A Cheeky Junior Denied Me My Entire Life, so I Tested What Would Happen if I Jumped off a Rooftop to Vent My Anger
An inarticulate cry echoes through the alleyway.
“Ah, ugh, ah……!”
I followed Rustice’s back and came to an unpopular alleyway. There, a white-haired girl had been eaten dead by a dog. …… No, she must be an immortal just like me. The girl crawled desperately on the ground despite the wounds that would normally have killed her.
“…What the hell?”
I can’t bear to look at such a gruesome scene, and I turn away as if to run away.
The girl with white hair was not Asama san. Her hair is certainly white, but it is not the divine white of Asama san’s hair. The girl’s hair was a somewhat gaunt …… and feeble white. The girl is weak as if after having her power sucked out of her, she is being folded up by many dogs just like me sometime ago.
Is this girl the rumored vampire?
“…..”
Then my eyes meet those of a large man in black standing in front of the girl. The …… puppeteer man, Shiga. As usual, a gloomy man with holey eyes.
I put strength into my body so that I can handle whatever happens.
“You seem to be acting up on your own again.”
Rustice san exhaled in disgust and glared at Shiga. But Shiga didn’t look at his superior, but straight at me and said
“What a surprise, Rustice-sama. You arrived very early.”
“I don’t care about that. What’s more, Shiga. What on earth are you doing here? It’s still daylight, and if anyone sees you, you’ll be in big trouble…”
“I’m sorry. I just saw one of the people I was watching running amok in the alleyway, and I had to arrest that person to find out what was going on. I’ve already exorcised the person, so there were no witnesses.”
“I-Is that right, ……?”
“Yes. I followed the philosophy of the avenger and seized the immortal who was disturbing the security of the city. I don’t remember doing anything that would earn me praise and criticism.”
“I understand ……. Fine then.”
Rustice san nods slightly as if she understands. …No matter how you look at it, it just looks like she’s being treated, but Rustice-san doesn’t seem to notice that.
She cleared her throat and turned her gaze to the fallen white-haired girl.
“So this woman is the vampire in question?”
“No, she doesn’t have that kind of power. This girl is one of the vampire’s dependents. Considering the fact that she is just starting out, her regenerative and physical abilities are lousy. She doesn’t even seem to be aware of her own world yet.”
“Then there’s another source. …… have any idea?”
“That’s what I’m trying to confirm with this girl right now. ……”
“Hiii…..!”
The girl looks at me with an expression as if she is asking for help. The girl is about my age. I felt sorry for her, but then I saw blood on the …… girl’s mouth. Is it her own blood, or is it blood from when …… this girl harmed someone else? I can’t tell right now.
Now that I know …… or rather that the white-haired girl is not Asama-san, there is no reason for me to stay here. I’m not interested in the job of a debater, and I’d like to leave as soon as possible if possible.
“……….”
The only thing is that the puppeteer is constantly staring at me, so I can’t run away. The moment I started to run, another puppet would surely jump on me. ……After all, I shouldn’t have come.
Rustice san again exhaled tiredly and said
“If you need to interrogate her, turn her over to Ato. With that guy’s abilities, there won’t be any bad mistakes.”
“Is that so?I know a thing or two about interrogation myself. ……”
“Your methods may get the information out of her, but they won’t keep the girl. And this boy …… Aoi-kun, I asked him to help me and brought him here. There’s no need to be alarmed.”
“….Hou.”
Shiga rolls his eyes as if to say he was surprised.
“I never imagined that you would become an avenger. Asama Ion, is she okay? Boy.”
“I have no intention of becoming one. It’s like I was tricked into here again this time. I have nothing to do with you, so I’ll go home right away.”
“You are as careless as ever. If you keep thinking you are special, you will be caught short someday. Boy.”
“…… mind your own business.”
I exhale heavily, deliberately. …As expected, this man is not good. This man has an aura that is completely different from Asama-san’s, one that makes him swallow me up.
“Anyway, I’m going home now. It looks like it’s going to rain, so I don’t want to stay too long—-“
In mid-sentence, my body floats in the air.
“…… eh?”
For a moment, I thought someone had thrown me off, but …… I was wrong. Rustice san jumped up, grabbing my arm.
“That was …….”
And there was a white-haired man with bright red eyes standing where I had been standing a moment ago. In his hand, he was holding an axe, jet-black and ominous.
“New trick?”
Rustice san muttered quietly and landed on the rooftop of a nearby building. I manage to grab the rooftop fence, too. ……It seems that Rustice san has saved me.
“……Thank you.”
“Hmm? Yeah, you don’t have to worry about it.
If it’s that bad, there’s no need to be that vigilant,…… because I brought you here and I can’t let you get hurt.”
Then Rustice san held up a …… black pistol, where did she get it from? I don’t know what kind of gun it is, but it’s a very big gun. This is a big pistol, it’s so big that you could dislocate your shoulder just by shooting it.
Rustice san spun it around as if playing with a toy, then held it up with one hand and pulled the trigger.
“…..!”
The sound of a gunshot echoed. It was a random shot that didn’t seem to be aimed at anything. Yet all the bullets hit the leg of the man who had entered. The man falls to the ground in the blink of an eye, and the puppeteer’s dog seizes him.
“Great job, …….”
Brilliant coordination. If these two were to seriously try to catch me, it would be difficult to escape. …… I may indeed have been unthinking. I didn’t even think about the possibility that Rustice san would trap me
She tapped me on the shoulder, grinned, and said,
“My gun never misses at any moment. …… cool, right?”
“….Well, yeah”
“Fufu. I know I am. I’m an elite.”
Rustice san jumps off the roof, proudly puffing out her chest. …That gun is her ability…is it an otherworldly concept? In her world, no matter what position you shoot in, the bullet always hits where you aimed it. If that were the rules of her world, it would be a rather troublesome ability..
“… Well, whatever.”
At any rate, I, too, jump off the rooftop. It’s not a great height, but it’s still high enough to injure a normal person. But now, I don’t even feel any pain even though I jumped down from that height. It seems that my world has deviated from the norm.
Then, after waiting for me to land on the ground, Shiga says in his same matter-of-fact voice.
“One by one they are not very powerful, but when they form a clique they can be a bit of a nuisance.”
“I’d like to hit the big one before it gets messy….Shiga, it’s about you. I guess you’ve already set your sights on something? ”
“I’m sorry,……, but I can’t say yet. However, unlike three years ago, I feel that this time the vampire has a clear will. It will not be a mere copycat. They will tell us more about that soon—“
Shiga’s words stopped there. …… No, I noticed something strange too. They, who had been put down by Shiga’s dogs, suddenly began to suffer.
“Ah, ah …… ah!”
They moaned as if they had been poisoned, and then dried up and stopped moving.
“This is ……”
The bodies dried up as if they had been drained of all their blood. I remember what Rustice san had said to me at the diner.
“I ask you, Shiga ……, did you do anything to these guys?”
“No, nothing. ……It seems they are tougher opponents than I thought.”
“…Why do you look so happy, you?”
Rustice san shrugs dismissively. Shiga remains the same, he says with colorless eyes.
“I will continue my investigation. This case has a lot of things on its mind. I don’t think it’s just a bunch of sleepless immortals running amok. There may be some unexpected bigwig behind …… all of this.”
“….You really don’t have your eye on someone, do you?”
“No way. I am a loyal dog to my superiors, and I will report back to you as soon as there is any progress in the investigation.”
“Than ……, fine.”
So, Shiga twisted his mouth into a tiny smile ……, but Rustice-san didn’t notice it, did she? She nodded in satisfaction.
“…..Finally, boy. Be careful with Elsieza. It’s deeper than you might think, and it’s eating into your daily life.”
“What is that? I don’t understand ……wait, he just said what he wanted to say and disappeared.”
Shiga leaves without waiting for my reply. I think he’s still a selfish guy, but as long as it doesn’t involve combat, anything is fine.
“…… but what’s an Elsieza? I don’t remember hearing about it. ……”
I muttered to myself, and Rustice-san answered, brushing the dust off her clothes.
“The name of the organization led by the immortal called “The Prophet” that I told you about earlier. I’ve entrusted Kiriyama with the investigation of that group as well, …… but he hasn’t reported back to me as usual.”
“….., that’s a lot of work.”
“Well, it seems that the investigation is going through a rough patch. No, but why is Shiga talking about the “prophet”? Could it be that there is a connection between “vampire” and “prophet”? …But then why don’t you tell me that? Maybe that guy Kiriyama is also secretly sneaking up on tricks behind my back! Damn! Why doesn’t this guy report this to me? Even though I’m an elite…!”
Rustice-san is getting down on the ground like a child. I feel sorry for her, but after all, that’s not my problem either. Anyway, for now, I just want to get the hell out of here. Today—-
“……Eh?”
I suddenly caught his eyes.
A man was staring at me from the shadows of the alleyway. The man’s hair looked a little whiter, but it was clearly …….
“…… Rengo?”
When I called out that, the man hid his figure as if he was running away. I don’t think it …… matters, but my feet kick the ground on their own.
“Hey you! Where do you think you’re going on your own!”
“I’m sorry! I’ve got some urgent business to attend to, so I’m going home today!”
With that, I start running as fast as I can. I still can’t decide if the man from earlier is really Rengo. …Or rather, it’s Rengo, but that doesn’t matter to me. Rengo and I aren’t even friends anymore.
“Oh, bad. It’s starting to rain.”
I just had a terrible …… bad feeling for some reason.