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Volume 9 2 — Sky of End (Part 3-5)
Volume 9 2 — Sky of End (Part 3-5)
Volume 9 Chapter 2 - Sky of End (Part 3-5)
Part 3
When everyone finished their meal, the members were split up into two snow huts. To prepare against Demon Beast’s attack, there would be lookout posted alternately, they would pass a night in this place.
“Ahaha, hooray! I’m in Kazuki’s side!” Hikaru-senpai raised a joyful voice and she threw herself down before rolling around everywhere *goron goron* the moment she entered the snow hut.
“…Don’t go wild and destroy the snow hut okay?”
Kaguya-senpai warned her with a troubled face.
“The ones at this side… are you saying that we are the ones with a half-baked positivity level?”
Kazuha-senpai was the last one that entered the snow hut while being fidgety, unable to calm down.
Kazuki, Kaguya-senpai, Hikaru-senpai, Kazuha-senpai. This snow hut was for these four people.
“No, in the first place the members that entered this Grand Haunted Ground all have high positivity levels. Among these members, Mio, Koyuki, and Lotte had all passed over 150.”
Otonashi Kaguya?142 Hoshikaze Hikaru?130 Tsukahara Kazuha?128
The three of them had passed 100, but they were still short of 150. From Kazuki’s experience, when someone had their positivity level passed 100, from thereon raising their positivity level became not as easy as before.
Surely it would be difficult to raise their positivity until 150 in this one night. But if he became able to use these three’s high level magic, it would be very reassuring in his preparation for the decisive battle.
He didn’t mean to raise everyone’s positivity level in order to become strong, but…
“Hmmm… it feels like after the classmates, now it’s the seniors’ turns.”
Hikaru-senpai noticed the common point of the members here and murmured. Now when she said that, unexpectedly the situation really had turned out like that. Although he had never intended at all to leave the seniors for later just because they were older, things just developed like this.
In order to dodge the issue, Kazuki followed after Hikaru-senpai and rolled on top of the sheet.
The sheet insulated the chill from entering and only transmitted the softness of the new snow.
“Ahaha-, Kazuki baa?m!”
Hikaru-senpai delightfully rolled and rolled and rammed her body at him.
Hikaru-senpai that came rolling at him with quite a power behind her was blocked and then embraced by Kazuki.
Hikaru-senpai became docile and rubbed her body against Kazuki in his embrace.
Gently, Kaguya-senpai too quietly lied down behind Kazuki.
“Fufufu… we are expected to pass a night in this cramped place with the objective to raise our positivity level. It feels quite lewd.” Her expression was filled with seductiveness while she whispered into Kazuki’s ears.
Both of them were in the appearance of their Magic Dress that had been simplified into really light clothing. Hikaru-senpai that was hugged by Kazuki was in the appearance of leotard-style complemented with tight high leg, while Kaguya-senpai who clung at his back was in the appearance of only having her breast from her neck and between her legs slightly hidden.
Being glued tightly to such two people, sandwiched between them, had already made him in an inflammatory state of emotion.
“Gulp.”
With an expression that gulped her saliva, Kazuha-senpai was snugly sitting in seiza at the corner of the snow hut.
“Kazuki… I’m sleepy…”
With a tone of voice that seemed like acting, Hikaru-senpai closed both her eyes with a snap.
“Senpai is going to sleep already? That’s right isn’t it… we have to wake up early tomorrow.”
“Of course that’s not it! There is a stereotype pattern in this kind of time right!?”
Kazuki went ‘hah’ with realization and from then he grew ashamed of his own slow wittedness.
“Senpai, you are going to die if you sleep here!” He lightly slapped Hikaru-senpai’s cheek.
Hikaru-senpai went “Uhyaa?” and received the slaps happily while laughing.
“Kazuki… I grew cold.”
“Ee?rr, what should I do this time…”
“Let’s warm each other by hugging together naked-!!”
With a fierce momentum Hikaru-senpai put her hand on Kazuki’s upper uniform.
Kazuki raised a scream “Uwaa-“ and resisted that act, like a pure maiden.
But both his arms was firmly restrained from behind.
“Otouto-kun, isn’t it no good to sleep with your uniform I wonder?”
Kaguya-senpai sealed Kazuki’s movement and whispered in his ear while pressing her breasts at him with ‘boing boing’.
Certainly it was just like she said, however!
“E, even you two senpai are not naked aren’t you!?”
After he said that carelessly, he thought of what he was going to do if both of them undressed from even their Magic Dress here.
“Ahaha? Well then I’ll pardon Kazuki and leave your shorts behind!”
Hikaru-senpai that was once extolled like a prince proclaimed that with a smiling face.
Hikaru-senpai’s hand unfastened all the buttons at his upper wear and Kaguya-senpai behind him took it off. It was a joint action that had been polished. Next they put their hands on the shirt’s buttons.
It was fine already if he could preserve his short… Kazuki completely thought like that.
In a flash his white shirt and trouser were pulled off.
‘If it keeps like this then it will become something awesome’… Kazuki thought with only a single shorts on him.
“Wawawa-!” Kazuha-senpai who was sitting in seiza covered her face with both her hands in extreme shyness.
But she was properly watching from the gaps between her fingers. This person was that kind of person.
“Ooo?, a boy’s chest!”
Admiring something that she didn’t have herself, Hikaru-senpai hugged at Kazuki’s chest.
Kaguya-senpai who had a muscle fetish was trying to draw Kazuki’s body at her direction while saying “My pectoral muscle~”. “I find the treasure~” “This is the treasure of this snow hut~” The two of them joked while rubbing their cheeks against Kazuki’s chest. Getting stripped into his underwear and getting treated like a treasure by older ladies like this…
Kaguya-senpai kissed lightly at Kazuki’s neck muscle and pressed her lips stimulatingly. He shuddered. The small tongue that that came out from her lips gently licked from his neck until his chest glidingly.
Hikaru-senpai too “I see” nodded and then she did the same act. Everywhere on Kazuki’s naked upper body, the two’s lips and tongues were crawling around bewitchingly.
He felt his body, that had completely chilled from the blizzard, grow hot as if his blood flow was running wild inside.
He never knew that it felt this good to have his body licked.
This is bad. Although there were two people that became his partner here, be that as it may, it would be bad if he got driven into the receiving party.
To have his side as the attacking side instead was… on the contrary a situation where he could keep hold of his reasoning more.
Kazuki stopped the face of Kaguya-senpai who was moving on top of his chest with a manner of hand picking out something.
They exchanged gazes. The eyes of Kaguya-senpai were… just as he thought, they had become violet in color.
First he had to calm down this person, if he didn’t crush them one by one, this night would become something too awesome.
“Kaguya-senpai, rather than playing with my chest, you want to have your body touched instead, right?”
Saying that he aimed for the substitution of offense and defense, he traced Kaguya-senpai’s nape of the neck with his finger. Copying the act of senpai just before this, this time it was Kazuki that kissed Kaguya-senpai’s body and softly licked.
He licked through Kaguya-senpai’s stomach, her back, her sides, while keeping her weak in suspense where he was going to lick. He licked sleekly all over, making Kaguya-senpai’s spine quiver in shivers.
“…Yes. My breast, I want you to touch them.”The desire of Kaguya-senpai that had become completely sensitive from Asmoudeus’ influence, had been received. She responded to Kazuki’s words without resistance before encircling both her hands on his back and averting her back.
With a jiggle, that earth-shattering breasts were pushed out at him.
His feeling became as if a main dish had been suddenly presented at him, Kazuki lifted up that heavy fruit profoundly. Lifting it up, his palm enveloped half of it from below and then he massaged.
“Ann-, ann-“ Each time he massaged, Kaguya-senpai let out a stimulated cute voice for him.
Kazuha-senpai took a glance at Kaguya-senpai and her gaze displayed a sign of being embarrassed.
“Kaguya-senpai when she uses Asmodeus’ power, she will be unable to contain herself all night. That’s why…”
Kazuki nonchalantly inserted a follow up about this situation. ‘That’s why, it can’t be helped.’
“Is, is that so, so it cannot be stopped in any way…”
Kazuha-senpai leaned her body forward even while still covering her face with both her hands.
“It’s true, a sensation reinforcement magic is running on Otonashi-san’s skin. It made her completely sensitive.”
Kazuha-senpai’s magic intuition saw through Kaguya-senpai’s condition.
The breast covering vanished from Kaguya-senpai’s Magic Dress. The pink pointed end had swelled up sharply as if saying that it wanted to be touched.
“Waa…” Kazuha-senpai leaned her body forward.
Kaguya-senpai was already impatient. Victory went to the one who made the first move, Kazuki aimed for that and suddenly sucked at the pointed ends. He slide his tongue from the side, played with it in circles and pecked on the peak.
“Fuaaaaaaan!?” Kaguya-senpai raised a shout of joy while small heart marks scattered from her. How much she felt good could be understood from the minute changes in her positivity level.
“Ahaha, Kazuki, you look like a baby. …Me too!” Hikaru-senpai sucked at Kaguya-senpai’s right breast competitively.
“Hikaru!? Do, don’t…nnnn-!!?”
Kaguya-senpai’s sensitive body reacted fiercely even against the stimulation from the same sex.
Rather than calling the stimulation had doubled physically, it seemed the abnormal situation of being stimulated by the same sex made Kaguya-senpai completely aroused.
“Waa… a, amazing…” Kazuha-senpai’s posture was now standing on her legs.
Even further Kazuki used his empty hand to stroke Kaguya-senpai‘s thighs. Kazuki took the lower body, while Hikaru-senpai attacked the back and the nape of the neck in the upper body.
The body of Kaguya-senpai who had completely become sensitive several times over was filled with a vortex of pleasure from the two.
“Do, don’t, if you do that to me… even though I’m being watched…ANN-?“
Kaguya-senpai rapidly turned heated. Like a heat that lost its place to go and ran amok, Kaguya-senpai wriggled her voluptuous thighs back and forth and she rubbed her nether region at Kazuki.
“This place, does senpai want it to be touched?” He asked with a slightly tormenting tone.
“It, it’s embarrassing…” Kaguya-senpai murmured with a look of dimming reasoning.
“It can’t be helped because it’s Asmodeus’ fault, senpai.”
Kazuki said so and removed the binding of Kaguya-senpai’s reasoning.
He remembered Koyuki’s disheveled state when he stimulated that spot of hers while she was in delirium in the movie theater. The passion of a girl was saved up in this spot. Kaguya-senpai too was also like that… she was more sensitive in this spot than anywhere else.
He pressed his finger on the nether region part of Kaguya-senpai’s Magic Dress?the Magic Dress vanished as if melting the instant his finger touched, his finger directly went into Kaguya-senpai.
Even while surprised, Kazuki caressed that sensitive spot as gently as he could.
“Otouto-kun…Otouto-kun-!? More!! ?”
Even though Kazuki was touching gently, it was Kaguya-senpai who shook her waist in order to make Kazuki’s finger pressed on that spot.
In the case that it actually hurt her, such thing should also be able to be understood from the change of positivity level.
That was why, Kazuki moved his finger relentlessly and resolutely. What way that would make Kaguya-senpai feel even better… while looking for such a way from the change of the positivity level… he strengthened his movement in one go.
Her small bead that would make a girl feel even better was generally similar with Koyuki.
The protuberance on the outside’s upper part, the dripping wet inside, he massaged both with his finger tips.
Kaguya-senpai raised a voice that was nearly a scream. “Aaa! AAA?!” With such a raised voice, before long Kaguya-senpai’s face looked like it was going to cry “Fuaaa?!”, and then it changed into a distorted expression that tried to endure “Hyii!”. But she didn’t dislike what he did. She was opening both her legs slovenly with liquids flooding out soppily from her lower body. An amazing amount of heart marks were flying at him.
He whispered “Kaguya, you are really cute” with wholehearted expression at her ear, and then he kissed her white cheek.
“Otouto-kun… Kazuki-kun! HYAAAAAANN-!!?”
At the end of Kaguya’s sensitivity that had been raised several times over, she reached the highest peak. She was pierced with a sensation unimaginable for a man like Kazuki before her body went limp in a half-fainted state.
Kazuki felt shy at this late hour looking at Kaguya’s naked body that was drenched with sweat and he averted his eyes. He couldn’t look at her in the eyes.
“Kazuki-! Me too…!”
Without even any time to take a breather, Hikaru-senpai hugged at Kazuki.
Chuu* She sucked strongly at Kazuki’s lips. This was something he couldn’t do with Kaguya-senpai, a kiss on the lips.
“The pleasant feeling of a girl, teach it to me too? I also want to become like Kaguya there…”It seemed that Hikaru-senpai was honestly yearning for a pleasure like what Kaguya-senpai experienced.
Perhaps he was making her learn something dangerous here. Thanks to being treated like a prince until now, this person didn’t have such vulgar thoughts about this kind of thing.
He embraced her body that was even more slender than Kaguya-senpai and caressed her back and her spine.
But as if saying that what he did was too slow, Hikaru-senpai
“Kazuki, my breast? Touch my breast?” She coaxed him.
When he obediently did what she asked, immediately this time she urged him on “Suck my nipple?”
“Fuaaaaaa-! Kazuki is sucking at my breast?”
She said it to herself as if making a self-hypnosis to heighten her feelings rapidly. She was in high spirits with all her strength. Hikaru-senpai shook her butt and coaxed him “Ne, my butthole, touch it?”.
“Eh, the hole of the butt, senpai says?”
“Because, in the manga that I read everyone was doing that you know?”
Before this Hikaru-senpai often read with pleasure boys love manga and mistakenly thought of it as the friendship between men.
Perhaps it was only a natural curiosity for her too to want to obtain the pleasure that was drawn in the manga for herself.
A magician could use Psychokinesis to float any filth thoroughly and remove it, so that place was not a dirty place. Kazuki also didn’t have much reluctance for such a thing?he pressed his finger at the leotard that dug into the bottom part.
“Haaa…?”
Hikaru-senpai’s expression became joyous as if she had obtained the sensation that she had yearned from since she was just a child.
He shifted the digging clothes to the side and exposed the covered part. He poked weakly with his finger as if knocking. His finger tips caressed the narrow spot and drew circle as if observing the situation.
Hikaru-senpai’s expression was melting with bewitching feeling of expectation. Kazuki then determinedly buried his finger into the inside of that place.
“Aa-, it echoed until the inside of my stomach-“
He moved in and out his finger like a moving piston, Hikaru-senpai’s dignified face that was called a prince was melting in ecstasy.
“Haaa, somehow my butt, feels really hot…”
Rather than calling the sensation she felt intense, it seems that what she felt was more like a heat that slowly surged inside.
“Aaaaa… something is coming… this is the sensation of a girl…?”
Even if she called it as a girl’s sensation, he had the feeling that it was not actually something decent. While playing the behind with his right hand, Kazuki reached out his left hand to Hikaru-senpai’s front.
“Aaaa, from the front and behind… Kazuki is entering my front and behind… you are resounding inside me-!”
Strength filled the spine of Hikaru-senpai that looked like she had slowly reached prostrate orgasm.
“Kazuki, my girl place, more!?”
So that Kazuki could touch the front and behind at the same time easier, Hikaru-senpai held both her own legs under her arms and floated her waist. Her vulgar places were all exposed, making Kazuki reflexively avert his eyes.
“Kazuki, look at my girl places properly here!”
Hikaru-senpai said that in dissatisfaction. Kazuki continued his stimulation in place of a reply.
“It comes! …Something good is coming…!!”
Kazuki stopped sucking her breast and sucked at the shivering girlish lips of Hikaru-senpai.
“Nnn… nnnnnnn-!!?”
Hikaru-senpai’s body was fiercely trembling while heart marks flew at him, her body stopped moving with an ecstatic expression. There was no vestige of a prince left anywhere in her. Kazuki gently stroked the girl Hikaru-senpai on her head.
“Kazuki… me, me too…”
Kazuha-senpai who was leaning her body forward on her knees approached him while still on her knees.
Even though this was Kazuha-senpai who was supposed to be the owner of the most upright personality among the members here, she had been thoroughly changed by the two girls before her.
“I, I too want to feel good just like this…”
Kazuki too stood on his knees and faced Kazuha-senpai.
“Then senpai too should vanish your Magic Dress.”
He said that planning to tease her meanly, but Kazuha-senpai even while looking down in shame made her Magic Dress disappear like a mist. The naked body of Kazuha-senpai that he last witnessed in the Gate of the Celestial Rock Cave was now bared in front of his eyes.
Kazuki reflexively let his gaze crawl through her white skin.
“Kazuha-senpai, you are really beautiful.”
“Do, don’t stare at me that intently, quickly, that…”
“How does senpai want it?”
“I, I want you to touch me…”
Kazuki embraced her close with his left hand at her waist. Kazuha-senpai who let herself get pulled clung at Kazuki’s chest. When he impatiently caressed her skin, her white skin was rapidly dyed red.
That skin of hers dimly emitted magic power light.
“Kazuha-senpai, are you using some kind of magic?”
Like a kid whose misdeed was discovered, Kazuha-senpai twitched.
“O, Otonashi-san became until like this, so…”
This was?a sensation strengthening magic. This magic was a complete copy of Asmodeus’ influence that was mimicked using general magic.
When Kazuki pinched the tips of her breast strongly in a surprise attack, Kazuha-senpai’s body trembled exaggeratedly. Her body became almost as sensitive as Kaguya-senpai, and also even more from how she had been made to wait until the last turn where her passion had been piling up.
“Kazuki, make me become just like those two…”
“Like those two, like what senpai?”
“…Li, lick my nipple, suck it…”
Kazuha-senpai became more excited while saying such thing herself, her breath became rough.
Kazuki did just as she said. He pinched with his left hand, sucked with his mouth at the right side, and his right hand reached out toward her lower body and caressed her butt and thigh.
After stroking the inside of her thigh for a while, Kazuha-senpai began to fidget her body.
“Kazukiii…”
“How does senpai want it, I won’t understand if senpai doesn’t say it out.”
“Wh, Why are you talking that meanly only to me since a while ago?!”
“I know that Kazuha-senpai’s reaction when getting bullied is the cutest.”
“So you have a really warped fetish like that?!”
Although no matter how he imagined it, it was Kazuha-senpai’s own words and action that made other people want to do such things to her.
“…Kazu-kun! My, my important place too, I want you to make it feel good!!”
“Well then senpai, please open your legs yourself.”
Kazuha-senpai who was in the posture of standing on her knees turned her butt at Kazuki before she opened both her legs so that it would be easier for Kazuki’s right hand to touch. A hot liquid ran along the thigh and wet Kazuki’s hand.
Kazuki moved his hand in the way that purposefully made a watery sound intensely sounded and inflamed Kazuha-senpai’s shyness.
“Actually, I can understand what kind of way that makes senpai feel good from the minute changes of the positivity level.”
“Wha, what’s with that, if that’s true then don’t bully me like that. Uu… your way of touching that raises a sound like that…”
“That’s why senpai, it’s fine for you to let out your voice honestly and feel good.”
Kazuha-senpai’s expression brightened with a feeling of expectation at Kazuki’s declaration.
Kazuki searched for a spot where Kazuha-senpai really felt it?and immediately discovered it.“-! The place just now!”
When he concentrated at that spot, the piling up passion inside her flamed up all at once.
“FUAAAAAAAAA-!? Kazu-kun! ? It feels good, so good!!?”
Kazuha-senpai’s body and heart became honest and clung at Kazuki, a line of saliva trailed down along with a wild breathing in her sweetly melting expression. Kazuki felt it wasteful seeing that and licked the trail with his tongue.
“Kazu-kun, kiss me too!”
Maintaining that movement Kazuki indulged deeply at Kazuha-senpai’s lips.
“NNN-!?”
Kazuha-senpai too trembled in shivers and then she sunk down to the floor like a puppet whose strings were cut.
“Kazu-kun you idiott~”
He stroked the head of Kazuha-senpai whose face was messed up with shame.
Immediately after that, “Kazuki-kun-!” “Kazuki!” Kaguya-senpai and Hikaru-senpai embraced him from behind as if saying that they had recovered. Their bodies were still feeling hot, the two of them rubbed their bodies and fawned at him. His whole body was enveloped in the softness of girls.
Kazuki thought of the three girls as cute from the bottom of his heart.
At the same time he felt that he had to endure his own body’s demand with a self-restraint of steel.
Until the end Kazuki would only admire the three girls’ lovely reactions.
He absolutely must not do something more than that.
Part 4
Kanae couldn’t help herself from becoming concerned towards the other snow hut even while standing guard.
When the day became night, the blizzard became even more terrible. Perhaps this kind of thing was not really a big deal for the bunch of the Magic Division, but for Kanae this was a fierce blizzard even though she was just standing guard like this.
‘What kind of ordinary day that Nii-sama always spent with everyone of the Witch’s Mansion I wonder…’ Kanae was staring fixedly at the snow hut. Usually she could move such thought away from her mind thanks to the distance between the Witch’s Mansion and the Sword Division’s dormitory, but tonight, that was impossible and she became really concerned.
‘Even Nii-sama is not a blockhead that doesn’t have any desire.’ When she tempted Nii-sama, even while saying unkind things from his mouth, Kanae had noticed that inside, his heart was beating really fast.
If Nii-sama was surrounded by that many girls and being loved… surely they would even do something a little perverted many times already. Though of course, Nii-sama was a person that absolutely wouldn’t pass the line that must not be passed.
Kanae felt the loneliness of having only herself left alone.
Nii-sama felt a debt of gratitude toward the Hayashizaki house and obstinately tried to maintain the distance of a brother and a sister in regards to Kanae.
And then he shouldered the destiny where he had to create bonds with women that possessed Stigmata.
Thinking about Nii-sama’s sincerity and the weight of the destiny he shouldered, I thought that I must not feel something like jealousy. However…
If she at least had a Stigmata, she wondered whether she too would obtain the qualification to be loved by Nii-sama as a woman…
{Have thou felt like it to make a contract with I…?}
At the feet of Kanae who was standing still inside the blizzard, an avatar of a small black cat was approaching.
“…It’s only a weakness that welled up because of the cold wind.”
Kanae looked down at the black cat with a glare.
The avatar of the black cat snuggled close to Kanae’s foot with a brisk step?and entered into the body of Kanae who had grown cold from the blizzard. The sensation gradually changed into a mysterious heat.
“…You, you were shadowing me since the afternoon weren’t you? You were the one that was frequently sending heat into me like this.”
{The most that I can do for a human that is not contracted with me is only something to this degree.}
“Stop a behavior like this that pushes for a favor from me. My answer will not change for eternity.”
{…I understand well thy temperament. Thou are a proud human with purity inside. Completely like the blade of the katana that thou wield.}
“That’s right, I am a single katana.”
{I… don’t mean to push any favor to you. It’s purely just my wish to aid thou. I just want to take away thy suffering. I don’t know anything else that I can do to help.}
Despite how he was a terribly obstinate Diva that didn’t have even a single contractor until now, that voice of his was mysteriously gentle.
“Besides why don’t I have an Enigma? Pushing Enigma to the contractor one-sidedly that is enforced by the law is you guys’ original way of doing things right?”
{…Bestowing Enigma to thee is going against the rule of Enigma. Enigma was a simple mark for the sake of reserving early a possessor of excellent talent. And then Solomon 72 Pillar, certainly, we made the humans create the law that forcefully raised the people who received an Enigma into a Magika Stigma without fail. That is to make the excellent human think that they have the obligation. If the humans with excellent talent don’t become Magika Stigma then this country will not be able to maintain itself… there is also that kind of circumstances. …However there is no talent inside thee as a Magika Stigma.}
Kanae harbored a good impression towards Beleth’s honest manner of speaking.
{Falling in love at first sight based on a completely personal interest towards someone who has no talent, moreover bestowing the Enigma only after confirming it, such an act that makes someone lose the freedom of their life doesn’t stand to any reason. That’s why there is nothing I can do except to negotiate with thee whether thou will do me a favor and receive the Stigma.}
“I see, you mean that I have the right to refuse. Then, I refuse. …Even though you give me the consideration until that much, but can you really be this persistent just because of the problem of your own preference?”
{If it keeps like this thou… shall inevitably be left behind from the path where Hayashizaki Kazuki is going to advance, and so I thought that it can’t be kept like this. Thou should become the conquer target of Hayashizaki Kazuki, that’s what I thought.}
“…Is that so. But your thinking is mistaken. That is something that I absolutely mustn’t do.”
{Why?}
It was not bad to be frank about her true feelings towards this resident of another world that didn’t have any ties of obligation.
“Since I was a child, I continued to live thinking only about becoming the strongest swordsman as the successor of the Hayashizaki-style. I am a single katana since I was born. But I am not blessed with a physique of a swordsman. The truth is, I was always insecure whether I was really worthy as the successor. At that kind of time, father brought Nii-sama home from the orphanage after seeing his talent. At that time I thought [It doesn’t matter anymore].”
{…That’s so unlike thee.}
“Actually, I am not even that strong as a human. But mysteriously, the moment I gave up to be the successor… doing sword practice together with Nii-sama became fun. And then Nii-sama also taught me the joy of life outside of the sword art. Nii-sama was the person that made me human.”
{But currently, thou is trying to become a single katana once again. Rejecting to make a contract with me.}
“That’s because an enigma appeared on Nii-sama’s hand. Nii-sama shouldered the destiny where he could not become the successor of the Hayashizaki-style, that position rolled back to me once again. All this time I didn’t want to recognize that. It was great to be together with Nii-sama. I wanted Nii-sama to be the strongest swordsman. I was… scared to return back into being a single katana again. It was scary to face my own powerlessness.”
Kanae spewed out her true feelings that she had never leaked out to anyone before.
“I won’t recognize Nii-sama’s departure to the Magic Division! …The true feelings of me, who had continued to say such things all along is what I just told you. I didn’t want to become the successor. It was scary. I was going to continue to drag Nii-sama’s feet behind like that. Does this kind of me… have the qualifications to think of wanting to be loved by Nii-sama?”
Kanae once again directed her gaze at the snow hut where her big brother was in.
Nii-sama was shouldering an enormous destiny, he was being affectionate to other girls.
‘I, who am always holding Nii-sama back, don’t have the qualifications to enter into that…’
“Nii-sama is going to stand on his own feet, independent from the Hayashizaki house. He is going to step into an even grander destiny. Then, I too have to face my own destiny. I have to become the strongest swordsman and see off Nii-sama’s becoming independent. As the eldest daughter of the Hayashizaki house. You understand now, Beleth. By receiving a Stigmata from you and becoming Nii-sama’s conquer target, Nii-sama will worry about the genealogy of the Hayshizaki-style coming to an end, he will notice my weak heart that escaped from my destiny, he will only harbor despair and pity towards me. A human that cannot face her own destiny has no qualifications at all to be loved by anyone!”
She would continue the Hayashizaki-style as the strongest swordsman, with that Nii-sama would be able to leave the nest of the Hayashizaki house with relief, to step out onto an even more rigorous destiny.
At such a time, she would be able to face Nii-sama once more.
The blizzard suddenly stopped. Kanae looked up to the night sky. Wind that was several times stronger than at the surface blew and washed away the clouds in the blink of an eye, the weather of the mountain changed suddenly in an instant.
At that moment, the cloud flowed away and the blizzard vanished like a miracle, opening the starry night all over the sky. It was as if she was seeing the night sky for the first time. The sky looked close as if her hand could reach out to it, countless millions of stars were shining.
“I will become a single katana.”
The radiance of the stars had not a single murkiness in it, like the clearness of a katana.
She, too, wanted to be like that, Kanae thought.
{Thou art sublimely beautiful right now. Thy heart is undoubtedly like a polished blade.}
Part 5
Late at night?the executive room at the highest floor of Oosaka’s government office building.
Inside, a strange soliloquy was resounding.
“7-6 knight, checkmate. …Aa?, it’s impossible already! As I thought shogi is just impossible, impossible! Amberjack! Greater Amberjack!”
It was a girl’s voice ?the voice of Kaya.
The tone of voice was Kaya’s, but a way of talking that was different than Kaya was alternately mixing in it.
“…That’s why I told you already, the random factor in shogi is zero, it was reckless of you. But playing against someone that omitted his eight pieces of rook, bishop, lance, knight, and silver general, ‘as expected maybe I can win here?’ anybody will think like that ain’t it! If you are gonna play then let’s play a game that has some random factor in it yeah, this kind of logic game just ain’t suited for you y’know? Don’t talk to me like I’m an idiot, c’mon?!”
The girl’s arm toppled over the shogi board that was on top of the marble table. The shogi pieces that were depicting a disastrous war situation were scattered everywhere with clattering sounds.
“Even me don’t like a game with zero random factor in it. Why? ‘Cause there ain’t any chaos in it. A game without any uncertain factor in it is just too boring, this is just the Cosmos Side’s game.”
?This was a soliloquy that was not a soliloquy.
The two minds that occupied a single body were alternately talking.
Using just a single mouth that Kaya had, the one who was talking with Kaya was Loki.
Both of them could also exchange words only inside their head, but they much preferred to actually let out their voices when talking. Especially for a Diva, just moving their flesh body was a really pleasant thing.
After talking too much they now wanted to drink. Kaya reached out her hand to the pet bottle on top of the table and drank it all in one go. What she drank was a carbonated drink from the former era named [Root beer] that she recently got addicted to.
Loki who shared Kaya’s senses suddenly raised a scream.
“It stinks! That drink is just too stinky!! Drink something more natural, you! Don’t wanna! This chemical flavor is just unbearable y’know. Eei, sheet!”
In order to remove the bad taste, Loki gulped down the whole bottle of the sweet potato shochu named [Invitation to Hell] that had been put beforehand on top of the table. It was a sake that he bought because he was pleased with the name. A scream suddenly resounded all of a sudden.
“GYAA?! My throat is burning! Hahaha, serves you right, get sterilized you idiot tongue!”
Kaya’s body was in agony while laughing.
“C’mon, just drink a lighter sake. No way, the balance between the punch of the alcohol strength and the taste is important in what is called as alcohol, the nasty sake with alcohol below 20% is not alcohol at all. Geez?, Loki you idiot! Being an alcoholic even though you are sharing a body with a girl is just the worst! The idiot one is your sense of taste here! What are you gonna do if you even get me addicted with this root beer addiction of yours!! Ah, just as I thought? Looks like you also started to get to like it eh!? …Yeah. It’s vexing but yeah. Yeeeiii, my root beer comrade?”
They got along well with each other.
Loki was thinking ?he left alone the consciousness of this girl on a whim, but she made things fairly interesting here and there.
Sharing a life with another person like this was filled with many really new discoveries.
Both of them had an open personality that knew no shame, so they were not bothered at all even with a life of zero privacy like this.
For Kaya, even in the case when she was sleeping and during that time both of their flesh body got strangely mixed up, so when she woke up she found her own body grew out the penis of Loki’s giant’s body, she could still laugh explosively while holding her stomach. She was the owner of a personality that could do such a thing.
Loki too was so Loki that he was not flustered, even when he was sharing a body with a girl. In the first place he was the ultimate borderless god whose forte was sex change, on the contrary he even had an incomprehensible heroic saga where he transformed into a mare where he was then brought into a reverse rape as the Sasoi’uke by a giant’s powerful male horse. At that time he got pregnant and the foal that was born from that later on became Odin’s beloved horse, the famous <Sleipnir>. With rape being the case.
Both of them were completely a match made in heaven.
While the two of them were getting roused up from their matching mood in one body, there was a knocking sound *kon kon* from the door.
“It’s fine to just enter anytime without knocking. This great me doesn’t have any moment where I’m gonna get ashamed of being seen.”
Loki who didn’t have any shame lightly permitted the visitor who came this late at night to enter the room.
The door was opened and the one who entered was a group of three of male and female.
All of them were wearing the hooded robe that was the proof of being an illegal magician.
“Oh, it’s you guys.” Loki’s voice brightened and he welcomed them.
The three respectively were the illegal magicians that were possessed by Midgardsormr, Fenrir, and Hel.
These three Divas were Loki’s real children.
However they were quite unworthy of their father because they couldn’t really succeed in taking over their human’s flesh body.
‘Despite being my kids why are their performances this bad huh?’ Loki thought inside his heart in marvel.
In front of his children, Loki transformed Kaya’s body into his own body. His body contour distorted flabbily like an amoeba and without even emitting any magic power light the body smoothly morphed into Loki’s appearance.
“Nyoro nyoro.”
“Midgardsormr, you too has become considerably like a snake huh. Quickly shed off your skin already.”
“Aoo?n, ao?n.”
“Fenrir, you too have turned like a dog this far huh. Can you pee while raising one of your legs now?”
Towards the illegal magicians whose bodies had began to be deeply influenced by the Divas possessing them, Loki ignored the original personalities of the bodies and called them with the name of his own child. After stroking the heads of the two, he turned towards his youngest daughter Hel.
“…”
“Ou, Hel. You too have your complexion worsened like a death god… hm? Hel, you…?”
“Papa. I, have reached it already see.”
At that time, the body that was clad in a dark robe emitted a powerful light.
“Ooooh-!?” Loki raised a joyful voice. Inside the light, the silhouette of the illegal magician changed its shape like a jelly. In the blink of an eye it drew out the small?petite silhouette of a girl.
“Hel, you finally did it! As expected from my daughter!!”
Loki tried to hug the girl’s silhouette by jumping into the light.
The girl’s silhouette sleekly dodged the jump.
“Papa… I’m, not a child anymore you see. Stop trying to hug me already.”
The shining light settled down?Hel had clearly materialized her body.
With a bluish-white skin, her appearance was of a very young girl. Her body was clad in pure black gothic clothes that matched Kaya’s taste, her right eye was covered with an eyepatch.
Her noble look and blue hair that were inherited from Loki emitted a ghastliness that was not from a person of this world.
Hel?because she was Loki’s biological child she was still young, but in Norse Mythology she was the Queen of the World of the Dead that accomplished an important role. Loki greeted her materialization with a radiant smile.
“Hahaha, you shy kid. Papa is very lonely just by myself y’know. Comrades that papa can trust right from the heart are only you three after all.”
Loki forcefully hugged Hel while sinking his waist on the black-leather sofa.
Hel averted her face to the side and replied with a coldness of hell.
“Even without us, papa doesn’t really mind and is always having fun right? Papa is saying things like comrade, even though papa actually doesn’t need anything like that in your heart.”
“Why are saying such a cold thing to your papa that you have met after a long time? If you don’t act more honest and be sweet to papa, papa is gonna get lonely here…”
“Nyoro nyoro” “Aoo?n”
When Loki hung his head down dejectedly, the two people possessed by Midgardsormr and Fenrir consoled him.
In the past it was also like this but, these two were stupidly kind to Loki.
“Hmph. I hate papa so much.”
“Is that so? If so then, well, it’s fine already. However, why did you suddenly become able to steal the body in one go?”
Loki raised his face in a snap and asked.
“…Putting me aside like that… Hmph, it’s Ikousai. When I went along with that girl’s training I grasped the trick.”
Ikousai lately made these three to accompany her training. It was the special training for the sake of perfectly controlling the power of Susanoo that resided inside her. So that was it, by observing the state of Ikousai, who was controlling the power of her Diva, she grasped the trick to steal a human’s body using the reverse operation of that process.
“Oi, Midgardsomr and Fenrir. You guys also went along with Ikousai’s training right? Why is there no progress with you guys. This ain’t the time to go ‘nyoro nyoro’ or ‘aoo?n’ y’know.”
“It’s impossible for these two, they are idiots after all. I’m the smartest here after all.”
With a proud huff Hel turned up her nose haughtily, “…I’m the best, I’m taking after papa the closest” she added so with a small voice.
“Right. However this is a joyous occasion. Should we have red rice for the meal tomorrow? Papa is going to fill this room with humans until bursting and make them make a lot of red rice yeah.”
“Re, red rice or whatever isn’t tasty, so it’s not like I’m happy or anything with that. Well, if you are going to congratulate me then it’s fine even if you do as you please…”
“Well, that’s just a joke though. I too don’t like red rice, it’s troublesome.”
“…!!” Hel stood up from on top of Loki’s knees and hit Loki’s shoulder repeatedly.
Even while those hits got repelled by a blue defensive magic power, Loki got flustered while saying “What, what’s with you!”
“…Papa is no different whether now or in the past. Papa is only joking around or saying insincere words. Even though I’m now able to materialize after a long time, why is papa not facing me with more of your real feelings…”
Hel murmured in complaint with a small voice.
“Nn? What are you grumbling there?”
“Nothing at all!”
Hel raised an angry voice that sounded like a flame of hell. Loki went “Sca, scary…” and shrank back from his biological daughter.
{Heh heh… Loki, so when you are in front of your kids you are like this.}
Kaya who was watching over the situation laughed sardonically inside Loki’s head.
“Anyway, I’ll go after that guy called Hayashizaki Kazuki. Just leave the rest to me.”
Hel crossed her arms and suddenly began to talk.
“Hah? Leave it to you? Papa is not blessed with capable people, so papa never got to test whether leaving something to another person is gonna go well or not.”
“I have grasped the situation even while just possessing this body. Hayashizaki Kazuki is going to the deepest parts of Fuji’s sea of trees to take the last one of the Three Sacred Treasures. …Ame no Murakumo. That thing is probably, the thing that made us thoroughly miserable 14 years ago right? That kind of thing, must not be handed over to the enemy.”
“Even if you say that, that place is sealed by that woman’s power. We cannot enter there.”
“It’s possible. If it’s me. That seal is something that was put up by that woman… a dead person.”
Hel puffed up her chest as if wanting to say “It’s fine for you to praise me.”
“Is that so, if you have recovered your power… now you can make full use of your power as the god of death.”
“Dead person is my attribute. I can look up the soul of dead people that I know from Astrum and form a connection to them. The soul of the dead that is maintaining the seal in that Haunted Ground… when that woman shows her appearance in front of Hayashizaki Kazuki, I’ll do that and I’ll eat that woman’s soul. And then I’m going to materialize my figure in that place.”
So to speak, a warp that was using the desecration of a dead person.
By reducing her own flesh into a mass of enormous magic power, she was going to connect to the soul of a dead person that was in a different place through the mental world. The soul of a dead person was the remains of magic power that kept clinging at Astrum?so to speak the remaining dregs of a mind.
By consuming the soul of that dead person, she would reveal her appearance by moving into the soul of the dead person that was in that place.
Warp magic?it was a feat that not many Divas could do even if they had materialized.
“He will see the one that he is talking with right in front of his eyes suddenly change into me. I’m going to launch a surprise attack right there when he is shocked. He is going to be helpless. And then I’m going to massacre the lot and bring back the Sacred Treasure. How’s that, papa? It’s perfect right? It’s fine even if you praise me. Though it’s not like I’m happy or anything getting praised by Papa.”
‘That strategy is gonna make Hayashizaki Kazuki go into rage huh’ , Loki thought.
‘That strategy is going to make Kazuki-oniichan go mad with rage huh’, Kaya also thought,
When [a person that knew Hayashizaki Kazuki] imagined that strategy’s progression, for some reason rather than success there was only a dangerous premonition welling up inside their heart. That was how much Loki and Kaya were being in awe of his force of will.
“…Just stop it, that’s dangerous.”
“Eh? Why?”
“Because the one who can warp like that, is just you right? Hayashizaki Kazuki that snapped, is just scary. If that guy fight without thinking of the consequences, he could even fight against the other Kings.”
“There is no way for me who has already materialized to lose against something like a human at all!”
“You say that but, even papa has the experience of almost losing against that guy y’know. See, this in papa’s chest, it’s the scar from that time.”
When Loki exposed the chest behind his shirt and showed his scar, Hel’s face went beet red and covered her face with both hands.
“I, idiot! Don’t take it off out of nowhere like that! Papa really doesn’t have any delicacy! You perverted father! Since a long time ago you always loitered around naked after rising from the bath, that kind of papa is just the worst!”
Loki fixed back his shirt while being dejected.
“Why are you this shy of a person despite being my daughter… daughters at that age are really troublesome eh. I get along much better with Kaya.”
Hel’s expression went stiff in a snap from that nonchalant comment and she became even more obstinate.
“Besides papa’s win and loss cannot become any consideration at all! Anyway that time papa was just careless right!? If we just leave that guy alone and get careless, it will immediately become a pinch for us.”
“There was also that but… Papa you see, is just worried for you.”
“That’s a lie!” Hel refuted that with a menacing look like the earthquake of hell.
“Papa isn’t worried or anything at all for me! Papa is just making light of me all along! Telling me that I cannot do anything right, papa is always, always looking down on me!!”
“I ain’t looking down on you at all here. No, strictly speaking I’m looking down on you though. Everyone except papa are all idiots after all, so it’s not like papa is specially thinking of you as an idiot y’see.”
{Ahaha, you’re the worst?} Kaya was laughing hard.
“Papa is not worrying about me, papa is just thinking of that guy Hayashizaki Kazuki as more important than me! Even though all this time papa has already had so many chances to kill that guy already!”
His biological daughter’s discerning eye made Loki shocked instead. Kaya too {Ooo-} reflexively ooh-ed in admiration.
“Just why does papa let that guy live until now!? That kind of man, can be nothing else but an hindrance to our plan!”
“That guy is also one of the pawns that I can use. …Among the Magic Advanced Countries, Japan is the only country that can form an alliance with another country. With Japan becoming a force that cannot be ignored, the balance between the countries that struggle for supremacy coulda be broken. I don’t want to face those Magic Advanced Countries honestly from the front.”
“That’s just an excuse! Our original plan was to make this country, Japan as the base of us, the Divas of the Chaos Side, as the abode of demons where we can hijack the humans of this country that had no divine protection of the advanced countries! That’s the original expectation of us of the Loki’s Einherjar!”
“It doesn’t really matter where we gotta do that, anywhere is fine. …The first plan had become hard because the <Zero Knight> really whooped our asses. That couldn’t be helped.”
Kaya was shocked hearing Loki’s way of speaking. This was the first time this Diva had the sense of defeat mixed into his actions.
To steal this country and turn it into their own base, couldn’t be done except in that era.
Right now, the Magic Advanced Countries had already gathered too much strength. They already couldn’t do anything that stood out.
That was why, rather than gathering strength, they had to plan that prioritized shaving off their surrounding’s strength. …Loki was thinking like that.
“…Papa right now, just wanted Hayashizaki Kazuki to inherit the will of the Zero Knight, and then try to fight it once more.”
“You are thinking too much.”
Hel shook her head vigorously and turned on her heel.
“I don’t know anybody like papa anymore! I’m going to kill that guy!!”
Just like that she rushed out of the door with a force that almost smashed apart the door and left the room. Having been left behind, the two humans that were possessed by Fenrir and Midgardsormr were lost “Nyoro” “Ao?n”.
“…Aaa, she went and left. Why is she like… wonder if she didn’t hear what I told her. Ain’t her plan just a suicide attack when she ain’t preparing any escape route like this?”
Loki sank his waist into the sofa and gulped his sweet potato shochu.
“Why is she that stupid despite being my kid I wonder. When I was having children, the ones that come out were suddenly a snake, a dog, and a corpse, well, like that there ain’t no way these bunches are going to turn out decent though, but even so I thought that the girl was still better cos’ she had human shape. What a stupid daughter.”
{…Loki, why did you even make something like children?}
Kaya asked while enduring the numbing sensation of the alcohol.
“I wanted them in the past see. I thought that for comrades that I can have faith in, one that absolutely won’t betray me, ain’t it fine if I just make them myself.” Loki leaked out a voice that was unexpectedly crestfallen and lonely.
“…After all whether it was those gods of Asgard, or those giants, in the end, none of them can be trusted.”
Loki’s birth origin was the giant race. The Norse Mythology was a legend about the enfolding conflict between the gods of Asgard and the giant race. Kaya vividly imagined Loki’s position in the middle of such conflict.
Loki joined the group of Asgard’s gods, exchanged the cup of sworn brother with Odin, and his relation with Thor became something that was called as bosom friend.
But in the end he betrayed the gods of Asgard and a fierce battle was enfolding.
In the end, his words that no one could be trusted was heavy.
“But I noticed in the middle that such thinking was too na?ve. It’s not about fearing treachery, what’s important is to corner the surrounding bunches into a situation where they have no way to betray you. I’m not looking for something like other people that you can trust. Other people are to be used. They are pawns. That way of thinking really worked well.”
{But that girl, Hel, you cannot handle her as pawn well eh.}
Kaya pointed out with a sharpness that stabbed right at the heart of the matter. Loki gulped his shochu.
“That girl, I cannot move her well. What is that girl looking for, what kind of bait that girl will take, I really don’t understand at all.”
{I think that what that girl is looking for is really easy to understand though.}
“Is that so? …It’s incomprehensible for me.”
Surely he was just pretending to not understand, Kaya thought.
Surely Hel had seen through something like a fake love completely. That was why she was constantly angry.
But a love that was right from the heart couldn’t be called as bait anymore.
Loki who had decided to treat everything as a pawn was unable to give something like love right from his heart to other people. That was why, even for Loki the trickster, that attempted to manipulate everything, Hel was the only one in the world that he couldn’t use.
Perhaps all the words that Hel threw at him were all truth. Loki had lost the argument against his daughter.
“Really… the matter just cannot go my way.”
Kaya noticed. How that murmur sounded a little happy.
{…It doesn’t go your way, that’s why you’re looking forward to it aren’t you? An uncertain factor. Basically it’s that kind of thing isn’t it?}
Loki loved something uncertain. Surely Loki?loved Hel as an uncertain factor.
“It’s just like what you are thinking.” Loki laughed.
Hel couldn’t understand a love in such shape. That child from now on too would hunger for love, wander, and continue to act in an astounding way. Loki continued to watch that while drinking his sake.
Kaya also thought that it was pleasant. She couldn’t explain why she was having fun with such an unpleasant hobby but, without doubt, such things brought joy to Kaya and Loki.
She and Kazuki-oniichan were also the same. When saying “I want love”, Kazuki-oniichan would surely face the other party directly. But for her, she already didn’t want such a straightforward feeling. That was why she rejected that, did crazy things?and just earnestly wanting to trouble Onii-chan.
That kind of reliable Onii-chan was manipulated around with her every single action. That was great.
Inside her head was becoming full with contradiction and bankrupt personality. It was pleasant for such tragedy to be her aesthetics.
Kaya felt her [bond of chaos] with Loki that could understand that become even more irreplaceable.
“…By the way, what kind of person was that Zero Knight?”
Kaya was interested with Loki’s past. She felt that his past that she was completely ignorant of, was like a large river that stretched out between her bonds with Loki.
“I had several chances to meet her face to face and talked to her. That woman was someone that said things like [I fight in order to protect everyone!] with sparkling eyes.”
“Ugee?. That’s the honor student type that I’m bad with.”
“Hearing that I… more like my host was thinking like this. This guy is strong. So let’s massacre all her important people and plunder the will to fight, the will to live from this woman. I’m going to make that sparkling eyes get polluted.”
“O, ooo… what an awesome idea.”
“My host and my comrades ran around from the Zero Knight and massacred the Zero Knight’s family, friend, acquaintance, we cleaned all of them up. So that she won’t even have any feelings of revenge, we did it thoroughly. There was only this one strange pipsqueak foreigner that called the Zero Knight [Nee-sama] that we failed to kill because she was quite strong, but, other than that one pipsqueak, we killed them all.”
There was no more reason for the Zero Knight to fight?the circumstance became something like that.
There was no more will to protect or anything that she could feel. It wouldn’t even be strange if she commited suicide because of the despair.
“And then, what did the Zero Knight do?”
“For a while her whereabouts was concealed. During that time my host and comrades went wild as much as we wanted. But… that woman came back.”
“Ooo-…! She came back for revenge?”
“No, she didn’t have the desire for revenge. That woman said [Someone like you has to be defeated without fail] with a steady gaze. She was not talking pretty things with sparkling eyes… she talked justice with piercingly threatening eyes.”
“…That woman, was scary wasn’t she?”
“Yeah, even my host was trembling. My consciousness that time was vague but, maybe I too was shaking in my boots. We ran away until the depth of a left alone Haunted Ground that was surrounded by a wall but we got pursued, and then she entered a one-on-one fight at the summit of Mt. Fuji. There, they simultaneously killed each other.”
“Then that means you guys didn’t lose then.”
“Well, it felt like a loss. Our plan also got toppled over. Right before the Zero Knight’s death, so that the special Sacred Treasure that she used could be handed over to the hands of a worthy human, she burned her remaining life and put up a seal.”
“Loki is thinking that you want for that Sacred Treasure to be handed over to Kazuki-oniichan aren’t you?”
There was reverence towards the Zero Knight inside Loki’s chest.
“Hayashizaki Kazuki is… a worthy guy to inherit the conviction of the Zero Knight. In the deepest part of the Grand Haunted Ground, that kind of thing is waiting for that guy.”