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Black Lotus—Kuroyukihime—watched over the battleground from the roof of a building a little ways off from the rest of the Gallery.
She had seen right through what the boy Haruyuki, her child, was planning to do and turned on automatic-viewing mode as she returned to her hospital room. But she had the function to follow the battlefield switched off, so she’d had to move on her own power.
When the four-carriage train passed the position where Silver Crow was attached to the track, and his health gauge remained in the green zone, the Gallery started to get excited. His duel opponent, Jade Jailer, was whirling his head around, looking for the silver avatar, but all that was left on the rail was one half of the handcuffs and the chain severed in two.
But then finally, they also noticed the shining bird dancing in the sky above, glittering silver at a distant height. Astounded cries reached Kuroyukihime’s ears.
“H-how’d he cut the chain?! I thought that was totally impossible?!”
“I-it’s like he just suddenly accelerated. Like the firing of a booster or something.”
“I saw it. Right before the train came, he was fiddling with the Instruct menu, yeah?”
“So that’s why he suddenly powered up. He doesn’t have any Enhanced Armament, and anyway, he’d have to use a voice command to call it up.”
The heated debate continued for a few seconds until finally one person hit upon the truth of how Silver Crow got enough thrust to sever Jade Jailer’s chain.
“Oh! …Oh, ohh! I got it! He— That damned bird, he took his level-up bonus in the middle a duel. He enhanced his flight ability!”
While the other members of the Gallery stood dumbfounded, along with Jailer, Crow rebounded against the sun and turned around. The way he looked, the sharp tips of his toes stretched out straight, plummeting downward, a line of fire in the blue sky, was exactly like a falling star in broad daylight.
“So? Maiden, Curren. Raker. Graph. Did you see that?” Kuroyukihime murmured, narrowing her eye lenses. “That’s the child I chose. The door that I could not cut open with my two swords—I’m sure he will open it for me with his two wings. I know that he will fly to that far-off place that we could not reach. I…I believe it.”
(End)
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