Chapter 221 – A Running Youran is Always Dangerous (2/2)

There was anger or something else between them.

At Taiyou’s words Youran’s face had blushed a deep red as she turned away.

She opened the window beside her, jumped up on it, and without hesitation, jumped out.

「Idiot! What are you…!」

Amid the surprised shouts of all the other students, Taiyou bulldozed through the desks and chairs to the window.

He leaned out of the window.

There was a tree below, and Youran had jumped to it, and was now climbing down slowly.

「Time to jump…wait…」

He thought it was a good idea for a second, but the tree was small enough that two might break it and that would be bad.

With that thought Taiyou flew out of the class and down the stairs again.

Wup-wup-wup-wup-wup, he could hear the sound of the helicopter getting louder.

It was proof it was approaching.

「If she’s trying to flee by helicopter, then to the school grounds!」

He felt like it was very possible that Hera would be be slow to follow her, so instead of using her and thinking about Youran’s thought and action patterns, he decided to cut her off.

He ran out of the school, and into the school grounds.

He could see Youran facing away from him. At the same time, he saw the helicopter descend.

He dashed as fast as he could.

Suddenly, the helicopter seemed to hesitate, then rise back in the air again.

He looked and wondered why, but then saw Aoba standing at the point the helicopter was set to land.

Aoba was moving, to where the shadow on the ground showed the helicopter would land…she moved right to that location.

No way to land where a person is shanding.

Aoba used her body to stop it.

「Aoba!」

「Natsuno-kun!」

Taiyou ran out, and in their brief conversation spoke everything.

Seeing the helicopter unable to land, Youran gave the helicopter a signal.

The helicopter gave up trying to land and flew horizontally.

It then landed at the very edge of the grounds.

Youran chased the helicopter with all her might.

Her hair was blown by the wind, the one side twintail disappearing into a cape of long hair flapping in the wind.

「Ag!」

Taiyou chased after her at full speed.

It was easy to tell that Taiyou was faster and the gap between him and her shortened.

But the distance from when he started was huge, and he couldn’t catch her right away.

Youran got closer and closer to the helicopters ladder, and finally with a huge leap grabbed onto the ladder.

The helicopter began to rise.

「Damn!」

Taiyou was in a bad position. He kicked the earth in effort to get there quicker, but there was just still so much space.

The helicopter rose as quick as it could as Youran got farther away.

For a second, different people floated through Taiyou’s mind.

Kohaku.

Kotone, Suzune, Kazane.

Aoba.

His wives had pushed him this far, and now seeing her flee away…he was irritated.

It was hard to take, but there was nothing to be done.

He had used all his strength.

He couldn’t lose with power, but for speed he was still human.

No way to beat a helicopter, no way to chase it.

Youran, clinging to the ladder, had now ascended past the second floor.

Taiyou’s legs stumbled, he got this far, but now the thought of giving up drifted in his mind.

It drifted…then.

Slash.

From the side, he heard the sound of a sword being drawn.

He could see there was a girl in his peripheral vision.

A overbearing white, an utter black.

Accompanying it, a silver shimmer.

「Getsu…Dan.」

And that special, pausing speech.

Just then, she ran far faster and past Taiyou, jumped, and cut the ladder that Youran was on down from the helicopter with her 『Gyakuten』slash.

「Kyaaaa!」

Lost to gravity, Youran screamed as she fell.

Just in time, the following Taiyou was there to stop and catch Youran.