A Cheeky Junior Denied Me My Entire Life, so I Tested What Would Happen if I Jumped off a Rooftop to Vent My Anger
“Asama-san, you’re out again?”
As I was lounging on the sofa at home, I received a message from Asama-san saying, [I’ll be late today, so you can eat whatever you like first]
I didn’t have an appetite …..,It’s not like I was hurt by being shown such a stupid picture.
I don’t care if they shared it with the art club group and made fun of me.
If it had been me until a while ago, I might have been more depressed. But since I met Asama-san, I don’t get hurt over trivial things anymore.
“…………”
But still, unpleasant things are unpleasant and irritating things are irritating. At times like this, not being able to sleep is still hard. I keep thinking about the same things over and over again.
“I should go out for something to eat.”
I’m not in the mood to cook, but if I skip meals, I’ll feel even more sick inside. I put on a cassock hat that was nearby and leave the room.
“Now, what shall I eat?”
I went for a beef bowl the other day and ate ramen. I’ve had so much ramen that I’m sick of it.
“No, I could eat something nice for a diversion.”
If I walk around a bit more, there are lots of things to do, and I don’t have to worry about money. If that’s the case, I’d like to try some sushi that doesn’t come around at least once, but it’s difficult to go into a restaurant like that alone.
“I can say the same about Rio-san”
As I was walking thinking about this, I felt a gaze from behind me.
…A shiver ran down my spine. A switch flips in my head, thinking, [This is a bad guy] I feel like my senses are getting sharper day by day.
“Is it that puppet master again?”
But it’s not that late yet. Also, unlike the back alley before, this is a main street, and there are a lot of people. Would someone attack me in a place like this?
I put my hat on deeply and walk down the busy street for the time being. …… I suddenly see myself reflected in the glass of a clothing shop. I’m …….
“….wait, a crow?”
Soundlessly, a crow perches on my shoulder. Up close, it is surprisingly large. And crows have such beautiful amber eyes, don’t they?
“Poor thing, must have had a rough time”
“…… Eh?”
For a moment, I think the crow spoke…..
“It can’t be my imagination, can it?
…… could it be his puppet again?”
I think so, but however, all of that puppeteer’s puppets were less than perfect. Can that man make such a crow that looks like the real thing?
“──What are you doing in a place like this?”
The moment such a voice rang out from behind me, the crow flew away from my shoulder as if to escape. When I turned around, there was a classy girl with golden hair.
Somewhere, I remember seeing this girl. I’m sure it’s …….
“Ah, yes. You were with that puppeteer the other day…”
I’m sure this girl is the woman who stopped the puppeteer who attacked me, who was like a superior officer of an old man called Shiga. Oh no. If I don’t run away, I’ll be killed again! I think ……, but it’s no good. The other party is faster than me. She grabs my arm.
“……”
I put a lot of effort into trying to shake it off, but it doesn’t budge. It’s a great force.
“…… are we going to kill each other in a place like this?”
I glared at the girl. The girl exhaled in disgust.
“Don’t put me together with Shiga. I don’t kill outside of work.”
“But isn’t it the job of you avengers to kill immortals?”
“…… I think you’ve got it all wrong.”
The girl takes her hands off me. When I look …… at her again, she is still a very beautiful girl. Dazzling golden hair and jade green eyes. She is much smaller in height than me and Asama-san, but she is somehow …… classy. She has the kind of elegance that would make you understand if she was called a princess from some country.
The girl flutters her hair in a graceful gesture and says.
“Follow me. Here you are seen by the raven. …… have you not finished your supper yet?”
The girl walks off, saying that…… Why is it that I’m surrounded by people who don’t listen to me?
“Well, you’ll just have to follow me, …….”
Even if I run as fast as I can from now on, I don’t think I’ll be able to escape. I give up and follow the girl’s back. Then we arrived at a family restaurant on the outskirts of town. Even considering that it was outside dinner time, it was empty.
There are no people at all.
The girl sits down with a familiar gesture and orders a set of hamburgers. I ask for the same thing. The girl looked at me with a testing gaze and said.
“Let me first introduce myself. I am Rustice. Rustice Conti. I’m the one who oversees the avengers around here.”
“…… Hi.
My name is Aoi Susumu. I’m just a high school student.”
She makes a proper self-introduction and bows her head lightly. The girl …… Rustice-san continues to speak without seeming to be bothered.
“We avengers basically make a living by subjugating immortals who disrupt the public order. It is called by many different names, but most people call it “the church”. It’s not a religious organization, though.”
“…… Am I correct in assuming that you are a high-ranking member of that organisation?”
“Not a big one, but an elite who reports directly to headquarters.”
This person calls herself an elite. That’s what I thought, but I can’t really point it out. It sounds like a foreigner, and maybe it’s just a different sense of word choice.
“It came…..”
“Hm? Ah, hamburgers.”
Just then, the hamburgers are brought in. ……I thought that since it was so empty, it probably didn’t taste very good anyway, but the hamburger steak was just as good as usual.
“Fufu”
“…… hmm?”
For a moment, I thought the girl laughed with a face like a child, but it must have been my imagination. The girl continues to speak while eating the hamburger steak with relish.
“Our basic job is to kill the immortals that run rampant in this city and to keep an eye on Asama Ion. So as long as you don’t go on a rampage, I won’t touch you.”
“No, but the other day, someone who looked like one of your men tried to kill me in the usual way. ……”
“T-They are a special case! Shiga, Kiriyama, and Ato too! Everyone is making fun of me! Even though I’m working hard in a country I don’t even know, no one listens to me!” [TLN : She says with ‘Damonn’]
“Damon……?”
The girl coughed uncontrollably and almost dropped her hamburger steak. The girl clears her throat and says.
“What you want to ask is why I’m monitoring Asama Ion, isn’t it?”
“Eh? No, well, yes. ……”
I wanted to ask her, but she didn’t seem to want to be asked, so I quit asking. The girl pays in advance again, then looks at me with a serious expression.
“Asama, Ion. That one is special. A super-class immortal who continues to live beyond a thousand years. ……over thousand. Her power is unimaginable. She is…”
“Wait, wait a minute! Asama-san is over a thousand years old?!”
Unintentionally, she drops her hamburger steak. The girl laughed happily with a face like a child who has succeeded in a prank.
“No. Asama Ion is a young girl who is not yet 20 years old. And yet, that woman killed an immortal who continues to live for over 1000 years.”
“Is that a great thing?”
“There are nineteen immortals we know of who have lived beyond a thousand years, and all of them are powerful enough to destroy a country on their own. They are monsters that even a battalion of ordinary killers would not be able to compete with.”
“Asama-san killed such a person. ……”
“That’s why I’ve been given strict orders from headquarters to not interfere with Asama Ion as much as possible. Yet, everyone ignores my orders…!”
The girl flapped her legs under the table. …I thought she was a lot more childish than I thought, but I’ll stop saying that.
“Anyway, Asama Ion’s depth in the other world is abnormal. Her concept threatens this world itself.”
“Depth ……? concept ……?”
“You haven’t heard anything about the ‘otherworldly concept’ from Asama Ion?”
“We don’t talk about it much. ……”
Otherworld concept? Is that the magic or something that Asama-san was talking about? I tilted my head, and the girl exhaled in shock.
“The ‘Otherworldly Concept’ is the source of our power. With our rules, we rewrite the rules of this world. The more solid our own world is, the more our power increases. Quite simply, the power to do anything we think we can do.”
“Is that why that puppeteer …… Shiga was able to move puppets?”
“Yes, that’s right. In his world, puppets move. When you think about it, he’s surprisingly cute, isn’t he?”
“I don’t think so, though. ……”
The girl turns her gaze out the window, saying that she’ll have to ask Een Asama about the details next time. …The sky was suddenly covered with thick clouds. If I don’t get home early, I might get caught in the rain.
“So, our current target,…… the immortal known as ‘The Raven’, came to this city in pursuit of Asama Ion.”
“…… Why, Asama-san?”
“Asama Ion killed over thousand, and the man who was called ‘Emperor of Heaven’ had a number of servants under his command who were also immortals. You can imagine how they must have felt when the man they had been loyal to for hundreds of years was killed, can’t you?”
“One of them came to this city to take revenge on Asama-san,……”
“That’s right… However, the crow is getting quite tired. I guess he doesn’t even understand what he’s doing anymore. He uses his subordinate crows to attack people without any purpose. And to make matters worse, the person in question hides somewhere and never shows up.”
The girl frowned in disgust and continued eating her hamburger steak. …But her mouth is small, so she can’t reduce the amount.
“Or rather, what’s wrong with the people in this country in the first place! I’m an elite dispatched from my own country! And yet, they ignore orders and do selfish things…!. If they had listened, I would have defeated that thing a long time ago…!”
“Um, is that …… okay?”
“Not okay! I’m …… sorry. I’m a bit distraught.”
The girl gulps down her water in one gulp and exhales.
“Anyway, I have no intention of going around killing immortals willy-nilly.My subordinates won’t listen to me, but that’s the policy we follow as an organization.”
“…Well, that’s helpful, but…there’s a reason why you went out of your way to tell me that, right?”
I swallowed the last bite of my hamburger and wiped my mouth with a paper napkin. The girl places her fork on the table and looks straight at me.
“- it’s simple. I want you to be one of us.”
“…… Is that asking me to betray Asama-san?”
“I told you, right? I have to not kill for anything other than work. I don’t really care if you don’t want to. But if you become an avenger, you won’t be targeted by other avenger. There are quite a few immortal subjugators as well.”
“In the first place, I don’t even want to fight, do I?”
“Is that so? Just now you looked like a hunter looking for prey.”
“…………”
I do not respond to the girl’s words. The girl wipes her mouth with a graceful gesture and stands up with the slip.
“Well, think about it. You’re always welcome here with us. We’re always short of a manpower of avengers. …… And how do you know that Asama Ion will always protect you?”
The girl just goes on, pays her bill and walks away. I thought that, ……
“Eh, No way? Not enough? Oh no, I forgot to withdraw the money! Oh, I have a card! A card! Oh, no! This is a supermarket point card!”
After a brief flutter at the cash register, the girl walked out of the family restaurant.
“What a strange girl.”
After the girl was no longer visible, I stood up and left the store. It looks like it’s going to rain, so I guess I’ll go home today. That’s what I thought as I walked briskly down the street at night…
“……Hello, we’re getting into a lot of trouble.”
A large number of crows were sitting there, blocking the way back. Then, as if blending in with the crows, there was a young man.
“Hello. Asama Ion’s guard dog. Would you like to have some tea with me now? I just got some nice tea leaves.”
The young man looked at me with his beautiful amber eyes and smiled like a ferocious predator.