Vol 4 Chapter 4 (2/2)
”Yes Do you hate triplets?”
”No, I love triplets But, one is ?”
”One is sick and being looked at -- or rather to be honest it's being experi and without any trace of joking ”These two are waiting their turn I need the them”
Kasugai Kasuga
Aniy While a scientist just the sai, Koutari-san or Neo-san, who tackled machinery or physics theory, reason or equations, yes, if anything she is more like the human dissection specialist Kokoromi-sensei, in other words a scientist that specializes in life forms To her, all animals are not pets or objects of affection, but rather just objects of experimentation
I looked at the two dogs onceai-san's feet were not just elegant, but they seemed to also be pitiful
”By the hat did you all coai-san said still with a lack of intonation ”It does not look like you came here to look at a familiar face nor that you ca”
”Who knows,” I put bothYou would have to ask Kunagisa herself, because I do not know”
”I think trying to drag Utsurigi-san out of here is an impossible task”
””
I paused, with both of my hands up
”The Professor's obsession over Utsurigi-san is abnor And whatever I am to do”
She said, and Kasugai-san turned her back to ht is, yes, the seventh ward The research ward that houses Utsurigi Gaisuke
” what research the Professor is doing, Kasugai-san does not know?”
I reai-san
”Research Research” Kasugai seehtly atresearch Maybe he's not doing any research Because what Professor Kyouichirou's doing is ht not be able to answer if I were asked what sort of war that is”
” huh?”
I did not understand, at all
Kasugai-san turned her eyes back to me and said, ”More importantly”
”To be precise, I don't knohat I' here I think as I as every day every day without rest like the horse of a horse carriage”
”You are”
”I aely way ”I am What in the world is that old man fixated on”
””
It see toward a rather unpleasant direction Speaking of which, shi+to-kun was pretty venoai-san's words toward Professor Kyouichirou were not filled with the sa or whining What is this, really
”Dogs”
Suddenly, Kasugai-san changed the topic
”You like dogs?”
” not particularly I do not like or hate Dogs are aniht?”
”Yes There's an urban legend that ani they gravitate toward me that must be true”
”Who knows I have never studied aniy”
”Mmm Well this field is relatively ai-san smiled in a seductive way at”As a result I am locked up deep in the mountains like this”
”Locked up?”
”Oh dear what a slip of the tongue How careless of me It appears you have the ability to et what I said boy”
And then she returned to normal
”Yes It see”
Just as she said that, Kasugai-san gave sos They responded proai-san, and another went behind me, and then both lay down
”No need to stand around have a seat boy”
Said Kasugai-san, and she really sat down on the back of the black dog That enormous body was indeed a perfect fit to be a sofa, but it was a sight that probably would not rest ith anihts activists
””
I turned around, and the black dog behindway Well, accuse me all you want, what am I supposed to do
”What's wrong? Don't feel modest take a seat It's fundamentally a wild animal so it's soft and comfortable No worries, that child has a firht?”
”No, thank you for your concern, but unfortunately I have an illness where I die in two seconds if I sit on the back of a dog”
”Mer In response, the dog that was behind ht And Kasugai-san naturally leaned her elbow on it
”Everyone seems to dislike this I think it's the saht with if it's dead but not alright if it's alive”
”Well, I a bitten”
”Don't worry These two haven't been experi experih Yes -- to be honest I heard about you a number of times from Miyoshi+-chan”
”Huh That is a frigid thing to hear,” that pervert, better not have said things that should not be told Unfortunately I am not able to trust Kokoromi-sensei's loose lips as s did you hear? From my respected master?”
”Mostly nonsense But from what I heard from Miyoshi+-chan I can't help but feel like your current actions seei-san -- help is the right word I hope -- and came all the way here but you're not the type of kid do to that right?”
”That is a rather frank rudeness despite my appearances I am pretty active, you knorite a poeed ards to all the way here, it is as you say I do not care in the least about helping Utsurigi-san Kunagisa is the only one thinking that, and Suzunashi+-san is intending on staying a neutral party to all of this, and for my part to be direct I really do not care”
”Mmhmm”
”And I just did a rescueif I airl, but I do not have the intent to do anything wild in order to help a ed man I intend to just be an observer, this time”
”Observer A good word”
Kasugai-san smiled Completely unlike Kokoromi-sensei, her smile had the full seductive beauty of an adult woman
”Observer is a good word Probably the ood of words Good words never disappear”
Those words spoken lyrically by Kasugai-san stuck with n movie may be the source material
”Hey boy Neo-san and Koutari-san and also Miyoshi+-chan all seeisa Toht?”
”I finally ed my shoulders ”The people here, they all open their mouths and immediately lover this lover that -- it was unbearable, honestly Not just the people here, it seems like most people”
”I don't blae are that friendly everyone looks at theh that sort of lens”
”Of age if you want to go there, Kunagisa's , and mine is too old”
”Old Miyoshi+-chan said his mental maturity is stuck as a middle school sophomore”
Middle school sophomore -- thirteen-years old
The age that I isa Tomo?
Six years ago
””
”But still lovers A distasteful word Lovers is a distasteful word Probably the most distasteful of words Distasteful words never disappear”
This tiuess the source material
”It felt like an allot allotments are bad What do you think of allotments? Do you support love?”
”Who knows? I have never once liked someone”
”A common line However well smart people are not well-suited for love for many reasons It is like a cul de sac of evolution In that sense I think Professor Kyouichirou is a”
”-- in ay?”
”At its core talent isn'tit's destructive You understand being that you were in the ER3 Systeenerally shi+ne their genius in their tens or twenties and then they're done”
”Yes -- well, yes”
There were plenty of esteemed people ere recorded in history in their senior appearances; however, the tienius pure to the as until they were around thirty, and afterwards they lived off the experience of being agenius -- in other words, they live the rest of their lives using the leftover cruenius It is not that there are no exaenius, but in those cases they si
The reason why Kunagisa Tomo and Shadou Kyouichirou do not mesh well may be because of that The conversation with Suzunashi+-san on the second floor of the first research ward -- I thought of the difference in generations One as once agenius and one who is currently a genius -- that difference is decisive
The professor who is shown the genius he once was
Kunagisa who shows genius that will one day be lost
Just by living in different eras, is this much difference created between the same ilk?
If so -- the man positioned in the middle
How about, Utsurigi Gaisuke
Is he right now a genius?
Or is he a once was a genius?
”However despite his age the Professor continues to try to produce Even if that is production born out of destruction it is still incredible”
”But even so--”
I alisa had talked about earlier as a retort, but I htly at ai-san tilted her head to the side and said, ”ues” She remained as refined as ever
”It seeoing there so let's return to the topic It's fine that we both agree that you and the Kunagisa girl are not lovers but,” Kasugai-san continued speaking without pausing ”It looks like you and the Kunagisa girl are not particularly friends either Because I think that is my deduction incorrect?”
”What a strong opinion but it would depend on the definition of friend, that”
”Probably It was a foolish question to ask without defining,” Kasugai-san nodded slightly ”However to begin with life doesn't give you that many options anyways There're probably six options at the ”
”Pleasant and unpleasant and indifferent”
”My You're good ords But that ends up being like rolling a die [2] That's why destined lovers and such are all just sleight ofis coincidence or happenstance”
”I agree about that, for the most part”
”My my we think alike I'm a wee bit surprised But perhaps this is also coincidence?”
”Who knows even if it is a coincidence, this is not a bad coincidence”
”Not bad I ai-san lightly chuckled ”Six options I said that without thinking but it has quite the flavor and oddity”
” however, I do not have six options If I think about it I, from birth to now, feel like I have never once chosen”
”That ht be the same as I”
Kasugai-san said almost immediately I looked at her but with doubt, but she still had a plain expression, as if she thought nothing of it
”Yes Even in the case that we presume there're only six options no matter what there exists a seventh Because I think no matter what the options are you always have the option to not choose”
”Choose to not choose how psychological (contradictory paradox)”
”Yes I hate choosing and deciding Given what Miyoshi+-chan said and what I heard earlier it's probably that You ht be the same way maybe”
”Indeed, I do have that sort of aspect to ai-san's inquiry ”To be honest, that is the easiest”
Yes, Kasugai-san nodded
To not choose
To not select
What Professor Kyouichirou's secretary Misachi-san said tofor ai-san
”Right I think so too -- oh, dear,” Kasugai-san stopped abruptly and then stood up fro ”-- rain”
Told that, I looked up It seemed the boredom level of the rain clouds had finally reached its lih the cracks in the sky Kasugai-san petted the back of the two dogs one at a time in order
”It wouldn't be good if these kids caught a cold so I' There's still a mountain of extremely impossible work left for me to do after all”
”Sounds tough”
”Work h I think Whether you want to do it or you don't want to do it You think so too don't you?”
Kasugai-san said, and then she took a step closer I thought sheanother handshake, but it seemed not, as she took another two steps closer, and then held my head firm with both of her hands And then she stared at me
”? Kasugai-san? Wha-”
-t is the ue so long that it did not seeue she lickedconnected directly with my brain
”!”
I instinctively, in a flurry of action that could be called violent, flung Kasugai-san away, and then jumped back about three meters
”What Are You Doing Suddenly”
” you said you did notdid it so I wondered how about a person”
”I absolutely and positively mind”
”I see Well sorry I apologize,” Kasugai-san apologized nonchalantly ”It's been a while since I met a boy so I couldn't help myself”
Could not help herself what
”Boy I ht as well ask you now”
”What”
”Would you like to carry yourself on those two legs to my research ith me and then into my bedroom and have sex?”
” please do not ”
”Is it crazy?”
”It is crazy”
”No?”
”No”
”Even if I agree to any sort of play you want?”
””
No, I a that?
However I see, the reason why her enunciation was so clear despite her lack of intonationthis would be really bad if this were a precursor to so else, I said, ”there are plenty of other men around”
”Like Koutari-san, or Neo-san”
”So hair and someone who's fat don't count I think”
Princess Kasugai nonchalantly said so brutal
”Then how about shi+to-kun? That young boy is like fresh fruit, ripe for picking”
I tried redirecting
”Hmmmm Uze-chan already put her hands on him”
He was already taken
”Then Utsurigi-san He is a pretty good man”
”Really?” Kasugai-san tilted her head, her interest seei-san never leaves his research ward so I've never seen hih mail and such and I've felt awed and inspired by theh to sexual lust over information”
I thought that at the point she tried to lay her hands on a minor she had met for the first time she was already perverted barely, or already barely perverted, but I did not say that
Hht perhaps people who study too much all end up crazy in some way, but I did not say that either
”Well think about it anyways please Well then you should hurry back quickly It wouldn't be good if your body broke down this deep in the mountains I specialize in animals and Miyoshi+-chan specializes in humans but only dead ones, you know Bye bye”
Kasugai-san bowed her head, and then began walking toward the fourth ward The two black dogs followed behind her like fa bodyguards, I absent-ht I rubbed at the cheek that was licked, and saw off Kasugai-san
”Hurry back quickly”
Did that mean to return to the inn, or did that mean return all the way home The me of now could not determine which This me, who did not comprehend even one percent of the vastness of this Shadou Kyouichirou Research Facility, could not determine which
Gradually an to dampen ater In any case, I need now return to the inn, and I turned on my heel and headed toward the dense forest
”However, I did not think I would h the forest, which was already beginning to look eerie -- coone an hour it would be around three in the”Perhaps this is one type of coincidence”
The once comrade of Dead Blue, Green Green Green, noat none other than the Mad Demon Shadou Kyouichirou Research Facility that just so happened to be funded by the Kunagisa household, and accoisa Tomo as a friend on the journey wasat that research facility as a fellow Speaking of which, by the ti, and it had not been even six hours since arriving, that afterwith every face within the facility
Truly, why do I gravitate toward misfortune
” ahh, I remember now”
My feet stopped, and I froze in theunder the drizzle
”That is right I have not actually met everyone within the facility yet”
One more
One more, there is a possibility that there is another person within this facility I do not knohat sort of number that probability may be, but if there is any possibility whatsoever, then I am not able to not move If there is any probability, even if that would be mathematically the equivalent of zero, it does not matter to me
In the first place, why I left the inn at this hour It was not just because I was unable to sleep To h to predict such a coincidence
Yes
I left the inn to confirm I remembered that there was one more element of turbulence, and I had stepped outside to confir
”-- now then,” I slowly closedof the human failure?”
That thing I felt while alking to the seventh ward tointowatched fro observed fro peeped upon fro watched over fro, unidentifiable feeling No, it cannot even be called a feeling, as it is more like a muddy, muddy mood
That is a look
”Come out Mr Intruder Or should I call you Zerozaki Itoshi+ki?” Ilike that, your o down”
”I never particularly bother with sneaking, running or hiding”
Right behind me
In the literal sense, she was right behind me A few millimeters, no, a few microns was the distance, as she stood behind ht behind me, in that incredibly small space where I still would not hear her breath or even the beating of her heart
”-----”
This -- this close
To not realize even when she was in a position of such closeness that she definitively controlledto surprise her by suddenly calling out you looking at me, wherever you are, but it felt like ed out in return I could not jump away, or even turn around Or even, I was so stunned that my body locked up To confirm her appearance, basically all I could do ait for her to walk all the way around in front of me
Denim pants and leather, laced boots that seeh shi+rt covering her upper body And then above them, she wore a denim jacket that seemed to besleeves She had long hair, and they were braided on both sides of her head Presulasses served no actual function, and of course a deni cap The cap was too deep, and so I could not see her eyes
My body trembled No, ht There was not even any fear There was no shock or confusion or terror I was terribly cal, this feeling of déjà vu This feeling, of opposing that Mankind's Strongest
The rain began falling heavier and heavier It was beco difficult to confir to pour But that did notwas completely irrelevant to the current situation Co like this forever, it would still be a trivial problem
”Mad Demon Shadou Kyouichirou Research Facility--” she spoke first, with a light tone of voice that was ill-suited to the setting ”-- in any case, the condition of this place is just like that of a graveyard to which the dead flock”
””
”Do you not think that there are few things as unbecoht of an elder who's envious of a mere child is one that screas to the world after death -- so unseemly and pathetic and sad and wretched and self-interested and pitiful and piddling and pitiable that I cannot stand to watch”
””
I could not react I was completely smothered
And to my state, she smiled and said, ”Yet however, this rain is well is it not?” and then pulled her brim back down over her eyes, and then like a forest faerie -- creepily laughed
”As though it hints at the path you will take, what a fantastic rain Fufu, this is itself consummate”
”-- you,”
”I present to you my real name, Ishi+maru Kouta -- pleased to be your acquaintance, from thenceforth”
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