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Mankind’s Struggle (Second Part)

The fortress, at the front area

There the apostles ere dropped down to the ground using gravity generation device ‘Gran Farensen’ were opening a fierce battle that orthy to be called as ainst the soldiers of the empire

“oOOOOOOOOO-“

One of the e at an apostle

The large sword of the apostle was elegantly shile eht, with a slash the head of that e sword lopped the head of the empire soldier at the opposite side The soldier’s arration ability for several hits before giving out, so the apostle was ai at the part where there was no ar-! Our side is already breaking the limit twice already here-“

“You monsters-! Just die already-“

The specs of the apostles were already dropped by sixty percent, furthermore their movements were obstructed, in addition their side was fully equipped with age of god class artifacts, despite so the nu an apostle was still overwhelly a lot That fact caused the soldiers of the ee

“FUNNURABAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-“ (TN: Some kind of war cry, Kurita from Eyeshield 21 often use this)

At that ti cold feet frory yell that for soroin tightened resounded And then at the next instant, a fist that was like rock ung furiously and pierced the back of the head of an apostle, the fist then pushed toward the ground without stopping――and it punched through

The one who appeared behind hanging over the apostle whose head was pulverized, was a giant of a man, his whole body was covered by the provided set of equipment and his appearance was no different from other soldiers However, the soldiers didn’t even praise thatan apostle, instead for so everyone, are you all taking distance froiveout fro of the helm The man possessed inhuman level of muscle that was obvious even across the ar out from the top of the helmet, a lovely pink ribbon was attached at the tip of the hair Thataround while winking at the soldiers with feminine tone It really was unavoidable for the soldiers to take even ive me” reflexively

After all even an apostle as about to charge exactly right now came to a stand still with a twitch…

“NUURYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-“

“DOOOSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-“

Even more throaty war cries resounded When they looked, siiant in front of their eyes――theshop at Brook city the shop iants whose body rapped in so ree that uys don’t actually need armor ain’t it?’ which was further equipped with si violently there

One giant was hugging an apostle from the front, and then without even any tiration ability the apostle was bear hugged until death, and then another giant moved to another apostle with an artistic pile driver that pulverized the head of the apostle

What was terrifying was, the eiant, it was unclear whether it was for taking the aposlte by surprise or merely because of his tastes While the apostle who received pile driver, perhaps because it was an irregular technique but the hugging direction was reversed from the usual pile driver, so the face of the apostle becaiant in the end

“How insipid this iiisss”

“Playing with a doll cannot iants who defeated two apostles also wriggled around while saying out such impressions with a feminine tone The expressions of the two apostles who had been defeated and stopped functioning looked strangely teary eyed…but surely that was just their iination

The bizarre squad that was formed as a commando unit――also known as the manly women squad The women(?) snapped their neck around to look for their next prey, and when they had finished designating their respective prey, the apostles ere confronting other soldiers shivered si their wariness, which caused several of them to be taken by surprise and defeated

They obstructed the aze and even forced the apostles to stiffen for an instant That bizarre great contribution was decreasing the number of the apostles with certainty and backed up their allies It backed up the ally…supposedly

Whileviolently in the battlefield, a fierce fighting was unfolding at a slightly distance place

One of the empire’s soldier readied the rifle he was provided with and fired in full-auto fro down an apostle in place It was a hybrid weapon with excessive firepower that wasn’t influenced by the specs of the user As expected even an apostle would have to be fixed in place if she defended against the sware sword

However, an apostle wouldn’t be finished just with that As though giving a return gift, an atrocious bullet that wasn’t outdone even by the railgun flew out――it was a counterattack using silver feathers

The e the apostle weretheir defensive equipment or sword, but the low-level soldiers had their exposed flesh gouged out with certainty and their lives expired there

gachin That sound of the bullet running out resounded The e his shooting was trying to reload the , the apostle was going to fire silver bombardment Despair flashed on the face of the empire soldier

At that time,

“ZEAAAAAAAAAAH!!”

A loud screa a line co down fro to fire a silver flash

The apostle looked annoyed while she lifted her large sword to block that attack…

“――”

The large sword that ung down bent like a whip and its trajectory changed due to the holder’s ar was transforazed in astonishment And then, even when the apostle tried to defend but heraround her and her neck got lopped off with her eyes still wide open

The man who finished off an apostle alone, was the e off unbelievable aura of supremacy――Gahard D Hoelscher was showered in the blood of apostle while he turned at the soldiers who got cold feet from that apostle’s fierce attack and raised a loud voice that sounded like explosion

“You bastaards, don’t get cold feet- Roar up! Fight until you turn into waste! This battlefield is a legend! All of you bastards are the spinner of the new legend! Do you want to get laughed by the guys in the future huh-!”

This battle where the existential fate of the end itself seen froeneration They were all the actors on this grand stage that would be talked without end at the future

The soldiers of the e with aot roused up by those words Fierceness lit up in their eyes, they blazed up with the desire to carve their existence in history!

Gahard’s violent passion swept over the battlefield

“I behind you bastards!? If you bastard get defeated, then that guy will die next-! Can you per intent! Whether they are an apostle or whatever, who the hell cares, devote yourself to destroy all the enedom and the adventurers looked back over their shoulder for a ht now, even in thisintent toward the silver ht For whose sake they were standing in this place That was obvious It was to protect their friend, their lover, their faivable!

At that time, the apostles ere offended by Gahard’s existence fired silver flashes at him all at once

“Shield-, form up!”

Gahard immediately reacted Just with that coathered around Gahard unnoticed coe shield and became the defensive wall for Gahard The silver flashes were tee shields that were also of Hajied onceby behind the large shields kneeled and fired their anti-aps of the shields

The apostles who had just fired their silver flash were countered by the flying flashes which gouged their body and made them tumbled down

And then, the , Gahard rushed toward another apostle and then using his ever-changing sword attack that warped like a whip froainst an apostle

“Follow his majesty-“

“Surround and kill theainst!”

“Don’t let these dolls doing whatever they pleased er, the allied force’s fervor rose and they battled with the apostles using similar teamwork The soldiers wouldn’t shrink away anymore no matter how many of them were killed, that mettle and resolve that believed they couldn’t be defeated was gradually excelling the specs of the apostles

In a corner of the fortress

There ahis eyes from the battlefield all this time quietly opened his eyes And then, with a powerful voice that while sounded solemn yet contained passion, he called at the commander Liliana

“Princess Liliana”

Just with those words, Liliana guessed what he wanted to say and judging that it was certainly the time she handed down the co toward a land war, it would be extreravity barrier …Please sho the strength of the dragon race that rules over the sky will usurp the air superiority in front of all these people”

“Fufu-, acknowledged”

With solemn and powerful footsteps Adol went out to a terrace that continued toward the courtyard where they dragon race people were standing in a row His brethren below hihly three hundred people were filled to the briht toward their clan head Adol

“The persecution of five hundred years ago There is no way for us to forget that All of you who survived that time and made an oath for the vindication of our honor, and also all of you ere born since then la…no need for even a drop of e! The sky is our territory! Make all of the-!”

“ “ “ “ “OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!” “ “ “ “

They all roared sinal of the revolt of the proud race who had endured the rage and huon race rolled uphile flying to the sky at the saood tion race used that chance to rise to the sky, and then at the next instant they were all wrapped in light

And then, the figures that appeared then were the flock of dragon that was the conqueror of the sky They flapped their wings lared at the puppets of god The dragons eht now, all of the dragons were fully equipped with Haji up their ons, a e body raised a roar along with an enorardless of the distance of seven hundredvibration of the air was also conveyed toward the allied force soldiers on the ground

Right after that, it was as though the roar just noas the signal for the opening of the battle, three hundred dragons fired their breath attack simultaneously The flashes that each had their own color based on the ele in the sky with a haughty face as though they owned the place

The apostles wrapped their body with their silver wings and entered a defensive posture

However, the breath of the dragon race bit and tore those defenses and exterminated the apostles

{Hou, as expected fro for our strength to be raised up until this far}

Adol raised a pleased voice seeing his breath that was displaying a ht that was ten-odd times the usual Adol and others ere equipped with sions had their specs raised up by the subliic that was enchanted into their armor Naturally there was also the effect from the cheatmate and the linize hion――Ristas made a voice that sounded vexed so an apostle who rapidly closed in on hie sword, yet that sas splendidly blocked by the arot bloay by the shockwave that was released by the arot bloay It felt like he got protected by Hajiet really complicated

{Then, you can just try to steal her After all, that e}

{Uguh}

There was no way he could do that He could clearly ied Haji soe in this talk flapped his dragon wings and accelerated instantly to attack the apostles It was like he was saying ‘I’on people were also s to wield their strength fully

As expected from the ruler of the sky With their jumped up specs and e of god artifacts, the coainst the apostles in more than even battle The conflict where the air superiority was put on the line entered into a on roars and silver flashes mixed all over just like a presentation of a space war in science fiction end

The powerful roars of dragon resounded through the reddish black sky, the allied force that was on the ground raised their war-cry at that gallantness while their

In a corner of the battlefield――at the position nearby the choir, there was a group that was clearly reat contribution which drew a line frohts at the area

“UOOOOOOOH!!”

Along with a war cry a ed an apostle with a body blow――Nagayao the let his fist that was like a rock fell on the face of the apostle before she could do soauntlet artifact of Hajime transmitted impact into the internal and destroyed the inside Whipped up flesh and blood flew out froo’s cheek with blood splatter, but he only fixed back his stance in a calm state just like his taciturn appearance

An apostle vertically slashed her large sword froo behind hio slipped into the bosom of the opponent sround with a splendid shoulder throw The ground was sht and foro stepped on the neck of the apostle whose ave her the finishing blow

Juugo finished off two apostles in the blink of eye Although the apostles eakened and he hi was splendid that ence

There, two additional apostles arrived that approached Juugo in a pincer attack

But, at thatfro with life white――’White Majestic Breath’!!”

White sh the air like a snake, it whirled and becao The two apostles that approached Juugo were slightly entangled by the white ss and blew the for once

“tsk, petrifaction”

The spectacle of the body part that was touched by the white sly fro an expression that seemed to want to say ‘how iration to unmade the curse

“I won’t let you”

The caster that blew the white smoke of petrifaction――Nomura Kentaro waved a conductor stick artifact Io in protection parted into two trails and attacked the withdrawing two apostles

The apostles judged that it would be dangerous for theic resistance was lowered so they atteround swelled up and bound their legs and their attempts didn’t bear any fruit The apostles pitched forward fro

At the next moment, the white smoke that Kentaro manipulated sed the two apostles whole

What were left later were only two artistic sculptures that were completely made from stone

Other than theotten back on their feet after Hiya a really great contribution with bloodcurdling look, while protecting the hole in their formation were Ta a fierce battle against the apostles without taking even a step back

They were all perfectly supported froawara Taeko, Miyazaki Nana, Tsuji Ayako, and Yoshino Mao

The uard squad were able to operate alo’s party and Shinji and others ere already fighting at the front line since the very beginning were because since Hajied their heart thinking that at this rate they would be no good and so they perfor since then

Other than them, there were also the other students whose heart had been coo as far as fighting directly, but with their abilities that had been heightened they were launching supportrifle or e, and so on They too were desperately backing up the other’s battle

Every one of them had their broken heart to be lit up oncecastle If Hajime’s speech at that time were merely words, then the moment an apostle appeared before their eyes their heart would surely break again because it was only supported by paper thin words However, everyone of them had seen Hajime

He lost one of his ared the color of his hair, he was in a tattered state and even his beloved lover was taken away The wailing that he raised because of his lover’s disappearance was so that caused them to feel pain in their heart Even so, at the end he stood back up and proclai and take her lover back That appearance of hi their soul that were smoke-stained all this ti like that It wasto let their friend died In order to grant just thatnothing to spare, finally they were convinced of that and they roup, this support that they received cah their heart was once sroup of cheat holder froh the ene on the classe Seeing the apostles being exterminated one after another, the allied force soldiers at the area raised their acclamation

But, at that tih the front line rapidly approached one of the girl student

“Hih!?”

The female student reflexively screaed into shock

The head of the apostle fleith a plop, the body that lost its strength slid in vain beside the girl student

Furtherroup had their necks reaped up in turn froardless when they aze over there, other than the corpses of the headless apostles, there was nothing and no one there

One of the apostles turned her gaze around at the surrounding with a grie situation

“Kuh, just where in the world the attack caht in front of you here! Shithead!”

The apostle was startled that her aze returned forward In her eyes, the shadow of a kodachi being sucked toward her neck was reflected And then that becah covert action(thinness of shadow) that couldn’t be noticed even by apostles, this ghost crossed over from crowd to crowd and in an instant, it approached to reap the target’s head

Cutting down the apostles who had the figure of a hureat burden mentally What became salvation was that all the apostles had the saure where no emotion could be felt made anyone that saw them felt that they were like a puppet

Coupled with thea shadow so thin that made even the worst enemy to show expression of “Eh? He is actually there!?”, the youngkill point that was the highest a in to despair

“As expected froh!”

”Aawesoh I don’t knohere you are!”

“Endo-kun do your beeest! Though I cannot see your figure doing your best!”

“Eh, ah, I see, Endo-kun is also fighting! Thanks for helping ‘kay!”

With a drop, so fell fro down If he said it was raining then it was raining

There, “Ufufu” a voice that was slightly filled with bewitching tone resounded

Kousuke who slipped inside a crowd peeking for an openingchilly in his spine before he turned his gaze over there What he found there was a wolance at Kousuke

“You, your presence ainst that”

“He, ah, is that, so?”

The rabbit ear female smiled widely toward the perplexed Endo Kousuke’s cheek unconsciously turned red fro that sreatest popularity as treasured slave in general had well-arranged face and figure The fe beauty

Having such a beauty, added with her lovely rabbit ears on her head s no girlfriend was equal with his age had his heartbeat increasing without stopping Although there was also the fact that he was feeling stiht now

But, that violent throbbing in his chest that felt si was i face

“My naale, sneak up like a shadow, and presented a single lethal attack, one of the stealthy hand of Hauria race!”

“…I, is that so”

“But, when I saw you, I became embarrassed to introducebut I’ll hand over the nickname of ‘Rapid Shadow’ to you Your name?”

“…Endo, Kousuke”

Kousuke was unable to say that as e one’s own nickname If he was asked ‘do you like a beautiful Onee-san?’, then Kousuke’s ansas decided already

“Then, from today you are ‘Rapid Shadow’…no, you have surpassed ate of Rapid Fang Shado’ then! It’s vexing for h!”

“No, that’s fi――”

“Well then, so that both of us won’t die, let’s reap the eneate of Rapid Fang Shado!”

“…”

Kousuke already wanted verylike “let’s reap their neck♪” with such a lovely s ca for Kousuke was that Rana had discovered him when he already even used his skill to kill his presence She had discovered him

And then,

――Do you like beautiful Onee-san, with rabbit ears on their head?

“Kousuke E Abyssgate of Rapid Fang Shado, has arrived!”

It seemed that a love that budded in battlefield really existed

The claw and fangs of Kousuke began to becoree that anyone who knew hithening He went on to take the head of all the apostles (TN: Here the writing of Kousuke’s naed, from the norate)

On the other hand, nearby such classreat contribution It was Aiko

At the rear, she kept glancing at ‘You Can Do It-, Agitator! Compilation of Lovely Speech Learned Case by Case’ that was handwritten by Hajied the allied force so that theirwords that the classmates felt like they had heard fro her voice for the sake of her own battle

“I command in the name of Hatayama Aiko! O transient life, stand up once ht after she said that, several of the apostles that should have been defeated already were standing up in a swaying motion And then, they attacked the apostles ere supposed to be their ally with a force that looked as though they had recovered their original unrestrained spec

That was the effect of Aiko’s soul ic She reproduced a pseudo-soul from her own soul and ic combined ‘Soul Reproduction’ that created a transient soul and ‘Necro Master’ was the only non-co the classmates if Hajime was excluded, became aware of her oerlessness, since Hajily conscious of looking for a way of fighting for the sake of protecting her students

There she thought hard of how to e, and the result that she reached was this ave her the hint was the betrayer Eri’s necro use of corpses also caused a fierce conflict in her heart, still Aiko took the plunge in developing this ic

That time at the sky above the God Mountain, she had already stopped staying at a clean place while onlytheir hand

Besides,

“Until he return, we absolutely won’t lose-!”

Yes, for the sake of thethat such relationship must not happen, she absolutely wouldn’t lose Because she wanted to rief Ai-chan, herit already dropped to zero isn’t it?”

“If Ai-chan mentioned ‘he’, then there is also one person it can possibly be isn’t it”

Sonobe Yuuka and Miyazaki Nana grinned a bit at each other while glancing at Aiko

“Nagu It should be impossible to even make one’s own teacher to fall for her student”

“There are also several girls in class that look like they fell already…a real hareht Well, exactly because of that they can think of so at his relation with that child named Yue, anyone would draw back already Like, when you see a girl that is too earnest toward a boy, you will give up then, so like that I wonder if this is also the attraction of the deet charhttt”

This time the two of theether

There, they could see the figure of their female classmate who had earned the h the sky freely, using two large swords, or black silver flash, or black silver feathers, oron the situation to overwhels mixed with silver radiance spread on her back and dress ar her body Her hair that was fluttering froure with an appearance that orthy as a fallen angel which was slaughtering the apostles who looked like angel, no matter how anyone looked at it that person should be called as a general of a deel side was the force that was trying to devastate theto protect thefallen angel which was Kaori was clad in silver black light while ht now she was cutting down onetheir large sword horizontally Kaori blocked those using her twin large swords and black silver wings and then she rotated with fierce momentum Immediately the two apostles were repelled away and their lives came to an end when black silver feathers pierced their forehead without delay

Just how htered with the addition of those two Kaori wondered

“There is no end to this…”

Kaori coive up and fall”

The one who replied was an apostle When Kaori noticed, she was completely surrounded in a sphere shape, she was literally buried fro left

And then, at the next nored the possibility of friendly fire against their compatriots in front of them and fired simultaneously without any reservation or mercy, they all aimed at the center of the formed sphere encirclement and fired

However, Kaori was unshaken

“I don’t know any words like giving up you know?”

Kaori made such frivolous talk before atteht line She used her tords as a shield and charged to the torrent of light

The apostle whose gaze h and she readied her twin large swords

Right after that, Kaori whose whole body was slint of her eyes didn’t weaken even by a little bit and she approached the apostle rapidly with fierceaccurately at spots like shoulder or ankle in a dirty method

Similarly the apostle fired her silver feathers in the atteht stretched out from below her feet and constricted the apostle’s moverated and dispersed, but that was enough The black silver feathers caught the body of the apostle and broke her posture greatly Kaori arrived at that tie sword on her hand to the lii gi The sound of fellow large swords scraping at each other resounded, but in the end Kaori also had the e which the apostle was unable to neutralize, like that she was then skewered by Kaori’s large sword

But, it seemed that it was still within the apostle’s expectation The handle of the skewered sword――the hand of Kaori that grasped there was gripped tightly and the apostle restricted Kaori’s movement

There silver feathers rushed in

The attack intended to bury the apostle together with Kaori

“Even though she is your cohtly”

Kaori hispered that whilethe finishing blow to the apostle before her eyes without feeling concern against the rushing silver feathers

The eyes of the apostle opened wide slightly