Vol 3 Chapter 4 (2/2)
Tae knives that did not suit the hands of a girl Both knives were held with a backhand grip, and as if to display that this was a natural hold, she stood straight up and ilazed eyes
I screwed up, I thought honestly
I did not expect blades to come out I did not realize that this tieniuses and the serial killers were all normal compared to this Just who could possibly keep up with this?
Or rather, this girl, fro for a straight-man, but I could not decide where to start
”You know, it is already past school hours”
”That's not actually the case here-”
I whiffed
But at least it seemed she could cohed And then she began , ”ssswaaayyyy ssswaaayyyy,” and shook her head lightly Maybe she had a raine, because she see some pain Or perhaps she was just a bit anemic She looked a bit sleepy, too She seehtened herself
”Hmm? Ahh, this knife is just a hobby don't worry about it”
”I, see”
I discovered a lying girl
”Uht Huh? Weren't there three of you? Alasses, glasses”
””
Is this girl alright? In this case, this girl being alright directly related to my life or death, so I truly worried It was like, cool and hip, or so, and she sees on her back
”Ahh Umm” she swayed and shook her head ”Oh well I'll stab you twice or thrice and then think about it”
”You're mistaken, you know”
But she paid the upperclassman's kind pointer no heed, and crossed the two blades in front of her small breasts
”shi+ng!eheheh”
Tamamo-chan loosened up a bit and made a faint smile, and then blushed She was embarrassed, it see off the blades and so it looked like nothing other than an object of terror
She wielded a knife in both hands -- but that itself was not dangerous After all, doing so restricts arm movement and makes it easier to read the attack pattern, and it obstructs defensive movements For exa But on the other hand that also means that if they are extremely proficient -- then they can use two blades at will
In other words, all or nothing -- a newbie or a h School, there should be no newbies
”Tamamo-chan, umm--”
”I won't listen to pleas for mercy -- umm, because it's a pain,” she said as she crept closer with her unstable footwork ”And, it's our first ti, so don't add chan to my nameI'll mince you to pieces”
Mince -- to pieces
Like the dean?
Like the dean -- by Zig Zag?
”Wait -- question Was this strategy planned out by shi+ogi-chan?”
”Wrong shi+ogi-senpai looked like she was sche but I suck at that stuff, so I just came over”
Eheh, Tarinned Her smile was cute, but I would have preferred if she had coroup Did this academy not teach cooperation? Learn cooperativeness more, Tamamo-chan Schools are places to learn cooperation, after all
”So, Tamamo-chan, away sssswa aaa yyyy!”
And then fro posture, she iht knives were aimed to intersect at my neck
crap, this girl, was truly honestly serious
Of course I could not oppose her, so I turned around, and then ran away
”Ahh- Running's bad”
Shethe knives backhand, chased after ht I could outrun her because she was smaller -- but I underestimated her I am not a slow runner, but Ta chased by Hijiko-san shi+t, when I was able to grab Hiood one up She quickly closed ground, and suddenly, Ta toward my head
”Wa-- woah!”
I barely dodged it, in a stu ned for being thrown, but she threw it like a shuriken What kind of arirl have?
Or, rather, that her thin are knifes was in itself abnormal Did this academy not exist in a reasonable plane?
And Ta the floor onknife, Eliminator to my throat If she flicked her wrist to the side, my carotid artery would not end well
” What were you supposed to say here check How about high-flying knights are food for pawns?”[1]
Aht?
What a half-hearted choice
”Then, I' to like, ask you questions so try to answer them honestly, please Not that I really care either way, but the er you live, is hoorks”
Tamamo-chan seemed extre was tiring, butitself was tiresome, that sort of slovenly attitude
”Umm ssswaaayyyy Overkilled Red and Yukariki-senpai where are they? To tell you the truth, I've been looking for them for a while”
” a question from me, first”
”Ehhh? Nah that's not hoorks I' questions,” Tamamo-chan puffed her cheeks ”Ahhh But whatever Special permission- Because it's a pain”
It appeared Ta In a debate, she seemed the type to let the opponent win just so she would not have to speak Being a pushover is not a good trait for a young girl, but in this case this was an opportunity for me
” Are you Zig Zag?”
”Huhh? What're you talking about, no”
Tamamo-chan shook her head, almost as if she was insulted
Wrong then Then, if this rong
”I guess you don't really get what's going on? You were dragged into this by the red person without knowing about the school or anything, I think? Not knowing Zig Zag wouldn't you look into that beforehand, ask”
She stopped talking, perhaps because she had grown tired fro And then she mumbled, ”ssswaaayyyy,” and then finished, ”around beforehand?”
”Unfortunately, it is a principle of erous matters”
”Huh Then, a question frooal?”
I actually thought that she was going to ask ain about Hiht uard
”Goal that is”
”It's not to save Yukariki-senpai is it It's not helping Overkilled Red, eitheruihara-senpai that youthis for a reason”
””
”But do you have a purpose to h of a purpose, that you can bring it to our faces, while we do this in this school? If you do, tell me”
” Tamamo-chan”
”But to just reject it, calling it abnormal or unrealistic, that's cheap Please don't deny everyone else's existence that easily,” Tamamo-chan said, without any emotion behind her words ”Or maybe, you just love your own normalcy and valuation that much?”
That, to me
This acadeh to reject that? Did I have so not messed up?
”Ahh, whatever, too much of a pain”
Taain, in a normal way
”Somehow or other, die, please”
The blade and my flesh created friction--
”---!”
Death
I felt terribly calm In a terribly calm way, I felt disheartened Disappointed That I would die this easily, in this situation I had always thought that I would be killed in a es, or so But to be killed in such a way, like a side character, like dying by being crushed under a cru -- no
In a way, that in turnThe end of this di on ht was brutally dissipated, and--
Kunagisa Tohts
Ahh, Tomo, I wish I could see you
Toize to you
”-----”
Just then, I heard footsteps echoing down the hall
Quick footsteps, like so
”-- Master--Master-!”
Along with that shout
Ta, and looked in that direction
”Yukariki, senpa--”
Her hand -- was separated from the blade
I could not even look at Hime-chan to confirm that she was there, as I pushed Tath, and as I turned around I struck her in the stoh composure to think about that
Taht into the wall of the hallway -- and lost consciousness No, she was the type that lacked consciousness even when she was conscious, so maybe that was a bad way to express it, but in any case, she stopped
I placed a hand to
Specifically, by the skin of my neck
”Master!” froht up!”
” Hime-chan,” I turned around, and then finally, saw Hime-chan ”Why are you here?”
”Ah, sorry,” Hiasps ”Hime-chan couldn't open that door, so I was a bit late And I never did get that door to open, so I ca with the spinning fan thing You can remove that from the inside Ufufu, it's probably impossible for Master, but Hime-chan's small, so I was able to escape that way”
I was not asking about her struggles Was there a ventilator to begin with? Maybe the i for me to notice Careless Or rather, more importantly
” Aikawa-san? Is not with you?”
”Uhh,” Hiht after that, but Let people ant to do what they want do what they want, she said, and then she didn't move anymore She wouldn't even open the door for me So I came by myself”
”Came by myself, but Hime-chan”
”Master is wrong”
She said, bluntly
She said bluntly, and looked at ht on
”You talked ether because you don't want to drag them down is just cowardice”
”Harsh But I will not refute that Cowardly cowardice indeed It is still preferable to ending up at a conclusion I do not understand It is healthier I have said it often and I say again that I a From enemies, and from friends”
What irony I butted heads with that fortune-teller with a horrible personality, yet I soughtelse a clear vision of the future
”Being able to think about later is proof of composure!” Hime-chan yelled, for some reason, for soer ”If you're frantically trying to live now, then you shouldn't have the ti to be co lazy?”
” You really are talking off now, Hime-chan”
I could tell
”What -- do you understand about me? What do you understand about a person that must be lazy?”
”At the very least I understand that you're a user of nonsense that keepsexcuses Master, you knoell as I do, that you're just afraid of being by Jun-san,” Hi tone There was a bit of ato pusharound an enormous existence like Jun-san, because it makes you feel like you're puny”
”Hey -- wait I do not see why you have to go that far I--”
She struckwith her I restrained myself at the very last moment, but it was truly at the very last moment If Hime-chan was not not si me
For exa Dead Blue For exa the world For example, the artist that flouted discrimination and disdain For example, the psychic that could only see that which could not be seen
And then -- est contractor
”-- What is wrong with that?”
One day, to be thought of as useless
So puny
What rong with being afraid of being tossed by the roadside?
What rong with being afraid of being betrayed?
”Trust is sad Trust is very sad People live alone The reater the force of betrayal You break, you cruain”
”Even so, being alone is lonely”
”Even so, I will live alone If you are to tell in with, if you are gathering because you are lonely, then the more you find people you can trust, the more that person is just a lonesorotesque and isolated -- and above all respectable”
Like her, as strangled
”To generalize that as being lonely is blasphemous”
”Then Master, you're not lonely?”
Hime-chan said
”Are you alone because you're not lonely?”
””
”Hime-chan was always lonely”
Ahh -- really
Do not look at me with such eyes
True Pure Natural Fondness Caring Truth
Now -- to me To this me
It is too late to atone for my sins, do you not understand?
I want to flee I want to flee I want to flee
Flee Desert Evade Scram
Yes, like that time --
”-- How many times do you want to make me repeat myself”
It was such nonsense -- that I alh I did not kno to smile
Ahh I see
Hime-chan was not like that
She was like the old that
That hy I was shaken up by her
That hy I wanted to leave the dean's room
”What nonsense”
Yet It appeared I was still hu the same error twice
”Huh --Master?”
” No I lose, is what I said You are right, it is as Hime-chan says At the very least, this was not the time or place to be selfish Sorry, sorry This debate is my loss is Aikawa-san still in the dean's room?”
”Ah, y- yes!”
Seeing htened As if truly happy, such was her s flashed it would hesitate, such was her defenseless so, that was supposed to be why I abandoned it
Yet, why, like this
Why, like this, was I so stubborn? Even though if I could truly reject everything, I would be much happier
Even though if I could commit suicide, that would be the best
”Ah, but because we're talking about Jun-san, ry and left on her own”
”Ahh that sounds plausible”
”Mor eiirl”
Hime-chan carefully approached the unconscious Tamamo-chan
”Yeah She was a pretty dangerous girl Ah, I had not thanked you yet Hime-chan's arrival caused her to slip up”
”You're welcoh Ta? I hoped it was not a strange hobby ” Ah She did have a wireless radio”
It was similar to a cell phone, but it had very few buttons It see friends It was palm-sized and seemed convenient for use but so what?
”So basically, Saijou-chan, before she lost consciousness she ihara-san or someone”
”That is bad”
In other words, this place was no longer safe However, the stairs were also dangerous for going to the level below We ht into them Bad We had been cornered to an extent ere nota pouch
Hi, ”Hmmmm,” and then after a while, ”Oh well, it can't be helped, it's time for the secret weapon,” and then she opened the pouchette that had been hanging from her shoulder
”You know, that had been bothering, what is inside that pouchette?”
”Stuff The Seven Tools of the Hanging High School Not that I have seven things inside”
And then His that looked like reels They were so, but they were also definitely not for fishi+ng They were packed to the bri?
”What is that?”
”Lines Well, I guess to be specific you could call it synthetic fiber or wire or string or so” Hime-chan said as she pulled out reels one after another from her pouchette ”I have platinum and titan wires They're all scientifically enhanced to the best science has to offer now This one's multi-purpose I have a bunch, like Kevlar and aramid and carbon”
I had only heard of Kevlar Material for bullet-proof vets, if I remembered correctly I do not know if you could really call that string, considering how different its strength was
”Other than that, it's used for space exploration and military stuff, it has a pretty wide scope of use”
Said Hime-chan, as she opened the hall, and then opened ain the opposing classroos here and there While they looked compact on the reel, each strand was actually extremely thin, and because of the di enormous attention They were like spider silk, such that I felt like they would break just by touching them I was about to touch one to test, but Hi, ”Ah, you shouldn't”
”If you touch it the wrong way your finger'll get cut off”
I was the one that would be cut
”H There are a lot of types of stringSo, Hi with this?”
”I'h to support both of our weight, so right now, I'h to support our weight”
” wait That means” I stopped mid-sentence ”You want to rappel down to the first floor?”
”Right right yes”
” Joke?”
”It's alllllllllright!” she stretched out the word three tier than it needed to be, and stuck out her chest ”Master, just act like you've been tricked by Hiive up!”
”That would just be being tricked”
I said once,
”That would just be being tricked!”
I said twice
I should have run
I thought, a little bit honestly
Juet deep into eneress them they'll become easy fodder for pawns