Hidan no Aria:Volume10 Chapter1

1st Ammo - Descent of the Hawk

The beginning of this chapter is very badly translated. If someone wants to do major edits, they're welcome to do so.

I can't understand.

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

Except for me, who was standing here, all my comrades in the Baskerville were actually...actually entirely wiped out!

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

Up until now, I have always been going through every difficulty by protecting or being protected by my Baskerville comrades. By that time, they've become my irreplaceable friends. However, just as I decided that from then 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, and it 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-3rd.

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

However, the man who called himself G-3rd didn't say anything, but simply said "From now on, I'll kill one at each hour".

The girl beside him called G-4th also didn't say anything.

I was already expecting that. Since when I asked him before what kind of person he was, that guys simply answered with the four words "Shut up. Come. Fight."

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, anything would be fine. If I can't find any clue, then I have no other things to do other than sit here and resign myself to this 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 a large plane on the screen.

Not good, it's G-3rd's finger. He wants to end the call.

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

"Haa? That's not it."

G-3rd smiled with disdain.

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

"It was only one person, IV."

ONE PERSON......!?

He said IV......could he mean G-4th? 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 the 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! That 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. It seemed like 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 had been received.

There wasn't any title nor word to this mail. There was only an address, a long string of mojibake.!

(To send this right at this time would mean......that it's G-3rd and his 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—in an urban area. 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 confirm the location first......!

I concentrated in order to examine the video, and saw a curved driveway about a hundred meters away in it. All the buildings and the countless neon lamps were all arc-shaped——and drew a large circular form, 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 the night sky being encircled by a huge circle.

I understood—this should be the underground.

A funnel-shape was dug in the ground, and inside was a city.

(This is......a geofront......!)

A geofront, which is the generic term for a city way below the ground. The location on the screen is probably the "Shinagawa River geofront". It was also the only geofront in all Japan where Haimaki could come back. As I became aware of this, the scene——the lens pointed towards the ground.

A non-stopping pale green light came from beneath the one filming himself. It seems that that person seemed like standing on a S-shaped neon lamp.

Then, the lens turned aside, and someone's shade appeared on screen.

Standing slightly on the side, on the huge O-shaped neon lamp was a young maiden——the G-4th from before.

The girl's entire body was covered by an armor-like black, frosty protective gear, wearing on her head semitransparent protective glasses, and on her clothes' left shoulder was printed words like “USLA-G-4th”. A surprising longsword compared to her height—about 150 centimetres—was obliquely attached her back. This sword, at the first glance, seemed like a katana combined with a large longsword, but it was different. Between the back of the sword and its fuller, a shiny fluorescent blue could be seen. It gave the feeling that this was no ordinary sword.

The maiden suddenly said:

"——Sword beats guns."

The words that came from the standing figure......and put me at a loss of words.

From the outside, this girl should be 1 or 2 years younger than me. The height and weight should also be conformed to her age.

However, it gave me a feeling, that supernatural feeling——that kind of existence that possesses a power of attraction...

Aaah......, I understand......! I perfectly understand.

That kind of atmosphere I'm really familiar with. Very familiar with.

(——It's Kana......!)

This girl......I can't help but think that she looks a lot like that person!

As soon as this idea came into my mind, I even thought that the huge sword behind her back looked like Kana's huge scythe Scorpion tail.

——Bzz, bzz—

At that moment, a kind of equipment that looked like feline ears at both sides of her head suddenly moved backwards, as if it was sliding, and went to the real place where cats' ears are supposed to be on her head.

That probably was some kind of paraboloid oriented-object that was supposed to collect sounds or something like that. It seemed as if she was using this to search for something. Her short hair slightly floating in the wind, G-4th, Shaa......, as if she wanted to get down, she jumped in the void from the neon light.

The one filming——G-3rd also followed up and jumped down.

Both of them, as they got gradually further from the letters SONY just a moment ago——

Dong! A sound resounded loudly.

Following that was a round hole in the sidewalk, with G-4th landing on the ground and G-3rd closely following behind her.

On the screen, G-4th, who drew her broadsword mid-air, calmly walked outside.

On the lane beside, what looked like illegal drugs and guns dealers scattered away in panic.

(This......how can it be possible......!)

By looking at the time it took on the screen for them to get on the ground, they jumped from 15——no, 20 metres high. But still, they have no such need for a parachute.

On the screen, walking between the lined-up cars, shouting "Hey you——dare lay on hand on my brother? How could you.", G-4th——grabbed the hair of a girl, and dragged her out.

(......It's Reki......!)

Reki was holding in her bosom a sniper lens, and the lid was opened. Hiding in the car, she seemed to have just tried to snipe the people, including G-4th, on the neon lamp.

At that moment, Guah, a loud wild scream resounded, and from beneath the car, Haimaki charged towards G-4th, roaring.

"Aha."

G-4th, who opened her eyes behind her protective goggles in excitement, let Reki go. With a superhuman-like speed punch, she sent flying the Haimaki charging towards her.

"......!"

Looking at Haimaki who was easily beaten up and sent flying while letting a howl on the street——even though he was at that instant at my side——I closed both of my eyes by reflex.

Because there was a car rushing at the same time that ruthlessly hit its body. And after the sound, the car behind also hit it.

——Bam!

The sudden metal sound made me open my eyes once again, and on the screen appeared Reki who added a bayonet to her SVD, approaching and attacking G-4th like a strong wind.

Although Reki was as expressionless as before, the offensive was even vengeful that a poised-for-combat Aria.

"Really, Onii-san, what good do you see in this muted girl."

Dodging the attack, G-4th was holding the katana high it the air, and after a bam, the edge of the blade scraped Reki's bayonet. Following a klang......, Reki's bayonet had been removed from the rifle.

No, it hasn't been removed. Reki's steel-made bayonet simply had been cut off calmly.

"How should I say it, this should be a young person full of vigor."

G-4th didn't stop for a bit and dragged closer, until Reki fell on the vending machine behind. Following closely in light steps, she arrived in front of Reki's body and made a gust of wind by swinging her blade. After that, there was only an ear-piercing sound, and the vending machine's light was off.

And the upper part of the vending machine that had been cut obliquely...... fell down on Reki's body.

"OK, the first one has been disposed of. Goodbye."

And the vending machine's lower part——and the cans as well as the plastic bottles that got cleanly cut had their liquor spilled out.

(......That Reki......that she had lost so easily......!)

But I, who haven't even recovered from my surprise, saw the scene change immediately——was surprised once again, and took an icy breath.

On the screen, G-4th was running on the streets downtown in the sounds of Petronels' gunshots......in front of her was floating an unknown object. It was a pearl-coloured rectangle-shaped cloth-like object that was going as fast as G-4th.

Two pieces of slender cloth like this, whose edges were white, crossed with each other, forming an X, and spun like the helice of a windmill in the air while going forward.

(......that, what was that......!)

Bam, Bang, Bam——

The clothes that were flying in the air hit numerously at an unshaped thing in front and continuously twisted.

"——I found it! It's the one Onii-san loves the most!"

The camera lens pointed towards where the voice came from. The one there used the skywalk as bunker, but the one shooting towards here is——

(Aria......!)

Now I understand. That piece of cloth——seems to be blocking Aria's bullets automatically.