

'I think I'll probably die in this fight. Defeat the kingdom, and that's not the end of it. It's not that sweet of a fight.

Even Ellea knows about it.

No, not just to her, but almost every human being in this fight - should have been prepared to die more likely than to survive.

There is only one word Ellea should say for a headland that is prepared to die of its own.

She is the property of the Cape.

I am one heart and the truth is I don't want to be apart for a moment.

I can't stand long-distance relationships in the afterlife and the world.

"- Why didn't you tell Fran? I'm not as old as I say, but Fran's still young. That's what I thought you wanted your life to take care of. So Ellea wanted to take me on the road '

That's really cruel, Ellea laughed.

'Ha, right. But still - Ellea, you're gonna follow me, right?

Towards the Cape, where she says so without evil, she laughs and returns it like this.

Absolutely.

"Here we go again!

Spray the booster and raise the altitude to avoid the bullet.

It looks like we could attack - Ellea didn't dare use Tentacles Ray.

Still, to survive for a little longer.

Seeing that, Frances also apparently realized that her MP was running out.

"Ellea, run. That's the limit, isn't it? You'd better back off!

"I refuse"

"Holy shit!?

"If you run away, can't you help Mr. Francus?"

"It's okay, you see, once we clear the central enemy, Misaki will come for us. Shit!

I'm not coming.

"Huh...?

At the end of Ellea's gaze, there was a slight glimpse of Urtio destroying his central enemy and heading north.

Frances confirms it, too, and is stunned.

"What do you mean...? Why?"

"I guess it's not over yet. Even this enemy we're facing is, so to speak, the front seat."

Behind Francus' brain, one word came to mind.

- Feathering.

That hasn't shown up yet, but the fact that Ultio headed north probably exists.

The Cape is about to fight an enemy with even more overwhelming strength than the Anima wrapped around the Orihalcon.

Definitely something you can't do without a cape.

But it's also a cruel fact that we can't reach out to ourselves.

"Ellea, if the battle is over, what do you want to do?

That's an act of pillow talk in the Imperial City.

After being held by the Cape, Ellea told the dream, feeling like a dream.

"I think it's time to get my hands and feet back."

'Wouldn't it have been better if it hadn't?

'Actually, even if Lily had hands and feet, she told me there was a way to get them tied up!

'... what do you two usually talk about?

Cape laughed bitterly.

Just in case, Ellea said, 'You don't always talk like that, do you?' and follow up.

'And then... I wanted to touch it,' I thought. When you feel stronger about Misaki, this is what makes you feel the same way. '

'Sure... I might want you to touch Ellea, too. Then one of these days, I'm gonna have to find someone who's gonna offer me hands and feet.'

"You don't have to hurry."

'Really?

'Cause after the fight, there's got to be plenty of time.'

'Oh... right. Well, you can take your time. "

'Yes. Slowly, slowly, let's make a wish come true one by one - all of us, together'

When I think of happy memories, the sudden death that comes to pick me up becomes horrible.

Is there really a heaven?

Will there be coverage to meet with the Cape after death?

Sure, there was also Ellea's desire to see a human being named Ayaka Kusnoki that she kept thinking about - but still, no matter how you cut it off, a human being can't forget the fear of death.

"Survive, run if you see the light - yes, Mr. Francus."

"Errea......"

Francis seems to have noticed that she is certain of her death.

"... yeah, okay"

Swallow everything you wanted to say and nodded.

That readiness is not something Francus can shake.

Similarly, the reality that it is impossible to survive in this situation cannot be overshadowed.

The two of you who have finished the conversation will once again focus on the fight.

Arkedia identifies critical lines from which no enemy attack can be struck and strikes back.

Teneritas, on the other hand, is totally inevitable because of the output of a gradually falling booster, even as he tries to avoid it.

"Ugh......!

Ellea leaked a distressed voice.

The time is near at the end.

"Ah, gu..."

Slashing, beating, shooting.

Teneritus is beaten and worn out by every attack flying in every direction.

Did the enemy also perceive the limits of Teneritus, gradually beginning to concentrate his power on the Arkedians?

Until now it was Francus who could afford it, but it was gradually being hunted down as the number of enemies grew.

"... Mr. Francus"

At the edge of his sight, Ellea, who was watching the sight, decides to be ready.

And that's when the enemy Sabel tried to capture Arkedia - Teneritus used a small amount of magic on his meat wings, breaking between the two planes.

Zashu!

Through the barrier, Teneritus' armor is deeply turned down.

A fever-like pain struck Ellea.

"Oh, oh... Ellea..."

Somehow Ellea felt proud when she heard Francus crying.

For about a month after meeting her, Francis feels like every time he spends time with the Cape, Lily, Ellea, and Rabbi, he was getting something back a little bit "childish”.

Although most of that was due to interactions with the Cape, to say that Francus mourns Ellea's death meant he missed Ellea more than he thought.

That was now proven by tears.

- Good, I'm satisfied.

……

Hehe, it's a lie. I have a lot of heart left to die for.

The next attack runs through Teneritus.

Next, next, next.

Feeling his own body missing a little bit, Ellea freed up all the magic that remained, if only a little bit to help Francus live.

"Tentacles Ray...... All, Range"

Gushaaaaaa!

Red and black tentacles appear from the entire body of Teneritus, as if meat were to blow out.

The fuselage no longer holds the prototype, just a piece of metal stuck near the root of the tentacle.

The tentacles penetrate the approaching enemy anima, and on the remote fuselage - they emit light from the tip of all Scylla, launching an attack.

So the number of enemies that fell is about one or two.

After all, the difference in power is historical.

Still, it wasn't pointless to have scattered her life, at least, because she got a strong will with it.

Francus sees a tentacle that covers a strip so as to envelop himself and puts his strength into the hand that holds the Punisher.

"We have to survive, whatever"

When the lights of Ellea's life go out, the tentacles lose power, becoming ashes and falling to the ground.

The slightly remaining Teneritus armor also fell to be struck down.

Arkedia is once again surrounded by countless animas.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

Shouting, he hits an enemy aircraft pointing the muzzle at him.

Frances', lonely battle began.