Chapter 3 part 2

Both of them were blown away from the intense attack of the magic weapon.

The body of the two flew in the sky.

After flying through a long distance, they fell into the sea.

Kizuna's face landed on Yurishia's big breast.

"Kizuna-!?"

Kizuna's limp body still covered over Yurishia unmovingly.

"Yurishia... you... okay?"

Kizuna leaked out a painful voice.

"Why are you doing this?"

With a shaking hand, Yurishia stroked Kizuna's head.

"Why are you going this far for the sake of me who you haven't met for long?"

"What, are you saying... a girl, meet this kind of danger... it's obvious, just what to do."

Kizuna raised his face and looked for the Dragre with a painful face.

'――Just for that kind of reason?'

Yurishia hugged Kizuna to her bosom as if to console him.

'――Even though you cannot even fight against magic weapons well... you are going to protect me with your body, until you become like this?'

'――Risking your life.'

There was no focus in Kizuna's eye, as if his consciousness was blurry.

Perhaps he was desperately looking for something to support his body, his hand was wavering in the air.

And then, that hand grasped at Yurishia's large breast.

"Ah! ...-"

Yurishia's chest jumped greatly.

Even though her breast was touched, but she didn't feel any unpleasantness at all.

In its place, deep inside her chest, she felt as if her heart was strongly squeezed, painfully and heartrendingly.

'――Wh, what, is this?'

The throbbing of her heart was unstoppable.

As if her heart was going to break.

Golden radiance was born inside Yurishia's eyes.

When she peered into Kizuna's face with those eyes, the gazes of the two met.

Within Kizuna's eyes too, a beautiful pink radiance was dancing.

Yurishia felt that that radiance was really beautiful.

The next instant, their bodies were enveloped in golden and pink radiance.

"Eh! Thi, this is... what in the world?"

Yurishia was staring wonderingly at the radiance coiling around her body.

"...Heart, Hybrid?"

Together with the radiance covering his body, Kizuna's consciousness was becoming clearer.

This was――.

It was similar, with that time before when he met Chidorigafuchi.

"This is, Heart Hybrid... amazing. Strength is welling up inside my body."

In a complete change from before, vitality was overflowing through her whole body.

Yurishia's golden hair looked sparkling, her skin was also so glossy with bright luster.

Kizuna too unintentionally became completely fascinated.

"Thank you, Kizuna... for coming to save me."

Yurishia smiled sweetly.

"Eh! No, that's"

When she saw Kizuna being shy, Yurishia's heart mysteriously turned warm.

"Then, right now I need to pay back that magic weapon☆"

Yurishia directed a smile to the Dragre. However a killing intent was dwelling in her eyes.

"Yeah! Blow it away!"

Cross's weapon began its bombardment preparation.

Dragre's mouth opened. Inside that mouth, beads of light were dancing.

"Watch me Kizuna. This is, my showtime!"

Flames were gathering inside the dragon's mouth, at that instant,

"Hell Fire(Fall to Hell)!"

Cross's full bombardment was opened and an all-out fire was carried out focusing on one point.

It was an intenseness that couldn't be compared with Yurishia's full power shooting until now.

The main cannon pulveriszed the dragon's head.

The armored knight was blown away altogether with its hand that was holding the spear.

Unable to endure, the Dragre spread a shield with its remaining arm.

However Yurishia's full power shooting ignored the shield as if it was nothing.

The dragon's wings became full of holes and completely lost its control.

The bombardment that gave the impression as if it would continue forever pushed back the Dragre like that until the Entrance to the AU.

Yurishia's bombardment demolished the shoal of the unpopulated island into pieces as it was.

The body of Dragre already lost its shape and not even its shadow was left behind, it was smashed up into fragments of light.

At the same time with that, the Entrance to the AU was terminated.

The fragrance of aroma oil was filling the bathroom.

Inside a large bathtub where one could stretch out their body relaxedly, white limbs were swaying.

A large deep breath was taken.

This was the time where she could relax the most in the whole day.

――However,

The bath taken on the day where she had almost died made her feelings turn complicated.

"Haa..."

A voice naturally leaked out from the mouth due to the good feeling.

She was going to rise from the bathtub to wash her body.

"-! Ouch...-"

She sunk into the bathtub once more.

She raised her arm from inside the hot water.

There was an awful bruise there.

Her whole body was bruised, there were also inflammations appearing here and there.

How humiliating.

She was the ace of America, therefore that meant she was the world's strongest.

She had such conceit in herself.

――Despite so,

Hida Kizuna.

She was saved by that amateur rookie with almost no combat ability at all.

This her of all people.

At that time Cross's Hybrid Count was completely used up, it could be said that it couldn't be helped.

But, right now her Hybrid Count was recovered until more than half.

It was like magic.

If, after this too she continued to fight, then would it happen again... that thing they did today?

"Hida... Kizuna."

When she said out that name with her mouth, her chest mysteriously heated up.

Why, she wondered?

If she talked about the men that were close to her until now, then there were only fellows who envied herself who was a super ace and laid their hostility bare, or those who got close to her with ulterior motives.

Yurishia looked down to her breast.

With the hot water's buoyancy, the white bulge was floating in the bathtub.

She put her hand on that big breast.

She was hugging Kizuna's face right here.

Her hand was crawling on her left breast.

"Nn..."

This breast, was touched by Kizuna's hand.

And then that hand grasped forcefully.

Yurishia's lips burst open in a smile.

What a curious man.

She felt really happy of getting touched by Kizuna,

She felt proud somehow.

Herself who was feeling like that was the most mysterious of all.

"How are your wounds?"

Kizuna stared at Reiri who arrived to visit him.

Inside the spacious treatment room, whether it was the floor or the wall or even the bed, everything was pure white. Reiri who was wearing black military uniform inside this room looked as if she was floating on air.

"Yeah, everything is okay. Rather than that, what about Yurishia?"

Three days had passed since the battle at the unpopulated island.

After that battle, Kizuna and Yurishia who were picked up were sent directly to Nayuta Lab. The wound Kizuna got when he covered Yurishia was deep, he couldn't avoid being hospitalized.

"From the examination result, that girl didn't have any particular problem so she was released on the same day. From today she will be going to school. She is really annoying asking to meet you."

Reiri made a wry smile.

"Is that so... then, about her Heart Hybrid Gear?"

"Aah, if it's about that, you can confirm it yourself with this thing."

Reiri took out Kizuna's student device from her breast pocket.

When Kizuna received his student device, he confirmed Yurishia's vital sign. Her Hybrid Count had recovered until around half.

"...As I thought, we succeeded in Heart Hybrid."

"Looks like it. However, to recover that much only by hugging is something significant. Furthermore, she had shot ceaselessly until the shape of the island changed, and she still had the amount remaining til this much."

"That's true huh... it's strange but, why did it succeed?"

His consciousness was dim and he didn't remember that event well.

However, he had the feeling that his face was buried into something absurdly soft and elastic, his hand even grasped it but... right now he couldn't collect it into a definite memory.

"Hybrid Heart is also greatly influenced by the other party's trusting relation and affection. We don't even know if by any chance that was influencing this."

However Kizuna crossed his arms and pondered.

"Hmmm, there is too many things I don't follow about that... I didn't do anything significant that could make Yurishia trust me, to say nothing of something like love, that's impossible I guess?"

"Kizuna, a guy like you is really..."

Reiri held her head.

"...Well, it's fine already about that. Rather than that, take to heart the lesson from this incident. There is always something unexpected and it might be possible to occur again."

Reiri faced Kizuna with a serious gaze.

"That's why, it's essential to always maintain the Hybrid Count in the safe area."

"...I got it, okay."

"Hybrid Heart is by no means a joke or messing around. It's an important method to protect the lives of all of you, it also has an influence on the survival of mankind."

Kizuna released a deep sigh from the heaviness of the responsibility assigned to him.

And then he heaved a deep sigh once more from the detail of the act that he had to actually do which was the contrary to the heaviness of that responsibility.

"In any case, Heart Hybrid Gear is not a safe weapon. Pay meticulous attention. If there is a next time for something like this, then it will not be strange even if someone dies."

"Preferably, if we can just stop using something like Heart Hybrid Gear..."

"However, there is no other way to oppose the AU other than Heart Hybrid Gear."

Certainly, they couldn't oppose the AU's magic weapons with their current weaponry.

"So in the end, there is no other way than to do Heart Hybrid."

"Right. Combine the heart of two people and create a single power. That power recovers the energy and even strengthens the Heart Hybrid Gear. This greatly influences the fate of all Ataraxia's students, and also the fate of mankind."

That was a little exaggerated.

"But, well... if the other party doesn't feel like it, then it won't succeed right? I also got to respect the other party's feelings... but, thinking of that, I become more and more confused just why the Heart Hybrid with Yurishia succeeded."

"...Two, or three days later you will be discharged from here. Until that time, keep thinking as much as you can."

Reiri left the treatment room.

Kizuna who was left alone collapsed onto his bed.

He kept worrying for a while, but in the end no answer came out,