Bloom, Youth!

"Faster, faster—just a little faster!"

At an altitude of ten thousand meters over the sea northeast of the Island Nation, a cutting-edge supersonic transport aircraft sped forward at full throttle;

Yet Iori Ichika in the cockpit still found it too slow, impatiently urging the pilots to accelerate, leaving the sweat-drenched pilots with no choice but to repeatedly explain bitterly:

"General, this is already our maximum speed."

"Ms. Ichika,"

Chizuru Kagura, seated in the cabin, calmly turned her head toward the cockpit.

"Please leave professional matters to professionals."

Flying the aircraft was the pilots' responsibility; theirs was to prepare for the coming battle.

Kyo Kusanagi and Iori Yagami were also in the cabin. As the heads of the Three Sacred Treasures Families, dealing with Orochi's Eight Servants was originally their duty—there was no shirking it.

The only difference was that the battlefield had shifted from the "demiplane" to the "main world."

Whoosh, whoosh!

At that moment, Kyo Kusanagi and Iori Yagami rose to their feet.

"Attention, high-energy activity detected ahead!"

"Attention, ahead—"

Alarms rang throughout the cabin. Through the aircraft windows, they could see clouds converging ahead, forming an enormous rotating cloud mass.

The clouds gathered, rapidly shifting from white to black from the outside in. Dense flashes of lightning began to flicker within them—it was clearly no natural weather phenomenon!

The Sea Kingdom had no lightning-element expert. Was this Raichu's ability?

"That's the battlefield!"

"Fly over there—"

???

Upon hearing Ichika's order, the pilot went numb.

Fly their kind of aircraft into a place like that?

They would explode before even reaching the edge!

"Ms. Ichika, it's time to go."

Chizuru Kagura called out from the rear of the aircraft, and only then did Ichika spare the two unfortunate pilots.

Soon, four figures leaped from the aircraft's tail. Faint ghostly