Infinite Stratos, Volume 1 by Izuru Yumizuru

Author:Izuru Yumizuru [YUMIZURU, IZURU]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2018-04-16T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter III: The Transfer Student Is a Second Childhood Friend

“Well, then. Orimura, Alcott, do some flying. Show me some basic IS flight maneuvers.”

We were in the last week of April by now. The last cherry blossoms had fallen. My sister Chifuyu was still a demon in class, but I was doing my best.

“Hurry up. A trained IS pilot only needs a second to generate their unit.”

I focused my mind as she egged me on. Once the IS was fitted to the pilot, they carried it around as an accessory. In Cecilia’s case, it was her left earring. In my case, it was a gauntlet for my right hand. Normally it was supposed to be some kind of simple item, so I had no idea why mine was an armored gauntlet, of all things.

“Focus.”

My impending doom— another hit from Chifuyu— was imminent. I stuck out my right arm and gripped the gauntlet with my left. I had played around with a bunch of different methods, and this was the one that let me focus my mind the best. The vision of my IS expanding filled my thoughts.

—Come to me, Byakushiki!

Immediately, I could feel a film spreading out over me from my right wrist. It took 0.7 seconds to encompass me. Bright particles of light flooded across my body, then seemed to harden out around me into the IS unit.

My body grew light. The IS sensors linked up to my consciousness, and my perception of the world became much sharper. Byakushiki had materialized in the blink of an eye, and now we were floating off the ground some 10 centimeters up. Cecilia and Blue Tears were also levitating. The bits I had destroyed in our battle had regrown.

“Okay. Now, fly.”

Cecilia acted immediately. She spun away into the sky and stopped, almost out of sight, above us. I followed, but my rate of climb was significantly slower than hers.

“What are you doing? Byakushiki should be much faster based on the specs.”

I was being remonstrated over the com-link. We’d learned about high-velocity rising and falling the day before. “Imagine a triangle pointing upwards” was what they had told us, but it was hard for me to put into practice.

“Ichika, having a good, solid mental image goes a long way. It might be more constructive to think of a better one that works for you.”

“Maybe... But I’m nowhere near used to flying yet. How does it manage to levitate, anyway?”

Byakushiki had two wing-shaped extrusions on the back, but no matter how I looked at them, they didn’t seem capable of making the suit fly. Besides, it didn’t matter where they were pointed; the unit could fly about regardless, so the whole thing was pretty mysterious.

“I don’t mind explaining it to you, but it’s not a short explanation. It uses anti-gravity wings and flow-wave interference.”

“Flow... What? Fine, just don’t explain it.”

I turned her down immediately. I wasn’t going to understand it anyway.

“I see. Too bad. Hehe.”

Cecilia was smiling gleefully. It was an honest, simple smile, not an ironic or derisive one.

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