Date a Live:Date Under The Moon Chapter 2 2: The Spirit Who Cannot Be Conquered

Spirit

A special disaster designated life form that exists in the Neighboring World. The cause of their appearance and the reason for their existence are both unknown. When they appear in this world, they trigger spacequakes, causing great damage to the surroundings. At the sa ti, they possess extrely high combat ability.

thod of dealing with them 1

—Exterminate them by force.

However, as ntioned above, because they possess extrely high combat ability, this thod is difficult to carry out.

thod of dealing with them 2

—Go on a date with them, and make them fall for you.

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Woooooo——!!!!!!

This is Tengu City.

At this mont, the people living here were moving in an orderly way, though with uneasy faces, toward the shelters one by one.

A spacequake alarm, the warning that rang out when a Spirit manifested, echoed over the city,though normal people only know this as natural disaster,info about Spirit never got out.

"Kotori!"

Itsuka Shido looked at his younger sister, Itsuka Kotori.

Right now, he was in a huge room that looked like the command center of a spaceship from future technology. No, it would be more accurate to say that this was a spaceship—

The airship, Fraxinus.

"Oh, you're here, Shido. Perfect timing. The Spirit is about to appear. Reine, please get ready."

Kotori turned around and pointed the Chupa Chups lollipop in her hand at a giant screen.

Murasa Reine, the analyst who had brought Shido to Fraxinus before and always looked half-asleep, nodded. She displayed the image of a certain place in the city on the screen.

"This is..."

Shido looked at the screen.

There, ripples spread through space.

Then, with that point as the center, destruction began.

"A spacequake. Co to think of it, this is the first ti you've seen one without passing out right, Shido?"

Kotori said.

"!!!"

Shido could not help covering his face with his hand.

In his field of vision, a hole opened in the middle of the street. It looked as if soone had scooped ice cream with a spoon. From the asphalt road to the nearby buildings, everything had been cleanly "scooped" away.

"Ah... what a beautiful spacequake. If I could stand right at the center... it must be so... wonderful."

The man standing beside Kotori spoke in a voice that made one's whole body shiver.

Kannazuki Kyouhei.

He was the vice commander of this airship. At the sa ti, he was an extre masochistic pervert.

"It's not small. But for Miko, this level can actually be considered lucky."

Kotori said.

"Miko? What does that an?"

Shido asked.

"It's the Spirit's codena. If I just explain it with words, it'll be hard for your insect brain to understand, Shido. Reine, zoom in."

Soon, the image on the screen was enlarged.

At the center of the deep crater, Shido saw the figure of a girl.

Clothing woven from white, gold, and red. A golden head ornant. A sun disk behind her. Black hair, and eyes like the bright moon.

Without a doubt, just standing there, the girl made one think of a shrine maiden who served the gods.

"That girl... is a Spirit too?"

Shido asked with difficulty, as if he refused to connect the pure aura around the girl before him with a life-form that caused natural disasters simply by appearing.

"The first ti her existence was observed was three years ago. Because she could not manifest an Astral Dress or Angel at the ti, she was once thought not to be a Spirit. Her first codena was Fake."

Kotori nodded.

"Astral Dress and Angel?"

Shido asked.

"Did you forget? Tohka's Adonai lek, and Sandalphon?"

"Ah."

Tohka was a Spirit they had saved not long ago.

Shido rembered Tohka's purple armor back then, and the great sword in her hand that could cut through everything.

"Well... anyway, they're coming soon. As for Astral Dresses and Angels, use your own eyes to confirm it, Shido."

Kotori pointed at the screen.

Imdiately after, a missile struck the girl standing in the giant crater with perfect accuracy.

"AST!!!"

The special unit of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, commonly known as AST—Anti Spirit Team.

It was a unit ford mainly for the purpose of exterminating Spirits by force. Shido understood that whenever a Spirit appeared, this unit would definitely rush to the scene and try to kill her.

However, the large number of missiles did not harm the Spirit at all.

The shrine maiden outfit, shining like the sun, released golden light. That light wove itself into a barrier and blocked every attack.

"!!!"

Then Shido saw the Spirit clap her hands together with a sharp bam, as if she were praying at a shrine.

"Wha... what?"

In an instant, night fell.

Shido saw a dark domain spread outward with the Spirit at its center. Like a wall, it pushed the AST mbers away. Finally, eight huge torii gates rose and fixed the domain into an octagon surrounding the spacequake.

"That is an Angel. A miracle with form. The strongest spear, corresponding to the Astral Dress."

Kotori pointed at the screen and said to Shido.

"Wait...but that girl isn't attacking at all, is she?"

It was called the strongest spear, but Shido noticed that the Spirit had only revealed her Angel. She rejected the AST's entry and blocked all attacks from the outside.

"Mm. That's right. Miko is one of the rare gentle type Spirits. Although she actively manifests her Angel, she only defends one sidedly until she is confird lost."

Kotori nodded.

"What... That girl has no will to fight at all, does she!? Then why does AST keep attacking her without stopping!?"

Shido took a heavy step forward, swung his arm hard, and shouted.

"Sigh... Are you an amoeba, Shido? AST doesn't care whether they have any will to fight. Spirits are beings that bring disaster just by appearing. By the way, Miko's spacequakes are also very large among Spirits. That's why I said today was lucky."

Kotori explained helplessly.

"..."

Shido clenched his fists.

He understood.

For AST, whether a Spirit had the will to fight or not was not important at all. They were simply subjugating an enemy that would destroy this world.

Was there a way to save her?

The answer was yes.

"Kotori!"

"As long as she loses her Spirit power, AST won't chase her anymore, right!? And spacequakes won't happen anymore either, right!?"

"Correct. That's exactly right."

Hearing Shido's words, Kotori smiled.

The organization Itsuka Kotori belonged to was called Ratatoskr.

It was an organization that advocated friendly communication with Spirits through dialogue.

And Itsuka Shido was their trump card, because this boy had the ability to seal Spirits through a kiss, allowing them to live like ordinary girls.

"Then I'm going to save her, Kotori!"

"Hehe. Not bad, Shido. That's how my Onii-chan should be."

Kotori waved the Chupa Chups in her hand, looking to be in a very good mood.

"But forget it. You can't save that Spirit."

"Huh?"

Kotori shook her head and pointed at the screen.

"As you can see, that Spirit actively manifests her Angel. And it is an absolute defensive barrier. No attack has any effect. Of course, no one can enter it either."

Kotori looked at the huge torii gates on the screen and spoke seriously.

"How can that be..."

Shido understood.

To seal a Spirit, he had to date her, raise her affection to a certain level, and then kiss her.

However, that Spirit opened a powerful barrier the mont she manifested. Forget going on a date; Shido could not even get one step closer to her.

"Well... that's the situation. Leave the problem of how to break through the barrier to us. Before that, both we and AST are helpless against her."

Kotori waved the Chupa Chups in her hand and said helplessly.

"In fact, AST has started using that Angel as a test target for new weapons. Up until now, there has not been a single successful case of breaking through it."

Reine added.

Shido gritted his teeth.

For him, perhaps nothing was more painful than wanting to save a Spirit, yet being unable to find any way to do it.

"This isn't your fault, Shido."

Kotori saw Shido blaming himself, so she said:

"The problem is—"

"Commander, we have detected Yatogami Tohka... She is running toward the spacequake site!!!"

"What!!?"

"To—Tohka!!?"

The sudden situation cut off their conversation.

The Itsuka siblings looked up and saw that the big screen showed Tohka, whose Spirit power had already been sealed, running toward the battlefield.