Chapter 3 part 1

Yurishia reflexively turned around from Kizuna's shout.

"Cross!"

Yurishia wasted no time to put on her Heart Hybrid Gear and deployed her weapon.

"Fire-!"

Yurishia's main cannon, the Differential Frame spouted out fire.

The head of the Blue Head was hit directly. In addition, its body was filled with wind holes from the cannon's rapid fire.

Blue Head's large body was collapsing behind slowly.

"Wha..."

The scenery behind it was flickering gently. The blue sea and white clouds wavered. It was just like seeing scenery through a warped glass.

Looking up at that, Yurishia shouted in disbelief.

"This is... AU's Entrance!?"

From that wavering scenery, a gigantic armored leg appeared. That leg blew up the white sand and stepped out on the beach. And then from ten meters above the ground, armored head, and then next the upper body, that appearance revealed itself as if breaking through an unseen wall.

A second Blue Head stepped forward.

'God dammit, why did it turn out like this!"

"Eros!"

Kizuna emitted pink light then his body was wrapped in a black gear.

"This is Kizuna, Ataraxia, respond! Shikina-san, Nee-chan!"

However, nothing came out from the window except noise.

"What happened, Kizuna?"

"I cannot make communication! Ataraxia, also Himekawa and Aine, all of them cannot be called!"

"What did you say!?"

Yurishia glared at the AU's Entrance.

"Right, so that's the cause..."

For some reason communication malfunction occurred at the vicinity of AU's Entrance. The reason why they couldn't communicate with their homelands that were Japan and America was also thought to be caused by this.

"But, if it's just Blue Head, then it's not a big proble――"

The Entrance that was connected straight to the AU, its space was slowly wavering.

'――Don't tell me,'

Similar with the Blue Head, from the air where there was nothing, an Albatross made its appearance.

By no means that there was nothing. When he looked carefully, he could see that the space was distorted in a rectangle shape.

That was the proof that an Entrance to AU was right there.

They were quickly surrounded by ten Albatross. With a sidelong glance, Yurishia took a look at Kizuna.

'――This is why a burden is just troublesome.'

"Kizuna, I will hold them back here. That's why, you hurry and return back to Ataraxia."

"Eh!? But, Yurishia, what about you?"

"I alone am enough against the likes of Blue Heads and Albatrosses."

"But! Leaving Yurishia behind, there's no way I can do that!"

Yurishia glared sternly at Kizuna.

"Even with Kizuna here, you will be just a burden!"

"――Kuh."

Kizuna dropped his gaze with a bitter expression.

Yurishia immediately displayed a smile looking at Kizuna who was like that.

"There will be no problem against enemies of this level. Rather than that, you need to report this quickly!"

Certainly, Yurishia was a super ace that had shot down three hundred enemies. In contrast with that, he didn't even have proper experience of real battle. Even for someone like him, what he could do to be useful was――

"...Go, got it! I'll call for help immediately!"

"Now, here we go!"

Yurishia drew out particle rifles from her waist. She took a stance with both her hands holding the particle rifles like handguns, she directed it at the Albatrosses in the air and began shooting.

"Kizuna-!"

"Ou-!"

Kizuna flew out skimming the sea surface, like that he dashed away with all his power.

An Albatross was trying to aim at his back.

"I won't let you do that!"

The Differential Frame faced the back and fired the particle cannon. Without a moment's delay she directed both her hands to the front and the rifles shot through the Blue Head. The Albatross that was trying to pursue Kizuna was shot down by the particle cannon.

Confirming that Kizuna had distanced himself away, Yurishia used her sensor to confirm the number and position of the surrounding magic weapons.

'――Five Blue Heads, and eight Albatross is it?'

She made a plan to clear them all with an all out bombardment and use that opening to retreat.

"Then, I wonder if you all have resolved yourself? I'll sho―ot down everyone now."

Light began to fill the nozzle of the particle cannon.

"Fire(All cannon shoot)!"

Yurishia's weapons spouted out fire.

In addition to the particle rifles in both her hands, bullets of light were fired from her back and waist.

Those light bullets pierced the Albatrosses' bodies and pulverized them with one attack.

Yurishia's weapon moved and changed their deployment pattern. It was as if each cannon muzzle was possessing their own will, they pursued after the enemies' movement.

The conclusion was reached in about five seconds.

A sudden silence visited the battlefield.

Yurishia 'haa―' breathed out a large deep breath.

Those many figures of magic weapons couldn't be found anywhere. What could be seen were only fragments of light, raining down on the sea.

"Somehow... it looks like I barely made it."

She only had little Hybrid Count left. She had already entered the red zone right now. Just a little more and her Heart Hybrid Gear would be forcefully called off.

"The commander... she surely will tell me 'I told you so' with this."

She became a little depressed, but Yurishia played with her hair and renewed her mood.

"But well, I made it somehow anyway♪ Now, when I get home a bath with aroma oil entered will be――"

Yurishia lost her words.

From the Entrance, a figure of an object she had never seen before was going to appear.

A mechanized lizard.

At first that was what she thought. A long neck appeared, before long a body with wings growing out made its appearance. And then on its back, there was an upper body of an armored knight that looked similar with Blue Head and Albatross.

―Dragre(Dragon Cavalry)

It was considerably rare to encounter, a magic weapon in category-A.

The upper body of the armored knight didn't have any great difference compared to other magic weapons, but it had a long neck and tail. And then when it spread out its wings, that pressuring appearance was overwhelming.

A sweat flowed down Yurishia's cheek.

If she was in a perfect condition, it was not an enemy that she couldn't defeat.

But――

Her body was heavy, she couldn't enter any strength.

It appeared that the energy of Heart Hybrid Gear was almost used up.

The dragon neck was slowly turning as if it was searching for prey.

Inside the caving in eyes, red light was eerily shining. Its mouth opened. There was no tongue inside it for sure, but a tube like a firing nozzle for something was visible.

In the next moment, the sight before her eyes turned pure white.

"Kyaaaaaaaa!"

Her body flew in the air. The sky and the sea were rotating.

'I was blown... away?'

Inside the rotating circle and circle scenery, she could see a straight line of flame being drawn at the sky.

Unable to control her movement, she crashed into the sea.

"Hm...-!?"

Kizuna was surprised from the sudden restoration of the floating window that he kept connected the whole time. By opening distance from the Entrance, it seemed that he had escaped from the range of the communication obstruction. The half transparent window displayed the figure of Reiri.

{Did something happen, Kizuna?}

"Ne-, Nee-chan!?"

With a chaotic face, Kizuna desperately tried to explain the situation.

"A, an Entrance appeared on the island! Right now Yurishia is in the middle of battle. I request instruction!"

{What did you say!? What does this mean, Kei.}

{Such thing shouldn't happen. If the data until now is correct.}

Kizuna sent the image of what he saw to Ataraxia. With the function of Heart Hybrid Gear, everything that he saw was automatically recorded. It was something like a drive recorder.

The data was sent to Ataraxia and replayed inside the command room.

Magic weapons were appearing one after another from the Entrance that appeared above the sea.

{This is...}

{The shoals.}

What?

{The ground for it to appear is small. But, this island has shallows with depth less than a meter that continued for several hundred meters. If those areas are totaled, then there will be enough space for an Entrance to be formed.}

"Shit-! So that's how it is."

{Kizuna, you said that Yurishia is in battle situation? What about Aine and Himekawa?}

"They returned back ahead. Also Yurishia said that she alone will be enough, so――"

{Got it. Kei, call Aine and Himekawa. Tell them to immediately turn back.}

"What's wrong, Nee-chan? Why are you that rushed?"

Reiri spoke worriedly.

{Yurishia's remaining Hybrid Count is only a little. We thought that there will be no battle occurring in the mission this time and let our guard down... shit-!}

Taken aback, Kizuna opened the floating window of Eros.

He confirmed the vital sign of Yurishia displayed there and lost his voice.

Her remaining Hybrid Count had passed below 10%, further, even now it was continuing to decrease.

"Nee-chan!?"

{Don't worry, right now Aine and Himekawa are heading there. You just come back here!}

Kizuna glared at the meter gauge that was continuing to decrease.

In Kizuna's mind, the figure of Aine crashing down when her Hybrid Count became zero was resurrected.

"Don't joke around! If she is shot down in a situation of being surrounded by the enemy..."

{Oi! Kizuna――}

Kizuna cut off the communication and made a rapid turn toward the island.

'Shit-, am I going to make it!?

Hurry!

The fastest you can until now!'

The surrounding scenery was streaming behind and vanished.

He raised his gear's output until the maximum.

"I can see it!"

Yurishia was crouching on her knees at the shoal.

A hundred meters in front of her, at the white sandy beach, a magic weapon he had never even seen before was standing in her way.

Yurishia was breathing with her shoulders heaving up and down, she didn't even have strength to stand up anymore.

But, she was still alive.

Her Life Saver was also still functioning.

He made i-――,

At that time, Yurishia's Heart Hybrid Gear, Cross became beads of light and vanished.

――!!

The Hybrid Count had already went down passed the limit.

"Yurishia――-!"

She turned around with a jerk at Kizuna's voice.

"Ki, Kizuna!?"

He caused the water to splash and slid at Yurishia's position. He deployed Life Saver just before stopping.

Dragre's flame clashed with the Life Saver.

The flame that was bounced back by the Life Saver impacted at the sea far ahead.

At that instant, the sea water evaporated.

"UWAAAA!"

The water caused large explosion and a water pillar higher than a hundred meters was rising up. The undulating high wave attacked them.

Kizuna embraced Yurishia in her pilot suit into his arms.

Wall of water collapsed on him and a severe impact ran through his whole body.

"You, you okay Yurishia?"

"I'm, I'm fine... wait, Kizuna you…"

The armored knight growing on Dragre's back was moving. The weapon with the shape of a lance in its hand was directed to the two of them.

Dazzling light burst out and a beam of light was fired from its tip.

That light hit directly at Kizuna's Life Saver.

"UOWAAA!"

The shield of Life Saver was wavering from the tremendous bombardment.

That beam was not stopping and continued to attack the Life Saver.

Intense high temperature attacked the two. The sea water in the surroundings evaporated, producing steam like a smoke screen.

Even now Eros's Life Saver looked as if it was going to break.

Kizuna held out his right hand to the front and desperately supported the Life Saver.

"Why, did you come back!? Just run away quickly!"

"Shi...SHITTT!"

His right arm felt like it was burning, his body felt like it was going to come apart from the impact.

"Do you hear me!? Run away quickly!"

"I don't wanna!"

Yurishia's words were involuntarily jammed in her throat.

"Do, don't say something childish! That thing is a category-A magic weapon don't you know! With something like your Life Saver it will shave off all your Hybrid Count in a flash and that's the end you know!?"

Kizuna directed a frantic gaze at Yurishia.

"Don't worry! A male's consumption of Hybrid Count is lower compared to girls! Haha-, what the hell Nee-chan. I'm seriously useful... aren't I!"

Yurishia looked at Kizuna with a shocked face.

The dragon head opened its mouth. It was as if the kettle of hell was opened, flames surged out from it.

A shockwave even greater assaulted the two.

The Life Saver of Eros screamed from the simultaneous attack of the armored knight and the dragon.

The Life Saver that passed the limit was smashed apart.

"UWAAAAAAAAAA!"

"KYAAAAAAAAAA!"