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Magika no Kenshi to Shoukan Maou - Volume 12 - Chapter 3




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Chapter 3: 3

Chapter 3 – Contact

 



Part 1

What kind of contact could they accomplish with the other force .

――Kazuki was thinking that what would be the most important thing in this Ragnarok was that point .

In front their eyes [another world] that was even more prominent than all the Haunted Grounds they had seen until now was spreading .

What greeted Kazuki and group was rainbow colored ground and rainbow colored forest .

When the world received the light of the sun each and every angle reflected completely different colors, everything was shining rainbow-colored . Rather than calling it fantastical, it was rather psychedelic scenery .

“Is this also the magic power of the manager……?”

“It’s like [Choueki Tanka Chibou] eh . ” (TN: The kanji for the word mean long side vermilion haze earth face)

Shouko said to herself .

“Choueki……?”

“That kind of unexplored region exist in China . It’s not a Haunted Ground but come to be from natural origin . The ground has layers made from minerals with different reflections, it shines a rainbow when bathed in light……it’s a place called mother nature’s miracle, something like that yeah . ”

“I heard that in Mauritius there is also that kind of place . ”

Akane-senpai nodded while taking a pinch of the soil under her feet .

“It’s not tinged with magic power…… . This place isn’t a Haunted Ground, its nature  without abnormality . I wonder if this might be iron oxide or sulfur . ”

After that she directed her extensively knowledgeable observing eyes to the trees of the forest .

“This tree……perhaps it’s rainbow eucalyptus . ”

“Rainbow……what’s that?”

Kazuki’s eyes blinked while getting tongue-tied by the amount of knowledge Akane-senpai had .

“There is a variety of eucalyptus that will become various colors depending on the time the bared texture of the bark is peeled . Though the work itself is the same as the changing colors of the leaves in autumn . ”

In other words this strange scenery was by no means something mystical .

There was flapping sounds, small birds were flapping their wings toward the sky from the trees of the rainbow colored eucalyptus .

They weren’t Demon Beast, it seemed that normal birds were living here .

This place wasn’t a Haunted Ground . If he thought about it, existences like that of Demon Beasts would be a hindrance for the decisive battle . There shouldn’t be such blunder at the stage prepared by Basileon . In exchange they were firmly imprisoned inside the fairytale-like scenery that existed in reality like inside a jewel box .

“I guess that the people of the ancient time looked at this kind of scenery and became illusioned that the world has mystery . From there mythology was born…… . I wonder if this can be said to be the origin of illusion……that is to say the archetype of mythology . ”

It was truly fitting for the stage of the decisive battle .



When Kazuki became convinced of that, the land shook fiercely .

“Earthquake!?” When he thought that and looked around, the sea surface and ship were gradually sinking below .

That wasn’t it . It wasn’t the ship and the sea that were sinking .

The ground they were standing on was the one rising up .

When they looked down to the sea, there was a gigantic shadow on the surface there . When they looked up to the sky, the cloud was gradually approaching . The wind was becoming stronger with whistling sound .

Atlantis was heading somewhere, liberated from the yoke of sea and land .

The wall that had finished their duty disintegrated into rainbow light and vanished .

While flying to the sky, the surrounding cloud was tinged with rainbow color . Glowing clouds――this too was a natural phenomenon .

“Continent of the sky huh… . . what an outrageous plan again……”

With this it could be said that Atlantis was even more released from outside interference .

The other countries should have landed here too .

……And then the problem was how they would come into contact with the other forces .

He looked at his surrounding once again . His attention was taken by the rainbow colored trees and ground, but the surrounding was enshrouded by light blue magic power and they couldn’t see through the path ahead very far .

He wondered how wide this forest was .

Far at the distance, there was a faint outline of a mountain visible from here .

Mountain――thinking with common sense, if there was a mountain in a battlefield then first and foremost they should take position there .

However with this much magic power cloud enshrouding the space, even if they looked down from the top of the mountain then he guessed they wouldn’t be able to find the other forces or launch attack magic from the mountain . At this Atlantis, the mountain didn’t really have any value strategically .

First the problem was how they should move, of course they had talked about it with each other beforehand .

{The basic of battle royal is to let the running about enemies destroying each other}……such opinion was also expressed but this battle was not a complete battle royal because there existed alliance relationships .

If Japan was moving about from place to place, it would make it disadvantageous for the other Cosmos Side countries . If only the force of the Chaos Side survived because of the effect of Japan moving about then it would be bad .

Continuously running around also meant continuing being a solo force . If they kept operating as a solo force, then they wouldn’t have any chance of victory if they encountered two forces that successfully united .

Rather he thought that they had to quickly come into contact with another force . It would be good if the first force they encountered became an ally, but even if the force they encountered was an enemy force they could just finish it as an equal battle one on one .

However Atlantis was vast and it was unclear just how vast . Even if they moved about blindly it didn’t seem likely they could easily encounter another force . They needed some kind of magic .

“Fuuka-senpai, please do it . ”



Kazuki requested one of the senior knights for a magic .

“Uh huh……” Fuuka-senpai nodded a little .

Yamashita Fuuka . She wasn’t their senior in the knight academy, she was an older girl of twenty years old that was already working as an active duty knight in the knight order . Her appearance with her black short bob hair and quiet demeanor, then the black mantel that was her Magic Dress that she wore gave her the air like a fortuneteller from somewhere .

“……O flickers of torch, o string of constellation . Please guide me to the thing that I seek……”

Behind Fuuka-senpai, the avatar of a Diva with lion face <Purson> was floating up .

“Direction Witch(Witch’s Guidepost)”

Fuuka-senpai pointed straight at Kazuki . Thereupon red light was overflowing from Kazuki’s left ring finger .

The red light pulled a trail behind while flying at the other side of the forest .

The track of light was floating in the air like a string and remained without vanishing .

“So it’s fine if we follow this light isn’t it?”


Fuuka-senpai nodded repeatedly .

“Purson is a Diva that located the sought object of the human target . [Direction Witch] is showing the location of the thing that you are currently looking for the most . ”

“I thought that it the guidepost will surely be stretching toward me~”

Mio said with a carried away face .

“……It won’t show the location of the thing that has been obtained . ”

“Ehehe, I already belong to Kazuki~” Mio was wriggling happily .

“You are an airhead even in the decisive battle aren’t you . ” Koyuki retorted with an exasperated face . Koyuki was cool when they weren’t alone .

“The location of the thing that I’m currently looking for the most is it……it might be Britain or Germany then . ”

It might be Britain where Arthur was or German where Beatrix was .

Or possibly……Loki Einherjar where Kaya was .

Although he was thinking that logically they should merge with allied country first……instinctually he felt like he was looking for the conclusion with Loki and his group above all .

“One’s feeling is something not understood even by oneself . That’s why the destination that this magic showed won’t be known until we actually go there to see . ……Furthermore Purson’s own subjectivity is strangely mixed into the verdict result . When I once used this magic when I wanted to eat delicious ramen, for some reason I arrived at tonkatsu shop instead . ”

“Is this really okay……”

Nevertheless it was far better compared to loitering around without any hint .

It was lucky that a Diva that could use this kind of magic was included in his camp .

“Then next is Yuika-senpai, please . ”

Kazuki called at another senior .

It was someone clad in bird feathers, a Magic Dress that looked like a karasu tengu . (TN: Japanese apparition, a crow billed goblin)

“You are the king so it’s fine even if you don’t call me senpai you know-!”

“I don’t have the courage to call someone older than me without honorifics . ”

“What a modest king huh……you are saying that even though at the battle election you  beat me black and blue . ”

Kazuki made an awkward wry smile . Nakasaka Yuika-senpai was the second year student he fought at the first round of the battle election .

She was also one of the people selected into the one hundred of <Imperial Guards Knight> from the knight academy .

He saw just how much she had raised her strength in the short time since then .

“I’ll do it, Valefor!”

Yuika-senpai made the avatar of Diva <Valefor> who had a bird appearance to emerge .

“See through the path of a thousand ri, expose here the evil that is lurking in the darkness……Detect Ambush(Wisdom of Coward)!”

Yuika-senpai’s eyes were strongly shining with magic power . “I can see it!” Senpai raised her voice .

“Valefor is a bird Diva that the thieves came to love since ancient times, this magic secures super sense toward the presence of allies and opponents . ……Um, the magic power cloud that is extremely thick is jamming the effect a little but it’s okay . I can sense until ten kilometers ahead . I won’t even miss any footstep . I’ll shoulder the role as the scout . ”

Scout――the role of someone that went ahead of the main group and performed reconnaissance of the path’s surrounding .

“Please don’t force yourself . I hope senpai can stay in the range where I can detect your whereabouts . ”

“How much my king can sense me? I wonder around how much my positivity level to you is . ”

“……It’s 58 . With this positivity level inside this magic power cloud, surely it’s quite a vast range . ”

“So it’s to that degree . ”

Yuika-senpai clearly expressed her dissatisfaction . Although her scouting ability was high, but that power wouldn’t be able to be used to the best of its ability if she didn’t take quite some distance from the main group .

“No, that’s quite a high number you know . Honestly it makes me nervous somewhat . ”

“You are saying that it’s quite high comparatively to how we didn’t even exchange that much talk until now?”

Yuika-senpai said as though she had seen through inside his heart .

Kazuki was startled . Certainly he was perplexed from that thinking .

“You see, I lost to you at the battle election, watched your activity at the East-West War, I admired you and want to become stronger . You taught us the meaning of battle as candidate knights . You gave us the true meaning to our life . Perhaps it feels a little weird that your are liked by some girls that you don’t really know and you also can see the number of that positivity level but see…… we liking you isn’t something that is that unnatural you know . ”

Certainly……if he used his imagination he got it that it was a natural feeling .

The number of 58 wasn’t something excessive by any means .

“Furthermore that applies even more if it’s a cool younger boy . ”

Yuika-senpai added with a little reddened cheek .

“I too was thinking that I want to be useful in real battle so I trained intensively until today . With that I became the best among Valefor’s contractors like this . And then I think that the show time of Valefor is exactly right now . In this kind of battlefield where we don’t know what is ahead, scouting is horribly important . ”

“……I also think that how we come into contact with another force is the most important matter . ”

If their side could discovers the enemy first, they would be able to do anything from an ambush to a surprise attack .

In the case the enemy also deployed their scout, they had to discover that scout first and remove them .

The difference in scouting ability would dictate the hegemony of the battle .

“I think right now in this moment is the meaning of my existence . ”

Yuika-senpai declared that she was resolved .

That was why even if it was accompanied by some danger, she wanted to force herself?

“That’s not allowed . I won’t permit senpai to distance yourself too much from me . We don’t know just what kind of magic exists out there . I think that Japan’s strong point is the power of bonds and cooperation . We won’t win if we lose sight of that . ”

“……But, I have confidence in Valefor’s ability……”

Even now Yuika-senpai was murmuring . However when Kazuki put strength into his eyes, she reluctantly nodded .

“Please go ahead while confirming our direction . I’ll raise my right hand and give the signal when the distance with senpai is just barely inside the effect range of the power of bond . That’s the range senpai can move the farthest as the scout . Please don’t get farther from us more than that . ”

Yuika-senpai nodded once before rushing out to the forest ahead . Her characteristic back figure with the bird feathers fluttering behind was soon swallowed by the magic power cloud enshrouding the rainbow forest and she soon vanished from sight .

Kazuki could feel Yuika-senpai’s presence even when he couldn’t see her . The positivity level became a string of bond that connected them in the mental world, Kazuki could follow that string .

That line of connection was gradually thinning . Yuika-senpai’s presence was fading the farther she was due to the interference of the magic power cloud . When she was at the distance limit already, Kazuki raised his right hand .

A moment later, Kazuki felt disappointment .

Yuika-senpai’s presence halted just for a moment . However――she soon advanced further and vanished completely from the range of the bond .

Part 2



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