Chapter 205: Counterattack (1)

Leaving the hot burning body as is Sacred Knight swung the holy sword Galatina.

The whole body is burning. That is not a metaphor, in the literal meaning.

While realizing the armor, the sword, the dress, the skin is burning and charring with her own flames, but Knight had no intention of stopping those flames.

"The movement is rough, Princess. Fell to darkness and got a strange habit? Fine! That bad habit I will correct for you!"

"...Why...!?"

She parries the princess’s one blow with the belly of the holy sword, and one rotation on the spot. While rotating fuwari like a dance, but the burning greatsword sharply mows.

However the princess avoids the blade by a paper’s thickness. The burning scorching heat covers her, but did not burn the skin.

Natural. Because the target Sacred Knight’s holy flames attack is decided by her will.

The princess she respects, a comrade fighting together, one friend. As long as thinking so deep-affection Knight cannot burn at a degree of being antagonized. As long as Knight is Knight this is a logic that cannot be overturned.

(Therefore what about that.)

Cannot burn with flames?

Rather strengthen?

Then better win with power more than that...!

While burning the whole body Knight powerfully stepped in.

Swings down the sword from the uppermost. That closing while releasing explosive flames the princess parries with the blade.

In the scorching heat that even burns to ashes the sparks occurring when blade and blade rub the princess raised a voice of confusion.

"Why are you burning your own body, Knight!"

"The heat of my soul is becoming flames. Yes, surely!"

A lie.

While flustered she returns the figure swinging the holy sword straight and barks a suitable logic.

This state is never that she aimed.

In the first place who burns her own body meaninglessly. Even without calmly thinking full of strange things.

But not that the holy flames are malfunctioning.

The ability to identify enemy and ally is activating without problem. Precisely because of that the skin of the princess in front is remaining white.

In other words ’the user of the holy flames Knight burning is normal’.

Because Knight is angry at herself who should burn as evil the flames are wounding her own body.

There was strong strong self-hatred.

From that day always the thing from her own incompetence of unable to notice everyone’s anxiety and hardship.

And more than anything. Because as intended making Doris a textbook, completely unable to read the back. No, the thing from irritation at herself who did not even think of reading.

A skilled child, a good child working hard without losing to the handicap of insufficient base power, precisely because of that she herself cannot lose. That way she was innocently laughing.

Sacred Knight. Grace Wayne was eating knowledge like a chick.

Doris’s knowledge, techniques, without even noticing her anxiety. This time not lose with the same technique.

As a decoy she was exploiting the girl named Doris Stan.

(Despite that comrades, friends, family important or, make the screwing moderate, Grace Wayne...!)

Intestines boiling is precisely this.

This kind of thoughtless how did she end up convinced she is an existence leading everyone.

But still early to despair.

Still not that she lost comrades.

Saber is alive, Arrow too.

Knuckle though still immature is desperately clinging to the current state. And the princess is in front.

No time to lament her own immaturity or foolishness.

If not lost like the brother, if the hand reaches. Surely can save.

Then stand, advance, swing the sword. Weld the pain and madness and self-hatred with flames and forcibly continue moving the body.

Fine. Because she is not alone.

"...Distance."

"Not let."

Bullets like a tank cannon cut the princess’s retreat path.

The aim is sweet, no effect more than restraint. Probably the mouse-ear girl above is not a warrior she thinks.

But even so the way of blocking the retreat path was skilled.

Whether because sensitive to hostility, a small animal desperately fleeing from predators.

Why that kind of girl came to the front line, why Niekawa seems not holding any favor at all toward that kind of weak and cowardly girl, honestly full of things she does not understand.

But thinking is later.

Now only fight for everyone even if burning herself to ashes...!

Stop the foolish imitation.

Renewing the resolve, in the middle of repelling the princess’s blade. Will and emotion is conveyed from inside.

That is not Knight’s thing, but a thing of the existence that assimilated with Knight.

The holy spirit of flames.

The will of the holy spirit using kindness that warms the weak like the sun and cruelty that burns evil to ashes without mercy.

Is swinging the sword recklessly while burning herself the sun’s thing, fulfill your own role.

"Shut up."

Contrary to the burning body the voice rang coldly.

Ah, yes. Knight is angry at herself, but angry at the holy spirit that integrated with herself to the same degree.

Natural. The other party she thought a comrade, the other party she thought suitable to fight together, she was trying to abandon as only a decoy. If there was substance she would have punched away long ago.

No, not shut up.

Natural, light is precisely by shining. What meaning is there in a sun that does not shine.

Therefore shining existences becoming Sacred is natural. ’That’ has no way of having that kind of qualification.

’That’ role is making the too-sharpened light learn techniques. Only firewood.

Not more than that, not less than that. However saying it is only a decoy that makes other Sacred grow, ’that’.

And. In the first place does not understand.

In the intense swordplay the holy spirit of flames indifferently asks.

Why? She has no idea at all.

You who looked down on the weak, what are you irritated at now? How much difference is there between the traitor princess and ’that’.

At the conveyed will Knight could not immediately rebut.

She knew Meldiana was doing this and that, trying to do something. Knowing she erased obstacles from in front of her as the princess said ’the weak should be protected’. Trampled the feeling of wanting to become something different. Because she believed if unable to do ordinarily should be protected.

Even the matter of Sacred Arrow surely does not change.

Trampling the reckless dream of wanting to stand lining up together, making her food for growth. The weak who became squeezed dregs will end up becoming an existence only protected.

In the meaning of closing the path the weak wanted to walk both have no big difference.

The weak better continue worshipping that shine while protected by the strong light, the conclusion is the same.

And yet Knight did not hold a sense of incongruity at Meldiana’s time, and is angry at Arrow’s time.

After all Knight held the sense of incongruity and anger because the other party she recognized as a comrade, and the fundamental place is the same as the holy spirit of flames.