Hidan no Aria:Volume10 Chapter1

1st Ammo - Descent of the Hawk

I can't understand.

I can't undestand why on the background of my cellphone, the four of them, Aria, Shirayuki, Riko and Reki would be lying on the ground with their bodies bleeding.

Aside me, who am standing here, all my comrades in the Baskerville are actually...actually entirely wiped out!

(How can this be......!)

Until now, I have always been going through every difficulty by protecing or being protected by my Baskerville comrades. At that day, they've become my irreplacable friends. However,just as I decided that from now on I'd protect them with all my might......suddenly, suddenly something like this happened!

I pressed the phone's menu with my finger that couldn't stop trembling, thinking of recording that video call. However, Reki's phone, which Haimaki brought me, was a different model than mine. I wanted to activate the recording, ad took me a few minutes to do so. To win some time, I shouted over the one at the other side of the phone—G III.

"Hey! What's happening! Where are you guys!"

However, the man who called himself G III didn't say anything, but simply a "From now on, I'll kill one at each hour".

The girl beside him called G IV also didn't say something.

I was already expecting that. Since when I asked him before what kind of person he was, that guys simply answered the four words "Shut up. Come. Fight."(T/N: Actually, I think that in the original text, it was only 3, considering "shut up" was one words. Oh well...)

But--

(If the call ends up like this, things will be bad......!)

I need to find something to ask. The number of enemies, their goal, the place, their arms, everything would be fine. If I can't find any clue, then I have no other things to do than sit here and resign to my fate.

At that time, a finger covered by a gauntlet made of metal and bulletproof fiber, as if it was laughing at the anxious me, appeared in large plan on the screen.

Not good, it's GIII's finger. He wants to end the call.

"Wait a moment! You guys......just with the two of you, you managed the four of them, Aria and the others!"

"Haa? That's not it."

GIII smiled with disdain.

"Then how many were you when you charged at them!"

"It was only one person, IV."

ONE PERSON......!?

He said IV......could he mean G IV? Which is to say, the girl who proclaimed herself to be my little sister, wiped out Aria and the others by herself!?

Impossible--. He is probably lying. Even I, in Hysteria mode, rather than fight with Baskerville's four girls, I fear that I wouldn't be even able to escape from them.

"E-Even when you lie, you must do it cleverly! This is completely impossible!"

-----BEEP-----

Just as I finished talking, the phone......was hung up.

The call I just received was an unknown call. I couldn't call back even if I wanted to.

(......What should I do......!)

--Di, Di, Dii--

Pale-faced, the---cellphone in my hand, emotionlessly let out a prompting tone. Seemed that I received a mail.

This is Reki's cellphone, but it's an emergency right now, so there's no time to talk about privacy and such.

I hurriedly opened the reception box—and only saw that a video message has been received.

There wasn't any title nor word to this mail. There was only an address, a long string of mojibake. (T/N: As in a code)

(To send this right at this time would mean......that it's GIII and the bunch......!)

I immediately opened the video--

This video apparently wasn't recorded using the hand-held DVC. From the degree of wavering of the image, it was probably with some kind of protection glasses device prepared in advance—which seems to have the HMC function—that they filmed.

I—which means, that that this is the point of view of one of those two.

The image's definition was pretty high. It was also very clear. As for the time, it is probably not long after sunset, and some sounds could be heard too.

The place is—the city's ministry. On the roof? No, there seems to be something posted on the wall. Where the heck is this place? If I want to save Aria and the others, I need to first confirm the placement......!

I concentrated to examine the video, and saw a curved driveway a few hundred meters away in it. All the buildings and the countless neon lamps were all arc-shaped—as if it was something like a huge round installation, which made me deduce that they were were on the inner side of that circle.

It practically looked like the Roman Coliseum I learned about in world history class—some place like this which has been drastically changed with modern science.

Then, the lens pointed towards the sky, and I saw something like a night sky encircled by a huge circle.