Chapter 26: An Extremely Absurd Figh (2/2)
「You monster!」
They lost their senses due to the fear/panic and they let out a second volley of attacks almost instantly.
Just like the first time, they aimed at Taiyou’s general location accurately……however, the fact that it was completely useless against Taiyou was once again clarified.
When the smoke clears up, Taiyou was as per usual flawlessly unharmed. In order to produce an even more overwhelming sense of futility, Taiyou squatted down in that location.
This was very effective, an absolute sense of despair sunk into the black clothed man and seeing the calm appearance of Taiyou, the men began to run away and disperse like a spider’s children.
Most of them ran away but, there was a couple who remained to stay.
Their expression were still ruled by fear, however they held it down, and they stepped in front of Sakura as if trying to protect her. (Illustration: Come At Me!)
Though the majority of them still held up their firearms, about two people threw away their guns and pulled out a knife/dagger.
Taiyou hesitated.
His only skill was “Long range immunity” that was it. In other words, if it was just bullets or even cannonballs being shot at him he could remain completely calm, however if the opponent was holding a sharp blade, this logic no longer applied to him.
In addition, if you were to exclude his only ability so far, he was in fact just a normal high school student. The possibility of him winning against the men whom held weapons……..there is no guarantee that he will be able to defeat them without getting stabbed.
What should I do…..Just as he was thinking this?
「Ah…….」
Taiyou was able to perceive something from the corner of his view.
Far away from Sakura’s location above the skies, something bright and white was floating in the sky like a harvest moon. It was like the rabbit that lived in the moon, a white shadow. (TL: The Moon rabbit in folklore and it is a rabbit that lives on the moon. Based on pareidolia that identifies the markings of the Moon as a rabbit)
「Shirokiyami」
Her name slipped out of his mouth. Before he was aware, the white girl explosively leaped from the back, and like an angel she swooped down gracefully.
「Free Style 『Reverse-Heaven Wandering Bird』passes by」(TL: 「自在流、『逆天の流離るり』、まかる通る」if anyone can help me get a better meaning, that would be awesome. 逆天 can also mean “Against the Gods” just like the title of my favorite novel, maybe “God-Slaying” can be used as well)
Unlike the way she would normally pronounce her words, the name of the technique she called out was awe-inspiring.
Shirokiyami flew right into the midst of the enemy’s camp and began to cut down everything in her sight with the national treasure 『Reverse-Heaven』 (Against the Gods: name of her sword). In the blink of an eye the remaining men clothed in black were all cut down by her sword.
The event doesn’t even pass a minute, Taiyou could not even comprehend what she was doing as it all occurred so fast. The only things displayed to him was a glint/flash of moonlight that shone in his eyes, and the black clothed men who fall noisily to the ground one after another in less than a breaths interval.
The type of technique she used? He had absolutely no clue.
「With this, it should cover……..My wag-es」
Shirokiyami points her sword at the scruff of Sakura’s neck, and looked at Taiyou in her usual expression.
It was an expression that asked him, “is this good enough?”
「……You, are amazing」
「I’m……A pro after, all. I will work, for my sala-ry」
「Is, is that so? Come to think of it, the thing that was said before—-」
「Taiyou-chan, Taiyou-chan〜」
He was about to ask Shirokiyami a question, but Hera suddenly whispered in his ear.
Taiyou was about to be derailed from the objective and Hera was trying to remind him of what was important, he “thanked” Hera with his gaze and he strengthened his resolve as he faced towards Sakura, who had a sword on the scruff of her neck.
「With this it has been decided, right? Now, please promise to withdraw taking any action against the girls」
「Even if you do this kind of thing, it will not have any meaning」
Sakura didn’t answer with a 「yes」or a「no」.
「What are you talking about? Weren’t you the one in charge of the operations? 」
「Yes, I am the person in charge. 『Site/location』, Although I am only in charge of the dirty work」
「What do you mean?」
「If you say it in a single phrase, I am a replaceable existence, above all the plan which has been set in motion cannot be stopped even if I were to die, that’s the kind of meaning it has 」
「In other words–」
「Ahh〜, does she mean that she is a chief clerk?」
Hera instinctively let out a few words in his ear. He didn’t really grasp the meaning behind her words when she said that she only had authority at the site/location, however when she mentioned that she was only a chief clerk, he understood immediately.
The fact that someone of a clerk status could not really effect the decisions of a company, is something that even Taiyou. Who was a high school student could easily imagine.
This was Taiyou’s blunder, he was seeing things only in the way that he wanted to.
He gave the person known as Junishima Sakura a high evaluation of his own accord, and (Taiyou thought) that amongst her own organization, she would be quite important in terms of her position, being able to hand down orders and such.
This was totally unrelated to how it actually was. Taiyou was at a loss for words, and he was confused as to what actions he should take from now.
Even if he could fling a girl the same age as him tens of meters away, or even if he could withstand a bombardment of heavy firearms, after all in the end he was just a high school student.
The ability to make informed decisions and more importantly his experience were overwhelmingly insufficient.
Therefore, he could not think of a method to break down the problem into manageable pieces. Even the mind that was supposed to be more calm the more he is in a pinch, did not work as he would have liked it to.
In the midst of his despair, Shirokiyami, fired out a few striking words.
「I have…..A method」
「What is it?!」
Taiyou grabbed at her words of hope, it was as if he was stuck in hell and there was a single strand of spider silk dangling in the air that could pull him back to safety.