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As humans gradually rot, countries will also eventually fall.
Those who seek the birth of a new country...
And those who defend their country.
Their ideals, goals, with everything different between them,
Due to an unavoidable fate, they approach their day of conflict.
Taking up their unique armaments,
Keeping their determination within their hearts,
They move to the decisive battle!!
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Ame’s POV
The team were already ‘playing’ around on the beach by the time I had strolled out in my bikini. Leone and Chelsea were standing around Tatsumi.
Curiously, I walked over. “What’s all the fuss?” I asked from behind Tatsumi, making the boy jump in surprise. “Ame-nee!?” the brunet shouted, a blush coated across his face.
I tilted my head in confusion, noticing Lubbock also becoming rose faced. “What?”
Leone draped an arm around my shoulder. “Ame-chan, you look so cute! Looks like you win this one.” The blonde said happily, Chelsea nodding in agreement to whatever Leone was talking about.
I tilted my head to the other side. “I don’t get it.” Chelsea decided to, finally, give me an answer. “We were asking Tatsumi which bikini he preferred—mine or Leone’s.” I gave an ‘oh’ look and looked down at my own bikini.
It was a plain black, classic bikini with ruffles on the bottom piece and a few snowflakes pinned to the right of the top.
I shrugged and looked back up to face them all. “Well, I'm going to hit some waves.” I formed a surfboard out of ice and tucked it under my arm before walking off.
‘I wonder if surfing will feel like snowboarding… one way to find out.’
Lubbock’s POV
Ame walked off—a surfboard of ice tucked under her arm—towards the water. “Has Ame-nee ever surfed before?” Tatsumi asked.
“Nope, Ame-san grew up in the north, no summer heat what so ever there, and she’s only boarded down snowy mountains.” Chloe answered, walking over with her brother. Blake’s face looked like it was blush central.
“Is she going to be alright then?” I asked, still staring at her as she waited for a wave of water to form. “Her Teigu, or Aquadox, will help her if she fails.”
I couldn’t keep my eyes off of Ame; her hair was down and flowing freely in the sea breeze.
Ba-thump… Ba-thump… Ba-thump…
‘My heart… it’s racing…’
No One’s POV
A full day passed after the little beach trip and the plan’s core had already begun to commence. As Kurome raised her Teigu to point up high in the air, her puppets rose from the earth below—almost as if they were drawn to the dark orb of sparking aura/energy swelling from Yatsufusa.
‘~I wonder how many will die, and how many will live…~’ Aquadox sang in Ame’s mind as the girl sat on the edge of a cliff (+7000ft. In the air) formed of ice, watching the scene of both areas unfold.
“Wold you shut up and let me concentrate? I can’t keep an eye on both the east and west with you rambling nonsense.” Ame spat at the ‘God’ within her.
‘~Ooooh… so scary! Please don’t send me into the pits of darkness with that move~’ Aquadox teased.
“Just shut up.”
“♪Kuchihateru you ni moyuru tsuki
Akatsuki ni shizumiyuku
Tsukurareta kao de sotto chikadzuite
Shinjiru mono wo yami ni otosu
Ito ni karamaru emono no you ni
Tada hitasura ni sora wo aogu
Kurikaesareru higeki bukimi ni warau ura no kao
Kore ijou nani hitotsu nakusanai you ni katana wo nuku
Yami ni houmure yogoreta egao
Yariba no nai ikari, hanate!
Doredake no chi to namida wo nagashitara...
Inoru you ni kiri saite
Kyou mo akaku someage yo!
Hakanaku chiriyuku tamashii no koe ga
Mimi ni yakitsuite mushibamareru
Yuganda ai ni aragau tsuyosa to
Yowasa wo kakusu shinjitsu no kao
Kuroiame furisosogi hitori tatazumi nureru hoho
Kore ijou nani hitotsu ubawarenu you ni hikigane hiku
Sora ni sakebe kokoro no koe wo
Mayoi no nai hikari, hanate!
Doredake no inochi wo moteasondara...
Negai kome uchinuite
Kyou mo akaku someage yo!
Uso de nurikatamerareta sora no shita,
Umi otosareta kono inochi.
Kuruoshii hodo ni agaite mo,
Te no todokanai, yasashii sekai.
Doku wo motte, doku wo sei su!
Liar Mask!!!
Kairaku ni oborete kurui tsudzukeru haguruma wo
Kore ijou nani hitotsu ugokasenu you ni
-Inochi, kake- shuushifu wo utsu...!
Yami ni houmure yogoreta egao
Yariba no nai ikari, hanate!
Kanashimi no meiro wo nukedaseru nara...
Mukui made uketomete
Nando mo, sora ni kizame yuuki no kodou
Kibou, mune ni hikari, hanate!
Doredake no chi to namida wo nagashitara...
Inoru you ni kiri saite
Kyou mo akaku someage yo!♪”
Tears of blood flowed from Ame’s eyes. She tilted her head to the sky, as if invisible rain were falling upon her fair skin. “Horror and fear… loss and shatters… soon… everything will fall…”
Wave was watching from the shadows, clutching Grand Chariot’s hilt with an iron grip.
As the words Ame muttered out sunk in, Wave’s resolve wavered a tiny bit.
“I know you're there, brat.” Ame spoke out as she tilted her head back slightly to look in the direction said male stood. “Come out.”
The blue haired male stepped out from the trees. Ame turned her whole body to face him, still sitting on the ground. “pfft… bwahahahahaha!” Ame burst out laughing after a mini, failed, attempt to stifle her laugh.
Wave arched an eyebrow. “What?”
“Y-you… have…. Pfft…. Leafs… tree… stuck… head… bwahahaha!” Ame managed to say her broken sentence between her laughs, giving up on speaking she created a reflective sheet of ice and had it stand up as a full-body mirror.
Wave had finally noticed the gigantic tree branch stuck to his back and the tornado of leaves entangled in his hair.
A flush of embarrassment rose to his face as he ripped the branch off his back and violently shook the leafs of green out of his hair. “Just tell me what you mean by ‘everything will be lost’! What do you know!?” The former member the Imperial Navy demanded.
Ame’s laughter cessed and her stare was that of a heartless tax collector. “I know that your heart is not like those of the Capital’s well off people.” Ame sighed and stood up, her back to the edge of the cliff.
“This capital will soon fall. A mother and child, those are who you must protect. Do not let two innocent and pure souls return to the grave of a loved one alone. A curse of fear, horror, and viol acts will defile a cherished one’s resting place as the devils play their putrid game. A comrade may fall but raise again. Will you truly continue the path you walk now? Or will you follow in my footsteps of revenge under a mask of watering ice?”
Her words rang like bells before she leaned back and gravity did its work.
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