Vol 3 Chapter 1 (1/2)
There are only absolutes in this world
Huh?
I noticed that there was so ive a er seat of a Cobra painted coe place So, the vibrating sound would be that of a running engine, which would , which would lead to the conclusion that soo through such a needlessly elongated thought process, but in any case I glanced toward the driver's seat As I expected, Aikawa-san was sitting there, whistling in a carefree way (the song was, terrifyingly, the first opening for The Tale of the Heike), with one hand on the handle, and the other playing with her bangs Wind readily blew through the car's interior because of it was a convertible and she see tussled about
”H-”
”Yeah Goodmy head ”Um where are we?”
I asked Aikawa-san as I watched the scenery zipping by We see it hard to tell our current location At the very least, I was sure ere not inwhere I was, it's more appropriate to ask why I was in the middle of a drive with Aikawa-san I could think of no answer
”Huh it appears my memory is hazy”
”Really- it was so troubleso voice, as she turned toward uess it can't be helped, since you were involved in such an incident, no one can bla your memory out of shock After all, you were involved in such an incident”
”'S-such an incident', you say?”
She was even using staccato standard equipment[1]
What? It seeed into soain I understand, then my presence in Aikawa-san's beloved car was be a situation that would be considered natural and understandable
”Right And I can't explain it with a single word It was a violent tragedy,” Aikawa-san said with an extremely serious expression ”If I were a step slower, you may have died”
”D-died?! Come to think of it, my head feels like it aches for some reason”
”Yes, that's what happened after the enemy attacked you No, not just any ene enemy that had quite some ability After you became unconscious ah, no, I ”
With that, Aikawa-san spoke at great length and carefully explained everything that happened to me over the past three days to cover for my lost memories While it was a story of only three days, it was at the saeness, a tragedy with bloodshed and lumps of flesh, and most of all, a story about love and tears I had encountered death a multitude of times, and each time I was saved by Aikawa-san at the last possible h such a trail of death unscathed would be considered athis preposterous tale, I would never have believed it
”Is that so? Forgetting such a terrible incident so with me Allow me to thank you once more”
”Hey hey don't be like that It's ticklish,” Aikawa-san shrugged her shoulders ”We're close enough not to have to thank each other, y'know?”
And then she stuck out her thuht wink She looked ridiculously cool No, not just cool What a wonderful person There are not many people this wonderful Perhaps I had beenshe was sarcastic and narcissistic and only looked at me as a toy, but this belief may need some revision
”No, no, I will repay this debt Not once or twice, I shall return it thrice, without any complaints, and I would insist so forcefully and relentlessly, and even if you were to refuse, without accepting no as your answer, I shall return the favor Yes, if anything troubles you, please come to me”
”Really now Ah, right if you say you feel that strongly, I'd start to feel bad for crushi+ng your pure deterht Come to think of it, coincidentally, in other words, it just happened to be the case, there's so I can only ask of you Will you accept it?”
”Of course Leave it to me The user of nonsense will die for you”
”That's great” smiled Aikawa-san
It had a hint of evilness in it
”Actually, right noe're in thetoward that place that I need your favor in Umm, Sumiyuri[2] Academy Know of it?”
”Of course; I have at least heard of the name”
”From the name then, what do you know?”
”Let's see
”Sumiyuri Academy A special school for the super elite situated just outside Kyoto renowned for being even harder to get into than the harder of the hardest schools -- in other words, for the ojou[3] type Your grades and lineage and name were considered heavily, and soed elite, such a peerless developanization it was, and an ordinary person like I had no chance of even beco acquainted with it
”Hm That's it”
”Yes Schools are -- not just Sus, so it is hard to find infor I randoisa[4] once, too”
”Ah? What does Kunagisa-chin know? She's an ojou of ojou too, but she's a hikikomori, so school should be irrelevant to her”
”She's interested in the uniforms Despite how she seems, she's quite into bloo, Uni-, Suet-”
”Huh There're things even she can't get her hands on Sounds like some sort of miracle”
”No, not really, but she said, While ive up!”
”She has blue eyes”
”So I guess she gave up So, what about Sumiyuri Academy?”
”Ah, yeah What I wanted to ask you a favor of -- get into the academy in that outfit, and escort a certain student”
Having been told that outfit, I finally noticed that I was not wearing my usual casual attire No, more accurately, I noticed I was in an extremely abnormal outfit The upper half was a short-sleeve with a darker than black color, with a button placed over both the left and right of e It hat you would call a sailor collar, and it naturally had a colored scarf draped over it And the lower half hat you could call a refined, and of the same color as the upper half -- pleated skirt Not perhaps, notfor males
”That's a Sumiyuri Academy uniform Y'knoasn't really worried because you're flowery, but that really suit you Your hair's grown out a nice bit, and if you let your bangs down, it'll be perfect Not having any characteristics is really useful at these times”
”Why,” I asked, coolly s such a strange and fancy outfit?”
Is gender a the topic, you know It is not so people should really deal with
”I changed your clothing while you were sleeping But I had no choice, since your clothes were drenched in the blood of the victi you into this, just so we're clear”
”I would not even think of such a thing However, u for a ninteen-year-old male”
”What're you going on about? Cross-dressing for detective work is quite basic in mystery novels You can call it expected without fail, standard a standard Even the esteemed Holmes cross-dressed on a daily basis”
”I don't know of such a person”
”Mugen Majiya[5] cross-dressed in three chapters Of course, I' about the adventure theater arc”
”I prefer the bizarre arc”
”Even that ghost world detective wore a skirt when investigating a girls' high school”
”Are you saying that counts as an example?”
”Jojo cross-dressed during the second arc when he was infiltrating the nazis, too”
”You're saying that counts!?”
”They say MacArthur was forced to wear skirts when he was a kid”
”Don't escape to faures”
”Yamato Takeru no Mikoto”
”You're not above unfastening the ropes around legends as well”
”Zerozaki-kun said he likes cross-dressing as a hobby”
”Don't tell a lie that sounds like the truth”
”Hikari likes boys that cross-dress”
”Don't tell obvious lies!”
I can alators
Also, Aikawa-san likes shounen ined
”How can I help it? It's an all-girls high school, so a guy can't go in looking like a guy”
”Well, yes, that is true”
Wait, should I be saying that is true? I felt like there was so at a very basic level
”Ah, whatever Shut up Didn't you just swear you'd do to whatever I say?” finally Aikawa-san began threatening ”Ah? Maybe you lied to me?”
I swear that I did not re sworn away my mininore the debt I owed her I understand, I nodded After all, infiltrating an all-girls high school would not be easy even for Aikawa-san to do Organizations called schools glide squarely upon the rails of rules And we are referring to Sumiyuri Academy, so the problem becomes exacerbated There would be a bit of difficulty in Aikawa-san wearing this uniforh personally I could not throay ards to how she would look), and I would not be able to enter inIt was still a mystery why Aikawa-san chose ht as well help I was bored after all
”Here's your fake school ID You'll need it during the ID check going through the front gate”
”Ah, thank you” A photo of me was on the school ID It seemed like this situation had been planned from the start ”Um you said to escort a student? So is this job about finding somebody?”
Aikawa-san's profession -- contractor In other words, noas she is paid, she will take the job and perform it For example, she may be asked to solve an ial ite for a person But is there anyone that would painstakingly seek out the contractor known under the title Mankind's Strongest for a mere search?
”It's a bit different fro someone, buuuuut maybe it's a bit like that Suht security It's a big job just getting one person out fro, but I was asked to try to raise as little fuss as possible”