Chapter 9
A sudden and far too early encounter
------I consider this the start of a new episode If i had to put a number on it I'd say this is the 3rd episode so far------
Seina put in co-ordinates, and they all jumped. everyone was on edge, They all expected the worst. they jumped out finally,
"report on our surroundings!"
"There's a reaction! from the energy mass ratio it's definitely a battleship!"
"Really?" Kaguya said in a loud voice,
Hakuren and others were relieved to know that Seina's abilities still worked in renza. The ship was unregistered.
"There's no response to the S class full code signal! Assume it's a pirate ship!"
they deployed all their light knights and they began to attack the ship but soon another ship came out of war.
"there's a ship jumping out nearby! it's from the fire kingdom! That's the fire fish!"
"we're getting an electronic communication. Stop all attacks... this is an order from a superior."
"cease fire!" sajyu ordered
"We were in pursuit of that ship first. I'd like you to stop all battle actions promptly and hand it over to me. " a fearless looking middle aged man with Brown skin and Red hair and a Kaiser's beard appeared on the monitor. He looked like a military aristocrat.
"Baron Kashuruna, we caught this pirate after we jumped, we should have priority, what is the meaning of this?"
---------this is Kamui Kashuruna from the end of gxp 14------
"This ship is our target and our target alone, this is an order from Baron kamui kashurun kasen If you want it you'll have to fight us for it! of course we'll accept, I'd love to see ZINV in battle."
karen's face turned sour upon hearing the name of the person ranked right above her in succession.
"the pirates seem to be putting out a signal of surrender to the baron..."
"fine, lets hand things over to them." they called back their cavalry and left.
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"UGH...." souren said as he looked over the logs from the past month of pirate hunting.
"besides that one encounter on the first day we haven't encountered anything but warships belonging to the renza federation!"
their encounter rate was about once every 3 jumps.
"well, we don't really know why he attracted so many pirates back in the galactic federations... but still our encounter rate is amazing... i think it's still to early to make any conclusions about why this is happening though" hakuren said
"are there any commonalities in the ships we've encountered?"
"no they have been from all 5 nations... and everything from private merchants to aristocrats."
"they might not be pirates, but merchants and nobles always have something shady about them... I wouldn't be suprised really if that's it...."
"we need more time to collect more data." Racepshi quaked around them. Racepshi was an entertainment ship... and an artificial planet... such a thing was never supposed to happen. sajyu and and souren sprung into an alert state.
"Souren-sama! " an emergency communication monitor started, it was Ekushito, general manager of Recepushi.
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Shortly before Ekushito sent a communication to Hakuren.
" what are you doing!?" ekushito stood on the bridge of the Racespshi.
"we're an extra territorial entity don't you know that?"
"yes but we also know what we have to do"
"That would break our noninvasive agreement ...!"
"But what if must be done to preserve the safety of your passengers... we have captured your geusts outside the perimeter of your ship and are holding them hostage."
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"A battle with HIMIK?!" hakuren said befuddled on the bridge of the burst squirrel.
displayed was ekushito and a fleet of 7 high ranking armored cavelry units they were all over the 4th generation in power.
"it seems that 3 of them are 3rd generation but the one in the center... it's a second gen... it's power readings are just like the mikagami's in strength."
"so what your saying is.... that center one... that's HIMIK..."
"You'd need a 2nd gen to make all those 3rds... it seems like seina's power is working after all... hahaha"
"This is no laughing matter this is like a major a boss encounter in a videogame!"
"hakuren what are we going to do... it's all up to you..." hakuren looked at the screen
Seina talked to zinv telepathicly.
"Zinv... Cant you put an end to this before anything happens?"
"No, No... The children... I can't hear them, they are already gone... they are blind and deaf to me, they're not children anymore. it screamed sorrofully
"not children? what do you mean?"
"... already ... already... I can not see into their hearts. They are the same as dead. "
"They're dead? what do you mean?"
"I don't know how to explain it... but they aren't children anymore. HIMIK.... Was broken... Same as me... I was broken.... I broke..."
"ZINV? ..... ZINV?!? "
"That's why...... That's why..... Forgive me.... I have to end this... "
"End this? You're going to fight?"
Zinv shut off the connection between them.
(End it? that mean's you're going to fight?)
seina privately relayed their conversation to hakuren who seemed confused.
(ekushito said he would let us decide for ourselves.)
(what do you think were going to do?)
(it seems they have taken hostages from the racepshi....I don't know how we should handle this but i won't make a decision without consulting kaguya first... )
"I already know what my response is... I accept their challenge" seina said outloud
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"Is he crazy? he accepted?!" makihi was confused when her husband told her the news.
"it seems so."
"What kind of advice did you give him?!"
"nothing i just told him to think more independently... I never could have imagined this would happen..."
"Should we tell kiriko?"
"yes... it would be best if you got on that right away. we don't need any unnecessary confusion."
"I understand, I will tell here in a bit... I'm just amazed... Is this really all because of seina's power?"
"it sure has exceeded my expectations... I wonder how a daughter between him and maya would turn out..."
"Well... hopefully we get the opportunity to find out..." a smile appeared on makihi's face.
"speaking of... we have two god like entities about to fight each other..."
"yes... this will be the confrontation of the century... let's get thing ready..." he smiled back.
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"Are you kidding me you demon hag?!" miki was quick to jump to confront makihi at the news. kiriko was surprisingly calm and kirche was puzzled...
"Why are you letting this happen!? what if seina dies, or he and zinv are captured!" miki yelled. kiriko seemed calm.
"there's nothing we can do... you realise were up against a fleet of royal tree's... our defenses would be decimated. or did you not see the 6 other mechs floating out there..."
"ehm....." miki was struck dumb
"besides, seina is well known for his power in the galaxy federation but here... he is doubted. he needs to show his power... if he doesn't he'll be labeled a coward. all confidence in him will be lost. the experimental unit will be disbanded."
"... so this whole situation is stacked against him...? isn't there anything we can do? The Kamidake is equivalent to a first gen and mizuki is a second gen! if we can sync them with zinv we can turn the tide of this battle in his favor!"
"against a fleet of 4th and 3rd gens? you will end up blowing up half of renza."
"so the entire renza federation is a hostage too then..." kirche finally spoke up.
"Ugh... damn it all... D do you know anything about that thing out there?" miki asked D was staring at the monitor silently.
something was obviously wrong.
"Why.... WHY IS IT HERE!?" d who wasn't a master of emotions seemed visibly scared
"Do you know anything about that knight HIMIK?"
"HIMIK ...... That should have been destroyed by ZINV. it should have completely disappeared."
"so then it's an imposter?"
" that certainly is HIMIK .... the same one as from the beginning of the prehistoric civilization, ZINV and Kazuki remained but it should have completely disappeared... why is it here?!"
"I've been a bit curious to hear the full story, but correct me if Im wrong... there was a planet named Earth a few hundred million years ago, and the world split in two two parallels one, After that, ZINV repaired it into one original world?" amane shook D's shoulder and she turned from the monitor finaly "
"Well ... .... Yes, but it wasn't a restoration, we eliminated the parallelization, afterwards everything was changed a little bit and time and space began to recover naturally"
"if two worlds existed in parallel before the alteration, if ZINV disappeared in one, is that the other world's HIMIK?"
"... .... Oh!" D was shocked by this and clung to Amane. she turned pure white and her whole body was shaking.
"So what happened to HIMIK in the other world? What happens to those things without a pair when they become one world?"
"Didn't you investigate?"
"No ... No! As a result of investigating Dr. Sanada, found there was nothing wrong, so it was thought that ZINV had just modified itself and stabilized ... But, it does not matter now."
"if HIMIK is a 2nd generation Imperial Tree, maybe it wasn't affected by the reformation, ... we will have to ask Washu or Airi. either way there is something completely the same in front of us "
"so you've fought it before... then battle data should still be in zinv. that should give us an advantage."
"it should be. the memories were integrated between both worlds."
"So... it might have memories of HIMIK who isn't supposed to exist..."
"ugh enough of this! Isn't there anything you can do!?" miki yelled at makihi
"this is a one on one battle, intervention isn't allowed. if it makes you feel better there's a battle specialist on hakuren's team."
" You know that's not what I mean you Devil hag!"
"I don't know what you want me to tell you... The kamidake is not allowed to leave racepshi." "GaAAAah!"
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"If he loses things are going to get rough" amane said Kiriko looked around they were watching the fight in the living room. Fuku and Acha weren't there.
"where are the girls?"
"there in bed, i've prevented them from seeing anything about the fight. we can tell them tomorrow morning."
"good."
(Please... don't lose)
there was nothing more kiriko could do but pray for victory.
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Seina got in the cockpit of ZINV and was waiting for a signal to start the battle. he wasn't worried about the battle... he was worried about the gaudy stage production part of the fight.
" I thought i would be used to this after the fight with seiryo... but... I can't take this seriously."
seina continued to look at himik though the whole thing.
"I feel bad, ZINV has said that HIMIK was broken, ... it certainly doesn't feel like an Imperial Tree" what he felt when he looked at himik in front of him betrayed what he knew about the trees
"wait...... what is that..."
It felt like the essence of HIMIK could be seen like he had 'focused' in on it suddenly. it felt like "emptiness" ... was the best way he could describe it. a feeling like the embodiment of death. "ah!!!!!!!!!!" He felt a shiver go through him. his crisis instincts kicked in the emptiness in front of him terrified him he was scared of losing everything he had gotten since coming into space. but he had no idea how he was going to face such a thing. the noise around him dissipated and all he could see was himik
"I see" At this point Seina was able to understand the ZINV's feelings. It was just emptiness there. There was no intention, no thought or feeling, it was like a singularity. a phenomenon of the elimination of existence itself. it was different from what he felt with tarrant, but it was still a bad feeling. The moment he felt it, it became frustrating, he couldn't bear to see it anymore. the opening events were still going on but seina couldn't bear it.
─ ─ Get it gone! Please make it disappear!
"Voo Ooh Oo Ooh ooo!!!" /
"Gakuaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa !!" zinv and himik roared and it shook the universe around them and in a moment the two godly knights disappeared in a flash.
"... .... Mia!?" fuku woke up suddenly, acha was still sleeping on the bed as she hopped off and looked around. she was overcome by a tremendous sense of loss and didn't know why. she soon realized her bond with seina was broken. "Miao! Mia!" fuku became anxious and desperately searched for seina using the kamidake and she noticed ZINV fighting with HIMIK
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"What happened!" ekushito yelled in the control room of racepshi
"They just suddenly entered into battle."
"why have we lost the feed?"
"the energy their outputting is too great. all the camera probes have been destroyed." ?
"sir we are recieving a lot of complaints."
naturally this was a hyped up battle and their customers were not happy to not be able to see it.
"this is a fight between legendary gods, It's not like we could have expected this."
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The battlefield had become a burning hell swirling in a torrent of energy like one would see in a newly formed universe. the long range attacks from himic had burst all over the battlefield instantly evaporating the camera probes.
"............"
Seina was extremely concentrated and had dodged every blow so far. none of how he was operating could be attributed to experience, this was pure crisis avoidance instinct. the fight was immense and it wasn't clear how much of the surrounding would end up completely destroyed when the fight was over. racepshi, the nearby solar system, even the galaxy could be taken out before this was over. First generation and second generation. The difference was orders of magnitude but neither would give up. their fight was physically tearing up space around them himik began to get closer after using long range attacks to try and form a hole in Zinvs light hawk wings, seina was curious as to why it wasn't just making them dissipate, perhaps they didn't know they could cancel them out. suddenly Himik got closer but instead of doing an attack seina anticipated it was getting ready to do something else
"wait...what is this?" a terrible chill hit Seina. in a quick moment, HIMIK emanated invisible but terrible energy, and ZINV guarded itself reflectively with the Light Hawk Wings.
(No!) as the energy touched the Light Hawk Wings, a tremendous light penetrated the Light Hawk Wings and enveloped ZINV.
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"What the hell is going on! why can't we see the battle!" miki yelled at makihi though a video monitor, she had returned to the control room to deal with the situation, next to her where two adjacent monitors with kriko and hakuren's team looking angry.
"The camera's have all been destroyed... your going to have to wait for us to fix it."
"Screw that. Were using the kamidake!"
at that time a great tremor from himik hit the racepshi
"guoooooooooooooooooo" that terrible grow spread through Recepushi as a tremor. it's voice was a painful thing of both anger and sorrow.
"Kamidake launch! Destroy the armored shield and go outside Now!"
"HIMIK 's other knights have suddenly moved! There out of our sensing area ... it seems from the reaction data, two of them have joined the fight!" operators yelled
"The remaining two knights are engaging in combat with the kamidake!"
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"myah myah myaaaaaaaaa"
"Fuku-chan!" kiriko's group went running into the bedroom with fuku and acha. fuku was crying out in a frenzy, acha was confused as to what was going on.
"what's going on is seina ok?"
"Kiriko-sama, what's going on there !?" acha asked
"Fuku-chan felt something and took the Kamidake out to fight, Seina might be in danger!"
"the Kamidake is currently in battle with the maiden Knights outside Recepushi. this will be bad unless we get her to hurry up and return! "
"No! If you she stops battling in this situation the enemy will destroy the kamidake or it'll be captured!" amane yelled the Kamidake was a mass of ultra sophisticated technology. Even fragments were high in value.
"the kamidake is trapped!" On the monitor that Ryoko launched into the bedroom, there was a video of one of the knights holding the kamidake in place as many armored cavalry came out of part of the captured fleet that should have been hostages. it was unclear if they were going to aim for the kamidake or the knight.
"this is bad! hey miki!"
"I'm on it!" miku fuku kirche and D all linked to the kamidake at once
"Miaaaaow" the kamidake began to spin at high speed.
"no way... is that the guy volg?"
However contrary to the expectations of Kiriko, the appearance of Kamidake changed to a disk-like shape distorted and dark. And a ring of dazzling light stretched from Light Hawk Wings of the Maiden Knight who held the Kamidake, the knights and the cavalry surrounding them broke apart.
"What! What did you do?"
"I do not know! I just did it Somehow!" Miki cried out in a frustrated manner as if she was annoyed by Kiriko's question.
"Seina where is he !?" as if responding to Amane's words, the Kamidake jumped.
"... .... HIMIK!" the Kamidake jumped out to the space where the tremendous residual energy was but it could only detect HIMIK and one of the maiden knights who had lost half their body.
"miah miah miah!"
"Were is zinv! is this a joke?"
"we will just have to ask them!" but himik and the knight detected the kamidake approaching and made a quick emergency jump away.
"shit he got away!"
"Everyone! please! return the kamidake now!" makihi said from the monitor.
"we haven't found seina yet!"
"No, Miki! It's impossible to investigate any further, leaving a scanning probe and bring the kamidake back."
"............" Although Miki and Kirche were looking at makihi and Kiriko, they moved to Fuku who was still crying while watching the monitor.
"Mia! Miah!" "... .... Fuku chan" Miki softly approached Fuku and picked her up.
"Seina is okay,we've had many dangerous encounters, and he's always made it through, remember when you were caught by Tarrant, didn't pull through and come to help us?"
"Miah ... .." kiriko wiped fuku's eyes.
"So this time we 'll be the ones to search for Seina, with everyone, we'll work together to find Seina, so be patient for now."
"Miah?"
"It's okay, he'll be safe, Seina has ZINV too, remember?" kiriko took fuku over to acha and acha understood and petted her.
"miah!" fuku calmed down.
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"oh wow all of us are here"
hakuren's side and kiriko's side had all been gathered at makihi's private residence. it was the first time since the wedding. they seemed a bit suprised by souren and his group but they were more concerned with seina.
"we managed to capture this" makihi brought up the zinv himik fight on a screen.
"eh!?" the attacks from HIMIK ceased for a moment, and in the next moment, a tremendous light was generated inside the light hawk wings of ZINV. And after the tremendous light a visual impairment came on the screen, ZINV vanished and HIMIK was half-destroyed.
"no...NO WAY!" "No, I don't think it was destroyed, the readings we got were too weak for that. it seems he jumped away."
"this is the energy map of the attack"
"what makihi diplayed was exactly what the kamidake had done earlier against the knights it faced.
"What is this?"
"well it seems to be the same thing your kamidake used..."
A thing like a black lump was injected from the front of HIMIK when the attack stopped briefly, as soon as it touched the light hawk Wings of ZINV, a strong light streaks went towards ZINV.
"That's the PKW! Why is HIMIK able to do that !?" Kiriko had gained knowledge of the pkw from seto's data bank shortly after being made a royal. naturally hakuren's people knew nothing, but miki knew.
"kiriko do you know what this weapon is?"
"before ryo-ohki, there was only case where a royal ship was destroyed, the former shank guild made a weapon, a wave that passes through the light hawk wings and damages the ship."
-------trivia commentary: open up your OVA 3 plus DVD watch the extra of the girls explaining tenchi concepts .... they implied in 2003 that the chobimaru, that big golf ball monstrosity the kuramitsu's took to the earth... was made specifically to do this attack against jurai. and here it is... over a 15 years later before it's finally published in the story The more ya know!------
"Such a thing exists? why do they have it!? how would they have it?"
"Doctor clay...."miki said. she looked blue in the face,
"Oh! The data that was kept secret in Tarrant's base!" miki had said in a report that she had traded some data for dr. clays help.
"if i hadn't ever made that deal...."
"that is only one possibility, tarrant had that information the whole time there is no guarantee they didn't sell it to someone on their own. many others may have that information."
"but..."
"even if it wasn't you did it to save all of you... and besides... it seems seina is safe..."
"if they did get it from clay it's the best clue we have to finding the identity of it's pilot. and now that we know they have it, we can come up with something to help seina if it happens again..."
Miki silently nodded at kiriko's words
"we have to verify the data of what happened to find him. can we have a copy of this data?"
"yes." "please give hakuren a copy too"
From here on, Kiriko demonstrated her real power. The data provided by Recepushi was combined with the data collected by Kamidake and analyzed with Kiriko 's systems in mizuki. And the result came back a only few minutes later.
The image was clear.
"Kiriko-sama ...... I'll consult with you later about doing something with this for me" Makihi who saw kirikos video analysis technology was high precision made a note to make negotiations to buy a copy of it for emergency cases.
"wow this is so sharp... ... you can see it offsetting the Light Hawk Wings"
Only one of ZINV's Light Hawk Wings disappeared, and in that moment, ZINV launched a counter-attack.
"what did seina do?"
"Well, if you look closely ZINV is shooting gravitational bullets and then it seems he immediately left with an emergency jump ... ...."
"But how did he do it so quickly ..."
"he probably perceived him coming, the real question is how was he not intercepted by the other knights"
"look.... Just before that, just before ZINV-sama jumps, something was shot at HIMIK and his knights."
"ohhhhhh... no doubt about it that's the paint what took down kamidake No. 1." Amane said with a smile, Kiriko and Hakuren gathered to look and smile.
"Well played Seina!" "At this point he was safe, they would have been in serious trouble if they followed him."
"Then he's definately safe... let's hurry up and go look for him ... ...!" Kiriko caught Miki, who tried to stand up, and turned her eyes toward Hakuren.
"hakuren i leave this up to you ...as i imagine you will be the only one able to do anything for a while..." Miki who remembered the situation and sat her self down in the chair.
"Thank you. I'll do my best."
Hakuren's group and Souren's immediately left from Makihi 's place. Kiriko took big deep breath. "what is the problem, why can't we do anything?" miki asked
"Currently, there is a demand from the Renza Federation for immediate delivery of the Kamidake , our various battle actions have violated their airspace, that is a felony criminal act....Informally, the galactic federation has already made an offer to make an apology and deliver them compensation.... but who knows."
"they only want the Kamidake?"
"well it wasn't you and Kiriko-sama out there, but they know you are connected in various ways,to be honest, all i know is that we we can guarantee that we will protect you "
"I am sorry, but that guarantee is impossible for us to make." Ekushito showed up and gave a hardened expression . Makihi who saw that look sighed as if she had already given up on the situation.
"so you're going to hand over us, isn't this a place of extraterritoriality?" Kiriko stared firmly at Ekushito. The Others are staring in the same way.
"As a customer, we will protect you to the very last of our ability, within the scope of protecting you from the law here, or we would, unfortunately everyone seems to have deviated from that policy."
"What do You mean? is that the decision of the board?" Makihi stood between Ekushito and Kiriko, and intercepted the interaction between the two.
"Although it was tentative, the investigation meeting was to be held on Recepushi, but they won't let us do it there." the moment they came out of Recepushi, they were as good arrested. However, if it was done at Recepushi, they would have been safe."
"Why? Can't they listen to our defense here?"
"If they had relations with Galactic Federation maybe, but they don't want to do that, we have to turn you over unfortunately, we are still in their air space. "
Don't we get a lawyer?"
There was also the possibility of false charges they didn't know the law here. Of course it was true that the battle occurred illegally in renza space, but it was a fact that it was an emergency. "Since they have no such relations with the Galactic Federation, we will be in charge of that. If you need a lawyer, please Hakuren-sama know about it, We will be monitoring your call, so please keep that in ming. "
"I understand" While relaxing her facial expression, Kiriko still kept an eye on Ekushito.
"Oh, yeah, and it may be a good idea to change into something more inline with the fashion style of renza before you go." Ekushito said.
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Ps... this is the last we hear from them this book. except the afterword which seems to take place when kiriko first sees souren.
A sudden and far too early encounter
------I consider this the start of a new episode If i had to put a number on it I'd say this is the 3rd episode so far------
Seina put in co-ordinates, and they all jumped. everyone was on edge, They all expected the worst. they jumped out finally,
"report on our surroundings!"
"There's a reaction! from the energy mass ratio it's definitely a battleship!"
"Really?" Kaguya said in a loud voice,
Hakuren and others were relieved to know that Seina's abilities still worked in renza. The ship was unregistered.
"There's no response to the S class full code signal! Assume it's a pirate ship!"
they deployed all their light knights and they began to attack the ship but soon another ship came out of war.
"there's a ship jumping out nearby! it's from the fire kingdom! That's the fire fish!"
"we're getting an electronic communication. Stop all attacks... this is an order from a superior."
"cease fire!" sajyu ordered
"We were in pursuit of that ship first. I'd like you to stop all battle actions promptly and hand it over to me. " a fearless looking middle aged man with Brown skin and Red hair and a Kaiser's beard appeared on the monitor. He looked like a military aristocrat.
"Baron Kashuruna, we caught this pirate after we jumped, we should have priority, what is the meaning of this?"
---------this is Kamui Kashuruna from the end of gxp 14------
"This ship is our target and our target alone, this is an order from Baron kamui kashurun kasen If you want it you'll have to fight us for it! of course we'll accept, I'd love to see ZINV in battle."
karen's face turned sour upon hearing the name of the person ranked right above her in succession.
"the pirates seem to be putting out a signal of surrender to the baron..."
"fine, lets hand things over to them." they called back their cavalry and left.
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"UGH...." souren said as he looked over the logs from the past month of pirate hunting.
"besides that one encounter on the first day we haven't encountered anything but warships belonging to the renza federation!"
their encounter rate was about once every 3 jumps.
"well, we don't really know why he attracted so many pirates back in the galactic federations... but still our encounter rate is amazing... i think it's still to early to make any conclusions about why this is happening though" hakuren said
"are there any commonalities in the ships we've encountered?"
"no they have been from all 5 nations... and everything from private merchants to aristocrats."
"they might not be pirates, but merchants and nobles always have something shady about them... I wouldn't be suprised really if that's it...."
"we need more time to collect more data." Racepshi quaked around them. Racepshi was an entertainment ship... and an artificial planet... such a thing was never supposed to happen. sajyu and and souren sprung into an alert state.
"Souren-sama! " an emergency communication monitor started, it was Ekushito, general manager of Recepushi.
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Shortly before Ekushito sent a communication to Hakuren.
" what are you doing!?" ekushito stood on the bridge of the Racespshi.
"we're an extra territorial entity don't you know that?"
"yes but we also know what we have to do"
"That would break our noninvasive agreement ...!"
"But what if must be done to preserve the safety of your passengers... we have captured your geusts outside the perimeter of your ship and are holding them hostage."
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"A battle with HIMIK?!" hakuren said befuddled on the bridge of the burst squirrel.
displayed was ekushito and a fleet of 7 high ranking armored cavelry units they were all over the 4th generation in power.
"it seems that 3 of them are 3rd generation but the one in the center... it's a second gen... it's power readings are just like the mikagami's in strength."
"so what your saying is.... that center one... that's HIMIK..."
"You'd need a 2nd gen to make all those 3rds... it seems like seina's power is working after all... hahaha"
"This is no laughing matter this is like a major a boss encounter in a videogame!"
"hakuren what are we going to do... it's all up to you..." hakuren looked at the screen
Seina talked to zinv telepathicly.
"Zinv... Cant you put an end to this before anything happens?"
"No, No... The children... I can't hear them, they are already gone... they are blind and deaf to me, they're not children anymore. it screamed sorrofully
"not children? what do you mean?"
"... already ... already... I can not see into their hearts. They are the same as dead. "
"They're dead? what do you mean?"
"I don't know how to explain it... but they aren't children anymore. HIMIK.... Was broken... Same as me... I was broken.... I broke..."
"ZINV? ..... ZINV?!? "
"That's why...... That's why..... Forgive me.... I have to end this... "
"End this? You're going to fight?"
Zinv shut off the connection between them.
(End it? that mean's you're going to fight?)
seina privately relayed their conversation to hakuren who seemed confused.
(ekushito said he would let us decide for ourselves.)
(what do you think were going to do?)
(it seems they have taken hostages from the racepshi....I don't know how we should handle this but i won't make a decision without consulting kaguya first... )
"I already know what my response is... I accept their challenge" seina said outloud
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"Is he crazy? he accepted?!" makihi was confused when her husband told her the news.
"it seems so."
"What kind of advice did you give him?!"
"nothing i just told him to think more independently... I never could have imagined this would happen..."
"Should we tell kiriko?"
"yes... it would be best if you got on that right away. we don't need any unnecessary confusion."
"I understand, I will tell here in a bit... I'm just amazed... Is this really all because of seina's power?"
"it sure has exceeded my expectations... I wonder how a daughter between him and maya would turn out..."
"Well... hopefully we get the opportunity to find out..." a smile appeared on makihi's face.
"speaking of... we have two god like entities about to fight each other..."
"yes... this will be the confrontation of the century... let's get thing ready..." he smiled back.
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"Are you kidding me you demon hag?!" miki was quick to jump to confront makihi at the news. kiriko was surprisingly calm and kirche was puzzled...
"Why are you letting this happen!? what if seina dies, or he and zinv are captured!" miki yelled. kiriko seemed calm.
"there's nothing we can do... you realise were up against a fleet of royal tree's... our defenses would be decimated. or did you not see the 6 other mechs floating out there..."
"ehm....." miki was struck dumb
"besides, seina is well known for his power in the galaxy federation but here... he is doubted. he needs to show his power... if he doesn't he'll be labeled a coward. all confidence in him will be lost. the experimental unit will be disbanded."
"... so this whole situation is stacked against him...? isn't there anything we can do? The Kamidake is equivalent to a first gen and mizuki is a second gen! if we can sync them with zinv we can turn the tide of this battle in his favor!"
"against a fleet of 4th and 3rd gens? you will end up blowing up half of renza."
"so the entire renza federation is a hostage too then..." kirche finally spoke up.
"Ugh... damn it all... D do you know anything about that thing out there?" miki asked D was staring at the monitor silently.
something was obviously wrong.
"Why.... WHY IS IT HERE!?" d who wasn't a master of emotions seemed visibly scared
"Do you know anything about that knight HIMIK?"
"HIMIK ...... That should have been destroyed by ZINV. it should have completely disappeared."
"so then it's an imposter?"
" that certainly is HIMIK .... the same one as from the beginning of the prehistoric civilization, ZINV and Kazuki remained but it should have completely disappeared... why is it here?!"
"I've been a bit curious to hear the full story, but correct me if Im wrong... there was a planet named Earth a few hundred million years ago, and the world split in two two parallels one, After that, ZINV repaired it into one original world?" amane shook D's shoulder and she turned from the monitor finaly "
"Well ... .... Yes, but it wasn't a restoration, we eliminated the parallelization, afterwards everything was changed a little bit and time and space began to recover naturally"
"if two worlds existed in parallel before the alteration, if ZINV disappeared in one, is that the other world's HIMIK?"
"... .... Oh!" D was shocked by this and clung to Amane. she turned pure white and her whole body was shaking.
"So what happened to HIMIK in the other world? What happens to those things without a pair when they become one world?"
"Didn't you investigate?"
"No ... No! As a result of investigating Dr. Sanada, found there was nothing wrong, so it was thought that ZINV had just modified itself and stabilized ... But, it does not matter now."
"if HIMIK is a 2nd generation Imperial Tree, maybe it wasn't affected by the reformation, ... we will have to ask Washu or Airi. either way there is something completely the same in front of us "
"so you've fought it before... then battle data should still be in zinv. that should give us an advantage."
"it should be. the memories were integrated between both worlds."
"So... it might have memories of HIMIK who isn't supposed to exist..."
"ugh enough of this! Isn't there anything you can do!?" miki yelled at makihi
"this is a one on one battle, intervention isn't allowed. if it makes you feel better there's a battle specialist on hakuren's team."
" You know that's not what I mean you Devil hag!"
"I don't know what you want me to tell you... The kamidake is not allowed to leave racepshi." "GaAAAah!"
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"If he loses things are going to get rough" amane said Kiriko looked around they were watching the fight in the living room. Fuku and Acha weren't there.
"where are the girls?"
"there in bed, i've prevented them from seeing anything about the fight. we can tell them tomorrow morning."
"good."
(Please... don't lose)
there was nothing more kiriko could do but pray for victory.
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Seina got in the cockpit of ZINV and was waiting for a signal to start the battle. he wasn't worried about the battle... he was worried about the gaudy stage production part of the fight.
" I thought i would be used to this after the fight with seiryo... but... I can't take this seriously."
seina continued to look at himik though the whole thing.
"I feel bad, ZINV has said that HIMIK was broken, ... it certainly doesn't feel like an Imperial Tree" what he felt when he looked at himik in front of him betrayed what he knew about the trees
"wait...... what is that..."
It felt like the essence of HIMIK could be seen like he had 'focused' in on it suddenly. it felt like "emptiness" ... was the best way he could describe it. a feeling like the embodiment of death. "ah!!!!!!!!!!" He felt a shiver go through him. his crisis instincts kicked in the emptiness in front of him terrified him he was scared of losing everything he had gotten since coming into space. but he had no idea how he was going to face such a thing. the noise around him dissipated and all he could see was himik
"I see" At this point Seina was able to understand the ZINV's feelings. It was just emptiness there. There was no intention, no thought or feeling, it was like a singularity. a phenomenon of the elimination of existence itself. it was different from what he felt with tarrant, but it was still a bad feeling. The moment he felt it, it became frustrating, he couldn't bear to see it anymore. the opening events were still going on but seina couldn't bear it.
─ ─ Get it gone! Please make it disappear!
"Voo Ooh Oo Ooh ooo!!!" /
"Gakuaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa !!" zinv and himik roared and it shook the universe around them and in a moment the two godly knights disappeared in a flash.
"... .... Mia!?" fuku woke up suddenly, acha was still sleeping on the bed as she hopped off and looked around. she was overcome by a tremendous sense of loss and didn't know why. she soon realized her bond with seina was broken. "Miao! Mia!" fuku became anxious and desperately searched for seina using the kamidake and she noticed ZINV fighting with HIMIK
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"What happened!" ekushito yelled in the control room of racepshi
"They just suddenly entered into battle."
"why have we lost the feed?"
"the energy their outputting is too great. all the camera probes have been destroyed." ?
"sir we are recieving a lot of complaints."
naturally this was a hyped up battle and their customers were not happy to not be able to see it.
"this is a fight between legendary gods, It's not like we could have expected this."
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The battlefield had become a burning hell swirling in a torrent of energy like one would see in a newly formed universe. the long range attacks from himic had burst all over the battlefield instantly evaporating the camera probes.
"............"
Seina was extremely concentrated and had dodged every blow so far. none of how he was operating could be attributed to experience, this was pure crisis avoidance instinct. the fight was immense and it wasn't clear how much of the surrounding would end up completely destroyed when the fight was over. racepshi, the nearby solar system, even the galaxy could be taken out before this was over. First generation and second generation. The difference was orders of magnitude but neither would give up. their fight was physically tearing up space around them himik began to get closer after using long range attacks to try and form a hole in Zinvs light hawk wings, seina was curious as to why it wasn't just making them dissipate, perhaps they didn't know they could cancel them out. suddenly Himik got closer but instead of doing an attack seina anticipated it was getting ready to do something else
"wait...what is this?" a terrible chill hit Seina. in a quick moment, HIMIK emanated invisible but terrible energy, and ZINV guarded itself reflectively with the Light Hawk Wings.
(No!) as the energy touched the Light Hawk Wings, a tremendous light penetrated the Light Hawk Wings and enveloped ZINV.
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"What the hell is going on! why can't we see the battle!" miki yelled at makihi though a video monitor, she had returned to the control room to deal with the situation, next to her where two adjacent monitors with kriko and hakuren's team looking angry.
"The camera's have all been destroyed... your going to have to wait for us to fix it."
"Screw that. Were using the kamidake!"
at that time a great tremor from himik hit the racepshi
"guoooooooooooooooooo" that terrible grow spread through Recepushi as a tremor. it's voice was a painful thing of both anger and sorrow.
"Kamidake launch! Destroy the armored shield and go outside Now!"
"HIMIK 's other knights have suddenly moved! There out of our sensing area ... it seems from the reaction data, two of them have joined the fight!" operators yelled
"The remaining two knights are engaging in combat with the kamidake!"
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"myah myah myaaaaaaaaa"
"Fuku-chan!" kiriko's group went running into the bedroom with fuku and acha. fuku was crying out in a frenzy, acha was confused as to what was going on.
"what's going on is seina ok?"
"Kiriko-sama, what's going on there !?" acha asked
"Fuku-chan felt something and took the Kamidake out to fight, Seina might be in danger!"
"the Kamidake is currently in battle with the maiden Knights outside Recepushi. this will be bad unless we get her to hurry up and return! "
"No! If you she stops battling in this situation the enemy will destroy the kamidake or it'll be captured!" amane yelled the Kamidake was a mass of ultra sophisticated technology. Even fragments were high in value.
"the kamidake is trapped!" On the monitor that Ryoko launched into the bedroom, there was a video of one of the knights holding the kamidake in place as many armored cavalry came out of part of the captured fleet that should have been hostages. it was unclear if they were going to aim for the kamidake or the knight.
"this is bad! hey miki!"
"I'm on it!" miku fuku kirche and D all linked to the kamidake at once
"Miaaaaow" the kamidake began to spin at high speed.
"no way... is that the guy volg?"
However contrary to the expectations of Kiriko, the appearance of Kamidake changed to a disk-like shape distorted and dark. And a ring of dazzling light stretched from Light Hawk Wings of the Maiden Knight who held the Kamidake, the knights and the cavalry surrounding them broke apart.
"What! What did you do?"
"I do not know! I just did it Somehow!" Miki cried out in a frustrated manner as if she was annoyed by Kiriko's question.
"Seina where is he !?" as if responding to Amane's words, the Kamidake jumped.
"... .... HIMIK!" the Kamidake jumped out to the space where the tremendous residual energy was but it could only detect HIMIK and one of the maiden knights who had lost half their body.
"miah miah miah!"
"Were is zinv! is this a joke?"
"we will just have to ask them!" but himik and the knight detected the kamidake approaching and made a quick emergency jump away.
"shit he got away!"
"Everyone! please! return the kamidake now!" makihi said from the monitor.
"we haven't found seina yet!"
"No, Miki! It's impossible to investigate any further, leaving a scanning probe and bring the kamidake back."
"............" Although Miki and Kirche were looking at makihi and Kiriko, they moved to Fuku who was still crying while watching the monitor.
"Mia! Miah!" "... .... Fuku chan" Miki softly approached Fuku and picked her up.
"Seina is okay,we've had many dangerous encounters, and he's always made it through, remember when you were caught by Tarrant, didn't pull through and come to help us?"
"Miah ... .." kiriko wiped fuku's eyes.
"So this time we 'll be the ones to search for Seina, with everyone, we'll work together to find Seina, so be patient for now."
"Miah?"
"It's okay, he'll be safe, Seina has ZINV too, remember?" kiriko took fuku over to acha and acha understood and petted her.
"miah!" fuku calmed down.
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"oh wow all of us are here"
hakuren's side and kiriko's side had all been gathered at makihi's private residence. it was the first time since the wedding. they seemed a bit suprised by souren and his group but they were more concerned with seina.
"we managed to capture this" makihi brought up the zinv himik fight on a screen.
"eh!?" the attacks from HIMIK ceased for a moment, and in the next moment, a tremendous light was generated inside the light hawk wings of ZINV. And after the tremendous light a visual impairment came on the screen, ZINV vanished and HIMIK was half-destroyed.
"no...NO WAY!" "No, I don't think it was destroyed, the readings we got were too weak for that. it seems he jumped away."
"this is the energy map of the attack"
"what makihi diplayed was exactly what the kamidake had done earlier against the knights it faced.
"What is this?"
"well it seems to be the same thing your kamidake used..."
A thing like a black lump was injected from the front of HIMIK when the attack stopped briefly, as soon as it touched the light hawk Wings of ZINV, a strong light streaks went towards ZINV.
"That's the PKW! Why is HIMIK able to do that !?" Kiriko had gained knowledge of the pkw from seto's data bank shortly after being made a royal. naturally hakuren's people knew nothing, but miki knew.
"kiriko do you know what this weapon is?"
"before ryo-ohki, there was only case where a royal ship was destroyed, the former shank guild made a weapon, a wave that passes through the light hawk wings and damages the ship."
-------trivia commentary: open up your OVA 3 plus DVD watch the extra of the girls explaining tenchi concepts .... they implied in 2003 that the chobimaru, that big golf ball monstrosity the kuramitsu's took to the earth... was made specifically to do this attack against jurai. and here it is... over a 15 years later before it's finally published in the story The more ya know!------
"Such a thing exists? why do they have it!? how would they have it?"
"Doctor clay...."miki said. she looked blue in the face,
"Oh! The data that was kept secret in Tarrant's base!" miki had said in a report that she had traded some data for dr. clays help.
"if i hadn't ever made that deal...."
"that is only one possibility, tarrant had that information the whole time there is no guarantee they didn't sell it to someone on their own. many others may have that information."
"but..."
"even if it wasn't you did it to save all of you... and besides... it seems seina is safe..."
"if they did get it from clay it's the best clue we have to finding the identity of it's pilot. and now that we know they have it, we can come up with something to help seina if it happens again..."
Miki silently nodded at kiriko's words
"we have to verify the data of what happened to find him. can we have a copy of this data?"
"yes." "please give hakuren a copy too"
From here on, Kiriko demonstrated her real power. The data provided by Recepushi was combined with the data collected by Kamidake and analyzed with Kiriko 's systems in mizuki. And the result came back a only few minutes later.
The image was clear.
"Kiriko-sama ...... I'll consult with you later about doing something with this for me" Makihi who saw kirikos video analysis technology was high precision made a note to make negotiations to buy a copy of it for emergency cases.
"wow this is so sharp... ... you can see it offsetting the Light Hawk Wings"
Only one of ZINV's Light Hawk Wings disappeared, and in that moment, ZINV launched a counter-attack.
"what did seina do?"
"Well, if you look closely ZINV is shooting gravitational bullets and then it seems he immediately left with an emergency jump ... ...."
"But how did he do it so quickly ..."
"he probably perceived him coming, the real question is how was he not intercepted by the other knights"
"look.... Just before that, just before ZINV-sama jumps, something was shot at HIMIK and his knights."
"ohhhhhh... no doubt about it that's the paint what took down kamidake No. 1." Amane said with a smile, Kiriko and Hakuren gathered to look and smile.
"Well played Seina!" "At this point he was safe, they would have been in serious trouble if they followed him."
"Then he's definately safe... let's hurry up and go look for him ... ...!" Kiriko caught Miki, who tried to stand up, and turned her eyes toward Hakuren.
"hakuren i leave this up to you ...as i imagine you will be the only one able to do anything for a while..." Miki who remembered the situation and sat her self down in the chair.
"Thank you. I'll do my best."
Hakuren's group and Souren's immediately left from Makihi 's place. Kiriko took big deep breath. "what is the problem, why can't we do anything?" miki asked
"Currently, there is a demand from the Renza Federation for immediate delivery of the Kamidake , our various battle actions have violated their airspace, that is a felony criminal act....Informally, the galactic federation has already made an offer to make an apology and deliver them compensation.... but who knows."
"they only want the Kamidake?"
"well it wasn't you and Kiriko-sama out there, but they know you are connected in various ways,to be honest, all i know is that we we can guarantee that we will protect you "
"I am sorry, but that guarantee is impossible for us to make." Ekushito showed up and gave a hardened expression . Makihi who saw that look sighed as if she had already given up on the situation.
"so you're going to hand over us, isn't this a place of extraterritoriality?" Kiriko stared firmly at Ekushito. The Others are staring in the same way.
"As a customer, we will protect you to the very last of our ability, within the scope of protecting you from the law here, or we would, unfortunately everyone seems to have deviated from that policy."
"What do You mean? is that the decision of the board?" Makihi stood between Ekushito and Kiriko, and intercepted the interaction between the two.
"Although it was tentative, the investigation meeting was to be held on Recepushi, but they won't let us do it there." the moment they came out of Recepushi, they were as good arrested. However, if it was done at Recepushi, they would have been safe."
"Why? Can't they listen to our defense here?"
"If they had relations with Galactic Federation maybe, but they don't want to do that, we have to turn you over unfortunately, we are still in their air space. "
Don't we get a lawyer?"
There was also the possibility of false charges they didn't know the law here. Of course it was true that the battle occurred illegally in renza space, but it was a fact that it was an emergency. "Since they have no such relations with the Galactic Federation, we will be in charge of that. If you need a lawyer, please Hakuren-sama know about it, We will be monitoring your call, so please keep that in ming. "
"I understand" While relaxing her facial expression, Kiriko still kept an eye on Ekushito.
"Oh, yeah, and it may be a good idea to change into something more inline with the fashion style of renza before you go." Ekushito said.
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Ps... this is the last we hear from them this book. except the afterword which seems to take place when kiriko first sees souren.