Chapter 140: The Girl Known As Juunishima Youran / Haku and Tsukumo (1/2)

Chapter 139: The Girl Known As Juunishima Youran / Score Chapter 141: The Girl Known as Juunishima Youran / A Man Worth Protecting

Translator: Reflet

「Wh-What do you plan to do with……」

「Relax, we won’t harm you any more」

「Eh？」

「At least not until we reach where that boy is」

「W-Why……？」

「Because you are a hostage」

Haku said from the side. She spoke in a courteous manner but there was faint ill intent and despise oozing out, transmitting.

「We will use you as a hostage in order to make Natsuno Taiyou listen to us. So until then we are saying that we will not hurt you. Honestly, if it were me then I wouldn’t do something like directly take you there」

「Why……？」

Aoba fearfully inquired from Haku, who was clearly conveying her malicious intent.

「If it were me I would only take a portion of you with me」

「Portion？」

「That pretty ponytail or……perhaps the second joint of your fingers」

「Eek-」

「If we were to take you with us then there’s the unfortunate possibility that you’d be taken back on the spot, and that’s a poor move」

Haku said, looking at Tsukumo. He had been criticized but was acting like it didn’t concern him.

「Haah, well if this is how it’s going to be then I will exert all of my effort」

「My bad」

「Please don’t only react to that, it’s too convenient」

「I’ll be affectionate to you later, kay」

「I refuse even over my dead body」

Haku flatly declined.

Aoba developed the slightest question about that reply, but her head was still paralyzed with fear so she couldn’t process it very well.

Suddenly, the tablet that Haku had had rang. It was some sort of calling sound, and Haku operated it, pointing the screen in Tsukumo’s direction.

An image was displayed filling the screen, and projected there was the image of a girl wearing a hakama. It seemed like a videochat function using a tablet.

「How is it Chie」

『I’ve grasped the location of New Moon Director, I’ll forward it to Haku』

「Is that right, good job」

『Heeey, I think after all I should come with――』

「You’re not suited for this occasion, obediently wait」

『……Kaaay』

She seemed a little unsatisfied, but even so she was rebuked by Tsukumo, so Chie backed off.

The video chat was severed, and Haku pointed the screen to herself, checking the sent information, and conveyed it to the person driving.

On the side, Tsukumo returned his gaze, staring at Chan Suu and Honoka.

「This time Chie isn’t well suited, you guys are the confidants……I leave it to you」

「Yeah, I got iiit」

「Leave it to me」

The two of them answered. Tsukumo nodded at the two, suddenly taking two small boxes out of his pocket.

They were small elegant boxes of velvet manufacturing. First Tsukumo opened one of them with a whack sound.

There was a ring inside, a ring emitting a calm glitter.

Tsukumo took that ring in his hands, splitting it in two vertically from the center with a whack.

The wide breadth ring become two narrow rings.

「Chan Suu」

「Yes」

Chan Suu who was called made a meek face and stood before Tsukumo. Tsukumo took her hand, putting one of the two split rings on her finger.

He put the remaining one on his own finger.

「I leave it to you」

「Leave it to me」

「Honoka」

「Yeees」

The hundred ninety centimeter girl answered standing before Tsukumo. Just like what he did for Chan Suu, he took out a ring from the other box, split it in two, and put each half on her and his fingers.

「Uwaaah」

In contrast to Chan Suu with an uncrumbling nihilistic expression, Honoka stared at the ring that had been placed on her ring finger, enraptured.

The rings fitted on the two females, and the split ring pieces fitted on Tsukumo’s fingers.

Aoba didn’t understand what they were doing and for what purpose they were doing it, but intuitively, she grasped just one thing.

Ritual.

She didn’t understand the meaning or the reasoning, but she comprehended intuitively that it was a variety of ritual.

As for the extent of the effects――

「I’m counting on you」

「「For your sake」」

Honoka and Chan Suu said together, jumping off from either side of the trunk simultaneously.

「Huuuuh？」

Surprised, Aoba followed them with her eyes.

The two who had jumped off each landed, soon disappearing and no longer in sight.

She turned back to Tsukumo with a start. He had been looking at Haku.