Vol 3 Chapter 2 (2/2)
Perhaps it was because of Hih a bend in the corridor It was a, because it was so very me to blame someone else, but when I looked at Hi been forced to our wit's end, it felt foolish to becoative There was no need to use nonsense to that end
As I thought -- siht
The extree, their simpleness and their spontaneity There were too many parts that were siht that there did not exist another one of her sort
I had an odd sense about things, as if the answer to X×Y had become Y×X
”Master, what's wrong? You're staring at Hime-chan so ah! C- could this be?!”
”No,” I i peoples' perception of me any further ”However, what floor is this? Based on the view from the e weren't just a third or fourth floor This is quite a tall building for souess that does not matter too much this far out”
”They do say idiots and scissors like tall places-”
”I was about to accidentally let that slide, but you mixed stuff up”
Hmm? said Hime-chan as she tilted her head to the side and it was at that moment
Suddenly, a classroom door nearby opened, and four people -- with the same outfit as Hime-chan and I, the black sailor uniforms -- juh treatment that I could only describe it as such Hiround, and her limbs were pinned down
”!”
Ambush -- it was a possibility I had expected, but why here? I could understand entrances to the school, but there see it in such a random place like this That hy I had deter down the stairs--
”-- because of that, I see”
shi+t Leaving usage aside, that phrase was quite irritating when it is used against you
And then asin ambush here, all four jumped Hime-chan I was not particularly powerful, and I was not well-built, but I er than the childish Hinore me and take Hime-chan meant--
There was still an ambush inside the classroom
An ambush that surpassed the power of four
”M- Master--”
Hi, but her lance atinside the classroom That they had no need to worry about me
This was no joking matter
For ames
”-- Hagihara shi+ogi[1]”
Introducing herself, she -- caaveatthe same black uniform as the four -- in other words, she was a student of this school Her straight, long hair that reached her ankles was abnormally beautiful, and despite the situation, I was chari-chan e aura, like the tip of a japanese katana
If you were to call Hime-chan blue, then this one, was like that red--
”Just in case, I aist”
”Hist you say,” I nodded, and took a step back I was probably feeling pressured by her ”Then, this would y, I suppose?”
” My You are a boy?” said shi+ogi-chan, as if realizing for the first time, based on my voice ” It has been a while since I ood look, too”
shi+ogi-chan co down Hime-chan, a rather inexplicable coist There would not exist any inexplicable order There ht be some purpose to that action
”Well -- then Keiki, Roka, Airl to that place Keep her liive her any space I shall take on this boy”
The four nodded at shi+ogi-chan's words, lifted Hied her to the stairs I could not stop them Not with an enormous obstacle in front of me
I belatedly noticed that the te had run into on the stairs were ai-chan and asked
” the four names -- were they real? It seemed extremely fake”
”Huh -- pheithout answering hed, as if she had completed a job ”So showed up -- it's good things ended safely”
” are you not forgetting so?”
”Hi-chan e, turning to ate, so please turn around”
””
”I will give you a pass for this incident, so hurry up and get out -- that is what I a Hobbyist”
”It is unfortunate this makes people misunderstand,” I deliberately lowered the pitch ofmatches I think I can win”
”Quite the sore loser We could get along”
But by the tiunfrootten behind un, yet h she was such a slender girl It would not be a good excuse to say that she had caught uard After all, she had specifically aiuard
”I aist so physical combat is not my area of expertise -- however, I have been trained to an extent in self-defense”
”Do they teach even that stuff in this school?”
”My answer to that question would be that they only teach that stuff but that is not good,” said shi+ogi-chan as she added even h h you are cornered, you've that insolent attitude that is not good Have you not learned the art of pleading for your life?”
A cold voice An overpoweringly cold voice I re-assessed this school To call this a nursing school or a training facility would be too soft a description This was exactly -- exactly as the word means --
a battlefield
”Now then, I am compassionate, so I shall pay ive you two options -- one is to submit to me One is to dislocate your shoulder”
”-- what country are you the president of?”
”No no, I aist that could not even becoeneral”
”That's great A good match for a user of nonsense that could not become a user of nonsense--”
The pain intrash but she seei-chan was quite selfish
” However, there is just one thing I don't understand,” shi+ogi-chan said, as she loosened her hold ”Don't understand -- in other words, a situation in which an uncertainty exists, is not good for a strategist Uncertainty breeds anxiety, after all”
””
”Why were you able to infiltrate this school?”
shi+ogi-chan asked Not how but why As if that was a question that would shake the foundations of this world, as if she was asking not for the method but rather the principle
” Nothing special I used a fake school ID and because I wore a uniform, so no one suspected me”
”Are you saying you were able to deceive the eyes of the students of this school with just that? That the security system is that low a level?”
Indeed -- given what I no about Suuise should not have passed Even if I could fake , outsiders should be easily identified and dealt with It was understandable that shi+ogi-chan would be curious However, I had no answer to her question I wanted to ask that myself, so maybe it was luck or coincidence, was all I could say
”Don't tellto say nonsense like it was luck or coincidence--”
Said shi+ogi-chan as she twisted ain Fro the power she exerted, but as so their arm twisted, it i-chan behind me -- and s It was a fantastic killing move that was impossible for a newbie
Killing move That hy, there were return moves
”That is a terribly si,” I quietly said ”You are just unbelievably duet it”
I felt like I could hear the sound of blood rising to her head The next i-chan twisted my arm a quarterdislocated
”-- Huh?”
The surprised, du, shi+ogi-chan
I turned the arm that had becoi-chan, who had not yet snapped out of her confused state, and used my arht, with no holding back, from her chest No matter how skilled she irl in her teens, so she flew like a rotting tree, and clumsily rolled down the hall
”-- ow!”
However, as expected of shi+ogi-chan, she softened the fall and quickly raised her upper body, then glared at lare, spread out my safe arm, and displayed composure
”To the question you asked, I still can only answer that it was only a coincidence, so I will answer the question you probably have now -- last ed into a certain incident At the tiot why I ended up like that, why I was injured like that but anyways, when you get soht now my shoulders are pretty easy to dislocate”
”-- Kgh,” shi+ogi-chan groaned ”Then, you deliberately goaded me, to force me to dislocate--”
”You called yourself a strategist, did you not? I a close to that, so I know very well When even one miscalculation occurs, you become very confused It should not have dislocated with just thatpainfully well”
Or rather, what really hurt wasthat onwell then, what should I do next? I was able to so a surprise attack evasion, but that did not , I put oil to the fire While shi+ogi-chan remained confused, with eloquence and flattery, I needed to talk my way out--
I needed to talk my way out, because otherwise I would not be able to catch up to the four that had taken Hime-chan away
”-- what am I, a hero of justice?”
Iway For me to save someone -- for me to even think that Forthat I couldn't i with the flow? Was I just tu with it as usual?
shi+ogi-chan looked at me suspiciously, but then suddenly, she opened her eyes wide in shock She see above me, and then behind me
”-- You're working hard, Ii-tan”
Having said that in a nonchalant tone sis because of a coincidentalin town -- the speaker placed a hand on my shoulder It was on the dislocated shoulder, so it hurt like hell
”-- Aikawa-san is it?”
”Don't call me by my surname -- how many times do I need to tell you? Hmm?”
The hand on my shoulder bore down a bit more
”Right -- Jun-san”
I did not take i-chan as I conversed with Aikawa-san, who stood behindin front of ist, would not do such a useless act How could she do soest a side character?
”Hahahah -- actually, I orried about you being alone, so I came to help”
”Seriously why you couldn't intervene fro”
”Let's leave that fun topic for later So, what do you want to do? Uh, shi+ogi-chan, was it? Do you not know about me?”
” no, I know,” shi+ogi-chan glared at Aikawa-san with sharpness incoh she felt she had the upper hand against me, it seemed she still kept so we learned upon matriculation was about Over-killed Red”
”That's quite the honor,” Aikawa-san laughed at shi+ogi-chan, with a joking attitude, as if teasing her ”-- so? shi+ogi-chan the strategist, what sort of strategy are you going to bring out now?”
”I'll flee”
shi+ogi-chan said brazenly, and then she stood up Her attitude, her expression, had not a shred of fear or panic Indomitable -- or more like insolence This was the first time I had seen an enemy that maintained such an attitude in front of Aikawa-san And this was from a kid
It was abnormal
”You think that you could get away?”
”I do -- because the cross-dress hobbyist there is hurt,” grinned and laughed shi+ogi-chan ”That Over-killed Red is a softy for close friends -- I most definitely know that fact”
””
”And, you,” shi+ogi-chan glared at et it too easily, please”
”What?”
Did I do so?
If anything I felt like I was the victim
”Well then, have a pleasant day”
And then shi+ogi-chan turned around and ran down the hall with her back to us, her skirt and long hair streaht Aikawa-san would pursue, but -- with her hand still on my shoulder, she remained immobile
”Jun-san, is it all right to let her run--”
I hurriedly tried to turn around to Aikawa-san, but then --
”Master-!”
I did not knohere she appeared from, but a Hiht-weight Hime-chan may be, it was a coht in the hallway
What're you doing you brat; are you soht But Hi from her eyes as she sat on top of
”Uwaaaa ah,” Hime-chan hiccuped, and she touched my dislocated shoulder ”Your, shoulder I'm sorry, because of Hime-chan -- Hime-chan, Hime-chan's”
””
Um, when people touch my dislocated shoulder, it hurts--
Why, really, why, do you not, understand, that simple fact
Hi to htly torn It must have happened when she was pinned down by those four Of course, Aikawa-san had saved Hie quartet had been defeated -- but Hime-chan could not have been left unharmed
” ah, th-this is nothing!”
She finally seemed to have cal at, as she tried to hide the torn sleeve
”This is just an abrasion!”
”Sounds painful”
A scratch Although they are similar words
””
That was it, right
An unfathoht, sunny, and innocent
Naive, pure, yet still
Yet still, decidedly not insensible
In this way, she cared for others more than herself She would feel the pain of others as her own Even though there was nohurt was not her fault Even though it was e that Never rejecting, not caring about particulars, as if e--
-- no, wait
That, was someone else
Not Hime-chan
Hime-chan, and her, are different--
”U, uwaah”
Her e to my shoulder, as if to hide her tears
”-- I said, that hurts”
Different
Yet, why
These emotions that swayed like nonsense
”Ichihionna destroy Ii-tan's shoulder?” Aikawa-san grabbed Hime-chan's sailor sleeve and forcibly pulled her off of me, and then with the same forcefulness pulled o overboard If you dislocate it too , y'know Here, I'll fit it back in so hold still”
””
Hold still -- she did not need to say that, as I could not move Or to rephrase that, the moment I saw Aikawa-san, it was like an esper somewhere had placed a nasty curse on me, as my body froze
Curse
Indeed
Aikawa Jun in a sailor uniform certainly had that much power
Jump up↑ Her name uses extreihara shi+ogi (萩原子荻)
Jump up↑ These are all nonsensical names Keika = ”Roseroot Era” Roka = ”Common Reed Flower” Ami = ”More Buddha” and Shuki = ”Red Joy”