The Crisis World XX

Chap. 47: Meeting of the Two Assassins

Elsewhere, in a filthy alley between large buildings where people throw their trash, a young girl walks past the dirty place cheerfully.

While humming a little, he took something from his shirt pocket. A panda-shaped keychain that eats bamboo.

"Caramel."

“??!”

The girl was surprised to hear her name being called by someone. Quickly, he immediately hid the keychain behind his body.

"Oh, just you, anyway. It's rare to see you alone, I don't think you've ever separated from your boyfriend."

"Don't say much. I just came to collect information. Did you get it?"

The voice that spoke was a female voice, she could not see her face clearly because it was behind a dark shadow. But to be sure, his voice was more mature than Caramel's.

"Honey once~ I can't find it. Besides, are you sure that the person in the photo is following the tournament ...."

Caramel could hear the sound of his tongue sticking out of her. While Caramel laughed because it managed to upset him. Then then, the man walked up to him, out of the dark place until now his face was clearly visible.

"... Nimis?" Caramel finished her words.

Caramel was still hiding the keychain behind her. Even now he holds it tighter.

Caramel and Nimis, both Assassins belonging to Ayakashi Corp.

"Is the information really accurate? I didn't find him in there at all" Caramel said.

He lies. For what purpose he did it, but Caramel felt that everything would be more interesting if it became more difficult for Nimis. Or maybe he just wants to play Nimis.

"I got that information from an informant I could trust. So there's no way that information I could be mistaken."

"Hm …."

Caramel took out one hand from behind her body, then took something out of her pocket, it was a photo. Along with that, he quickly also placed a keychain in his pocket. All done in one movement.

Caramel noticed the photo, it was a photo of a man who was doing a physical test at school. And the photo made her smile thinly too astonished.

"Seriously, huh. How did your informant get this photo?"

"She told me that her identity or the way she works doesn't want to be known to anyone."

"Ah .. the new member? Well, whatever, the important thing is I already know who took this photo."

Caramel finished checking the photo and put it back in her pocket. After that, he focused on Nimis completely.

"Yes, it was him. Therefore …."

“???”

Nimis took the short horses and darted while shaking his katana right at the neck from Caramel. But without moving a bit, Katana Nimis was restrained by something that was in front of Caramel.

"Tsk. Boss's pet is great, you're liked by the Boss for some obvious reason. That's why I hate you."

"Take your word, Nimis. Is that so much of your hatred for me?"

A little while later, a faint white aura seemed to be holding back Nimis' Katana. The aura shaped like a gas that gradually changed into a deep silver color, surrounding the surrounding Caramel body.

"Don't blame me, blame yourself for making my hatred so great for me."

"Ara ara .., then what a coincidence. I hate you too, Nimis."

The atmosphere between the two stiffened. Their auras were equally pervasive, preparing if only they really had to fight. But Caramel spoke again which made the atmosphere slightly liquid.

"Unfortunately, the Boss still needs your strength. So let's avoid this unimportant dispute."

“But ...” A wide grin then appeared on Caramel's face as he said his next utterance, an expression he never showed while in The One Tournament. “... No words ‘next’, Nimis. If you play around like this again, then you will be completely lost.”

"As far as you. Invisible Barrier or whatever power you have is always troublesome" said Nimis.

Nimis looks relaxed and undaunted — even tend not to care about threats from Caramel. He then sheathed back his Katana, the final sign of their current ‘main-main’.

"Ah .. Don't talk like that, you're embarrassing me."

Caramel held back a laugh as if what Nimis had said just now was a compliment, while Nimis held back in annoyance.

"Just finish your task quickly. If you fail, do seppuku or something" Nimis said as he walked away from the alley.

"Daradly! That way is too boring to be my death!" said Caramel who raised his voice because Nimis had walked a long way.

Nimis continued to walk out of the alley, after slightly moving away from Caramel, Nimis had time to think for himself and muttered something small that Caramel could not hear. "It seems I will think of an offer from him."

After completely gone from his sight, Caramel again took out the photo of the man from his pocket, Iraya—.

"But lie …. How could I fail in my mission, you stupid woman."

Caramel looked back at the photo long enough and meticulously, perhaps even longer than he had previously done in front of Nimis.

"Hmm ... Satou Iraya, huh? The person who is the host of Subject C alone has become an extraordinary achievement. And you're telling me that he can use his powers too?"

A small laugh was created when Caramel imagined something extraordinary in his head about Iraya.

"Hehe …. I wonder how strong you will be when we meet again, darling~"

Caramel walked away from the dirty alley, leaving a large incision on the wall due to Nimis's sudden attack that Caramel had held back earlier.

**

Back to this sad me. Yep. Satou Iraya is here. I've been in this treatment room for a few days and not coming out at all. The tournament also seemed to be coming to an end and had reached the final round. From what I heard, Oukami managed to go smoothly after defeating me.

"Geez, I'm so bored! At least let me watch the final game!"

I screamed in the treatment room leaving myself alone. But I forgot that there was a protest-like creature who kept following me.

"Stop! You're making my ears hurt."

That's her! He finally spoke when I was just talking about it. Cecilia seemed to sound annoyed with the screams I made, but I didn't care. Because what? Because I'm so bored right now!

"I want out, out, out! I'm bored, bored, bored!"

I screamed and whined again. It's actually quite embarrassing, but there's no one here, so why am I ashamed? Please, quickly grant my request to anyone!

But because of my wild movements, unknowingly my left hand in the cast hit the iron edge of the mattress.

"Of …!"

"Keep moving like that. I'm really looking forward to your right hand breaking too."

"Wicked!"

Except for the cast still hanging on my left hand, my average wound had already started to improve. Only a few patches remain on the face and other parts of the body. My legs are fine too, but why do the doctors keep me locked up here?! Ah, I'm so upset!

"I'm in."

As I was being upset indistinctly and blaming the innocent doctors, suddenly the sound of knocking on the door rang out and someone walked in while carrying a bento box in his hand.

I immediately acted coldly cool and considered it as if the screams and childish behavior that was not my behavior, but Cecilia.

"Herlin?"

"Your screams are heard from outside" Herlin said.

"Gukh …?! Caught, huh?"

Herlin didn't seem to be bothering about it much and immediately pulled out a chair to sit next to me. Then open a bento box and put it over my thigh covered with a blanket.

"Quick eat and finish, Yuuki-san made it for you."

After which, he instantly opened his HP and was busy with it.

Eh? Something is strange. Where was her sweet and cute attitude a few days ago? Why is he acting like he usually does? At that time, I liked his nature like that. Why did he change so quickly? But ….

"Don't expect too much from her" suggested Cecilia.

"Huh .. it should be, anyway."

I immediately picked up the chopsticks and prepared to eat them. "Good meal." Picked it up with a little difficulty due to the obstructing left hand.

One bribe after another I spent slowly because I could not eat too much in one mouthful. Damnit damnit! It's a real hassle. Then suddenly a fly came up to my food and made the rice in the chopsticks fall.

"Ac …." That flat startled sentence came out of my mouth when the rice in the chopsticks fell onto the blanket.

"Geez, you're like a kid."

Herlin who saw that instantly turned off his HP then cleaned the rice that fell on the blanket using a tissue.

After cleaning, he then took the bento box and chopsticks that I was holding and took a little rice and then pointed the chopsticks towards my mouth.

"H-Herlin?!" i'm surprised.

"Open your mouth."

Oi, oi, oi! Waita minute! Isn't this a super rare and thrilling event?! His nature had indeed turned cold and sharp as usual, but suddenly doing something like this was the thing that could make the heart of any man pound, right?!

With hesitation, I opened my mouth immediately when told by him. The food tastes better! I'm not lying!

But this is the second time Herlin has fed me. And from the expression he was giving out now, he seemed to be unconcerned about this. So what is possible ....

"Huh .. I really don't understand," I muttered resignedly.

While taking the next bribe, Herlin suddenly invited me to speak. “Nee, Iraya.”

"What's wrong?"

"Your left hand, when you get home, are you gonna be okay?"

He kept feeding and I kept receiving it.

But when asked that, lie if I'm not worried. Especially if it's about a broken hand. Unknowingly, a slick smile came out from my face.

"Maybe .. I could lie to Mom a little bit" I said.

Although I actually felt bad for continuing to lie to her, I also did not want to involve her into something as dangerous as this. So I don't want to have to lie.

And as for my injuries, my anxiety is the only thing I'm worried about. The first thing that haunted me was the face of her grief etched into my memory, haunting me with guilt.

I don't want that to happen again.

“What's okay?” asked Herlin once again to make sure.

“Maybe I want to be honest. But, I don't want to make Mom more worried, so how else,” obviously me.

"I understand. But if you need help with that, I'll help you as much as I can. Because after all, I asked for his permission so that you could go to this tournament" Herlin said.

I smiled at him. Herlin tried to calm down and that was quite helpful. But something was wrong now, he kept bribing into his own mouth, when the bribe was supposed to be for me.

"By the way ... Why did you eat my bento?"

Herlin only stopped when I told him. He looked up at the bento, chopsticks, then finally at me. It seemed that he was unaware that he had eaten it from earlier.

“Ah, this ..., I am also hungry.”

**

Herlin spoke briefly with the nurse's side, and the results were excellent! I was finally freed from this boring room and was able to watch the final match. Yuhu!

In the stands there was already Oita-san who was also watching the match.

He asked me about my healing process. And I answered that there was no problem at all. After all, the process went faster than a normal human, thanks to Cecilia helping me. So maybe I can already take off this cast when the summer break is over.

"Good to hear. At that time, your situation was very worrying, but after hearing you come back cheerful like this, I became a little relieved. Don't push yourself too hard, huh?”

"Ready!" I salute Oita-san, I will obey her advice and laze around until the summer break is over.

We then watched the final match. And as you can guess, Oukami managed to win the eighth edition of The One Tournament this year. The ability to use weapons and extensive martial arts, making it difficult for opponents to guess Oukami's fighting style.

At that time I managed to hit him to battered I think because he was surprised by my original ability that I had hidden. It sucks, but he's ahead of me.

By the way, he got a prize money of ¥100,000 Yen, a lot of money.

"Isn't the prize money too much, oi?!" kataku regrets.

"It's okay, besides what I'm after is not a champion, but your experience in fighting" said Herlin.

"Well, I think you're right."

"Since there's no more business here, let's go home?" take Oita-san. "Yes!" And we answer simultaneously.

When we wanted to go home, we met Hayate-san and Oukami who were talking together. It just so happened that both of them were my previous opponents in this tournament.

"Oh! Hello Satou-kun, do you want to go home?" hello Hayate-san.

"Yes, I don't have any more business here anyway."

Then I glanced at Oukami, and he immediately turned his face annoyed. Is this just my feeling or is Oukami still vengeful to me? What the fuck is that? Is beating me before still not enough for him?

"Aren't you too sensitive to me?” my response to Oukami.

"Amaha …. He's just still pissed at you. Because you know, you almost beat him back then" Hayate said.

"Oi, Hayate!"

Oukami was angry at Hayate, while she could only laugh a little at him.

So I do, I understand now. Actually I did lose everything to Oukami back then, but the surprise attack I gave at the end seemed completely unexpected. And he doesn't like it. Unknowingly a grin was created on my face, giving me an idea in my head to justify it.

"Heh~ So that means you acknowledge my power, right? Come on, you don't have to be shy about it, Oukami.”

"Damn it, you little boy! I'll get your right hand broken too!"

I jumped behind Herlin's back while chuckling lightly. It is quite easy to also tease the brain of this muscle.

"Oh, are you all here?"

Suddenly a woman approached us and spoke to us from behind. I felt like I was no stranger to his voice, and when I looked at the source of the sound ....

Stay unfamiliar.

"Congratulations to you, Oukami Yuu. As I first thought, you're a candidate for this year's tournament."

"God! That's obvious!"

“Then Hayate Kendou, it's a pity that you have to be eliminated in the first round. You're one of my favorites too."

"Awha …. Thank you, Mitsu. I'm a little off guard and hit the stone."

So he's Mitsu, the commentator. He also glanced at me a little, but said nothing and just walked away. Then I called him to ask him something.

"Ano .. Mitsu-san, right?"

"What?"

"If you're the host, then your other partner is Caramel, right? He hasn't been seen lately, do you know where he is?"

"That quiet guy, he's a pass shortly after you lost against Oukami, he said he had important business."

"That's it, huh?"

It seemed that after putting the letter away, he just left immediately. Who is this mysterious woman?

"You're Satou Iraya, right?”

"Ah, yes, that's my name."

"You're not bad for your debut performance."

That was ... a compliment, right? The tone he let out did not sound like he was praising. Also after that, he just left. Leaving me in confusion if I've just been praised or not.

**

And now it's a thrilling moment.

I have arrived in front of the house.

How do I explain my broken bones to Mom. The most logical reason was being processed inside my head. Because your instinct can guess when I'm lying or not. Somehow.

"Yes! I can." After convincing myself, I finally entered the house. "I'm home ...."

Silent. There's no answer. Such a strange and worrying silence. Is Mom out? Well, good for me! Because I can go straight to the room.

I found something very surprising.

Mother's body was lying on the floor with a pool of blood and a prick in her chest. Which made me go straight to him and check his body condition.

"Mother! What the hell's been going on?! Mama! Answer me!"

His blood was sticking to my palm. Making my breath instantly heavy and unwary. A paled face and eyes that still could not believe what I was seeing right now.

Who is?! Who would dare to do this?!

“ARE YOU HERE?! GET OUT YOU AND FIGHT ME!” I try to look around. Aura came out of my body and started filling this room quickly.

"Iraya, calm yourself. Your mother ... is gone."

Impaled. My eyes widened to hear it.

Cecilia's words seemed to be a whip that brought me back to the real world. And of course the person who did it is no longer here.

Both palms are dirty because of the blood that comes out a lot from the mother's body from earlier. Feeling her cold body, made me unable to hold it anymore.

I let out my voice as loud as possible.

Angry, sad, and confused all become one. Then I screamed. Let out all the chaotic feelings that can no longer be contained. A loud cry is the only sound in my house tonight.

For now, at least for tonight, let me be a weak little boy who can only cry over his mother's death.

All the memories with Mom flashed like a quick movie piece in my head. I screamed and cried like a baby. At least let me be like this tonight.

Because after this I promise, from the bottom of my heart the deepest I promise. The man who did this, I'm gonna kill that man.

Seriate