Story 11: Sky Striker [VBEX6]

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Story & Illustrations No.11
Sky Striker
Two girls cross swords for their nations: Raye and Roze. Although fated to only meet in the battlefield, a bond eventually grew between them. And in the midst of the ultimate crisis, that bond creates a miracle!!

The Story So Far
The “Sky Striker”: A weapon developed to fight back against the world power, with its center sitting in the mighty military empire. “Raye”, entrusted with it, overturned the tide of the battle in the blink of an eye, however, the military empire created their own Sky Striker Ace: “Roze”, bringing the conflict to a standstill. After crossing their blades countless times, Raye felt the lament in Roze’s heart, and when Raye was about to deliver the final attack, she liberated Roze’s heart. At the very moment they began to understand each other’s hearts, the military empire deployed a massive army of their cutting-edge weapon: “H.A.M.P”, almost as if they had foreseen this. They began their attack to eliminate Raye, while also disposing of Roze in the process, after they had no further use for her.

Sky Striker Ace – Shizuku

Reinforcement of the Army
=The Sky Striker Ace Resonance=
Under the relentless attack of the “H.A.M.P.”s, the ability of the Sky Striker Aces to “convert the strength of their feelings into power” resonated with each other, boosting their power, and creating a new hope after their awakening. They turned themselves into pure Sky Striker energy, manifesting into the battlefield as a single unit through a “Multirole” Gate. While temporary, exceedingly fragile and unstable, she was the ultimate swordswoman, with enough power to put an end to everything.

Sky Striker Ace = Zero
Unleashing the Zero Maneuver…this consisted on countless grand slashes using the “Multirole” system: Making use of the temporarily unlimited supply of Sky Striker power, thousands of Gates were compressed into a blade. With the energy of a single swing of the blade, all the enemies on her sight were captured with no means to escape: From inside the enemy machines, countless, massive “Multirole” Gates were deployed, effectively splitting them. The interdimensional slash bisected the targets, cleanly halving them in two.

Sky Striker Special Maneuver – Lemnisgate!

≫Prototype Sky Striker Ace – Amatsu≪
The “X-Series” were designed exclusively for Raye. “Amatsu” was a unit that combined a power suit and a grand-scale weapon, and it was envisioned before the completion of “X-003 Kagari” or “X-002 Shizuku”. However, the concept of “equipping it with all the functions and weapons necessary for the battlefield” proved to be difficult, from an efficiency point, and from the burden placed on Raye. This vision competed with the “Mutirole vision”, which consisted of “equipping functionality, specializing, then changing equipment according to the battlefield”. Despite developing a prototype machine, it was ultimately discarded as a result of that competition.

End of Chapter

Thanks to 蜈蚣过户费 at Bilibili for the scans

TL notes:
-As usual, “Sky Striker” on its own is a reference to the equipment itself, and would work better if translated as “Flash Blade”.