Chapter 5: The Knight in the Flames
Yukisai staggered to the door of the Chaldean control room, taking a deep breath and filling in his mind the angry expression of the director, Olga Marie, who might come...... Be prepared to be scolded in your heart, and be prepared to smile no matter what.
Then, he leaned over and prepared to swipe the electronic door with his ID card......
Bang!
The sound was too intense, and for a moment it robbed him of his hearing.
The changes were so rapid that he couldn't react.
I heard that the most powerful executioner can make a condemned prisoner have his head cut off without noticing the fact that he is dead.
It was the first time that Yagi Yukisai had experienced this kind of thing firsthand.
It wasn't until three seconds later that he somewhat understood what was happening.
The door in front of him was directly torn to pieces by some powerful force, as if it had been shredded by an invisible beast, and the metal door twisted and left the wreckage.
Yukisai Yagi tried to move, but it was only then that he noticed that his body seemed to be bleeding.
The pain was too intense and too rapid, so that before he could react, he was cut off a large piece of his abdomen, and subconsciously pressed his hand on the wound, and the gushing blood instantly thickened his palm.
"Ahh
The nerves that were shocked by the shock finally regained their function, but the first thing that recovered the nerves was to spread the pain around the body to the cerebral cord.
The pain of being burned.
The pain of being torn apart.
Worries about their fate.
The horror of knowing nothing about the state of affairs.
Everything came to mind as the nerves regained function.
Resisting the severe pain, he reluctantly threw himself the magic of healing.
He couldn't think about the pain, so he could only use a small section of quick-acting healing magic, of course, the effect was not very good, it could only play the most basic analgesic role, paralyzing the nerves, so that his spirit would not collapse before the body.
"What...... Situation......"
In front of him was a scene of death.
The original blue-black space of the control room is now dyed with fiery red, bright red, blazing red, red of sirens, all kinds of reds are intertwined, and the sharp banging sound keeps echoing, making people's eardrums burst.
The raging flames enveloped the neatly arranged Lingzi transfer devices in the control room, the collapsed ceiling, the burning walls, and the suffocating smell of blood.
Finally...... What's wrong?
He couldn't comprehend the current scene, so he could only numbly drag his body cut by the explosion fragments and staggered in.
Looking for ...... Survivor.
Anyone who wants to find someone who is still alive.
Actually, there's no need to look for it.
In the midst of the raging fire, there was a figure that looked out of place.
It was a woman named Catherine who had been with Professor Leif all along.
Her black gauze was particularly abrupt in the flickering red flames.
The flames licked at her clothes, but instead of igniting the fabric, it turned into some kind of pitch-black substance that flowed down her clothes, as if it had been dried by a paper towel.
"Ouch, Yagi-kun...... Didn't you say, let you come over as soon as possible? You or Roman, how can you be so disobedient - if you come honestly, you will be like them. β
She said in a very provocative tone, her arms shook, as if there was an infinite wind, ruffling the flames around her, and the flickering firelight dragged her figure on top of each other.
"It's you...... What the hell? β
Yagi Yukisai reacted immediately.
After a large amount of blood loss, people become delirious due to lack of oxygen, but the opposite is true for Yukisai, who is now very conscious.
This is called "Returning to the Light".
His life is passing by at a rapid pace.
"Uh-huh, it's me."
She shrugged and smiled brightly.
"However, it has nothing to do with you~~ Little brother, you can die here with peace of mind. Humanity is going to perish anyway, so don't hold on. Am I right? ββThe Holy Sword Envoy who chased me for seven world lines~"
The black-haired woman in black turned around provocatively, like a dancer, pinching the corners of her skirt and hula to draw a beautiful arc, and in the position where she had just dodged, with the sound of brushing, the floor shattered and the masonry flew sideways.
That's the one who doesn't fit in with this blazing fire, "in another sense."
In a word, it was the knight of the blue and the silver.
The blue knight's costume was wrapped in silver-white armor, and he wore a black and white hood on his head, and he could faintly see golden hair and emerald eyes like a lake. The corners of his mouth were tense, and the serious knight was holding some weapon in his hand, and it seemed that he had just smashed the floor with this transparent weapon.
"Are you alright?"
The strange blonde knight squinted his eyes with a hint of anxiety in his tone, and he bit his lip, revealing a little remorse at the end of his sentence.
He...... Who is it?
Yukisai Yagi couldn't understand.
There was no such person in the Chaldeans.
There are also no blonde visitors scheduled to come here.
And......
Chop the floor with a transparent weapon...... The floor here is also made of metal plates made of new materials, and it is not something that anyone can chop up......
"Ah...... That's right...... Be...... Servant......"
Yukisai Yagi vaguely understood.
The Servant is a special form in which a certain aspect of the Heroic Spirit is fixed in the present world. There are about seven types of Saber, Archer, Lancer, Caster, Rider, Assassin and Berserker, depending on the characteristics. As mentioned before, the Chaldean summoning system is quite special, in fact, in the current Chaldea, there is a servant of the caster class, thanks to this, Yagi Yukisai quickly understood that the man in front of him was far beyond the existence of humans.
"Oh, it's worthy of being a holy sword envoy~ All that overflows is a sense of justice."
Making a seductive and provocative sound, Catherine, the woman in black, shrugged, and was sucked into her clothes before, and the black flames followed her movements, like two giant snakes, and bit towards the knight! The knight was undaunted, swinging his invisible weapon, slashing the black flames into the air.
He couldn't escape, and once he dodged, the innocent person behind him would be burned in black fire.
The knight, who had fought the black woman several times, knew best the power of the flames.
"-However, sometimes, it's because the sense of justice is too strong that there will be problems~"
The black woman giggled and slapped her palms twice, and in the air, it seemed that she could see ripples blooming layer by layer of sound waves.
Neither Yukisai Yagi nor the hooded knight who suddenly appeared could understand what kind of attack this was.
Bang!
Explosions.
This...... It's very close.
Yukisai Yagi felt like his ears were going to be blown up.
Yes......
No wonder......
He thought so.
In a blur, he vaguely saw his blackened chest and understood.
This is, very vicious calculation.
I'm afraid that this woman has calculated from the beginning, and she is going to plot against this knight here.
Therefore, after he was injured at the door, he had a brief exchange with this woman. It was probably at this time that she did something to it.
In her own wounds, she buried the [bomb].
It's not clear what it is or how it will be launched, but judging from the effect, let's call it a bomb.
What she calculated was that after this knight appeared, he would definitely give priority to protecting her own people.
Then, she used her clapping palm as a code, no one knew what this was a signal, and the knight naturally didn't know, but subconsciously, he turned around and picked up Yagi Yukisai and ran away.
However, he never imagined that the enemy would set up this innocent person who needed his protection as a bomb.
It's a sinister trap that takes advantage of his knightly talents.
Although he can't see it really, Yagi Yukisai vaguely feels that there is other people's blood flowing down his body.
Ah, it turns out that the servant also bleeds?
Surprisingly, he still cares about this kind of detail.
"Hahaha, it's so exciting~ It's really hard to chase me for so long-you-la~~ Just hold your knight and die here~ Lord Sacred Sword Envoy. Aha. β
At the end of Yukisai's consciousness was the woman's shrill laughter.
It seems, there are other people's footsteps? Presumably women's boots? But Yagi Yukisai couldn't hear clearly.
When I was confused, it seemed that someone was saying something to me...... However, he was so injured that he could no longer hear at all.