Vol 6 Chapter 3 (1/2)
Chapter 3: Birds in a cage
A bird was knocking on the ith its brown beak
”How rare,” Leerin said and imh to fit in her palm
”A wild bird? Or is this so in Grendan If a bird was left alone, it et sucked into the air purification system and die People could tame birds and train them to avoid the air purification system, but that wasn't usual in Grendan
Leerin opened thecarefully,in?”
The bird hopped over the sill and entered the roo and stopped on the cabinet by the bedside
”Come over” Leerin spread her hands The bird looked at her fingers and hopped onto her palht catch you and eat you”
She caressed the bird's head and feathers The worry and frustration in Leerin fro locked in a room vanished The color of the bird resembled that of tea, but white feathers crossed its chest to its face It looked funny when its long tail olden feathers shaped like a crown Having enjoyed the fun that the bird brought over, Leerin stretched her hands out theA flock of similar birds were on the opposite side of the facility
”Go back to your friends”
The bird peered out, spread its wings and flew out
Leerin was still confined in the facility Every day, she walked from her room to the canteen and back, as if she was locked in a prison like a prisoner Ten days had passed since she ress But Irritation rose in her It wasn't dissatisfaction, but it still filled her up inside Most of the people in the canteen held the sa They looked around and their conversations became louder and louder The expressions of the studentsthe crowd became stiffer and stiffer Probably Leerin and the other people living in this facility knew nothing of what that portended For some reason, she just couldn't calm herself The quality of her sleep had also diminished The people here would not be able to catch the next roa bus if the situation wasn't resolved soon That would be very troublesome But Myath couldn't possibly hold thenumber of people detained here would increase the tension at the facility, and food shortages would arise So, this hold-up would not be long That hat soers said
However, that person was also peering at the studentsthem with impatience Just as his unreasonable uneasiness ? Anyone would want so of which, that girl”
Leerin didn't see the girl na to eat her lunch She always returned imed to so here? The canteen was the only place where Leerin could contact her, but she hadn't seen her for 10 days What a strange person That thought flashed past her She took care to avoid Nina in the first two days Noticing that the other person didn't deliberately get close to her, Leerin had felt e that she hadn't seen Nina in the canteen since then
”Nina AntalkWho is she?”
”Calling for me?”
Leerin looked back instinctively at the voice Nina clio
”Ah!” Leerin stepped back from her Shocked, she lost her balance and fell onto the bed
”Careful” Nina caught her wrist
”Wh, h”
”Are you all right?”
”What are you doing!” Leerin said, scolding Nina for her lack of co the city,” she replied firmly
”Ha?”
”I said before that it was ok if I didn't know the situation, but on second thought, I should check it out Just in case that time comes, it would be ation”
Saying it so ate? Eh? You mean,” Leerin looked out the
Nina nodded Outside laid the streets of Myath
”Went to check it out”
Still the calm voice
”It's not my style to sneak around but I had no choice in this situation I have a good grasp of the current situation”
”Then what's going on?” Leerin turned sideways for the information that everyone in the facility wanted to have
”This city has stoppedaround in this world to escape filth e of this world in the distant past However, in the present, hu to decorate the main characters
”Uh, I understand why you doubt that,” she glanced out thebehind her ”All the s here face the side of the city”
”How can that be”
It was true, from thehere, Leerin could only see the inside of the city That didn't h
”I haven't heard the legs s, so it took a while to discover the problem”
”Ah, so”
That probably explained the source of Leerin's irritation and her lack of sleep What always existed was gone, and that was affecting her body
”But, the legs stopping”
A Regios had stopped ht of that possibility before It was natural for a city to move
”I' ”City Police wouldn't have been so agitated if it was just so The workers told s are mostly the same So that possibility is very low”
”Why?”
”Think If it were just information theft, would that interfere with the city's movement? If that information was so important, there should have been a backup”
”Ah, true”
”If they really looked for so unique to the city”
”Unique?”
”Isn't that obvious?” she said with confidence Leerin shook her head
A unique thing of Myath
”Ah, could it be”
A single phrase appeared to her So that she had never noticed But Layfon had mentioned it in his letter
”An Electronic Fairy?”
”Can't be anything else,” Nina nodded
Electronic FairyThe City's consciousness, an existence full ofAnd that thing had been stolen
”But, I don't get it”
Leerin couldn't comprehend it She had never seen an Electronic Fairy before, hence she wasn't clear of what it was
”I understand It's hard to i stolen”
”Yes”
”It's hard for me to accept that I know it's possible to lure an Electronic Fairy out of the Mechanical Department, but that's all I know”
”Why?”
”Um, because” Nina planned to explainbut suddenly shut her mouth and turned to the
”What?”
Leerin followed her gaze and froze
”I don't kno they did it, but the Electronic Fairy's trapped”
”UhYou ht stood before Leerin A wall separated the facility and the rest of the city, and above it were a large number of birds, the same as the bird that had flown inside Leerin's roo on?”
The flock of birds struggled ht surrounded them The birds called
”An Electronic Fairy,” Nina said and clioing to help them That's why I'm here”
She slid out and pushed herself from the wall The wall vibrated with the push of a Military Artist Nina's figure quickly shrank and then disappeared froht
The commotion continued Leerin could feel the birds' pain And then the alar in the facility
So, ”Filththeir luggage filled the corridor She quickly grabbed her own luggage and pushed herself into the crowd Now that filth monsters were discovered, she had to head for a shelter Besides, this wasn't Grendan The city ht be destroyed soon
”Everyone, please rest assured! The Military Artists of Myath will take care of the filth monsters Please stay cal us iht notout to the shelter
”Leerin-san,” soreeted her
”Savaris-san!” Leerin pushed her way to him
”Let me escort you to the shelter”
”Huh?”
”If I don't keep you safe, soage, put her on his shoulder and ran out
”Wait a minute, Savarissan!”
”Don't speak You'll bite your tongue”
”UhThat!” Leerin didn't sayNot on the streets, but on the wall The streets were full of people It'd be hard to run fast there, but no one could i on the wall And Leerin was just a normal person
Savaris ran on walls He didn't stop even when heall the way to the front of the door
”Please be cal to the shelters are safe!” Roy shouted from the door
Leerin had no ti so she had never encountered before
”You're tense Has Layfon never done this before?”
”Absolutely not”
”Aaah, looks like you're very important to him”
”Those are two different
”Anyway, I had no choice” he said
What he said bothered her
Roy and the City Police were too busy keeping track of the passengers to look at Leerin and Savaris
”You said that if you don't keep me safe, you can't report to a certain someone”
”You still reet that?”
”That's troublesoot what I said”
”If you tell et it”
”That's troublesome,” Savaris said with a worried expression
She would have said ”never iven up in the face of a Heaven's Blade successor if she was at Grendan But she was used to the personality of Savaris during the long ti bus She looked at him with an intense thirst for an answer It couldn't be Derek As Layfon's master, he probably knew Savaris, but Leerin didn't think he'd do soine a Heaven's Blade leaving Grendan Derek would also be shocked
”Someone whom you also know”
”It can't be Synola senpai?”
Leerin didn't have that ht of someone ould know a Heaven's Blade successor
”Uh, yeah”
Leerin wasn't surprised at the quick ad someone like Synola
”Why”
”Because so happened”
His words beca his face failed to escape her eyes
(Synola must have a hold over him) She felt sorry for Savaris
”Thanks for the work”
”No Not at all I'm happy to help”
As the two of the the City Police uniform He led her and the others to the shelter It appeared that the filth ht of the outside of the city greeted her As the facility was situated at the outskirt of the city, the outside was the first scenery she saw
The City'sDid anyone notice in this chaos?
(Nina said they stopped )
She looked behind her The flock of birds still flew in the sa in the shadow behind the facility Thin threads of lines flashed around them
(If the Electronic Fairy is really there)
Would the crisis be averted if someone could save the Electronic Fairy and return it to the Mechanical Depart hold of her wrist
She stopped walking The other passengers and City Police had already left
”Savaris-san, the City's ht this ht happen”
She widened her eyes at his curt attitude, but this wasn't the time to criticize his personality
”The Electronic Fairy isfro quick”
”Uirlat the canteen”
”Her? When?”
”Just then, over there,” she pointed at the flock of birds ”She said the Electronic Fairy is there”
”Why?”
”Don't you find that strange?”
Savaris's expression turned curious ”True It's rare to see birds flying outside, but that's because they know there's no pollutants here They have the instinct that tells theerous and what's not”
”Then what is that strange light?”
Savaris's expression turned stranger ”There is such a thing?”
”Eh?” Leerin studied the flock of birds again Yes, there was a strange light around the birds The birds were still flying in circles to escape it The light kept blocking their way