35 The Romance of Looking Down From a Rooftop (2/2)
Then I slip into the building through an open window on the top floor.
I proceed down the hallway and... spotted.
That pink hair looking around restlessly like a suspicious person.
”As I said, they've noticed you.”
There is another man in black behind Sherry.
Right before he grabs her, I move at top speed.
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”Eh?”
Feeling some movement behind her, Sherry turns around.
She thinks she also heard the sound of something cutting through the air, but there's no one there.
The quiet, empty hallway stretches on into the distance.
”Just my imagination...?”
Carefully checking her surrounds, Sherry continues walking on with her flapping shoes, clutching the artifact tightly to her chest.
The knight had said back then that magic cannot be used.
If his words were real, then Sherry thinks she knows what's going on. It's related to her.
And then, this artifact is also...
Sherry hugs the artifact even closer.
”I have to do something about this...!”
The figures of the two knights who fought to let her escape resurface in her mind.
She cannot let their deaths go to waste.
With such thoughts whirling around in her head, she turns the corner.
”Ah!”
There's a man in black there! Sherry quickly hides back behind the corner.
What to do, it seems that their eyes had met!
There's that sound again, of something cutting through the air.
”It's fine, I wasn't spotted, I wasn't spotted...”
So praying, she slowly peeks around the corner...
”Oh whew, he didn't see me...”
The man in black is gone.
Resolving to focus more, Sherry resumes her flapping steps while carefully observing her surroundings.
”Ah!”
There's a man in black in a classroom who is looking out at the hallway!
Sherry hurriedly hides herself, but it's too late.
The classroom door is opened, and the man in black comes out.
”Hii.”
Sherry clutches her head, and clenches her eyes shut.
...
...
Again there's the sound of something cutting through air.
”Eh?”
Sherry opens her eyes with trepidation, and realizes that the man in black has disappeared.
”Oh wheeees extremely slow.
”Ah!”
She trips.
Falling flat on the ground, she watches the artifact flying through midair.
The artifact falls on the ground... or not. Right before it does, it is caught by someone.
Looking upwards, she sees her recently-made friend standing there.
”Sid-kun...!”
However, he is covered with blood.
”Eh, are you alright?! You're hurt...”
”I'm alright. By some miraculous stroke of luck, I managed to pull through. So don't worry about it.”
For some reason, he seems really tired, and is looking at Sherry with a half-opened eye.
”There is a lot that I want to say. Firstly, please stop walking while immersed in your thoughts. Secondly, please stop talking to yourself out loud. Thirdly, please pay attention to the ground.”
Then he sighs deeply.
”But before anything else, please take off your really noisy flapping loafers, alright?”
Sherry nods.