“……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.
Their abilities must have clashed.
“Hah……hah……! Ah, damn……this is the worst……”
Shizuku stood up, wiping her mouth while on her knees and breathing heavily.
“Are you alright? What happened……”
“Your……huff……huff……prediction was a bit off”
While catching her breath, Shizuku spoke bitterly.
“You said [Lingering Echoes] might not work because of my guilt, but it’s beyond that. Something like, resonance? happened, and I was shown what that person saw, and my head is a complete mess. Man, this is tough.”
“That seemed like a good realization, but so?”
“It’s the worst.”
She repeated those words.
“Both you and I can control our abilities thanks to Norman-kun. What he fears most is our rampage. Anyway, I somehow managed to pull myself together by thinking about Norman-kun like crazy and also fantasizing about the naughty things I want to do with him.”
“Something terrible was casually mixed in there, but since I know it’s effective, I’ll let it slide.”
“But───that person is different.”
Where Shizuku pointed with her chin.
There stood Natalia like a ghost.
Her face was hidden by her hair, her back hunched, her shoulders dropped, and
“─────Ahah”
She laughed. And that immediately became continuous,
“Ahah! Ahaha! Ahahahahahahaha! Really! You’re really terrible, Tiana! Where did you leave your heart!? What would make you capable of such nasty behavior!? Ahah, ahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!”
In the night, the [Weeping Woman’s] crazed laughter echoed.
“───── [Unforgiven Person Ivy]”
The next moment, dozens of phantoms appeared in the courtyard, and
“Ah, it really is the worst.”
Shizuku spoke bitterly about what had happened.
“A [Category III] rampage.”
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“Oh my……this is quite something. How troublesome.”
“What do we do about this?”
Surrounding the two were phantoms created from Shizuku and Clares’s memories.
Different from the time in the music room,
“There are some lookalikes around.”
“She’s rampaging.”
There were at least three people with the same face just from a quick look around.
These didn’t have physical form, but through Natalia’s [Voice] suggestion, they existed as semi-corporeal beings capable of interfering with them. Meanwhile, the two were given the bonus of being forced to hesitate when attacking the phantoms.
“Ahahahahaha! Amazing! Amazing! Isn’t it amazing!? I’m not afraid of you anymore! For that child’s sake! You should just die!”
With both arms spread wide, laughing maniacally, Shizuku couldn’t help but shout at Natalia.
“Natalia-sensei! If you use your power like this, you’ll die too!”
“───Ahah, that’s fine, Tiana.”
“What are you……!”
“Sisel died because of us. Then, we should have died together, shouldn’t we?”
With a face full of madness, the [Weeping Woman] spoke self-destructively.
She had completely lost her brakes.
“Ah, geez……!”
“This is troublesome. Shizuku-chan, I still had things I wanted to tell you.”
“Is this the time for that!? This is quite a pinch! How do we deal with this phantom army!?”
“Well, yeah. I do have an idea about that. The situation is worse than expected, though.”
Saying that, Clares struck her staff,
“[Spriggan Hand-Scissors]”
Pop, and one of the phantoms’ heads flew off.
“Oh, that worked well.”
“…………Huh?”
“…………What?”
The dumbfounded voices came from both Shizuku and Natalia simultaneously.
The problem wasn’t that she had attacked the unattackable phantoms, but rather who Clares had decapitated.
“Um, that was my mother.”
“Yeah, that’s right. In other words, the guilt toward the phantoms is amplified, right? Then”
“…………Oh, if you attack someone else’s phantom, it doesn’t matter?”
Hearing this, Shizuku understood.
Indeed, Clares’s phantoms were complete strangers to Shizuku, and vice versa.
Aiming at some unknown face nearby, putting her finger on the trigger,
“I can shoot.”
The bullet certainly struck through the phantom, making it disappear.
“Y-you two!”
Natalia frantically interrupted there.
“How can you do such a thing!? Those phantoms are your precious people, aren’t they!?”
Hearing this, the two looked at each other, and
“Hah”
“Hehe”
Teardrop twisted the corner of her mouth while raising her gun.
The fairy deepened her plastered smile while drawing a rapier from her staff.
In unison, they declared:
“This person has been bothering my most precious person.”
“This child has been clinging to my most precious person.”
Saying that, the two leaped into the crowd of phantoms.
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Shizuku aimed at the head of the maid in front of her as she jumped.
She pulled the trigger.
With the gunshot, the bullet blew off the phantom’s head, and
“Whoa”
she backflipped with the recoil.
Bending her knees deeply as she landed, she kicked up the lowered gun barrel to the right while standing up, firing one-handed.
She shot through the chest of a phantom coming from the right, and without fighting the barrel’s jump, she let go of the gun.
Following the recoil, the gun rotated as it passed in front of Shizuku’s chest, and
“Having no chest is advantageous at times like this.”
She inserted her left hand into the center of the barrel, creating a new fulcrum by adding her wrist, guiding the trajectory. She lightly bounced it up and struck the rotating stock against a phantom coming from the left.
And Shizuku didn’t stop.
She had defeated three phantoms, but in the meantime, phantoms created from Shizuku’s memories were also approaching.
They attacked with everyday items like kitchen knives and frying pans as weapons.
Rotating the gun along her body while slipping past the familiar phantoms,
“Tch……!”
She thrust the gun barrel straight at the phantom in front of her and fired, using the recoil to spin her body while striking nearby phantoms. Without killing the momentum, she used footwork to avoid attacks while building centrifugal force for strikes.
What she was doing was no different from the staff used in gym class.
Attack and evasion linked through rotational movement using various parts of her whole body as fulcrums.
The difference was the sniper rifle she wielded. The recoil from its firing.
Shizuku’s gun was made lighter overall than a normal sniper rifle, but the barrel and stock were made heavy relative to the whole. If she let go while the recoil was active, the gun itself would rotate in place, and by using her body to control the trajectory,
“Hah……! This is the first time I’ve been able to hit this much……”
Shizuku’s rifle was lighter overall than a standard sniper rifle, but both the muzzle and stock were weighted more heavily than usual in proportion to the whole. If she released her grip while the recoil was active, the rifle itself would spin in place. By using her body to control its arc—
“Ha…! This is the first time I’ve been able to smash things this wildly…!”
She could launch herself through the air—enabling a fully three-dimensional style of combat.
“Fuuuh───”
She had defeated about ten phantoms in that series.
Still, there were plenty of phantoms remaining in Shizuku’s sight, and she hadn’t touched those created from her memories, nor could she.
“Good grief……”
Sighing while trying to eject the spent casings from her sniper rifle’s cylinder,
“Oh, Shizuku-chan. Can I use those?”
“────You can have as much of my trash as you want.”
She lightly tossed the six empty cartridges straight up.
At that moment, a light “clink” sound rang out.
“[Spriggan Hand-Billiards]”
And the cartridges were shot out at high speed, striking through Shizuku’s family and acquaintances.
“You have it easy, don’t you.”
Shizuku turned around while loading bullets from her sleeve into the chamber.
“You just have to stand there.”
“Oh my, oh my, oh my. Are you picking a fight? Fine then, I’ll buy it.”
Where she turned, the fairy had thrust her rapier into the ground and placed both hands on its hilt.
And behind her, only phantoms of people unknown to Shizuku remained.
“You’ve been bouncing around while I’ve just been standing like a pole, which doesn’t look good.”
“You always look bad anyway.”
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