Do You Think You Can Run After Reincarnating, Nii-san?

◆ Ruby ◆

"Wow! It wasn't Ketsey!? Say it! We used to have one too!"

One?

Did you say one, Ketsey?

I glanced up at Beryl's face, but I didn't even care.

Besides, I stick my hand in my shirt.

From there, I pulled out the tail that was wrapped around my hips.

"There it is! Ya ~ n, blockage ~"

The moment you hold your tail rampantly, you feel paralyzed through your spine.

"Wha!?

"Oops! It rang. It rang!

Shards laughed, and Beryl grabbed and rubbed my tail hard.

Each time, against my will, I say from my throat, "Holy shit!" or "Wha!" However, the cat-like ringing (...) leaks.

It brought back old memories.

Thus, in the same way, I remembered when my ears and tails were entertained by the bullies.

"This guy's gonna ring. - Whoa!

"I knew it was a cat, cat!

'Look, more ringing, catwoman!

When I noticed, my vision was blurred.

Spilled tears fall to the ground in a flabby manner.

That in itself is pitiful.

I regret it.

I don't want to be like this, so I am.

Yet...!

"Hey, try ringing more."

Beryl whispered as she breathed in her ears more into the cat.

"Nah, come on. Look, it's almost..."

"Ugh, agu..."

Beryl's hand strokes my throat, as she does to the cat.

The unpleasant pleasure of attacking seemed to stick.

You're not a person.

You're a beast.

He was dead like garbage in an alley, like those two guys.

Me, too. Is that it?

There's no one to look at.

I can't even get a decent grave made,

eaten by rats and gathered by maggots,

There's no such thing as human dignity.

Is such a worthless thing my last resort?

"Ugh... agh...!

In tears, the body I saw on that rainy day comes back to life.

Eventually, the end of my path will come back to me.

To deny it, the path that has been followed so far is resurrected.

All of it, in pitiful tears, stains the ground and disappears.

I don't like it.

Oh, no.

No!

That's all!

"............ no,... no,... ahhh!!!

I screamed to squeeze it out, at that moment.

The world blacked out.

Stun?

No, you're not.

I didn't even close my lid.

This is true darkness.

A world that blocked light.

This is the world I used to watch when I started training at Jijii's.

I inadvertently activated [a single realm].

Usually, I make myself visible from the inside of the membrane.

But this is what happens if you're not aware of it.

In this state, there is no idea what is going on outside, but on the other hand, there is no leakage of any information from the inside (over here).

I noticed the weight of Beryl disappearing from my back.

You were so close?

Usually, if it was so tight, it would get caught inside the membrane.

It felt like I'd played everything but myself.

Could it be...

If it's in this state, Beryl won't even detect it...?

I don't know how Beryl detects me for being transparent.

I don't know, but I'm guessing you're sensing some kind of information that I'm sending out.

However, in this completely blocked state, any information that comes out of me is blocked by the peripheral membrane and does not leak outside at all.

But instead...

"... ugh, wow...!

Shit, I'm already here.

Long time no see.

My hands and feet tremble.

My throat hurts.

Makes me want to scream out without meaning.

No one.

Nothing.

It's like...

It's like an alley on that rainy day...

I didn't like this complete darkness.

If it was a little dark, I could just feel a little nasty, but I couldn't just do this dark.

I can only stand about ten seconds at most.

More than that, I'm going crazy.

I want to disarm it now.

I want the light back.

But now...

I bit my fear to death.

Reminds me of the situation around me.

I just can't see.

Don't be afraid.

The world is right there.

I crawled and moved.

Proceed with checking the ground one by one.

Distracted, I wasn't going to know which was up there or which was down there.

... Are you okay?

If we get this far, we'll be fine, right?

Ugh.

No, it's the limit.

I can see my surroundings now.

Patience your desire to breathe relief and check right behind you.

Beryl just glanced around, and now she just caught my eye.

I try to roll and distance myself.

... I knew it.

In that state, that woman can't capture my position......!

I mean, that ability to detect is due to some kind of supersensation.

By doing so, it senses some kind of information that emits even if it is transparent.

What are they sensing?

We don't have that many choices.

"Oh, hey?

Beryl laughed as she looked at me.

"Aren't you glad you didn't run away more? I lost sight of you because of you."

You fool...!

I held back my head, which was about to boil instantly.

Not if you're being incited.

We know it won't last long, and that's what Beryl declared.

Even if I hide again, I can't expect Beryl to go somewhere looking for me I lost.

"No, I'm suddenly disappeared and surprised! But next time, if you can't move properly, you'll be fine!"

With Beryl's palm, the blue flame swells big and big.

Again, if we go into complete blockade, we'll be able to do this temporarily.

But what's next?

Completely blocked is not a hand that can be used again and again.

If I'd been back in that darkness frequently, my head would have worked out before the flames burned me.

I have no hands.

At the next moment, there's nowhere else to go to completely overdo that blue flame that will burst.

If this is the case, you shouldn't have come alone.

Oh, my God, I don't care what you think.

It was a guy called the Later Festival.

"I'll play with you later, kitten."

A blue flame swollen up against me...

On the brink.

"Chip, that's a good place..."

Beryl groaned so furiously that she saw the entrance to the room.

What the fuck?

Hey, what's up?

I frowned, right after that.

- Gashan, Gashan, Gashan, Gashan.

I can hear that noise coming from the entrance.

... No way...

"Oh no more, uuch -!!"

It felt exactly, reflexive.

Beryl turns the blue flame aiming in the direction of the impending footsteps.

I made sure to block the entrance, and the flaming wall ran.

Even burn out the air, blue fireworks.

Heat waves even reach me away and burn my skin.

Every one of those sparks was like a fire (willowhisp).

The flames of resentment that make everything you touch rot.

That.

In the middle.

Gawayne with his armor pierces me.

"- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!!!

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◆ Gawain ◆

Hot.

I was supposed to be protected by the junction, but I felt hot.

I felt my life shredded.

My soul is burning.

It is turned into a corner from the edge and scattered into the air.

Still...

He said we should move on.

Something in me.

Something's behind me.

To help?

- No.

To save?

- No.

To protect you?

- No.

So, what's it for?

- I don't know.

There's only one thing I know.

Now I'm angry.

I'm annoyed.

When I reached out to Bergson...

When they rejected me unilaterally...

That there was a definite arrogance in me.

At that moment, I saw her as a 'poor weak man to help', not a 'classmate whose horse doesn't fit'.

It's not just a denial of a human being who's never had anything to do with me, Ruby Bergson.

For the last two and a half years.

Two and a half years of sharpening each other's sneezes, even though we were fighting each other.

We explored strategies, strained measures, and earnestly snatched away a battle that comes every six months - me and her for two and a half years.

- I denied it.

That's what made me angry.

I was so annoyed that I wanted to go back in time and kill him.

So...

This is just eight hits.

Beat this unparalleled frustration on enemies just in place.

That's just it.

It's a completely barbaric act, even for chivalry.

Hence.

I never want to help Bergson!

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!!!

My body passed through the blue flaming wall.

Keep the hot and melting armor in its original form with [inflexible pillar stone].

That's how I ran towards Beryl, keeping my whole body glowing red.

Such a high firepower flame burns up to itself when used at close range.

I'm not afraid of anything as long as I'm flesh-compulsive!

Beryl retreated back and tried to distance herself, obnoxiously distorting her face.

I don't have mobility.

If they get away with it, there's no reason to catch up.

... then.

You're not supposed to have measures in place?

From the floor at Beryl's feet, something like a red, shining tentacle stretched out.

The identity is the liquefied metal I snuck underneath the floor.

Broiled by blue flames, it remains red-hot.

It wrapped around Beryl's legs and immediately returned to the solid.

- - Jiuuuuuuuuuuuu!!

"Ahhh... ahhh!?!?

I can play the sound of burning and screaming.

Let's get hot.

Have you finally thought about it?

That is the violence you are using......!!

While the same heat burns her whole body, I try to pack the distance from Beryl.

"Kon's ooh...... Udo's Oki is aahhhh!!!

But before that, I'll run a blue flaming wall like Beryl will get rid of me.

Is there enough spiritual power left to poke it out again?

The red-hot armor cooled to the air and gradually returned to dull.

For one thing, I was able to block between you and Beryl.

Unless this wall that you created disappears, you can't even come with your hands over there.

I approached Bergson.

So...

It's the first time I've noticed it.

Bergson's head.

Usually on the head hiding with a big hat.

I had ears.

Big, cat-like ears.

"Ah... mi, don't look!!

Bergson also finally realizes what I'm seeing and holds his ears with both hands.

But just hide your head and don't hide your ass.

The elongated tail extends from the waist.

No way......

Ketsey?

The moment I understood that...

That rainy day came back to me.

"- Yes."

I can't stand it.

Out the back of my throat, overflowing.

"Ha, ha!! Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!

The laughter is unstoppable from the bottom of my belly.

I haven't laughed like this in years.

Oh...... well.

Is that what you mean?

Is this the case?

Ha, ha!!

Can't help laughing, or so much!

"... hey, what the...! Is that so crazy......!?

Ruby Bergson stares up at me laughing.

No, I denied it.

I told him with a bite of laughter.

"How dare you let people's favors get in the way then?"

"What?... was that earlier?

"No. Because of you, I lost a slice of bread."

- Huh?

and.

There was confusion in Bergson's eyes.

But right after.

He opened his eyes wide as he watched my face.

"Whoa, you... then... then!?

"Hmm. Did you remember? Well, either way."

Childhood days.

Before enrolling in college.

We only saw each other once that rainy day.

We didn't even know each other's names.

My identity, my position, everything was far apart.

Once we meet, it's a pattern close to a miracle.

That's how we're going to meet again.

- Damn, there was a corrupt connection.

Bergson says with a bitter look.

"... that's why I didn't care from the beginning."

"Each other."

"I'm not bad."

"It's mutual, too."

"... then leave me alone. I let your favor go, didn't I?

"I can't do that."

Then the words came out.

As unexpected as I am.

Moment - I understood.

Why couldn't I leave this woman alone?

That 's--

"Why not?

Bergson turns his suspiciously colored eyes to me.

That rainy day.

I glanced up at me, in this eye... and I saw something I didn't have.

Strength, should we call it?

Something like a core.

Define who you are, what you will never shake.

I saw it in her eyes.

So, well, in short...

I was unconscious then...

I was so impressed with Bergson's eyes.

…………

"Hey, do something. Why are you so relieved?"

I couldn't stand it, I turned away.

"... I don't know. Think for yourself."

"Huh?"

What a humiliating fact.

I was impressed by Ruby Bergson.

A disgrace to the last generation.

I never speak of this, and I just have to take it to the grave.

I'm sorry if they ripped the five bodies apart, not to mention telling the shooter.

I cleverly slipped my gaze and offered my hand to Bergson as he sat back.

"Give me a hand, Ruby Bergson. Beryl is in my own hands."

The hand I offered wasn't in front of Bergson's face.

It was pointing about over its head.

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◆ Ruby ◆

I was bewildered by the hand offered to me at a different height.

Where are you offering it, Koz?

What's wrong with your eyes?

But - I noticed right away.

I noticed.

The hand.

They're offering me heights when I get up.

The moment I understood, I remembered Jizzi - when I met Josea Bergson.

He was a mountain general in a slum. When that jizzy came to me to solicit.

I didn't take anyone's hand, and I said no.

Then Jijii laughed with her nose and gave it back.

"Idiot. I'll take your hand. Use me on your own."

... Oh, yeah.

How long do I sit around?

How long do you dress like such a pathetic, pitiful, weak girl?

I don't need anyone's help.

But.

I can lend someone a hand, and I can get that in return.

Yes, this is neither sympathy nor kindness.

It's not that uncertain.

This is - this is a deal.

"... man. Shh, shh."

That's what I'm saying.

I got up myself.

"I can't rely on you alone, I'll help you."

And hold Gawain's hand, which was offered in just the right position, vigorously.

Then Gawayne gripped back with more force than that.

- Ugh!!

"That hurts!?

"Hmm. That's my win."

"What are you fighting for!

Let go of my hand in a hurry.

You're not fighting a woman with a grip.

No or compassion?

... No, don't you?

No, I don't think so.

Between me and him, there can't be compassion.

Ever since we met, he didn't care.

But I'm only going to truce you now.

There's one guy who doesn't care much more than he does -!!

"I'm gonna smash you."

"Whatever."

We're disappearing from the wall of flames.

Beyond that, I looked out for Beryl Eitkin.