185 – Minamoto Noah
“What on earth is this…”
The state of the academy dormitory, which we arrived at with difficulty, was truly unbelievable.
Aren’t there broken and broken androids scattered all over the place that are difficult to beat even with a team of four students, despite the poor performance?
For some reason, the entrance to the dormitory with the sign saying ‘Pull in’ is intact, but the wall next to it is broken.
Isn’t there a crack in the floor around you?
“…Are you crazy?”
I guess the intruder is crazy. To think of doing something like this in the middle of the academy.
Of course, he is powerful enough to crush high-performance androids like this, but it won’t be easy to escape.
Because the academy is located in the middle of an artificial island.
The attack and escape will only be successful if we have the same manpower that Dominating Hands deployed last time.
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“He really has a big liver…”
“…Ugh.”
“Hey, are you awake?”
I was quietly scratching her head and evaluating the girl, but Rumia, who was on my back, started moaning, so I asked in a low voice.
“Sky…”
Then, in a creeping voice, she calls my name.
“…Senior.”
“Can you walk alone? If it’s okay, I can keep carrying you.”
“…..It’s okay.”
When I carefully ask her a question, Lumia gets off my back and answers in her small voice.
“Actually, I’d like to be carried on your back for the rest of my life… But then I’d be a bother to my senior, right?”
“……..”
“The time for being a childish fanatic is over. It’s also time for me to get used to it.”
“…What does that mean?”
I was quietly listening to her words, and when I quietly tilted her head and asked, Rumia added to her words with a dark expression.
“I must die by your hands.”
“That’s…”
“…I just became more certain.”
It was a moment when I was staring at Rumia blankly, unable to say anything at her serious tone, which was slightly different from usual.
– What a surprise…!
“”……!””
From the upper floor of the dormitory, the sound of something being smashed began to echo.
“…Let’s go upstairs first.”
“Ah, yes. Okay…”
“You could easily subdue an intruder… But if anything happens, I’ll help you too, so don’t worry too much.”
As I was frowning at her, Rumia grabbed my hand and started heading towards her stairs.
“Let’s not use the elevator. There is a chance that the electricity will be cut off and you will become stranded.”
“…….”
“Once you encounter an intruder, it would be better to attack without hesitation. He doesn’t know we’re here, so it would be better to strike first before he gets ready.”
Then, she began to recite her strategy with a still serious expression.
“Oh, and about that.”
“…….?”
“You have the ability you used to avoid the androids earlier. What is that?”
She stopped walking for a moment and asked that question, so I answered quietly, avoiding her gaze.
“…It’s complicated to explain, so I’ll tell you later.”
“Umm…”
Then she tilted her head for a moment, then smiled brightly.
“As expected, you had it.”
“…….?”
“Thank goodness.”
The smile she made was quite girlish, unlike the creepy smiles she had shown up until now.
“……..”
I was dazed for a moment because of her
, Taking that smile into her eyes, but then I turned my gaze away from her as I felt as if I was hearing the mechanical sound of Pandora, with whom I had now lost contact.
“By the way, if I could have written something like that, I would have just written it earlier.”
“….There was a time limit. If I had written it there, I would have been caught before I even used half of it.”
“I see? I understand…”
When her question was finally answered, Rumia quietly nodded her head and began to climb the stairs with her back to her.
‘…Something is strange.’
I watched her quietly for a moment, then tilted her head and started following her.
– Kugwagwang! Kugwagwagwang…!!!
For some reason, Rumia’s demeanor seemed to be more strange than usual, but it seemed like she should be paying more attention to the roaring noise coming from upstairs than to that at the moment.
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– Kugwagwang…!! Kugwagwagwagwang!!!
As she nervously climbed the stairs and approached the source of the sound, the sound that had been echoing all around her began to get louder.
“What on earth is going on…?”
It was a time when I was leaning against the wall with a very nervous expression, waiting for an opportunity to get inside.
– Wow…!!!
“…Big.”
The wall right next to Lumia and I shattered, and an unexpected, familiar figure flew out, vomiting blood.
“Wow…”
‘…Miracle Shine?’
Although her appearance was not known to the public, it was immediately clear that the woman clutching her stomach and drooling was her academy teacher, Miracle Shine.
“Damn… So strong…”
Because of this, she stood there with a blank expression for a moment, then wiped away the tears that were leaking from her eyes with her sleeve and then staggered and got up from her seat.
“If only there were no hostages, we could have fought properly…”
Soon, she mumbled and looked nervous, paused for a moment and turned her gaze in the direction where we were.
“”……””
And then the silence began.
“Ha, hahahahaha students!?”
“Uh, over there…”
“What are you doing here now? If you don’t leave right now…!”
In an instant, her complexion turned pale and she started shouting at us.
– Kugwagwagwagwagwa…!!!
“…Pfft!”
At that very moment, a huge shock wave comes from beyond and begins to sweep everywhere.
“Damn it!”
Then she gritted her teeth and stretched out her hands, releasing her powerful light and canceling out the shock waves.
“Two students, go down right now!”
“No, listen to me…”
“Right now!!!”
Then she started shouting loudly at us again.
– Crumbling…!
“…..Ah.”
But at that moment, as the debris from the ceiling fell in the aftermath of the impact, blocking the way down, her eyes suddenly opened and opened.
“hehehe, you’re holding on for quite a long time for such a delicate girl, aren’t you?”
“Profit…”
At that very moment, a very familiar voice begins to be heard from across the hallway.
“No, it’s not at the level of holding on. Rather, is it controlling the power? I didn’t expect the level of professors at the Academy to be this high, but this is so troubling!”
– Kkukdeudeudeudeuk…
Sure enough, the person who ripped open the cracked wall with one hand revealed himself with a face that, contrary to what he said, was not at all in trouble.
‘Diamond…?’
It was none other than Diamond, an executive of Dominating Hands whom I had not seen for quite some time.
“It’s because you’re holding a hostage!!!”
“…Hmm?”
“Let’s put that kid down and fight fair and square! You damn old man!”
For some reason, as I stare blankly at him for a moment as he puts a shaking female student in the bag on his back, Miracle Shine, who was out of breath next to me, begins to scream angrily.
“I’m sorry, but I’m a villain. I’m far from fair and square. hehehe…”
“eeek…”
But Diamond just scratches his head and answers with a calm expression.
“And this child is not a hostage, but my target…”
“Mo, that’s the goal?”
After hearing his shameless words, Miracle Shine raises her voice with burning eyes.
“Rice, pervert!!!”
“Of course not. I just…”
“I’m dead!!!”
“A favor from an old friend… Oops.”
Then, when she suddenly fired her laser, Diamond toughly blocked it with one hand and her eyes widened.
“…I know one hero who uses this technique.”
“…….!”
“You can’t believe it…”
That was the time when he quietly grabbed his smoking hand and muttered to Miracle Shine in a low voice.
“Hey, please stop now…!”
Suddenly, a trembling voice came out from inside his coffin.
“Well, there’s no need to be nervous. I’m not trying to hurt you…”
“Jeojujeojeo, I… I…!”
Diamond, who was patting the net, looked quite merciful and began to scold the female student curled up in the net.
“Yes, actually! It’s fake…!!!!”
As she continued to cry, he stopped her words and began to look confused for a moment.
“Well, I’m Minamoto Noah’s stunt double…! I’ve been a stunt double ever since I was little!!!”
“Noah, what do you mean…”
“Well, he said he had no chance of taking over the company, so he could just play games for the rest of his life…!”
Then, as if her sadness had exploded, she started pouring out her words.
“Things suddenly took a strange turn, and I had no idea that I would eventually be designated as the successor…!!!”
“”…………””
“I just wanted to be an ordinary wannabe hero who likes games… The company president isn’t interested…”
Hearing her whimper-filled voice, not only Diamond and Miracle Shine but also my head starts to go blank.
“…He’s talking nonsense.”
“Oh, no! I have all the evidence! I even have all the chat records exchanged with the real Noah…!!”
Eventually, Diamond muttered this with a straight face, but then the girl took out a smartphone with half of the screen out of her pocket and started shaking it in her net.
“Now, look! We’ve been giving instructions ever since we left the lab!!”
Although it was a bit far away, the conversation history where various instructions were received had clearly remained there for quite some time.
“So, please don’t kidnap me… I’ve experienced so many terrible things happening in the lab with Noah…”
“…Hey, then, what’s your name?”
Thanks to that, her mind became extremely confused, and at that moment when she was standing there blankly, Lumia, who was standing next to me, asked her a question with a nonchalant expression.
“It’s not my name anymore…”
To the meaningless question of not knowing why, the answer given in a low voice by the trembling girl in the net was.
“Si, there is a nickname that Noah gave me in the lab…”
It was enough to freeze Diamond and I, except for Miracle Shine, who couldn’t properly understand the suddenly changed situation, and Lumia, who had a calm expression.
“What is that?”
“…Pa, it’s Pandora.”
And then, silence began to flow for a while in the ruined hallway.