Act 19 - The Wind's Sword

Seirei Gensoki 19 - Fu no tachi (精霊幻想記19・風の太刀)

Synopsis
少年の不在. そして、少女たちの戦い.

リーゼロッテ奪還のため、ガルアーク王国を離れたリオ.

その不在を最大の好機とみたレイスは、リオへ復讐心を募らせる【天上の獅子団】の傭兵たちと共にガルアーク 城を強襲！

城内が騒然とする中、留守を預かる少女たちは襲撃者に抗うべく、否応なしに命がけの戦いへと身を投じること になるが――

「守られるだけの存在じゃないって、示したいんです. 自分が弱いせいで、ハルトに距離を置かれたくないから ！」

少女たちの覚悟に応え、一陣の風が戦場を駆け抜ける!!

The young man’s absence. And then, the girls’ battle.

The Rio that went away from the Galarc Kingdom for the sake of rescuing Liselotte. Reis who uses his absence for assaulting Galarc’s royal castle alongside the members of mercenary squad “The heavenly lions”, who want revenge against Rio!

While the castle is in chaos, the girls who stayed behind fight against the assailants, regardless of they wanting it or not it becomes a fight with their lives on the line---

[I want to prove that I’m not someone who just needs to be protected. I don’t want to get away from Haruto because of my own weakness.]

In response to the girls’ resolve a breeze runs through the battlefield.

Prologue.
A place away from people, Liselotte and Aria were left by Aisia in front of a dense forest several kilometers away from Erikaburg, the battle between Rio and the beast was so intense that they were able to see Rio and the beast throwing their large scale attacks at each other even from that far away with the help of the strengthening magic. The exchange of attacks ended minutes ago already but they aren’t relieved, Aisia has just gone back to Rio’s place. Both Liselotte and Aria look silently at the sky, Aria notices Aisia is coming back and tells it to Liselotte, the two see Aisia carrying Rio and walk on her direction, Aisia lands in front of the two, Liselotte loses her breath seeing Rio’s state and asks Aisia worriedly about his condition, Aisia tells her that Rio’s life isn’t in danger but Liselotte doesn’t really believe it seeing Rio covered in blood and wounds. Aisia tells her she wants to let Rio rest and begins to prepare the soil for taking out the rock house, Aria is already used to this but Liselotte is surprised at it and doesn’t understand what Aisia is doing but for the time being just thinks about Rio’s wellbeing and doesn’t make questions, Aisia takes Rio’s hand and takes the rock house out of the time-space cache, Aisia tells Liselotte and Aria to enter, Liselotte hurriedly opens the door of the rock-house for Aisia so she can carry Rio inside asap.

When they enter the house Aisia tells Liselotte and Aria to rest in the living while she nurses Rio, Liselotte doesn’t obey and asks Aisia if she can help with something, Aisia tells the two she intends to wash Rio’s body and to change his clothes now, the three go to the bathroom, Aisia and Liselotte help each other to undress  Rio’s upper half while Aria prepares the water, soap and towels. Liselotte loses her breath when she sees all the scars on Rio’s body and asks what they are, Aisia tells her that those wounds aren’t from the fight with Erika but from his childhood, that they are all healed already. Liselotte isn’t relieved by that she realizes immediately that Rio’s scars are traces of abuse and/or torture and looks at them worriedly and sadly, Aria looks at Rio’s wounds while she prepares the towels for cleaning his body and has strange feeling of déjà vu, Aisia asks Aria if something happens, Aria says it is nothing and gives the wet towel to Liselotte, Aisia supports Rio’s body, Liselotte receives the towel and begins to clean Rio’s body while crying, calling him “Amakawa-senpai” in her mind, Aria stands saying that it seems unnecessary to take out Rio’s trousers just for cleaning the blood, so she will wash Rio’s coat and shirt for the time being and picks up Rio’s clothes.

Chapter 1: First act before the turbulence.
The time advances a little, in a mountain range near Galarc’s capital, Ouphia finally found a suitable place for the teleportation point and is done preparing it and setting a barrier that will hide the activation of the teleportation magic, for the sake of pretending that she went away alone to look for someone before bringing them to the castle she needed to wait until now alone in the second rock house, but now finally is a good moment for  teleporting to the spirit folk’s village and then teleport Gouki’s group from there to the Galarc Kingdom, Ouphia takes out from her time-space cache the teleportation crystal she borrowed from Rio and activates it, just before the teleportation Ouphia sees a myriad of countless black things flying towards Galarc’s capital, the teleportation activates, what Ouphia sees now is just the spring near the spirit folk’s village, Ouphia wonders about what those black things were and begins to fly hurriedly towards the village spurred by a bad feeling.

* TLN: Depending on my job schedule the rest of the volume will be posted at anytime between the 7th and 14th of April. Please patience until then.