Vol 12 Epilogue

Epilogue: “The Second” Who Has Been ReleasedPart 1

The forest that sunk into the darkness of night, is illuminated by the light of the flames.

Here is far from the ordinary city's peaceful forest. No one was coming around, not to mention there is fire. This fire is not likely to have been caused by lightning that strike a drop of dead wood.

However, today's forest fire was different. The dead wood burning is not caused by lightning nor is it by people who left a bonfire———it leaked from the fall of the giant transport aircraft’s fuel.

“———Oh my, oh my.”

The darkness seemed to distort into the form of a human, a young girl crawled out from the ground.

“Originally, I was planning on ambushing DEM's facilities, I did not expect for it to actually fall in such a place.”

The girl———Kurumi picked up a piece from the scattered wreckage with one hand, and then put the other hand out in front.

Then, the shadow around her feet started to move, flying out a shotgun and reached out to catch Kurumi.

“ <zafkiel>———[YudTenth bullet].”</zafkiel>

<zafkiel>After Kurumi said that name, the shadow sucked into the gun to become the bullet.</zafkiel>

<zafkiel>YudTenth bullet, the tenth bullet penetrated the object in order to convey its past memories into the shape of Kurumi’s bullets.</zafkiel>

<zafkiel>Kurumi placed the gun at the direction of herself, and then did not hesitate to pull the trigger. Concentrated shadows emitted through the debris directly hit Kurumi’s head.</zafkiel>

<zafkiel>Normally, such a bullet would have shattered Kurumi’s head like the breakdown of aircraft’s debris. However, within Kurumi’s mind, she saw the scene of the transport aircraft when it was still flying.</zafkiel>

<zafkiel>Piercing alarm sounds, the aircraft was shaking like a fetus, [Material A]. The Spirit seemed to be resonating with a great unknown wave response.</zafkiel>

<zafkiel>Then, a twinkling in the sky; a pillar of light emitted from an unknown distance from the aircraft.</zafkiel>

<zafkiel>“………I see. The the direct cause of this is Shidou-san.”</zafkiel>

<zafkiel>Kurumi could not help but laugh. Although she received reports of Shidou’s strange behavior from her clones, she never thought he would be involved with this.</zafkiel>

<zafkiel>“The second Spirit-san found Shidou-san's Spirit Wave from inside the transport and looked for his help… I guess? But if Shidou-san's power went berserk because of that, he sure must have caused Kotori-san and the others a lot of trouble.”</zafkiel>

<zafkiel>—Kurumi thought it’s useless to say that to a Spirit that’s locked inside a container. Whatever the outcome is, there's no use picking faults with someone looking for help.</zafkiel>

<zafkiel>“Either way——I did not expect, Shidou-san to be of so much help.”</zafkiel>

<zafkiel>Kurumi dives into the shadow, and then walked toward the rear conveyor in a loud pace.</zafkiel>

<zafkiel>In expectation for the arrival of the transport aircraft, she had placed her clones at any major DEM facility where she thought the aircraft might arrive. Even if the plane hadn’t crashed, she would still have the Second Spirit without exception, but it would have cost her numerous clones.</zafkiel>

<zafkiel>Kurumi was lucky to be able to achieve this goal without that sacrifice.</zafkiel>

<zafkiel>Her aim was not only [Material A]. It was also to get the information about the First Spirit from her in order to defeat it. The more manpower she could reserve, the better.</zafkiel>

<zafkiel>“—Well then, Spirit-san? Please let me see your face.”</zafkiel>

<zafkiel>Kurumi said while peeking into the container that dropped out of the transportation plane.</zafkiel>

<zafkiel>However—</zafkiel>

<zafkiel>“Huh?”</zafkiel>

<zafkiel>Kurumi could not help but widen her eyes.</zafkiel>

<zafkiel>Over there, it is an empty container that has been bursted open from the inside.</zafkiel>

<zafkiel>Part 2</zafkiel>

<zafkiel>—The <ratatoskr>'s round table was in a heavy discord.</ratatoskr></zafkiel>

<zafkiel><ratatoskr>But this is hardly surprising. One person, Clayton, had launched <d>beyond his authority, and in order to prevent it, even the mysterious Spirit