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Hidan no Aria - Volume 4 - Chapter 6




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Last Ammo: Awakening of the Scarlet Ammo

With a feeling of being swept away by quicksand, *Crash!* After the coffin had smashed into the ground, it stopped.

I was grasping Aria's head tightly, but my own head smashed into the walls of the coffin violently.

Ouch...!

I rubbed my head, noticing that everything around me was pitch black. I wanted to push open the lid, which had fallen back on, but...he-heavy.

It seemed as if gold sand had piled up on the lid, increasing the weight of the lid.

This is also dangerous, but more important, was Aria.

Aria's life would only last for a few more seconds.

My hands, fumbling around in the darkness, found Aria. *Chuu* Touching something extremely soft, I was a little panicked--however, I breathed out. Still warm. Still alive. Aria, is still alive.

In the confined coffin, I opened the pocket on the strap of Armament Set B, taking out the tactical flashlight--

"...!"

Aria, against all expectation, was wearing an ancient piece of clothing just like Patra's, covered in gold jewelery.

That, looking like a bikini, was scarcely wrapped around her hip and chest area--and around her, were golden ornaments, and fine flowers.

S-so cute...

Even in a dangerous situation such as this, but I couldn't stop my brain from thinking these kinds of thoughts.

Nearly fully naked, Aria, in those clothes and surrounded by flowers, under the faint illumination of the flashlight...she was so beautiful...She looked like she had come out of a fairy tale, a sleeping beauty...out of Egypt.

However, now isn't the time to be engrossed by this.

I have to break the curse on Aria immediately.

The method to do so...Nii-san said it before.

"......"

Bring my lips to hers, which is...a kiss.

Even without a mirror, I knew how red my face must have been.

To Aria...not only that, while she was unconscious, without her consent...

How do I say this, it's too cruel...No, too vile.

Why is it that I can only save you by doing this.

This may not be one of your catchphrases, but I don't even understand one picogram of this.

"But--"

But, forgive me, Aria.

I understand that my days with you are already full of unnatural circumstances. But looking at it now, those 'normal' things have already disappeared from our world.

Bringing you to a hospital, and letting a doctor cure you--

That kind of thing is impossible. If that kind of thing could wake you up from your deathly sleep, I...

In the hourglass, only a few grains of sand were left, waiting to fall down.

Looking at my watch--the time until Aria died was...24 seconds.

Aria.

I haven't said this before, have I.

I know that you aren't good with love, so I haven't said what's been in my heart the whole time.

Before doing this kind of thing with you, who is in the deepest of sleeps--I-I have to admit this in my heart.

Aaah, there's only 10 seconds.

I knelt, taking Aria's sleeping face, determinedly...I-I used my eyes, to look over those overly cute, overly pitiful, overly beautiful, lips.

Then, I closed my eyes.

5 seconds.

I--actually understand.

I understand why I would risk my life for you.

I understand why I would defy my brother, coming to save you.

It's compassion, or maybe, it's some sort of respect, for you who lives life so bravely...

...That's right, I let myself think that.

But, those--were lies.

They are all lies that I had told myself.

The way I live is completely different from yours. It may be rare at this kind of age, but even our roles in society are wholly different. So one day, we will have to part.

Therefore, I wasn't even willing to say it in my own heart. I was afraid of admitting it to myself.

But, Aria. I-I can't help it anymore, for you--


Ah...


--I really am--too awkward, too childish.

My mouth, far faster than I had imagined--*Pa*

-contacted Aria's, small, dainty lips.

I may say that.

But I really only touched one millimeter. Touching an area even smaller than a grain of gold sand.

The sand in the hourglass ran out...in that moment, I--

-Tightly, tightly, ever so tightly, hugged Aria's head to my chest.

Tinted with the scent of Gardenia, the beautiful fragrance of Aria's breath--entered my nose, igniting a blazing fire within my core.

Aah, Aria, Aria...Aria--

--You can't die.

I won't let you die, Aria...

At that moment...something appeared inside the coffin.

"?"

I, who had raised my head, was enveloped by a scarlet light, coming from all around me.

What is this light?

I confirmed that the tactical flashlight in my hand hadn't malfunctioned.

Switching it off, I noticed that the source of the light was...from my waist. From my pants, inside my pocket...

Surprised, I reached into my pocket to take out the source of the light, and I noticed that it was the butterfly knife that Nii-san had given me.

As if opening the wings of a butterfly, I opened the handles--

"Uu...!"

So bright that it hurt my eyes, it was crimson, crimson, a scarlet light that was shining everywhere.

It looked as if it was blazing hot, but in reality, it wasn't.

What...is this...!?

"...Ki...nji..."

Small, soft--Aria's voice.

Aria...

The moment I had closed the knife hurriedly, I saw that Aria's camellia eyes were opening.

"It's your...loss. It hasn't passed...6:00 yet, so it's your loss..."

Consciousness still fuzzy, Aria didn't seem to know that she had been kidnapped by Patra.

As if time had been stopped, she was still talking about our "wager" from 24 hours ago.

"That's right, I lost. However, I--have already prepared to pay it back. So don't worry."

Saying this, I confirmed the flow of blood in my body.

Hysteria Mode.

Triggered by sexual arousal, my hidden ability.

That...as usual, it had already permeated my whole body. This...I understood, but--

Why does it feel like it's a little different from normal...

"Uh...where is this...? What is this, di-din't I...get hit...huh?"

"That's right. You were sniped, and afterward, various things happened, right now we're in the middle of the Pacific, fighting with Patra from I-U."

"Mo...more than 'various' things happened! Eh, ah, um, what is this!"

Consciousness slowly becoming clearer and seeing that all that was on her body were loincloths, just like belts, and gold jewelery, Aria started heavily.

Haha. Seeing her shy, cute appearance in this tight coffin...it really is happy.

So happy that...I started crying.


*Rumble*...


The sound of distant thunder came from outside of the coffin--the whole pyramid, on the surface of the ocean, was shaking.

"Wh-what is it?"

Aria, who for whatever reason, was completely covering the exposed skin at her waist, and I looked around together, but in the depths of the coffin, we couldn't see anything.

*Rumble*...!

(Chi...!)

The power of Hysteria Mode, whirling around in my brain, allowed me to, from the second noise, understand.

That's some sort of explosive, exploding below the Annbelle, which is carrying this pyramid.

The ship started to tilt. I'm afraid it was Patra's doing. She's probably realized that she can't win against Nii-san, and now she's trying to sink the ship.

Seeing the entire coffin starting to tilt--

I calculated the angle, and I pushed my back against one side of the lid.

"Kinji!"

Still not fully understanding the situation, Aria started helping me.

He! Both her hands and her head pressing against the lid, Aria pushed this way with her back...I saw that the injury from being sniped had been healed. That's probably Patra using magic so that Aria wouldn't die from blood loss.

Our heads basically touching, we finally--opened the lid a tiny bit.

Gold sand started streaming in, falling down to our feet with a *Shhhhh* sound.

Open....in this kind of place...how can we die...! I don't care what happens to me, but I won't let Aria--

-Die!

"Uu...uu...uooooooah!"

"Uaaahhh!"

*CLAATTEERR*

The lid, having been pushed off, fell onto the floor, raising an unimaginable din.

--We did it. We can get out, now.

Even though we had opened the lid, the 90 centimeters of gold sand wedged on top didn't fall down. This is proof that the entire ship had been tilted extremely far.

Looking around, this looked like another large hall.

"Wh-where is this..."

Under Aria's stunned gaze, there were statues of ancient Egyptian Gods. Bodies with the heads of jackals, eagles and cats, looking down on us.

But those gigantic effigies were tilted as well...

--Killing intent--!

"--!"

I spun around, firing my Beretta, which was in full auto, towards the ceiling.

*Click!* I pulled the trigger, completely releasing the bolt of the Beretta--However, the golden round shields, just like UFOs, flying through the air deflected all the bullets.

And, behind those shields, slowly returning to sand, Patra--

*Whoosh*

-dropped down onto the golden floor from the hole that we had made, smashing through the ceiling.

Patra hit the top of the floor, which had already become slanted, just like a ramp.

"Tohyama Kinji. I...for this one time, am retreating. However, give that back."

Saying that, Patra's finger pointed towards Aria, who was behind me.

"Patra--that won't do. How can you refer to a girl as an object?"

Patra is a girl too. The me in Hysteria Mode spoke to her like a teacher would speak to a student.

"...Ah, HSS. You are Tohyama Kinichi's little brother after all. Naturally, you will go into that as well."

Smiling fearlessly, Patra appeared to have escaped from the top through that hole of quicksand. From the fact that Kana hadn't come after her, it appeared that she had sealed the hole.

"However, you should die in the depths as well. This is the sea. Once this boat sinks, the only person who will live is me. I hold the technique of breathing underwater for long periods of time. My capital was once near the ocean, after all."

*Chch*--Patra raised the rifle she was carrying.

Covered with desert camouflage, it was the sniper rifle WA2000 that she had sniped Aria with at Odaiba. It has the appearance of those futuristic guns that appear in Sci-Fi movies, an automatic sniper rifle well renowned for its pinpoint-accuracy.

And the red dot that the laser mounted on it, *Zuzuzu*...covered Aria's skin...from her thigh, to her hips, to her belly, climbing up to her left breast with the motions of a snake.

"Uu...!"

Aria...like a frog trapped in a snake's eyes, could not move.


The body that was normally clothed in bulletproof material, was now nearly completely naked.

--I get it.

Patra, you're very clever. As expected of someone acknowledged by my Nii-san.

Even though you can control magic at will, in the end, you choose to use science--guns.

Using the weapon that would most easily create a weak spot.

"The result is, backstabbing you did not work. However this time, I will attack from the front. Sacrifice your heart to me."

Hoho. Patra started sneering. And all the while, I continued staring at her finger.

She, pulled the trigger...!

Use "Billiard Shot" to deflect it--

No, I can't. I'm out of bullets.

"--!"

When Patra pulled the trigger, I charged.

In front of Aria's body.

"Using your own body, wearing a bulletproof vest, to act as her shield--!"

And, in that moment.

I knew that I had failed.

"Die, Tohyama Kinji."

The laser sight of the WA2000 was...aimed at my head--Knowing about HSS beforehand, Patra had predicted this movement.

She knew that, no matter what, I would act to protect girls.

She was faking the attack against Aria,

Taking care of me first--!


"Kinji!"


--Daa---n---...!


Trying to push Aria, who was screaming at me from behind, back, I fell backwards.

"Kinji! Kinji!"

My head--

--was hit--

I knew this.

I fell down, facing up.

So, it was either the center my forehead, my nose, or my mouth, which got hit.

"Kinji! Kinji! Kinji----!"

On my face...there was the feeling of blood.

Most likely, it was all blood. The same appearance as that in horror films.

Aah, Aria.

I'm sorry.

In the end, I still made you witness this scene...

"Kinji...! No, no....NOOOOOOOOOO!"

Aria's wailing--

I could hear it, faintly.

But...

I could hear it.

Which means.

I...haven't died yet?

Not an instantaneous death, at least.

My vision was extremely fuzzy, but my eyes, slightly open, could still see.

I could see Aria, clutching my head to herself, closing her eyes tightly, and shaking her head with all the strength in her body.

And, when I got hit, I did something... using the heightened Hysteria reflex it seems.

And I blocked the bullet. I don't know how, but at least it was something that prevented my death even if I had been hit in the head, without any protection whatsoever.

What...did I do?

Able to exceed the limits of normal humans by over 30 times, Hysteria Mode, at times, will do things automatically, faster than I can even realize it.

Which also means, it does something that shocks even me--an amazingly fast movement that makes even me think, "When did I do that?"

Just now, that is what happened.

However, that defense was not perfect. I still took damage. I had received a concussion. Now, I...couldn't speak. My body, couldn't move. From another person's perspective, it would look like I had died an instantaneous death.


"---K i n j i----!!!'


Aria's wailing shook the entire hall--

Afterward, silence...fell.

In this silence that chilled one to the bone...I.

-noticed that my body could finally move, and inside my mouth was something abnormally hot...

...*chuu*

From my mouth...I spit out a bullet.

I-I get it.

I really am amazing. The me in Hysteria Mode is really amazing.

It seems I stopped Patra's bullet with my teeth.

Also, I have to thank the ceramic fillings that were for my cavities, when I was a kid.

However, even with that, I had no way of fully absorbing the bullet's impact, and a large amount of blood spurt out of my nose...right? That appeared to be how the blood had gotten all over my face.

"..."

I rubbed my face, covered with blood, and sat up...

Patra's slender eyes, under her cobra circlet, widened.

But, it didn't appear to be shock from me sitting up, who she had killed.

*Click*...*Click*.

Patra's high heeled slippers stepped onto the golden floor, retreating up the slanted floor, step by step.

That pale face. She was completely speechless.

What's wrong with...Patra?

What made you go into this state--

Terror.

On the slope that Patra was slowly retreating onto...*Click*

Apparently having gotten through the wall of the pyramid, Kana and Shirayuki broke through the glass on the side--rushing into the slanted room.

"...!"

Turning around, both of them were stunned as well...they weren't looking at me, but something else within the room.

Speechless.

What is it, that kind of...?

I stood up, scanning my surroundings--

(...Aria...?)

Aria, at some point in time, had stood up, facing Patra.

And that Aria, didn't say anything as well.

No--she wasn't even breathing.

No, wrong. She was breathing. But, it was wrong.

I had already been living with her for so long. So, Aria's breathing still lingered in my mind.

What...is this.

That isn't Aria.

...Who is it.

...Who are you!

"......"

Wordless, treading on the floor with golden sandals, Aria...

Didn't even spare one glance for me.

In those eyes, in those irises, there was a scarlet light, like that of a beast.

I too...in that moment, lost my tongue, in that abnormal atmosphere.

Suddenly standing still, Aria stretched her right hand forwards--


--*Su*


Her forefinger, pointed towards Patra.

In the face of that, Patra cowered.

And, on her face was shock that she herself, was cowering.

"Wh...what is this...feeling? ...Fear...? I-I am...af-afraid...?"

Patra's hands and knees were trembling.

*Zuzuzuzuzu*...!

As if proving Patra's fear, the golden floor rose up, becoming a gigantic shield, sheltering her.

"......"

Aria's, Aria's forefinger, raised like a gun--in front of her fingertip--

Sca--

Scarlet--

Started shining...!

The scarlet light grew, until it was roughly 1 meter in diameter.

And, it was blazing as bright as a miniature sun...

"...Hidan...!"

Backing up, Shirayuki's voice echoed throughout the hall.

It appeared as if there were no other words that she could say.

--Hidan.

The thing that Nii-san mentioned before, "Hidan no Aria".

And that part--had been said by Shirayuki.

The scarlet light on the end of Aria's finger continued to expand, becoming more and more glaring.

What is that? That, giving off light like the combustion of the sun, is the "Hidan"?

But, Aria isn't an ability user. So, why is she able to do this kind of thing--

--*Bang!*

"Patra, get away!!"

At the moment that the scarlet light was fired from Aria's fingertip, Kana yelled.

Seemingly having returned to reality, Patra--

Not even caring about any shame anymore, the loincloth on her waist fluttering, she sat down on the floor, sliding down the floor below the floating shields.

The scarlet bullet of light--like a cannon--

Pierced through the shield like it was paper, blasting through the place that Patra was a moment ago.


------------!


And like a supernova, it exploded!

The scarlet light illuminated everybody in the hall.

That scarlet light, drowned everything--in color!


*BASHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU*-----!


A noise, completely different from a gunshot or an explosion, shook my ears.

"......!"

I couldn't help but raise both my arms to shade my eyes as I looked onto that scarlet-painted world--

After I put down my arms...

Everything turned blue.

--The sky.

The attack that Aria had fired just now completely eradicated the top of the pyramid.

Soundless. Athermal. With no shockwave whatsoever.

--It annihilated it...!

*GaraGaraGara*...! The destroyed debris from the pyramid--glass and iron frame, rained into the room, hitting the slope and rolling down.

Her lipstick covered lips opened wide, watching the roofless pyramid in a daze, Patra...

-Her gold jewelery crumbled with a *shiiii*

It looks like the destruction of the pyramid dissipated the "Infinite Spiritual Energy" that Patra was so proud of.

"Uu...!"

Always relying on the pyramid[1], for a second, Patra was at a loss of how to use her own magic. Even the circlet on her head had crumbled into gold sand, falling down.

"Ah, Ah, Aahh!"

Just wearing something like a thin swimsuit now, Patra used her arms to cover her body.

The effigies placed all around the room started falling down, one after the other. They hit the floor, and slowly dissolved to sand.

Since it's like this, I can't stand here in a daze any longer.

Seeing the glass and metal fall down all around her, Aria's golden jewelery were also returning to gold sand...within the sand from the dissolving jewelery, as well as the petals from the flowers...*thump*.

Expressionless, just like a model, she started falling down, face up--

"Aria!"

--when she was about to fall down, I caught her in my arms.

To the me in Hysteria Mode. Why is it that no matter the time, you have to carry people like a princess?

"Aria...!"

Aria closed her eyes again...fainting.

I got out of the way of the falling fragments of the pyramid, finally meeting up with Shirayuki and Kana, who was using her scythe to deflect the falling debris.

In the slanted room, Kana dodged the coffin that was falling down, twisting like a fan--Looks like, that's the only thing that wasn't made out of gold sand.

--*Bang!*

Like playing hockey, she smashed into it with her scythe.

It slid down the slope, catching Patra in the back, who was trying to escape.

Losing the pyramid, the pharaoh Patra, who had turned back into a commoner.

"--Uwah!"

-fell into the coffin, her legs pointed up.

"Nn!"

Shirayuki stuck Irokaneayame under the lid, which had flipped onto the floor--and using it like a crowbar, she tossed it into the air.

"--Originally, pyramids were tombs, right?"

Saying this while holding onto Aria, *Clank!* I used my newly loaded Beretta to shoot at the lid, changing its trajectory slightly--

"Ah, hey! What are you doing! I-I am the phar--"

*Bang* It landed directly onto the coffin, which Patra was trying to get out of, her legs and hands flailing about.

It slid into place, perfectly.

"--You should keep quiet in a tomb, Patra."


Within the pyramid, which was starting to collapse, the grueling battle had finished--

Above the pile of rubble, beneath the blue sky, carrying Aria, I...

-along with Shirayuki and Kana, we checked whether each of us was OK, next to the coffin that we had sealed Patra in.

From within the coffin that Shirayuki had placed massive amounts of seals on, Patra continued to shout, "Open it, open it. Why aren't you opening it, you insolent fools!" struggling...

"--Good night, Patra. You're in the same sort of coffin as your ancestor, after all."

However, under Kana's words...she finally fell silent.

Patra--at least, from what I think--as long as Kana Nii-san says something, you're very obedient.

...I wonder why?

Haha. I have a vague idea, but I won't tell Nii-san. Patra.

After all, the me as of right now, is really gentle towards girls.





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