Campione! - Volume Ex - Chapter 1.3

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Two hours later after they parted from Princess Alice.

Dusk was currently approaching in the sky. Liliana Kranjcar and Seishuuin Ena rented a car and drove it through London suburbs.

It was Liliana who was holding the wheel. Ena was on the passenger seat.

It went without saying that London was a big metropolis, but the greenery was increasing around this area.

If they continued driving like this, sooner or later they would reach the area where the rural landscape would continue on and on. There would be vast grassland, fields, and the sporadic forests stretching out everywhere.

But, today they had no intention to go that far. Liliana spoke while driving.

「And what Prince Alec spoke about……」

「Yep. He expressly came until Japan and taught us various things.」

Ena was speaking about it once more.

Several days ago, Alexander Gascoigne lectured them for a time. The gist of its content was──.

『Just as you know, I was traveling around all over the diverse worlds.』

『Diverse worlds──speaking in SF term it would be the parallel words. Compared to our earth, those worlds only consisted of world that 「walked a different history」. A world after Jesus Christ wasn’t crucified, A world where alien attacked when World War 2 was going on……. Well, among them there was also world with only difference that was still within the measurement error but, let’s set that aside.』

『It was from quite a while ago. The parallel world that I visited ended up encountering space distortion frequently. It’s the outbreak of gate that is connected to the mythological world.』

『Yes. Just like what I’ve pointed out, the space distortion is similar with Madam Aisha’s “corridor”.』

『Furthermore, actually there is also other point that can’t be ignored──』

Liliana finally stopped the car.

They arrived at a private property of a certain Britain noble.

But, it was also just an empty lot. Green meadow and grove of mixed trees, a bit of hill, etc, they were all dyed orange by the evening sunset──.

Ena spoke as soon as she got out of the car.

「There is nothing here.」

「But, in the past there was a mansion that was built here. Furthermore, this is the place where a world event that couldn’t be recorded in history book openly happened.」

「Yep. In that mansion three Campiones met together.」

「Furthermore it was Madam Aisha, Marquis Voban, sect master Luo Hao──the devil kings of the old generation……」

It seemed to be an occurrence at year 1850.

It was said that it was at the blizzard night. As the result of three devil kings fighting among themselves unleashing their authority fully, the mansion was erased without any trace, furthermore──

A gate toward the fairy boundary opened.

The domain that Liliana and other human magicians called as Astral World/the Boundary of the Life & Immortality.

Madam Aisha who was sucked by this gate arrived at the land of fairy boundary. There she defeated the queen of the country of eternal youth Niamh and obtained the authority the Fairy Corridor.

That must be why. Right now at the mansion’s former site where Liliana and Ena were at──

「A corridor connected to the country of everlasting youth existed. But, according to the Witenagemot’s investigation even that had been completely terminated a long time ago.」

「The princess also said that this is the only corridor near London didn’t she?」

「And then, most likely it was also the oldest corridor. This place is the optimum place to verify whether Prince Alec’s hypothesis is correct or not.」

Liliana and Ena nodded to each other.

There was still a continuation to Prince Alec’s report. He also said this.

『A world that is falsely similar with our earth. That’s why it’s a parallel world though.』

『The arrival points of the space distortions that appeared all over in such world──that’s the problem.』

『Actually those points, they’re the location where the corridor of Madam Aisha in our world should be at. There is no way it can be considered as coincidence. ……I can’t guess at all just what is happening, but something is absolutely in the middle of happening.』

『Luckily, space distortion still hasn’t appeared in our earth.』

『However, it’s too optimistic to think that it will continue like that.』

『If you go look at “the place where Madam Aisha messed up something” in the past, there might be a gate toward the mythological world coming into being before long.』

The sun had also completely set when they noticed. It had become night.

The light of sunset was only remaining slightly at the far away sky. However, at the corner of the plot of land where Ena and Liliana were standing──a new light suddenly appeared.

It was a place where there wasn’t any artificial light, so the sparkling radiance was bizarrely standing out.

There countless small lights were gathering in half-spherical shape. The diameter was around ten-odd meter. It looked similar to the glittering of the nebula that decorating the night sky.

Liliana gulped.

「It looks really similar with Prince Alec’s report.」

「Yep! The gate connected to the mythological world, the space distortion──the prince said that it looks like that!」

Ena also yelled vigorously.

Furthermore, the princess shrine maiden of the sword quickly approached the light assembly.

「Wait. It’s dangerous to carelessly approach it.」

「Even so, we won’t understand anything just from watching. Besides if it’s just like the prince’s story, there shouldn’t be any particular problem even if we observe it from nearby. What is really dangerous is when we leap inside──」

The cluster of light with diameter that reached ten-odd meters.

Ena walked until right beside it and suddenly stopped. She abruptly turned around and grinned widely at Liliana. Her expression looked mischievous.

「We got this chance so──let’s try entering it with both Ena and you.」

「Without even scouting using magic!?」

「Because, this way will be the quickest. Move with haste, people often say.」

If the mystery in front of them was the so called space distortion, certainly it would be desirable to solve it quickly. Liliana groaned ‘ummm’ and pondered just for a bit, then she suddenly resolved herself.

The child of nature Seishuuin Ena, and Liliana Kranjcar who excelled in witch techniques.

If it was this combination, then they should be able to deal flexibly with any kind of situation. She judged it so.

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「What a beautiful place……」

「Yep. It looks really tranquil and easy to live in……」

They leaped into the gate of light and looked around at the world at the other side.

Liliana and Ena were in admiration.

They were at the bank of a lake.

The water was clear and serene. Water plants were growing lushly at the shore.

It was far warmer than the London suburb in spring. It was even slightly hot that they wanted to scoop the lake water and gulped it down to water their throat.

If the water was this clear, wouldn’t it taste really sweet?

The trees at the lake shore were also vibrant and abundant with greenery. The wind that refreshingly blew was pleasant.

However──there was something that drew the two’s gaze even more than the splendid sight.

「……Just now, there was a dragon flying wasn’t there?」

「……Is that a fairy or something that is bathing there? She is so beautiful it won’t be really wrong to even call her a peerless beauty.」

「…..Furthermore there are a lot of them. Everyone is pretty.」

A green dragon that was about 20, 30 meter tall was passing overhead.

It undulated its long torso that was like a snake and looked like it was swimming rather than flying in the sky. There were horns growing from its head that looked like antlers. It had no wings.

It wasn’t a western style dragon, but a dragon at the eastern world.

Also there were seven women with peerless beauty at the shore. They were giggling cheerfully. Everyone was taking a bath while frolicking with each other.

Their skin was white and their face was Caucasoid. The color of their hair was also bright.

Their beautiful face and naked body were well ordered to a divine degree. They looked radiant──no.

The peerless beauties were all clad in sparkling light particles. It wasn’t a metaphor but they were physically shining bright.

Also, the seven colored rainbow in the sky wouldn’t vanish no matter how long time passed, becoming a decoration in the sky…….

Ena and Liliana exchanged glances.

「This place, is it a world that reproduced a mythology somewhere just as expected?」

「At the very least it doesn’t seem to be a parallel world. I can’t think that dragon and fairies would be able appear so brazenly like this no matter how much the world’s history is altered.」

「Just which mythological world is this Ena wonder?」

While the two of them were exchanging opinion──

A voice called out suddenly from behind. It was a really heavy voice of a man.

「You two, where did you come from? You two don’t seem to be a bandit but……you accursed scoundrels who invaded this holy ground. This place is forbidden to be entered.」

Both Ena and Liliana knew the language that was used by the voice.

Both of them turned their gaze together toward the voice’s direction. There clad in protective armor, a fierce god with grave angry face was standing without them noticing.

Furthermore, in the place of hair, there was bursting flame going out from his head!

「A martial god talking in Sanskrit language with hair of flame──that means!」

「He is General Kumbhira of the twelve divine generals! One of the fierce gods serving Bhaisajyaguru and protecting the Holy Eagle Peak-. This is the mythological world of Buddhism!」

Liliana and Ena were both shocked.

On the other hand, the flame haired fierce god approached the two ladies with a groan 『Nuh』. In addition he unsheathed a long sword from the sheath hanging on his waist──.

Ena was dumbfounded.

「He, he suddenly drew his weapon?」

「Please wait. We aren’t anyone suspicious at a──!」

Liliana made excuse in panic. However, the fierce god was curt.

「What are you saying. Aren’t you two peeking at the Kinnaris taking a bath.」

「「…………」」

Now that he said that, certainly.

In order to defend herself, Ena summoned the divine sword Ama no Murakumo no Tsurugi.

Its shape was strikingly similar with a Japanese katana, but its blade was jet black. It was the greatest divine sword in Japan. But, even when its tip was pointed at him, the flame haired fierce god paid it no heed──.

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