Chapter 135: Shovelers Unmatched / Maskless but Driver (1/2)

Chapter 134: Shovelers Unmatched / From Within the Flames Chapter 136: Shovelers Unmatched / Three Nets

Translator: Reflet

「He’ll be fine even in that.」

「Seems that way.」

Emerging from the flames, Taiyou dusted off his hems, answering Youran’s words. Without any ash to be wiped off, it was more of a casual action.

「You’ve already somewhat quit being a human, haven’t you? Coming out of the flames and all that.」

「When all’s said and done, I suppose I’d be a phoenix?」

Taiyou said with a silly face, but Youran didn’t bite.

She wasn’t the type to like these sorts of banter.

「Honestly, its performance is too sharp and is difficult to handle.」

「But in the right hands it has a lot of value. They say that rather than assembling the almighty, it’s better to dispatch the right people in the right places.」

「You do seem like you’d like that.」

「My subordinates are all people who are hard to deal with after all.」

Youran laughed depreciatively.

While Taiyou who had returned from the flames was exchanging that sort of conversation with Youran, Leticia widened her eyes at the sight.

Taiyou noticed that, thinking “come to think of it that’s the natural reaction”, secretly giving a bitter smile.

「What’s wrong?」

「A-Are ya…the Terminator or somethin’?」

「I have thought that if I had that refined voice then life would be good.」

「……」

Leticia was speechless. The blonde haired blue eyed girl looked strange, not bothering to close her opened mouth. Just a moment ago she had the awe-inspiring expression of one prepared for death, and Taiyou found that gap to be so weird.

「There’s another one coming.」

「Move.」

He severed the remaining half of the car into half again, lifting it up. He aimed it at the pursuing rockets flying in and threw it. This time an explosion occurred at a location separated from the three of them, ending with a bomb blast enough to disturb their hair.

「This is absurd.」

「And what will we do from here on?」

「Let’s keep using these.」

Taiyou said, lightly tapping the remaining one-fourth of the car frame that contained only the front wheels and driver’s seat.

「What’ll you do with that?」

「I’m going to do what I did before once more. Go ahead and ride.」

「You mean inside?」

「Yeah.」

「Ride in this condition…?」

「Well I’m riding.」

Just like she said, Youran preceded and got in the passenger seat. Having only two tires, the car leaned backward, but she still managed to somehow get in.

「See, you come quickly too.」

「……Can I believe ya?」

「You don’t believe your close friend?」

「Yer unfair…」

Leticia gave a light sigh, following Youran into the passenger seat. And with Taiyou’s instructions, the solid doors were closed, and glances questioning what to do next came from beyond the glass.

Youran was the same. She did believe in him, but her eyes showed interest in what he would do.

Taiyou grinned, picking up the car body that had been tilting.

It was a hunk of metal remains, but to rephrase, there were still tires on both sides, and it was a wheeled vehicle that had stopped working as a machine.

Taiyou knew something it resembled very well. He had once used it and it closely resembled something he had used to drive with his brides.

Trailer.

The only difference was that at that time, he had pulled it, but this time he would instead push it.

「Uwooooh!」

Letting out a war cry, Taiyou pushed the car body, kicking the ground with all his might. It was inconvenient having no handle, but it wasn’t a big problem to Taiyou as of now.

The pushed car began to move, running along the public road.

「Hey, am I dreamin’?」

「Unfortunately, it’s reality. Because he really is like that.」

「……This is the point where ya’d be surprised, typically.」

「I’d be surprised if a baby suddenly grew wings and flew, but after something like that, seeing a baby skip crawling and start walking, I might say “That’s impressive” and that would be it.」

「But yer talkin’ ‘bout a baby coming up in the earth. Ya sure this guy ain’t the son of some great devil king?」

While the two girls were conversing about that, Taiyou thought to himself as he pushed the car.

His skill, long distance nullification, could apparently nullify the explosion fumes caused by the rocket ammunition. He was able to confirm that upon pushing the back part of the car into the rocket ammunition earlier. Also, when he had thrown the one-fourth portion of the car and caused shock waves, his ability had gone into effect, and though it had blown into him, not a single hair on his head or cloth of his cuff had yielded.

But, as expected, it did affect other humans. He had certainly seen Youran’s twintails and Leticia’s blonde hair yielding to the shock wave.

「If it’s a handgun then I can stop it, but bombs are no good.」

He muttered while pushing the car.

If he was on his own then neither of them would be an issue, but right now he had to protect the two girls.

If it was a handgun that fired in a line then he could just move in front of the fire, but if it was an explosion that caused a shock wave face then he could not perfectly defend against it. It came down to either largely avoiding such a situation or shooting it down from a remote location and making it explode.

With that as a precondition, he set to imprint ideas into his consciousness regarding their next actions.

「Hey hey, who exactly are ya?」

Leticia suddenly asked.

「A gamer and high school student. That’s it.」

Taiyou played dumb. The extent in which someone could accept Hera’s appearance after genuinely seeing her was different for Leticia, who couldn’t see/wasn’t seeing her, so he felt it was best to play dumb.

「In what world is there a high school student like that?」

「According to a certain person, it’s only one in a hundred million.」