Last Embryo Volume 5 Prologue Part 1

A lush meadow filled with the carpet of green grass.

Perhaps it was due to the new moon which was shining magnificently on the canopy of the night sky, but it made the light it was casting onto the ground below even more prominent.

Every time the gentle breeze blew across the land, it caused the fireflies who wore the light on their small wings to flutter up from beneath the blades of grass, making them an invaluable source of light to those for whom the light of the stars above was not nearly enough to illuminate the surrounding darkness.

Among such a scenery, a four-legged beast with sharp fangs and claws run ran forward while rhythmically kicking the ground with its muscled limbs. The sound it was making was a clear indication to all of the animals present on this grassy plain, even the one normally on the top of the food chain that were aplenty on this meadow: a sign that if they valued their lives and wanted to keep them, it would be best for them not to approach it and keep themselves hidden, be it high in the air, or dug deep beneath the ground in their burrows, where they would be going back to their blissful sleep without poking their usually curious noses out.

The western corner of the Lost Continent of Atlantis, the one which is rich in in wildlife and the greenery of nature was that kind of place: the one where beasts like that could roam free and full of vitality and activity even throughout the nightly hours.

In this land at the western end of the Lost Continent of Atlantis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

「UWAAAAAAAAAAAAHNNNNN! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! H-HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO DO SOMETHING WITH SUCH A MONSTER ALL BY MYSEEEEEEEEEELF? ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !」

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ayazato Suzuka was screaming her lungs out while running away from the resonating sound of kicking the ground that was leaving clouds of dirt behind it as it chased her. While repeatedly using her teleportation ability granted to her by her Gift, {Apport & Asport}, she was trying to put as much distance between herself and the thing that was going after her, a huge monster that looked like a sentient mass of moving rock. It was rushing towards Suzuka while crushing everything that was under its feet with each and every one of the steps it took, causing the small birds to fly away in terror and wild rats to abandon their burrows to flee faster than frightened rabbits.

If Suzuka was running away from it on foot, she would have been caught and flattened immediately. Thankfully, her Gift enabled her to flee without placing her life in any immediate danger due to how instant her space-jumping was, but even then, no matter how many times she jumped consequtively, the gap between her and the monster never seemed to have widened too much.

(Great! This is simply wonderful! Arjuna-kun disappeared to God-knows-where without telling a word to anyone, and on top of that, Asterios has been taken away by the indigenous people of Atlantis! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Great job, guys, leaving the girl all alone to fend for herseeeeeeeelf! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Urgh, where the hell did you gooooooo? ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !)

In the brief moment where she could have afford it, Suzuka was frantically clutching at her hair in order to suppress her desperate desire to break down and start crying on the spot. She had absolutely no idea how did this monster appeared in front of her and more importantly, why did it choose to chase her of all people, when all she was trying to do was to reach 「Heracles’s Stone Pillars」 which, according to the map that all of the participants of the {Lost Continent} Gift Game have received back in the Giant Spirit Train {Sun Thousand}, should have been located at the far side of the western part of the continent of Atlantis. You would have thought that it should have been a harmless thing to do, just go there and have a look around, but no, before she could reach her destination this thing has appeared seemingly out of nowhere and tried to turn her into a bloody pancake immediately after it saw her, which brings us to the current predicament she found herself in: she wanted to reach 「Heracles’s Stone Pillars」, but this thing is preventing her from doing that, and if she stops teleporting for even a moment, she is going to be made one with the ground in the most painful way possible. And to top it all off, she does not possess any means of defending herself against it, and she is just an ordinary girl who can only teleport. . . . . . . . . . . . . .

「W-Wait. . . . . . . . . g-gimme a break. . . . . . . . . I, I can’t. . . . any. . . . more . . . . . . I am at my. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . limit. . . . . . . . . . . . . !」

. . . . . . . . . . so it was to be expected that sooner or later she was going to run out of strength, and now that her knees gave out beneath her from exhaustion, causing her to fall forward with her hands burying themselves partially into the soft ground. Seizing the opportunity, the stone giant reached out towards her with its hand, which was so massive that it stretched out over the sky, completely blocking the light of the stars.

However. . . . . . . before that monstrous hand could reach Suzuka, it was struck down by a blast of lightning.

「Run, Almathea!」
And what immediately followed that lightning up was a dignified voice of a girl that echoed across the entire meadow in a surprisingly powerful way, breaking through the rumbling sounds of the moving mass of rocks, which were already deafening enough when pitted against the silence of the night.

As if it was responding to the girl’s voice, the lightning surged and welled up, changing its shape before Suzuka’s very eyes. If she were to compare it to something, the closest thing that came to her mind was a lighting spear. The smaller bolts of lightning were circulating all around it as it flew around the giant and repeatedly smashed itself into its enormous body, chasing right back after it even when it would seem that there would be no way for it to manuever and meander around it the way it did, almost is if. . . . . as if it possessed a will of its own.

(Wa, wa, wawawawawawawawawawawawawa. . . . . ! ! ! ? ? ? ? ? ?)

Not knowing what was going on around her anymore, Suzuka hid her head between her arms and curled up on the ground right where she was kneeling. In the meantime, red hot rocks were falling down from the body of the rock giant all around her, spreading fire all around the formerly-green meadow. Under normal circumstances, environmental hazards like that would be nothing for Suzuka, since she would simply teleport out of the danger zone right away, but now that she was exhausted and had no strength left to escape, all that she could do was to wait and hope that none of the rocks falling off of the giant were going to hit her, which seemed extremely unlikely when the red-hot rocks were falling down all around her like a downpour of torrential rain.

But then, the girls who was the owner of the voice which commanded the lightning to attack the monster stood up in front of her with her jet-black hair fluttering in the wind, as if she wanted to block the deadly rain from reaching Suzuka. And in the next moment. . . . . . . . .
「Fuh. . . . ..! ! ! ! ! ! ! !」

*Shyaraaaaan!!!* All of a sudden, Suzuka heard something that sounded like an elegant sound of wind chimes and a flute mixing together. And in response to that sound, the grassy earth around them began to rise up.

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