Vol 1 Chapter 8 (2/2)
“Likely Serpent’s Eye possessor spotted within capturing range”
“Mutsuki…you idiot! Why didn’t you run away!?”
The machine had shaken the entire balcony when it had landed, so the boy had fallen onto his butt The scorpion extended its rasp
With the sound of splitting metal, the tip parted into a crane shape
“Ah…ah…”
Mutsuki’s hips had given out, so he crawled backwards to escape capture But after taking aiht up quickly
Plus, his back hit so at the balcony exit and he could move back no further
“…”
He turned around and tre at his heart
Machina stood there Her usual cold eyes were cal the abnormal events
That was all the confirmation he needed, but…
“I-Ibekusa-san…”
He felt like he was praying as he asked the question
“Are you with FeTUS?”
Speaking it aloud filled hiht by fear
Just a few minutes before, he had felt she was the closest person in the world to hier a mere classmate and that time had been so sweet and even more passionate than time spent with a lover He had been happy and he was confident she had enjoyed it too
But when he thought back, he had to ask why she had come here and why she had so easily opened her body to him
“Positive”
She gave a quick, precise answer and an unconcerned nod
“Are you one of FeTUS’s top level members!? The FeTUS Witches!?”
Unable to irl once more nodded
The boy’s th left him
Then had she only allowed him her body and heart as an act to deceive him?
He had longed for this class
Just as he thought he was going to fulfill that desire, the ground had crumbled below his feet
“Mutsuki! Pull yourself together! You need to escape, Mutsuki!”
Ange’s futile voice was drowned out by the rain and the boy had stopped loaded’s mechanical hand approached from the front
“…”
The boy was surrounded and had no escape
The mechanical hand continued forward
“Mutsuki! Why you…!”
It grabbed the body of the chosen one
“Let gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!”
“Eh?”
Why did Ange sound so confused?
Because the crane-like hand holding the boy had broken to pieces?
Or because the twoher had torn away like tofu?
“Ange?”
Mutsuki was just as baffled by the scene before his eyes
His gaze nified and sharp as ever
But they had shed their usual blue and taken on a divine gold color
Togold
In a spherical shape around her, everything was audibly vaporizing: the balcony wall, the , and even the Springloaded’s body But as always, Mutsuki did not even feel warm
“What…is this?”
“…”
Machina looked just as curious as she stared at her own hand on the wreckage of the tail crane
She was the one that had destroyed the crane Her outstretched hand had passed the boy by and grabbed the Springloaded trying to capture him
As soon as she had touched it, the tail had fallen apart as if all of the screws had been removed It looked just like when the spider in the clock tower had been destroyed
Had she protected him? Mutsuki was confused by both this and what had happened with Ange
“Daative Attack still possible Switching to attack”
Two of the Springloaded’s legs had el and boy with its res However…
Ange and Machina swept their hands dismissively toward it
One hand melted it like chocolate and the other dismantled it
“What in the world is this?”
They both looked curiously down at their own hand
“The te fire has increased It’s on an entirely different level”
“I can input the Anti-Code so quickly…This is six times as fast”
They were both surprised by their oer They exchanged a glance, co they were enemies
Ange remained utterly shocked, but Machina ultimately calmed down
“Our bodies… Our cells and spirituality have raised our abilities to protect Fujita-kun”
“Wh-what are you talking about? Raised our abilities? We can’t just get a power-up that easily”
“It is not that surprising The Serpent’s Eye affects every part of a woin…”
“—————!”
They both looked his way
“Adam?”
“The perfect man?”
“H about?”
Mutsuki grew flustered when they both gave hi look
Ange seeave a look of realization
“Dae…level: 71 Move…ment: im…possible”
Thefour legs, but it gave a staticky groan like a poorly-tuned radio
“Securing…classified information…top priority Self…destruct approved…positive”
“!”
“!”
Panic filled Ange’s and – for the first time – Machina’s face
“The astral source is reversing The core energy is being annihilated The algorith from libido to death drive… Oh, no”
“Self-destruct!? Mutuski! Get down!”
Ange charged forward, wearing flickering arolden flames
She almost seemed to trample his collapsed form to shi+eld him
“Ange…!?”
At the same time, Machina stood in front of the both of them and spread her arms
He saw both Ange and Machina trying to protect him
And…
“…❤”
He saw the pouring rain grow a dark blood-red
“Looks likewas perfect”
“Vvvv!?”
The Springloaded let out a groan of surprise with only five seconds until it self-destructed
All of the raindrops on it beca about on their own, so its surprise was understandable
Rock could not be cut by scissors, but it eak to paper
A loaded and tossed it into the sky All of its groans were drowned out by the rain
“…! …!!”
Mutsuki did not know if aif it could
More and aps between parts, and easily took control At the same time, it was smoothly carried up toward the source of the rain It ravity
The raindrops acted like a slide as they carried the Springloaded high into the sky
The clock inside was accurate, so it happened precisely four seconds later
The thick clouds producing the intense rainfall were blown to sht
Ange, Machina, and Mutsuki were dumbfounded
“Eh heh heh❤”
Lucia gently landed
“Told you I would be seeing you sooner this time”
Just like on the day Mutsuki had been invited into this bizarre new life, the deround