Date A Live, Vol. 04: Sister Itsuka by Koushi Tachibana and Tsunako

Author:Koushi Tachibana and Tsunako [Tachibana, Koushi / Tsunako]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yen On
Published: 2021-11-23T00:00:00+00:00

“Er, let’s see…”

Shido and Kannazuki had moved from the break room to the briefing room where the strategy meeting had been held on the previous day. The vice commander had no sooner sat down in the same chair as yesterday than he was tapping at the console before him in the round table.

“I’m sorry this is taking so long. If this were the terminal in my office, it would go a little more smoothly.”

“That’s not a problem at all,” Shido said. “Is the video stored in here?”

“No. The video itself is not stored on Fraxinus. I’m accessing the database at headquarters.”

Shido raised an eyebrow at the unfamiliar headquarters, but it only made sense when he thought about it. Fraxinus was an airship. No matter how well the Realizers worked, it couldn’t exactly stay floating in the sky forever.

“You basically need a network environment then, right?” he asked. “So wouldn’t your office work just as well?”

“Well, that is true, yes,” Kannazuki agreed. “But the screen of my terminal there isn’t very large. It’s not well suited to viewing detailed images. Ah, here we are. Look at the monitor.”

A video appeared on the monitor in the center of the round table. It showed a corner of town filmed from above. The carpet of bright red flames that filled the screen were better described as a gas field or a volcano or a furnace. The infernal purgatory was such that it was hard to believe that only a few hours earlier, people had been living and working there, going about their daily business.

From the speakers, he could hear the whirring of helicopter blades and the choppy voice of what sounded like a male reporter, punctuated with occasional explosions, which shook the screen slightly.

“…Ngh.” Shido frowned. The scene was even more intense than he’d imagined. He only remembered that the place where he used to live had caught fire. He never dreamed it was a disaster of this magnitude.

“Ah, it’s coming up now,” Kannazuki said in a quiet voice, his eyes on the screen as well.

The helicopter spun around and gradually dropped altitude. At the same time, the camera zoomed in, and the image blurred. After a moment, the focus was adjusted bit by bit.

“That’s—!” Shido cried out when he saw what was on the edge of the screen.

In the center of the area, the houses that should have been there had been completely burned down, unlike the outskirts. In that wasteland, he found a familiar figure.

The video was old, the resolution was poor, and the image was unstable since it had been filmed from the air. Plus, there were any other number of quality issues making the video extremely rough. There was no way Shido would make a mistake about this, however.

“Kotori…”

She was wearing the same Astral Dress he’d seen on the roof of Raizen High School the other day. And at her feet was a small shadow.

He furrowed his brow and focused on the shaky screen. “Is that…me?”

And then…

“Huh?” All the air was knocked out of his lungs.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.