Vol 1 Chapter 3 (1/2)

Chapter 3: This makes us Twintails

“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!”

Thatstarted with a scream

I wasn't surprised to see the mee things were happening even in the news They had put together a special about me, transformed The picture that stood proudly beside the newscaster was o I knew it, they must have sent in the photos from yesterday!!

≪Your name! Please tell me your name!!≫

≪Uh It’s Tail, TailRed whoa, wait!!≫

≪You're a! Let me call you oneesama, please!!≫

≪She's obviously an imouto! Haah haah, why don’t we play dress-up!!≫

≪Whooa, I’h―!!≫

A shot of irl with tears in her eyes, and her hands and feet flailing A sightin the living room

“They were even taking videos, whyy”

I only said it in public for the first time yesterday, but the captions already said “TailRed”

She had already finished breakfast at her own ho on another piece of toast in rim

“Souji, yesterday they were doing that stuff to you your face was buried in schoolgirls’ boobs you aren’t resisting at all, and you were pretty happy!!”

“That’s what happens when they grab ht difference! I can hardly shake theht!? What’s going on, boys and girls both like me so much!!”

“There are boobs and over here are boobs you're kidding le one of them has a sht!?”

The anger rising in Aika was outside of uy, I encouraged her in a manly way

“Don’t think of other people’s breasts as your eneht yourself!!”

“And here’s my fist!!”

I gurgled

Of course h to her at all, and it’s a refreshi+ng dance of bloody spit starting at breakfast

And the scene on the TV was also enough to make the one as in it bleed from the mouth

Theerous expressions on their faces in there too Even through the screen, I still feel like they’re about to juirl’s school, but it’s still bad when you look that way at sorades of elementary school

The video was probably taken by a bystander on their cellphone, and you can see the camera shake of an amateur on it, but it’s very clear I took htly

I thought I could clean it all up in one shot, so it wouldn’t matter even if there were spectators, but that naive plan has gone off the mark already

It looks like they put theht and, after that, the video of the schoolgirls playing with et coood and bad sense

“Personally, I got a lot of respect for that little girl”

They were interviewing a lasses and dreadlocks It said he was a staff irls’ school There was no one like that there yesterday, and even considering that he is a fake, her, please

“The Metropolitan Police are continuing to gather inforirl, and they ―”

“Why! Leave ate the Ultima Guil!!”

It’s a how carefree you can be as declared on Earth yesterday!

“You’re very cute, TailRed-chan ♪”

“Shut uu――――――――――――――p!!”

Moht heart It’s an hour of glory for her son and daughter She s as a parent

Another notch on the meter to the start of my rebellious years

“Souji-sama, Souji-sas and wikis, fan sites and speculation pages for TailRed! It is a hot topic on the net too!”

Twoearle ran over toa notebook PC in one hand, with a smile on her face

“I’ve only transformed twice! What? What’s with this lineup!!”

What are they collecting, what are they wiki-ing All I can do is cry

I wanted to do all of this quietly, but japan, the whole world, is dragginginto full bloo translation pages for the in the future, aren’t they”

If possible, I want to return to the past

Twoearle aiting respectfully on my mother, who had thrown her apron aside like a cape

“Twoearle-chan Sou-chan still appears to be a virgin, but”

“It shames me to show my face, lord”

“I aive three or four failures in a row”

“Haa! I will do it tonight, without fail!!”

What, I can’t hear theanization?

I’m happy that your dream finally came true after fifteen years, mom

The two eh spirits Hot tears ran dooman’s, no, a man’s cheeks

“Aaah”

“Are, are you okay, Souji?”

With all of this, I was co for school

“I was prepared for some of this, but I can’t believe the a to happen to me anymore”

Anxieties about the future, different from yesterday

“Well, it’s a world-class news scoop It’s fine, it’s better than nothing but tedious news like politicians screwing around or so arrested”

“Sure,most of the attention on TailRed!”

I can’t understand why their eyes are on the hero alone and not on the invaders And she’s a little girl, too No, irl

It’s a silver lining on this dark cloud that the scale of the invasion is relativelyway too complacent about the peace of this country?

“You know, that secret base shestench of chuuni It really feels like a crystal of super-science Like there’s pointless dials stuck on the walls and stuff”

“Oh, yeah And for some reason she built the elevator entrance inside the cafe”

The grand opening of the secret underground base had been later that night Mom’s excitement had been terrible, but even Aika see it

The main room would be the foundation of battle, with a satellitesystem And she had installed a spaceleap catapult (there was a long English na it) so that we could reach the battle in a split second

The limit of the transfer pen is a few tens of kilometers at most, but this one covers almost the whole surface of the Earth She really ht

“Well, last night even Twoearle was docile, and that base is there to protect the Earth, so I guess there’s not much we can do”

By the way, I don’t think Aika saw it, but I snuck a look at the base’s innermost room and trembled with fear

Tables with construction plans scattered on the built It was the arms development room

And a uncountable formulae and letters on the room’s monitor, I was barely able to make out the dreadful words, “ANTI-AIKA SYSTEM―”

Aika, it looks like the grudge against you is steadily growing!

I was ragged even on my way to school and wanted to take a nice rest at home, but ―

“―Why do you keep faithfully showing up every single day one at a time, you bastaaards!!”

Just as I reached hoe that an Eleround base The ti was so exquisite that itme I felt a little afraid at how they had perfected the villain template in just three days

If this is part of their strategy, it’s working like a charm

“Aaah at last we meet, TailRed!!”

Yet anotherpose

I was already worried about simultaneous dispatch to ular intervals to be this painful And the total number of enemies is still totally unclear There’s no mental torture like this endless marathon

“shi+t, anyway, I have to do it, don’t I?”

I hit the ribbon to try and get out the Blazer Blade, and the an to happily introduce himself when he saw that

“I a your remembrance, beautiful Goddess”

“Who wants to remember you!”

A sharp appearance that put you in mind of a fox You could draw a clear line between him and the muscular Elemerians so far

“Heh lovely as you are, you’re strong, a wonderful ribbon My heart isjust to see it”

Another irritating thing was that good voice like a voice actor

I'lad he arrived in the tranquil suburbs There isn’t a peanut gallery yet But even so, when I think about what happened yesterday, I want to decide this fight as fast as I can

But he didn’t assert himself the way the others did He can of life I don’t think those two battles were a waste of time He must want to work quietly, cautious of my power

There’s no use in talking any th into the Blazer Blade

But even with inevitable death staring him in the face, Fox Guildy was eerily calm

“The sword that defeated my brawny comrades, born from a ribbon? I feel the work of fate”

With a bewitching s on his face, he produced a ribbon cord fro at it with solemn over-importance, he spun around for no reason and threw it into the air

The ribbon cayh for me to hit it and drop it with the sword It just circled ain

“What was that?”

“Ohh s, so huk”

Fox Guildy coughed up blood and went down on his knees An overreaction out of a very old shojoto ht?

“Hah, haaah! Crystallize ―― my love!!”

The Ele out of his body poured into the ribbon It had been drifting in the air, but it suddenly froze in place and, breaking out in confused spikes and dips like a e shape

“Oh!?”

I was co to the limits of my patience, but when the ribbon broke in two, and took the same shape as the Force Rivon, interest took the lead over caution And then twintails suddenly ca a dove from his hat

“Ohh!?”

Without thinking I alan to applaud I’d already lost the chance to stop his ic trick From the twintails the head, from the head the body, they appeared one after the other and finally even the hands and feet were all there, in the shape of a person

“What’s this about wait, taking a good look, that’s me!!”

It was surely a figure of me of TailRed, life-sized

“The ribbons set off what they tie so well the twintails, especially It is peerless That divine Twintail Eleh it is presumptuous, I have tied it up with my Elemera”

“You, you’re saying that you are copying my power?”

“Hardly, it's nothing more than a reflection It’s a simple doll, just a simulation And I, who do not have a powerful Doll Element like Lizard Guildy, cannot make it move on its own”

Now that you le person can have more than one element The Elemerians crystallize around a core of Elemera, but they can have multiple Elemera too?

He has the Ribbon Ele it in combination with a Doll!

“However the appearance is, as you see, very faithful”

Fox Guildy gently touched the doll’s Force Rivon like precious, fragile glass, with the eyes of love of an old arden It was too tender, which for the one being touched

“Hi, i, i”

was a sight that made my blood run cold Goosebumps rose on my skin I took an unconscious step back

The merciless crimes continued

“Ha―h!!”

A battle cry flashed and I thought he was about to do a spin on tiptoes But he reverently took the hands of the figure and began to dance

When I first saw the student council president, I wasn't surprised to learn that dance and twintails went very ith each other This tiurine, but the overwhels It’s so real that it doesn’t seem like a hallucination - I can see a dance hall behind them

“Uggyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!”

My twintails dance with the scream No, that's only a doll, a doll

I desperately tried to reason with myself, but it was useless The doll with my face continued to dance hand in hand with the enemy I broke out in an odd sweat

“Whew”

The dance was over, but the nightmare wasn’t

His mind sharpened, Fox Guildy crossed his arms in front of his face and exhaled passionately, as if to force his heart to dissolve into the fight

But

“Fuu Onemyself off yet, I’m still chilly after the bath!”

In harmony with his true nature that mustn’t dissolve The nature with the name ‘fantasy’

“What are you doing to me in your head, you bastaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaard!!”

I a of it is disgusting

This is the first time that I’ve ever felt like I was about to leak from an emotion other than fear

Eh, in the part of the Tailgear’s functions that I deleted from my memory, wasn’t there kind of a really convenient function for that?

“Oh, please wait!”

Once again Fox Guildy was talking to the figure

“Even though we just took a bath, now you’ve gotten yourself so sticky with that popsicle! Oh, you’re a hopeless kid, heh heh (handsome voice)”

“Nga――――――ah!!”

I grabbed round

≪Souji-sa like that, you can just smash it!!≫

A signal from Twoearle as if she couldn’t just watch any like ‘creepy!’ in the background Sheabout me

“A, ah, that’s right true, right”

≪Now is the perfect tiear’s Elemeletion system!!≫

“Elemeletion uh, you said that I can use the power of an Elemera Orb”

≪That object hethe case, the Doll eleainst it!!≫

That’s right, if I can destroy that doll and the iinary God inside it, I can co hell Just like the monster said hi influence on puppets

“De, stroy”

He's still lost in delusions, just as before It would be conceited for hi, he’s coht at him, it starts to corrode my spirit I’ll have to use the Doll Element, aim for the doll, and render that bastard powerless

“Hh, ha”

My breathing was beco wild

The appearance was perfect And that alone meant that the twintails were reproduced very well They couldn’t have the ive the worn by a doll

The twintails burned intospirit

“Ugh”

My legs were shaking They clung to the earth and I couldn’t pull the on birdlime

I should be able to destroy a doll like that withfor?

If I don’t destroy it, he is going to get me, but

“Aaaaaaah, I can’t! I can’t do it, how can I hurt twintaaaails!!”

but there are still soht be a fake, they ht be filled with evil, but there is no sin in twintails

How can I judge theiven!?

“You’re the real thing, aren’t you”

“What!?”

“This is only a doll But even so you cannot break it You who love twintails you who possess the strongest Twintail Ele twintails to ruin!!”

“Ngh!!”

≪Souji-sama!?≫

It was just as if ainst my mind My outstretched hand fell back feebly to round

And the reward for the unsightly figure that had lost its will to fight A deadly theater of delusion rushed doithout mercy―

The two people watching the scene on the monitor in the main roo colors and panicking

“That idiot, noa doll!!”

Aika was running back and forth, holding her head

≪Waaaaah Sto, stop ― at least let me keep my clothes on―≫

A screa your ears (in several ways)

“What should I do, Souji is―! Souji is―!! Hey, we have awe can fire from here, don’t we!?”

“Now that this has happened, I”

Twoearle was gripping the top of the console, and tre Blood ran down the lips like carefully preserved works of art

“T, Twoearle”

So made Even Aika could see that

“――Aika-san I want you to do so”

“Is there so!”

“Then, could you transform?”

“I understand, I just have to transform!”

Although she had replied instantly, once she had sed theof it, the natural reaction burst out of her It was probably the only thing anyone could say in Aika’s place

“――――Huh?”

“I believe I said earlier that there was one more candidate”

“No, bu wha!?”

“And so, Aika-san, it is you The one other person in the world who can wear the Tailgear”

Aika stared at her open-mouthed

“You’re lying”

“I a”

It didn’t seem like one of her usual jokes

“But there were only two people in this world who can use it, right!? There’s soood to be true about that”

“You are fellow holders of the Twintail Eleine you were led to each other, drawn to each other”

“Twintail Element”

Fate

That hen she first started to believe in those four letters

“Souji”

They weren’t ordinary childhood friends ― the two of them had been led to meet by fate

Aika turned red to the tips of her ears, holding back her beating heart

“But, wait a second”

Unfortunately, Tsube Aika’s body did not contain more than thirty seconds of romance

“I’m sure you said that that other person was a wild beast, and that if you handed it over the world would collapse”

“What, it is true, right!?”

Into the pale white cheeks of the girl who drew that conclusion with a serious look out of a draa exploded the techniques developed since the first strike

Twoearle gurgled with little bubbles

“That’s right, sure, I ht be a barbarian but I can save Souji!!”

Aika clenched her fist and spoke with resolution

“A, Aika-san, you are the worst kind of person, but you said so kind of cool just now”

“You know, I don’t like fighting with perverts like that either But it’s better for us to have more firepower, isn’t it!? Why were you so obstinate about letting me join!?”

Twoearle quietly lowered the hand she held on her cheek, and, hesitating, spoke her heart

“I did not want to get you involved in danger I have nearly been killed several times in the few days I have been here, but y-you are one of the precious friends I have made in this world!!”

She shook her hair into disarray, letting a tear glitter in her eye

“And, the real reason?”

“Afterwards, it will be necessary to input y to keep up the power of the Tailgear ― or I thought I would tell hie in a few indecent activities, hehehe but if I give you a Tailgear also then ould have to pile your body on too to keep things consistent, right?”

“This total pervert ――!!”

“Aaaah, I said it without thinking, I hate this cursed constitution!!”

“Why are you always, always thinking about sex!!”

“What is wrong with a fe in heat for a male!!”

“Even if it is an argument, choose your words better!!”

Certainly hu season that lasts all year but Twoearle, whose instinct was as strong as an anih with the lamented decline in the birth rate recently,talent

TailRed continued screa as the two of them acted like idiots

≪Stooooop, don’t hold my twintails in your hands and skip ― don’t hum in that handsome voice ― aaaaaa≫

The cries were clearly getting weaker Aika loosened little by little with impatience, and

“I know very well that you hate ht noant to save Souji! Please, allow et down on !!”

Twoearle sht into Aika’s eyes

“I do not hate you You are my friend ― that was not a lie”

“What”

Once again, Aika’s cheeks were tinged with red

Quiet and tender words

Why? She cursed in her heart that it was probably acting, on the one hand, but it

“Iit to save the world, but still, this is e I feel a pain inSouji-saht, when he has no direct connection to any of this To drag his close friend into it too”

It was the same for Aika All she’d done was irresponsibly stop Souji froer on her own

“I aht This is really the kinder way”

That was probably closer to what she really thought

“I have twintails too, you know I’ht h I don’t think I can be as earnest as Souji is about protecting strangers”

“Unlike Souji-sama your Twintail Eleamble the twintails you have co back once you put on the bracelet!”

She was not used to it, but maybe for the first tih her nose, hmph

“I am not such a kid that I can’t take responsibility for my own decisions, Twoearle”

Twoearle nodded her head hard and produced a bracelet froht

They would live or die together Twoearle seemed to be ready for that too

“Aika-san, please promise me, no matter what happens ―”

Aika nodded with a serious look

“― you’ll let me be the first one Souji-sama makes into a woman”

“Hey”

“We have no tiive you this if you do not pro to knock me down by brute force and steal it!!”

“”

“You are not a person like that, Aika-san”

Aika smiled sweetly ―

What is a hero?

A fighter for the weak, an emissary of justice

They fight for those who are not strong They would not take a weak young girl as putting up no resistance and use a dangerous throw technique that looks as though it’s about to be forbidden in modern martial arts, would they

They would not drop her head-first into the ground so that she couldn’t land safely That is not so would do

What is a hero?

Twoearle threw a piece of difficult philosophy like the pure questions of a child at the e of her heart

Her head was buried in the ground, however, so the “air” was under the floor

“Wait for me, Souji”

“Wait for me, Souji”

Aika ran through the hallways of the base with the hair that was her pride flying behind her And she put the bracelet Twoearle had entrusted to her on her right wrist

“― Tail, on!!”

She’d heard the startup words as she listened to the explanation, and at the ti, but now she shouted them without self-consciousness

A belt of blue light circled Aika’s body, answering the words spun without hesitation A decision too small to notice in a moment torn out of time And then, the proof

Aika’s arht flooded out and took the shape of a cocoon She shut her eyes to focus her heart At the same instant, her body was covered by a blue suit Coressive design that was suggestive of a soldier suited Aika well

The spaceleap catapult in the cage set up at the very front of the underground base unfolded and flicked Aika out like a shell from a cannon

A pery she’d seen on the first day with the penlight device

Her field of vision was covered with richly coloured light

“High!!”

The transfer point was just over a cluht

As the space transfer finished, Aika kicked the concrete of the building’s rooftop hard

“Whoa, it really is a It feels like I could reach the clouds”

Not a leap but flight

As if she wanted to recover the tio faster, just to go faster

“So I’m part of the weird people too now, huh But you knohat else could I do?”

She cut the air with speed you hter jet Those twintails that were fluttering in the ere just like tings ruling the blue sky

“It’s just going to keep being this dangerous, so I have to be by his side, right!”

Abandoning the little doubts about whether she could or couldn’t fly ― she beca a trail behind it

“Why don’t I read a picture book for you Oh, my, you’re such a spoiled little kid ―”

The mental attack in a sweet voice that couldfoe, Fox Guildy

It was a fake, after all no matter how many times I told myself that, I couldn’t push those twintails supported by his tremendous willpower down into the realm of imitation

And the other terrifying thing was his self-control He kept pulling out things that would have been impossible unless his irl doll

This is the power of the heart

To me, who had been under the delusion that destructive force was strength, the bastard was on the other side of a wall

“I, is this as far as I go Are uy like this!!”

Onfaint, I couldn’t even stand up

And then suddenly an ear-splitting sound rang like lightning had struck

“Stop right there! Pervert!!”

“Hmm!?”

“Huh!?”

daht be talking to me

Blue light, still tied up with the sky, stood before me and Fox Guildy

“can’t be”

It looked like there were a few differences in how I and weak points On the first day Twoearle had used so that blanked out your existence itself, but that