218話 降り注ぐは象徴の炎
俺がその騒ぎを聞きつけたのは、教会上層部の方々に『天使階級』とは何かというものを長々と説明された後だった。
今後のブルーホワイトたんの管理はどうするのか、天使任命式の日取りや保護者に同席してもらうための連絡手段の確認など、それらの手続きを全て終えた俺はようやく解放され、講堂から出たところだ。
晃夜や夕輝がどこかで待っているはずだから、とりあえず二人にスマホで通話をかけよう。
しかし、一向に二人とも出る気配がないのでどうしたのかといぶかしむ。
であるブルーホワイトたん。彼女にはGPSが付けられ、『常に教会側が位置を確認できれば良い』との事で管理が俺へと渡った。というのも、彼女が俺の傍から離れる事を頑として譲らなかったのだ。
燃料とか原理とか仕組みとか全く謎なので、俺としては一度教会の管理下に置いた方が安全なのかなぁと思っていたけれど、教会側が彼女の要望を受け入れたので問題はないのかもしれない。
そんな貴重な聖遺物である彼女に対し、俺は軽く笑いかける。
「いやいや、大丈夫だよ。でも、この学園であれだけの騒ぎっていうのも少し気になるから見にいこっか」
何の考えもなく、ただぼんやりと。
ふと強い日差しに誘われて上を見れば、良く晴れ渡った空で綺麗だなとか。このシスター服だと夏の暑さを感じさせない、程良い気温を体感できてぽかぽかお昼寝気分に誘われるなぁ、なんて思いながらのんびりと歩く。
騒ぎはどうやら、俺が講演会を開いた講堂の裏手の方っぽい。
おー、裏手側の壁際の窓にも綺麗な七色ガラスがたくさんあるなぁ
なんて講堂に埋め込まれたステンドグラスに感動していた。
だから、喧騒となっている現場についた時。
一瞬なにが起きているのか理解不能になった。
頭から血を流し、羽交い絞めにされている
状況を把握するのにかかった時間は3秒程だろうか。
なぁ、そこの白い制服を着た人達。俺の親友に何をしている?
腹の底からわき上がる激情が全身に巡り、それは行き場をなくした津波のように荒れ狂い、憎悪が一気に氾濫する。
視界が怒りの炎で真っ赤に染まるような幻視さえ見えた。
「......ブルーホワイトたん、ちょっとした掃除を頼みたい。この辺を静かにしたいんだ」
「俺のッ! 俺の親友たちに何してる!」
そう叫べば、一瞬だけ白制服たちの動きが止まる。
数は12人と多い。
そんな多勢に無勢で晃夜たちに酷い事をしただと?
「許さないぞ......」
心と頭脳の分離。
感情は煮えたぎる熱湯のように沸騰しているのに、思考はひどく冷たい。
どうやってこの場を乗り切るのが最善なのか。
怒りに身を任せて、白い制服を着た人達全員に殴りかかる?
』としてゲームで手に入れた力を発動させる。
クラン・クラン内で習得した合成レシピがいかに重要か。
直感で合成可能な素材を把握したりはできても、何が作れるかまでは完全にはわからない。以前に晃夜たちに見せた、水道水とリンゴから作ったリンゴジュース等は予想できても、その結果は確実ではない。しかし、クラン・クランで一度作った事のある物ならば、合成結果が手に取るようにわかる。
先の演説会で行使した合成にも役立ったが、ここでもそれは十全に活きる。
講堂の窓、ステンドグラスに飾られた色彩豊かな原石。
その中から青い石を選ぶと、青の原石は砂塵のように変化し流動しては俺の手元にある
ちゃんが倒れながらも握っていた、口の空いた瓶。
演説中は聖水だか何だかと給水用に配られた物だが、それを選ぶと瞬く間に
青と透明、色が混じり合い俺は一つのアイテムを完成させる。
ゲームでいうところの、『スライムの核』+『浄化水』だ。
その結果はもちろん『
の涙』か。ちょっとゲーム内とは違う見た目のポーションになってしまったけれど、目的の効果を発揮する物は作れた。
アイテム作成に満足しチラリと白制服たちへと視線を運べば、ブルーホワイトたんが手加減気味に彼らを制圧してゆく。
俊敏な動きに合わせて彼女の青と白のドレスがはためき、その揺らめきの後に残るのは、白制服たちが苦悶する姿のみ。
物理攻撃はブルーホワイトたんに全面的に任せる。
彼らがしでかした事を、最も後悔する形で思い知らせて欲しい。彼女の手加減は絶妙で、痛みによって意識を狩り取るまでにはいかない。
そうして何度も何度も痛みをじっくりと味わえばいいだろう。
顔が擦り切れ、口内に血の味が咲き、身体の至るところが痛みで悲鳴を上げる。夕輝たちにあんな酷い傷を負わせた奴らには当然の罰だ。
俺の意志を正確にくむ『剥製の銀氷姫』に冷たい称賛の笑顔を贈る。すると彼女も一瞬だけこちらを見ては絶対零度の優しい微笑で返してくれる。
そう、それでいい。
が皇太子殿下の婚約者たるとはいえッッやめなさいッ!」
「なんだッ!?」
「待てっ、これを壊す様な事をしてはマズイッ!」
だが、白制服の中には人間離れした身体能力を発揮し、オリンピックの体操選手以上の身のこなしでブルーホワイトたんの拳をかわす者もいた。
さらには手のひらから、クラン・クランのモンスターであるモフウサが放つような小さな火球を飛ばす奴までもいる始末。
「ブルーホワイトたん! あいつらの足元を......」
芽吹くは氷結の草原。
白制服の足元を埋めつくす透明な植物が、さざ波の如く生い茂る。それらは絡みつくように彼らの足首へと這い寄り、動きを封じた。
その隙に、俺は晃夜や夕輝へと駆け寄りポーションをふりかけていく。
「遅くなった。大丈夫か?」
「あぁ、助かったぜ......」
「あっ......え? えと......」
意識を取り戻した紀伊子ちゃんは何とも言えない表情で驚いていた。そうして彼女が何かを言いかける前に、苛立ちを抑えきれない声音が強く響く。
』なだけあって、ブルーホワイトたんの加減した拘束ぐらい容易くふりほどいたようだ。
「我が学び舎、来航を退けた雷光を背負う日本皇立学園にその籍を置くべきだ!」
「ましてや日本の将来を担う、皇太子殿下の妻となられる身であるならば、その処置に疑問を挟む余地はない!」
日本皇立学園?
そこに俺が通わないと、何? それが晃夜と夕輝に暴力をふるった理由?
「訊太郎を物扱いか?」
「この間といい、今日といい。人の権利を容易にないがしろにする連中がいる学校に、訊太郎を誰が通わせると思う?」
俺の理解を超えた話題をする親友たち。
二人に対し、白制服たちは不遜な態度を微塵として崩さない。
「ほう。皇太子殿下と、イグニトール天皇家と繋がりのある我らに盾突くか?」
「日本全体を敵に回すは愚の骨頂。そんな失態を犯す者が、皇太子殿下の妻となる人物の傍に侍る事そのものが危険だというのだ」
警告は警鐘となり、脅しと暴力の合図となる。
そうして敵の詠唱が鳴った。
「『大球よ、大仇を焼き焦がせ』――」
あぁ、聞いた事のある台詞だ。
「『迅雷にて穿つは悪鬼。
ふむ、こっちは耳にした機会はないけれど、内容からして雷属性か。
......いい加減にして欲しいな。
俺の知らない話で、何をそんなに熱くなってるのか。
さっさと冷ましてこの気に入らない奴ら全員を反省させるべきだ。
それから、親友達に聞きたい事もできた。
早急に事態の終息を望む。
「ブルーホワイトたん。もう完全に黙らせて」
ブルーホワイトたんが了承した数瞬後に白制服の奴らは危険なアビリティを発動した。
「雷網・飛切丸!」
迫りくる三つの火球。
直径にしてサッカーボール大程の炎、あんなのが被弾したらタダの火傷では済まない。
そして空中を走る電撃。
こちらは悠長に目で追える速度でなく、光が幾筋にも伸びて眩しかったのは一瞬の事。
それらと激しい爆発音を奏でて激突するのは、ブルーホワイトたんが生み出した千を超える氷針。
幾百も飛ばされた針たちは勢い留まらず、白制服たちのアビリティを瞬く間に飲み込んでいく。
そして行きつく先は、もちろん奴らの身体で――
まずい、やりすぎた。
このままではあの針が全身へと突き刺さってしまう。
大怪我どころでは済まない惨事、下手したら命を落とす悲劇になりえるかもしれない。
そう逡巡し、ブルーホワイトたんに『千本針』を収めてと叫ぼうとした直後――――
上空より爆炎が
命を串刺しにする千本針の全てを包み込むようにして火の濁流が、天より下るカーテンの如く降り注ぐ。
その千の針だけを消滅させる器用な偉業に、その場の誰もが圧倒された。それは俺も例外でなく、視界いっぱいに広がる熱波にたじろぐ他なかった。
そうして超常現象の全てを握りつぶし、炎が渦巻きながらも終息したその地点には一人の少年がふわりと降り立つ。
燃えるような赤髪を優雅になびかせ、上質な白生地のブレザーに身を包んだ人物。彼の周囲には、先程の炎の残り香......狼の形をした炎がバリバリとプラズマを放出しながら煌びやかに漂っている。
少年がそう呟くと、炎狼は魔法のように虚空へと溶けて消えた。
その様子を呆気に取られて見ていた一同だが、特に白制服の奴らが激しく動揺している。
「殿下がなぜ......このような場所に......」
白制服たちは先程の不遜な態度から一変して、平身低頭な所作で彼に敬意を示す。
それもそのはずで、赤髪の少年は彼らと同じ制服を着込み......先日、俺と顔を合わせたばかりの人物だからだ。
「君たち、ボクの婚約者を傷つけてはならないよ」
整った顔立ちに甘い笑みを浮かべているが、瞳には優しい光が一切こもっていない。その鋭い眼光に睨まれた白制服たちの何人かは委縮しているようだ。
誰もが予想できない事態。
急な皇太子殿下の出没に......俺の怒りの矛先は彼に向けるべきものなのか。
とにかく動揺を隠す事はできなかった。
220 218 Stories Downpouring Is The Flame Of Icons
I heard the noise after a long time of explaining to people in the upper ecclesiastical hierarchy what 'angel class' is.
Having completed all those procedures, including what to do with the future management of the Blue White Tang, the day of the Angel Appointment Ceremony and confirmation of the means of communication to have the guardian present, I am finally free and just out of the auditorium.
Shaking night or Evening Fai should be waiting somewhere, so let's just give the two of them a call on their smartphones.
But I wonder what's wrong because there's never been any sign of either of us leaving.
It is the Blue White Tang, the Holy Relic (Durelic) that makes noisy noise behind it. She was given a GPS, and the management passed to me because "I wish the church side could always confirm its position." Because she didn't give up trying to get away from me.
Fuel, principles and mechanisms are completely mysterious, so as far as I'm concerned, I was wondering if it would be safer to put them under church control once, but maybe there's no problem because the church side accepted her request.
I laugh lightly at her for being such a precious sacred relic.
"No, no, I'm fine. But I'm also a little concerned about all that noise in this school, so let's see."
No thoughts, just blurry.
If you're invited by the strong sun to look up, you think it's beautiful in a good, sunny sky? This Sister clothing doesn't make me feel the heat of summer. I can feel the right temperature and get invited to a pounding nap. I can't believe I'm walking relaxed.
The noise is apparently behind the auditorium where I gave the lecture.
Oh, there's a lot of beautiful seven-color glass in the wall window on the back side, too.
What a touching stained glass embedded in the auditorium.
So when you get to the scene where it's a bustle.
For a moment I couldn't understand what was happening.
Yuki is bleeding from his head and strangled with wings.
Would it take about 3 seconds to understand the situation?
Hey, people in white uniforms there. What are you doing to my best friend?
The passion that rises from the bottom of his belly circles all over his body, it is as wild as a tsunami that has lost its way, and hatred floods all at once.
I even saw visions where my vision stained bright red with a flame of anger.
"... Blue White, I'd like to ask for a little cleaning. I want to be quiet around here."
"Mine! What are you doing to my best friends!
If you scream like that, the white uniforms will only stop moving for a moment.
The number is as high as 12.
You think you've done such a terrible thing to a bunch of defenseless, shaky nights?
"I won't forgive you..."
Separation of mind and brain.
Thoughts are terribly cold, even though emotions are boiling like boiling hot water.
How best to get through this.
Leaving yourself to anger and beating all those people in white uniforms?
Squeeze and activate the power gained in the game as' Talent Holder '.
How important is the synthetic recipe mastered within the clan clan.
Even if you can grasp materials that can be synthesized with intuition, you don't completely know what you can make. Even though apple juice made from tap water and apples, shown to the shaking nights before, can be expected, the result is not certain. However, if you have made something once in a clan clan, you know how to get the synthetic results.
It also helped in the synthesis exercised at the earlier speech, but here again it lives up to it.
Colorful raw stone decorated with auditorium windows, stained glass.
If you choose a blue stone from it, the blue stone changes like sand and dust and flows into the square (cube) that I have at hand.
The next ingredient to choose is a bottle with an open mouth that Kiiko was holding even as she fell down.
During the speech, it was handed out for water supply, whether it was holy water or not, but if you choose it, it is instantly absorbed into a square (cube).
Blue, transparent, mixed colors, I complete one item.
It's called "The Nucleus of Slime" + "Purified Water" in the game.
The result, of course, is not 'Emerald (Emerald) Tears' - yeah?
Hmm, "Tears of Pale Purity (Pure Blue)"? It turned out to be a bit of a different looking potion than in the game, but I could make something that would work for the purpose.
If you are satisfied with the item creation and bring your gaze to Chirali and the White Uniforms, the Blue White Tan will take control of them with ease.
Her blue and white dress flickers as she moves agile, and the only thing that remains after that sway is the look of the white uniforms getting bored.
Leave the physical attack entirely to the Blue White Tan.
I want you to remind me of what they did in the most regrettable way. Her manoeuvres are exquisite and not by the time she hunts consciousness by pain.
You should taste the pain carefully over and over again like that.
My face rubs off, the taste of blood blooms in my mouth, and all over my body screams with pain. It is a natural punishment for those who caused Evening Fai and the others such terrible wounds.
Giving a cold laughing smile to "The Skinny Silver Ice Princess" that accurately curses my will. Then she also returns it with a gentle smile of absolute zero degrees just looking at this one for a moment.
Yeah, that's fine.
"Gu, even though you are the fiancee of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, stop!
"What the heck!?
"Stay, don't do anything to break this!
However, some of the white uniforms demonstrated human discrete physical abilities and deflected blue-white tang fists with more than an Olympic gymnast.
Even the end, from the palm of his hand, to the guy who flies a small fireball like that unleashed by Mohusa, a monster of Clan Clan.
"Blue White Tan! At their feet..."
Sprouts are frozen meadows.
The clear plants that fill the foot of the white uniform grow like waves. They crawled to their ankles as tangled and sealed their movements.
In that gap, I sprinkle a potion rushing over to Shaky Night and Evening Fai.
"It's late. Are you okay?"
"Oh, thank God..."
"Ah... Huh? Er..."
Kiiko, who regained consciousness, was surprised with an indescribable look. Before she can say anything that way, a voice that can't contain frustration sounds strong.
They are also "talented (holders)" and seem to have been easy to unwind as much as the added and subtracted restraints of the Blue White Tang.
"We should put that book in the Royal Japanese Academy, which bears the thunderbolt that left our school building and sailed!
"Not to mention that if you are the wife of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who is responsible for the future of Japan, there is no question about the treatment!
Royal Japanese Academy?
If I don't get through there, what? That's why you sifted violence on Shaking Night and Evening Fai?
"Are you dealing with Shintaro?
"Between now and then, today. Who do you think sends Shintaro to school where there are people who make it easier for people to enjoy their rights?
Best friends talking about topics beyond my understanding.
Against the two, the white uniforms do not break their unscrupulous attitude as fine dust.
"Wow. Will you shield His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and us connected to Emperor Ignitore?
"Turning the whole of Japan against the enemy is the pinnacle of stupidity. It is very dangerous for the offender to serve beside the person who will be the Crown Prince's wife."
Warnings become alarms, signals of threats and violence.
That's how the enemy chant rang.
"'Big ball, burn the great revenge' -"
Yeah, that's a dialogue I've heard.
"'Wearing with thunder is a demon. Thunderlight of Kamikimaru, dwell in my arms."
Hmm, I haven't heard of this one, but from the content, is it a lightning attribute?
... I hope you don't mind.
What are you getting so hot about a story I don't know?
We should just chill out and make all these dislikes reflect.
Then I could ask my best friends.
I hope to put an end to this as soon as possible.
"Blue white tan. Shut me up completely already."
A few moments after the Blue White Tan accepted, the white uniform guys activated a dangerous ability.
"Thundernet Feichimaru!
Three looming fireballs.
Diameter and soccer ball. Large flames, if that one gets hit, it's not a free burn.
And an electric shock running through the air.
This is not a speed you can follow with your eyes for a long time, but it was only for a moment that the light was dazzled by stretches to several muscles.
What clashes with them playing a fierce explosion sound is the more than a thousand ice needles produced by Blue White Tan.
Hundreds of flying needles do not gain momentum and instantly swallow the abilities of the white uniforms.
And the way we're going, of course, is with their bodies.
Bad, I overdid it.
That needle sticks all over my body as it is.
It could be a tragedy that's not where the major injuries are, a tragedy that will cost your life if you do poorly.
Right after he went on a tour and tried to scream, "Put a thousand needles in the blue white,"
The blast fell (...) above the sky and came.
The turbulence of fire pours down like a curtain below heaven, so as to envelop all the thousand needles that skewer life.
Everyone on the spot was overwhelmed by the clever feat of extinguishing only that thousand needles. That was no exception to me, and I was nothing short of a heat wave full of vision.
That's how he grips all of the paranormal, and one boy flutters down at that point where the flames whirl but end.
A person who elegantly softens burning red hair and wears a fine white fabric blazer. Around him lies the remnants of the earlier flame... a flame in the shape of a wolf drifts brilliantly as it releases burrs and plasma.
When the boy groaned so, the flaming wolf magically melted into the void and disappeared.
I was distraught to see how it was going. Together, but especially the guys in the white uniform are severely upset.
"Why is His Highness... in a place like this..."
The white uniforms show respect for him with their flat-headed work, shifting from their earlier unsatisfactory attitude.
That should be it too, the red-haired boy wears the same uniform as them... because he's the one who just met me face-to-face the other day.
"You can't hurt my fiancee."
He has a sweet grin on his neat face, but no gentle light on his eyes. Some of those sharp-eyed white uniforms seem to be constricting.
Things no one can anticipate.
To the sudden arrival of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince... should my spearhead of anger be directed at him?
Anyway, I couldn't hide the upset.
I Became a Beautiful Girl, but I’m still an MMO Junkie
美少女になったけど、ネトゲ廃人やってます。
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