535 I feel that it’s worthwhile to observe her (1/2)
The person that caught up to him was the dress-wearing woman… more accurately speaking, Fujishima knew that she was a female Spirit-branded Retainer!
She wasn't wearing ordinary Spiritual Ability user combat clothes, but Spirit-branded Retainer combat clothes instead. He could also sense her power and suppressive aura, which proved his inference.
He felt that the jacketed man was likely to be a Spirit-branded Retainer as well. To send two Spirit-branded Retainers, one male and one female… which major personage was so powerful to send such a force at them? It was just like cheating!
The suppressive power difference between them was just like driving a mecha into an army camp. It was no equal match at all.
Fujishima, who believed himself to merely be an ordinary fighter, felt that he would completely be unable to match up to a Spirit-branded Retainer.
He could only surrender.
Although he knew that surrendering would be useless if his opponent intended to kill him in the first place, he felt that struggling and resisting was even more foolish. Perhaps his opponent didn't feel the need to kill him in the first place, but if her hand accidentally slipped or she went all-out against him, then…
Someone who was weak like him needed to have the mentality of the weak as well.
Fujishima turned around and lifted up his hands when this female Spirit-branded Retainer approached him.
”I surr—”
*Smack!!*
He didn't even get to finish his words before he took a heavy blow.
The blow was from her sword scabbard.
'It seems that she doesn't intend to kill me…' That was Fujishima's last conscious thought before he fainted due to the painful impact.
Saving Haiga turned out to be easier than Seiji had expected.
Little Anna had tracked the license plate number of the individuals that kidnapped Haiga, and hacked into the traffic cameras to follow their car's course, which helped Seiji to lie in ambush.
His and Shika's equipment was all provided by Hana for his new team. It had just arrived today. Seiji never expected that he would use it so quickly.
What surprised Seiji the most was that these two opponents both chose to immediately run away when Seiji ambushed them. They barely tried to counterattack at all.
Seiji captured the driver while he had Shika catch the gunman. Neither of these two kidnappers managed to escape.
He sealed the Spiritual Abilities of these two people, and tied up and tossed the two unconscious men into a forest near the road. He also tossed the two halves of the car into the forest, and then took the unconscious Haiga and all of Haiga's belongings with him and left the scene in another car.
Hisashi had provided the car, while Kaede drove.
And so, Seiji learned of the blonde teacher's hidden talent. He personally witnessed her abilities firsthand on the way here.
She drove at top speed the whole way, passing by other cars without any hesitation. She even drifted beautifully when taking curves… Seiji felt that she was no ordinary female driver! She was more like a female racer!
Kaede smiled and explained, ”I used to really love driving in the past. I practiced on some mountain passes.”
'Is there a driver named Takumi Fujiwara on these mountain passes, who delivers tofu for a living?' Seiji almost wanted to ask such a question.
Forget it, this counted as the True Knight Order's first ever undertaking. While this was a success, he couldn't get overconfident.
Seiji contacted Hana and sent her some pictures of the two tied-up men. He asked her to investigate who they were.
”Why do you need to investigate who these two men are?”
”I'll have a video chat with you to explain things later. Please investigate them for me for now.”
He then took Haiga to a safe location that Hisashi arranged. Seiji placed a magical barrier here that could impede magical tracking spells. Seiji then cleansed Haiga of the sleeping spell that had been placed upon him and woke him up.
”…Seigo Harano?” Haiga woke up and recognized Seiji.
”Yes, it's me, Haiga-san. Anna-san requested for me to save you.” Seiji handed Haiga his cell phone, which contained the message history between him and little Anna.
Haiga accepted his cell phone and read the messages. He then began typing and conversing with little Anna.
”Thank you for coming to my rescue, Harano-san.” Moments later, he expressed his gratitude to Seiji.
”No need for thanks… Haiga-san, you're going to have to stay here temporarily for the time being. You can't go outside, because your enemies might still be looking for you. This house has a magic barrier over it that will prevent your enemies from finding your location.”
Haiga nodded in understanding.
”Harano-san… I want to ask you, what do you intend to have Anna do for you?”
Seiji already anticipated this question and smiled upon hearing this.
”First, I'd like to have her assist one of my friends with financial investments to earn some money. I won't ask her to work for free. I'll pay her a reasonable portion of the profits as well, just as if I'm hiring her. Also, I'd like to ask for her help in creating a game—a different game from 'Anna.'”
Haiga fell silent upon hearing this.
”It's going to be impossible to continue working on 'Anna' with how things are now. But, Anna-san can still keep working on games together with you, just in a different method from before.” Seiji looked directly at the game developer sitting across from him.
”…What type of game did you want to have Anna help you create?”
”An ero game.”
Once again, Haiga was rendered speechless.