Chapter 73 - Volume 5 (2/2)

Suddenly, the doggy raised up a sorrowful cry and tried to drag away the confused pet owner, and disappeared out of sight quickly.

““…………””

After watching that scene, when Kotone-chan came running to me, she had an equally stunned expression, like myself who was still holding out my hand.

…… What’s the meaning of this!?

“……I think we should go home for now.”

“……Yes.”

Kotone-chan had a somewhat tired expression on her face as she said so, and I nodded honestly as I felt that the mood had been ruined.

Was I scared? I don’t know. It doesn’t make sense.

Although it’s a little earlier than scheduled, but I decided to go home, and the driver brought the car up from the parking lot to the park entrance.

“Would you like to get some juice from the shop?”

“……just water.”

“Eh~…… My throat got thirsty in the car, so let’s go get some.”

Apparently, Kotone-chan wants to get a drink. I’ll pass, sorry. Juice that isn’t tasty is harder to drink than plain sugar water.

“……Oh?”

“Yuzu, what’s wrong?”

“I…… heard a voice.”

“A voice……?”

At my words, Kotone-chan craned her neck at me with a strange expression. Was it my imagination……? No, it’s not, I heard it again. Something breaking in the distance…… and someone screaming.

It’s getting closer…… little by little.

“I don’t hear anything…… Ah, the car’s here. I’m sorry, I’m going to get some drinks.”

“Ah, Kotone-onee-chan”

*bakibakibaki!!!*

The instant that I called out to her, there came a big truck crashing into the park, breaking through the fence and the shrubbery behind the shop.

“Hee~!”

Kotone-chan froze at the suddenness of the event.

I heard a scream in the vicinity. The truck didn’t slow down and continued to plow straight ahead.

“Onee-chan”

“Yuzu, come here now!”

I was running to Kotone-chan’s side.

…… I saw it. The world around me swam slowly, and the truck driver’s eyes met mine.

He was smiling while blowing bubbles from his mouth, Eyes that were erratic and bloodshot……

He had obviously gone insane.

And clearly… he was looking at me, and aiming for “me”……?

Kotone-chan clung onto me as I stopped my feet.

Feeling myself trembling, as if bubbling up from the bottom of my heart, some kind of [Emotion] filled me.

“[……What are you doing with to onee-chan……]”

Looking over the shoulder of Kotone-chan who was hugging me, the face of the driver who ought to have gone insane cramped in fear, the birds and pigeons in the park few away in fear for some reason.

As the truck approached ever closer, I put out my hand in front of me, gently…

And with one hand, I caught the truck.

Gigagagan!!!

Like a small car colliding with a train, like a motorbike smashing into a concrete-reinforced bollard, it jumped up and over us contrary to its inertia, and rolled across the beautiful lawn, scraping it.

Screams and shouts of anger came from around us. In the midst of the confusion, I pulled Kotone-chan, who was still in a blank daze up, and quickly left the park before we got caught.

What… am I?

Author’s Notes:

Next time, she will finally go to the kindergarten.