"Did I interrupt the two of you?"
Under the moon, Reki, who was watching the shadow left by Aria, finally opened her mouth.
She quickly walked on top of the fence like a cat towards me.
I didn't answer her.
"...What did you come here for?"
I responded to Reki, who was walking towards the top of my head, with a question.
"I've read it."
"Read it...? Say, you don't have any books, do you?"
"It isn't a book."
"Then, what did you read?"
With those kind of cryptic words, I couldn't help but question her again.
"—The wind,"
Reki answered, while her short hair—was moving gently in the cold sea breeze.
Shaa, the skirt of her uniform was also moving... My face turned red, and I turned my head so I couldn't see Reki, who was above me.
"...Come down here. It's not polite to look down at someone else while talking."
As I finished talking...
Since I didn't sense any movement at the time, I looked up again to the top of the walls...
But Reki was already gone.
"......!"
The me who turned my head, slightly took some cool air.
I don't know when but—
Reki, who got down from the walls silently, closely stuck to me, standing behind my back.
"The wind has begun to become frenzied..."
That Reki, she was talking to herself.
"...What did you say?"
I couldn't help but ask her, while feeling some kind of chill going down my spine.
Because Reki's eyes emitted a kind of distant, void feeling.
She... how can I put it, emits some radio waves.
"Kinji-san."
That kind of glass-like eyes, looked at me.
What, what do you want.
As I was slightly retreating from her, at that moment——
Making the distance between Reki and me zero, shaa——
She stood on her tiptoes and—
"——"
—Kissed—
Me.
(...It isn't real, is it?)
This is really...
It is really, really unexpected.
I foolishly stood there... I could only feel my own lips, locked with Reki's, which surprisingly were as smooth as silicone gel.
With a bit of mint flavor, Reki's—kiss.
——Crack.
The sound of glass being shattered made me let go of Reki's shoulders and turn my head around—
Aria, is it.
On the stairs leading to the roof, two broken bottles fell at that place.
"...Ah..."
Her crimson-colored eyes wide open, Aria, who lost her words——
Her gaze met mine, and her mouth kept opening and closing.
"So-sorry. I, um...didn't, didn't know that you two...!"
She finally managed to bring out with her seiyuu-like voice from her throat.
"...Y-yeah, Kinji. I'm sorry, I...I, didn't know that it would be like this, ah, no, nothing, this isn't wrong. Because, since you're already a high-school student, you would have a lover...that's, that's why just before...you, would be like this——"
Aria, who's losing her head in panic, her entire body was slightly trembling—
—Without even allowing me to explain the situation, her twintails soared as she turned around.
"I...I'm sorry! I'm really sorry, Kinji...!"
Letting out that shrill as if she has been betrayed, she ran off like a rabbit.
Tatatatatatatatata...! The sound of her plunging in the stairs was more and more distanced.
"...Aria...!"
As I was thinking of chasing after her, behind me—
Klang, a sound rang.
Even though I didn't want it, I still gained some sensitivity while in Assault, enough which forced me to shift my body around.
I only knew what I deduced from my hearing...Reki, took her gun from her back.
She held her long 120 centimeter sniper rifle close to her feet.
As if, she was a guard protecting an invisible gate.
"Kinji-san."
Reki, who once more called my name, shaa, trained her sight on me like the lens of a camera.
That gaze made me turn my attention to her by instinct.
That gaze.
It was almost like—as if she was something looking at its prey, like a hunter—
"You can't be with Aria-san."
"...Wha..."
What was that.
What are you saying, Reki.
"From today onwards, I'll be your partner. "
"Ah, hey......"
Thump—
I, who just had an abnormal feeling in my heart...
As if trying to prevent the prior kiss, I press the back of my hand against my mouth, taking a step back from Reki.
"You've become strong,"
Reki, as if she was playing a previously recorded speech, emotionlessly said.
"If it was an enemy of I-U, it would already be enough. In fact, with Kinji-san like this and me battling against each other——nine out of ten, Kinji-san would win."
She—does she know?
Does she know about I-U?
Also, does she know about me?
"But, all the enemies from now on won't only rely on pure strength. That's why you should know that there are people who can easily destroy your existence through other means."
You said from now on....enemies?
This is not something which I can neglect—
But Reki didn't even give me time to react to this, and continued.
"For example, a sniper. If he conceals himself long enough, and shoots us from a long range...it would be easier to finish you guys off than a short time fighting supernatural power bearers or some close-range fighters."
Reki, while saying that, took out a bullet from her sailor uniform.
"—An armor-piercing round..."
Reki didn't respond to me, who couldn't help but let out these words.
The head of that ammo and its flash was different from normal sniping ammo.
It was—
Similar to what Sherlock used to attack Kana, an armor-piercing bullet.
"From now on, I'll teach you about the other side."
Pulling the magazine as smoothly as water—*clang,* in front of Reki, who was pushing the deadly bullets inside...
I felt energy, finally surging inside my body.
——Hysteria mode.
This, triggered by sexual arousal, can bestow thirty times the strength of an ordinary person.
"It should be about time."
Seeing the magazine being loaded again and Reki, holding the sniper rifle—
In my heart, I was scolding myself for my foolishness.
Yeah. This is something like the setting of my entire life.
After resolving something, I relax whenever I found the solution to something, and after that, a new troublemaker emerges. Shirayuki at one time, Riko at another, but I still have been caught off my guard.
Well, I seriously didn't think that this time it would be Reki.
Clang — Seeing Reki pointing her sniper rifle toward me, I bitterly smiled.
"Kinji-san."
"...What?"
"Please marry me."
Saying these unexpected words—
Ha!?
Made so that I couldn't help but make me shout out.
"...Reki, I surely heard wrong...just now, what did you say......?"
"I was proposing marriage. To you."
Kona...Konayuki, I'm sorry that I doubted you.
You were right. I would, in this month...be proposed to, huh. It was correct, it's still August 31.
"Wait, please wait a moment, Reki. It's too sudden. You could have at least led into it."
"I believe I already did. Didn't I say, 'From now on, I'll be your partner.'?"
Facing Reki, who calmly said those words—the speed of thoughts running through my head, which was looking up terms like 'marriage by capture' and 'forced marriage', was sufficient to rival a computer.
Well, but whatever it is, it's always men who do that.
"That, that's really an honor...but Reki. I don't think that should be said with a gun pointing at someone."
Facing her with Hysteria mode blood circulating in my head, I tried to calmly take a step back—
"I won't let you flee."
Reki, already emitting an aura as if she became one with the Dragunov, again pointed at me with the rifle's muzzle.
You are really, really the unexpectedly passionate type.
Reki's eyes were glaring at me as if they could penetrate through my back.
"If you refuse—"
Today, at this moment, has started the new prelude to the real thing, and it has been opened by this sentence.
It was the catchphrase taken from Aria.
"—I'll blast a hole in you."
Go for the NEXT!!!!
"Did I interrupt the two of you?"
Under the moon, Reki, who was watching the shadow left by Aria, finally opened her mouth.
She quickly walked on top of the fence like a cat towards me.
I didn't answer her.
"...What did you come here for?"
I responded to Reki, who was walking towards the top of my head, with a question.
"I've read it."
"Read it...? Say, you don't have any books, do you?"
"It isn't a book."
"Then, what did you read?"
With those kind of cryptic words, I couldn't help but question her again.
"—The wind,"
Reki answered, while her short hair—was moving gently in the cold sea breeze.
Shaa, the skirt of her uniform was also moving... My face turned red, and I turned my head so I couldn't see Reki, who was above me.
"...Come down here. It's not polite to look down at someone else while talking."
As I finished talking...
Since I didn't sense any movement at the time, I looked up again to the top of the walls...
But Reki was already gone.
"......!"
The me who turned my head, slightly took some cool air.
I don't know when but—
Reki, who got down from the walls silently, closely stuck to me, standing behind my back.
"The wind has begun to become frenzied..."
That Reki, she was talking to herself.
"...What did you say?"
I couldn't help but ask her, while feeling some kind of chill going down my spine.
Because Reki's eyes emitted a kind of distant, void feeling.
She... how can I put it, emits some radio waves.
"Kinji-san."
That kind of glass-like eyes, looked at me.
What, what do you want.
As I was slightly retreating from her, at that moment——
Making the distance between Reki and me zero, shaa——
She stood on her tiptoes and—
"——"
—Kissed—
Me.
(...It isn't real, is it?)
This is really...
It is really, really unexpected.
I foolishly stood there... I could only feel my own lips, locked with Reki's, which surprisingly were as smooth as silicone gel.
With a bit of mint flavor, Reki's—kiss.
——Crack.
The sound of glass being shattered made me let go of Reki's shoulders and turn my head around—
Aria, is it.
On the stairs leading to the roof, two broken bottles fell at that place.
"...Ah..."
Her crimson-colored eyes wide open, Aria, who lost her words——
Her gaze met mine, and her mouth kept opening and closing.
"So-sorry. I, um...didn't, didn't know that you two...!"
She finally managed to bring out with her seiyuu-like voice from her throat.
"...Y-yeah, Kinji. I'm sorry, I...I, didn't know that it would be like this, ah, no, nothing, this isn't wrong. Because, since you're already a high-school student, you would have a lover...that's, that's why just before...you, would be like this——"
Aria, who's losing her head in panic, her entire body was slightly trembling—
—Without even allowing me to explain the situation, her twintails soared as she turned around.
"I...I'm sorry! I'm really sorry, Kinji...!"
Letting out that shrill as if she has been betrayed, she ran off like a rabbit.
Tatatatatatatatata...! The sound of her plunging in the stairs was more and more distanced.
"...Aria...!"
As I was thinking of chasing after her, behind me—
Klang, a sound rang.
Even though I didn't want it, I still gained some sensitivity while in Assault, enough which forced me to shift my body around.
I only knew what I deduced from my hearing...Reki, took her gun from her back.
She held her long 120 centimeter sniper rifle close to her feet.
As if, she was a guard protecting an invisible gate.
"Kinji-san."
Reki, who once more called my name, shaa, trained her sight on me like the lens of a camera.
That gaze made me turn my attention to her by instinct.
That gaze.
It was almost like—as if she was something looking at its prey, like a hunter—
"You can't be with Aria-san."
"...Wha..."
What was that.
What are you saying, Reki.
"From today onwards, I'll be your partner. "
"Ah, hey......"
Thump—
I, who just had an abnormal feeling in my heart...
As if trying to prevent the prior kiss, I press the back of my hand against my mouth, taking a step back from Reki.
"You've become strong,"
Reki, as if she was playing a previously recorded speech, emotionlessly said.
"If it was an enemy of I-U, it would already be enough. In fact, with Kinji-san like this and me battling against each other——nine out of ten, Kinji-san would win."
She—does she know?
Does she know about I-U?
Also, does she know about me?
"But, all the enemies from now on won't only rely on pure strength. That's why you should know that there are people who can easily destroy your existence through other means."
You said from now on....enemies?
This is not something which I can neglect—
But Reki didn't even give me time to react to this, and continued.
"For example, a sniper. If he conceals himself long enough, and shoots us from a long range...it would be easier to finish you guys off than a short time fighting supernatural power bearers or some close-range fighters."
Reki, while saying that, took out a bullet from her sailor uniform.
"—An armor-piercing round..."
Reki didn't respond to me, who couldn't help but let out these words.
The head of that ammo and its flash was different from normal sniping ammo.
It was—
Similar to what Sherlock used to attack Kana, an armor-piercing bullet.
"From now on, I'll teach you about the other side."
Pulling the magazine as smoothly as water—*clang,* in front of Reki, who was pushing the deadly bullets inside...
I felt energy, finally surging inside my body.
——Hysteria mode.
This, triggered by sexual arousal, can bestow thirty times the strength of an ordinary person.
"It should be about time."
Seeing the magazine being loaded again and Reki, holding the sniper rifle—
In my heart, I was scolding myself for my foolishness.
Yeah. This is something like the setting of my entire life.
After resolving something, I relax whenever I found the solution to something, and after that, a new troublemaker emerges. Shirayuki at one time, Riko at another, but I still have been caught off my guard.
Well, I seriously didn't think that this time it would be Reki.
Clang — Seeing Reki pointing her sniper rifle toward me, I bitterly smiled.
"Kinji-san."
"...What?"
"Please marry me."
Saying these unexpected words—
Ha!?
Made so that I couldn't help but make me shout out.
"...Reki, I surely heard wrong...just now, what did you say......?"
"I was proposing marriage. To you."
Kona...Konayuki, I'm sorry that I doubted you.
You were right. I would, in this month...be proposed to, huh. It was correct, it's still August 31.
"Wait, please wait a moment, Reki. It's too sudden. You could have at least led into it."
"I believe I already did. Didn't I say, 'From now on, I'll be your partner.'?"
Facing Reki, who calmly said those words—the speed of thoughts running through my head, which was looking up terms like 'marriage by capture' and 'forced marriage', was sufficient to rival a computer.
Well, but whatever it is, it's always men who do that.
"That, that's really an honor...but Reki. I don't think that should be said with a gun pointing at someone."
Facing her with Hysteria mode blood circulating in my head, I tried to calmly take a step back—
"I won't let you flee."
Reki, already emitting an aura as if she became one with the Dragunov, again pointed at me with the rifle's muzzle.
You are really, really the unexpectedly passionate type.
Reki's eyes were glaring at me as if they could penetrate through my back.
"If you refuse—"
Today, at this moment, has started the new prelude to the real thing, and it has been opened by this sentence.
It was the catchphrase taken from Aria.
"—I'll blast a hole in you."
Go for the NEXT!!!!
