The Knight Clad in Bloodstained Rags, an Inheritance

 

The four Teutates moved in pairs—and in the midst of them, Alexandros III himself joined the assault.

Five as one. They embodied that truth.

Concentrated fire slammed in—wire-guided missiles and railgun volleys, all aimed at the Four Heavenly Kings. But the Four Heavenly Kings cut them down with charged-particle cannons… and sometimes, with swords.

「Damn you humans! Die!」

Tsuneyori—playing the role of Gawain—seemed to have expected this.

「If it’s only ten seconds, even a current-gen Silhouette can answer it. —Figured it was about time. Eternal Flame, activate.」

Calmly, he triggered Eternal Flame, met Achilles’s hand-blade with a haze-stance parry, and redirected it—

—and his sword snapped.

Gawain’s Lanius C Block-3 immediately drew a spare kodachi from the extra armor plating.

「Kashima Shintō-ryū—Kōjō Okui Jikka no Tachi… Tetsui no Koto!」

Armored muscles howled.

He pinned down Achilles’s hand-blade with the dagger. Against a human opponent, this would have been the moment to drive the point straight into the throat—
but against an