Hybrid x Heart Magias Academy Ataraxia Volume 7 - Ch 4

At that time, all the humans in Zeltis saw something that was hard to believe.

The center of the world that had existed since prehistory. The motherly existence that gave birth to them. The figure of that Genesis crumbling down.

The people were only looking up in blank amazement at the twilight sky without the pillar they were familiar with which had vanished. The sky that had lost the thing that should be there made the people feel the anxiety of losing their place to depend on.

What will happen to us from now on?

This is the end. This world is over.

So, everyone will die you mean?

Anxiety called for terror, terror invited chaos. Zeltis was falling into chaotic mayhem.

A ground rumbling sound resounded over the tumult of the people.

Hey, whats this sound? This is

That sound didnt come from below them. The people looked up to the sky.

Wha-, what is, that!?

The sky was shaking. The tremor was like an earthquake that split the ground, before long that movement carved a crack in the sky. And then the broken sky became fragments and fell down.

KYAAAAAAAAAAA!

Those fragments destroyed the citys buildings one after another. At the other side of the chipped sky, a black darkness that was like hell was spreading. The sky that was full of cracks hiding the darkness of nothingness was coming down on them. It was only little by little, but the sky was approaching above the peoples heads with certainty. That was the countdown of death towards this world.

The announcement of breakdown without any place to escape swallowed up the people into a whirlpool of despair and chaos.

Whether it was the common citizens, the magic knights of the imperial guard, or even the royalty Aine and Grace, they were all the same.

Grace who was standing with trembling legs was walking as if she was sleepwalking.

It really, collapsed..is it.

When she arrived until the edge of the balcony, Grace leaned on the handrail as if clinging on it.

Itits the end already.

Aine embraced Graces shoulders and hugged her onto her body. However Aines body was also trembling.

No matter how powerful combat strength they had, they were powerless in front of the fate of the world.

Just like a beast that was scared of lightning, they were huddling together shiveringly.

Kizuna tried to contact Ataraxia and activated his floating window.

This is Kizuna! Nee-chan, Shikina-san, Genesis collapsed!

Reiri grimaced her forehead and quickly answered.

{You think we cannot see it from here huh! We are heading to the castle right now. Where are you guys?}

We are at the balcony of the largest spire. Im together with Aine and Grace too.

Keis typed text was displayed in front of Reiri.

{And where is Professor Nayuta?}

Kizuna noticed that and asked Grace.

Grace. Kaa-sanProfessor Nayuta, where is she?

However Grace powerlessly shook her head.

I dont know. But that womans research lab is at the base of the pillarin this situation, perhaps it had been crushed.

Nayutas research lab was right under the Genesis. Right now it was under the broken pieces of the pillar which were becoming a mountain. Surely she couldnt possible end up safe from that.

Nayutais alive.

The voice of a person came from inside the room.

That voiceZel?

From inside the dim room that lost its light, two human shadows dragging their bodies showed their appearances.

Grace raised her voice looking at those figures.

Zelsione! Also, isnt that Valdy! Where were you two until now?

Aine opened her eyes wide at the twos appearances which was exposed under the light from outside.

Those woundsjust what happened?

The figures of the two were figures that made one thought they had just went through a fierce mortal combat. Their magic armors were already gone, they were in their imperial guard uniform but even that looked ragged. Blood soaked the torn clothes and they also understood that blood was trickling down on their exposed skin. Especially Zelsione, she looked severely wounded, she was dragging her feet by borrowing Valdys shoulder. After they came out to the balcony, Zelsione crumbled on her knees as if she had spent her strength.

Zel!

Aine supported her body in panic. Kizuna also lent his hand and laid her body down on the floor.

Zelsione spitted out a painful voice from her lips that were wet with blood.

Nayutaas we thought, she wasnt doing any research for repairing Genesis.

Valdys face hung down. She was clenching her fist with trembling shoulders. A puddle of tears was created below her drop by drop.

Kizuna stared at the figures of the two with a grim expression.

As expected, Kaa-san isshit-! Just what is she scheming this time!?

Zelsione was pressing the wound on her stomach and her face warped in anguish. Even Kizuna being here was inconsequential in this occasion. There was something that she had to convey, that sense of mission made her squeezed out her words while enduring the intense pain.

Wha, what that woman researched was

The evolution to an existence that is not human.

!?

There was an unfamiliar girl.

Furthermore she was outside the balcony. She was floating with the setting sun behind her.

You are?

Her appearance was like an elementary school student, it was around that age. Her long jet black hair flapping in the wind was beautiful. Her young stark naked body that wasnt wearing anything was only covered by a long white robe that didnt suit her body size.

Her body was wearing only that. She didnt even wear a magic armor. She was floating in the air with just her flesh body.

Even though her appearance was really lovely and beautiful, they felt unknown terror from her.

It should be their first meeting but, Kizuna felt like he had met that girl somewhere.

Thats right. She is similar with Nee-chans photo of the past.

That was not accurate. But it was an impression that was near the truth.

Zelsione spoke roughly while enduring her pain.

That kid, is Nayuta!

Eh?

For Kizuna, the meaning of those words were incomprehensible.

You say that this child is Kaa-sanjust what does that mean?

Aine and also Grace, even Reiri and Kei that was watching across the communication window in Ataraxia, were feeling the same like Kizuna.

That girl faced Kizuna and smiled.

Kizuna. For you to forget the face of your mother, there is a limit even for lacking in filial piety isnt it?

Such thing is impossible.

What are you saying? Err, who are you?

Zelsione yelled with a pained voice towards Kizuna who was going to approach the girl carelessly.

Be careful! That thing is not like how Nayuta was once! Its a monster!

Kizunas legs stopped.

The girl floating in the air pouted her mouth in a troubled gesture.

You really are talking rudely arent you, Zelsione-sama? Im not a monster, I want to be called as a god.

{Godyou say?}

Reiri talked in irritation from inside the communication window.

{Certainly, this insolent way of talking is really like mother. But, what kind of trick that appearance is? Are you doing some kind of interference with our visual information? Or else an android? There is a limit for dressing yourself younger than your age.}

The girl laughed pleasantly.

Fufufu, its exactly as you see. Im rejuvenated back to my youth. No, I think saying that I was reborn is more accurate. Not as a human but as a new living being.

Kizuna was also gradually coming to an understanding. Rather than that the sense of reality was welling up inside him.

He didnt understand the cause or the method. But, the air this girl was clad in, her presence. This girl was,

There is no doubt, this is Kaa-san.

Surely Reiri also felt that. She was getting increasingly irritated from her exchange of words with the girl.

{New living beingyou say? And, what is the meaning of that!?}

Its about a living being that has evolved even further. The same level of existence with the being who created the Core of Heart Hybrid Gear and GenesisI wonder if its easier to understand if I say it like that.

It was Nayutas forte to talk in a roundabout way that the other side couldnt understand, covering her story with smokescreen. Kizuna yelled impatiently.

Say it clearly, I dont understand at all just what you are saying! Kaa-sanif you are really Kaa-san, it doesnt matter what kind of living being you had become. Rather than that, stop the breakdown of this world!

Aine also returned to her senses and raised a cornered voice.

Thats right! You were doing research for that sake all this time werent you? Professor Nayuta!

Nayuta shrugged her shoulders cutely.

I did. Or I should say, I was researching to decipher the technology of Genesis. Because if I comprehend all of Genesiss secret, naturally the way to repair it will also be discovered, so I was not lying by any means.

Grace glared at Nayuta resentfully.

Stop toying with your justification! Then why was the pillar crumbling! What I commanded you to do is repairing, not destroying it!

Nayuta was smiling widely without even looking like she had done anything bad.

I didnt destroy it intentionally. I made it to do the work of remolding me, so I guess it was quite burdened due to that. In the first place the pillar had been kept operating all the time without any maintenance, so a malfunction occurred. That is the cause of the cataclysm occurring in Atlantis until now. It was continued being used in that kind of condition, so its life span was rapidly shrinking. And then it was only by chance that it reached its limit just now.

Aine gritted her teeth hard. Enduring her fury, she faced Nayuta and spoke.

Professor Nayutatell me the result of your investigation. Just what is Genesis?

The true identity of Genesis, is a tool that creates worlds. That is to say, its the tool the creator used when creating this worldthat pillar is the creators parting gift.

This worlds, creator she said?

The story of Nayuta immediately sounded like a shady story.

That is, so to speak the god you mean?

Thats right. Putting it another way, we can even say that its a living thing of another world who created this world.

In other words, someone from another world created this worldthat was what she said.

The Core is also the same. It seems that it was something prepared by the people who created Genesis in order to imitate the figure like them.

Why, are they doing something like that? Those creators or whatever.

Nayuta shook her small head.

I dont understand that yet.

Reiri threw a voice filled with killing intent from the other side of the window.

{Just now, you said that you became a god right? In other words that is to say that you are the same existence as the creator, you became the same existence like the living being that created this world then?}

My, thats a quick comprehension for Reiri.

Nayuta showed a faked gesture of surprise.

I wanted to understand the technology of the Core and Genesis. And then, as I continued to further my analysis, I became interested in the very creators themselves who created all of these. What kind of existences they are. What should I do so I can approach such transcendental existences.

Raising her small hand, she extended her index finger erectly.

And then I thought. Genesis constructed this world, if it can even create life, shouldnt it also be able to recreate myself, like that.

Nayuta spread the fringe of her white robe and twirled in the air.

And then, its just as you seea great success.

Nayuta who was all smiles looked innocent, lovely, and ominous.

However, about the existences which are at the level where they can create both worlds that are this Atlantis and our world that is Lemuria. There are still many unclear points about them. I was continuing my research in order to shed light to those existences and comprehend this whole world. And so, this is nothing more but one of those experiments.

Keis window started up in front of Nayutas eyes.

{Professor Nayuta, this is Shikina.}

Aah, Kei. You look healthy. What is it?

{Just now, you said that our world was also created by the creator, what is the basis of that? For arguments sake, if thats true, then why there are no Cores or Genesis on earth?}

Nayuta made a thin smile.

There are also those things in Lemuria you know? Whether its Cores and also monuments that are proportionate with Genesis. It is for this reason that I can say that our world was also created by the creator.

What, the?

Kizuna cut into the talk unable to hold himself back.

Just where do such things exist! It will be a big news if those kind of things were discovered right? But, I have never heard anything like that!

No. Kizuna should know about it really well.

Me?

Nayuta pointed at Kizuna.

Eros is a Core discovered on earth you know?

What?

Kizuna put his hand at his chest.

This Core of Eroswas originally, from earth?

It appears that the other Cores fell down to our world when the Another World Conflict occurred. However, only Eros is different. It was a mysterious material discovered at an island of the Mediterranean sea approximately several hundred years ago. But, no matter how we see it the industrial goods of modern time only look like a toy. It was sleeping for a long time inside a certain collectors warehouse without anyone even realizing that it was an OOPArt.

Such thing.

It was thought that all their Cores were AU material that fell to earth when Alternate World Conflict happened. But, Kaa-san is saying that, originally, there were also Cores on earth?

Having said that, there is also someone who created our worldand that existence is the same one with the one who created this Atlantis.

The world where we came from, was something someone created?

Kizunas mind was in chaos.

He understood by logic, but he couldnt comprehend or accept it.

It was not just Kizuna, all people present in this place wer thinking the same.

Reiri and Kei were also shocked.

Reiri snapped at her mother even while her gaze was unfocused.

{Howeverthere is nothing like Genesis there, anywhere at all! Isnt that just your wild delusion!?}

There is. It just hasnt been discovered.

{Something that gigantic, just where can it exist without being discovered until now huh!}

That ismy? It seems that this is not the time to speak so leisurely like this isnt it?

The sky was still lowering more. The whole surface of the sky that was dyed by the setting sun was cracked all over, the cracks was falling down as sky fragments like glass.

This world is over already. Im looking forward how much influence it will cause to Lemuria that is connected to this world by the Entrances.

Something snapped inside Kizuna from her way of talking.

Until now, in order to save this worldjust with how much feeling, you think we came this far! You!

Kizuna clenched his fist. His flaming rage circulated energy throughout his body.

Kaa-san! Im going to have you cooperate in saving this world! Even by force!

My. You are planning to hit a girl this young?

Shut it!

Nayuta pressed her mouth while slipping out a chuckle.

In your condition where even your Hybrid Count has hit the bottom, can you take me on?

Nayutas body began to shine with light of magic power.

Dont tell me

Kizunas heartbeat became violent.

The light of magic power created from Nayutas body was writing a magic formula, that formula instantly materialized. It created mechanical parts from her body that appeared to be constructed one after another by unseen hands.

Nayuta spoke with a smile that was filled with joy.

It was said that god created humans based on his own appearance, but Heart Hybrid Gear was also something the creator created based on their own appearance. Let me specially show to all of you, the original.

The parts created from her back extended to left and right and constructed large thick arms. And then large leg units like robots were created, fixed on her legs. Whether the legs or the arms, each of them were something large that was even bigger than Nayutas height.

And then at her back, a board with beautiful luster was unfolding like a spread fan. It looked like shield and also looked like wings. The fan with beautiful regularity opened to the left and right which even reached six meters of width.

This is the true appearance of the current me.

A headdress in the shape of ornate hairpin was on her head, while a kimono that was like a furisode with her shoulders greatly exposed was created on her body. It was an outfit that was like a daughter of a noble who celebrated their aging festival in the shrine.

The armor was also beautiful, as if in coordination with the dressed up Nayuta. Elegant line and luster like a lacquer. Graceful ornament and glamorousness. Rather than calling it weapon for the sake of battle, it even gave the impression whether it was actually used for etiquette or admiration.

Kizuna reflexively murmured looking at that reborn figure Nayuta displayed.

Heart Hybrid Gear

Without any doubt, it was a large type Heart Hybrid Gear. However, it had a presence that drew a line compared to the likes of Kizunas Eros or Aines Zeros. It was not just merely big, the difference in the shaping and material, and then the high class magic power emitted from her whole body. It made him feel that it was obviously in a different class with other Heart Hybrid Gear.

And then there was one more point, something that made him feel unease. That was the sense of unity between Nayuta and the armor, it was as if the two were completely combined. An existence where it was ambiguous where was the boundary between flesh and machine. He felt like she had completely changed into a living thing of another species.

Nayuta spread both her arms proudly.

Now, you said that you want to make me listen to you by force right? Ill look after you then. After all playing with children, is also the role of a parent.

Ku

Kizunas teeth gritted audibly.

Both Kizuna and also Aine had their Hybrid Count very near zero, they couldnt even maintain their Heart Hybrid Gear anymore. It seemed that Grace still had magic power remaining, but surely she still had damage remaining on her body.

Kizuna glanced and surmised the state of Zelsione who collapsed on her knees.

Far from fighting, Zelsiones condition would be dangerous if she wasnt treated soon.

This time he sent his glance inside the room.

Valdy was sitting down at the center of the room, staring at the floor with empty eyes