Chapter 293: Knowing More Than What Is Unknown

"So strange..."

Sakurai Liaozi on the other end of the phone held the latest test report, showing an extremely puzzled expression.

"No matter what method is used to test, that person is indeed composed of gold from beginning to end, but even a fingernail-sized tissue cannot be destroyed...?"

Incredible.

Ordinary physical or chemical means cannot destroy this thing at all.

And after all, why does everyone who sees this statue for the first time subconsciously feel that this is gold and not something else similar?

It's as if the concept of "gold" covers his body; he is the incarnation of "gold."

With Fini's knowledge, she could judge at the first moment that this was the work of those alchemists, but the so-called "Golden Transmutation" shouldn't be like this, right? This has already turned into gold, not transmutation.

However, what she could do was limited to this.

She was a shrine maiden, but not an alchemist. Of course, she didn't know the method of turning gold back into a person.

And if Jia Ji continued like this and could never turn back...

"The plan may need to be restarted."

Fini thought silently in her heart, "I hope things don't turn into the worst situation."

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"Work hard! Work hard!"

The three existing Symphogear users at the Second Division base were encouraging each other and then conducting martial arts sparring.

"Imyuteusamenohabakiritron——"

(The light that beats its wings against the sky)

This was Feng Mingyi's holy chant. After transforming into a cold swordsman-type form, she drew a long sword from her leg armor and charged forward like a gust of wind, heading straight for Amou Kanade, the oldest of the three.

"Ya-Haiya-Haiya-Haiya-ie Ame no Habakiri yea-"

A singing voice with a strong Sengoku Basara style rang out. The blue-haired diva jumped high and slashed at Amou Kanade with the sword in her hand. The sharp blade brought up a blue light, cutting through the air.

And the battle maiden with long hair like fire gripped the gold-red spear tightly, leaping up like an arrow leaving the bow, shooting out to meet her partner.

Ding ding ding ding ding!

A storm-like confrontation. The sword and spear danced repeatedly in the dazzling light, sparking sword lights and spear shadows, flashing in all directions. For a time, the space was full of sword lights and spear shadows, and a burst of impacts and iron-striking sounds erupted in the air.

This process lasted for an unknown amount of time before it ended.

Just as Jia Ji said, after watching a large number of anime, each of them seemed to be nurturing some new power in their hearts.

And the first to discover it was Amou Kanade. Although it was just sparring and no skills were used in the simple exchange of martial arts, she could clearly feel that the burden of her transformation seemed to have decreased a lot, and she could fight for a longer time.

And the other two also discovered that their physical strength, endurance, and recovery ability had all been strengthened to varying degrees. Hibiki had heard Jia Ji say before that this was called—

—"Battle Maiden Immortality"!

After transforming into battle maidens, they possessed vitality and combat power far exceeding ordinary people.

An ordinary adult male human on the Blue Star probably had a comprehensive life intensity of about 0.6, while every adult Beidou male was born with a life intensity of 1.2 or more, almost like the Fist King of the ordinary Blue Star. As for the wasteland timeline, most survivors who ate radiation would double that again.

As for the Cursed Children who were all ten years old, now about eleven or twelve, holding the gastrea gene, they had at least 10 points, and regular martial artists who had been trained and polished had an average of 15 points or more of life intensity, a tough physique. Ordinary ogres were at this level, and beating an African elephant with one hand was no more troublesome than bullying a kitten.

However, after transforming into battle maidens, even without any training, they exceeded 30 points!

Just one little finger could lift hundreds of kilograms of heavy objects. They were stronger than sumo wrestlers, and pulling steel coils with bare hands was easy. Even a hundred-ton truck on the national highway would be beaten until it turned over, completely destroyed from the front to the body.

If they were to deal with so-called gastrea or dangerous species, except for the Zodiac level 5 and super dangerous species, other levels would be a matter of one move.

Such vigorous vitality was being further stimulated invisibly.

"Such power..."

The Symphogear user named "Tachibana Hibiki" clearly knew how powerful she was now, a power sufficient to achieve her goal.

After learning that Jia Ji might never be able to turn back, the girl who had almost lost some things made up her mind. She was going to use this power to do one thing now!

Head to Lundun!

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"Miku, I will be back as soon as possible."

The day before getting on the plane, Hibiki smiled and said goodbye to her friend, trying her best to hide her inner worry.

"Hibiki..." The girl had a simple ponytail, eyes as clear as a lake, and a beautiful face, but her expression seemed to be suppressing something. Before Hibiki turned to leave, she couldn't help but ask: "What happened to you?"

Since the day Hibiki suddenly disappeared from the hospital, she had changed.

Every day after returning home, she was always exhausted, and there were always some light or heavy wounds on her body. Her style of doing things, habits, and hobbies had all changed.

And the shorter the time she spent with her, the less communication there was, and the distance seemed to be getting further and further away.

"Sorry, Miku... but I can't say."

Hibiki's voice gradually lowered. Although the existence of noise was already known to the public, the matter of Symphogear users was under a gag order by the Second Division, and ordinary people were not allowed to come into contact with it.

So she was still hiding it from her best friend, secretly being a battle maiden behind her back, and now she was going to do something risky.

But such vague words would not be accepted.

"Aren't we friends? Don't friends hide nothing from each other?"

There was something more in Miku's eyes, staring at Tachibana Hibiki.

Opening her mouth, Hibiki clenched her fists, her face showing extreme struggle... but in the end, she slowly shook her head and remained silent.

"Hibiki—! I don't understand!"

Her attitude caused her friend, who was always gentle, to suddenly explode!

"Like you said before, what's so cool about a vest and cape, what's so cool about punk wasteland, I don't understand! And what martial arts, so what is a thick-waisted pants? Is Beidou good! Saying what I want to use power to protect everyone, what is it, isn't it just an idiot, and Greek mythology, holy books, Norse mythology, Japanese mythology, don't just pull to that side after checking a little bit, I don't understand the content at all, if you want to tell me, tell me properly! Talking to me about weapons that appear in mythology, I have no interest at all! What Gungnir, Nehushtan, Excalibur, Durandal, Ame no Habakiri! I don't understand what it means at all!"

The girl's voice became more and more excited, and her emotions became more and more out of control. She grabbed the body of her stiff friend, as if begging.

"I don't understand at all where it's cool, and I don't understand other Japanese-English mixed terms, I don't understand half-baked explanations at all, don't use the words of fighting characters, don't quote the words of people I'm not familiar with!"

"I don't know what you want to say at all, say it in your own words, please, say something I can understand, I don't understand, I don't understand, I don't understand, I don't understand, I don't understand!"

"Hibiki, what you said, until now... I can't even understand a single sentence..." Clear tears slid down the girl's face, her hands dropped powerlessly from Hibiki's shoulders, and her eyes lost their light.

Although she never thought that the idiot Hibiki could keep any secrets, she had revealed too much information invisibly!

Isn't this knowing more than what is unknown!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 294 =====