Chapter 7
Part 1
「Adamantine Forge」 - Day of finals.
There was a giant barrier for projecting the performance and the seats for spectators.
Going up on stage, Kuro Usagi smiled and waved towards the audience.
"Finally, just half an hour is left before the start of finals of 「Adamantine Forge」! The judge this time would be Kuro Usagi from 「No Name」! Mikado Tokuteru-sama from the three digit community 「Tōiriten」 that is here as the guest judge will be commenting on it!"
───OHHHHhhhhhhh!!!
With the Kuro Usagi on stage, the whole mine was filled with cheerful shouts.
She wasn't here as an official judge of the 「Thousand Eyes」 but that was no concern to the fans. The usual banner was also swaying.
As she returned back to the place for reporters, she was greeted by broadly grinning Sakamaki Izayoi from the wing of the stage.
"As popular as ever, eh? Aren't 70% of the audience males? This is that huh? The gift produced by Shiroyasha?"
"Ugh........ It is frustrating to say but YES." Clothing of Shiroyasha-sama can't be taken off because of the demands from fans. Since it brought the opportunity to get money for our food, I couldn't deny it."
"Right? I have no choice but to honestly recognize the ability of the one who made this skirt."
Yahaha, Izayoi laughed while catching and raising her skirt while Kuro Usagi knocked his hand off. This skirt that was made with gift of ‘can't see what should be seen', firmly grasped the hearts of male customers and didn't let them go.
Shiroyasha's achievements were countless. If she hadn't invented this skirt it's possible that 「No Name」 could have fallen long ago, and the problem children would never been summoned.
After exchanging the usual things two or three times, Izayoi got down to business.
"But that masked knight sure surprised me. Who would have thought that she was a blood relative of Ojō-sama that was supposed to have died."
What's more, it was not just normal blood relative. The face that was hidden under the mask, gave off the intimate feel to anyone who looked at it. Thinking back about her face, Izayoi remembered Asuka's speech.
"’Should have sister’......was it? Remembering it now, I now understand what made me anxious. When you talk about sisters, usually, you say it differently.
─── "I should have an older sister."
─── "I should have a little sister."
.........or something like that. Despite this, Ojō-sama said that she should have a sister."
That's right. Kudō Asuka was not able to talk about the fact that she was deprived of a sister. In other words, the meaning behind that was that her sister died before being born and determining which was older and which younger.
Meaning – Kudō Asuka had a twin.
"With this, one of the mysteries about Ojō-sama has been solved. The Gift and body of Divine Spirit..... Does that mean that those two spirit levels became twins and got split?"
"Yes. Perhaps if we think about the historical influence, I think we can conclude that Faceless-sama who had a strong corporeal capabilities died."
Kuro Usagi made a docile face as well and folded her arms.
「Halloween」 is a festival when the boundary of stars is weakened because of season changes, and deceased return from the land of the dead. Some time ago, she herself presumed, that due to some circumstances, the spirit level of Faceless ended up in Queen's hands.
If Asuka ended up not getting summoned in Little Garden, then she should have headed towards the Great Britain – the place where Halloween originated from. And it was expected that some kind of Paradigm would be caused at that land.
"Then regardless the existence of 「No Name」, 「Kudō Asuka」 would definitely repeat that action. Or perhaps like the death of Nobunaga, fit the history in the form of a convergence point. Looks like we were right when we thought that she appeared with the 「Ningen-sengen」 (Humanity Declaration) that was issued at the end of World War 2."
"Yes. However, for Asuka-san to manifest as a living God of Imperial household, there is one thing that is essential by all means."
"........The blood of direct descendant of Imperial household, right?"
Descendant of former 「No Name」.
Paradigm shift of WWII.
Blood of the Imperial descendant and 「Ningen-sengen」.
Perhaps there's just one place in history of Japan where the chronicle of all these events advances without contradictions. And if that chronicle becomes clear, It might also be possible to go save the former members of 「No Name」.
"...But if our hypothesis is correct, then could the actual form of the Gift that Faceless seems to be hiding actually be that outrageous divine sword?"
"YES. Even in the divine sword category, there might only be 3 swords that exceeds it. At any rate, it's a divine sword that travelled from the oldest till the latest times on a single cosmology. The density of the spirit level of the existence that holds this sword has no equal. If it ends up in hands of the Imperial member that carries divinity, then it's hard to imagine just how powerful it will grow. As a matter of fact, it can even exceed Yō-san's 「Genome Tree」"
To that degree? – Izayoi put a hand on his chin and honestly pondered.
"...Well, the audience is big here. I want to believe that masked knight-sama won't do anything unreasonable in this game where murder is strictly forbidden."
"Well, who knows. We won't know that unless we confirm the contents of the trial that Queen assigned to her."
In contrast to serious Izayoi, Kuro Usagi answered with slightly lighter tone.
......It was a bit unexpected.
After all's said and done, she seems unusually composed. Usually, It would be Kuro Usagi who would panic and Izayoi would be calming her down, but this time it was totally opposite of that.
"Hmm… That's too optimistic. If perchance, that masked knight-sama decides to kill Ojō-sama, then even I might not be able to protect her."
"Ayaya, that's sounds different from usual Izayoi-san. If you talk like that, you might miss the victory you know?"
Usausa! – shaking her usamimi, Kuro Usagi showed a satisfied smile.
Izayoi narrowed his eyes and asked again.
".....Eeh. That implying talk. In that case, what would be the usual me?"
"I can answer that without fail! If it's usual Izayoi-san, he would say something like ‘Divine sword of divinity holder Imperial member you say? HA! Good, good, that's more like it! I'll take care of that bout of Ojō-sama and her sister!!!’
...And with that, you would surely stand before the two with the intentions to make them reconcile or something like that."
At that point, she was already grinning with enjoyment.
The head of the strongest problem children would surely have raged from the current tension.
At the very least, if it was Izayoi from before the fight with Aži Dakāha, then there's no way he would be satisfied from just looking at such amusing quarrel among sisters.
But the current Izayoi was not able to get heated up like that.
"......Well, it would be thrilling if that could be done. But, seeing their faces, there was no atmosphere to be able to do that."
"Fufu, I understand."
Usausa! – Kuro Usagi shook her usamimi. Even Izayoi could not clearly describe the changes that were happening within him at the moment.
This was because in the past 17 years of his life, such changes never happened before.
And Kuro Usagi began to notice the changes in the heart of Izayoi –in the hearts of all three problem children.
(After overcoming a great battle, everyone ended up at the crossroads of life. However, becoming an adult and becoming wiser are two completely different things.)
At this rate, the three of them who are at the pinnacle of talents of the whole world might decay. That alone is one thing that's must not happen. Especially because they have such emotional period, they must acquire as much experience as possible.
Hence Kuro Usagi understood.
That the time to accomplish the final responsibility as the summoned ones in this Little Garden of Fighting Gods and Buddhas.
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