~RAN POV~
Everything started with a blur, before I knew Ichika-san and Onii-chan already within their reach.
They simply step aside in a way that made it easy to counter, and they swiftly deliver.
“Damn you”
Though, it’s seems that Ichika-san is more concerned, whereas Onii-chan is confident with himself, even so far as pointing his middle finger, a gesture more offensive in the west than it’s here. “Hey, listen you miserable son of a bitch. You know you will be outclassed and yet tried to attack us? Are you mad?”
“Still cocky as always huh? Right hand of the dictator!”
What is he talking about? Why is he calling-
Before I knew, Madoka-san ditched her shopping bag and carried me on her shoulder, such amazing strength-no, why?
“Madoka-san?!”
“Best we comply with them” she look aside with an assuring smile “I don’t know much about this either, but I knew they will answer when we’re safe”
However, Madoka-san stopped abruptly, made my stomach turned upside down. It’s even worse than in the simulator even.
“Tch” she spat, then I realize our escape route has been blocked.
“So this is the new cronies of the Silver Thrones eh?” the leader, who seems to be a female, cracked her fist. Her ears are full of piercing, and her smile, such a devilish smile, it made me shiver.
Meanwhile, Madoka-san simply drops me gently, putting her bigger physique in front of me. “Out of my way”
“Hah, as expected” that yankee waved her arms and several boys charged at us in response.
“Stupid” Madoka-san smacked two of the boys aside right on their head, without even flinch. Within her hand, I can see something like… a gun, no it’s really an automatic pistol.
Madoka-san chuckled a little as her expression began to match that of her enemies, the confident, wide smile, eyes that look down on her foe, overwhelming aura of superiority. No, this is even worse than the yankee, and she might have realized it as well.
“You know, this is not a real gun, but sure as hell it’s weighed like one, so, wanna try getting smacked with this?”
What I can see, she’s not going to surrender.
“Apparently, this bitch doesn’t only talk eh?”
A glistening sound creeping through my skin, she unleashed a pair of knife from her sleeve; it’s something like a folding knife Onii-chan had-
*STAB*
“KYAH!”
I wonder what happened just now when I fazed a little, Madoka-san is holding my shopping bag, now it had a knife embedded in.
“What? You expect me” with all the mockery gesture she can deliver, the yankee unleash another knife toward us. This time, it’s toward our feet.
I feel yet another goosebump as Onii-chan’s arm hooked my frail body, and rolled aside while protecting me.
“Too bad Ryoko, your new goons are even less competent than before”
Ichika-san told her with no-nonsense tone as he appears beside Madoka-san.
The freakshow, she licked the knife on her hand “Well, number does have their advantage. In less than a minute, this place will be crowded with familiar face, Darling”
“Now I regret why I didn’t tore your arms altogether”
“Why, yes you should, you can just carry that regret forever… in Hell”
Four of us… well, three of them really, managed to escape by jumping across the shortest fence.
“You think we’d lose them?”
“Nah, knowing that bitch… nope; she’s too honest and naïve… in a bad way”
“Ichika-san, Onii-chan, what-“
“I’ll tell, but not now” Onii-chan tossed my body like a rag doll, but Ichika-san managed to hold me proper, those two and Madoka-san didn’t seem to have a problem running like this either.
“Hello, this is Ichika Orimura… yes, that one, no, this is not a prank… please calm down, I need to inform you that there are gang-induced riot in the abandoned district-“
Ichika-san continue to talk until he had convinced the person on the other side that he is not lying, and finally managed to, he then mutter something about glad that he had charged his battery.
“Learned to be pragmatic eh, my dear Emperor?” Even though Madoka-san said that, she used tone of concern and slight anger as she spoke.
“From the way you’re in a hurry for the explanation”
“Well, a lot of it”
“Well, shoot, we’re trapped like a couple of mice”
What Onii-chan refers to, we’re arrived in a large, unoccupied land with only three road, all three are now occupied.
“Now, now, why are you in a hurry, Darling”
It was… that bitch again. She’s sure in persistent, besides her trying to kill us; I don’t like how she acted like she knew Ichika-san well.
“Still not enough” Ichika-san simply shrugged, how can thirty people not enough?! In front of us, all we can see is hazardous mass of bloodthirsty people.
How he could say it so calmly?!
“But that little twerp, no matter how you look at it, is your weakness, amirite?”
She even dare to point at me.
But…
She was right, I am proud of my accomplishment in athletic, but… there’s no way I can fight them by myself. Once I was caught, it’s the end.
Even though the Orimura twins flinched, Onii-chan simply stepped out aside me, crossing his arms proudly. “Over my dead body”
“Well, then, we’ll kill you first”
Why…
Even though I tend to disrespect him, he stood so valiantly. Even though I sometimes being selfish and annoying, he would still listen to me.
And even though I’m so weak…
His long, thin fingers gently ruffled my hair with a reassuring rhythm. Something he often did back when we’re still a kid. “Don’t worry, Ran, you’re not alone”