Campione! - Volume 19 - Chapter 5.3

Part 3 

Faint talking voices could be heard. 

Aisha still wasn’t fully awake. Her awareness and body were heading toward awakening, but she was still a step behind genuine awareness. While mumbling ‘munya munya’ thinking she would sleep just a little bit more, she listened to the dialogue that was exchanged right beside her and heard the story. 

――She is still sleeping so easygoing like this huh. She really has guts. 

――That’s because she completely believes in Godou. Fufu-. She didn’t even notice our ulterior motive. 

――It’s different matter if she still have value that can be used……but if even the war gods have came out, then she is nothing more but a burden. I have a counsel, my king. 

――What is it Liliana? 

――I think that it will be time to cut her off soon. Please make your decision. 

――If you like, how about I be the one to get rid of her? 

――No Erica. I’ll do it. It’s not really that big deal anyway. 

――Please hurry, Kusanagi Godou. I have a premonition. The other Campiones and war gods……perhaps they will return any time soon……. 

――Then, let’s quickly kill her. 

「E, everyone. Every one of you are talking about terrible things like bad guy, just what are you all intending to do!?」 Aisha jumped to her feet in a flash while yelling. 

It was a snowy mountain in winter. She had been leaning on a tree trunk until now, sleeping there. 

There was Erica Blandelli right beside her. Liliana Krancjar was there. They were girls who had been in hardships together with her at the ancient Gallia. Yet despite so. 

The two girl were directing extremely cold gaze at Aisha. 

And then her godslayer comrade – Kusanagi Godou too――was also there. 

「Godou-san!? Wha, what in the world is that!?」 

「Tsk-. You should have just sleep a little bit longer.」 

Of all things, the Japanese young man was holding a large katana. 

The blade was black with length about a meter more or less. The shape resembled Japanese katana, but it was obviously a divine tool. Actually Aisha too was familiar with that thing because she had seen it several times. 

Kusanagi Godou and Seishuuin Ena called it『Ame no Murakumo no Tsurugi』……. 

「That sword, it should be buried under the ground of Odaiba!? 」 

「This place is Okutama see. It’s still inside the same Tokyo metropolis. When I thought『come』toward Odaiba, it came flying here with absurd speed.」 

「Wh, why, are you with such dangerous thing!?」 

「About that, Aisha-san.」 

Kusanagi Godou grinned broadly. That soft, coaxing voice, it was just like『the wolf that disguised itself as the grandma, about to eat the red riding hood-chan』―― 

「It’s to erase you from this world. From the beginning I intended to look for an opening and lop off your head while you are sleeping.」 

「Hiiiiiiiiih!?」 

*chaki-!* Kusanagi Godou pointed the tip of the black divine sword toward Aisha! 

「Yo, you were deceiving me!? How cruel!」 

「You are the one who is bad. Even though I thought of making it as painless as possible while you are sleeping, yet you were the one who woke up as you please.」 

「But Godou. Isn’t this better than dying without knowing anything?」 

「It’s just as Erica says. She too has the right to know. Even if she will fall asleep for eternity only one minute later.」 

「Even Erica-san and Liliana-san too!?」 

How terrible. Aisha was overwhelmed badly. 

In front of the ill will and bloodlust of the people she believed in, despair was welling up in her heart. Her body was trembling fiercely, and tears were also overflowing from her eyes. 

Even now midair great decisive battle was continuing above in the sky. 

When John Pluto Smith that became a black demonic bird spat out mist of deadly poison from his beak, the white divine monkey Hanuman raised a whirlwind and blew it away. 

It was offense and defense that happened while both sides were flying around the night sky with fierce speed. 

Fundamentally, Hanuman was chasing around the back of the escaping demonic bird. Just like he proclaimed before this, he was planning to tear off the wings. 

Seiten Taisei and the young Alec’s battle wasn’t visible. 

However, they should be competing with each other somewhere in this mountain as though contesting who was the fastest. 

Even though Aisha had been working this hard, but the godslayers were still unable to overcome the chain of hatred and conflict. 

And then right now, Kusanagi Godou was approaching her with a divine sword in hand――. 

「Now, it’s fine already isn’t it Aisha-san. You can close your eyes.」 

「N, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-!」 

A yell that came from despair. And then fury. A fury toward the irrationality. 

Aisha thought. 

If all the gods and godlsayers were gone, perhaps all conflict would disappear from this world, she thought. 

It was at that moment. The sky that was still reddish black――inside the canvas where stars and moon of winter were twinkling, jet black hole appeared gaping wide open. 

That was of course, the『Fairy’s Corridor』. 

The mysterious cave for surpassing space-time. The passing gate that swallowed in all the people nearby. 

Its size was unprecedentedly huge. Its diameter might reach a few hundred meters. Furthermore this time, the area around its entrance was―― 

Infested with layers of rose vines, blooming with colorful flowers. 

Red rose, white rose, pale pink, blue, violet, yellow, orange……. It might be matching the size of the cave, that the rose flowers and also the vines were terrifyingly gigantic. 

They surrounded the passage opened in the sky in a circle, turning into a first-rate decoration. 

And then, the absorption force that was released from this mysterious hole was――unprecedentedly strong, downpouring toward the Kumotori Mountain below! 

The groundwork that was『The maximum bad and good fortune that could possibly happen』had been prepared beforehand. 

In addition, Aisha’s despair and fury became the trigger that completed the unheard-of article which was the sky passage. 

Lancelot went down from her beloved horse and drew out her sword. 

It was for the sake of crossing swords with Perseus who was wielding a scimitar to their heart’s content. 

「Fufufufu. It seems your breathing is getting quicker isn’t it, Perseus-dono!」 

「Hah, I’m just thinking that it’s immature to defeat a lovely 

maiden right away. When I was holding back, my shoulders turned stiff like this. That’s all there is to it!」 

Just like Lancelot pointed out, there was no composure at Perseus’s face and exhalation. 

While his exhaustion was obvious, his speech was still eloquent until the end. He dodged Lancelot’s sword and desperately slashed back with his scimitar. 

「Please don’t be concerned and continue as you are, o ruler of Amazon!」 

「I’ll comply with that, man who came from the east!」 

The arena where the two were crossing swords was at the bottom of the crater. 

The crater was gouged out by the first attack from the sky. Just a while ago it was a spot at the vicinity of Kumotori Mountain’s summit. The mountain with height of 2017 meter above sea level was now scraped off by 100 meter, with a large crater that was like the caldera of a volcano created on the top. 

「My bad but noble art like holding back is too difficult for a ruffian like Lancelot. I shall go all out to defeat you. Don’t hold a grudge!」 

「Fuh……-. Obviously!」 

Lancelot mercilessly sent incessant onslaught toward the nice guy who was acting tough. 

The double-edged long sword in her right hand hammered like lightning with sword art that was derived from Scythae and Amazon, it was swung around like wind. Her protection could be just left to her armor and the shield on her left hand. Attack, attack, attacking persistently was exactly the sword of Lancelot du Lac. 

The hero that was greatly renowned at Greece and Rome let the sword went past his body many times with agility that was like a white leopard while unleashing a sword counterattack. 

If he was slashed three times then he would dodge three times, and returned a deadly sword stroke. 

But, that rate of attack soon became a sword stroke for five dodging, next it became a sword stroke for seven dodging. The attacking time of Lancelot was gradually increasing. 

This was caused by the damage from Meteor Strike and the difference in reserve strength of the two. 

Perseus was revived due to the grace of《Arrowhead’s Discus》. The vitality and magical power that were supplied by that divine tool was his energy source. Furthermore he was sharing that with Seiten Taisei――. 

In contrast, the war god of spear could fight with full power if it was just ten minutes. 

The gap between them resulted from that. However, it was unknown whether Perseus knew about that mechanism or not. With Perseus’s brave persistence, the remaining time of the white war god――was actually almost running out. 

It was at that time the『Fairy’s Corridor』appeared at the sky. 

Its eeriness and hugeness was as though a second moon had appeared at the reddish black night sky. 

「What inauspiciousness……」 

The hero of sun groaned in the middle of locking swords with the white knight. 

On the other hand, Lancelot who was serving the side that caused this phenomenon murmured with small volume. 

「It’ll be soon.」 

It was fine already to leave Perseus alone. She erased her physical body. 

She returned into a guardian spirit once more in order to return to Kusanagi Godou’s side. As for Perseus, without even any time to be surprised with his enemy’s flight, he and his physical body were captured by the absorption force. 

Yes. By the sucking power of the mysterious sky corridor. 

Moreover――the whole surface of the ground inside the crater was beginning to shine gold! 

「Oo!?」 

Even the sturdy body of the hero was wrapped in faint golden light, ascending toward the sky. 

It was as though angels were coming to welcome the warrior who was tired of war――it was a gentle and sublime scene of hero’s ascension. 

「Just what is the meaning of this!?」 

Small fairies were grinning friendlily around the faint light of absorption power. 

They were young boy and girl with wings growing on their back. Their size was about the same with small bird. Everyone had westerner features. Perhaps there were twelve or thirteen of them. 

Ufufufu. Fufuh. Fufufufu. Ahahahaha. 

All of them were carrying Perseus to the hole of the sky with happy and kind faces. 

(Kukukuku. Doing nothing but running away right from the start――) 

Seiten Taisei – Son Goku was laughing. 

It would be futile with using godspeed for a speed battle only at sky. Alec returned from his lightning form to his flesh body and used even the geography and mountain vegetation as distraction and kept running away. 

Not only Kumotori Mountain, they even used the surrounding mountains as the arena for playing tag. 

The great monkey king of China pursued the escaping Alec. 

They were slipping into mountain, weaving through forest trees, jumping over valley, and even used the water surface of mountain stream as route in their cat-and-mouse race――. It had been continuing like that all this time. 

(From how you look, you seem weak at open and square battle.) 

Currently Alec was in the middle of sprinting from the ridge of small Kumotori Mountain toward the foot of Nanatsu’ishi Mountain. Seiten Taisei was speaking provocatively while steadily running right behind. 

(I’ll get bored of this race soon. I’ll catch you and give you a remake.) 

(Hmph. Say whatever you want.) Alec scoffed while running. 

He wasn’t particularly agitated. He had seen the bottom of Seiten Taisei from long ago. 

It appeared this iron headed and copper bodied war god was sharing power with Perseus――. Soon it would be a good time to finish him off. 

Actually during the race, the great sage had attacked him several times. 

He changed the geography of the mountain using divine power in the attempt to block Alec’s path. He also enlarged himself until he covered the sky trying to imprison the flying Alec inside his body, and so on. 

Each time Alec just barely pulled through. 

Alexander Gascoigne’s godspeed wasn’t just fast. 

He would suddenly or slowly dropped his speed that was equal with lightning, to delay his timing of arrival in front of the Seiten Taisei that was waiting in ambush. He would escape from the enemy’s devilish hand using four dimensional maneuver that manipulated not just speed but also time. 

However, if the great sage was in the condition like when he manifested at Nikkou―― 

Alec shouldn’t be able to endure continuously until this far. 

After all Alec was tackling multitask challenge where he was running around Kumotori Mountain while thoroughly carefully surveying the surrounding terrain. It was in order to prepare『The Great Labyrinth』in this area. 

The authority to instantly create labyrinth that he usurped from god Minos. 

In the case he was setting it not underground or indoor, but at the surface, he actually couldn’t use it if he didn’t know about the place well. Now there was no more need to continue his preliminary inspection. Alec nodded. 

(After the monkey is locked inside the labyrinth, I can do as I please then.) 

He could capture the enemy like that, and he could also reuse it later on. 

He could also place『Goddess of Revenge』somewhere in the labyrinth before guiding the enemy there. The moment Seiten Taisei launched the blow to defeat Alec, Seiten Taisei would end up receiving it himself. 

In any case, victory was already in front of his eye――was how it supposed to be. 

(!?) 

(What the hell is this!?) 

The ground, the trees, the river, were starting to shine gold. 

Furthermore even Alec and Seiten Taisei who were dashing in godspeed were being enveloped in faint golden light and they began to lightly ascend to the sky! 

Moreover, their ascending speed was unexpectedly fast. 

In the blink of eye they had been carried until the height higher than Kumotori Mountain’s summit which was turned into crater. 

The towering mountain range that spanned over both region of 

Okutama and Chichibu――Kumotori Mountain, small Kumotori Mountain, Nanatsu’ishi Mountain, and so on, the whole region was shining with golden light altogether. 

But, the destination they were heading toward was far higher above. 

Floating in the reddish black night sky――was a mysterious hole. It was so gigantic that it could be mistaken as moon. The surrounding of the entrance was decorated with roses. 

(There are even fairies appearing!?) 

There were thirteen fairies appearing around Alec too. 

Ufufufu. Fufuh. Fufufufu. Ahahahaha. They were laughing carefreely and optimistically. Their smiling faces looked as though they weren’t thinking anything. 

「Then!」 

Alec transformed his body into lightning. 

Thanks to his physical body vanishing, the absorption force toward the sky also vanished for a moment, he became free. At that instant, he flew right below without any hesitation. 

He descended in a straight line as lightning. He guessed that he was around the mountain side of Nanatsu’ishi Mountain. 

「Before the mansion of confusion――o traveler, abandon your hope!」 

The Black Prince laid out the authority of『Great Labyrinth』in this area and changed it into his barrier. 

He made the mountain into a labyrinth of “forest of no return” with the intention of hiding at the deepest part. It was a desperate measure in order to escape from the enigmatic absorption force. 

Well, he guessed that eight or nine cases out of ten this phenomenon must be related with Madam Aisha though――. 

John Pluto Smith and white monkey god Hanuman. 

Even the two great men having showdown in the sky were captured by the absorption force of the sky corridor. 

The gigantic demonic bird and also the divine giant body of the white monkey god were carried to the sky all alike. Enveloped in faint golden light, while they were being watched over by laughing small fairies……. 

「A gate that sends even this me to underworld! As always Madam Aisha is dreadful!」 

「Don’t tell me this is, what I once saw――」 

Smith was praising in his demonic bird form while the enlarged Hanuman was gazing in astonishment. 

Perseus and also Seiten Taisei were similarly in the middle of being beckoned to the sky. Alec’s figure couldn’t be seen anywhere in the sky, it was unclear if it was because he was absorbed quicker, or because he had escaped using some kind of method. 

And then, there were also Campiones who were remaining calmly on the ground. 

It was Kusanagi Godou. Erica and Liliana were also together with him. There was also Madam Aisha right beside them sitting in a daze on the ground with her waist bereaved of strength. 

The place they were at was at a corner of the mountain trail of Kumotori Mountain. 

The ground at that area was also shining in golden light, a group of small fairies was even advancing toward there in order to carry Godou and others to the sky. 

But, Godou had the trump card to reject that. The『Spell Words of Sword』. 

「A long time ago, in the land of eternal youth(Tír na nÓg)) where fairies were living, there was a princess called Niamh.」 

Several thousand light spheres the size of a fist were flying around Godou and others. 

All of those were『Sword』. The future of beloved lover was snatched away in unforeseen shape due to love and narcissism――these swords were for cutting apart the beautiful goddess of that event. 

「The one that the beautiful princess loved was a human. A member of knight order Fianna and also a poet, Oisín. Both of them fell in love and set off together to the country of eternal youth, where they lived in happiness.」 

Madam Aisha’s authority the『Fairy’s Corridor』. 

Godou narrated regarding the god who was the original owner of that authority. It was the knowledge that was granted from Liliana to him along with Erica just now. 

「But three years later, Oisín that was driven by homesickness returned home to his birth place. At that time when he dismounted from the white horse that his lover Niamh made him rode, the moment his feet touched the ground――he became an old man. Three hundred years of time had passed in the world.」 

It resembled Urashima Tarou in Japan, a stereotyped folktale. 

Right now Godou was putting that story outline to use as『 Sword』. Yes. This was exactly the words of power for the sake of cutting apart the queen of the country of eternal youth, the golden haired Niamh. 

「In the end the rapidly aging Oisín became ashes and vanished……. And then, the authority of Aisha-san that force one into time travel. Originally it was the power used by Queen Niamh for the sake of bringing her lover to the country of fairy! 」 

The several thousand light spheres that Godou created. 

Their radiances were now turning into protection method to protect their body from the mysterious hole in the sky――from the『Fairy’s Corridor』. Several thousand『Swords』were twinkling while staying permanently around Godou and others, continuously cutting apart the terrific absorption force to protect them. 

「Ku, Kusanagi-san……」 

Madam Aisha sat down on the ground with a flop, unable to stand up from astonishment. 

She was staring in puzzlement at the rampage of her authority, and the gods and Campiones who were dragged into that, and then of Godou’s brilliant response to it. 

「Were you aiming for this, that you were――pretending of wanting to kill me?」 

「I didn’t know that it will become like this though. I was just preparing so it will be fine even if the power of the corridor run wild. It helped that it’s going well.」 

「Actually I was worried about Godou and Lily’s acting ability.

」 

The one who slipped out a chuckle was Erica whose acting was preeminently skillful. 

If compared to the blonde haired beautiful girl who was shrewd in everything, certainly Godou and also Liliana could only do a play like a mere ham actor. 

「I was shocked that you two made a good performance surpassing my imagination. Madam Aisha was also deceived thoroughly.」 

「That so. Everyone, you all looked like bad guy.」 

「……Well, even I can do it sometimes.」 

「……Yes. And there are also various things until now which gave that kind of thought.」 

「Heh?」 

「Please don’t pay attention to that, madam. Just now was just a figure of speech.」 

Liliana sleekly said that after blurting out something fishy. 

Madam Aisha still sat down on the ground powerlessly while letting out「Haa」in wonder. 

By the way in Godou’s case, perhaps his source of success was because of this and that which he recalled before the acting. He recalled the various things this self-proclaimed seventeen years old maiden had “perpetrated” and also Doni’s eccentric behavior. Thanks to that he was able to naturally grasp the state of mind of『If only these bunches doesn’t exist』. By any chance perhaps Liliana too……. 

「Well, putting that aside.」 

Godou changed the topic a little bit abruptly. 

「Let’s put the last finishing touch. After all looks like those bunches are still struggling vainly.」 

Mysterious large hole was floating right above Kumotori Mountain. 

The hole was around 500 meter further above the mountain summit that was 2017 meters above the sea level. Due to the guidance of the mysterious absorption force and the fairies, the king of the underworld of Los Angeles and the subordinates of Rama were beckoned to the sky and they were about to be swallowed……. 

In order to assist with the swallowing, Godou stabbed Ame no Murakumo no Tsurugi to the ground. 

「By the way Aisha-san. That hole, where is it connecting to?」 

「I, I don’t know! But, I think it’s connecting to really far away. It might be a past far removed from our era――or possibly, another world of far beyond……」 

Although she did this unconsciously, but it was still the instinct of the creator herself. 

He wanted to think that she wouldn’t be off the point that much. Believing in that, Godou yelled. 

「Borrowing the art of the goddess of dawn――raise a storm, Ame no Murakumo!」