Fortunately, Ryuji said he would come here right away.
To be honest, I was a bit moved to say that I should be called the main character, or that he would run to such a dangerous place without hesitation.
“If it’s Ryuji, are you talking about the Sakamoto Ryuji in your class?”
“How does the vice president know him?”
“I’ve seen it before when I checked the physical exam history. Except for you, Ryuji is the top in physical ability in all 2nd graders. If you ask for help, you don’t look like a normal person, right?”
“I’m a normal person. But I’m just a little strong.”
“The industry doesn’t call such a person an ordinary person.”
“Then let’s do that.”
Actually, it wasn’t important now.
“It will take at least ten minutes at least for Ryuji in downtown Kyoto to get here. Let’s think about how we’re going to get around those troops in the meantime. It’s already 11:10.”
“Isn’t it better to hide like this?”
“It’s only a short time. In the first place, you said that you have to go up 9 more floors.”
It’s impossible to use the elevator at the moment, so I had to keep that in mind.
“Then how about doing this?”
“how?”
“For the first time, you go up fighting like now and then, if you can’t do it, it splits in two. You go to the 21st floor alone while I spend as much time as possible.”
“You mean you’re going to use the original plan?”
“The intrusion route itself is fine, so there is no need to change the plan. There are guests on the 20th floor, so there will be a lot more guards than other floors.”
“Okay. Then we’ll do it that way.”
Having had enough rest, we decided to move on again.
Because there is still a long way to go.
“This time, I’ll take the lead.”
“Take it easy. If you kill even one person, you’ll get in trouble later.”
“I’m basically immortal.”
I answered by beating the neck of a passing security guard.
***
“This way! There are intruders over here!”
“Wow!”
“Push the page!”
Security guards who jump out endlessly no matter how many times they catch them.
At this point, it is doubtful that it is being automatically regenerated somewhere.
“Kim Yoo-seong! Bow down!”
Hearing the vice president’s words from behind, he reflexively bowed his head, and a sharp iron needle passed over his head.
“aah!”
Wow, that’s going to hurt a bit.
The vice president, who used long needles as his only weapon, swung like a claw with three iron needles in each hand, which would surely tremble if he had a phobia of needles.
No matter how muscular a martial artist is, if he gets hit with a knife, he’s out of business.
Except for cases where the body is abnormally stiff like mine, it was clear that every single shot of the vice president would feel intimidating.
thud!
“What floor are you on now?”
“It’s the 15th floor now. There are 5 floors left.”
“It will be soon.”
“I hope so.”
I went up to the next landing, wiping the dust off my hands.
“That’s it. Kids.”
That was then.
A voice I had never heard before.
“…Master.”
Waiting for us on the 16th floor were the Vice President and Minami’s teacher, Izumo Koga, a female ninja.
She was originally dressed in a suit, but now she is wearing a high-legged suit that looks like a combination of ninja-specific fishnet stockings and armor.
To be honest, I have nowhere to put my eyes.
Like Fuuma-senpai and the person with that nose, Izumo, is it normal for female ninjas to wear naughty combat uniforms?
The person concerned was acting casually, so I couldn’t point it out here.
“I can’t go any further than this. You know why, right?”
“No matter how much Master you are, you will not be able to listen to them.”
“Shinji, think carefully. What you’re doing right now is damaging not only the young lady, but also the Saionji family’s reputation. What are you trying to do behind the scenes?”
“I am loyal not to the Saionji family, but to one young lady. The day I first met her, I swore I would serve her for the rest of my life. A vassal dedicates himself to the happiness of his master, who can blame him. “
“This stubbornness…”
Perhaps thinking that further conversation was meaningless, Koga Izumo muttered like that and put on handcuffs engraved with an eight-headed snake.
“Since it’s been like this, we should talk about it after a long time.”
“This is what I was hoping for. Master.”
As the vice president said that, he pointed the iron needles in both hands at his teacher, Izumo Koga.
“Kim Yu-seong, I’ll take care of this place. You go first.”
“Are you okay? Vice President.”
“If it were the Master I know, he wouldn’t kill me, so don’t worry and go.”
“…I wish you good luck.”
I bowed my head slightly to the vice president, and first ran up the stairs leading up to the upper floor.
***
“Did you say Kim Yu-seong, that kid? He’ll probably die. To Hattori.”
“Fop-“
As his teacher, Koga, heard Izumo’s words, Shinjiro Akagi burst into laughter involuntarily.
“Smile?”
“No, I didn’t mean to ridicule Master. It was just funny to hear that Kim Yoo-sung was going to die.”
“…what was that?”
Looking at the teacher’s dissatisfied face, Shinjiro Akagi declared.
“Kim Yoo-seong, he is by far the strongest human I’ve ever met. To the extent that I can never remember losing.”
“Shinji, I don’t understand why you value him so highly. If that were the case, there would be no way you could defeat Hattori Hanzo, a 17-year-old high school student who was raised as a weapon from the moment he was born.”
“You have to deal with the long and short things to know.”
“…In the time I haven’t seen you, my speaking skills have improved quite a bit. I know how to talk back and forth to my teacher’s opinions.”
“Aren’t I originally cheeky? When I was young, I was given a lot of discipline in the name of storytelling by Master.”
“It won’t be much different from now.”
“No, it won’t be as easy as you think.”
As Shinjiro Akagi said so, his teacher, Ko, glared at Izumo, then swung the iron needles he was holding in both hands at the same time.
───!
Izumo’s nose frowned involuntarily at the terrifying sound of an iron skewer, nearly 30 cm tall, piercing through his bare skin.
“Do you harm yourself in this situation?”
Cool!
“It’s not self-harm. It just pierced the ‘acupuncture point’ of my body.”
Saying that, Shinjiro Akagi, who had cut blood, pulled out the “saliva” that had been inserted into his body.
But, strangely, not a single drop of blood flowed from the hole on his clothes.
It was a trump card that even his teacher, Izumo Koga, did not know, five years for that.
“In the past, I realized when I was training under Master. I don’t have as much talent as Minami, so I’ll bet everything I can on the sport.”
Saying that, Shinjiro took off his suit jacket and threw it away.
“So I pushed my body to the limit. To protect the one and only girl, and to never lose to anyone again.”
The white shirt he was wearing inside was pulled tight with muscles.
“But a body that was too big interfered with my daily life. So I compressed myself. My muscles that were too big.”
Cheeky! Cheeky profit!
A shirt that can no longer withstand the rapidly inflating muscles and bursts little by little.
Shinjiro Akagi, whose slim body swelled nearly three times in an instant, ripped off a shirt that had lost its original function with one hand and exclaimed.
“Go! Master!”
***
17th floor.
18th floor.
Every floor I went up, a lot of security guards were waiting for me.
It goes without saying, but it’s harder to deal with alone than it is to deal with two people.
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My body, which was limp at first, now felt as if I was struggling with my limbs in the water.
You must have reached the limit of your physical strength in many ways.
But I couldn’t stop.
To save the president, and to keep the promise he made with the vice president.
Even if there was a sweet smell in his mouth, he persevered and moved forward.
And finally the 19th floor.
Waiting for me there was Hattori Ayame whom I met on the first floor.
“I’m sorry. Kim-kun. In such a situation, I have to meet you again.”
Still in her glamorous party dress, she stood alone on the 19th floor, where nobody was there.
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The sparrow, Chosuke, who was sitting on her shoulder, recognized me and chirped lightly.
Hattori lifted the hem of her skirt slightly.
Her garter belt was revealed, and several shurikens were stuck in her.
Hattori, who took out one of them and turned it round and round in her hand, pointed the tip of her sword at me.
“You can’t move forward beyond this. If you go, I’ll attack you.”
I swallowed my saliva and asked her.
“Do I have to do this? I don’t want to hurt you.”
Then Hattori said with a bitter smile on her lips.
“You’re kind like an idiot. To seriously say such a thing in a situation like this.”
However-
“I can’t listen to that. Credibility is a very important issue for ninjas. If I send you out here personally, the credibility of the whole clan will suffer.”
“…there are some things you can’t yield to.”
“right.”
“Then there is nothing I can do.”
can only be left behind.
“What?”
ding!
At that very moment, at just the right moment, the elevator she was standing on stopped.
Hattori turned around in surprise.
Eventually, the tightly closed iron door opened to the left and right, and the person inside walked out slowly.
Of course, it was the strongest support group I had called.
“From now on, it’s Jim’s time.”
Ryuji, who gave Mahes the control of his body, muttered like that and set fire to both hands.