Chapter 148 (2/2)
“Too, strong”
Their nu nervous At this point, they were a lot ry Now, I didn't need to fear the up
“Oi, little punk, think you can take us on, huh”
“Kufufu, he'll be dead ed froht he'd be in grade school already The other one had a devious face on hi wind He was rapidly spinning around, a skip rope
The biggest kid in school, in addition to a sly kid who'd brought a weapon But this level of poas treht fight I almost started to cry too
“Nii-san, you can do it! You won't lose, everyone's depending on you, so you'll win for sure!”
There, Sakura's words knocked the cowardice right out of ht, this is for my little sister, this is for my friends, I can't lose here! I childishly felt a sense of esteeht!”
“Shaddap, yeer going down!”
That was the big guy He was a whole head taller than ed Sizehiet et as close as possible, he was about to reach in 3 ht, which would be a feint, as I side stepped to the left, evading the i collision I used the same movement to circle behind him
“Hah!!”
Before he could turn around, I kicked hi that weak spot, I caused the big guy's knees to bend in
“Uwaah!?”
His balance ruined, I further landed a full body tackle on hisface first onto the ground
The big guy's extra loud crying rang in my ears, but I quickly faced the skippy kid
“Heheh, what's wrong, scared? Scared, little baby?”
Even with his large friend defeated, skippy kid looked not a bit perturbed Could be that he trusted that his weapon would do the job, or could just be si the thing above his head, which looked tothis skip rope of terror He probablythat
It was still a skip rope though Unlike a real sickle and chain, it didn't have the sharp and heavy blade attatched at the end But if that thing, going at the speeds it ere to hitinstantly
I only had once shot at this His range was so ht, I didn't need power or speed, but enough courage to close in on hi my resolve, I sloalked towards him But from his point of view, I et
“You're going do!”
The skip rope was extree arc I could see it I expected him to do this, and I could see his attack
There! I deter down, I raised an arht on ed direction Almost instantly, half of the rope pivoted aroundlocation In other words, towards skippy kid
“Higyaaaa!!”
The boy cried in pain as his oeapon had been turned against hiotta hurt, I syerous weapon to a fight He should now understand the dangers that ca to wield a weapon
“That takes care of that! Anyone else feel like joining the big guy and skippy kid No one else cae
I'd defeated all the foes, and thus righteously climbed the castle
This castle had been occupied since its conception so I hadn't actually approached it at all So it actually felt a little fun, clionally laid out rope net
I quicklyslide started Though I kept describing it as a castle, it was still a jungle gy at all
“… Who?”
That hen Reina had first looked my way
Her clear blue eyes felt like they would suck ht for an instant, but kept that a secret from Sakura I still kept it a secret from her
“Get down from there Everyone wants to use the slide too”
No matter how cute she was, she was still the evil boss I firmly told her my de all your ties”
Once Reina slid down this slide, we could finally all begin using it Sure she was evil, but I wasn't cruel enough to kick her down froh
“… No”
“W-why not!”
“I'h”
I was surprised She had closed her eyes and enuinely scared
“Why are you even here then”
“It's nice The cherry blossoms”
That hen I finally understood Reina wasn't actually her view of cherry blossoh in actuality, the place wasn't all that high But for pre-school aged children like us, it was surely high enough for us to enjoy a wonderful view
“Oh… So you didn't take over the slide, did you?”
“No, I didn't What are you talking about”
Whichthe view here, while her so-called knights made up their own interpretations, and blocked our paths all this time
How come no one noticed? Why did it turn out like this?
Reina hadn't done anything wrong But all those boys preached hoas ‘for the princess',problereat war
“Haah… That was stupid… ”
I hadn't one clue why those boys went so far to claim this as ‘Reina's castle' Or at least, the little kid me at the time couldn't be expected to understand
But I was stupid too, dee at the top of the castle
“That's good then, that you're not a bad guy”
I really was glad I'd finally realized that Reina was just a kid too, just like us
I'm sure that because of how different she looked, with her blonde haired, blue eyed, cute looks, that no one saw her true feelings When in reality, she was no different froirl
“Ok, so you won't ht?”
“Sure”
Since Reina was only enjoying the vieas fine to do as I pleased Once I took the lead and slid down, everyone would know that they can too That It didn't matter if Reina was here
I was about to?”
But I was finding it a bit hard to actually go through with it under Reina's intense stare
“Of course”
“You're not scared?”
“Nope, it's awesome”
Well, it was better than the one at the park at least This castle slide was a lot higher, and I was expecting a great deal of fun riding it
“What, so you DO want to slide down”
“But… It's so scary”
“You want to though?”
“… Yes”
It appeared that once she saw ot interested as well She was free to do it, of course But it was kind of sad, her cliet cold feet
At this point, I just wanted to get this thing over with… But somehow, I just couldn't bear to leave her alone She wasn't bad, she just looked a bit different, but was otherwise, a norirl So I could totally becoether?”
“Yes!”
That's when I first saw Reina's srabbing on behind her And we took off As tall and long as this slide was, our journey down ended in moments
“Hey, what's your naht at me as she asked
Oh yeah, I never told her my name, I realized after all was done and past It wasn't fair for ht in ic
So I readily replied
“I'm Yuuto, Souma Yuuto!”
“Yuuto… Yuu-kun then!”
Reina cheerfully shouted, “Yuu-kun,” as she jued
“Oof, A, ahh…”
It need not be said that I criede of the slide At the end of it all, it was Reina who'd ed to actually defeatat all… But that was how I first met Reina