A Cheeky Junior Denied Me My Entire Life, so I Tested What Would Happen if I Jumped off a Rooftop to Vent My Anger
I end up being brought to the same family restaurant as before, I give up and order the same hamburger steak as before. The avenger girl, Rustice-san, drinks the water in her glass in one gulp and then turns her gaze towards me.
“There are three immortals who have been making a lot of noise in this town recently. They are all peculiar people, different from ordinary immortals. …… do you know who they are?”
“…… No, I don’t know.”
“Don’t know, right. …… You are someone else’s problem. I don’t have time to sleep because of you.”
“…… no time to sleee, Rustice, san aren’t you immortal?”
“No, I’m not. I don’t want to be immortal. I have seen many people who have suffered so much that it doesn’t matter to them, although I envy them a little that they don’t age. …… But I definitely don’t want to be an immortal.”
Rustice san says this without hesitation. In her eyes, I felt something like a strong determination. Just as …… I had decided to live next to Asama-san for a thousand years, something must have happened to her.
“Oh, it’s here.”
Just then, the hamburgers are brought in. Rustice-san loosens her cheeks happily and reaches for the hamburger steak. I pick up some fries to go with it for now.
“So, what kind of guys are the three immortals on the rampage?”
“You ever heard of something called the …… vampire case?”
“No, I’ve never heard of it.”
For a moment, I think of Akanezaka-san, whom I had just met, but I don’t show it in my expression. Rustice-san continues in an indifferent tone.
“Three years ago, there was an incident where a corpse was found a short distance away from this town, with all the blood drained from its body. It wasn’t just one or two people. There were more bodies found than I could count with both hands.”
“…..I’ve never heard of such a case.”
“Incidents involving immortals are basically kept out of the public eye. It’s obvious that there would be panic if people knew about it, and more idiots would want to become immortals.”
“…… Is it possible to become an immortal if you want to?”
“No. The reasons why immortals are born are still not well understood. The only thing they have in common is that they have all …… died once.”
“…………”
Certainly, if such information becomes available, some people will kill themselves to become immortals. ……, or rather, it’s not the kind of thing to talk about while eating. The hand that eats the hamburger gets heavy.
“Fufu.”
But is that not the case with Rustice-san? She looks delicious and proceeds to eat her hamburger.
“I wasn’t in the country at the time, but my subordinate, Shiga, was in charge of the investigation and hunted down the immortal in question and killed him ……. The case was successfully solved ……, but now, three years later, a similar case has happened again.”
“I don’t remember hearing anything about that. …… Is that also a press regulation?”
“Yes, that’s right. The case of the immortal is not reported in the news. Especially this time, for some reason, the investigation is proceeding in top secrecy. I’m sure even Asama Ion doesn’t know about this incident.’’
“…… There’s a reason why you’re going to the trouble of telling me about it, isn’t there?”
I have a bad feeling about this, but I turn my gaze towards Rustice san. Rustice san swallowed her accompanying broccoli and said.
“That woman you were meeting earlier, that’s one of the suspects in the vampire case.”
“────”
I gasp. Rustice san exhaled in exasperation.
‘That face…… you didn’t think you were meeting her without knowing what was going on? You …… careless fellow.”
“No, we’re just a little acquaintance,……”
“That’s what I call being careless. Ninety per cent of the murders that happen in this country are committed by people who know each other. …… friends, family, lovers, bosses and relatives. The opposite of like is not dislike, was it indifference? The language of this country is well-developed. The only people who hold a grudge to the point of murderous intent are always the people who are close to them.”
Rustice san laughs sarcastically. There’s hamburger sauce on her …… mouth, but I’m not going to point it out because I’m a bit pissed off by her smirk.
“I’ve been keeping an eye on her all morning. Then a familiar face arrived. So I left my men to watch her, and this is how I approached you. It wasn’t even lunchtime.”
“…… but I don’t know anything about her, do I?”
“Don’t lie.
You don’t visit the house of a woman you don’t know right? People in this country”
“No, well, that’s true, but there are some circumstances. ……”
I tell Rustice san about the situation for the time being. After listening to me, Rustice-san frowned in displeasure.
“…… then you really don’t know anything about that woman?”
“I don’t know.
Today is the first time I’ve really talked to her.”
“Mooouu! I thought I’m going to get some information from you, but why can’t it be like this ……!
“
Rustice san is flapping her legs like a child. ……Another unusual person, after all.
“But you do some surprisingly unspectacular things as an avenger, like surveillance and investigations?“
‘Basically, we’re not allowed to do anything that’s out in the open.
Most of our work is low-profile investigations.”
“It’s hard work.”
“Don’t talk about it like it’s somebody else’s problem.”
Rustice-san stares at me with a blank stare. …I’m starting to feel a bad feeling.
“…I’m not going to help you just because you asked me about the situation, right? I don’t have much free time to do that.”
“Are you in a position to say that? ……I told you earlier, didn’t I? There are three immortals who have been making a lot of noise in this city recently.
…… One of them is you, Susumu Aoi.”
“…… Is that true?”
It’s true that a lot has happened recently, but I don’t intend to have done anything so spectacular as to be said to be causing a commotion in the city. Rustice-san looks at me tilting her head and narrows her eyes with a serious face.
“It’s no use being fawning. You killed that ‘raven’ and recreated the blood world of Asama Ion. The top is now in a tizzy over your treatment.”
“…… You know all that, don’t you?”
“Asama Ion is one of the people who needs to be observed. There are always surveillance eyes surrounding her.”
“I see. …… So what are you going to do about me?
I’m going to put my body in a position to respond to whatever happens. …… But Rustice-san picked a potato with a happy expression on her face and laughed.
“I told you before, I have no intention of having anything to do with you. You have Asama Ion behind you. …… Well, most of all, I’m strong, so even if we fought, I wouldn’t lose.”
“But I mean …….”
I feel like an idiot and my body loses its strength. Rustice san ordered a parfait from a store clerk who was passing by, and then turned her attention towards me.
“Top is at a loss to decide what to do with you. As for me, I have no intention of doing anything about you, who is still harmless at present. As for…… shiga, well, I don’t know …… about that.”
“If you’re a superior officer, you should hold the reins properly.”
“Shut up. No matter how much rein I hold, the people in this country just tear it off and do whatever they want! The avengers in this country… they’re just really weird.”
“It’s …… hard work, isn’t it?”
Laughing appropriately, she pours water into the empty glass. ……At any rate, I’m relieved that there doesn’t seem to be anything going on right now.
“For that reason, I want a subordinate who will listen to me properly.”
“Even if you say that, I can’t do what I can’t do. “
“Are you sure that’s what you want? Vampires still roam the streets.
There’s a lot of people who are not in the public eye, but just the day before yesterday there was another victim. People you know could be targets, too, you know?”
“Even if it’s like that ……, I can’t. I can’t fight in the first place.”
“Don’t lie. You, who subdued that ‘raven’, are already at the top of your game. …And you’re also worried about that woman, right?”
“Do you mean Akanesaka-san by that woman?…It’s not that I’m particularly concerned about it.”
If Akanezaka san really imitates a vampire and goes around attacking people every night, there’s nothing I can do. …No matter how much she begs for help, I can’t save her.
‘……that means. You said there are three immortals who are causing a lot of trouble in the city, right? Me, that vampire and who’s the other one?”
“…… hmm? Yeah, that’s the one. ……”
Just then, the parfait that Rustice-san ordered earlier is brought in.
For a moment, Rustice san’s eyes light up like a child’s, but they soon return to a serious expression and she says.
“There is a group led by an immortal who is called ‘The Prophet’. At first I thought it was a new religion or something, but I don’t know what it really is. They don’t let us get off their tails very well. They’ve been sneaking around in the shadows …… under the radar of our avengers, but recently they’ve become more active.”
“…… could that possibly be the guy who’s rumoured to be developing a talent or something?”
“Do you know about that?”
“No, I just overheard a bit about it.”
“……, well, whatever. Anyway, they seem to be planning something involving the general public. We don’t know what’s going on yet, but we know that a lot of people have been taken in by them. We can’t just leave it like this. So…”
Then, as if to interrupt Rustice-san’s words, her phone makes a sound to alert her of an incoming call. Rustice san exhales with a troublesome look on her face and puts her phone to her ear.
“What ……. I’m in the middle of taking in……What⁈…… yeah, okay.
I’m on my way. …… Damn it, he just saying whatever he wants…!”
For a moment, Rustice san looks like a child before she starts to cry, but she soon returns to her usual cool expression and stands up.
“Is there something wrong, by any chance, ……?”
When I ask her that, Rustice-san replies with a face that looks as if she is biting back irritation.
“Shiga seems to have taken the liberty of engaging the immortals again. I’m heading over there now. …… What about you?”
“I’m going home.”
“…… would it be in your best interests to ingratiate yourself with me here?”
‘No, if I meet that puppet master, he’ll definitely attack me again. I don’t want to, I…”
“I heard that Shiga’s opponent is a girl with white hair.”
“────”
For a moment, my mind goes blank.
“…… what are you going to do?”
Rustice-san looked at me with a testing gaze, and I took a deep breath before speaking.
“Okay, I’ll go.”
We both swallow the last of the leftover broccoli and leave the restaurant together.
“…… I want to get home before it starts to rain.”
I looked up and the sky was covered in thick clouds and there was no blue sky in sight.