The Crisis World XX

Chap. 72: Oita-san's Small Request to Ryuzaki

Herlin who initially came to Iraya's house to tell Iraya's late return to her mother, was surprised by the presence of a small child and also Cecilia who was not in Iraya's body.

In addition to the presence of the two of them, another surprise came from her mother Iraya herself. He hears from Cecilia that Iraya's mother is dead and Iraya doesn't even talk to him.

After a moment of contemplation and silence, finally Herlin could come back strong and start listening to Iraya's plan which turned out to be to insert Cecilia into Herlin's body.

Although Cecilia managed to get inside Herlin's body, but the auras of the two of them were not suitable so Herlin was forced to fight without her aura. Therefore he brought the sword Tetsu as his temporary weapon at this time to later save Iraya.

After everything was ready, Herlin made his way to Haiiro Cafe to meet Oita-san. Telling him about the plan Iraya made.

Night had arrived and Herlin had been at the door of the Haiiro Cafe that was already close. He then went inside and rang the entrance bell into the cafe. Inside the atmosphere was quiet and Herlin also saw Yuuki-san who was wiping the empty tables and was preparing to go home.

"Herlin-chan is? What are you doing here? The cafe's closing."

"I'm looking for Oita-san, is she in her room?"

"He's out now."

"Then I'll wait for him here until he comes back."

Herlin headed to one of the tables that Yuuki-san had cleaned and then sat down on her seat. The confused Yuuki-san looked at Herlin's stubbornness then tilted her head. Yuuki-san then realized that Herlin was carrying a sword on her back complete with a sheath.

"Herlin-chan, that sword ...."

"Ah this, this belongs to Iraya. He wasn't wearing it, so I took him."

"Oh, yeah. Then wait here for a second, yeah."

"All right."

Yuuki-san then goes to the kitchen and leaves Herlin alone here. The current atmosphere was so quiet that he could even hear the sound of the wind blowing. But he was suddenly startled by a voice inside his head.

"Are you thinking about something?"

"Who?!"

Herlin instantly became alert as he heard someone and subconsciously focused his aura. Moments after focusing his aura, Herlin instantly felt an overwhelming hot sensation throughout his body that made him collapse on the ground.

"Akkhh …!!"

"Herlin-chan, are you okay?"

The sound of Yuuki-san's cry resuscitated Herlin from her pain. He realized that he now had something in his body and was forbidden to focus his aura.

He slowly unfolded the focus of his aura and slowly the pain disappeared. After completely disappearing, Herlin then sat down again and acted as usual again despite still being a little breathless.

"What happened to your reaction? Isn't your surprised reaction a little overwhelming?" ask Cecilia.

"I'm still not used to it, I'm sorry if I look like a fool just now."

"Ahahaha .. You know it!"

Herlin was really irritated right now. He thought how troublesome Iraya must be with this annoying creature at all times. But after a while, Herlin won himself over and tried not to look irritated anymore. Cecilia realized that and praised how Herlin controlled her emotions.

"You're pretty good at regulating your emotions, too. That's something I should praise, you know."

"How do you know I'm controlling my anger?"

"You quickly normalize your once irregular breathing, you also relax your muscles that were initially tense with anger. So naturally I guess if you have good stamina because not much energy is wasted. Hah ... If only Iraya could be as calm as you."

"You can feel everything?"

"Hn? Sure oes. At the moment we are sharing our bodies. What you're feeling, I can feel it too."

"Body sharing, yes …?"

"What's wrong? You got a problem with that?"

"No, there's no. I just feel like my privacy is getting a little compromised."

As the two of them were having a conversation, Yuuki-san suddenly came while carrying a cup of hot coffee. He then placed it on Herlin's desk.

"Herlin-chan, did you scream?"

"Yes, I was just surprised by something. That's why I scream."

"Shocked?"

Yuuki-san tilted her head in confusion. Unlike Herlin who casually sipped the hot coffee without thinking that there was something strange about his words just now. After one gulp, Herlin then asked again.

"Then what about Oita-san? When will he arrive?"

"In that case, he told you not to wait for him. There's still some business he needs to finish, so he's not coming home tonight."

"Tonight not go home …?"

After hearing that, Herlin was a little disappointed that he could not carry out his plan as quickly as he thought. This also made her confused by the things she would do while waiting for Oita-san.

"How about starting tomorrow we practice your sword technique?"

That's a great idea from Cecilia. Herlin also realized that he could not delay too long about his training. Herlin then nodded his head and stood up from his seat.

"All right then."

"Eh? Herlin-chan, are you talking about something?"

"none. For now I'll go home and rest first, tomorrow I'll do the exercises."

"Exercise?! What about your wound?"

Herlin passed by Yuuki-san who asked without answering her. But when he was already in front of the Cafe exit, Herlin turned around and faced Yuuki-san.

"Hn?"

Herlin then undressed slightly until his stomach became visible and showed that the scar on his left waist had disappeared. All there was right now was Herlin's beautiful smooth skin with no scars at all.

"I'm fine, Yuuki-san."

Herlin also exits the Cafe leaving Yuuki-san who is still confused by his behavior.

"You're getting more expression, huh, Herlin-chan," Yuuki-san muttered with a smile at the end of her sentence.

**

Meanwhile just a moment ago, when Herlin had just come out of Haiiro Cafe to go to Iraya's house. Oita-san then took the phone from inside her shirt pocket.

"Well .., time to work."

Oita-san called a contact whom she rarely called. But even so, after waiting for a while finally the call was connected.

"What do you need to do to call me, Oita?"

A familiar voice to him as he had just met him not too long ago, was during the attack on the laboratory of Ayakashi Corp.

"I need your help again, Ryuzaki."

"Need my help? Do you think getting help from the Red Flame organization is as easy as opening your Cafe doors?"

"I know that, which is why I'm going to talk to you about this. Are you in your office right now?"

"Yes, I'm here."

"What time is it?"

When asking about the clock, Oita-san also glanced towards the wall clock attached to the wall of her room which showed seven o'clock at night. But he kept asking Ryuzaki about it.

"Hour? It's seven o'clock, so why?"

"I'll be there in an hour. Wait there."

"One hour? You're in Kyoto now, right? Do you think you can cross five hundred kilometers in just one hour?"

A grin and grin were created from Oita-san's mouth. That gasp of breath was heard on Ryuzaki's phone which made him know that Oita-san was currently laughing.

"What's so funny?"

"Have you forgotten who you're talking to now?"

"Oi! Don't som—"

While Ryuzaki was still talking, Oita-san immediately hung up on him because he knew the next thing he heard was a noisy chatter from Ryuzaki, so he immediately closed it.

Oita-san then put her phone back in her pocket and will be leaving for Tokyo soon. As he opens the door of his room, he suddenly comes face to face with Yuuki-san who is taking orders from her customers.

"Oh sorry, Oita-san."

"Ah, it's okay. By the way Yuuki-san …."

"Yes?"

"... I'll be gone for a minute, just call if anything happens."

"All right."

"Then I go first."

"Good way."

With a friendly smile that ended her conversation with Yuuki-san, Oita-san also walked out of Haiiro Cafe and walked into an alley that not many people passed by. After making sure no one saw her now, Oita-san put up the horses.

"Accept …."

Srrtt…

Oita-san sped off at high speed which made her previous footing crumble. Not even just its footing, but its cracks spread all the way to the wall and its gusts of wind made some objects like trash cans fall apart.

Oita-san keeps doing the same thing over and over again because this is the fastest way to get to Tokyo. He pulled out his phone and looked at the clock inside.

The digital clock on his HP shows the number seven past thirty-five minutes. That meant that half an hour had already passed from the beginning Oita-san walked, but even though half an hour had already passed, she was already three-quarters of the way up to Tokyo. This took much faster than he had expected.

Oita-san then paused for a moment to pay attention to the surroundings. Right now he was on an empty road that split the hills and ravines on his right and left.

He leaned his body on the shoulder of the road and then opened his HP just in case there were incoming messages from Yuuki-san, but it seemed like he had found none. He then closed his HP again and prepared to dart again.

"Maybe I'll surprise her when I get there sooner than I say. I wonder how he will express it."

Oita-san smiled to herself thinking about what expression Ryuzaki would have when he arrived sooner. It might be a surprised or perhaps arrogant expression, but Oita-san was definitely looking forward to it.

Oita-san was already preparing to dart again, but she suddenly felt a fairly strong aura approaching towards her slowly.

"Happer …. Hunger …."

The creature came out from behind the thick trees by the roadside. His large body was about four meters tall, walked on two legs, and carried a tree trunk with dried blood on its tip. His face was indeed human-like, but you could say he was the ugliest human in the world if he entered the human race.

"The Unseen's? No, he's not a ghost. If you want to call him a Beast, he is too similar to humans. So what do I call it?" Oita-san.

"Happer …. Hee's? Food …! Food!!"

The creature ran towards Oita-san who was in the middle of an empty road. Then hit him with a large log that he was carrying. But it can easily be avoided by Oita-san.

The creature continued to attack Oita-san with a barrage, but none of its attacks were hit. While dodging, he looked towards the surroundings and saw a signboard 'Heart! Accidents Often Occur'. He also saw a broken road barrier like the traces of someone's accident and his car fell into the ravine.

"So that's it." Oita-san realized something.

"You're the one who's been causing accidents around here a lot, huh? I got the right name for you."

Oita-san seemed not to respond seriously to the attack from the creature. He was busy with his own thoughts. The creature became annoyed at feeling being played with.

"Food!!!"

"Oh? You pissed?"

Buuum…

The creature smashed the wooden bar firmly vertically until it destroyed the road. But Oita-san easily dodged it and now instead stands on her wooden bar.

"I'm sorry, but it was too slow."

"Then—!"

The creature stopped his words as his body suddenly floated by itself as if it was being lifted up by something. His grip on the wooden trunk was also released. After being lifted up quite high from the ground, Oita-san then approached her.

"Your Name is the Monster Causing Accident. Hows it? Cool, right?"

"Hungary …."

"Hn? Is that all you can say? Yes whatever."

"Gaaakkhh …!!"

"I don't have time to deal with you."

Kreeks…

The creature was pressed to death by an invisible force belonging to Oita-san. So strong, the sound of cracked bones can be heard and a lot of blood comes out of his mouth until splashed onto Oita-san's shirt.

"Can't you see it? Something that strangled you to death? Of course, his name is also Invisible Hand."

After making sure the creature died, Oita-san then threw the creature into the abyss. He then patted his clothes that were affected by the splashes of blood of the creature earlier.

Kriiing…

Suddenly the phone rings. Oita-san picked her up and the one who called her was Yuuki-san.

"Hello …. Herlin-chan waiting for me? Just tell me I'm not coming home tonight, there's still something I have to take care of …. Okay …."

Oita-san then hung up and looked at the clock on her HP. And ten minutes had already passed as he defeated the monster and picked up the phone earlier.

"Damn it, I'll be there in over an hour."

While grumbling, Oita-san took a darting position and then drove at a high speed. Produces a big bang.

He was fast and chased by time. And now that Oita-san has arrived in Tokyo, she immediately heads to the Red Flame Dojo which is located in the middle of the city. This was a little troublesome because Oita-san had trouble finding a place to dart due to the crowds of people and also the buildings.

"Jeez this Tokyo .. The crowd really wasn't my taste."

Finally Oita-san decided to walk like an ordinary person in the middle of the Tokyo night crowd. After a while of walking, he finally arrived at the front gate of the Dojo.

Not wanting to attract attention, he jumped through the wall and was immediately in the middle of the dojo building. Because it was already night, so there were not many people here so Oita-san could move freely.

He rushes to Ryuzaki's office and meets him immediately. Upon entering, Oita-san greeted Ryuzaki who was waiting for him inside.

"Yo, Ryuzaki! Are you waiting for me?!"

But Ryuzaki who was sitting back relaxed did not return his greeting and instead looked towards the wall clock.

"Eight hours past ten minutes. You're ten minutes late."

"Not to pay attention to small details, you know."

Oita-san failed to get an expression of resentment from her prowess. That made him a little disappointed actually.

"So what do you want until you come all the way here? There's no way you just want to show off your speed, right?"

"Of course."

Oita-san then showed her sharp and serious eyes.

"I'm here to discuss with you."

"Hn?"

"You've heard it yourself, haven't you? I need your help again."

"You know it's not that easy to ask me for help."

"You may be right. Even though we had an agreement through the small fight of Iraya and Hayashi, I don't think it's enough to always ask for your help on what I'm going to do."

"You understand too. Then there's nothing to discuss anymore."

"But what if I make an interesting offer to you."

"Offer?"

"Right, I have information that might be useful to you."

"information? What kind of information do you mean?"

Oita-san took out a small grin that she did not show Ryuzaki, as if the plan she had prepared had caught him by now.

"Ayakashi Corp. did not just do three experiments, but four, namely Subject D."

Ryuzaki widened his eyes slightly. He became increasingly interested in the information that Oita-san was currently carrying.

"Whatchu mean? I've never heard of them doing the fourth experiment."

"I did too, but I got that information from my secret partner and I made sure that this information was genuine and not a lie."

"So you asked me to help you defeat Subject D? Don't you have that kid, that kid who's the host of Subject C."

Ryuzaki cannot tell if Iraya is being kidnapped by the Assassins. If he knows, it will be more difficult to invite him to work together because the risks faced will be greater.

"It's true that we have him, but his ability at the moment is not fully reliable. The child is new to this world."

"Despite that, I still can't help you."

"What?"

"In addition to the advantages I've gotten less attractive, there are a few more things that make me unable to help you right now."

"What's wrong?"

"Lately more and more The Beast—no, now it is difficult to call them Beasts again because of their increasingly strange form. I'll just call them 'monsters …."

"… Their current activities are more and more often attacking citizens. I don't know what's causing them to be aggressive like that."

"Monster …?"

Ryuzaki's story reminds Oita-san of a strange creature that attacked him while walking here. It turned out that their activity increased, so they came out of their nest and dared to attack me. Everything makes sense now Oita-san thought.

"What's wrong?"

"No, there's nothing."

"Then the outcome of this negotiation is clear, right? If that's all you want to say then you better just go home."

"Is there no other way?"

"Another way? Ah, ada. If you want to join the Red Flame members then I will think about it maybe. But I already know the answer."

Is correct. Oita-san will not be willing to join Red Flame no matter what. There seems to be no other choice for him this time.

He walked out of the Dojo and continued walking towards a small alley, leaning there for a while thinking about something.

"Damn Ryuzaki that! Yep, I guess there's no other choice. Looks like I'll be advancing on the mission this time."

Seriate