“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…!”
“That’s the kind of careless attitude I hate about you…!”
Even so,
“I absolutely hate losing to that person here!”
Shizuku shouted.
“Today had way too much information! Things I didn’t know about Sisel, and realizing again that Cklares-san has a bad personality and messed up in the past, and that I should have talked more with Natalia-sensei! Well, there were various things like that!”
There were good things and bad things. That’s why Shizuku shouted.
“I don’t want what happened today to be ruined…!”
“——That’s right.”
Cklares nodded slightly,
“That’s right. I hate that too.”
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“What the…!?”
Iris fell to her knees under the reverberation attacking from all directions.
Suddenly, the pressure had intensified.
And she saw.
Shizuku and Cklares holding their hands toward her like mirror images.
The blue-haired tear flower was surrounded by blue trajectories mixed with green.
The fairy’s hair, floating green feathers, shone in green mixed with blue.
“[Echo Howling]——”
“[Spriggan Hand]——”
Something that Iris couldn’t understand overlapped.
——To protect the treasure, making their hearts tremble.
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The melding light of two colors rang out a clear sound through the night.
“Hah… hah…! How did it… go?”
“I don’t really know…? It felt pretty good though…?”
While listening to that lingering sound, Shizuku and Cklares couldn’t move another step.
They felt a response. The two felt some sensation they’d never experienced before, but the light of [Critical Case] disappeared, and they didn’t even have the strength to grip their gun and sword respectively.
Still, the two somehow checked on Iris,
“…You’re kidding me.”
“Well… this is troublesome.”
They unconsciously let words slip out.
“Hah… hah…! Damn, what an unpleasant power…!”
Iris was also drenched in sweat like a waterfall, her breathing rough, kneeling.
But even so, she maintained consciousness, and her eyes hadn’t lost their fighting spirit.
Moreover, she even had the strength to stand up.
“…This is the worst. Am I going to die with you?”
“Seems like it. I’m not happy about it at all either.”
“I don’t give a damn about your emotions…!”
Iris spat out the words.
Neither Shizuku nor Cklares could imagine what she had seen through the amplified [Echo Howling].
But what was certain was that they had touched Iris’s reverse scale.
This was shown by her actions.
“The seventh herb…!”
With her shout, the coat Iris wore melted and disappeared.
“With the harp, drive out the disease of heresy…!”
And the Dordinium thread wrapped around her body,
“Restriction release! [wörgl——]”
“Alright, let’s stop there.”
Flame and blood rushed forward.
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“——!?”
At that moment, what flew into Iris’s field of vision was red liquid.
Blood.
Between Iris and the two, Shizuku and Cklares, it formed a line on the ground like drawing a boundary,
“…!”
And burst into flames.
A blast wind swirled, and flames became a wall blocking Iris’s view.
And then, that man appeared. A felt hat, a worn coat, holding a cane in his left hand—a boy.
“Hamish…!”
Norman-Hamish was standing.
Beyond the wall of flame that separated here and there.
“Norman-kun!?”
“Norman-sensei!”
Shizuku and Cklares also called to him,
“Hey, you two. Seems like something incredible is happening.”
He responded to the two leisurely.
Seeing this, Iris’s head felt like it might explode.
As if she’d thrown her brain and heart into a crusher.
Normally, emotions she should be able to suppress weren’t working well because of [Echo Howling].
Even so, she couldn’t overlook what Norman held in his right hand.
A club made of a cricket bat with several gears clamped between it.
“You… [Viblade]! Why do you have that!?”
“Oh, this? I picked it up.”
“Don’t mess with me! No wonder I couldn’t find it even after digging up the underground cemetery…!”
“Well, good work with that. I had a hard time then too. I was following El and Lonzder-san, watching over them, but they were so intensely on fire that I couldn’t get close, and the cemetery itself collapsed, and I got a bit buried alive, and my best coat got pretty dirty.”
He shrugged and lightly swung [Viblade].
“But it’s a medal of honor that El and Lonzder-san worked hard for together. There’s no way I’d just leave it alone, right?”
“—”
With a peel. Iris felt like a thick scab had been torn off from deep in her chest.
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Looking at Norman’s back, Cklares remembered something.
“…Oh. So when I went to the office with Rebecca, the reason you weren’t wearing clothes was…”
“Huh? Tell me more about Norman-kun not wearing clothes.”
The fairy ignored the eager Tear Flower.
Norman also responded with a wry smile.
“Right, right. It was just after I dug this up. There’s another story about that side too…”
He looked around. Battle traces everywhere, Iris who was clearly unwell, the unconscious Natalia.
And he turned back to them,
“Hmm, seems like you’ve gotten quite close?”
“Huh? …Whoa, wait! What are you doing, Cklares-san! Let go of me!”
“Ohh? …Ohh. Oh…?”
“What’s with that reaction?”
The two were leaning against each other as if protecting one another.
From others’ perspective, it might even look like they were embracing. Neither Cklares nor Shizuku, who seemed to be in the same state, remembered when this had happened.
“Yeah yeah, I’m happy about this.”
He was nodding with a somewhat disgusting full smile he rarely showed.
“Hamish!”
But naturally, Iris wouldn’t overlook this.
“Your pet betrayed [Cartesius]! They protected and tried to shelter that 《Unlaw》 lying there! How do you plan to take responsibility!?”
“Huh?”
Norman tilted his head, glanced at Natalia, then turned back to Shizuku and Cklares.
“Is that so?”
“…Well, yeah.”
“Why?”
“Because I thought I wanted to save her.”
Shizuku’s answer was quiet, short, yet powerful.
“That person isn’t someone who should be disposed of as a monster. That’s what I thought.”
“Cklares too?”
“…Yeah, me too.”
“I see.”
Norman’s reaction was also brief.
He narrowed his eyes for just a moment, then turned toward Iris.
“Well, that’s how it is then. Sorry, Iris. I don’t really understand the situation completely either, but I’ll respect their hearts.”
She made a face like she’d bitten into a bitter bug, then slightly frowned.
“How did you get here in the first place? I thought you’d be hiding and watching anyway, so I should have ordered my subordinates to stop you if you tried to move.”
“Ah, sorry about that. I just thought they were suspicious people and knocked them out. That’s why I was late to intervene. Don’t worry, I didn’t kill them. I gently taught them that I’m a doctor while choking them unconscious.”
“Don’t lie. You’re just a medical student.”
“What I do isn’t that different.”
Norman casually deflected, and Iris glared at him.
“Do you understand? This is different from last month.”
“That’s right. So I have a proposal, Iris.”
Saying that, he held up the [Viblade] in his hand.
“I’ll return this to you, so could you pretend you didn’t see what happened tonight? Of course, keep it secret from nee-san too. You need this, right?”
“…Do you think such a deal would work?”
“If you don’t, I’ll kill you.”
He said it smoothly.
Contrary to his words, there was no hostility or killing intent.
Just like the sun rises from the east, or morning comes after night opens, or things fall down when dropped.
That naturally, Norman told Iris he would kill her if she talked.
This was unreasonable, Cklares thought.
Cklares didn’t know how much value the weapon called [Viblade] that Norman held had, but even so, it didn’t seem like something that would work as a deal.
But after a long silence, Iris nodded.
“Fine. Hand it over quickly. Do whatever you want with that 《Unlaw》—let them escape or shelter them. But if there are more victims next time, I’ll kill them without going through you.”
When she lightly snapped her fingers, her coat was instantly reconstructed. Though it wasn’t visible at first, the gauntlets were originally gloves too.
Norman didn’t react to this and nodded back.
“That’s unavoidable. And about those two earlier too. It would be very troublesome if that got reported to nee-san or someone.”
“Shut up.”
Norman threw the [Viblade], and Iris caught it.
That was the end.
Iris disappeared into the darkness of night just as she had appeared, leaving only silence behind.
“…What was that person anyway?”
Shizuku muttered quietly, but Cklares felt the same.
“Well, first we need to do something about that sensei… Cklares, can you use your ability one more time?”
“Eh. Depends on the extent… what are you going to do?”
“Could you casually destroy the school building and drop it into the courtyard?”
“…Norman-kun? Are you okay? Are you tired? Should I give you a lap pillow or something?”
“I’d definitely like that. But even to let that sensei escape, it’s easier to have her officially dead. It would be quickest to make it look like she died crushed by a school building that collapsed from the aftermath of battle. You know, like, splat. The body wasn’t recovered either.”
“…”
Cklares had expected Norman’s idea about Natalia’s treatment.
But she didn’t think it would be this forceful.
“Well, that’s fine. If it’s just breaking a wall or something, I think I can do it after a little rest.”
“Norman-kun.”
“Yeah?”
Norman tilted his head at Shizuku’s question,
“That person was bringing up various things about Norman-kun, but did something happen?”
“Ah, Iris. We were engaged long ago. It was dissolved ages ago though.”
“…”
“…”
Cklares and Shizuku looked at each other once, then forgot about their physical pain and fatigue and shouted.
“Whaaaat!?”
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