October 18, 0:30 a.m.

South of England, on a suburban mountain road.

Three or four elite knights and the knight captain who led them appeared.

This was followed by the mastermind of the military coup, Chialyssa who held Kartina I.

I don't know how many blades are ready to take the life of the third princess, Velian.

But at this moment, a man stood in front of everyone.

William Orwell.

He was supposed to be a knight, but now he is a mercenary - the "Honkai Villain".

The result of a writer's extreme exaggeration of the legend that exists in reality is the Ascalon in his possession, which was theoretically capable of killing dragons over 50 feet in one blow by adding the necessary data necessary to achieve the sword's effect.

The actions he takes with the "artifact" in his hand are very simple.

Rush into the enemy line and slaughter all the knights in a bloody storm - not really.

Unleash some kind of trick or stratagm that will cause the enemy army to collapse in chaos all at once - neither is it.

He just waved Ascalon up and down.

In order to make the ground under his feet explode.

There was a boom, and a loud bang and a shockwave exploded.

A huge amount of sand and dust churned, and for a moment the knights were obscured by the heavy dust curtain. The earth shook like an earthquake, and even the most well-trained horses neighed timidly.

"Shhhhhh

The Knight's Commander snorted disdainfully.

Several of his knights immediately shot arrows at the center of the explosion, but there was no point in doing so.

The night wind blew away the dust.

There was no one left there, only a terrible rift in the ground where Ascalon had swung up and down.

"I see. It's prioritizing Veryanne's safety. If there is a chaotic battle in such a place, she is afraid that she will not escape death. 」

The second princess, Qi Ya Lisa, gently soothed the war horse and said to herself.

At first glance, this is a very calm response, but it also exposes your weaknesses. If you were in your heyday, you would definitely be able to protect my sister who didn't make it while fighting. ”

"What now?"

Hearing the knight commander ask this, Kialisa exhaled as if bored,

"Go and bring those two heads. ”

Kialisa gripped the sword that had not yet been edged.

"I'm going to adjust the state of Kartina now and get used to it even more. Go get this done before I'm done!"

"Understood. ”

"Don't show mercy to the other party just because they are old acquaintances." ”

"I don't know which one of my acquaintances is in the enemy line. ”

The knight commander only left these words, and ran straight into the dark depths without even riding a military horse.

The enemy is close.

At this distance, I was able to find them faster by running on my own legs.

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Aikawa is standing on top of a London Waterloo station.

Irregular huge quadrangular cubes with long tunnels attached to them. It looks like an axe from above. Although the station is empty due to today's incident, there must be a lot of people coming and going.

(But this time I'm just looking for someone.) ）

Stopping at the terminal of Britain's first international train, Aikawa stared blankly at the train that was about to depart.

"I'll see...... Twenty carriages, 1,320 feet (400 meters) long, estimated at seven or eight hundred tons—that's all. ”

Eurostar

A high-speed rail service connecting St Pancolas Station in London, England with Paris, Lille in France and Brussels in Belgium.

The maximum speed is 300 km/h and 160 km/h in the tunnel. It takes only 2 hours and 35 minutes to get to Paris' Gare du Nord from Waterloo Station by Eurostar, and less than an hour from London to the English border suburbs if you only drive from the mainland.

"I remember that the train code for the local route starts with "33...... In addition, the aftermath of the battle in the women's dormitory caused the electricity to be unusable...... That is, only trucks can drive normally at this stage......"

So Aikawa tilted his head at the two identical trains.

"-Which one the hell?"

After a few seconds of doubt, Mitsumasa Aikawa, who had given up thinking, walked into one of the trains.

- Nothing turned out to be there.

So he hummed a song and walked into another train.

- It turned out to be nothing.

“…………”

After seriously doubting whether he had been cheated by some natural nun, Aikawa came to the conclusion that the car he was looking for was no longer here.

What, it's just gone?

After saying this, Aikawa turned and walked in a different direction.

"Ahh Anyway, if you have time, it doesn't matter if you take this opportunity to meet the sword for a while, right? Ah, I didn't ask anyone. After all, I was already acting the moment I asked the question, but it was my patent. ”

Not worrying at all about the train rushing over at some point, Aikawa stepped on the tracks and walked out of the station.

"Well, this track is the way to Edinburgh. ”

After glancing at the direction in which the rail bends, he knows where it is passing, and Aikawa looks ahead.

"Hmm~ what should I do?"

Aikawa said with a smile as he looked at the train that was coming from a great distance.

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Janis, Rukia, and Angelina are lurking on a ten-car tram that is extremely ordinary.

Trams run from Edinburgh to London and run in a straight line from the north to the south of the United Kingdom.

However, as a result of the coup d'état, the train was moving at an unbelievable speed when all the other trains were stopping, and all the stations that were supposed to stop were thrown off one by one.

Janis Santis's cheeks were constantly being blown by the cold wind.

They were standing in a position that was neither inside the car nor on the roof of the car. It is the compartment wall. Rukia blasted the massive wooden wheels, then inserted pieces sharp enough to be used as an offensive tool into the aluminum walls of the cabin, using them as pedals and handles.

In what was like a free-climbing practice range, Janis still twisted her body and peeked out of the window. The train, which usually uses a large number of students and company employees, is now empty except for the white fluorescent. However, I don't know if it was put in by the knights, but there were tools and instruments used to adjust swords and armor on the ground, as well as things that seemed to be spiritual clothes used for communication.

Janis said as she observed, barely moving her mouth.

Sure enough, the nuns who were arrested in the carriage in front of them were all centrally controlled. Reinforcements from the knightly faction seem to be concentrated in the back of the train. ”

Hearing Janis say this, both Lukia and Angelina nodded.

“…… Isn't this the right place in the middle?"

“…… Yes, in that case, we will disconnect the connection of the carriage, and we will not be able to rescue the trapped sisters without having to fight the knights head-on. ”

Many of the nuns of the former Annis Unit were originally imprisoned in Edinburgh. However, the reason why he was not summarily executed may be because even if it is only a formality, it is necessary to pass a religious ruling, "not an unjustified killing, but the exercise of justice based on the law", or perhaps because it was intended to execute the former hostile forces in a grand manner during the enthronement of the second king, Kia Lisa.

Either way, once they were successfully transported to London, there would be little brightness for the future that awaited them.

In that case, what Janis and the others should do is clear.

“…… Let's get started. Rukia, Angelina, each of you uses flying props to attack the guards through the windows from outside the carriage. ”

Knights attacking from outside the window will give them the illusion that the enemy is coming from outside the train. It doesn't matter if the sniper's location is tracked backwards, as long as you can do it quickly before then, there will be no problem.

“…… After I destroy the connection of the carriage with the Staff of Lotus, I will launch a direct attack on the knights who are in chaos, and the two of you will cover me. ”

“…… Small, be careful, everyone. A preemptive surprise attack is nothing, and if it's a head-to-head battle, even if the three of us combine we don't know if we can defeat a knight. ”

Angelina looked worried. Janis involuntarily tried to knock her on the head, but her body, which had been able to cling to the wall of the carriage, suddenly crumbled and had to grab the wedge again.

“…… Wait a minute. ”

Then she saw it.

It was because of the shaking that Janis could see the front of the tram slightly. That's why she saw it.

On the track in front of the tram, small red dots.

"Isn't it......"

"Sister Janis?"

"Change the plan. ”

Turning her head and looking at the two of them again, Janis said very seriously.

The three of them went to the train together. ”

"Well, but that's not the case."

"Don't talk nonsense, go up quickly! If the whole tram is overturned, we are the ones who are most likely to suffer! The strongest will do anything, and I can't even think of it! Only when we get to the top can we have a certain amount of time to react. ”

"Ah, yes!"

The two of them, who didn't understand but responded, quickly jumped from one piece of wood to another, and soon reached the top of the train. Janis followed, and then quickly got down on her stomach after reaching the roof of the car. Angelina and Rukia felt inexplicable, but they still chose to lie down.

“……”

“……”

“……”

After five minutes, nothing happened.

"That...... Sister Janiss, what the hell are you—"

What for?, just as Rukia voiced her doubts.

With a violent impact, the tram came to an abrupt stop. Due to inertia, the girls suddenly slid forward against the roof of the car. Such a violent braking. It's like hitting something and being forcibly stopped. Is it a stop, the answer is no. Looking out from the side, this is the railway bridge. Directly below, the river roared. But in this case, what force stopped the moving train from the front——?

"Ahh

"Wait—this is ......"

"Uh-that-it's over"

Contrary to the panicked two, a smile appeared on the corner of Janis's mouth. But it was a little different from the usual laughter, and it looked like an unpleasant expression mixed with a little anxiety, a little masochism and giving up. Both Rukia and Angelina didn't understand the meaning of the smile, and they seemed even more confused.

But they'll know right away.

Very, profound.