Chapter 105 - Volume 6 (2/2)

“*cough*”

Onzada shot out the ‘ki’ that he had gathered in a moment into the internal organs of the monk, hurting them.

“If all of your organs get crushed, I’ll just ask someone else. …… Now, speak quickly.”

“…………”

After that, after one of them had collapsed from having his organs crushed, the other surviving monks talked, and Matsuri’s plans became known.

“This is just like a joke…… Lord, come back! We need to move right now.”

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“Kyaa, …… another earthquake?”

“”kyaa”, you say…… you sure have some guts.”

“Did you say something?”

“I-I didn’t say anything!”

With a man who has hardly aged at all since he was young, and a woman who could only be said to be in her thirties, a comedy sketch started up again, as another girl in her twenties turned around, calling out to them.

“Kotone-nee-chan, Dad-chan, cut it out. This is a hospital room.”

“Ah, sorry, Misa-chan.”

“Hey, stop calling me Dad-chan, Misa.”

“Dad-chan, Dad-chan”

A little girl ran around the legs of the trio as she said such things.

“Look, now even Karin is calling me Dad-chan. I wanted to be called ‘Papa’……”

“……Fufu……”

At this scene, an old man lying in a single room smiled gently.

“Ah, Grandfather, were you awake?”

“…… Aah, it seems like you’ve grown a little more……”

“What are you talking about……? Dad and the rest are coming soon, then we can talk again.”

“……Ah, that’s right……”

Kotone’s grandfather from the Toukaki side was on the cusp of death. He hadn’t contracted anything. His internal organs were weakening, and his life span was almost at an end.

Long ago, thanks to his granddaughter Yuzu, he was able to face his family again.

At some point, Yuzu had passed away after being stabbed by a phantom killer, but the grandfather still occasionally saw a chain extending from his breast and knew that she had not disappeared completely.

He didn’t fear death.

Because he knew that when he died, his soul would return to his granddaughter’s side.

*konkon*…… the door was being knocked on.

“Come in.”

When Misa stood and opened the door, there were several doctor-like people wearing white coats, and a few well-built male nurses. And…… there was a nurse with awfully thick make-up.

“How is he doing?”

“Yes…… He woke up earlier.”

She did not know what this doctor, who wasn’t the doctor in charge, had come to do, but as Misa turned back to look at old man Toukaki, the doctors and nurses swooped into the sickroom.

“Wh-what?”

“Annoying…… You guys! Silence them!”

“””Yes”””

As Kotone voiced her dissent, that nurse gave her orders, and the male nurses tried to detain them all.

“What are you guys doing?”

“Shut up!”

“If you don’t keep quiet, do you know what will happen to that child~?”

“What are you trying to say……?”

Matsuri, who had only seen nurse cosplay, looked down upon those who had been restrained and began to cackle.

“You all will become hostages for me to use against Yuzu. Isn’t that a perfect role for a mob character?”

“……Yuzu… wait, what are you even saying!? That child is already-”

“Yes yes, she’s dead yadda yadda, I’m sure of it because I was the one who stabbed her, but I won’t find out what happened even if speak to a mob character anyway.”

“……!”

“…… The criminal was never caught……”

“Fufufu.”

Old man Toukaki, because he was about to die, had been moved to another ward, and there were few people in this ward.

Although the nurses would come if the call button was pressed, but it had been cut when the fake doctors came.

“This brat…… I’ve seen you before”

“Hii”

As Matsuri looked at her face, Kotone’s daughter Karin let out a frightened wail.

“Stop it! Don’t touch Karin!”

“Huuuh…… so she’s called Karin.”

Karin looked very similar to Kotone’s grandmother with her eyes, probably because of her atavism. That is to say, both she and Yuzu had similar eyes.

“…… that face makes me angry.”

Matsuri muttered as she reached out for Karin, and then.

“[To go that far, huh.]”

*GASHAN*! (glass shattering SFX)

Breaking through the glass window of the hospital ward, a black-masked person wielding a great sword rushed in.

“Ah!”

Misa who realized who that was leaked her voice for a moment, but hurriedly covered her mouth with her hand at Yuuki’s gaze.

“Who is that!?”

“Matsuri-sama! That is the black-masked person who has been obstructing us for years.”

“I see.”

Yuuki had come so far to protect Misa, and it seems that he was able to arrive at a good pace, although he was still quite a distance away from Matsuri.

He was thinking of cutting them down, but since the young Karin was watching, he put away his sword, and Yuuki fought the monks with his bare hands.

“As expected, you can’t use that large sword in such a confined space!”

“That’s right.”

However, their physical capacities were too different.

He may be the young shopkeeper of a ramen shop now, but Yuuki had been the ultimate weapon of the human nation.

A [Hero].

Author’s Notes:

It was slightly longer than usual, but I chose not to divide it.