Campione! - Volume 19 - Chapter 4.5

Part 5 

Alec activated his godspeed and quickly approached Madam Aisha. 

Next he firmly grasped her shoulder with one hand and then rushed away like that. In short Alexander Gascoigne decisively kidnapped someone using the essentials of a thief snatching purse. 

『Kyaaaaaaaaah』 

Madam Aisha screamed. 

Because it became hard to listen to sound in the middle of using godspeed, the sound sounded excessively stiffened. 

But he didn’t pay that any attention and dashed away. Even while grasping a single woman with standard body built, the authority of godspeed was lightening one’s own body and the baggage with terrifying rate. 

(Earthquake?) 

The ground was starting to shake in violent pulsation. 

That means――Alec took a glance to the sky. Just as he thought, a jet black giant bird was flying to somewhere. It was the shapeshifting body of John Pluto Smith. 

The compensation for changing into that form was『injuring the ground by earthquake』. 

When he looked at the direction where his family from Japanese and America were at, there was even a giant boar manifesting there. It appeared the devil king that came from Los Angeles transformed to oppose that. Well. 

(It’s suspicious though, just how long the『united front』that guy proposed can be maintained.) 

Currently the eyes of Alec who was activating godspeed were catching the surrounding as though everything was in slow motion. 

Whether it was the flight of the demonic bird, and the fiercely shaking earth, and also the panicking crowd of people. 

Yes. The people that were crowding Odaiba were in panic from the sudden appearance of giant beast and the earthquake, all of them were about to simultaneously escape in chaos. 

At this time, Alec arrived in front of the station while still grasping the madam. 

Parking lot that was too spacious, commercial building that was stupidly large, a model that reproduced a famous robot from Japan anime in its actual size, this area was a gathering of all those. 

Regardless of the time being evening of a weekday, a crowd of people in the count of thousand had come to this area. 

It seemed that they had came here evacuating to a wide area seeking place to escape. 

Of course, if it was someone with Alec’s godspeed, then weaving through people while carrying a woman as baggage was just like a child’s play. However. 

Madam Aisha suddenly began to resist. 

『Ple, please release me Alec-san!』 

Kicking and struggling――she was not, in exchange she was heightening her magical power. 

The body of the madam immediately separated from the hand of the sprinting Alec. 

Yes. rather than physical strength, one should rely more on magical power at time when they wanted to escape from a person that moved in godspeed. It was the essentials when opposing magic or divine power. 

Alec immediately stopped his feet and turned off his godspeed. 

The whole surrounding that was moving in slow motion was also coming back wholly to normal speed. 

「Ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch…….」 

The Aisha in question was thrown away on asphalt. 

As the result of escaping from Alec who was moving in high speed, it was the same like jumping off from a moving car, she got knocked on the road and ended up rolling on the road. 

Even so she ended up with only saying『ouch』, that was the bullshit of a Campione. 

「Well, in the end a godspeed is『the power to shorten the travel time』. It doesn’t mean that I raise my physical speed, so even if you jump away it doesn’t amount to much.」 

Alec murmured while walking toward the madam’s position. 

「Regardless of your external appearance, but as expected from an old veteran with long history. You are experienced in many aspects. You really understand well about the troublesomeness of the godspeed ability.」 

「I, I think that kind of remark is not good, Alec-san!」 

「……Why? I am just paying respect to the battle career that you has walked through until now am I not?」 

「You cannot do that-. Is Alec-san having fun in bullying me!? 」 

「I don’t especially have the intention of bullying you but……. I am merely doing what have to be done for the sake of the objective of removing you forcefully――」 

「Geez! Alec-san you blockhead! You are the enemy of woman! 」 

The ground was still shaking irregularly. The intensity might be 3 Richter. 

The earthquake was caused by Smith’s transformation, so it should calm down soon. 

Amidst that, Alec was accompanying the angry Madam Aisha having a talk that was lacking in dignity that was fitting for devil king. There he shuddered. 

The plaza where a robot model with total height of 18 meter was placed on――. 

The crowd that evacuated to this place, was a few thousand people. 

They who were clamoring at the surrounding for some reason were glaring at Alexander Gascoigne who shouldn’t have no relation at all with them, they were sending him a gaze of hatred! 

(He is that beautiful woman’s――enemy) 

(He is saying, he is going to remove a woman that frail?) 

(Enemy of woman. Enemy of woman. Enemy of woman. Enemy of woman……) 

(Unforgivable! A man that is bullying that person, is absolutely absolutely unforgivable!) 

‘I see!’ The instant Alec noticed, he turned on his godspeed once more. 

He sprinted and weaved through between the crowd, dashed up the wall of a huge commercial building, and reached the rooftop instantly. 

And then he turned off the godspeed once more, immediately after that, 

「Where has that person go!?」 

「Catch him and make him prostrate himself! He has to apologize!」 

「That’s too lukewarm-. We need to hand him over to the police――no! It should be okay to kill him!」 

「Let’s torture him! Make him regret he was ever born!」 

「Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!」 

「That man is enemy of woman. In other words he is a man that has turned half of human race into enemy. Erase him from this world as soon as he is found!」 

The yell of the people turned into angry roar that echoed to heaven. 

The majority of the people here were Japanese. They should be people that were merely living with carefree feeling, unrelated to any sense of danger in this peaceful country. 

Yet regardless of that fact, urge to kill and mania were gushing out from them. 

The earthquake was already ending. But, the people didn’t even care about that――. 

「The devilishness of Madam Aisha, what dreadfulness.」 

Alec keenly realized it while looking down at the angry mob. 

Devil king Aisha’s――charm authority was so easily able of overwriting the feeling of the people like this! Furthermore it was done almost instantly! 

「『The unsatisfactory feeling』the madam displayed to me just now. That woman was acting like that, so it was hard to notice but……it seems that she is really being serious huh.」 

Though he was still being unclear, just what was his action that was making the madam feeling displeased. 

Just by Madam Aisha showing her serious displeasure openly, the crowd was sympathizing with that feeling and they behaved as a devotee of the bewitching lady……. 

Alec used the magic of『sight reinforcement』. It was so he could observe the ground in more detail. 

Right after that he was assaulted with even more shock. 

「He is over there you guys!」 

「Catch him, hurry!」 

Several of the crowd pointed at the rooftop. 

They caught sight of Alec who escaped there. The building had 21 floors. Its height should be around sixty, seventy meter, despite that the crowd was able to sight him without telescope. 

「Does a Bedouin with eyesight of 5.0 happen to be among 

them……」 

Of course that wasn’t it. Alec immediately comprehended it. 

The bunches that pointed at him were people that could be found everywhere in Japan. There was even a person among them that was wearing glasses. 

Most likely the authority of charm was――reinforcing their body. 

To test it he tried to use not his Campione authority, but a magic of『magic power detection』. 

From all the people that were swarming below, all member of the crowd that numbered more than a thousand, he could sense wave of magic power welling up from them all. Alec nodded. 

「In addition they are even preparing weapons.」 

Some people of the crowd were snapping off tree branch at the roadside, to use them as improvised club. 

In addition, they were swinging the weapon with familiar movement. A plump salary man who didn’t look like he was doing sport or martial arts was swinging his club sharply that it made *bun!* sound. It wasn’t as skilled as a master could do, but that motion looked polished enough for a warrior. 

There were also people that picked stone from the roadside and made throwing motion. 

Of course it must be for the sake of throwing the stone to Alec. 

「Charming crowd of average people that can be found anywhere in the world just within a few seconds, changing them into an army of devotee that won’t even balk to die or cause massacre if it is for the sake of queen Aisha…….Most likely the eyesight is only the beginning, even their physical ability and fighting skill are also strengthened――」 

A fearsome charm authority. By any chance this might be the original way of using this authority. 

Because Madam Aisha was gentle by nature, she didn’t use this power that could even perform mass brainwashing except for 『broadening her circle of friend』……. 

The crowd began to charge toward the building, each of them scrambling to be the first. 

Surely they were trying to rush until the rooftop to attack Alec. It appeared that Madam Aisha didn’t particularly give any instruction or anything, and left the angry crowd to act by themselves. 

Was she intending to commence a plan of erasing Alec by taking advantage of this riot? 

「Well, that is hardly possible thinking about that lady’s personality.」 

After murmuring that, he turned on his godspeed once more. 

In order to chase after the madam’s whereabouts, he leaped down lightly from the rooftop. 

At the same time Alec sent a telepathy. He had arranged for helper in advance for the sake of the time when unexpected situation occurred. 

(This is――) 

Even after transforming into a demonic bird, John Pluto Smith’s consciousness didn’t change. 

Even while soaring at the sky of Odaiba that was dyed with dusk, the godslayer who came from Los Angeles was still working his brain. Right now he was in the middle of a showdown against Kusanagi Godou. 

(This boar, it is a demonic beast that is more troublesome than I thought.) 

Originally, a beast of land without wing should not be a match against him. 

The current Smith was a freely soaring large demonic bird. No matter how large and fierce the enemy was, it was just a beast that had no option other than sticking on ground. He only needed to attack from the sky following his whim, using his sharp claws and beaks to carve it apart. Yet despite so. 

The fierce beast that was an avatar of Verethragna howled repeatedly many times. 

Each time it did that, ultrasonic waves were emitted from the whole body of the muscularly sturdy giant boar. It was a cannon shot of sure kill, aiming at the demonic bird peeking for a chance to attack from the sky. 

OOOOOOOooooooNNNN-! 

OOOOOOOOoooooooNNNNN-! 

OOOOOOOOOooooooooNNNNNN-! 

On top of accurate aim, it could fire consecutively. Its might for anti air cannon fire had nothing that could be criticized. Furthermore even while the black giant boar was rampaging on the reclaimed land of Odaiba, cutting a swath through the lining up marine transportations and logistics warehouses, it was easily continuing its supersonic waves attack. 

Smith was thinking while escaping around the sky. 

(It doesn’t look like I can expect it to run out of bullet or stamina.) 

Smith=demonic bird was riding the updraft air current like a swallow riding the sea breeze, moving left and right swayingly leaving it to the wind, at times he did acrobatic maneuver midair like folding his wings and freefalling and so on, evading somehow the supersonic waves bombardment from the ground. 

(Then) 

KUeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-! 

「Smoke vomiting mirror, the omen of Tezcatlipoca!」 

While traversing right overhead the『Boar』skimming the low altitude on the ground――from the beak of the demonic bird, words of power and――poisonous smoke was unleashed. 

It was a demonic poison mist. 

This mist would instantly dissolve even the earth’s biggest mammalian the blue whale. 

However, this too was blown away by the『Boar』’s supersonic waves and it got away totally unscathed. 

(Even if I continue the confrontation of land versus air like this, it will be difficult to conquer this opponent, huh……) 

Smith couldn’t be associated with foolishness of repeating attack without likelihood of success. 

While cutting through the sky of dusk with his demonic bird shapeshifting, he discovered the suitable raw material. If he was in his human form, then he must be smiling behind his mask. 

(That’s just right. Let’s use that.) 

Later on it felt like even Annie Charlton would threw sarcastic comment to him. 

Even while having such prediction, Smith=demonic bird accelerated toward a famous spot of Odaiba. Coastal subcenter and Koutou ward’s Wakasu――the two reclaimed land were connected by a suspension bridge above Tokyo Bay. 

Its total length was 2.6 kilometer. Its width was 24 meter. It seemed that it was called as Tokyo Gate Bridge. 

It was also famous as a spot to view the night scenery of this bay area. 

(Well, perhaps someone other than Annie will also complaint to me for this.) 

He didn’t really mind that. This would be an offering that was given for the sake of resolving a great incident that might develop to world destruction. It was a necessary sacrifice. A small sacrifice in a great cause. As one of the players that was fighting in a game with gods as the enemy, Smith threw the dice really indifferently. 

「Flesh that is delicacy of offering, eat the part that is delicacy……now is the time I become god!」 

That was the words of power in order to transform. 

Black cloud――thunder cloud covered the sky of dusk in the blink of eye which released a single streak of lightning. The large bridge at the lower world that was struck with that was completely enveloped in flame altogether in less than a moment. 

As a bridge it had an extraordinary totale length that surpassed two kilometer. It was a splendidly huge man-made structure. 

Smith=demonic bird charged straight toward the blazing gate bridge. 

「That guy, doing that without hesitation……」 Godou sighed in front of the preposterous view. 

The exit and entrance of Tokyo Bay that connected toward Pacific Ocean. 

The Tokyo Gate Bridge that spanned there was burning. The whole bridge with total length of 2.6 kilometer was heartily blazing up, engulfed in crimson flame. 

There was something that was standing up from inside that conflagration. 

It was a jet-black giant. Its skin was the color of darkness, its whole body was burly. And then, the long cloth that it wore in place of clothes was so colorful with three colors of red, yellow, and black. 

However only its right leg was created from obsidian. 

It was shouldering a wooden tube that was filled with several spears, its head decorated with turkey feather. 

It was truly an unusually shaped giant. The shapeshift body『 Archmage』. 

The giant that boasted as the strongest form of John Pluto Smith――it jumped down from the blazing up gate bridge with unexpected agility. 

And then it stood imposingly on the sea. It didn’t sink into the sea water. 

The giant with total height of ten-odd meter, and weight of forty, fifty ton was……! 

This must also be an outrageous work of magic power. Smith offered Tokyo Gate Bridge as sacrifice in order to transform himself into the “Sacred Giant”. 

「Can’t be helped. Beat up that guy!」 

OOOOOOOOooooooooOOOOOONNN-! 

Godou’s instruction was directed toward the『Boar』, 

The giant beast that was in the middle of rampaging toward Wakasu area where the gate bridge was located responded with joyful howl. 

In the first place he summoned it by imagining the full size model of a famous mobile suits while thinking『You can do as you please with the big thing in front of the station, so come!』. 

However, the ferocious fifth avatar of Verethragna immediately agreed to the objective change. 

It was a beast that would choose a target with great vitality if it was going to destroy something anyway. 

Thus, a few minutes later. 

At the reclaimed land of the center breakwater――on the map it was the center of Odaiba while also an area of continuously sprawling empty land, there a giant beast and a giant encountered each other. 

OOOOoooooooooooooOOOOOONNN=! 

The moment they met, the『Boar』launched its supersonic waves. 

The『Archmage』quickly swung its left hand and brushed away the invisible bullet. It seemed that protective magic power was residing in that hand. 

In turn the giant drew out a spear from its back and threw it, which was quickly evaded to the side by the『Boar』. 

The spearhead smashed onto the ground, then the spear of the evil god Tezcatlipoca caused an explosion which scattered crimson flame and shockwave around, but it was completely meaningless. 

After both sides’ flying projectile ended up in failure, they flung themselves into each other into a grapple――. 

GAaaaaaN! 

Flesh against flesh, the thunderous sound of a clash between two large masses roared in the reclaimed land. 

Even when the ferocious『Boar』used its specialty the body charge with the tusks on its snout stabbing forward, the『 Archmage』skillfully dodged like an excellent wrestling athlete, it then grappled the side of the enemy’s neck in the attempt to bring in the enemy into a guillotine choke. The『 Boar』shook that off……. 

It was an even grappling match. 

Godou was watching over that situation from the wharf. 

There was a bit too much distance for him to go to the actual site. He couldn’t immediately arrive there even if he ran. Rather than doing that he ought to send magic power and instruction from here. The『Boar』that could also be said as his other self didn’t seem losing against Smith’s shapeshift body. 

That was why he had no leeway to go away from this spot to search for Madam Aisha. 

As for the most important person that was taken away by Black Prince Alec――. 

「If it’s Erica and Liliana, and also Mariya, then it will work out somehow……that’s all that I can say huh.」 

Godou was enduring his uneasiness while murmuring the name of his companions.