Kays Translations
Just another Isekai Lover~
Chapter 78: Severance
“…So it’s you. Yeah, I remember now. Someone like you did exist.”
Kaguya’s voice was low and sharp, laced with venom as she called out to Reina.
To her, Reina was already an enemy.
An ally of Asgards—the enemy of Japan.
The same Asgards that killed the one she loved that day.
“Kaguya… It’s been a while.”
“Yes. Since that day, I suppose. The day your Asgard army massacred the entire Resistance.”
“This battle is meaningless. Please, retreat.”
Reina pleaded with Kaguya.
She believed that, one day, Lord would return Japan to them—so there was no need to fight.
But this was a battlefield. Reina’s words—vague and too few—failed to reach Kaguya’s heart.
If only they’d had the chance to speak more calmly.
But even then, they wouldn’t have stopped.
They had been deceived too many times. Had too much taken from them.
Their hatred—born from losing family, loved ones—was far too strong to be swayed by the words of just one enemy.
“Meaningless… right. That’s just like you. Always acting like your victory is a given, looking down on us from above.”
“No, that’s not what I—!”
“Silence! I won’t run anymore! I won’t hesitate! I will take this country back! And if you stand in my way, then even you—!!”
Kaguya charged at Reina, fury like a blazing inferno, her sword lashing out.
“I’ll kill you!”
…
(Reina? Why is she here… No, in her personal unit—did she come to save me…?)
“Tch!”
“You’re lucky, War God! Is that your daughter?”
Thanks to Reina, the War God narrowly survived.
But even then, Sieg could barely fend off the relentless attacks from Byakuren and Thor.
He had no strength to go help Reina.
“You really can’t back down, huh?! Just like your daughter said over open comms—this battle is meaningless! Lord will definitely return Japan to you!”
“That devil would never do such a thing!”
Sieg’s attempt to reason with them was immediately shut down.
“If you really believe that, then tell everyone to lay down their weapons and surrender. We’re not like you—we don’t slaughter our prisoners!!”
“You really think we could accept that!?”
Unconditional surrender—with no guarantee of survival. Sieg could never allow it.
No one knew better than he did what became of prisoners in Asgard hands.
Even if the World Union did treat prisoners fairly…
“Then there’s no choice but to fight! This is war, War God. Kill or be killed. The victor defines justice and shapes history. The loser loses everything.”
“And the losers will be you, Asgardians. Branded as enemies of the world!”
“Tch! Then all we’ll do is repeat history! Even if you destroy Asgard—what lies beyond is just another war between yourselves!”
“We know that! That’s what it means to be human. Conflict is our history. That will never change! Culture, race, ideology—any difference leads to friction. That’s only natural!”
Byakuren, Thor, and Sieg—
Each fought with their convictions blazing.
They were all career soldiers.
They had obeyed orders they hated.
They had killed people they didn’t believe deserved to die—because that was their duty. For their country.
“Humans can never truly understand one another! As long as we have power, there will be strong and weak! And as long as that exists, people will wield that power over others! Even if we learn from our pain—decades later, a new generation will rise, ignorant once again!”
“As long as humanity rules! As long as human desires move the world! True peace will never come! That’s why we fight—to grasp a fleeting, fragile peace, risking our lives for mere moments of calm!”
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“Fighting for peace…?”
“You understand it too. Peace is nothing more than a break between wars.”
Byakuren, Thor, and Sieg continued their clash.
But for what?
Even knowing all that awaited beyond this fight was the next war…
…
“Get out of my way!!”
“Tch!”
Reina and Kaguya faced off.
(She’s strong… incomparable to six months ago…)
But the battle was one-sided.
Kaguya, one of the 13 Gods of Asia. Reina, merely a Holy Knight.
Without being on the level of a High Holy Knight, there was no hope of competing with one of Asia’s greatest.
“You’ve gotten weak!”
“What!?”
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“I bet you’ve just been drifting through your days for the past six months! Living a peaceful life!”
“That’s not—ugh!”
Reina remembered the past six months.
What had she been doing?
Just living happily with Kenya, day after day.
She’d been fulfilled.
If she was honest—she had simply enjoyed those peaceful days with him.
“But I trained like my life depended on it!! Because I never wanted to lose something important again—like I did that day!”
“!? You’ve gotten… this strong…”
Reina could only defend.
She couldn’t withstand the onslaught—the blazing rage.
“Want to know why you’re weak?!”
“Tch!”
“Because you have nothing to protect with your life! No conviction to stake your soul on! You just drift through each day—no emotions, no purpose!”
Kaguya’s relentless assault slammed into Reina.
“But I do have something! Something that’s never changed—not once! And that is… to TAKE BACK THIS COUNTRY! TO TAKE JAPAN BACK FROM YOU!!”
(Because that’s my brother’s—Kenya’s—wish…)
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“No…!”
Reina’s sword—Aphrodite—flew into the air.
Kaguya’s crimson sword, Kagutsuchi, had knocked it away.
“Goodbye, Reina. Even if you are Asgardian… well… I didn’t exactly hate you.”
Reina staggered, off balance.
Kaguya’s red blade drove toward her chest.
There was no way to dodge. A fatal blow.
And that’s where their bond should have ended.
But—
“Reina!!!”
It was Sieg who stopped it.
He shoved Reina away—saving her at the very last moment.
“Dad!? I’m sorry, you saved—huh?”
Reina, flung aside, caught herself in midair and turned to look at Sieg.
But she couldn’t speak.
Her heart raced. Her blood ran cold.
She couldn’t believe what she was seeing.
She felt a chill spread through her entire body.
In her gaze—was Sieg’s unit, impaled by Byakuren.
“Dad!!”
Her trembling voice called out.
But no answer came. No reply from Sieg.
“Well done, Kaguya!!”
Sieg had tried to save Reina.
But Byakuren had seen his chance—and he didn’t miss.
His blue spear had pierced Sieg’s abdomen—straight through, right into the cockpit.
“NOOOOO!!”
Sieg’s unit fell, limp and lifeless, toward the ground.
Reina rushed straight toward it.
She caught his machine just before impact—preventing a crash.
Slowly, father and daughter descended to the ground.
And all the daughter could do—
Was call her father’s name.
However—
“Papa!? Papa!!”
Reina’s voice didn’t reach him.
Kaguya looked down at Reina quietly and murmured,
“…I’m sorry.”
Kaguya could painfully understand Reina’s feelings right now.
The pain of losing a beloved family member, the bitterness of having someone important taken from you—she knew it all too well.
Even so, they had no choice but to fight. This was the only path they could take.
She couldn’t afford to regret it—she mustn’t regret it.
Still, Reina was someone she had once spent time with, someone she could call a friend.
How many times had she wished for a girl her age to be friends with?
Going to karaoke after school, hanging out and chatting at a café…
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And getting excited over love stories.
Reina had always reminded her of herself. If they’d been ordinary students, they might have even fallen for the same guy and fought over him.
If they had just met under different circumstances, if they were from the same country, maybe… just maybe, they could’ve been something more.
But—
“I can’t stop now… I’m sorry, Reina.”
Kaguya, her anger now cooled, calmly looked at Reina.
And she turned to leave. There was no longer any point in killing her.
The War God was dead.
That meant the victor of this battlefield had already been decided.
The tide turned toward the World Union’s favor. With news of Zeke’s fall, the morale of the Asgardian army plummeted.
The frontlines crumbled. All across the battlefield, Asgardian soldiers were shedding tears.
With their will to fight broken, the front collapsed completely.
“Good, Byakuren!”
“Yeah! To all forces! Use every unit—we’re taking back Japan! Mobilize all standby troops! The battle is over!”
Under Byakuren’s command, every KOG unit in reserve launched into action.
Having lost both their pillar and their commander, the Asgardian army collapsed in an instant.
The battlefield became entirely one-sided, with the World Union pushing through completely.
…
A lone girl wept inside her cockpit.
She called her father’s name over and over—but there was no answer.
And then—
The battlefield didn’t wait.
“Byakuren!? What are you—!”
Byakuren, who had just pushed the tide of battle, returned.
Moments later, a blue unit—Byakuren’s own—pointed its spear at Reina.
“That’s a custom unit. And an enemy capable of fighting you. If you don’t kill them when you can, they’ll come back. You knew her, right…? That’s why I’ll do it.”
“W-Wait! Our objective is already—”
“No, Princess. This is war.”
“B-But—!”
“Enough!”
Byakuren roared, and Kaguya fell silent.
“We kill the enemy. The only thing we can do is keep moving forward. Your deaths have brought peace to the world! We cannot stop now! So—!”
Byakuren—Seiryuu—the Azure Dragon, thrust his blue spear toward Reina.
Kaguya instinctively closed her eyes.
That azure dragon’s strike would’ve pierced Reina in an instant.
It should have.
But what rang out instead—was like thunder. The sound of the air exploding.
And then—
Clang!
The sound of metal on metal. As if a blade had deflected another.
“Re…ina?”
Kaguya opened her eyes hesitantly—and saw it.
“…Huh?”
A pure white, beautiful unit had knocked Byakuren’s spear away.
Descending from the sky at lightning speed, the white flash moved so fast it left sound behind.
That unit held two swords.
In its left hand, the power to protect.
In its right hand, the strength to pierce through.
And on both swords—was the unwavering resolve for two precious people.
“So it was you guys…”
The Knight of Wrath descended onto the battlefield.
The air exploded. Thunder rumbled.
The world’s strongest knight had come to protect what he cherished most.
With his fists, with his swords—
Shaking, trembling—
With pure rage.