Vol 1 Chapter 25 (2/2)
Hearing Mokuzai's advice, I then faced the sobbing girl and said to her: ”Hey, we'll help you find your kaa-san, but don't tell your kaa-san that it's us who sent you back, just say that you've ht? Then we'll send you back home, if notwe'll leave you here alone to cry, and there's a biggg baddd wooolf around here in the mountains~~”
That little girl sniffed and said: ”II won't tell anyone”
”Mokuzai, let's go find her kaa-san”
Unexpectedly, a glooirl down the hill in a blink of an eye, to notice a lady frantically shouting: ”Mihere are you, Miwa~ Miwa please reply kaa-san”
The little girl as under Mokuzai's ar the lady nearly cried out in joy: ”Kaa-san!!”
We immediately hid behind the bushes, and I softly told the little girl: ”Oh, so that's your kaa-san, well you can place her do Mokuzai; remember, don't tell your kaa-san that we've saved you~”
”Mm, mm Thank you”
The little girl looked atlook before blushi+ng furiously and proceeded to run down the hill, tightly e her kaa-san
”Feels good to have done a good deed~”
”Don't start sighing and lets hurry on ho then there'll be trouble”
”Oh, right Let's hurry on then”
After being arm-held by Mokuzai to home, I bade farewell to Mokuzai at my room's door, and after I took off my clothes to take a quick bath, I quickly laid onto the bed and fell into deep sleep
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The next day, I woke up sleepily and stretchedin surprise that Mokuzai actually didn't wake me up today I put onscene shocked me
The sky was as if becae patches and patches of greenery were nuo icy-cold faces seereen sparkling grass that were present last night had already been bathed in a frightening blackish red color of bloodstains, and that bloodstains trail kept stretching all the way till the back of the hills
Shocked, I knelt onto the floor, shi+vering feverishly and spat out the contents ofabout Asaka and Natsu-chan
”Da”
At this o to the back of the hills to save Asaka and Natsu-chan
I slowly took tiny steps and persevered on; and as I see nu those of Kaze and Kazai, ere still alive and speaking to o, but were nowat the people under my feet and started to run
Walking onto the route filled with corpses I finally reached the familiarish small hut, and when I saw someone's corpse there, er It was Mokuzai, the guy oke auy who always puts up hat ever selfish requests that I've asked him to, he was like my elder brother I knelt beside his corpse and saw that there was a bullet hole on his forehead, with his eyes full with resentering in this world My tears kept dripping profusely onto his oft-wearing greenish mask
I wiped my tear-strickened eyes onto my sleeve, then pushed open the hut's door, to discover that un towardsbehind hi with Natsu-chan
Asaka was kneeling beside tou-san, and her face was expressionless; when she sawbeside tou-san is Yae tower, but is now severely injured There's ahis torso bones frighteningly, and blood dripped frolared unrelentingly at the gun wielding second oji-san, and as I saw that tou-san was standing still with no visible injuries on hih of relief
I looked at dad as I yelled: ” Tou-san, what happened!!! Why, Kaze Kazai andMokuzai all died!!!!!”
”Heh heh, your second oji-san wants to take over the house position”
(TL: ”house position” in this context refers he wants to be the Master of the Takane family)
When second oji-san heard this, he becaitated: ”Niji, you know that I have no intentions of beco Master of the Takeno family, the Takeno family is nearly finished, and other than Asaka, there's no one else around that has the potential to learn spells, don't just look at the surface right now, it will eventually be destroyed!! We could just seize the opportunity nohen there's still our bloodline around, to switch to be doing commerce, our Takeno family will definitely suceed!!”
”The Takeno family has a few hundred years of history, so what if even if it's our generation that only Asaka have potential, there will be the next generation, and us who have inherited centuries of glory will never ever be businessmen!!”
”Since it's impossible, then die”
An eround acco of a round, my hands touched my face which was splattered with blood The war with the stench of bloody round as I collapsed, kneeling Yarabbed me and Asaka into his e out of the house to escape; with the sound of glass breaking and gunfire occurring at the saave off a painful ritted and continued to run towards the forest direction while still hugging ontobehind Ioshi+ us
The small hut
Natsu knelt onto the ground as she pleaded to her dad: ”Otou-san, please just let Asaka and Hiroto go free”
”Piak!” sound could be heard, with Natsu's face having a red palm-print on it
”Don't call ust, and also, don't meddle in what I do”
After saying that, Ioshi+htily left the hut
Forest
”Waka-sauys hide here in this tree-hole, re out, and please do not make any noise at all”
Yama placed me and Asaka within an extremely secluded tree-hole, said a feords and promptly left I saw his back, they were riddled full of bullets made from earlier e had escaped from the s
The wind made a ”shaa shaaa” sound as it blew over the leaves; while I was being squeezed by Asaka in the extre sounds, I even suspected for a moment that it was just a dream
After a little while, I could hear sounds from outside the tree-hole, it was Ioshi+ma
”Found Hiroto and Asaka yet?”
”Master, we haven't found them yet”
”A bunch of worthless fools”
Afterwards silence ensued
Feeling Asaka's breath beco heavier and heavier, I turned to look to discover Asaka suddenly pouncing her lips onto le back, but because the tree-hole was too compact, there really wasn't space for me to break free from her
Asaka broke apart fro into my ears: ”Hiroto, you must remain silent, what if we're discovered then it'll be bad even though tou-san died but I didn't feel sad at all, why is that so s to me already”
Asaka silently laughed, her laugh was frightening, and I suddenly noticed that there was some blood on Asaka's face, which ain, Asaka onceaboutthe sensation My senses attacked by both being unabling to breath properly and the sight of fresh blood, I slowly faded into unconsciousness
”Uwa” I suddenly awoke, and crawled up fros, I felt a little panicky for amy nose to realize that the blood on it earlier had already for to think for a while I suddenly recalled that Asaka nee-chan had been taken away by Kitagawa Mosuki, and that I've fainted
”Was that a dream earlier? It seemed too real, isn't it?”