Volume 3 Chapter 2 (2/2)
”Sure Because you commanded me to”
What?
I had ordered Maxwell to attack Ayuue chamber and escaped into a virtual world in the meantime?
Why? What for!?
I had trouble believing Maxwell's answer, but then he provided some essence of credibility
”Your Class Rep had turned into a hunter Dhaht your sisters in order to retrieve her from the Archenemies”
Again
This overturned everything again
What had happened here!?
”The initial conditions are mostly the same as inside the virtual world This is a departy, so it can turn a huarlic with ahuman into a half-human, half-vampire That is, a Dhampir”
”Biting isn't the only thing that can turn you into a vampire,” said Ayumi ”There are cases where someone was cursed to becoious or burial taboo In the Class Rep's case, an ite it was modified to adjust the density of the curse And that was of course to artificially h-quality hunters”
”W-wait Does that mean the Class Rep is…?”
”Sure After taking a step into the realm of the Archene hunted by her Sier”
”No, not by the iuy, too I'm here to save the Class Rep and Onii-chan”
”No Once faced with your sister, you are sure to give in to your eerous and uncertain elements”
”Shut up, youmaid Surely you don't think a scrap heap like you can settle things with Onee-chan Biting people to increase her nu a vampire can do”
”…”
”…”
C'h of this heavy silence And I didn't realize how the Class Rep was so popular
”Maxwell, I rescindwith Ayumi now”
”But…”
”Please And, Ayumi”
”Heh heh hehhh What is it, Onii-chan?”
”…While I appreciate the unliainst ?”
”…!!!???”
I caled by her slender arm
”Uuh…”
We moved from the dark hospital basement to the first floor The stairway up from there was filled with trash, so we exited to the hall just in ti with an empty stomach
”What is it, Ayumi? Is it raw meat time for zombies?”
”No! Fuguu!! Oh, God It's so hot and stuffy And when as!!”
”Eh? Will you be okay? You'll start rotting on the inside if you get lax with your preservative treatht?”
”It isn't that serious, but…uuh, fuguu”
”I believe Miss Ayumi is worried about the odor of her sweat”
”Ah!! M-M-M-Maxwell, why did you have to say that!? You have no tact at all!”
”Additionally, it seems that Miss Ayumi's self-consciousness about her odor is connected to her holding you from behind earlier A human would not secrete sexual attraction pheromones so blatantly, but Miss Ayumi has not sufficiently studied such fields, so based on superstitious beliefs-…”
”Fuguu!! Fuguuuuu!! I-I-I-I-I'll smash you to pieces, you piece-of-junk simulator!!!!!!”
”Stop it, Ayu to Maxwell in his container And more importantly, here”
”Fugu?”
”They're ipes Want to use them?”
”Fuguu” For some reason, she pouted her lips as she accepted the disposable package ”Fine, but don't look this way”
”Why? Howto wipe down?”
”Don't iirl doesn't want to be seen taking care of herself like this It's not the saet a clue! Fuguu!”
”Miss Ayu her ar the ipe on her armpi-…”
”Ahh, ahh, ahhhhh!! Maxwell, you're doing this on purpose, aren't you!?”
”…Since when did you two get to be such good friends?”
This was never going to end otherwise, so I turned my back on Ayumi in the hall
After a while, I heard so
”Ayumi”
”What? Don't you dare suddenly look back!”
”I won't But are you sure you're okay?”
Even the immortal had limits What we called ”exhaustion” wasup in our ht Cross's Colosseu Archene them head-on
But without knohat I was thinking about, Ayu voice toward my back
”You say that, but is there anything you could even do if I did say I couldn't keep going?”
”Don't act like I'ht, so I could carry you on my back”
”Bfff!?”
”?”
”N-no, it's nothing It's nothing!”
For soe
We made our way to another staircase since the one was blocked by trash
”This is nothing particularly unusual,” said Maxwell ”Statistically, ests he carry Miss Ayumi on his back or princess carry Miss Erika”
”We didn't need to know that, Maxwell! And as that about Onee-chan? I don't like the sound of that! Fuguu!!”
”Wait, don't cling tome not to turn around!”
Meanwhile, Ayumi and I walked down the dark hallway
I decided to gather hts on the current situation
This was the Peace Committee Convalescent Hospital, an abandoned hospital built in the forest on the border of Kukyou City, and it was apparently actually what remained of a facility for the developy Any possible connection to the recently-destroyed Bright Cross was unknown But if that older sister of mine felt a serious threat here, whatever was hidden here would be the real deal
For some reason, the Class Rep and I had co That had hit her with an artificially-modified curse and turned her into a Dhampir, a half-human and half-vampire
Currently, the Class Rep had fallen into Erika's hands and Ayu to retrieve the Class Rep That hat had apparently set up this cole of a battle
Or so I thought
However…
”Oh,my absence to fill Satori-kun's muddled mind with falsehoods…”
It happened on the moonlit rooftop
There were almost no huned supreme with so many deadly ht and win, he could easily determine her location Erika could not escape Maxwell's eyes, so we successfully ran reached her on the rooftop
That girl with long blonde hair in gorgeous ringlet curls earing a gothic lolita dress and she put on a bewitching smile
”Satori-kun, do you really think I would harm Class Rep-chan?”
”Well…”
”A pure huht now That makes her a half-vampire She's pretty much one of my own, so ould I need to be so cruel to her?”
…Now that you mention it…
I was a huram, Ayumi was a zombie, and Erika was a vampire
If the Class Rep really had become a Dhampir, a human like me and a vampire like Erika would be the most similar to her
And you didn't knohich way a Dhaht join the huht succumb to the blood curse and join the vampires
”It wasn't me that spilt up you and Class Rep-chan Noas it that couldn't trust her as a half-va she would bite Satori-kun? My, my Wasn't it Ayumi-chan and Maxwell?”
Kh…
”No, Onii-chan, don't let her trick you! She's the one that captured the Class Rep!!”
”No, questioning it is good,” said Maxwell ”Compare what they have said and done and you should be able to conclude which one is correct”
Which was it?
Ayu to harm the Class Rep!?
I chose…
There was so I had to check on before I rushed to a decision
”…Maxwell”
”Sure”
”I have a fundamental question: Why are my memories so muddled?”
”…”
Yes
It was true I couldn't spend three hours inside ain fear of death I would want to distract myself, even if that meant a fictional world I understood that all too well
But si virtual reality would not muddy my memories that much
Since it had happened, there had to be so the initial conditions that left me unsure as on my side Plus, Maxould know the most about my muddled memories
After all…
”That wasn't h that virtual reality, was it? I had to have been repeating it over short periods of tiun blasts And if that inforht be able to make a mess of my short-term memory”
That was a technique only possible with the artificially-designed experience points of a virtual reality It could be used to confuse my sense of time and physical experiences
I in of error - or a sense that soh and it had passed the acceptable level Or perhaps I had been released because my short-term memories had been successfully erased
Either way…
”Maxwell”
If he had intentionally robbed e between me and my sisters…
”No, who are you?”
Maxwell: My user's mobile device The carrier uses a cheap SIM I am not actually located on the smartphone, so I ah-speed wireless communications
It is an outdated model, but it was actually discontinued because the specs were too high to continue selling at a profit and the later er provided by the official site, butfiles for the laterit updated like that That shows just how much he cares for it
Even if I can get asas I want, this specification docue It is based on aand it is equipped with a gyro system for absolute vertical stability And it of course has to withstand the recoil of the gas-operated pile driver, chain gun, and howitzer hanging fro its suspension to bounce up stairs
They are linked to the Ghost that ads Steel hunters that will not become vampires when bitten, hm? I see It's a decent justification…but aainst Archenemies? I really don't want to find out these were sent into a warzone and used to take more human than Archeneunpoint by the very machines I created That's just like the brazen bull that was first used on the very man who created it