The Crisis World XX

Chapter 128: Time for Arisu to Take Action

Fresh wind approached us. A glimmer of hope arises when Arisu's attempt to resuscitate Ria-chan succeeds. For some reason, the aura and voice of Arisu was able to resuscitate the members of Rainbow Cookies affected by brainwashing.

The rest of the members were now in the dugout, as I, Arisu, and the others were talking about the possibility that this incident could be stopped.

"The key is me." Arisu started the conversation breaking the silence.

"It's not wrong, I've tried it your way but it still doesn't work" Herlin replied.

"But the brainwashing affected are not just the four of them, you know."

Caramel's words are undeniable. Almost the entire city of Nagoya was affected and it was impossible for Arisu to heal them one by one, it would take a very long time if it was really to be done.

"What if you yell out loud?"

I gave you my idea. But they're all— really everyone who's here is looking at me. It looks like I gave the wrong answer and they didn't expect. Especially now that I look like a fool.

"Voice alone is not enough to restore them" Arisu said. "Don't forget that Arisu needs to take out his aura while doing so" Caramel continued. While Oukami just nodded in agreement with them and Ishikawa-san smiled at me.

"Be-so, huh?" I smiled awkwardly and in my heart I promised. From now on I will be quiet.

Herlin who looked at me flatly in disappointment then realized something. For a while he was deep in thought. I'll let him all think through his plans and I'll help as best I can.

Hehe .... That's the best thinking. Because I can't do anything. I'm proud of myself for not being able to do anything, but I won't be silent either.

"Where is your pride as a man?" cecilia said inside my head. Of course I ignored it, because I no longer cared about it.

"I think it can be used." Herlin muttered after thinking for a long time.

"Eh? What's?"

"I was thinking it might be possible that Iraya's plan could be used."

"Can you explain the details?" ask Arisu.

"This dome is an enclosed space and your voice is heard the most inside here. That goes for the aura you give off."

Arisu thought that it was indeed usable. But of course it will require a lot of energy, let alone the size of this dome can accommodate around thousands of people even more.

Even so, he will still try it. He had already rounded his heart to help so that this chaos could be stopped completely. "I'll try" said Arisu.

Hoo! It turned out that Herlin understood my thoughts! I knew he was indeed reliable, I immediately smiled with satisfaction in silence as they all agreed to the plan I had indirectly planned.

"That's what I mean" I said with a proud smile.

"I know you don't think that far."

No one responded to my reaction. Only Cecilia knew it. Though this was my plan, and somehow suddenly my desire to help diminished a little.

"Now all you need to do is ...." Herlin's words hang. But his words were fixed on Arisu, and Herlin looked towards the other members of Rainbow Cookies.

They were chatting with each other despite being quite weak and certainly frightened. It seemed like Herlin had Arisu say goodbye because a big fight awaited him and also told the four of them to remain silent here.

"Can you?" ask Herlin.

But Arisu smiled to dispel everyone's worries. "Just relax, I'm the person they trust the most. So I'm sure they'll understand." After that, Arisu walked over to the four of them.

"Ariseu-senpai! Is everything okay?" ask Edna. "Yep, I can take care of everything here." Arisu once again smiled and replied with an answer that did not worry anyone.

"Senpai, what happened to your face?" tanya Ria pointed at the diagonal wound engraved from the upper left forehead to the lower right mouth on Arisu's face.

Arisu was surprised to hear that. Because this is a wound created because Ria scratches it while it is under the influence of brainwashing. Memory loss during control also seems to be one of the effects. Arisu learned something from there.

"Ah, about this .. I tripped and there was a nail that appeared near where I fell, so this is the result."

Arisu lied. He did not seem to want to make Ria feel guilty for having attacked him. It's not entirely his fault either.

"By the way, I have to go out for a minute. So if you can—"

"Can't!" Arisu's speech was immediately cut by Edna. "Dna-chan?"

"I don't know what really happened, but the situation is not safe outside! That's why we should all stay here until the situation improves!"

Of course that's what a normal person would think. If I were them, I would think so too. And now what will Arisu say.

"I—"

"Can't! Senpai can't leave this room! Later if something happens to Senpai, I .. I ...."

Edna's words became increasingly unclear as cries mixed in there. And in the end, he cried loudly. Pecola then hugged her to calm her down.

Arisu bit her lips which started to shake. I don't think he really wants to go out there either. He prefers to protect his friends rather than face the chaos out there, but he has the responsibility of Exception. Responsibility as a White Cloud member.

Many ordinary people were being controlled and were being aggressive. He could not just close his eyes, so inevitably he had to face it. And in the deadlock, Herlin came and spoke to them like a savior.

"You don't have to worry, Edna-chan." Herlin walked over and knelt down to be on par with the sitting Edna.

"Herlin-chan?"

"You don't have to worry about his safety, I'm his bodyguard anyway."

Oi, don't forget that me and the others are also among the bodyguards here.

"I know that, but ...." Edna-chan looked the other way. It seemed that he was still doubtful but also did not want to hurt Herlin by rejecting him.

"What if this is all?" Herlin then pulled out her little finger and hooked it on Edna's little finger. "Ria-chan, you too." He was shocked when he was called Herlin but then Ria-chan also hooked her little finger.

"Promise little finger~ Who breaks it will eat a hundred paku~" Herlin sings his promise song with the two of them. "Is that enough?"

"Hehehehs ... Herlin-chan, you're creepy." But even so, Edna could already laugh even though there were still tears left in her eyes.

"True, it's a creepy chant to know," Ria-chan said.

But the atmosphere melted a little more and in the end Edna and Ria allowed Arisu to leave here.

While I breathe a sigh of relief. It turned out to be quite difficult to also convince them to release Arisu outside. Moreover without telling them anything about Exception.

"Be careful out there!"

Before we left, Edna shouted back. But this time it was more of a cry of hope. Me, Herlin, and the others smiled hearing that and looked back. "Just calm. Because we are ... stronger than it looks, really," Herlin said.

Edna's eyes widened slightly in admiration. Like all his doubts and worries disappeared when he saw this bodyguard formation, inexplicably he no longer worried about us and felt that everything would be fine.

"Cool." One last word I heard from Edna-chan.

Now we go up on stage where Rainbow Cookies were previously performing. There are some people from White Cloud who also came here to keep things here, they are working together with Ishikawa-san who is looking busy at the moment.

"Nl? Arisu Koyomi? What's he doing on stage?"

"Who are the people behind it anyway?"

"They're that, aren't they? Who escaped to be the bodyguard of Arisu."

"ah! You're right!"

I could hear small chats from the White Cloud members. While Ishikawa-san who noticed our arrival then approached the stage from below.

"Is the back okay?" ask Ishikawa-san.

I gave the gesture hand 'Ok' the sign of all safely under control. "More we have a way to stop this disaster" Herlin continued.

He smiles. "I'm sure you've come to bring good news. And you guys went on stage to do it, right?"

"true."

"Then, there's no need for a stale base anymore. Please do as you like." Ishikawa-san then moved away from the stage for a few steps, letting us— or rather Arisu to focus.

We all then took a few steps back and allowed Arisu to prepare herself. He was silent for a while, the atmosphere inside the dome was also without speech except for the moaning of infected people.

A few seconds later, slowly but surely I can feel the aura of Arisu coming out from inside her body. He closed his eyes to make himself more focused and after that Arisu took a breath and his mouth was ready to talk.

"Help ...."

"What would he do? Screaming to wake them up? If it's that easy, why not do it earlier?"

But suddenly Arisu's concentration was broken by the words of one of the White Cloud members. It was small, but he could hear it clearly.

"So then, maybe he's been looking face to the Chairman. He always does that anyway."

"Yep. How could anyone seem to be able to enter so easily into White Cloud? Even we just need a very difficult test to get into."

"Stupid! He can hear you!" The person beside him tried to warn the two chatty fools.

But he's late. Because we all heard it. I also just found out that Arisu is branded like that inside White Cloud. Although he is a famous Idol and highly hailed by the public, but the treatment he received was inversely proportional when he was in White Cloud.

I looked towards Arisu. His gaze changed which initially focused into doubt. He was nervous and like a man who was afraid of being wrong.

The difference in nature that Arisu showed inexplicably irritated me, the people who talked about it just now might not know how much effort Arisu put in behind the stage. From a famous Idol to an Exception. Of course it's not easy.

And those fools easily slandered him looking for face and so on without knowing anything?

I took a step toward them to teach him a lesson. But I seem to be ahead of someone.

Sryig...

An axe made of aura floated between the heads of the two of them at high speed. "heikhs!" And of course it surprised them to the point of making a lousy response like 'Hikh!' just now.

I looked to the side where the aura axe came from and I looked at Oukami with a displeased expression. The other Black Rain members were also surprised to see Oukami who was suddenly angry so.

"If you speak one more word, then the next one will hit your head. Do you understand?!"

"Ba-good! Forgive us!" They both apologized.

"Tch! You stupid people."

Anger is clearly visible on Oukami's face when something bothers Arisu. But the serious face was funny and a mockery for Caramel.

"Pfft ...! Nice expression, kasmaran man," taunted Caramel.

"Huh?! Who are you calling 'kasmaran man'?"

"Oi, you're the noisiest now." Herlin warned Oukami who was instantly sober and shut her mouth tightly, while Caramel was still laughing amusedly while trying to hold her laughing voice out.

But for Arisu, it was something special. He realized that there was someone who appreciated him in White Cloud and it turned out that the person was right in front of his eyes.

Arisu now understood and smiled and then looked forward— towards the infected people. Its aura became larger and could even now be seen with the naked eye. "Hoo~" Caramel also seems to be amazed by the drastic changes shown Arisu.

"Help ...." Arisu took a breath and then shouted. "I know there are some people here who underestimate me and think I'm a parasite! But I have something more valuable than their talk, your support! So I beg ... SOBER UP!"

The aura from within Arisu's body grew increasingly jarring and explosive. His voice also echoed clearly within this dome. Some lines of people in the front row began to calm down and slowly returned to normal, marked by their pupils that were like the pupils of the eyes of people in general.

"Be-successful?"

"Yes, but ...."

Indeed what Arisu did managed to make some people aware. But if I could just mention it honestly. "The aura is too weak." Yep. Cecilia continued my thinking.

Earlier we felt the aura was strong because we were near Arisu. But this dome was too big for that small aura of Arisu, who had been aware of also no more than fifty people when there were still dozens of thousands more infected.

After twenty more seconds of emitting the greatest aura he could emit, Arisu's aura slowly began to weaken and eventually disappeared. He held his knees in exhaustion.

"Huh .. hah .. hah ...." His entire body was bathed in sweat and his breath was already panting.

"Not going too well, is it?" When everyone knew it, Caramel said it very lightly. We all looked at him with a flat look. "What?!" He was confused when we looked at him.

"I'll keep trying. There's nothing I can do here anymore but get everything out I got."

Although Arisu is right. But in this way it will take a very long time and Arisu can run out of steam first, even so no one disputes it. Because everyone knows that Arisu has made up his mind.

That way, Arisu stood up straight again and gathered his aura again. But suddenly when he wanted to shout a second time, someone came cutting him.

"You don't have to do such a tiring thing."

When I saw her, I was shocked because of her chaotic and messy state. He is Nigiyaka-san, Akihito-san, and Mei-senpai.

The only one who was conscious was Nigiyaka-san so he picked up the other two and after feeling close enough to the stage he fell limp while being careful that the unconscious did not hit his head.

We also approached him directly. "Nigiyaka-san! What the hell happened to you?" my many.

"There was someone troublesome and the three of us had to fight with him, but that was no longer important. What matters now is this."

Nigiyaka-san then took out something from under her clothes. It was a playing card with a picture of the Joker on either side. But it was not like an ordinary card, everyone nearby could sense there was something strange on the card.

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