Bonus 4 Part7-14 (2/2)
”I get the idea behind the Hishi+gaet the concept So let's get back to aya and why are the other Hishi+gami Women after you?”
”Yes, I suppose that's enough background information”
Ama toyed with her wet hair
”Siaah”
”A breakthrough?”
”A aroup that supports this country You could say it will drive 150 reater than the bubble bursting”
I was speechless
The bath toitch giggled when she sawwordlessly
”But I want to protest this If that new age arrives, the Hishi+ga out, you see But it isn't tia its destruction would be like prying open a butterfly's chrysalis Yu the proper path of the Hishi+gami Women”
”How certain of this are you? Do they really have a way of dragging down the Hishi+gami Group!?”
”Not yet But they will if they aren't stopped”
”How!? I'll admit you have extraordinary power, but you're just individuals, right? I can't iiant corporation that's planted its roots all around the world!”
”Hami more as a family for this You need to keep it simple, so set aside the national and world econo If you just focus on the conflict between the Hishi+gaami Women, it's simple”
I still looked puzzled, so Hishi+gahed
”Listen I'll duaaa to destroy the very foundation of the board game?”
”Just tell me the answer”
”What an iether the Men and Women pieces”
At that very moment, a soft knock came to the door
I tensed and focused on the handgun in ami Ama cheerfully stepped down from the bed
”It's fine She's on our side”
She unlocked and opened the door in nothing but a towel to reveal a wo hair The sexy woman wore the kind of haka the Meiji period I could see soentler
She carried a large box elegantly wrapped in cloth I guessed it was a large lunchbox
I wondered if it was a late lunch, but the digital display on the bedside stereo said it was already evening and nearly night It was hard to tell without a , but we had apparently been speaking for quite a while
”Honestly, why aren't you wearing any clothes? Oh, dear You have a gentleman with you!? Then that towel is truly inappropriate!”
Aentle woman who covered her mouth with a hand to express shock
”She's a Hishi+gami Woman just like me She's 'Kuji who Destroys Trust'”
”I-I see”
”She used to be a Hishi+gae done and has forcefully joined our ranks”
”Bff!?”
I spat out the contents of my mouth and Ama seemed to enjoy my reaction
”Are you familiar with the Youkai known as a Mered quite a bit as tiiant salamander, but they eventually became a fish with a human head And by the end of the Edo period, they had becoirl with a fish tail for a lower body She incorporated that change into her surgery Of course, if it can turn a giant sala …And if it was originally a giant salaes to the lower body in addition to the obvious ones on the upper body”
Meanwhile, Hishi+ga
”I can't believe you, I can't believe you Why would you out entleman who isn't prepared to accept it like normal? And about my lower body too!? I can't believe you, I can't believe you, I can't believe you!!”
It looked like she was co her sister with her clenched fists, but I could hear dull crushi+ng and breaking sounds co hidden in the sleeves of that japanese clothing? Was it like hitting so star!?
”U-ugh Can you forgive me yet, Kuji? I haven't actually alteredkilled by an ally does seeami Woman way to die”
”Ah!? I'm so very sorry How could I behave so inappropriately in front of a gentleman!?”
Someone nearly died in their noncootten back on track
”What was it you were about to say before? It was soaaami Yume's plan?”
”We have living proof right here you can go from the Men to Women”
”Oh, honestly”
Haka Kuji puffed out her cheeks and Ama held her hands out to stop her She looked fairly desperate to stop her
”So couldn't it go the other way? In other words, change froami Man”
”If that worked, they could freely enter the Hishi+gami Group and contaed to obtain the ability to forive birth to an unprecedented sort of Hishi+gaeneration mutation either They could eternally create more of theaoes beyond 'Ama who Destroys Hope' or 'Yume who Destroys Ethics' In the worst case, it could create the worst possible Hishi+gaht not even be contained to a single individual”
It didn't sound real
It wasn't grounded
But what if it was possible?
What would happen to Tokyo if a hundred or a thousand versions of Hishi+garoup?
If they snuck into a corporation of 200 thousand and began sabotaging it, would it stand any chance of recovering?
”We have to stop Yua Kuji ould act as their sample I'm the only one that knehere she was, but the foolish Ministry of Defense went in for the attack I couldn't let this fall apart froet to the real problem The JSDF is too hardheaded to be any use And fros, the police can't restrain the other Hishi+gami Women What's left? An American base or a submarine? But the CIA scares me for a different reason So where are we supposed to set our goal?”
The attack had ended in failure
The sun was setting and night had arrived After losing their target's trail, they gave up on directly tracking her and shi+fted to the next phase
”What a pain Six Hishi+ga her and we still failed? Just how much of a monster is Ama?”
That complaint came from Yuu, the beautiful woman in a bikini top, skinny pants, and a military coat She was in public, but she iant anti-tank rifle known as a 1941 When she was that open about it, passersby convinced themselves it must be a toy or for athat ridiculous logic
Hishi+gami Raku, a woman with short hair and sickly pale skin, cut in
”A-are you sure…it wasn't a case of…toothe broth?”
”Oh? That's rich co from one of the ones who tripped me up You all were supposed to stop her while I shot her And as it that let the target escape the hunting grounds?”
Hishi+gaave an exasperated sigh
”Hounds and beaters have limited stamina and focus A hunter and tearound, don't you think?”
”Oh, oh You wanna settle this in a back alley or so?”
The Hishi+ga heads, but that was just their nature The Hishi+ga, so they were ill suited for working as a group
There was only one thing just barely holding theether:
”Okay, okay!”
”Goh!? Ow!”
”C'ether to celebrate ather around”
”No selfie stick is that heavy That's gotta be a special police bato-…o!?”
The innocent girl of about ten overpowered the adult women and forced them inside the frame
She was Hishi+gami Yume
She was Yume who Destroys Ethics
Simply put, she used conversations, the atmosphere, and sudden events to destroy the ”aroup That just barely linked theether in an aard network and maintained some temporary cooperation
”Say cheese! Vee vee!”
”Whenever you step in front of the caive an upturned look and either suck your thun… That's just painful”
They continued causing a commotion as they returned to their base
They had a few hideouts in reserve, but this ti
There they found a girl in a nun's habit with cloth cut out to expose her navel
She was Hishi+gaa
She was Taga who Destroys Faith
”Welcome back”
”Based on that weird smell, I take it I don't want to take a peek in the back”
Yuu sounded annoyed as she rested her anti-tank rifle on her shoulder and the nun giggled in an awfully provocative way
”There's no need to be so nervous An olderon his back all day babbling like a baby, but he hasn't been harmed Feel free to take a look if you want an excellent example of what happens when someone who lives a life of celibacy finally breaks free of his bonds”
”Yeah, I'd rather not”
Yuu still sounded annoyed and she grabbed Yuirl tilted her head curiously
”Oh, too bad Munch, munch”
The nun nonchalantly carried a bucket-like container between both hands (and her chest)
This ied Yume
”By the hat are you eating? Oh, it's popcorn!”
”Heh heh heh These are the snacks Arawa-san made and left here for us Do the rest of you want any?”
But Yuu and Rou seemed reluctant
”Those are enetically redients”
”And what fruits and vegetables did she havein a bunch like bananas”
The adults were disgusted, but Yu her mouth with the popcorn the nun held
”Keh You people sound like virginity-obsessed idol otaku Are breast i!? Punsuka pun!!”
”Yume, you need quite a bit of reeducation later on And with hoisted you are, we'll have to redo it boot camp style”
Yuan to cry in a blatantly fake way, but the others ignored it A girl who cried wolf tended to create uncaring surroundings
The nun slowly tilted her head
”More importantly, I don't see Ama-san with you”
”We screwed up Arawa-chan is checking over the security camera network, but she says it probably won't help”
”I went all out, so I was hoping to resupply I called shi+tsu, so I hope that's okay”
”Geh!? You knoe're like water and oil!”
Taga frantically waved her hands around in her modified nun's habit, but it was too late
The church's door opened and a sexy teacher in glasses walked in Her outfit looked like a suit with a tight skirt at first, but it was actually quite unusual The gloves were a part of the jacket that left her cleavage well-exposed and what looked like a tight skirt was actually the botto touch, she wore fishnet stockings
These were the very first words out of her mouth:
”Illicit sexual relations nun, step out back for a moment I need to teach you how to behave like a lady even if I have to beat it into you”
”Nooooo thank you! This is my territory, so save the all-important act for when you're in your rotten school!”
The nun stuck out her tongue and Yu a question
”Which school are you at now? The one in Daikanyama?”
”That one is gone now”
”Then is it the one in the south Aoyama residential district?”
”That one is gone too”
”Just howto destroy? Honestly…”
Hishi+gaa sounded exasperated and the tall teacher crouched down on the floor
A dark and heavy aura surrounded her
”They're all such good children and all I' for their success and happiness So why does it always end in such unfortunate accidents…?”
”Accidents? You arm them, hole up in the school, and lead them to mass suicide”
”But they're all so cute I can't help but pour my heart and soul into their special afterschool lessons And the idealistic nonsense in the textbooks is as distasteful as food additives, so I just want to give them an early peak of the real world”
”Yes, but that's notfor weapons,” said Rou as she sighed in her black dress
”Anyway” Hishi+gaed the subject ”shi+tsu-chan, do you have what you were asked to bring?”
Still curled up on the floor, the teacher pointed toward the door with her thumb
They all looked outside and saw container boxes filling the trunk of a flashy sports car
Weapon-loving Yuu licked her lips
”Good, good Noon't have to worry about ammo”
”I'h the checkpoints,” commented Rou
”Your position in society is important Like a teacher or a civil servant! I can pass through most anywhere without issue since I wear this nun's habit”
”Heh heh I can do that too! Vee, vee!” exclaiet policeme for no reason”
”Anyway,” said Taga ”What are we going to do about Ama-san? You already said Arawa-san the cyber war expert is unlikely to find her”
”That justfacilities with few or no ca Tom's paradise with a million security cameras, so the areas not monitored are the exception Thatdistance of Ichigaya …How about we start with a radius of five kilo around that detective”
”Yeah, odds are she's hiding in one of those, but aren't there a ton of those, um, well, love hotels?” Yuu mumbled a little and scratched her cheek ”And Ama will definitely have used a fake na?”
Rou answered in her black dress
”Araill be able to get her hands on those lists full of fake naht?”
”And?”
”Love hotels have peak hours and different rental plans For exaht or spend the night until ” Rou winked ”But not ht plan right away, and hide out there for so long That will narrow things down some, won't it?”
The situation was on the move
In an intentionally cutesy act, seted as she spoke
”My first time at a love hotel? Oh, I'm so excited☆”
It was late at night and ere taking a nap to recover our stamina as much as possible
I don't knohat caused it, but Hishi+gaami Kuji stirred and then sat up at the same moment
I was confused over on the two-person sofa I had soed to fit on
”What? What is it?”
”Get down!!”
Haka Kuji leapt at me like a carnivorous beast and knocked me and the sofa back onto the floor
Apast Kuji's shoulder
There was a fist-sized hole in the hotel wall
At first, I had no idea what that could mean, but realization slowly crept in
Hishi+gami Yuu's anti-tank rifle!?
What would have happened if Kuji hadn't knocked me back!?
”Mgh, h”
”Nn… I know you're trying to thankinto my chest like that”
”Mghhh!?”
And it did not end with just the one shot
More andthe wall Masses of lead larger than h the rooun, but the force of each shot was so extres froze up I could not un in my pocket, but it would be no better than a protective char and pray that the storm of destruction passed
But this was not a natural disaster
It was an intentional act with an objective and a goal
So this was not going to end if all I did was pray Ama spoke while similarly down on the floor
”The purpose of the 1941 has changed She's holding us in place while the other members reach their positions I want to take action before they achieve checkmate!”
”Understood Let's go through the floor”
They readily decided on a course of action, so I ended up just watching
A h the hotel room floor as they had said ould
I couldn't even iine what exactly Ama and Kuji had done
As far as I could see, they had only lightly pressed their fists against the floor
At any rate, ere all dragged down to the next floor
”Eh? Ehhh? What? Ehh? What is going on!?”
A couple who had been enjoying the in the bed, but we did not have time to explain
Yuu was still targeting us in the floor above
Meanwhile, Kuji kicked down the door to the hallway The three of us ency stairs As usual, Ama was faster than me despite the iron balls
I heard the sound of breaking metal
A bent elevator door was thrown out into the hallway to block our way And then someone slowly stepped out She had short hair and wore a short modified kimono
”Arata who Destroys Tradition!?”
”Yesterday's standard won't work tomorrow And the same can be said of your lives!!”
As the girl na flew froician's wand and the bottoas cylinder
”Go to hell, you morons! Die at the lo price of fifteen thousand yen for parts!! That's the laughable value you've ed to build up over your entire lives! Gwa ha ha ha ha!!”
Haka Kuji took one look at the irl held like a bazooka, and…
”Not good!!”
She kicked down a nearby door and all three of us dove inside
But an ear-splitting explosive sound still assaulted us The mass of sound exploded in ht I felt the sa the back of !
Hishi+garabbed
I shook ht about the weapon that had done this
Was it a directional shockwave cannon?
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Depart those as a nonlethal suppression device It used the explosion of a standard gas cylinder and created a continuous explosive roar by passing that through a tube with special grooves carved into it The resultant mass of sound could neutralize a violent criminal from as far away as fifty meters
This girl wore a kia with e would have been shocked to see that!
”A sound————kai Is…boosting…with a Yamabiko!?”
”Arata's…more than just———— Stand up!”
My ears had finally recovered
Hakaently shook her hand
”What do we do? If Arata contacts Yuu, the anti-tank rifle will start targeting this floor”
”Then we just have to escape before we're killed”
One of theain
Of all things, Aht into the wall on the side the bullets had come from before
Their tackle broke through the outer wall and I was pulled out with them whether I liked it or not
In other words, all three of us were falling
I saw a flash of light in the night and a sharp wind passed right by me A few seconds slower and I would have lost my head or my heart
”Waaaah!?”
I felt the biting wind of the ht
We were about three stories up
We passed right over the sidewalk and fell on top of the long and narrow container of a truck driving below
Without Ama and Kuji's help, I probably would have broken at least my ankles
”Pant, pant!”
”We can rest easy for the ti…”
In the light of the streetlights we passed by, haka Kuji looked at the scenery behind us and confir the love hotel
Ama was carefree
She sat on the container, grabbed the chest of her dress-like outfit, and fanned herself with it She let the night wind inside her clothing as she spoke
”By the way, do you know anyone you could call for backup? Soami level would be nice”
”Don't joke Thanks to that crazy bastard Mishi+irls How could I call them to a battlefield like this!?”
”Are those your principals?”
”So what if they are?”
We glared at each for a bit, but this alone I could not back down on
Those girls wereforce
I didn't want to define them that way
Meanwhile, the truck continued to drive
Soht
I started to think that when the truck below our feet left the hway
”Hey, are we going to stick around for a long distance drive? The driver ht radio enka as he heads as far north as Hokkaido or as far south as Okinawa”
”That's a good point How about we jump off when it briefly stops at the intercha-…kyah!?”
I heard the un Kuji cowered down and the truck arrived on the highway In fact, the engine was revving up even higher The dark night was hts
Aue as her white hair fluttered in the violent wind
”This truck is bad news”
”In ay!?”
”It wasn't coincidentally driving by at just the right tiami Women timed it to catch us!”
It was likely driving at erous at this speed The truck was aas it maintained this speed, we could not jump off to escape
”Do the civilian driving recorders and speed violation checkers notcareful?”
”I want to believe that Arawa is helping out with her cyber war skills …If they really are doing nothing, I'll skin the out of them”
I heard a creaking sound
It came from the driver's compartment Like a monster from a horror movie, someone crawled out of theand onto the roof where they hung on with both hands and feet
”Yume…”
”Hee hee”
”Yume who Destroys Ethics…!!”
”Ee hee hee Hee hee hee hee Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha!!”
It was a girl of about ten Thisthe truck all this ti wheel to climb onto the roof The extreive up on reality
That monster had locked onto us
What happened to the truck was only the beginning The climax of our lives was about to start
”You're so o to all this trouble?”
She pulled out a…smartphone selfie stick? No, it was so heavy it was more like a special police baton
Her small hands attached a mass of metal to the joint at the end
It was now ehammer
”But it's over now You till at least let me have the time of my life first, won't you?”
Hishi+ga for her own head She pulled out a single long white hair
She had said before that a single hair was enough to kill a tiger
”I won't let this go your way,” she announced ”I am Ama who Destroys Hope Anyone who thinks they're nice and safe in a sanctuary or safe zone is within range for me”
”And another thing” The s Kuji ”A, but why you too, Kuji-chan?”
The answer caentle smile
And with a shake of her unnaturally heavy sleeves
”I am Kuji who Destroys Trust”
”Ohhh, I see”
”And we aren't actually at the kind of disadvantage you seeroups than alone Are you ainst one?”
”Who ever said I was doing this alone?”
For an instant, I thought so in the truck's container
But I rong
The threat came from outside the trailer
It was shaped so
It was tiny and lightweight military aircraft that removed all the safety features from the manned variety
My eyes widened in shock
”A UAV!? What air base did you take that from!?”
”Nee hee hee You can thank Arawa-chan's cyber war skills for this one According to her, these ees”
I didn't know the details, but it was definitely loaded with round attacks
And there was more than one
Since this was not a hu, but then I froze up
More than ten of the UAVs gathered around from various directions
If they all attacked at once, there was no escape
And they were not just leaving this to the aaaps in the downpour of bombs to attack!
”You have to be kidding… And you'll be caught in the blast too!”
I spoke up in a daze, but Yuhter and pointed at her own flat chest
”I'm Yume who Destroys Ethics When you're all comfortably protected by your myth of safety, you're actually allllll on my field”
da attacked!? Happily offering yourself up as the detonator for a moral hazard is not normal!
”That does not change ehair in hand ”We have already reached checkmate Don't think you can overturn that now”
”That's etting captured by the JSDF and being secured below Ichigaya Don't forget that you were playing into our hands fro around out here”
No signal was needed
That also meant there was no time to stop them
Hishi+gaami Kuji
Hishi+gaami Arawa's UAVs
The two sides were going to clash with overwhel force!!
In that instant, ical calculations
I simply didn't like it
It was true Hishi+gami Yume was the root cause of all this There was no roo circumstances into consideration there She would silence Hishi+gaae of the structure of the Hishi+gaah economic collapse We had to stop that no matter what
But I didn't like the structure of this battle
Hishi+gaht she was satisfied as she walked her own path and lived a life of happiness without anything to complain about
But her eyes looked like chipped and rusty blades
I kind of felt like I was seeing an irown up without opening up to anyone I didn't like seeing that
I didn't want to be on the side throwing stones at her
So…
”Wha-…ah!?”
”Are you insane, Favorite-kun!? Dammit!!”
The shouting voices reached me after a delay
I was frantic I could not allow Hishi+gami Yume to live a life where she would clash with her enemies and even have her own allies view her as disposable
It was nothing more than that
So I intervened I ran forward and tackled Hishi+gami Yume's skinny waist
It was all over immediately afterwards
The UAVs fired a great number of air-to-surface ht off the truck container And Hishi+gairl of about ten, was still in my arms
We were in a world of death running at 120 kph
Was this the end?
I had desperately putto completely backfire?
I did my best to surround Yume's body and prayed I would act as a cushi+on We would probably both be torn to pieces the instant we landed, but I didn't want to give up without doing anything
Why mind went blank
My brain was fried
My memories lost continuity, my sense of pain vanished, and time stretched out infinitely
And…
And…
And…
How long did I keep doing that?
Ithe way because the inside of my throat felt like it had torn apart
But that was all
No part of my body seemed to have broken My flesh hadn't been torn to shreds as if so on the shoulder of the highith the sirl in my arms
She was safe too
It eird for me to feel relief at that fact, but I didn't want to think it rong
The truck had driven away
What had happened with the downpour of missiles?
I was pretty sure there had been an explosion, but I sareck