"BIKIBIKIBIKI!"[13] Strange high pitched sounds are raised, a giant rift ran on the blue sky. A black, muddled parallel world spread out at the other side of the rift.
From the rift, two black drops spilled out. The black drops wriggled and squirmed in the air and became two dragons, flapping gigantic wings that looked like it could completely cover the sky.
"
The face of the screaming Kaya is wrapped by light. The old rag clothing that the girl wore is tinged by light——completely transforming it like a Magical dress. From her forehead's left side a typical horn grew out just like a magic beast's.
The dragons should have been attacking humans as their maximum priority——but they don't even pay any attention to the audiences and instead, in accordance with Kaya's words, swooped down to the barrier.
The barrier is thin because it's assumed that there won't be any direct attack; however, a crack appeared because of the ramming attack.
The student in charge of the barrier attempted to repair the barrier in panic.
"...This is not a play! Everyone in the audience please evacuate immediately!"
Liz Liza shouted loudly. Because of that, each person looking at the situation in front of their eyes——finally realized that the attack of illegal magic users are a reality and rushed to the school gate.
With the barrier destroyed, the student who was in charge of the barrier fainted by magic intoxication as a result of the attack.
"Student Council, intercept it! ——Combine together the strength of both departments!"
In this place the swordsmen and Magica Stigma that can fight are only—— the Student Council members.
While Liz Liza roared angrily, she ran to the fountain located in the garden near the ground and plunged both hands inside the basin.
She vibrated the
With the sudden obstruction of their field of vision, the approaching nose-diving dragons were misdirected into the wrong direction and crashed.
"I don't understand the circumstances but...there is no need for cooperation if just for the likes of a dragon!"
The Sword Division's Hayashizaki Kanae threw a challenge towards the crashing Niddhogg.
"It can't be helped, we will take on the green dragon!"
The Magic Division's Hoshikaze Hikaru exclaimed and started to
"Wai, you idiots..." Liz Liza cursed toward the two divided Student Councils.
Very suddenly——the Inter-division competition changed into a real combat mobilization.
"Kaya!? You, why are you using something like that kind of illegal magic...!"
"Onii-chan! For my name to be called by Onii-chan, I'm so happy...so happy that I want to kill!"
Kaya that transformed into atypical appearance screamed while her crying and laughing expression distorted.
"
Around her hand with *BIKIBIKIBIKI!* sound, a dimension rift materialized and from there a drip spilled over again, this time it changed into a large magical sword with blue translucence. The girl raised the large sword overhead.
"I also obtained it you know! ...The same power like Onii-chan and Mio-chan!"
Kaya swung the large sword that was as large as herself towards Kazuki.
"!?" Kazuki doubted his own eyes even as he tried to use Foresight.
What in the world is this...The girl's breathing and muscle shows no signs or intention at all!
Kaya didn't think about anything! It's as though the sword has a will of it's own and move completely by itself!!
Kazuki desperately evaded by falling over. His way of evasion is reminiscent of an amateur.
"Nii-sama!" Kanae immediately shouted and she threw one of her two short swords to Kazuki. Kazuki received it and drew the short sword from it's scabbard.
Without a moment's delay, the second downward swing and the third strike of the large blue sword came, but both were warded off by the short sword.
"Look, Onii-chan! Because I also wanted to become strong! The me that was abandoned became like Onii-chan and Mio-chan!!"
"Because of that...you agreed to an illegal contract!?"
Kaya no longer had any hesitation...her body was being possessed by someone!
"After all, only this Diva...the only one that gave me any kind words!"
Kaya shouldn't have had any training in any sword skills; however, the sword moved just like there was a swordsman's soul that dwelt inside the sword. Even to Kazuki, the swordsmanship was so sharp that it left his body trembling with fear.
"Kazuki! Why are you in a pinch when the opponent is also using a sword!"
Mio chanted a spell while at the same time spouting a rebuking voice——
"...
However Kaya rotated her arm with terrific force and bisected the high speed bullet of Barrett into two.
"This sword will reject all [Shot]!"[17]
It's obvious that it's not a human technique and reaction speed.
"Is that,
An animal warped by magic turns into an evil beast, a human transformed by magic into an Elf, normal spaces warped by magic into haunted grounds, and the same case where a weapon or tool were transformed by magic also exist. An item that had its foundation warped into a Sacred Treasure, to a degree where it's impossible to be imitated by alchemy, were legendary magic items that were rarely discovered in haunted grounds where evil beasts gathered.
Kaya chanted magic that pulled the evil beasts and Sacred Treasure from somewhere.
What kind of Diva is she contracted with!?
"This is the power of
With Kaya as the center, *BIKIBIKIBIKI!* countless rifts formed with terrific force in scope that swallowed up Kazuki and Mio.
Kazuki sensed the flow of magic——and realized that evasion is impossible.
Even Defensive Magic won't make it in time with his current chanting speed.
Large-scale Destruction Magic. Summoning of hell. This magic changed the very space itself!
The world was smashed up beginning from the rift. The very space itself where Kazuki and the others stood was converted into a pitch-black dimension. The surrounding darkness suddenly became red-hot hell.
The created space became the world of fire from Norse mythology. Like being imprisoned in a microwave oven, there was already nothing left to be done except accepting the fate of death. However——
"Oh mermaid's singing voice, manifest the frozen thought. Regret become flower of ice, loneliness become light snowfall, cover the world with cold nothingness...
Along with an awe-inspiring singing voice, countless snow and water crystal scattered and danced in the red-hot space.
Flame and cold collided, offsetting each other, the world once again broke and scattered.
The other dimension was extinguished and the scenery was restored back to normal.
The one that crashed Large-scale Destruction Magic into Large-scale Destruction Magic was Koyuki.
Vepar, the mermaid of 72 Pillar was releasing near transparent light blue radiance besides the girl.
"Koyuki! ...Even though you are also a first year, for a high level magic that work into space itself...!"
"...Please show some spirit to fight and survive! You'll die you know!!"
Because of Koyuki's reprimand, Kazuki and Mio quickly started to chant their spells.
"Dragon Invite!"
The space beside Kaya split, this time two small flying dragons came out.
""Barrett!""
Toward the flying dragons that leaped closely with their fangs bared, two flame bullets shot them down.
Kazuki ran and drew his Iai towards Kaya——this time he has the resolution to fight.
Scrape off all of the girl's magic power and make her powerless!
"How cruel! Why is Onii-chan pointing that sword to me...I'll kill you!!"
Kaya's large blue sword automatically moved and blocked Kazuki's slash, *GIN!*[20] sound was echoing.
Kanae, who already handed out one of her swords to Kazuki, confronted the dragon without her usual two-sword style and with only her one remaining sword.
Nidhogg the death dragon. In the Norse mythology, that name was handed down to the black dragon that gnawed at the root of the
"Interesting! If its just ordinary dragon slaying then nobody will be amazed!"
Kanae challenged the death dragon Nidhogg. [
The dragon waved its claws at random because its face was covered by mist. After all it should just be an animal so Kanae easily evaded the rough attack and with her short sword, one layer, two layers were hacked into pieces.
However toward the hard skin "GIN! GIN!" the consecutive attacks only lightly bounced.
Nidhogg keep waving both of his arm's claws not even feeling the attack. The attack doesn't even compare to a mosquito's bite.
While Kanae evades with paper-thin margin——this time she aimed at the inside of the joint and swung her katana.
However even that attack while filled with biological knowledge, "GIN!" was repelled from the hardness feedback.
Kanae "Chih" clicked her tongue.
...The powerlessness that cannot even be compensated with strengthening magic, unable in admitting that it was her own shortcoming.
The mist that was covering the dragon's face cleared. In the corner of Kanae's field of vision, "You idiots...Fight using cooperation..." the figure of Liz Liza-sensei who collapsed while speaking bitterly due to magic intoxication entered into her sight.
This
Looking at that figure, Kanae felt a brief remorse because she challenged the dragon alone.
If it already became like this, even if its only by willpower, I have to bring down this black dragon by my own hand!
The death dragon that had its vision free looked down and glared at the girl.
Starting from that moment, it doesn't attack randomly anymore, instead it accurately and fiercely swing its claws.
Swinging both arms one after another and brandishing it's tail roughly, Kanae concentrated her mind and using Foresight avoided all of those. This time Nidhogg opened its huge mouth and tried to swallow Kanae.
"I've waited for that!"
Nidhogg's big mouth facing toward Kanae *GABUM!* closed down, but she back stepped and avoided it.
And then she made a big jump to Nidhogg's nose tip. From there she leaped further.
"First the eyeball!"
With her whole strength, she stabbed the dragon's eyeball. Compared to the skin, the soft eyeball *DOSU!* was pierced by the sword blade.
When she sensed the sword pierced until the bone in the bottom of the eye socket, she released her katana.
Nidhogg that has the katana left in its eye socket struggled violently. Kanae landed in Nidhogg's nose, and hopped gracefully like a dancer.
"——And then the brain!"
With her whole body motion like a spring, Kanae kicked the handle of the katana stuck inside Nidhogg's eyeball and drove it deeper inside. With acrobatic movement the force was amplified many times over, driving in the sword like a hammer.
"BAGIN!" A certain bone deep inside the eye socket
"——And then DIE!"
Kanae kicked up the handle of the katana diagonally with one leg. The sword blade that reached the brain vibrated violently in Nidhogg's cranium. Its brain tissues shook and it's whole body spasmed convulsively.
Nidhogg *DOOON!* laid down its body, while Kanae landed agilely like a cat.
"How's that, you see that! ...Damn, how dull. I got too worked up. ...What about Nii-sama!?"
While cleaning the short sword soiled from blood and grey matter with Psychokinesis, Kanae turned toward Kazuki's direction.
At that time Kanae witnessed the girl shouting "Onii-chan!" while swinging the large sword.
The body's performance was amateur but only the slash was strangely sharp.
"Nii-sama is...I'm the only sister of Nii-sama!"
Kanae assaulted the girl from the back.
But the attack that should have been completely unforeseen by the girl was automatically intercepted by the large blue sword.
"Wh...what is this fellow!? Is this really a human movement!?"
"KANAE!?" Kazuki turns his eye to Kanae with surprise and delight.
"Nii-sama Nii-sama, I killed the dragon even faster than
"Idiot, don't be careless!"
Just like what Kazuki said——soon Kanae's face lost its color.
The illegal magician girl showed that she can compete against Kazuki and Kanae at the same time with one large sword. Furthermore with the high-speed activation of Possession Magic, she was also matching the back-up Summoning Magic of two people from the Magic Division's Student Council.
"Is this girl a monster!?"
Illegal magician——this girl is beyond
Certainly this girl's power cannot be compared with a Stigmata Magician, she might be an existence we have no chance to stand against.
"Kaichou[23], dangerous! That dragon is still not dead!!"
Looking toward the voice from the back——Nidhogg that should be dead, has its eyeball *BUKUBUKU!* bubbling while standing up and raising its claw overhead toward Kanae. That kind of absurdity...
"TORAZOU SMAAAAAAAAASH!!"
But immediately, somebody forced their way through and with all their strength perform a full swing with their long sword.
The claw and long sword clashed, that voice——Torazou was blown off but the claw attack was also repelled.
"Torazou!? ...To be saved by you...somehow it's infuriating."
"Kaichou, stop being so obstinate and lets cooperate with the Magic Division! I'll hold back this black dragon so Kaichou, go and help Magic Division's student council!"
"What!? Don't joke around...This me...with what kind of face can I cooperate with them!"
"Other than somehow using their
"!? Even though you are just Torazou, impertinently giving sound argument...!"
Is it Nii-sama's influence... Damn, rather than the current me, Torazou's way was right!
"...Torazou, I leave that guy to you! Absolutely don't die!!"
"Ou! I'll be troubled if you forever keep thinking I'm a pathetic guy you know, watch this Kaichou, you too Hayashizaki Kazuki! UOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Toward the other side of the battlefield——Kanae started running to where the green dragon was fighting with the Magic Division's student council.
The poison dragon Fafnir. A dragon with the power of poison residing in its body that appeared in Norse mythology. It has six misshapen arms, making an unsightly figure. On each of its six arms poison claws are attached.
"...
Hikaru who has her whole body accelerating attracted Fafnir with the attack from
However Hikaru cannot keep up with the exchange with speed alone when there were six arms that keep on striking, her posture was off-balance. Danger! Damn...already useless!
Immediately Kaguya discarded the high level magic that she currently chanted and switched into level 2 magic.
"My wicked mind filled with curse, I beseech thy agony... Unashamed of ominous thought!
The bullet of curse hit Fafnir and it writhed in hallucinatory pain.
But this magic only gives pain and stops the target on its track——with no actual damage to the body.
Using that opportunity, Hikaru recovered her posture. ...This battle of endurance has continued for quite long.
"For Asmodeus' high level attack magic I need to concentrate, so I'm troubled that the almighty Hikaru cannot earn more time you know! Idiot Hikaru!!"
"No matter how almighty I am there is no way I can exchange blows with something this tough! Idiot Kaguya!!"
While insulting each other, Kaguya's expression warped haggardly.
"The Knight Order should already be notified but...if it keeps like this sooner or later one of the fights in this divided battlefield won't hold out..."
BARIRI* At last the spark dispersed, Hikaru's Ride Lightning's effect was finished.
"I, I wonder if it's no good if I don't chant again? Today, this is already my fourth time you know..."
"Please don't say some spoiled things, you good-for-nothing princess!"
Hikaru's magical power was already exhausted from the previous battle. Toward the girl that was in the middle of thinking that she can't chant Summoning Magic anymore, the claw of Fafnir swooped down.
However at that point, someone interrupted with speed like a rolling gale.
...
"You two withdraw! I will serve as vanguard!"
"Kana-chan!? ...You came to help us!?"
Kanae looked back with a fleeting glance and "Fun" her nose snorted.
"...It's only a temporary alliance. I'll stop this guy so get rid of them all in one go with Chorus Magic. That dragon over there is small fish, but it can't be killed with a sword."
Fafnir looked down as if to assess the human that came to interfere.
Kanae informed the two people behind while thrusting her short sword to the dragon.
Chorus Magic——If its impossible to hold out until the Knight Order come, then certainly there was no way other than that.
Chorus Magic is a chanting method done by linking several Stigmata Magicians with Telepathy and matching together their magic power wavelengths, producing colossal magic power and materializing level 10 Summoning Magic.
The amount of magic power required for level 10 Summoning Magic was too large, one person alone using it was difficult.
But Chorus Magic demands considerable concentration and multiple Stigmata Magicians also became defenseless at the same time. It's a tactic that risked inviting total annihilation easily if the vanguard cannot protect their charge.
"Can't you depend on me?"
"...No, if the two Student Councils combined their power then we are invincible you know. I have wished for that for a long time! Hikaru, the number is not sufficient so call Koyuki-chan here!"
Until last year Koyuki has already learned the basic of matching magic power's wavelengths.
This year after completing the contract with a Diva, the number of people for Chorus Magic will be enough if Koyuki is included.
Protected by the Student Council of Sword Division——Magic Division's Student Council's trump card was usable!
Fafnir's claws attacked Kanae. The six arms waving about cannot even come near Kanae who took pride on her godlike agility.
Kanae is very poor at a battle of endurance. Even with only a few hits from the enemy, Kanae's meagre defensive magic power will be smashed up immediately, furthermore the poison will steal her movement.
But...Otonashi Kaguya was looking from behind. Kanae can't show a shameful fight.
Probably I am the one that know best Kaguya's strength.
For the sake of winning against her, for a long time Kanae searched for her weak points and kept polishing countermeasures.
Otonashi Kaguya is strong. To a degree that there was no way to win if Kanae challenge her directly face to face.
For this reason, it's vexing but...she can be relied on.
"I'm counting on you,
Kazuki looking at Kaya's magic power, noticed that its gradually declining.
When thinking at the beginning how she first summoned the dragon, the scale of the magic Kaya chanted slowly kept getting smaller. However in addition to the frequent magic, it seems that even merely swinging the large blue sword was also wearing down her magic power. Kazuki can already see Kaya's limit.
It's a hard blow when Koyuki was called back by the senpais but the condition on this side is starting to get better.
"Please no..." Kaya's whispering voice was leaked.
"This kind of me stop it already...even though I love him, even though it's precious memory... Why do I want to kill them...? If its like this, I will continue being alone...this kind of me, stop it already..."
Even so the girl raised her sword and slashed at Kazuki.
"That's why this kind of thing, stop it already!"
"I can't stop! Onii-chan, somehow please help me!"
Even if you said somehow...there was no other way other than shaving her magic power until she became powerless.
In the edge of his field of vision "DOWAA!" The figure of Torazou-san sent flying by Nidhogg was reflected.
Even if Kaya was stopped, the dragons that were already summoned cannot be expected to disappear.
Translator's Notes and References
1. Ouji-sama = Prince-sama. It is referring to Hikaru as she gives off a princely aura.
2. Master or teacher
3. SFX of sword withdrawn from sheath
4. Spiral Flower
5. Black Tentacle
6. Surprised face when finally realization sets in
7. Ash Ember Return Crimson Wing
8. Stigmata Magician
9. Art of drawing sword, cutting down one's opponent and sheathing the sword afterwards
10. SFX of roaring sound
11. Whistle sound
12. Evil Dragon's Encroachment
13. SFX of something being teared apart
14. Death Dragon
15. Poison Dragon
16. Sacred Treasure Encroachment
17. It means any kind of projectile attack
18. Hellfire Encroachment
19. Silent Snow White
20. SFX of sword clanging
21. Wind God Kitten
22. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphenoid_bone
23. President
24. Thunder God Bow
25. Hell Conception Fire
26. Hatred of Infertile Flower
27. Seventh Hell Manifestation
28. sound of clicking finger
29. Not really sure about this sentence, I think it refers to the fact that the black fire should be the embodiment of the concept of death itself, and it should be an absolute concept that can't be changed. Thus the fire should be a sure-kill magic, but this vast defensive magic power that suddenly appear distort that fact and did the impossible. If anyone can express it better please edit this sentence
30. Flame Impulse Armor
31. Art of sword drawing
32. Fighting spirit
33. like opening a curtain
34. Measure unit. Approx. 3.03 cm
35. Earth Beast Escape
36. Don't correct this. This word will have some significance later
37. Selfless Rebirth