Chapter 21 – The King of Salt
[Owari no Seraph, Nagoya airport – 26th Dec, 2020 18:16]
The fight in the airport was still continuing. And now, it has been moved into the final stage.
The beast of destruction, Abaddon, along with its host, Kimizuki Mirai, were facing the Kaneki's team.
"So you think you could fight Abaddon? How overconfident!" Kureto said. "Aoi!"
Aoi took out several kunai from a box, thus throwing them toward Abaddon.
The kunai hit Abaddon. Several blobs then were split out from the hit points. After those blobs dropped on the ground, they became a number of Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
"Kill them all!" Kureto commanded.
The Horsemen of the Apocalypse started their assault. Every single one was charging toward everyone.
"Everyone, disperse!" Kaneki shouted, thus the Kaneki's team started to scatter.
Yuu took out his katana, and pointing it toward the sky. "Kitenrai!" Several lightning bolts stroke on some of the Horsemen, and killed them.
"Bloody Wind Edge!" Mika continuously swung his sword and produced several pink crescent waves toward the Horsemen. Just after a few moments, those Horsemen have been cut into pieces.
"Let's begin our attack, Slaine!" Inaho and Slaine started to shoot with their every weapons, including machine guns, grenade launchers and missiles. A number of Horsemen were killed by large range of explosions.
"I won't lose to you guys!" Kirito took out his dual blades and started to cut the enemies. Several Horsemen were cut into pieces in just a second.
"Me too!" Kaneki also took out his red gun to shoot. Then the Horsemen were killed one by one.
After their assaults in just a few seconds, all Horsemen released by Abaddon were eliminated.
"That's amazing!" Shinoa said.
"I have no idea you're that strong… But then how about this?"
After Kureto said that, Abaddon started to charge up energy from its mouth, and then shot a large and black destruction beam toward Kaneki's team.
Everyone jumped up and avoided the attack. When the beam hit the ground, it produced several enormous cracks there.
"Phew! That's one powerful attack!" Yuu said.
"If it hits us, it'll be over!" Slaine said.
After Slaine said that, Yuu showed a confident emotion.
"If we talk about destructive attacks, we do also have a lot!" Yuu said. "Right, Mika?"
"Yes!" Mika said. "Let's go, Yuu-chan!"
"Asura Kannon!" Yuu summoned several floating and charged katana in the air. He then shot them toward Abaddon. When they came close to the demon, the katana started to surround it, thus began to rotate.
Green electric shocks were sent toward Abaddon, which limited its movement.
"Now it's the chance! Mika!" After Yuu said that, Mika swung his sword toward the ground hard, and produced a shockwave toward Abaddon.
When the wave arrived under Abaddon, it produced a large pink tornado around it.
"Kiraibofu!" Yuu and Mika shouted. This ultimate technique was combining the power of Yuu's cursed thunder and Mika's bloody wind. When this two overbearing power gathered together, it should be able to destroy everything.
"But wait, if you two used this technique, wouldn't Mirai under it also get hurt?" Kirito asked.
"It's ok!" Yuu said. "We're able to control the orientation of the energy flow, so only Abaddon will be damaged!"
The great energy continued to damage Abaddon. Then after a moment, the energy dispersed.
"Did we succeed?" Yuu asked.
Unfortunately, the answer was no. Although the enormous energy did damage Abaddon, their technique was not enough to defeat it.
"How could this be possible?!" Yuu said.
"Heh! Of course it didn't work! The beast of destruction isn't that easy to kill!" Kureto said. "By the way, if you aren't that merciful in the beginning and tried to hurt the subject at the same time, you may have won."
"We don't do such thing like you!" Yuu said angrily. "Mirai is Kimizuki's sister, which is also our family!"
"Ha! How naïve you are!"
"But still, we're able to damage it, isn't it?" Inaho said.
"Then let us do the work!" Slaine said. "Let's use our new weapon, Inaho!"
Inaho and Slaine both concentrated, and their whole bodies were covered by golden yellow particles.
"So you can unlock the maximum power of Aldnoah factors safely, without medicine?" Kaneki asked.
"Yes, because of the training we had, we're now able to transform whenever we want."
"And that's not the only great thing!"
The two people started to concentrate again. Just after a few seconds, a large cannon was produced from nothing, and landed on the bare hands of the two people.
"This is the Aldnoah Cannon, the new weapon that was invented by the Haro army!"
"That's awesome!" Yuu said excitedly.
The cannon started charging. "Fire!" A large beam was shot from the cannon toward Abaddon. The beam hit the beast, thus exploded.
After the smokes scattered, Abaddon was still there, but it showed that the beam was successfully damaging it.
"Still not dead yet? Its body is surely hard!"
"But we still have our trump card!" Kaneki said. "Ifrit!"
Ifrit was originally summoned to deal with Scorpion and Sub-Zero before. It still has not yet disappeared.
"Ha! As we have Ifrit, this fight is a sure win!" Kirito said.
"'Cause there's nothing Ifrit can't burn!" Kaneki said.
Ifrit generated a large fire ball, and threw it toward Abaddon. The ball hit it, and a large explosion occurred. As Ifrit's fire ball was very powerful, plus the damages Abaddon had before, blood was coming out from a large wound that was produced on Abaddon's body. It also forced it to move backward.
"Yes! We created a large wound on Abaddon!"
"One more… One more attack and we can defeat it!"
So Ifrit produced another fire ball, and threw it toward Abaddon once more.
However, "enough!" With Kureto's shouting, Abaddon began to counter. It shot a destruction beam quickly toward the fire ball. It hit it, thus destroyed it.
Not only that, the beam even penetrated through the fire ball, and hit Ifrit. Just in an instant, Ifrit could not bear the energy of the beam and disappeared.
"Ifrit!" Kaneki shouted. Everyone was shocked.
"I need to praise you that you could damage Abaddon that much! But now, it's time to settle down!" Kureto said.
Abaddon shot another beam toward the Kaneki's team. Everyone jumped up again but this time, the explosion was big enough that the shockwave was hurting everyone in the air.
"Damn it!" Kirito said after falling on the ground. "I don't believe it can kill Ifrit that easily!"
"Let's try another super move!" Yuu said.
"But I don't think he will let us do so…" Inaho said. "Super move needs time to prepare, but he won't give us time anymore…"
"Then what should we do?!" Kirito said.
After that, Yuu showed a serious face.
"If that's the case…"
From Yuu's words, Mika knew what Yuu wanted to do.
"Yuu, you want to…" Mika said worriedly. "Don't do that! If you do so, you may not be able to come back anymore!"
"There's no other way now, Mika." Yuu said. "There's no time for another super move, plus it's useless for us to do any normal physical damage on that beast… That's the only way now!"
"Please trust me, Mika! If the another me can do the same thing in the other dimension, like in the manga and anime, I should be able to come back like them in this universe!" Yuu continued.
"Yuu-chan…"
Mika showed a sad face in front of Yuu, but Yuu just showed a confident smile to Mika to calm him down.
Yuu then entered his inner world, where Asuramaru was there before.
In front of him, there was a trumpet on the ground. Yuu picked it up, and tried to blow it.
But before that, "are you sure to do so, Yuu?"
A voice came from behind. When Yuu turned around, what he saw was Asuramaru, but in his chibi form.
"You want to stop me? Asura-chan."
Asura-chan was a division that made by Asuramaru, to possess Yuu and prevent him from going berserk like last time when he faced the Berserk Mushroom.
"No, I'm not going to stop you. But I just want to ask you if you're really ready for that." Asura-chan said. "Like Mika said, you may not be able to come back…"
"There's no other way now." Yuu said. "So… I'm ready!"
"Then go ahead, and wake up the angel!" Asura-chan said. "I'll restrict the angel for you. And my main body will help you come back. There's already a plan B for that!"
"Then I'm relieved!"
After Yuu said that, he sounded the horn. Back to the reality, a large fire pillar raised up, and it surrounded Yuu. Others were bounced off by the shockwave it produced.
From Yuu's back, black wings started to grow. Yuu was now transforming into his Owari no Seraph form.
"Yuu-chan…" Mika was still sad about that, since he was still not able to stop this situation from happening.
"What's now?!" Kureto said.
"It… It's an unknown Owari no Seraph!" A member from the Demon Army said. "Another Seraph is in the process of activating at the center of that fire pillar!"
"How is that possible?"
"We don't know! There may have been some organization besides ours conducting an experiment… or it could simply be a spontaneous occurrence!"
"Either way, if it is left as it is…" The member continued.
"Another catastrophe will end the world again." Kureto said. "God seems determined to smite us. But even if god himself is our enemy…"
"Humanity will still push forward into the future! Aoi, crushed that Owari no Seraph!"
"Yes, sir!" Aoi said. "All units concentrate fire on that pillar of fire! Also aim the beast of destruction at it!"
Abaddon shot a beam toward where Yuu was. However, Yuu quickly moved so dodged the attack.
"The end has come. Tainted humans who dare reach for the forbidden… may you all become… pillars of salt." Yuu has completed his transformation.
Then he just swung his arm, and a wall of pillars of salt was raised up. Abaddon shot another beam toward it. The beam hit the wall, but could not break it.
"That… That's the second trumpet, the King of Salt!" A member from the Demon Army said.
"Can it kill our beast of destruction?!" Aoi asked.
"We don't have a choice! Kill the trumpet!"
After Kureto said that, Yuu generated a spear that made of salt, thus flew toward Abaddon.
Abaddon shot another beam toward Yuu, and Yuu used the spear to resist it. The two great power collided with each other, thus produced shockwave that broke one of Yuu's wing.
However, just after a second, Abaddon's beam has already been resolved. And Yuu just flew toward Abaddon afterward, thus cut through it vertically by his spear of salt.
After that, Yuu raised up his spear, and a lightning bolt just struck on Abaddon. Abaddon was then transformed into salt, and then perishing like dust.
Abaddon was defeated. Mirai also turned back to normal, and fainted on the ground.
However, "on this day, the cycle of human greed and desire… shall crumble… as naught but pillars of salt in the wind."
Yuu was still in his Owari no Seraph form. Now, no one could stop him, except…
A blue thunder came out from the sky, which struck Yuu, thus making Yuu's another wing to vanish.
Then, Asuramaru appeared in front of him, with his body fully charged of electricity. Everyone was shocked by his appearing.
"Yuu, stop!" Asuramaru said.
"You are… the ancient Elder God?"
After Yuu said that, another lightning bolt struck on him.
"I'm here to stop you, the King of Salt!"
"Why… why would you still help those sinners?"
"Not all humans are the same. Your host is one of the example."
After Asuramaru said that, Yuu did not say anything, but instead tried to fight Asuramaru. However, since he was weakened, he could not summon his spear of salt anymore, thus took out the curse gear on his waist.
Seeing him taking out the katana, Asuramaru quickly teleported behind Yuu, and put his hand on Yuu's hand.
"Thank you for using that weapon, King of Salt. Now, let's try to understand each other…" Asuramaru started charging on Yuu's katana. "But before that, let's shock yourself!"
Large amount of electricity was released from the cursed gear. Since it was from Yuu's katana, the thunder was green in color.
With the thunder that could break any magic, Yuu turned back into his normal form. However, since both people were contacting each other, both were shocked, thus fainted and started to fall.
Before hitting on the ground, Yuu was picked up by Mika, and Asuramaru was picked up by Ferid.
"Are you okay, Ashera?" Ferid said.
"I'm okay, Jennifer…" Asuramaru woke up and said. "Thank you…"
Then Krul also came close. "Brother, welcome back!"
"Thank you, Krul!"
After their conversation, everyone looked at Yuu.
"Then how about Yuichiro? Is he ok?"
"He's okay." Asuramaru said. "But since he has transformed, we need to move on to plan B."
Mika looked at Yuu that on his both hands. "Yuu-chan…" He was still very worried about him.
However, "we don't have the time to talk anymore." Inaho said. "The Japanese Imperial Demon Army is still there!"
"Yes, we are!" Kureto said. Everyone from the Demon Army were now holding their curse gear, prepared for capturing everyone on the other side.
"What should we do now?" Crowley asked.
"That's not even a question…" Ferid said. "The answer of course is… retreat!"
"You think you can run away?!" Kureto said angrily. "Get them!"
Everyone from the Demon Army began to charge toward them.
"But where should we go now?" Shinya asked.
"Let's head back to Sanguinem! That's the safest place now!" Krul said.
Then everyone started to run. However, the Demon Army was about to catch them.
"They are about to catch us!"
"Let them taste our new weapon!"
Slaine threw a grenade toward the Demon Army. The grenade exploded and produced a lot of smoke, thus making the members of Demon Army choking and dropping tears.
"That's our new tear gas grenade made by the Haro army. How does that feel?!" Slaine said.
"Damn it… Cough… Don't let them… Cough… Run away…" Kureto said painfully.
Because of the grenade, everyone has opened the distance from the Demon Army, thus escaped the airport successfully.
As Yuu was awaken as the King of Salt, Kaneki's team has failed their original plan. Therefore, the war has been moved on to the next step.
To be continued…