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Chapter 489 Because you are weak, I am strong
The resonance of bonds.

This is not a resonance as a characteristic of the Gear, but a simulated resonance generated through the overlap of the wearer's mental images, and for some special reason, the output power is rising wildly at a dangerous rate.

Watching the frenzied, irrational sounds, Chris and Kazanari Tsubasa simultaneously sensed that these two figures, as dazzling as the sun, had collided in a way they had never seen before—a devastating blow seemingly brought about by fate.

Like a vast ocean swept up by a raging wind, violent energy surged from the bodies of Hibiki Tachibana and the others, every inch of their skin radiating golden light, and the power they unleashed distorted the air, rippling outwards like waves.

As the air currents surged, it was as if a thunderbolt was about to tear the world apart. The dazzling brilliance of a supernova explosion rushed in at an ultra-high speed of thousands of meters per second. The whole person seemed to turn into a ball of flame, with light flowing from his eyes, ears, nose and mouth. By appropriating the energy that formed Armed-Gear, he released a swan song-level punch.

Unmatched speed, unmatched power…

But it was a blow whose outcome was already predetermined.

boom--!
A "wall" identical to her appeared before her, blocking the punch that could destroy half the city. A massive explosion, like a miniature nuclear blast, erupted on the field, and a powerful tornado formed in mid-air, blowing backwards.

As Tachibana Hibiki reached out to block the blow that was powerful enough to shake the heavens, the flames wrapped around her body were dimmed slightly by the wind, but they still made her body look like an unyielding iron spear, while the fluttering flames and scarf were like the flags behind her.

The attackers suffered more severe injuries. The cold sun gradually became shrouded in gloom, stained with countless deathly auras and gray, and the flames turned ashen, like ashes from a fire that had been burned out.

After everything is burned to the ground, what will be left...?

“I am weaker than her.”

The world before my eyes seemed to be spinning, and in my somewhat drowsy mind, there were constant, hazy sounds flashing by—various sounds and images from the memories of another version of myself.

"Perhaps I really am a defective product..."

It's beautiful, but it's unattainable, like a dream or a bubble. Only the pain from her body is real, reminding her—there's no sunshine in your world, never has been.

Those clusters of crystals were growing wildly on their chests, like newly blooming armor, gradually covering their chests. The temperature on their skin was almost like magma. Symphogear's special phase field protection seemed so powerless at this moment.

(The chest pain, the abnormal body temperature... everything has felt strange... the stones that keep falling out of my body... I know very well that I am no longer a normal human being...)
Pain and confusion, annoyance and distress—even though the spiritual connection was severed, the clash of fists, the impact of power, the confrontation of wills, the struggle of souls, and the mingling of blood—how could she not think and realize…

Hibiki Tachibana is someone who is willing to take action for another version of herself, someone who can't stand idly by and watch what she suffers. She is a pure, radiant, innocent, and adorable person.

At the same time, it is the impotent rage within myself, the self that hates fate, that is truly, utterly, ugly…

(monster)
The power she had just unleashed, exceeding all limits, had caused irreversible changes to her body. Despite the temperature being high enough to burn every single cell in her body to ashes, she could no longer feel anything.

At the same time, a vague realization dawned on me—

So that's how it is... I guess I am going to die... All alone like this... Why... why do I have to be in a place like this? If I were just going to die—why did I survive in the first place?

Well, dying at the hands of another "me" might not be such a bad thing after all...

Just then, Hibiki Tachibana calmly watched as the anger gradually subsided, leaving only dark, lifeless eyes. She honestly faced her sorrow.
Yes, it's too late, too late. This is an irreconcilable contradiction.

Xiang closed her eyes.

What comes to mind is a towering figure who bears a fate heavier than anyone can imagine, yet still laughs and curses, embracing all life and death like the vast sky.

If he were here, he would undoubtedly use his fists to tell Bad Sound, "To hell with fate! Instead of thinking you're at fault, blame others first. You're too kind, that's why you ended up like this! It's all the world's fault!"

She wouldn't say such things, but she also has things she wants to say. Although many people think she's just a fool, even fools have their own ways of doing things.

"...Even if you say I'm just waving the banner of justice, indulging in the superiority of wanting to save you, perhaps out of guilt, perhaps out of arrogance...to be honest, I can't really deny it properly..."

When she uttered those words, it was so natural, brimming with a confidence that defied explanation, as if it were the truth.

"...Even so! That's no excuse for standing by and watching someone die!!"

Her clenched fist seemed to hold the entire world in her hands. As the girl raised her right fist high, the sky suddenly lit up with starlight, and endless starlight poured down from the sky like a flood.

"That's right, that's definitely it!! In this world, saving someone can't be wrong! If someone insists it's wrong, then that person is wrong!! I'm going to save you, and it won't matter if you refuse!"

In order to see new things, to hear the unknown, to create memories that never existed, whether beautiful or ugly, things that make you want to cover your ears or things that make you want to listen intently…

Let's start now!

Let's start with you!
This is what I, Tachibana Hibiki, am going to do!
This is what I do as a Symphogear wearer!
There is no other way, only one—

「Who is hot and who is strong and strong?」

"I'll hold you tighter and more passionately than anyone else."

"You are me, and I am you! You are another version of myself that I cannot deny! If I were to experience everything you have, I would become you too! But now... please let me lend you a hand!"

Embracing her, feeling "herself" trembling like a fledgling in her arms, Tachibana Hibiki gently patted her back and whispered in the delinquent Hibiki's ear, "Cry as much as you want, it's okay..."

(End of this chapter)