[If it’s like this……]
Yō suddenly ascended rapidly and stopped in mid-air.
Since the fog is the result of a Gift’s power, we can only use the power of a Gift to counter it.
Spreading her arms, Yō started to collect all the winds into her palms.
[Though I’ve not tried any tricks other than flight……but I’m sure I can do it---!]
No. It must succeed no matter what.
If she couldn’t succeed, Asuka’s life would be in danger.
“Da…Damn it……Disperse them all---!”
The tornado that moved along the water level of the river gave a rumbling roar as it started to move forth. And it wasn’t long after that it started to suck up the fog along the funnel and up into the sky.
Though the thought was sound, the effectiveness was lacking and the dense fog showed no signs of dissipating. Yō had thought that her efforts had all been for naught when her ears picked up the roars of Eudemons that have witnessed her actions.
“---GEYAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaa!”
Seeming to respond to Yō, the battlefield was suddenly filled with a large amount of whirlwinds. Though the roars of the Eudemons were unable to be understood by people who lacked the capacity to speak in their language, but they were all understandable to Yō’s ears.
[It’s Gry and his comrades……]
Thanking him in her heart, Yō took the chance to sprint forward as the fog was dissipating.
Just as she was praying hard to make it in time when she reached the battlefield---
She found that Asuka was still fine, causing Yō to feel as though she had worked for nothing.
“Asuka!”
“Ka……Kasukabe-san……Ya!”
Yō who felt so relieved that she forgot to stop her speed, knocked into Asuka and they fell to the ground. Though it was lucky that Asuka was on the floor and not on Deen’s shoulder that a tragedy did not happen, but she still couldn’t avoid falling to the ground on her butt.
“This’s great! To be able to get through that kind of situation without a scratch. You really are great, Asuka!”
“Though I would really like to answer that with a [Of course, do you really need to ask me that?], but in reality, it wasn’t me who defeated the enemies.”
“Eh?”
“……Just look around you and you will understand.”
Under the urging of Asuka’s solemn voice, Yō looked around to confirm the situation.
The fog was dissipating and the shadow of a human figure was becoming more visible. As for the Titan tribe---
“---How is it possible……”
When the fog had dissipated, she noted that the Titan tribe---had been annihilated.
They had been gutted by a sharp blade that cleanly slit open their skulls, necks, hearts and none had been allowed to become anything other than corpses on the ground. The main force of the invaders should also be amongst the dead, the trio that had worn crowns and held accessories like the sceptres.
……Yō was sure that she had arrived beside Asuka’s side within a minute.
But the Titan tribe on these parts of the battle field had all been wiped out with the same type of technique.
“Could it be……all the Titan tribe was…….by one person……who in the world is it?”
This reality was a great shock to Yō as she drew a sharp intake of breath.
To be able to wipe out the Titan Tribe in such a short period of time. That was surely an act that far exceeded one’s imagination.
Amongst the people that Yō knew of, only one could have managed this monster like feat---
“---You aren’t hurt, right?”
“Eh…… Eh?’
Yō immediately came to her senses. Though she had heightened her alertness due to the sudden voice, she immediately dismissed it in the next moment. This was definitely not because of her willingness to dismiss it.
But it was because Yō could understand with just one look---Though the owner of the voice wasn’t a beast man, neither was she an Eudemon nor a Lesser Dragon.
It was she, this woman who had killed all of the Titan Tribe.
“……”
The other party had a black hair ornament that tied back her beautiful pure white hair.
The white formal dress that seems to bring out a sense of quiet prudence on her was also covered by an exquisitely decorated silvery white armor.
A black and white Masquerade half-mask[11] covered the upper half of her facial features.
Seeming like a figure that’s only made out of the two colors of white and black, she was now totally drenched in the splatter of Titan’s blood.
“……You were the one who beat the Titans?”
“……”
The masked lady only glanced at the both of them to ascertain their safety with her eyes without giving a reply. Following that, she then turned away from Yō and Asuka as she left the scene with the only parts not covered in blood being that of her black hairpin and the swaying long ponytail that was tied by it.
Yō watched her back view as she was stumped for words, whereas Asuka propped herself up and said bitterly:
“That lady ……is very strong.”
Even for Asuka who had much pride to admit that so simply without any conditions, there wasn’t a need to know that the other had held an impressive amount of power that simply caused others to feel overwhelmed. And there was no telling that they might be meeting her as an opponent in the Harvest Festival Games. Thinking about that, the both of them simply couldn’t feel pure joy about being able to pull through safely.
Just when they were bending their heads gloomily, the bell to inform all about the end of the battle started to toll.
The dense fog that once covered the starry skies of [Underwood] had also been dissipated by the efforts of Yō and the other Eudemons.
Lifting her gaze to the starry skies, Yō straightened her back as she inhaled a refreshing breath of fresh air that came from the river, while she looked at the full moon that was a day past it’s fullest---[12]
“---Ah.”
Yō remembered the headphones that she had left in the dormitory and a sudden irksome chill seemed to pass through her shoulder blades. In cold sweat and whipping up a gust of whirlwind, Yō rushed back towards the dormitory.