Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon – Kimitoasamade - a chinese web novel
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| Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon – Kimitoasamade |
Original Name
《境界線上のホライゾン きみとあさまで 》 BY KAWAKAMI MinoruSynopsis
Side story of Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon bundled with the first press release of the 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th Blu-ray volumes of both seasons of anime.This side story follows Asama, Kimi and Mitotsudaira aboard Musashi one year before the beginning of the main story, as Asama is considering to create a music band together with her two friends for the next festival in Aki, a territory under the governance of K.P.A. Italia.
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Chapter 1: High Altitude Performer
The wind blowsAs they simply remain together
Without gathering
Point Allocation (Onstage)
The color white began spiraling through the sky.
The wide arc of that wind turned the chilly air’s moisture into mist and ice which surrounded the theatre ship floating in the sky.
It swept away the chill and the diamond dust wind raced across the Noh Stage’s deck like a blade.
With a scraping sound, a long groove twenty centimeters wide and five centimeters deep was carved into the wooden deck.
The small pieces of ice had transformed the wind into a saw.
There was more than one gust of wind. It was mostly spiraling around, but several lightning-like gusts formed and shot back and forth as if playing. More and more slicing sounds rang out and a new line was carelessly drawn across the deck each time.
Most of the people on the deck preparing for the Gagaku Festival fled inside the ship using the various hatches.
Then they saw a giant form stand up from the ether tuner on the Noh Stage’s main stage.
It was ether. Ether would normally glow blue, but it had grown disturbed and instead glowed a dim yellow. And that nearly dull golden light formed an almost humanoid form.
It was about eight meters tall and had no arms or face. It simply had a torso, legs seemingly made of blades, and armor also seemingly made of blades.
"A Non-God Sword!?"
The Non-God Sword moved as if in response. It had only been rising from the ether tuner to establish its form, but now it raised its faceless upper body.
"...!!"
Its chest armor tightened inward. The action was similar to a human swinging their arms forward.
One of the students, a third year with a defense spell activated by a charm, stood up from a hatch and gave a shout.
"Fall back! A Non-God Sword is a type of summoned god, but its confused thoughts make it attack indiscriminately!"
A moment later, the wind gained a will of its own. Before, the blade-like gusts that had been racing back and forth as if for fun, but now two of them raced straight forward from the left and right of the Non-God Sword.
Their target was some Aki students who had failed to escape in time.
There were three of them.
One was a second year girl and the other two were first year girls. One of the first years had apparently sprained her ankle after tripping over one of the grooves carved into the deck.
The crazed god rejected everything not from its holy ground.
That rejection took the form of twin attacks that tore through the deck in their race for the three stopped girls.
The three had no way to dodge it and that fact became clear to everyone there.
"Willpower!!"
At that moment, two third year boys raced aft, one from the front port hatch and one from the front starboard hatch. Each boy removed his summer uniform shirt to reveal an undershirt that said, "Aki Academy Track Team". They were regulars with official numbers.
They were on the way to rescue the girls.
The two boys raced full speed toward the three unmoving girls at the stern of the deck.
The boy on the port side was barefoot and the one on the starboard side wore spikes.
They almost seemed to be following the two gusts of wind up ahead, but all they did was place the back end of those gusts in their field of vision.
"...!!"
They lowered their stance for a full-power dash and used their pumping arms to activate acceleration spell charms.
The barefoot one to port used one that purified the burden on and weariness in his body.
The spike one to starboard used one that applied acceleration primarily to his knees.
They activated them at the same time.
"—————!"
And they accelerated all at once. The acceleration did not grow with time. With each step they took, they pushed their bodies forward along the deck, as if running up a wall.
"Hey!"
The barefoot one to port shouted to the other one approximately thirty meters to his starboard.
"Let’s settle this once and for all!!’"
"Right!!"
The spike one responded with his breaths appearing white in the air.
"I’m definitely cooler than you!!"
"Saying that about yourself is proof that you aren’t!"
"Then," shouted the spike one. "Let’s prove right here which one of us is cooler, you barefoot bastard!"
"What!? What kind of team captain is stupid enough to damage the deck for a little extra speed!?"
But the two of them faced forward, looked to the wind strikes up ahead, and shouted in unison.
"We can’t have a proper competition with those in the way!"
They passed by the wind in a mere three steps.
They broke through the air and scattered the ether light of acceleration spells as they raced onward.
Up ahead, they could see the three girls who had failed to escape.
"Jump, cuties!!" shouted the barefoot one.
The girls exchanged a glance.
"——————"
They shook their head and the spike one shouted to the barefoot one.
"Don’t make this harder on them than it already is! ...Just jump!!"
The two first year girls jumped. Even the one with a sprained ankle jumped with her good leg.
"Okay!"
The track team members each snatched a first year with one arm and reached their other arm toward the remaining second year girl.
"This way!!"
Having them both say it at once may have been a mistake.
"Eh!?"
The second year girl in the center was unsure which way to go and ended up not moving at all. The track team members both missed her and passed her by. They exchanged a glance, approached, and used their empty hands to point at each other.
"This is your fault!!"
But they could not head back now and the barefoot one looked back.
"Dammit! And she has a huge rack too! I wanted to ‘accidentally’ cop a feel when I grabbed her!!"
"You idiot! She avoided you because of that obvious ulterior motive!"
The spike one laughed and held out his hand.
"Ha ha. Of course, I had similar plans."
They shook hands, but the twin wind attacks were still on their way to the second year girl behind them.
The barefoot one ended the handshake and tossed his first year girl to the spike one.
"I might not make it in time, but I’m going in for that grope!!"
"Get one in for me too!!"
"Sure thing!"
The barefoot one forced his body into a midair spin, landed, and felt the soles of his feet burning from the friction.
"Make it!!"
He ran.
"Ohhh!"
The barefoot boy pushed his body forward with all his strength.
I’ll definitely make it in time, he thought. After all...
"That was a great decision, captain!!"
Light was flying around him. The team captain had scattered his acceleration spell through the air.
This gave the barefoot one his own and the other boy’s spell. The charm had been set to grant its power to others, but adjustments would normally be needed to combine it with another spell. However...
"We were using acceleration spells that didn’t overlap in the slightest!"
They knew each other well, so they had worked to gain each other’s strong points and make up for their weak points.
"Show them your Aki spirit!"
He kicked himself forward with double the acceleration and he forcibly tore through the air on his way forward.
It would take him only five steps to get there.
But...
"...!?"
The wind blew in from the right and this new strike was timed with the moment of greatest speed.
The Non-God Sword had targeted him to interfere.
...Dammit!
If he dodged this, he could not get his grope, but if he kept going, he would be hit. Which meant...
"Full power!"
He leaned forward to forcibly eliminate a tiny bit more air resistance.
The result was miniscule, but it did raise his speed.
In that instant, the wind from the right accelerated.
...What!?
He knew why. The wind he had seen before corresponded to someone raising a sword, so this was the speed of swinging the sword down. In that case, it was not directed at him at all.
"That huge rack!"
The twin attacks targeting that girl also picked up speed.
He realized he was not going to make it in time, but...
"...!!"
He accelerated. He knew he had to do something, so he sped up. He knew he had to do something and find something to do, but...
"A finalist can’t rely on anything but his speed!!"
He charged forward.
The wind was coming.
It was going to hit.
At that moment, something fell from the sky between him and the approaching wind on the right. It was...
...A person!?
It was a girl, but...
"Owwwwwww!!!!"
With a great sound of destruction, the wind approaching the barefoot finalist vanished.
But that was not all.
The two winds attacking the girl he was trying to save also vanished.
What just happened? he wondered.
But his body continued moving before he could think.
He grabbed the second year girl.
His right hand "slipped".
The "slip" of his left hand was for the team captain.
Yes, this is for the captain. And since it’s for him, one more wouldn’t hurt. Yes, I need to make sure I keep possession of this! For the captain! Oh, but this one can be for me, I guess.
"It can, can’t it!? Can’t it!?"
He accidentally spoke out loud and got slapped.
It was an excellent slap, so he decided to recommend her to the sumo team later.
But as he ran toward the hatch that his fellow students were gesturing him toward, he checked behind him.
Why were they unhurt?
"Is that...?"
They were Musashi students and there were three in all.
One was near where the wind heading toward him had vanished. A blonde girl in glasses and a track suit was collapsed on the deck with her eyes spinning.
One was near the collapsed glasses girl. She had giant breasts and wore a black shrine maiden outfit.
The last was near where the winds heading toward the second year girl had vanished.
She was...
"Second in line to ruling the Far East, Nate Mitotsudaira!?"
Mitotsudaira stuck a charm comb in her hair to stop it from dancing in the wind.
She then pulled an armband from the wicker basket attached to her waist hard point.
Her shrine maiden outfit had no sleeves and thus no place to attach an armband, so she simply held up the armband and spoke in a carrying voice.
"I am Nate Mitotsudaira, Musashi Knight League Rank 1 and Extra Special Duty Officer of Musashi’s Chancellor’s Officers. ...I will take charge of this scene."
She faced forward and attached the armband to her waist hard point.
She then pulled a charm stocker from the wicker basket and attached to her wrist. The stocker showed signs of a few charms having already been pulled out, and it was stocked with...
"Shinto spell shields."
Up ahead, the Non-God Sword was facing her. It had already raised its arms, so...
"...!"
The wind blew in. This time, it was six gusts at once.
She raised her eyebrows as the blades of icy wind rushed in from six directions simultaneously.
"I will push back!"
She opened a spell shield in both hands, thrust it forward, and started to run.
Kimi watched Mitotsudaira’s back as she ran forward.
...Will she be okay?
Not even two seconds later, sounds of destruction exploded from Mitotsudaira and white ice rose like smoke. Five or six trails of ice rose all at once.
The Shinto spell shield Mitotsudaira was using defended by reducing the enemy’s force and speed. It was the standard type for the Far East.
Unlike the Catholic and Protestant reflection types, whatever hit it would lose its power and either vanish or fall straight down. This had looked more like an explosion because the wind blades were quite large vertically, so when the bottom was reduced, the top could not keep up and it collapsed in on itself.
But...
"Taking that much force at once will wear down the charm like crazy. ...Mitotsudaira, can’t you run any faster? That looks more like 70% right now."
Even if Mitotsudaira had not been defending against the wind, Kimi had a feeling she could run and catch up to the girl, but...
"I-I’m running as fast as I can!"
Kimi had always thought Mitotsudaira was the heavy tank type, but not this much.
...Not only is she running on her heels, but she’s using her strength all wrong.
Kimi could not give the girl any advice because she was bad with descriptions, but she could tell Mitotsudaira’s stance was focusing more on strength than speed. While that could be a problem in some situations, not being blown away meant a lot against an opponent with such great power.
Then I guess it’s fine for now, concluded Kimi.
"Ahh..."
Adele unsteadily lifted her head from the deck at Kimi’s feet.
"Oh, you can move, Adele? Are you okay? If you think you’ve been knocked senseless, I could grope you. How about it?"
"And how would that help me!? How!? ...Sorry, I shouldn’t have dignified that with a response. Um, where’s the Extra Special Duty Officer?"
Three explosions of wind sounded out at almost the same time.
They looked back to see Mitotsudaira continuing forward. However, her pace was falling. She was within fifty meters of the Non-God Sword, but the number of wind swords was growing.
The Non-God Sword was likely only now really beginning to use its power.
"Here it comes."
Kimi listened to the wind. Even that raging whirlwind had a melody to it.
Adele got up, took a crouching stance, and nodded.
"Non-Gods like a Non-God Sword are created from a ley line disturbance that causes the spiritual molds of the land and surrounding lands to overlap. This one is probably a fusion of the European coast’s legendary giants and gods as well as the Far East’s Genpei war and the ironworking culture of the Bizen area."
"Is that secondhand information? From who? Four eyes?"
"Judge. Neshinbara-san seemed really happy as he talked about it over the divine network."
"There are these rare times when he has some useful information. If only he wasn’t always talking about superpowers and other nonsense from anime and novels. Well, fine."
Kimi listened to the noise.
"Heh heh. I don’t know much about Non-God Swords or whatever, but if you’re going to use swords, you need to use a sexier design. If all we’re up against is brute strength, then leave it to me, Gracias Aoi, to pave the way forward. That will clear the way to the ending, so you will be beaten to a pulp in no time."
"Eh? Y-you can do that?"
"Oh? Adele, have I ever said I could do something that I couldn’t? You also won’t hear me say I will become the world’s best woman, hold the world in the palm of my hand, or become the very definition of beauty, but why would I bother saying anything I could do so easily? The things that I truly don’t know if I can do or not are much closer to home. Heh heh. And compared to those things..."
A small smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.
"I can easily make this Non-God or whatever look up to me."
Mitotsudaira moved forward.
The wind continued to collide with her and her spell shields kept breaking, but...
...I cannot fall back!
Monsters created by an ether distortion were usually bound to a location and this Non-God Sword was no exception. Just as spirits preferred the environment suited to them and gods preferred holy grounds, this Non-God attempted to secure and protect the location it had appeared in.
But as a being born of an ether distortion and stagnation, its optimal location did not exist in this world. After all, this world was generally well-ordered.
So it bound itself to its current location and dyed the surrounding space in its own colors. If the world was unsuited toward it, it would remake that world.
Small monsters would be worn down by the process of spreading its domain and would disappear.
That was the normal outcome.
But that would not happen when one had extracted enough ether to support itself even as it stagnated the surrounding space.
That was the case here.
If left alone, its domain would spread to a portion of the deck and the surrounding space, so Mitotsudaira had a single goal.
"Keep the Non-God Sword focused on itself rather than its surroundings!"
She kept her stance low and opened her shield so it would not leave her body. Like that, she collided with the charging wind, received it, and swept it aside. Whenever her shield shattered...
...I open a new one!
She had plenty of charms. She had often played the role of defender in training and mock battles. To prepare her for conflicts with other nations, she had used a shield against a god of war or ship’s cannon on several occasions. Running out of charms and being unable to defend was a common mistake, but she had grown out of doing that halfway through the previous year.
She had strength but no speed, so her role was defense.
The Testament Union had appointed her to the temporary position of Extra Special Duty Officer with the Chancellor’s Officers, but that was only because they wanted some influence over her as second in line to ruling the Far East.
She had already reached Rank 1 in the Knight League and she had performed official duties since halfway through middle school, so this was nothing new for her.
At first, everyone had apparently considered putting her in the rear guard, but...
"The Far East doesn’t have many defenders."
The Far East’s primary weapons were the sword, spear, and rifle, so they had little concept of shields. Their reduction shields were tricky to use until one got the hang of the system and they mostly required staying in one spot.
The Far East needed a barrier to apply pressure to the enemy while actively moving forward.
That meant acting as bait to draw the enemy’s attacks, so Mitotsudaira would always move forward, yet...
...An attacker always moves past me and takes all the glory for themselves.
Hers was a thankless role.
But, she thought.
...Everyone expected me to be a delinquent.
Before gaining official duties as a knight, she had been violent, damaged many people and things, and even harmed herself.
Making up for it with this defense role was only her personal view of the situation, but she was fine with that. And...
"...!"
She heard a small cry from down at her feet.
She recognized the sudden, quiet roar.
"Eh?"
It was the Cerberus.
Mitotsudaira looked down at her newborn follower.
To her, it seemed to have followed her without being asked, but it may have thought it was leading her and threatening the enemy.
It could always flee and it seemed somewhat afraid, but the three-headed wolf still roared at the Non-God Sword. She placed it in the corner of her vision, and...
...Honestly.
"I need to do this right!"
She moved forward and broke through the wind.
She heard the voices of the Aki students who had evacuated into the hatches.
Strength filled those voices, yet just a few years before, she would have only heard fearful and cautious voices.
"Honestly," she said aloud this time.
She raised her eyebrows, moved forward, and spoke to herself in the wind.
"He was the one dragged me into all this and now he’s practically ignoring me? What is my king thinking?"
The wind struck her, but she rotated the shield in her hand to deflect, break, and surpass that power.
She moved forward and she could sense herself drawing in the enemy, but she could also sense her own lack of power.
She could protect the area around her. Even as a Non-God Sword, its physical attacks were not much different from a god of war or ship’s cannon. She only had to accurately block them. But...
"There’s so many!"
The amount of wind continued to grow. The Non-God Sword was doing more than attacking her in rapid succession.
"————"
It also began walking toward her.
By filling the gap between them, it could increase its speed of attack. And...
"It’s gathering the surrounding clouds, isn’t it!?"
The chilly clouds surrounding the Noh Stage shrank as if being squeezed in tight. The greater density darkened the clouds and the wind was also released from the clouds instead of just the area around the Non-God Sword itself.
And then...
"Everyone, don’t bother providing backup or tuning! Shut the hatches and evacuate!"
After all...
"The Non-God Sword is targeting you!!"
The Aki students were tuning the surrounding ley lines inside the large open hatches. That allowed them to restrain the expanding stagnation and hold back the Non-God Sword’s power.
In addition to spells, that required a calm heart. Those Aki students had undergone purification drills at Itsukushima Shrine, so...
"C-c-c-c-cal-cal-cal-calm d-d-d-d-dow-dow-dow-down!"
"I don’t think I’ve ever heard someone so flustered! ...Oh, no! I tore my tights! Look!"
"Are you trying to fill us with impure thoughts!?"
Even as they argued, they activated their spells and tuned the space around the hatches.
The wind around the hatches calmed and the clouds directly overhead cleared, allowing gentle sunlight in.
But for defense purposes, aerial ship hatches would deflect ether interference when closed, so the hatches had to be open to provide tuning. But...
"Here it comes!"
The Non-God Sword’s wind was fired directly toward the hatches.
It was trying to crush the extra help so it could focus on Musashi’s Extra Special Duty Officer.
There were eight wind swords. The Non-God Sword’s nonexistent arms were wielding their full power as it moved forward.
Each gust of wind blew in a straight line to tear into them.
They could not close the hatches in time, so the wind struck.
Eight winds collided with those manned locations and eight sounds rang through the sky.
They were sounds of spraying destruction.
However, it did not come from the destruction of the ship and there were no screams.
The wind itself was suddenly destroyed.
"Eh?"
Even those in the hatches were confused. The wind had scattered like spray just as it was going to hit them.
They all looked up on the deck to see what had happened and they saw a light there.
It came from the center of the deck where the black shrine maiden and glasses girl had moved in to defend. The black shrine maiden was standing there and the glasses girl had moved away in preparation.
The shrine maiden was lit by sunlight.
The Non-God Sword’s movements had made the swirling clouds grow even denser, yet the sky was perfectly visible directly over her head.
Plus, even more light was supplied from above the eight hatches.
The black shrine maiden was dancing.
She took gentle yet accurate steps, those steps sounded loudly, and she let her body bounce.
"——————"
The wind roared.
As she moved, the Non-God Sword’s swirling clouds seemed to rumble and cry out.
But some of the onlookers realized that was inaccurate. They lay on the steps from the hatch to the deck, peeked upwards, and slowly measured the timing.
"Is the rhythm of her dance synchronized with the movements of the clouds and wind?"
That was one of the spells of the Ootsubaki-style entertainer gods. One would dance to purify and provide divine protections to the surrounding space. Normally, the spell would apply the theme of the dance to the surrounding space in the form of divine protections and purification, but this was likely different.
"Did she take on the Non-God Sword’s rhythm to interfere with that rhythm!?"
"Heh heh heh. This is only a sword manifestation being distracted by a wolf. No matter how powerful it is, it’s simple at the most basic level. And if you want to swing all those swords around so much, stop trying to fuck the empty air, see how it feels for yourself!"
Kimi laughed.
She kept her eyebrows flat, spun her body, and looked across all of the wind, deck, and sky around her.
She laughed out loud and audibly stepped on the wooden deck. As if reacting to that sound, the wind blew in from multiple locations.
It was flying, but...
"How foolish. You’re just an adorable little child. You were only just born and know nothing of the world."
As she danced, Kimi spun around and dodged every last one of the wind swords, causing those blades to collide with each other.
"Heh heh. Act tough if you like. I can easily respond in kind. See?"
They shattered.
Countless ice fragments scattered through the wind around the dancing shrine maiden, but not even they reached her. They simply adorned her dance.
As the range of the sunlight grew, the scattered ice glittered. Kimi smiled and spun within it all. She used her fingertips to draw out the paths of the swirling clouds in advance and her feet touched the deck to match the timing of the Non-God Sword’s swaying body and moving legs. Even as she twisted her body, lifted her hips, and embraced her chest, her movements drew out the wind’s movement in advance or followed after those movements.
She spoke as her dance sped up.
"You really are hopeless. You haven’t lived through even a single night and you’ve never woken up to find yourself alone. You do not understand the meaning of loneliness or the origin of solitude. I will teach you that a newborn blade can only be put away in its scabbard. Yes, I will teach you so very kindly."
Her movements sped up and new light appeared.
A Shinto spell circle made from a circle of torii shapes rose from her feet. It grew to a diameter of approximately five meters and acted as her footing. Four additional torii-style sign frames appeared behind her. Another large one rose into the sky and displayed an enlarged image of her face.
"I’ll go with a reverse-order Ootsubaki-style Foothold Dance. The song will be Star Festival. ...Is that okay?"
As soon as she asked that, Uzy clapped on her shoulder and instrument icons appeared in the four sign frames behind her. They shook, added to the sound, tightened in, and yet began playing a song.
Meanwhile, the Non-God Sword roared.
"...!!"
It was a loud, sky-shaking voice, but Kimi had predicted even that great rumbling.
"————"
She produced a voice of her own. And...
"Try to keep up."
With that comment, Kimi accelerated. She ruled that spell emblem stage with her dance.
The Non-God Sword stopped in response. With one hundred meters between them, it bent its body as if to combat Kimi’s movements.
"—————!!"
Wind truly appeared in every direction and swept across the deck.
Adele held up a spell shield like an umbrella and looked around the area.
"Wow..."
The entire deck had become a giant clash between a storm and the sunlight.
The Non-God Sword was rapidly launching attacks with its feet stopped on the deck while Kimi loudly faced it with her dance. Adele could see all of their movements, but...
...Music!
She could also hear them.
Again and again, the wind crashed down more as a violent wave than a gale and was ultimately smashed into white spray. Kimi continued her composed dance while her sign frames played accompaniment in place of a band.
Her hair danced, her hands and fingers bounced up, and her legs were repositioned without end. When she looked on the verge of falling over, she would add a spin to escape.
"Hey, tomorrow is a summer day, the day of the star festival."
Adele could hear Kimi’s singing voice even through the bursting wind.
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