Chapter 134: Cannon Collapse (2)

In the first place that guy is not the last boss or the mastermind, he is the original protagonist. Even if I defeat him Remora’s invasion and Earth people becoming Monster Villains will not stop.

"...When Alter comes next, completely win and add him to this side’s force... or something?"

Not falling to darkness but rising to light, by adding Alter who is well-versed in Remora-side information as an ally I lead the Sacred to victory.

I see, a good plan. Except the point that I have no idea at all of a means to reach there.

In the first place I cannot think the Sacred will allow it, and Alter for his part seemed to hate the Calmate side like snakes and scorpions. Thinking that far I spit shit.

I cannot recall the reason he hated them at all. If I had properly remembered that it might have become a one-chance negotiation material...!

"At least be of use with knowledge, me..."

While letting out a sigh I stand, drop my shoulders and head outside the club room.

"Owa...!?"

"Uwa, t! Toto, sorry, are you fine Senju-senpai...!?"

The instant I tried to go out, Reiko who happened to be trying to enter the club room missed grabbing the door, pitched forward and slammed the top of her head into my chest.

"Aa, it does not particularly hurt so don’t mind it. Or rather it is rare you, alone in this kind of place."

We bumped in the club room right before the school raid, but that was lunch break. If she wants to organize photo data she can do it in her own room.

She seems to sometimes choose this place to meet Leas or Grace or them, but it is not a place you come alone after school.

"...If you say that Senju-senpai too. What are you doing in this kind of place."

"Ah..."

It was a boomerang, I involuntarily scratch my cheek.

"...Well I also just have things I want to think about alone. Even if I shut myself in the dorm no great plan comes out, well, to change my mood."

"What, then are you not the same as me."

Matching, huh, Reiko who laughs, her expression is enjoyable. But somehow more manufactured-smelling than usual.

What passes through my mind is the Monster Villain fight a little earlier. The figure of a junior looking at me and Gahel and worrying maybe this Monster Villain can also be saved.

"...I will at least listen to complaints."

At words I involuntarily put in my mouth that guy Reiko looked back this way with a blank face.

"Somehow rare... or rather, there is it not I will hear your consultation?"

"Well I am a no-good senpai. Even if consulted I do not seem able to properly put out an answer... but I can at least listen, and I will not spread it. If you do not need it I will just go home like this."

Yes, I cannot share this guy’s worries.

As long as I honestly think it does not matter whether some unknown someone becomes a monster or dies, as a consultation partner I fail.

But even so I can at least listen to the talk.

Even if I cannot solve everything, I might be able to become at least a help. I end up thinking that kind of thing.

"...Well then I will rely on senpai like a junior."

For an instant Reiko looked at me suspiciously, but immediately laughed and entered the club room.

Petan, I also sit facing the junior sitting in a chair. Positions are reversed from April, when I think that it is a little strange mood.

I who only had someone listen am now like this able to listen to a junior’s worries. Does it mean I have grown a little?

"...Since entering this school, things I can do increased quite a bit, me."

Saying that she clenches her right hand.

Like when Sacred Knuckle readies her iron gauntlets.

Is she recalling the power to beat down combatants and Monster Villains Earth humans cannot properly resist.

"Well I also cause trouble and fail a lot. But still, well, as a newcomer from April I think I am doing it well, right? I think that."

That is surely fact I think.

Actually the other Sacred obtained current power as a result of continuing training from long ago. Literally years differ.

But even so this guy while inferior is properly keeping up.

There is also that because she is Earth-origin she does not use magical power of light for life support like Calmate-origin people.

But more than that this guy has talent. Other Sacred became able to transform by receiving power and equipment from Princess Altina, yet this guy saw Saber fighting and became a Sacred in a form of resonating with remnants of light. She happened to get involved in a fight and obtained transformation ability.

If the original had been a proper transformation heroine thing, it feels like this guy would absolutely be the protagonist.

Experience is insufficient but specs alone are high, and unlike senpai she has not taken trauma. Deepening bonds with comrades, growing while facing everyone’s wounds. In that kind of work I think she can sufficiently play protagonist.

And now she is firmly accumulating experience she could not pile in the original. Growing, getting stronger. Far far more than the original.

"But when things I can do increased, things I cannot also catch my eye."

But that is logic that only works inside my head after all.

For Reiko living now that kind of thing is no comfort at all.

"I am properly doing things in the range I can do. Actually Lea-senpai also says I am doing well. ...But I end up thinking is this fine. Is there not a better way."

Because it is going well she wants to work harder.

Because she is doing it well she wants to save more.

That is surely natural for Reiko who resolved to fight thinking she wants to save someone.

"But even if I think I do not get it. Lea-senpai and Gure-senpai have cut it off as it cannot be helped so I cannot have them teach me either."

Saying that far Reiko cut her words.

If she talks this and that more it will become talk involving Monster Villains and Vigilantes, so she thought this is the limit of speaking while blurring toward me who is an ordinary person.

"Worrying is because you look to the future, and being painful is like growing pains. Apparently."

Therefore I desperately spin words inside me.

Is this fine? Is this kind of thing fine? While thinking that I cut it off that I do not have enough popularity to be disappointed even if I say something off the mark.

"What is that?"

"Niekawa told me. Escaping that pain is easy, stop worrying and go back to how it was. You do not want to take that kind of option, right? Also that."

Escaping worries is shit easy, just stop worrying.

Without packing dreams into an empty head, if you live days like routine work suffering is slight. At least you are released from worries like how is the Vigilante, how are the Sacred.

But. Because you cannot do that kind of thing you are lost.

"In the end both I and you have no choice but to keep worrying. Well if it is complaints I will listen when I have time, and if you need a hand with something call me. If I am unreliable then Leas or them. Even if you cannot throw away worries, even if an answer does not come out, it is far better than worrying alone and sinking."

Even if I cannot empathize with the worry, even if I cannot present a clear answer, those Sacred will not treat Reiko’s worries coldly.

Then occasionally vomit and deposit the luggage.

Of course this kind of thing is not a fundamental solution. If it were something where a fundamental solution is found that easily no one would get lost.

It is not found, but even so you want to find it, so you have no choice but to look forward while making do on the spot. ...Ah shit, I hate it. It is a pain and hard, I think why is there not an easier road.

"..."

"Oi... what is that eye."