Chapter 154: Mysterious Might / Electrification (1/2)

Chapter 153: Mysterious Might / The Lost Hand Chapter 155 “A Strange Power / No Holds Barred”

Translator: Reflet

Taiyou and the others were inside of a car.

This was a car with bulletproof specifications that could protect against rocket ammunition「within reason」, and Taiyou and the others were riding in it. Being a car for important people, it was surrounded on all sides by Leticia’s subordinates, under protection.

The motorcade was stopped at the shoulder of the road. The engine was in ignition, so it was able to take off within a moment’s notice.

「But wow……You and Youran really are・・two peas in a pod」

Taiyou was riding with them, looking at Youran’s body double and letting out a voice of admiration.

The girl with the white singlet in front of him resembled Youran so much so that he couldn’t tell the difference even from close quarters. It was enough to where if someone were to say they were twins, he would fully believe it, but if he were asked if he could tell the difference between them there at the same time, Taiyou would probably say that he could.

After all.

「A-Are you an acquaintance of New Moon-sama?」

「Well, something like that」

While she did have the same face, her manner of speaking was entirely different.

Perhaps she was nervous, or maybe she was normally this way. At any rate, she was speaking in a way that resembled but couldn’t come close to Youran.

Furthermore, to Taiyou, her difference with Youran did not end there.

（The back……is definitely different）

Taiyou thought.

From his standpoint, that was a definitive difference.

For example, even if she didn’t open her mouth, that straight posture that Youran visibly had……he couldn’t find a trace of the air of that careless appearance she herself had mentioned.

What was in front of him was not an awe-inspiring atmosphere, but a normal girl clad with a normal atmosphere.

「Come to think of it I still haven’t heard. What’s your name?」

「Y-Y-Yes! I-I-I-I am J-J-Juurokuya」

「Juurokuya?」

Inclining his head, Taiyou tried converting the kanji inside his head.

「Written as “sixteen night”?」

「Y-Y, Yes!」

「And you don’t read it as Izayoi？」

「I-I-I am Juurokuya!」

「Oh, is that right」

He wondered why that was for a moment, but Taiyou gave up on the idea of deeply pursuing that.

Many of the names of this island’s inhabitants were separated from his common sense. This was already evident by looking at the island’s name; surely read as “Sugoroku” but instead called “Juuni”.

In comparison to said Juunishima, writing it as “Izayoi” but having it read as “Juurokuya” would enter the category of being totally understandable.

「So this is your real name?」

「Y-Y-Yes! I received this name from N-N-New Moon-sama herself」

「From her?……Could it be, that one thing where the lord christens the retainer？」

「Y, Yes! I received the name Juurokuya in the sense that I am the『Shadow of the New Moon』」

「Really？」

Taiyou couldn’t quite understand what shadow of the new moon meant, but he did manage to comprehend that it was a name with a proper origin.

That Juurokuya had been leaving her hands on her knees, extremely terrified.

As he was questioning why she was so nervous, she was the one who ended up telling him the reason.

「U-U-Umm！」

「Yeah？」

「A-A-A-Are you also a state guest here？」

After looking blankly at her for a moment in response, repeating「State guest？」, he began smiling at her.

「No no, I’m Natsuno Taiyou, a full-fledged Japanese person and a simple high-schooler. I’m a person furthest from the likes of a state guest」

「T-T-Then……are you a friend of the princess’s？」

「Well……I guess？」

Leaving aside whether they would be in the friends category, at the very least they were probably more than acquaintances, answered Taiyou……secretly recalling the sensation of her lips.

「Wha-Wha-Wha」

He had answered without much thought, but Juurokuya was clearly panicking. She exaggeratingly backed off in the fairly expansive car with a “Zuzazaza” sound.

「S-S-Sorry, I-I-I have been so rude」

「Rude？」

「Y-Y-Y-Yes, going so far as to talk to an honored friend of the princess」

(Although I was the one who talked to you) thought Taiyou, but he didn’t say it.

Because as soon as she said that Juurokuya lowered her head like that of a small animal, and he felt it was charming and adorable to watch.

「P-P-Please forgive me」

「……Okay, in exchange for my forgiveness please answer one question」

Taiyou said with a grin.