Campione! - Volume Ex - Chapter 6.2

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「The small mercy in this is that Aisha-san’s original authority wasn’t used.」

Godou talked to himself after finishing the work.

「Perhaps it became impossible to use because she got absorbed into this holy grail thing though. Her authorities are all even more troublesome than the ability to create strange zoo so that’s honestly a great help.」

The small village of the evil cult had became a battlefield.

The beasts of disaster and also the two Boards were already gone. The place was falling silent.

The settlement that was originally standing quietly at the valley even if it was small was blessed with the tasteful scenery of mountain village even if it didn’t have the showiness of the city.

However right now, whether it was the modest field, the trees, or the houses of the village, all of them were mowed down.

They were trampled underfoot, kicked to smithereens, and crushed into dust.

It was an atrocious scenery as though there was bomb going off here. It was due to dozens of giant creatures rampaging here without holding back.

The only people remaining here were Godou, Verethragna, and the sleeping India girl──.

「She is sleeping with a peaceful face. Really, this person is truly outrageous……」

「She is truly a lady who ought to be praised as a hero. Though that’s only if we close our eyes from the deed she is guilty of……」

Madam Aisha who was falling asleep once more was rolling in her sleep in front of them.

To think that the day would come where he was watching this scene together with this youth! Such deep emotion made Godou smiled wryly. Verethragna beside him also smiled abruptly.

Now, from here was the main event──.

「You, what do you plan to do with Aisha-san? Are you going to kill her?」

「I can’t do that because there are circumstances. Next I will throw her into prison with my own hands and keep here there until her death as an eternal prisoner.」

「There is a slight part of me that want to agree with that but, no. I can’t accept that.」

「You won’t accept it?」

「Yeah. This person is my friend……or perhaps it’s difficult to call her that but, I have known her for quite long, and I don’t have the slightest intention to abandon her. That’s why, it ends here.」

「Umu. It ends here.」

An agreement was established readily.

Their joint battle ended here. From here on would finally be the time for the decisive battle──.

Godou faced Verethragna straight forwardly. He deliberately paid no heed to the sleeping Madam Aisha. He had no leeway to do such thing.

……This time, Verethragna suddenly started by summoning the golden sword.

「You take out your trump card really quickly there.」

「Fuh. The phase of probing each other’s hand has ended a long time ago in the previous battle. That doesn’t apply to me alone, you are the same aren’t you?」

It was a question that didn’t even need to be answered. Both Verethragna and Godou were smiling.

It wasn’t a friendly smile. It was a fierce smile that came out exactly because of the fighting spirit overflowing from deep inside. It was the face of warrior that rejoiced being able to meet a strong opponent.

「Can you now cut my ability that creates that storm?」

「I won’t say I can’t. ……But, there is something that has to be sealed first than that.」

Verethragna pointed the tip of his golden sword to Godou.

「I am the one who smash every obstacle. Kusanagi Godou, even the authority that you usurped from me──I will smash it. With the sword of wisdom, I will cut apart my own divine power!」

Many light spheres floated up from the ground.

The light spheres also rapidly came into being from the youth’s chanting voice.

The whole surrounding was filled with innumerable light spheres in the blink of eye. And then, every single one of them were holding back Kusanagi Godou.

Verethragna chanted further.

「You took possession of a war god’s power by usurpation. A god of victory, a god who bring justice, a god who guides, a powerful god, a righteous god, a protector god, a reincarnating god. You have grasped all the ten aspects of I, Verethragna. In that case I shall announce. I will seal everything.」

The words of power became blade, which became sword.

If words that detailed a god could be turned into weapon, then it should be easy to forge a sword to cut himself──. Verethragna’s sword was being completed in a terrifying speed.

Godou too started chanting in hurry.

「By means of the skill of wisdom, and the skill of word, I shall be victorious over all ene──tsk, no good huh.」

Godou also spoke the words of power to cut apart war god Verethragna, but.

Usually, light would be created from his voice. But right now he couldn’t even feel any sign of that happening. The authority that should be deeply rooted in the heart and body of Kusanagi Godou couldn’t be called out at all.

*Shuu-!* Verethragna came to him with a thrust of his golden sword.

Godou tried using Raptor as a test.

But, as expected there wasn’t even any sign of it activating. He immediately jumped away, dodging the sword.

「If I got hit by that, I’ll lose ten weapons……」

「Forcing yourself to do something like receiving everything I have has come back to haunt you. As your arch-enemy, and as your temporary friend it’s really joyous to witness your mettle but……」

A golden sword was grasped in Verethragna’s right hand.

In addition, a great sword also appeared in his left hand. Brilliant light dwelled inside its blade──it was the divine sword of salvation. He assaulted Godou again with the two sword style that combined the hard and soft together once more!

(My lord, Kusanagi Godou!)

Suddenly a 『voice』 reached Godou’s heart.

(Grant a turn to me, the queen of the spear soon! Since the war this time began, I have only lent you my spear once! I cannot hold back anymore after being shown a fight this heated!)

It was a direct request from the war god Lancelot.

The god of the spear who was turned into Kusanagi Godou’s authority. The owner of intense emotion that surpassed even the Boar was waiting for the time to join the battle impatiently. Certainly if the Ten Avatars weren’t available, then he had no choice but to take her out.

However, Godou refused.

「It’s still not the 『time』. Your turn is on hold until the time where the match will be genuinely decided! Wait for a bit more over there!」

In exchange what he sent out was this one.

「Hanuman! The great monkey who stole the sun, this is time to show your stuff!」

「O sword of salvation──what!?」

As expected even Verethragna was surprised.

Because the moment the source that emitted the lighting of salvation──the white star materialized in the sky, a black shadow swallowed it. It was a shadow in the shape of a brawny giant monkey.

The shadow of Hanuman was capable of ever-changing appearance. It could become any size no matter how big.

Something like a pseudo astronomical object with diameter around forty or fifty meters could be taken in easily.

Sparks scattered over and over inside that shadow. Lightning flashed with crackling sounda. The lightning of salvation snapped and burst out without pause. But Hanuman’s shadow splendidly suppressed it.

Verethragna yelled.

「So you swallow my lightning attack formation. Not bad!」

「Useful guy isn’t he? I thought he would become a trump card and held it back!」

Against flame and high temperature, Hanuman’s authority could absorb it.

Even if it was the lightning of salvation, if it was just for a short time then Hanuman would manage somehow──. Godou had such conviction. And then, he expected that short time extension would eventually become the key to decide the match without doubt. His beastly instinct as godslayer that was without logic told him that.

This time wouldn’t continue forever. That was why he called Ama no Murakumo no Tsurugi.

The black sword with a gentle curve appeared in Godou’s right hand. Verethragna glanced at it and said.

「You plan to use that sword? That sword which was bestowed with the great black art from the two goddesses……the ancient snake goddess Athena and the witch of the dawn Circe.」

「So you have seen through it already. As I thought.」

「That black sword, feel free to draw it out. I shall face it no matter what.」

「No……. That one absolutely won’t be able to defeat you. The weapon that I choose is this one.」

To win against the heaven-sent child of victory, there was only “this method”.

It was a development that was just like his resolve. That was why Godou didn’t hesitate and chanted resolutely.

「I know about it, Verethragna──」

「What!?」

「Your sword by no means is an absolute weapon. Because I had used that thing for so many times──I understand!」

「You……you’re chanting the words of power of the sword once more!?」

Godou’s voice sublimated into words of power, but there wasn’t any sign at all it would become the sword.

Even so Godou didn’t fatler──no, he defiantly continued his chant. Because he already had no more way to surpass Verethragna other than this!

「Until now Verethragna’s sword has been sealed multiple times. By Athena who you mentioned, by Perseus, and also by Erlang Shen. That’s why……I’ll do the same thing!」

Godou swung up Ama no Murakumo no Tsurugi with one hand.

The tip of the black sword pointed to the sky. Around the treasured sword of Japan and Kusanagi Godou, a great number of balls of light floated, sealing his authority that he usurped from the war god.

However, “something” that opposed it started to appear.

Balls of darkness──.

One, then another one came forth in the air.

Their size was exactly the same with the light ball that was produced by the words of power of the sword.

「Ama no Murakumo! Create the sword in my place. Copy the sword of me and Verethragna, and call to this place──the sword to cut apart that guy’s authority!」

『Ou!』

It was a short but strong reply.

The ominous jet black sword started to shake *buuuun, buuuun*.

That vibration sound created out the balls of darkness. It was the 『song』 of Ama no Murakumo no Tsurugi, its words of power.

The balls of darkness that came into being one after another entwined around the balls of light filling the surrounding, or else they collided on the balls of light──.

Copying the power of other person──till the end those balls were imitation from Ama no Murakumo no Tsurugi’s power.

It was an authority that was falsely similar with the original. It couldn’t be sealed by Verethragna’s sword that cut divine power. That was why even when the Ten Avatars of Godou were unusable, the balls of darkness increased in number rapidly and filled the air in the same quantity with the balls of light.

The small light and darkness began to fight each other here and there.

Verethragna rebuked Godou.

「You imitated my sword? You want to surpass me with something like this──with this sword that is literally prepared hastily?」

「It doesn’t matter if it’s hastily prepared or not, it just needs to be useful!」

Godou put on a brave front even while feeling anxious that his opponent hit the bull’s eye.

As expected from the originator. He saw through it quickly. The copy from Ama no Murakumo no Tsurugi wasn’t something that could be maintained for long. But, he needed that slight time extension!

Godou stabbed the vibrating Ama no Murakumo no Tsurugi into the ground.

And then, at this time. Hanuman’s shadow burst out in the sky above.

It became unable to suppress the divine sword of salvation. Verethragna who was using two swords pointed at Godou with the white divine sword in his left hand.

「Alright──then, I shall see what can you do with that hastily prepared blade!」

「That’s just what I want! Fear me for I have wings!」

A streak of lightning fell from the sky.

It was the armament of heaven that was bestowed to the hero in order to accomplish the devil king extermination. Godou sensed it approaching while using the avatar of Raptor this time.

The darkness balls created by Ama no Murakumo no Tsurugi was neutralizing the light balls──Verethragna’s sword.

Right now, Kusanagi Godou obtained godspeed and agility.

Even the lightning that was falling with the speed of 150 km/second toward him looked like it was slowing down. If he had to describe it, the speed looked the same like when a stone was thrown toward him from afar.

He could dodge it just barely if it was like this. Just like when he faced Rama in the past. But.

(Ama no Murakumo’s time extension, it can hold for two or three minutes I guess……)

Godou secretly calculated while accelerating──not.

Because doing that wouldn’t be the optimum use of the time extension that Ama no Murakumo no Tsurugi gave him.

Godou instead let himself to get hit by the lightning of salvation. Heat and intense pain ran through his whole body. He began to accelerate at that moment. He also howled in order to whip his body that received a painful blow.

Verethragna who stood ready with his two swords was astonished.

Even though Godou activated his godspeed, he intentionally received the lightning. Godou’s foolish move took him by surprise. Godou ran at full speed toward that war god.

Using his godspeed he moved to left and right to dodge the lightning attack raining down from the sky──.

「Muh!?」

Verethragna glared at the approaching Godou with his almond eyes.

The speed was faster than sound, it practically rivaled lightning. That was godspeed. But, he too was a user of godspeed. It seemed he could see the movement of Godou that transformed into a flash running toward him.

He crossed his two swords to form 『X』, creating a defensive stance. As expected from him.

「But, that’s already too late!」

Godou was already circling behind Verethragna.

The enemy was the war god of the east, the heaven-sent child of victory. He even possessed the divine sword of salvation that he used for his two-sword style while firmly perceiving his opponent who was moving in godspeed──if he was in full readiness, then he would manage such a thing somehow. The god in the form of youth was a warrior of such caliber.

That was why Godou became wounded, in order to take him by surprise.

And then, it was also for the sake of activating this avatar.

「Upon my mighty self……I shall bear the symbol of the raging camel!」

He leaped to the air behind Verethragna, and launched a fierce spinning kick.

He splendidly struck the back of the head of the youth god. In addition mystical force dwelled in the dorsum of the foot that was riding the power of the kick, causing an explosion. *DOOOON!*

「O──OOOH!?」

Verethragna was sent flying by the explosion behind him. His body pitched forward and fell.

Well, normally it wouldn’t be strange if the back of the head that was directly hit got blown off. To get away with only this much, it was to be expected from the great warrior whose name was associated with the sword god of steel. It was worthy of praise.

During that time──Godou dashed toward Madam Aisha.

He lifted up the sleeping godslayer and ran toward faraway using godspeed while giving order.

「It’s alright now, the time has come!」

(Understood! I’ve been waiting impatiently for this time, truly……!)

It was the reply from war god Lancelot.

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……A little while before the duel between fellow owner of ten avatars began.

Lancelot mounted a white horse soaring in the sky and arrived in the sky above the mountain village that became a battlefield. Without pause she slipped into a random cloud and waited.

She was the queen of the Amazon’s and the embodiment of thunder and lightning.

Whether it was lightning clouds or rain clouds, lurking inside a cloud was child’s play for her.

Like that she was waiting. For the command from the king──Raise your battle cry, wield your sharp spear and beautiful shield and advance, such a command.

The time finally came. Lancelot kicked the stomach of her beloved horse.

「We master and servant NOW will become a tremendous lightning. We will transform into a flash of light that gallop down, gouging a large hole in the ground along with the war god Verethragna. You can do it right?」

*Neiiiiiigh*

Her beloved horse answered with a neigh. The horse was armored with a breastplate, helmet, and greaves for the use of the horse.

Lancelot herself was also fully equipped with silver chainmail, steel helmet, a long spear, and caltrop shaped shield. And then, they finally started dashing.

Their aim was the ground, at Verethragna who was finally falling down due to her lord’s kick.

The war god was now exposing his defenseless back to the sky. Lancelot and her beloved horse were falling like meteor.

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──*GOooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONN!*

Light and heat and shockwave were raging mad. It became a state of affair where a crater with diameter of 15 or 16 kilometer was suddenly gouged out in the middle Valencia’s mountain.

The small village of the heretical magicians was also erased cleanly. It was obliterated from the surface of the earth.

There were two gods at the center of the explosion. Queen Lancelot who was looking down on the enemy from above her horse, and Verethragna who was falling flat on the ground in vain.

A great sword shining in platinum color was also lying down right beside the youthful god.

Of course, it was the divine sword of salvation.

In the sky, the white star, the words of power of the sword, and the balls of darkness that was sealing them, all of them were gone. Everything was returned to “zero” by the attack of the war god Lancelot.

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