Kuzu Inou【Ondo wo Kaeru Mono】 no Ore ga Musou suru made

114 War in the Forest 15 Light in the Forest 2

"Here we are, Mr. Yellow Springs."

"... ooh... thank you"

Trainees were rapidly gathered at their base on instructions through a Misty Island Satsuki comms machine (Inc).

Glacier Takel, who served to annihilate the alien herd, also flew with Yellow Springs Billia and had just returned to the hills where he was based.

"You're here, Yomo and Glacier. Akai and Kurosaki said they're on their way over here, and now they're all...?

"Oh... looks more or less aligned..."

Wind Dorier and Heigagen Ichiro were looking around and checking the faces of everyone there. As always, the 'alien' herd is looming from all directions, but with the fruits of the struggle on each side, the herd was progressing at a calm pace. There was enough room to look around.

But that's where I realized that Heiga was missing people.

"No... there are no plants and your hall. They're not back yet, are they?

Michal Aruno answered the Heiga question as he peered into the scope of the sniper gun (sniper rifle).

"... they're on their way now, too. I just got in touch with you. They'll be here soon."

"Well... then, all we have to do is Serizawa..."

When Hiraga uttered the name, voice communications were issued from Satsuki Mishima to everyone.

"Guys... Serizawa-kun can't come. Now focus on protecting yourself. '

As soon as I said yes, the communication went out.

Hearing the communication silently, next to Bowno, who was silently repeating the precision task of shooting through the 'nucleus (core)' in his head, one kilometer away from the 'alien', the phoneless sayaka looked up slightly at the sky and put his hands on a dazzling sphere that floated in the distance.

"And yet... what the hell is that? Mr. Bowno...... do you understand?

"... I don't know. Something that's going to burn your eyes just to look at it. But... it must be dangerous."

A few minutes ago... an odd sphere appeared in the sky in the direction where instructor Satsuki ran after Atsushi Serizawa and Tsubasa Akai. That looks pretty far away, but we burn our own skin jizzily as if it were a small sun.

Hardly now, everyone had guessed that it would not last that long until the clay shelter became red-hot 'baked goods' due to the unusual heat emitted by its sphere, although it managed to outshine in the shadow of an impromptu shelter of earthed clay.

The interior of the base is already hot as a steam bath. Everyone is sweating.

In that situation, communications audio from Satsuki Fujima reaches the glacier again.

"... Glacier, you're back in base, aren't you? Quick, I need to ask you something... '

"... Yep, Dr. Satsuki. What do we do now?

"Can you put up an ice wall there right away? Though not much time is left anymore...... hurry as much as you can (...) and build the thickest, tallest wall possible '

"... ok. I can't guarantee if I'll be able to prevent that (...)... but I guess I'll have to."

In an instant, the glacier, aware of the major developments, immediately began to create an 'ice wall' on the outside of the base. The ambient air and ground cooled for a moment, but it is soon heated again and begins to emit steam. Ice walls are also melted and watered the moment they are made. Still, the glacier grows thick and large walls of ice while reusing its water.

"... it's a really great fever. Who the hell put that thing...? No, from the direction, it's still..."

Behind the glacier as he groaned and worked, Earthbound Mayumi sat on her knees and reached the ground, beside which Sound Weights Tutom looked anxiously at the condition.

"Hey, dirty girl... are you okay?

Soundwise Tutom was not even in the pattern to guide himself to Earthbound Mayumi. That should be it too... the earthwork is the type of psychic who can activate his abilities by touching the ground. Soil extraction is now sweating to expand the clay walls and hands on the ground, but now the ground has a burning heat. Naturally, white smoke is rising from her palms. It is obvious that it has not been done.

"Uh-oh...! Tough, but now, hard work come on......!

Earthbound Mayumi expands the clay walls to cover the glacier walls from the inside with [Clay Manipulator, the clay operator]. The shelter of clay, which had heat, is cooled with ice and starts acting as a hideout again. Gradually heavy soil, ice and mixed dual structure shelters were becoming available.

So much so that Mishima Satsuki, Akai and Kurosaki returned to the base. Kagura Mai, who was in the stronghold, found it, called out.

"Akai! Are you all right?

"... Kagura? Oh thanks...... I just wanted to thank you properly, but not now......!

When Akai looks back and looks up at the sky, the fireball looks bigger than it was earlier. It must have been a long way off, but I remembered the war on the hotline that kept burning the area the same as before.

"That is...... really yabeye......!!! What a monster to create......!!!

That caloric anomaly I know because it's a fire handling anomaly. Light body with exceptionally high heat even compared to the flames that burned its own body. How can we create such a heat source? As Akai stared at it for a while, the glacier Takel quietly rang from the side.

"I knew Serizawa-kun was doing that, Akai"

"Oh... I don't know for sure, but maybe I do.... hey, I can't believe it..."

Through the ice bulkhead stretched by the glacier Takel. Note the intense light that scorches you.

It's Atsushi Serizawa who's creating that one. That should definitely do it.

But we should have left to protect everyone... and now he's putting everyone at risk. What's this all about?... He wasn't supposed to be like that.

He's somewhat freaked out, but he's not the one who can't see around him. He's a coward and cautious basically, though he's somewhat bold at times of need. I can't believe that Serizawa is creating a situation like this... we haven't been together that long, but I can't help but think of someone who might do something like this.

"Something's been going on with him for a while... what the hell is going on?

"... the light bulb (that) is still going to grow. I wonder how far he's been hiding his powers," he said.

"... oh... I don't know what that is..."

Akai and the glacier looked up at the sky at the same time.

Even as they watch, they can see the scorching sphere getting bigger and brighter. At the same time, the heat emitted increases, baking the area even more intensely.

The surrounding trees are burnt and already carbide. Students in this stronghold now are sheltering behind ice and clay walls, but as it is, that will soon come to its limits as well.

"Hey glacier............ can't we even do the one that gets cold around that thing together?

"You mean" Absolute Zero Degree "...?... I'm already doing it."

"... what...? Doing...?

When Akai unexpectedly looked at the glacier, there was sweat seeping through the forehead of the glacier, which always looked cool.

"Of course you can do everything you can... so this is the state. Water on a burning stone is exactly what this is all about. Ha ha, I didn't know we were here... it's really amazing, Serizawa-kun"

"... chip...!! Really nasty............!!!

As it is, we burn ourselves to death. We have to do something......!!

Where Akai thought so, all of a sudden from behind, there was a cry.

"... No, Atsushi!! You can't go that way then............!!!

Looking back, I saw Shilo fall screaming next to Kagura.

"... Shilo?

"Shiro!?

Kagura suddenly held up the fallen Shiloh and spoke in haste.

"... hey Shiro!? Are you okay? What's wrong?!?

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There is no response when Kagura calls. It just makes some strange groans that seem painful. After a while, Stone and Shiro's body lost strength and became quiet as they fell asleep.

"... Shilo? What's the matter...?

I'm breathing. I also have a pulse. But thank you. It's not like you're sleeping. Only the lips move as if complaining about something. But as it were, Shiloh's consciousness never returned no matter how much Kagura called him.

When Kagura was anxious about Shiro's condition... the area suddenly brightened up.

"... this is... what...!?

"... hey, something's wrong"

"The light suddenly got stronger"

"... with..."

As everyone was bewildered by the sudden change, Mistya Satsuki raised her voice.

"Guys!!! Never get out of the shadow of the wall!!! Don't move there!!!

If you noticed, the whole sky was white.

A clear, strong shadow of contour falls around the area, and the shadowless part emits steam so that it can be burned. The trees that stood side by side outside the stronghold are black, thin and thin, brittle and crumbling away like burnt out matchsticks or something. Now all the humans here are shrinking in the shadows of earthworks and glacier-created walls. Step out of there and you'll be like those trees. That was obvious to everyone's eyes.

"... what the... here... what the hell...!!!

"Is this... is Serizawa really doing this...?

The surrounding 'aliens' see the light body as a threat, or an attack, or they head there so that they can be drawn to it. But he's burned and his movements are dull. Some of them, their bodies melted and collapsed as they were. Heat enough to burn down the 'nucleus (core)' in the 'alien' body. That much awesome hotline covered the area.

"... hot... dying..."

"... Ugh... dazzling...!!

"............... Don't look at the light, they're gonna blow your eyes...!!

The sky becomes even whiter.

The sky, which should have been blue sky until earlier, had been anointed with pure white, which was just dazzling at the earliest. I could see a flock of aliens at the edge of my vision burning and extinguishing.

The air is already dry on the caracallas. All the moisture around him was lost and barely remained on the ice wall where the glacier was made. The light that burned the area was even stronger, and the shadows had already disappeared.

"Oh no... this. Such power."

"Perhaps... Serizawa-kun is already at the top of Level 4 class... no, it could even be beyond that. Haha...... I can't believe this far"

"... Serizawa-kun...!!... No... how to use this power...!!

Meliá Kurono was with the students, not even exchanging... just sitting back and looking at the white sky. I was just looking up at the sky, feeling my helplessness all over my body. I can't do anything to myself right now. I can't even speak to him or be by his side.... What a guardian you are for. Didn't I volunteer for his supervisor to help him grow up safely?

If he wields such power, he shouldn't be unharmed himself.

"... please... you're safe, Serizawa-kun"

What disappointed me and came out aggressive was still a prayer word that would be nothing.

Really...... I'm here, I'm just incompetent I can only pray. Could I have done something to him? I can't do anything for the students here either.... if I had more power... if I had the courage to wield power. Maybe this didn't happen.

Though I do, I can only pray for the likelihood that I will now. I am powerless and incompetent.

That's all I thought about - I felt the hotline strengthen further around.

"... Coming..."

So far, omens. It is only a foretaste of the great destruction that is to come.

And...

Light fills everything in space.

One side of the perimeter shines and even the shadows are painted white.

At that moment, it doesn't even sound like ground and roar, shock.

I feel clearly, second reading to death. Melia Kurono looked firmly at it and spoke to the long-haired student sitting next to her.

"... Kurosaki-kun. Cover everyone with 'Shadows' now."

"Huh... the fever is weak... and I don't know if it will work for you... rest your breath, eh?

Yuki Kurosaki said that, wrapped everyone there with pitch-black curtains with his alien powers. In a world where everything turned white, that's all I could see, black and clear.

Immediately afterwards, the ice and dirt shelter was covered by a huge hotline that wiped out one side of the perimeter.

Swallow by an avalanche of dirt and sand that burst with the ground ringing, it collapsed away.