Volu 4, Chapter 4
Part 1
“Alright――――!”
“We did it! Se―rve you right you monsters!”
After Raphael was defeated, the national defense army lowered down all the barrier wall and the entire force including Sumika and Chikori linked up.
The Raphael army that fell into chaos from losing their leader and the divine protection of was annihilated with the force of raging wave.
Around the corpses of the angels collapsed here and there in the half-destroyed fortification, the soldiers of the national defense army that survived the battle were all rising roar of great joy while praising their fellow colleagues who fought hard and survived.
And then Sumika too,
“Chikori-san!”
“Leader......”
She rushed at Chikori as the first thing she did.
In contrast Chikori looked embarrassed from the miserable thing she had said before this,
“......I ca.”
She played the fool by sticking out her tongue as if to varnish over the matter.
But even Sumika too didn’t plan to raise such an issue this late.
She took Chikori’s both hands and expressed her gratitude from the bottom of her heart.
“I believed in you....... That if it’s Chikori-san then you will surely stand up......”
“Leader told weren’t you. Master is not here anymore, but Leader’s promise with Master doesn’t go away. It still remains inside your heart. ......I too made promise. That’s why, I’ll do my best.”
“Yes-“
And then, while Sumika was congratulating Chikori’s recovery,
“Sumika!”
Suddenly sobody hugged tightly at her with the montum that was like a body blow.
The one who hugged her was Lily Hoegarden who was fighting at another battlefield.
“Wah. Lily......so you are also safe.”
“That’s my line......! Hics, for you to face a alone, there is a limit even for being reckless......!”
Surely her heart was greatly worn away.
For Lily who lost both her parents, her best friend Sumika was an existence that was like her only remaining blood relative.
That was why Lily embraced Sumika tightly while sobbing and presented her honest words.
Sumika spoke while returning the embrace to such Lily.
“Thank you for worrying about . But I didn’t fight alone at all. Because Lily and the others gave your best effort, he was an enemy that I was able to defeat. And so this is the victory of all the surviving people in Tokyo life sphere.”
“......I wonder, if will give us her cooperation with this.”
Sumika shook her head toward the question that Lily murmured while wiping her tears.
“That is......sothing that Vel-san has to decide herself, so I can say nothing. It’s just, the thing that we have to do is decided already. Even after this there are two focused until it beca white aurora was unleashed at Sumika who was running to the sky.
That radiance couldn’t be compared in thickness against the one Raphael had.
If she was swallowed by that, she wouldn’t stay whole even with her state.
Therefore Sumika imdiately attempted to evade with , but――
{It’s fine to not escape.}
“-!?”
Instantly, Vel who stole the leadership of the body from Sumika held back her movent.
As the result, Sumika didn’t move into dodging maneuver and received the scorching heat of the aurora that fully filled her field of vision.
Great flower of light and fla blood at the sky in the sa ti with the impact.
The white aurora together with the gushing out wind blast filled the whole area of Tokyo life sphere with radiance where the people couldn’t even recognize color.
Inside that radiance,
“KAAAaAAA-!!!!”
Gabriel moved.
The blade of his left arm changed shape into sothing like a thin knight lance.
He saw it.
The instant Sumika was swallowed by the flash, Vel who possessed Sumika deployed the black barrier that blocked his slash before.
The enemy was still alive inside this light.
Together with that conviction, Gabriel thrust his arm that had changed into a knight lance and soared the sky.
The heart was gouged inside the radiance.
“Kuah!”
At the sa ti with the scream, a feedback returned, the sensation of flesh being pierce wetly.
Before long the light was gone and the scenery returned to before,
“Leader-!”
“Missy-!?”
Even in the eyes of Sumika’s comrades who looked up at the two rising to the sky, the scene of Gabriel’s spear piercing through Sumika’s chest was reflected.
And then the scene of Sumika who was pierced beca muddy iridescent color and spilling down from the spear like a lting mud was also reflected.
“Teke lili! Teke lili!”
“This is, ......!”
Gabriel clicked his tongue at the mocking voice.
Looking at the sky that lost its light, there were more than thirty Sumika floating around him.
They were that was transford as disturbance.
{Do you know which is the real one?}
{You insolent-!}
Vel’s question that was filled with a lot of sarcasm was responded by Gabriel with cutting tone like a blade.
“I just need to pierce them all!”
And then against the similar clones deploying in the sky.
Gabriel was skewering one after another the clones with spear handling that was like flash.
In the blink of eye their heart and head were gouged, the beca mud and fell to the ground.
In the first place they were just clones made of underling species, there was no way they could make any considerable opposition.
“With this, it’s the end!”
Finally the last one, ――so to speak the real Sumika’s forehead was also pierced by the grey sliver spear.
At the sa ti,
{The answer is, ――all miss.}
“――!?”
The last one was also beca muddy iridescent mud and crumbled down.
And then,
Open from the outer space o the person judging the boundary of phenonon
Gabriel heard that spell from behind him.
When he turned around in panic, Sumika whose shoulder had a hole gouged there with blood trickling was entering the shooting posture for .
Yes. After the girl got pierced at the very first turn, she transford into and took Gabriel’s back.
Gabriel also noticed that trick now, but the ti was already too――
“Co from the interstice of dark and heaven! ――Daoloth!!”
Gabriel’s chest was pierced by the strength of Great Old One that exiled Raphael to beyond space-ti.
“Nu, o, ooOoOO, o, o, o oOO!?!?”
Wrung and wrung, like a thick rubber string forcefully being twisted before raising an unpleasant sound, the hole opened on his chest was sucking Gabriel’s body like a vortex.
Gabriel couldn’t give a satisfactory opposition just like where Raphael was having this done to him, he was being swallowed into the other side of the veil,
“ tsu, o――――”
Finally his figure vanished from in front of Sumika.
Nowhere in this universe, the empty space where no space, no ti, no concept, nothing existed at all.
Gabriel was dragged into the territory of Daoloth.
That was, what supposed to happen.
But,
――Do you know the aning of the na Gabriel? ――
“Ka, -......!?”
Right after such question shook the atmosphere, Sumika felt the sensation of her stomach pierced by sharp impact.
When she looked, gray silver spear was piercing her navel as if to excavate it.
Sumika drew back in panic to pull the spear out and opened her eyes wide in shock.
Because the spear was extending out from a black hole that was trying to swallow and isolate everything.
Before long, not only the spear, but an arm sword also thrust out from that hole.
And then those two things wrenched open the cramped hole with brute force while,
“It ans god is my strength......-!”
The hole was torn off to left and right.
The grey silver angel Gabriel possessed peerless physical strength entrusted to him along with that na from god, he returned back from the territory of Daoloth by sheer strength.
Sumika who didn’t think that could possibly be defeated lost all her thought power for an instant.
Gabriel didn’t miss that agitation of Sumika.
Flapping his wings with feathers that were like blade, he thrust his spear at Sumika once again.
{Sumika-!}
“――!”
Vel’s voice sohow made Sumika returned to her senses and she continued to evade Gabriel’s thrusts left and right while,
Firing her in a counterattack,
All bullets impacted the head of Gabriel who beca defenseless from moving to offense.
On top of that the magic bullets that were tinged with divine poison of Gla’aki blown away Gabriel’s head.
However――
(He’s not stopping-!)
Even with his head lost, Gabriel still charged straight at Sumika and his arm sword flashed horizontally to bisect her.
{}
But the swung blade was repelled with scattered sparks.
It was because Vel deployed a barrier that was like a black diamond around Sumika.
“Yo, you saved ......!”
{Not even that. A slash can be stopped but, a spear with its power concentrate in one point is――}
Unblockable.
The mont Vel inford her with voice that was oozing frustration, Gabriel traced the worst scenario.
“It’s the end with this. O detestable god......-!”
Even with his head lost, Gabriel announced that with his usual tone and stabbed his spear.
The gray silver spear easily pierced the and ran at Sumika’s heart.
There was no ti to evade anumore.
――That was why, Sumika resolved herself and closed her eyelids.
“――――!?”
Instantly, Gabriel’s thrust lost its mark and stabbed empty air.
That was natural.
Because Sumika was separated from Gabriel for a hundred ter.
She moved within an instant.
No.
The girl [vanished] and [appeared].
She disassembled her own existence into imaginary unit for once and then she reconstructed her own existence at the designated coordinate using quantum teleport.
{The grand sorcery that combined dinsion elent and ti elent fifth rank――. I never thought that a human other than Master that can use that exist. I should say, as expected. If you are not a magician that can at least use that, then there is no worth for in doing this.}
The sorcery of Homura that she witnessed only once at the battle with Jambure.
Vel sent a praise at the genius sense of Sumika who showed how she reproduced that only by watching.
Although the way she said that was a little dishonest, Vel who was joined with Sumika communicated her praise whose talent filled her heart with admiration.
To that Sumika was,
“Thank you....... But I cannot do that for the second ti......”
She returned a wry smile while bleeding from the corner of her eye.
Fifth rank sorcery that was the pinnacle of sorcery for mankind, furthermore combining two sorceries of that fifth rank, was originally a grand sorcery that couldn’t be used by anyone other than an like Homura, yet Sumika used it without any rehearsal at all. Although her body was going through , the reparation exacted from her was great, just using that sorcery once burdened Sumika so much that it felt like a part of her brain had lted.
And then――
“You don’t know when to give up. Resign yourself already. With the power of Great Old One that isn’t even completely summoned, this Gabriel won’t be defeated-!”
Gabriel who grew new head in the blink of eye rcilessly gave chase at Sumika who was in the brink of being worn out.
In comparison Sumika didn’t have any more card she could play.
Although Gla’aki’s poison inflicted intense pain temporarily, it wouldn’t affect Gabriel’s life.
Even her trump card the didn’t work, on top of that she didn’t know what she should do.
But even so,
“......”
Sumika readied her gun.
Exactly as Gabriel said, certainly this might be nothing more than vain struggle.
However,
She knew of the miracle that visited at any ti those who continued to struggle unsightly, not giving up in the middle of despair.
And then――, it was exactly at the next mont that it happened.
ia ia hasutaa
hasutaa kufuayaku......burugutomu
“ “-............!?” “
Voice. Several tens of million roaring chorus from the bottom of earth shook the sky, reaching the ear of Sumika and Gabriel.
Because both of them knew the aning of those words of underworld, the both stopped all their movent altogether and directed their gaze at the direction of the voice, ――underneath Tokyo life sphere below them.
And then,
(Thi, this is......-!)
Sumika noticed.
Tokyo life sphere below.
Nine defensive wall extending to the sky making the shape of the letter ‘V’.
Vel murmured in relieve toward that sight.
{Just in ti.}
She said.
Part 4
A short while after the battle against Gabriel began.
Inside the command room of geofront, Vel summoned Kinugasa and Elfiena who were commanding the human and fairy respectively and gave a proposal.
The proposal that could beco the trump card in the fight against Gabriel. That was――
{Making the refugees of geofront, to summon Great Old One, you say......!?}
Vel replied with a nod toward the dumbfounded Kinugasa.
{Yes. ...... Hoshikawa Sumika is an excellent magician. I understand that. But in the end that’s only within the fra of mankind, she is not out of the norm like Master. She is far away from the . Gabriel won’t be defeated by the strength of Sumika. To defeat Gabriel, there is no other way except by fully summoning Great Old One like what Master did all this ti when he defeated . And then......, in order to do that the power of number is needed.}
{But, the people who know nothing of sorcery, can they really summon Great Old One?}
This doubt of Elfiena was most correct.
All the people who took refugee in geofront couldn’t use sorcery.
Every human was in possession of magic power in the shape of their soul, but there was only a handful of people who had the making to use sorcery, so to speak the magic power vein in order to manipulate magic power.
However Vel answered that there was no problem in regard to this question.
{The will take the role as the that will chant the spell. It will be fine if you do it. The normal human who escape to the underground will extol the Great Old One as and give their reverence. If they do that, Great Old One will respond to their voice and appear from the abyss.}
Vel inford them.
Originally the summoning of evil god was sothing perford by a great number of people.
People like Homura and Sumika, who manipulated the power of Great Old One alone by themselves were――
{Wrong in the head.}
{I, isn’t that too harsh!?}
{That’s the fact so it can’t be helped.}
Vel declared bluntly without holding back.
{With the strength of the refugees who are approximately eighty million in number, we will summon the Great Old One completely. There is no other way for mankind to survive other than that.}
She once again pressed on the two.
Elfiena imdiately showed her will that was in favor to this.
{......Let’s do it! Kinugasa-san! With our strength! After all this is a battle that staked the survival of all the living being that are living in this land!}
{Elfiena-sama......}
After Kinugasa showed a manner of pondering for a little while,
{I understand. I will take the responsibility to bring together the people.}
He promised his cooperation.
Before long Kinugasa made all the people gathering in the shelter district of geofront to morize the words of praise to the Great Old one that Vel wrote up, he made them do that with a little obscured presentation that it was a charm for helping the soldiers of national defense army who was fighting in the surface.
Believing that it would beco a help to the people fighting, they yelled as loud as they could
ia ia hasutaa! ia ia hasutaa!
hasutaa kufuayaku burukutomu bugutoragurun burugutomu
ai ai hasutanaa!
It was repeated more than a hundred tis.
“Ah......”
At the top of the defensive wall that was raised up in V-shape following Vel’s instruction.
The presence of Elfiena waiting for opportunity, standing on a crest that was like three question marks crossed with each other painted with yellow paint at the basent space, could be felt.
――Being guided by the words of praise that were offered highly and highly, the presence of gigantic sinister tentacles creeping close with thundering roar from the surface of the abyss.
Even for Elfinea who lived in the demon world, it was an aura that made her felt dread.
But if they didn’t obtain the cooperation of this supernatural existence, they wouldn’t have any future.
That was why she bit the lips that were trembling in fright strongly once and killed her trembling with pain, then she chanted the chanting taught to her by Vel amidst the praising voices that were resounding like tremor.
Listen from the far away Aldebaran o person that is hard to describe
The seething stars shining brilliantly in blasphemy informing to thy the ti of fate
The crown prince of evil o god of shepherd
Deep below the black thorn lake the chain arresting thy for eternity was severed
Now is the ti with fury with hatred dye the abominable Petrugius with blood
Those were the words to wake up the divinity sleeping at the bottom of lake of the far away thorn lake of Aldebaran.
And then――
“Co clad in the clothes of wind! Hastur!!”
The god sleeping at the end of space responded to this call.
Suddenly, the iridescent clouds enshrouding the sky of Eihort’s labyrinth space were penetrated, yellow flashes were pouring down to the ground.
The number was nine. They pierced the defensive walls lined on the ground modeling the Taurus constellation, binding the sky and ground.
The ford shape was path of star.
An enormous person with height that was approximately a kiloter, clad in yellow clothes, as if he was invited by the sing of praise resounding from below the ground was walking the path with his overcoat swaying while descending down to Tokyo life sphere from the far away Aldebaran.
That was exactly the leader of wind spirit comncing with Ithaqua.
Hastur.
And then the gigantic Great Old One of wind that appeared moved its head that was covered with hood and directed its sight to Gabriel.
――From the depth of the hood’s darkness, red eye gleam lit up.
Right after that, overpowering hostility that was even accompanied by mass struck Gabriel.
The hostility of this Great Old One made Gabriel exposed anger incomparable with before.
“Depraved god! To dare to obstruct our salvation, you are better off just sleeping in the bottom of your dark lake!”
With his whole body trembling and shining red eye gleam from the depth of his white face, Gabriel spread his wings largely.
And then he struck the wind with those wings and obtained explosive propulsion.
Gabriel rode his spear in that charging force and lunged at Hastur.
His aim was the location that seed to be where the heart was if it was human.
That sharpness was exactly like a falling star.
Its power was incomparable with the thrust that attacked Sumika.
Hastur didn’t even attempt to dodge that,
――――fuh
Like that, a breath was blown from under the hood.
Just like putting out the fire of a candle, it caused a small, gentle wind.
rely just with that, the whole body of the approaching Gabriel was attacked with an impact as if he was struck by steel hamr, his four limbs, his wings, head, all beca dented like a pulp, causing him to lose his speed and balance.
“~~~~~~~~~~–!”
Gabriel lost his consciousness for an instant from the excessive shock.
But, he was also the who received the na with the aning of .
He imdiately recovered his consciousness and his wings that were crushed flat and wet with blood spread out even then, supporting his body that was falling to the ground, he then once again glared at the sworn enemy that ran counter to his god.
However――
And then Gabriel suddenly noticed.
Inside the instant when he fainted, Hastur surrounded himself with tornado around him and by creating the prison of wind,
“ugh――――!”
In order to escape from the prison of wind that Hastur created, Gabriel swung his arm sword at the tornado wall.
The arm sword cut through the wall of tornado in a flash smoothly.
But, ――the wall was still there, he didn’t make a single tear.
That was only natural.
After all what was bisected was Gabriel’s arm sword.
Even so Gabriel didn’t give up, he stabbed his remaining lance but it gave the sa result.
Starting from the tip of lance that touched the wall of tornado, the part was minced apart even finer than dust by the rotating blade of wind before they were blown away in the wind.
It was just like a pneumatic drill.
And then, as if to tornt him that blade of pneumatic drill was little by little, little by little, the space inside the tornado was becoming smaller shaving――
“OoO, OA, hh!?”
First was the outer skin that was like grey silver tal.
Next was the red flesh ford from muscle running below that skin.
Finally even the silver bone protected by the flesh.
Shave shave, shave shave, so on.
Gabriel was being scarped on without rcy.
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA–!!!!”
The intense pain of being scraped alive was hard to endure even for an , Gabriel attempted to escape from the wind prison while being half-mad.
But, it was absolutely pointless.
His punching arm, his kicking leg, his striking shoulder too, everything was only getting scarped by the tornado starting from the body part touching the shaver. Before long,
“HasturAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!”
The mont Gabriel yelled with cursing voice.
*PAN-*
Hastur knocked together his tentacle hands in front of his body.
As if killing a buzzing fly.
Gabriel that was struck between both hands from that died instantly without even ti to scream his death throes. Everything inside his body, flesh and blood were spurted out, becoming remains that was only skin clinging at the surface of the tentacle.
Even that wretched remains was imdiately abducted by the wind and the threat called Gabriel was gone leaving no trace behind.
What remained in the sky was only the Great Old One with its yellow clothes flapping in the wind and Sumika.
Gabriel had vanished from this land.
That fact made the soldiers of national defense army opened their mouth to yell in joy.
――So that is the answer of all of you, o children of man――
“ “ “–............!?!?” “ “
Right after, cascade of white aurora scattering away the sky and pouring downward crushed the .
Part 5
The cascade of light that suddenly poured from the sky.
When one looked carefully, that was a gigantic sphere of white light.
That thing which was shining bright just like cot crushed Hastur in a flash.
Hastur reached out its tentacle that was wrapped in deep green liquid from underneath its yellow overcoat, its action that was trying to ward off the light wasn’t even granted.
Just how much weight that light could possibly have?
Hastur that was sandwiched between the sphere that was like a gigantic star and the ground had its body burst open here and there from the pressure that crushed his body, splattering sticky liquid everywhere.
{■■■, ■■■■,■■■■■――――――}
In the end, the Great Old One of Aldebaran looked up at the source of the light that pierced through the sky and raised an unpleasant voice that tore the eardrum while being crushed by the white aurora――
Right after that, a gigantic light explosion occurred, giving birth to a blast of light that painted white color and sound, even everything.
Draft of light blowing violently.
There was no heat there, but the radiant light burn Sumika’s eyeball even from behind the eyelid.
“–~~~~~~!”
Just what in the world happened.
The national defense army intently endured the generated explosion while understanding nothing.
Before long after the storm of light continued for around a minute, the light that showed through the other side of the eyelid settled down.
The storm had passed.
Thinking that, Sumika and others finally opened their eyes.
“Eh......”
They were speechless.
Because the color of the sky changed.
The iridescent clouds, and the wasteland that was spreading without end vanished, what was spreading before their eyes was the familiar night sky and mountain range.
The visible constellation. The shape of the mountain belt. The shape of the ruin.
There should be no way for them to mistake any of it.
Over there was the holand of Sumika and others.
Kanto region of Honshu island of Japan archipelago.
Because it was the place where Tokyo life sphere originally existed.
――Yes, the labyrinth of Eihort was scattered away.
“――――............”
That fact made Sumika convinced.
The person slaying Hastur who was said to rival even and even among the , and not stopping with that that person also brought about destruction to the degree that scatter away even the labyrinth of Eihort, there was nobody else remained that could do that but one person.
The last enemy was finally starting to move.
The strongest that was gifted with the na that had the aning which sounded like ――
“......Michael............-!”
Sumika detestably said that na and looked at the night sky.
Under the great triangle of the sumr, at the height that looked down at everything, he was there.
The angel who possessed six golden wings.
Different from Raphael and Gabriel, the apostle of god that manifested in this earth possessing perfect flesh.
The Michael was there.
“......Why, don’t you all believe in the salvation of the great father? O children of man......”
――While tear of sadness was wetting that cheek.
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