Episode 41 — Extreme Dream
～ Part 1 ～
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The empty container that had been built for 17 years. Water was pouring in at momentum that it couldn’t fit in to that container that was made of splendid mud with only outward appearance. The container instantly approached the bursting point and it became emotions overflowing from his entire body.
Anger that Sakuma was hurt,
Sorrow for losing Washio,
And then, joy of being able to accept himself,
Everything overflowed from Kyousuke’s body. Kyousuke who had been called empty until then didn’t know the technique to control the endlessly overflowing emotions. What he could do then was only to hit the enemy in front of him with full power. At the same time as he took a stand, the GO-signal came out from his body. Rin’s consciousness that lost its boundary flowed into Kyousuke’s consciousness. Let’s go, Kyousuke-kun.
Extreme Cross.
Utsurogi Kyousuke who reached Phase 3 had fused with Rin on a cellular level. The same applied even for the smallest units of physics and magic, molecule and magicule.
This power that manifested as a human figure, was it because Rin had said that she would compensate for the missing things? She became meat, became organs, became skin, and then became the heart that stimulate everything. Utsurogi Kyousuke who was only bones was given every chipped parts.
It doesn’t matter even if empty. It doesn’t matter no matter what everyone say. This rising uplifting feeling is never a lie.
There’s someone who accept me.
There’s someone who fills my contents.
I can still fight with just that. I can go anywhere.
“GUOOOOOO!!”
The face of a lion tailored to the chimera roar. It struck with its burly forelegs, trying to claw at him. But it was ineffective against Kyousuke. Kyousuke turned into water in a state of standing upright, and its claws just scratched the water, making a ∗bashan∗ sound.
Kyousuke raised his right fist and struck between the eyebrows of the chimera. It faltered but it wasn’t enough to be a decisive blow. This hardheaded skull.
He saw Suou moved in the corner of his sight. That guy didn’t show any sign of coming to attack this place. As a Knight whose only means of attack was physical attack, he judged that it was disadvantageous to compete.
So Suou was trying to kidnap Sakuma who collapsed on the deck. Faster than Kyousuke could go to help, the other students who was waiting for their turns simultaneously sprung at Suou.
“I won’t alloow thaaaaaht!!”
“Tskk!”
Starting with one slash of Kensaki the raid captain, Okumura, Zeku, Kagoi, the ones prided for their brute strength snapped at Suou in succession. The strength of every one of them was insignificant before Suou. Even so, they confined Suou with their utmost efforts, not allowing him to get closer to Sakuma.
The chimera also took advantage of the gap Kyousuke showed when he relaxed his hand and rearranged its posture. It greatly spread Washio’s wings. It’s shooting poisonous feathers. Kyousuke glanced behind. The students were literally lumping together to hold back Suou. If Kyousuke avoided or performed permeation defense by liquefaction, the poisonous feathers would rush at them.
«All right!»
Rin shouted. According to her will that naturally flowed in, Kyousuke spread both his arms.
«Let’s give it a try!!»
The chimera shot poisonous feathers. Up to dozens of feathers simultaneously rushed at Kyousuke. Washio’s feathers, which became sharp thorn at the tip of the base, was stabbing in Kyousuke’s body with sputtering sound.
He knew that Kensaki and others who looked at the situation over here gulped a little. As for Kyousuke himself, he felt a sense of poison circulating and his head was little dizzy.
But at that moment, Rin fully demonstrated her ability. She extracted the bleeding poison, gathered it in one place, diluted a part of it and circulate it throughout the body. The fused cells that constituted Kyousuke’s entire body refined antibodies in order to protect the body functionality from the circulating poison.
“Hi, Himemizu…. A very skillful action…”
«Let’s deliver these antibodies to Saa-chan!»
“O, ou…!”
Kyousuke, after drove a kick to the chimera to frighten it, rushed over to Sakuma. She who had collapsed, he shook her awake and extracted the poisonous feathers pierced in her body. He gently put his fingertip on the wound oozing blood.
“U, Utsurogi, kun…?”
“Ahh, it’s me. Sorry to have kept you waiting, Sakuma.”
Kyousuke powerfully nodded to Sakuma who looked up at him with vacant eyes. The antibodies Rin manufactured was poured into her through the wound. It was a temporary treatment for the poison. Probably, the one who could completely heal her was Hakuba alone. But it should be a lot more comfortable for her with this.
Pushing away his other classmates, Suou came striking at Kyousuke. Kyousuke, while avoiding by liquefying his body, throw a counter-punch to his solar plexus.
“”UO—RYAAA!!””
“Guu…!”
Suou held down his stomach and faltered a little. But, it didn’t go well to the point of knocking him down. Most probably, the mass of water constituting Kyousuke’s body was overwhelmingly insufficient. Nevertheless, Kensaki and others stood in front of Kyousuke during that gap.
“Utsurogi, you guys take the chimera!”
“Ou!”
«Leave it us!»
We have to reach a conclusion soon. Kyousuke glared at the chimera.
Taking back Washio’s body from that blasphemous monstrosity. Kyousuke wasn’t softhearted enough to still kept his calm when his friend was killed and that corpse was toyed with. No, he wasn’t softhearted.
The anger that was seething to this extent, Kyousuke just wasn’t self-conscious of it. This feeling was very similar to the distant past, the thought when he raised his fists to Kogane who tried to sell out his friends. Kyousuke’s emotion was further refined compared to that time. This is what you call getting angry.
“UOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo!!”
Kyousuke roared toward heaven again. He didn’t know any other means to deal with this boiling emotion.
“Let’s go, Rin!!”
«Alrighty!»
Liquefying the whole body, Kyousuke and Rin jumped into the chimera’s jaw. They had the liquefied body permeated every single cells and explored for Washio’s body.
Dispersing their body would weaken the control power accordingly. If doing it unskillfully, they would be taken in as the chimera’s somatic cells as is, or possibly be disposed of by the antibodies as foreign substances. However, Kyousuke and Rin immediately pushed forward inside the chimera’s body.
They found Washio’s upper body embedded in the chimera. Kyousuke and Rin aimed at that point and reassembled, rebuilding their body.
“”ORYAAAAAAAa!!””
The chimera’s back was tore into two parts. Kyousuke carried Washio’s upper body and jumped out. The chimera twisted in pain and raised a scream that shook the deck.
The place Kyousuke landed was exactly Hanazono’s vegetable garden. Carrots and parsleys grew verdantly and were blooming flowers. Kyousuke laid down Washio’s body on the deck, in front of those flowers. The vacant eyes that were opened, were gently closed.
The rest is only to knock them down.
«Kyousuke-kun!»
Kyousuke nodded to Rin’s words. The chimera managed to stood up despite being in pain and was glaring over here.
“GUOOOOOOOOOOOUu!!”
Together with a roar, the chimera sprung at this place. Kyousuke clenched his fist and greatly pulled it back.
Synchronized his breathing with Rin, was unnecessary. Their consciousness were completely overlapped with the same timing.
“”EXTREME BLOW————OWW!!””
The fist that put their entire body was thrown at the chimera’s face. At the moment when the impact exploded, Kyousuke’s arm burst open like water and disappeared. A calm moment descended on the battlefield. The chimera’s moment stopped, Kyousuke also didn’t show any slight movement.
Wind blew gently. Fresh blood gushed out from the chimera’s entire body. The monstrosity’s death agony echoed on the deck. When Kyousuke pulled back his fist, his right arm was reconstructed.
«Fushiiyuuu!»
He knew that Rin took a short breathe. But the battle wasn’t over yet.
“Ahh, shit!”
When Kyousuke glared at him, Suou roughly scratched his head. While dodging the students springing at him, he spread wings on his back.
“Why has it become like this…! Good grief…!”
“Feel like running away…!?”
“Mission failed! There’s no reason to stay!”
Shouting that much, Suou kicked the deck and flew up to the blue sky without even leaving one regretful remark. As it was, he flew straight in the direction of the towering old castle. That castle was Suou side’s hideout.
In that case, it was very likely that Kogane was over there as well.
“Kyousuke!”
As Kyousuke was glaring at Suou who was flying away, Akira called out from behind.
“It’s best of all that you seem to have recovered. I couldn’t be helpful to you these past few days, sorry.”
“What’s this, Akira, was it bothering you?”
“Well, somewhat.”
Hino Akira’s words were a little awkward. It was because he couldn’t move these past few days due to seasickness, so saying that it couldn’t be helped then it couldn’t be helped, but it didn’t mean that he especially demanded such consolation or anything. Kyousuke, while scratching his forehead, said this.
“Apart from that, I have always been help by Akira, so that doesn’t matter. Please treat me well from now on as well.”
“You’re the same as ever. I think being like that is more desirable.”
In response to Akira’s words, Rin muttered, «Ohh, it’s the usual Hino-kun».
“You should say the same words to Sakuma later. Since it has always been bothering her that she couldn’t be by your side.”
As he was told, after Akai conveyed her circumstances to the class, Sakuma had been running around defusing in order to cancel the hate toward Akai, or study regarding Phase 3 abilities. As a result, she couldn’t show his face in Kyousuke’s vicinity.
Other students were about to carry that collapsed Sakuma to her bedroom. Looking at that situation, Kyousuke nodded firmly.
“What, has it already finished?”
They heard an anticlimactic voice, and sounds of hooves striking the dropped down gangway. Speaking of hooves in this class, there was only Hakuba. At the same time, Kaminari Totoha who spread her great wings also returned to the branch school.
They were the two people who were on standby at the branch school as contact personnel in case of emergency. They were supposed to have jumped out from the branch school at the same timing as Suou attack in order to call the main force, but….
“Even though I have brought Akai-san with much trouble.”
“Ahh, that’s right.”
Hakuba muttered in a complicated voice. Looking at it, Akai Asuka was sitting on top of his saddle, not by straddling but like sitting on a bench. Looking at that situation, the boys who were trying to carry Sakuma, faced together and started a whispering discussion for some reason. Those guys were beaten by Kensaki with all her strength.
Akai, first looked at Sakuma collapsed on the floor, then looked at Inugami who was trying to carry her while having wounds all over her own body, and finally, looked at Kyousuke and Rin.
“Phase 3, it was faster than I thought.”
“O-ou…”
Hakuba who was close to Washio was supposed to be worsening his distrust of Akai. That him giving Akai’s a ride on his back was surprising.
When Hakuba dropped off Akai, he noticed that Washio’s remains was laid down in a corner of the deck, before the vegetable garden. There was no words to said to him who silently approached while drooping his head.
«Akai-san, got on…»
Whether she thought that it was better to break the awkward silence, Rin said something unnecessary.
“What, something wrong?”
«No, I think it’s a wonderful thing in these days when the disturbance of youth’s nature is being called out.»
Akai’s «something wrong?» in response to Rin’s words contained 30% more dangerous atmosphere than usual.
“Utsurogi, I should better hurry if you want to chase Suou. Because there are Kogane and others over there.”
Kyousuke raised his face at Akai’s words. Was it as expected? As Kyousuke was trying to brave his feet, she continued on.
“Phase 3 ability is to bring out the power of ‘blood’, so there’s a limit to activity. Take care about that alone.”
“Power of ‘blood’?”
“It’s like fuel.”
Akira supplemented Akai’s words.
“Akai’s blood possesses the power to draw out the latent ability of monsters that passed through the Transference Denaturation Gate, but that power will dry up when use for a long period of time. Once exhausted, there’s no choice but to wait for the power of ‘blood’ to recover.”
«Ohh, an easy power up is not allowed…»
“Kyousuke’s power up is already plenty easy.”
Akira’s retort to Rin’s words was at point blank.
“Kogane is fighting with Ryuzaki and the others now. Can you hurry up?”
“Understood. Kaminari!”
When Kyousuke called out, the thunderbird who was resting her wings on top of the cabin abruptly raised her face.
“Would you mind going to Kogane and the others’ place again? Please carry us!”
“Ah, yes!”
Kaminari spread her wings, flapped once and soared to the sky. Kyousuke stretched his right arm and twined around her legs, then using the shrinking momentum to jumped on her back.
To be continued…
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