Epilogue

 
“Elteel! You! Hey! Come here for a moment!”
 
“That’s why! That’s not how you do it here! Are your ears rotting!?”
 
Norman heard the two voices echoing through the detective agency [Elementary].
 
First, he looked at Lonzder in the kitchen and Elteel, who had been called by her.
 
“Haa. What is it? You’re so loud.”
 
“Of course I’m loud! What is this tea?”
 
“I mixed alcohol into the freshly brewed tea just as you requested.”… Read more

The next evening, Shizuku in her undergarments was tuning her violin in her dormitory room.
 
On the bed where she sat, luggage was packed and ready for departure.
 
As originally planned, now that the [Weeping Woman] incident was resolved, she would leave the school.
 
While fiddling with the pegs, Shizuku…
 
“……Ouch.”
 
She grimaced at the pain throughout her body. After last night’s battle, Norman had treated her injuries, and though she had gotten plenty of sleep, her entire body was covered in bandages and gauze.… Read more

“This is seriously rough…!?”
 
“I told you, it won’t work unless we sync our feelings…!”
 
When abilities clash, they interfere with each other, and basically the stronger one wins.
 
What the two were doing was intentionally causing interference and then throwing the secondary effects at each other. So even if the amplification worked well, the burden was extremely heavy.
 
“Can something like this really be handled just by syncing our feelings…!?”
 
“I don’t know, this is the first time I’ve used it this way…!”… Read more

“Hah…!”
 
Shizuku praised herself—it was the perfect ambush.
 
The moment she hurled an insult at the “nasty woman,” Iris had just thrown Cklares and couldn’t react in time. So, with all the momentum she could muster, Shizuku swung the rifle down in a full-force strike—
 
“You’ve got no class.”
 
“Hah!?”
 
A roundhouse kick from Iris collided with the blow.
 
For an instant, Shizuku’s body floated midair from the sheer impact—but what shocked her more was the reaction speed.… Read more

Cklares froze, her smile stiffening. But she quickly regained her composure and turned to Shizuku.
 
“Wait… seriously? Did you kill her?”
 
“No. I just hit her chin to induce a concussion and knock her out.”
 
Shizuku sighed.
 
“If we let her keep talking, who knows what might set her off again. Knocking her out was the quickest solution.”
 
“Well… I guess you’re right. But the way you say that makes it sound like you don’t actually want Natalia-sensei to die.”… Read more

Cklares, who had just passed by Shizuku, continued her momentum and thrust her sword into the phantom’s chest.
 
“Hmm?”
 
How strange, Cklares thought as she felt the sensation travel through her right hand.
 
Logically, she had only stabbed her blade into empty air—yet there was undeniably a tangible resistance. However, it was lighter and duller than actually piercing a human chest.
 
A human body consists of skin, fat, organs, bones, and muscle fibers—a complex structure.
 
But the feedback from the phantom felt closer to slashing through a leather sack filled with water.… Read more

 
“……Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!?”
 
“Shizuku-chan!?”
 
What Clares was feeling was a strange vibration in the air.
 
Probably, Natalia’s ability was mediated through ultrasonic vocalizations at frequencies inaudible to humans.
 
Clares had felt several times before the air vibrations that would normally be inaudible, generated by creatures like bats and moths. It was precisely because Shizuku used sound as a medium that she could sense it.
 
And the moment Shizuku and Natalia simultaneously activated their abilities,
 
“……!”
 
Shizuku collapsed while screaming, and Natalia bent backward greatly.… Read more

 
“Hah?”
 
Shizuku’s small mouth hung slightly open in disbelief as Cklares continued.
 
“You thought Sisel was just an ordinary, strong girl. But that’s not true.”
 
A misconception Shizuku held—one that Cklares had to correct.
 
“She wasn’t as strong as you believed. She suffered from the bullying. She was just forcing herself to act tough around you.”
 
“W-Wait a second!”
 
Shizuku raised her voice.
 
“Sisel… that’s…! Why are you telling me this now!? What’s your point!?”
 
“It means you’re a heartless, tearless, inhuman monster, Cram.”… Read more

Cklares watched as the past, woven from sound, unfolded before her.
 
They stood before the entrance of an apartment.
 
A girl in school uniform with orange hair spoke to the closed door.
 
“Hey… Tiana. Why won’t you come out? There’s no one else in the apartment… and your parents, they…”
 
A pause. A few seconds of silence.
 
“‘Go away’…? Why?”
 
Cklares wondered if Shizuku had said something from the other side.
 
In [Vision], the Unlaws were invisible.… Read more

Shizuku and Cklares’s parents. Their neighbors. Their acquaintances.
 
All of them were illusions conjured by 《Unlaw》’s ability.
 
But. Shizuku had no intention of holding back. Neither she nor Cklares harbored any hesitation about attacking illusions—no matter how much they resembled family or friends.
 
The two raised their gun and cane respectively.
 
“……!?”
 
They didn’t move. Couldn’t move.
 
Shizuku tried to initiate motion. But at that moment, she was assaulted by a strange sensation.
 
Hesitation—or perhaps aversion.… Read more