Chapter 21 (1/2)
The Shaman can't become a Hero
Act 3: Drug
Chapter 21: Mania
“ooOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!”
A dreadful shout I could only describe as a mad beast’s roar tore into my eardrums
The h the stone floor as if it was struck with a hammer With the intensity of the reverberations, my hazy conscience came crystal clear
With a rejuvenated vividity, what entered uess, obviously I’d be looking at nothing but earth since I’d fallen over
So turning away frohtly black feet of Goma— and also, somehow, a terribly familiar pair of sneakers
White with red lines, these shoes were the san as the ones I had on, shi+rarade indoor shoes The fierce i the floor wasn’t the head of a steel hammer but apparently, the rubber soles of these shoes
All put together, right noas the reality that, in front of me stands some classmate of mine
Well no, not really some classmate, there could be but one
“Fu, taba-san”
I intended to say her name normally, but it came out quite cracked and the volume was off My throat was stuck Which can’t really be helped accounting for the nasty taste of ferrous blood spreading all over the inside of the mouth
Once again retaining the pain all over my body, I look up to confirm the owner of those indoor shoes
Futaba Meiko Froreater than the standard in all those aspects, there be but one in the whole of class 2-7 And a girl who had become my ally, the one and only
That her presence wasn’t so at death’s door, is evidenced by the pain in ly before
And, that’s exactly why, I can’t believe it
That Futaba-san caht into this horde And mostly, that she was the one who released that tremendous roar
My building a team with Futaba-san has been for quite the short tirasp of her frailness, her naivete, her kindness It’s because I know all that, that I can’t believe it
And I could only convincebeforeher to have undergone an ‘abnormality’
“KoOOOOOO”
An eerie breath As she exhaled I undoubtedly saw co with her breath, a red
No, looking carefully, that redexuded from all over her body like stea out, cladding her in a coat of red fu a ferocity unseen in man
And strangest of all, was her face
Eyes bloodshot as if she’d pulled all-nighters 3 days straight, her pupils glowed deeper than blood, yes, they truly dazzled as if LEDs had been jammed in there, eyes of crimson
The penetrating glow of those eyes glared at the surrounding Go above the nose, brows raised to the li at her bitter enee
That face was sinize on Futaba-san Her eyes had always seemed to be anxious like that of an abandoned pup Her worried brows s, and when anything happened, she cried Her spirit as sirl That is anything and everything I know of the one known as Futaba Meiko
“WoOAAAAAAAAA!”
That crazed shout exited froe fro it to pieces
The utter ferocity startles the surrounding Go infroer
Futaba-san Just what in the world happened to her— how, in the ht, she moved
She raises high a tightly clenched fist And then swings it down on a Go before her
“GebU—”
The Go into a mess
With a single stroke of fist, a craniuhness atleast as much as that of a human, was pulverized That strike is already beyond a fist I’ehammer can output that kind of force
“GugeEA—!”
The ones raising a beastly cry this ti their weapons, all the ones in front sie fra a red aura
Facing that with a glare of seething anger, and taking a wide stance, Futaba-san—
“Gaa!”
A clothesline With her right arm, she mon the enemy In just that, the Goust of air Not just the ones attacking, even the ones nearby biding their ti as extras[1]
The ones taking the brunt of her arm had their ar froue cleanup hitter What lay ahead as they flew from the impact was a net-likehead on with the wall, s their arrival, but htly too thick, they’d instantly become fresh skewers A spectacle I could describe as a Mozu’s Morning Sacrifice came to be all to quickly[2]
“Gugu uGee”
The Go to Futaba-san
Intelligence aside, thisseen how they were shut doith iht upon approach, there’s no way they wouldn’t get it
That being said, their sense of greed wouldn’t allow theive up on the delicious prey that is humans
As a result, the Go at present, abut, a one-sided massacre
“VuUUAaAAAAAA!”
With an ear-nues into the troop of Goma
I suddenly reic incident that happened a while back where a car drove into a line of coradeschoolers I’ruesome
The Goht as me, of small build Those small bodies waltzed into the air, one after the other The others run over The unlucky who had fallen dohere Futaba-san was stepping, they were e In her each step, a Gouts, or limbs, all were mercilessly crushed underfoot
This underfoot splatter wasn’t so intentionally co fallen at a place where she would step
So the ones she was looking at, ai weapons
“Gue, Ee—”
From scattered directions, coes
Futaba-san who looks like she’s gone insane with rage, took practically no evasive action As her body was big, so was their target When attacked, it would inevitably hit There would be injuries and even bleeding
“—GoaAAAAAAAAA!”
But, that had no effect on her I’d heard of Indian warriors ould keep on attacking even after receiving low calibre bullets; right now, Futaba-san felt just like one of those[3]
Not evenher one hit kill arms The Goma are successively blasted away, bashed down, bursted under foot
A around
The weight of a single Goe I took when they kicked er they’re anywhere from 40 to 60 kilos~ 90 - 130 pounds At the least, Futaba-san could single-handedly swing around a thin-ish girl in junior high without breaking a sweat
Firs it wide Move the spear of Fairy Walnut tree
Immediately after, she bashes it down to the floor The sound of a wet towel sainst washroom’s tiles— echoed repeatedly
As if she’s s it left and right The splattering blood at every swing, did it belong to the weapon, or to the ones of the sa bashed by said weapon?
Quite a few Go branches are darkened as if coated with some 10s of litres of red paint
“Fu, fuh!”
A rough breathing Futaba-san, her shi+ning red eyes searched for sca prey, but at this point, none of those were left
There appeared to be a lucky few Gohterhouse, as I heard pitiful screae That was the only proof of any living Go at the scene, retained form only as a sea of dirty blood, and chunks of meat
“Fu, fuU”
Releasing dense red se breaths But these deep breaths don’t see her With hoarse breaths like a hungry beast, her shoulders heave up and down
She was , she turned around Slowly, towards me