Chapter 155 sA Strange Power / No Holds Barred” (2/2)
Taiyou placed his chin in his hands in thought. In the back of his mind was an older woman… the shape of one of the mothers and daughters that served Saegusa Tsukumo.
「If I’m going to use it well, I need to know what the situation over there is like.」
「She ain’t come back yet.」
Leticia was talking about Hera.
「Something happened to her, I guess.」
「Maybe she got attacked?」
「That wouldn’t happen.」
Taiyou clearly answered, but in his heart he was a bit worried, thinking “Maybe…”.
He lined up the proof in his mind why she couldn’t have been attacked.
「The only ones that can see Hera are me and the girls that I’ve kissed, no one else can harm her.」
「Are ya sure?」
「Shirokiyami. It’s impossible even for her.」
「Ain’t no way.」
It was rare for Leticia to speak so seriously, she was so surprised that her voice almost cracked in excitement.
Taiyou remembered that Shirokiyami had once planned on attacking Hera, and he told Leticia about it.
Taiyou and the sisters, after Shirokiyami had spoken about the sisters being able to see Hera, had slashed quickly in the direction where all the sisters were looking.
She hadn’t sensed her, but with the people that were there had taken a quick guess before she slashed.
And that slash, as an attack didn’t even touch Hera. It simply slipped right through the air she was in.
“Even though she’s the strongest swordsman…”
Leticia whispered to herself.
(Yeah, she is famous for it, that girl)
Taiyou thought about it, and nodded to himself.
「Well, then, somethin’ had to have happened to her.」
Leticia stressed the word 「somethin’」. Taiyou agreed with a nod.
「Can we call her to us?」
「No.」
「Can we go to where she is?」
「No.」
「Yer just fulla nos today.」
Since it was just as she said, Taiyou didn’t get angry.
Now they had to figure out their situation, and in that thought they were of one accord.
「All I’m good for is fighting. I have power, speed, but teleportation items don’t work with me.」
「I’ve see how strong and fast ya are, but teleportation items…how don’t they work?」
「Well, maybe they don’t.」
Taiyou prefaced what he said.
「Long distance attacks…in a game sense, no long range attacks work on me. Guns, arrows, rockets, missiles, everything. Do you have a gun?」
「Wait a sec.」
Leticia ordered the black clothed soldier beside her, and he gave her a gun.
「Now go ahead and shoot me.」
「Really?」
「Seeing is believing.」
Leticia nodded and silently without a pause shot Taiyou. The shot echoed inside the wagon, and the passed out Juurokuya jolted up in a leap.
While thinking Leticia had some guts to shoot so quick, the bullet fell from Taiyou’s forehead and plopped, rolling in his hand.
「And that’s pretty much it.」
「It’s breakin’ the laws of physics.」
「It’s a lot easier to understand by seeing it.」
「Everythin’s like that, and only you have that power?」
「Yeah.」
「I see.」
Leticia nodded, and they began to sort out their affairs.
「There’s one hostage, soldiers everywhere, an unspecified but unusable human weapon. That’s everythin’ we got.」
「A human weapon, huh, well maybe that’s a good thing.」
「It’s bad we lost our joker card.」
「Yeah.」
We didn’t exactly lose it, Taiyou thought.
The current problem was that Hera was separated from them and now there was no ability to control.
Currently it was the same as if they lost something.
「We should find out how much value the hostage is.」
「No problem there.」
「What?」
What does that mean? Taiyou thought as he looked at Leticia.
「Your highness.」
「I know.」
Leticia had a short conversation with her soldier.
Taiyou was surprised, almost as if Shirokiyami had done it, as he watched the girls.
Outside the window he could see their figures.
There were those he had seen before, and those he hadn’t. Young and old as well.
But there was one thing that connected them all.
All of them were women.
They were all there because of Saegusa Tsukumo.
「That’s good.」
Leticia smiled.
「We only send them hostages they want so they’ll send us the best they have.」
Taiyou smiled in relief.