"Hey, hey... Arthas, what's the situation now? There's still some static. What's the situation like over there?" Kotori's voice kept ringing in his ear.
"Hey, hey... Answer me, Arthas." Kotori continued to shout.
"Kotori."
"Yeah, what's wrong?" Hearing Arthas's somewhat strange voice, Kotori asked with some surprise.
"Kotori, is only the communication connected?" Arthas continued to ask.
"Yes, only the communication is currently connected. As for the camera device, it seems to have suffered severe interference, so there's still no way to display an image."
Kotori on the other side answered honestly.
"Is that so? The image hasn't appeared yet, huh?"
Arthas said, letting out a long sigh of relief. It was good that the image hadn't appeared, which meant that what he had just done probably hadn't been discovered.
"What's going on, Arthas? What's the situation like now? Did you find the doll?"
"How should I say this?"
Looking at Origami Tobiichi, who was sitting in front of him silently adjusting her clothes, Arthas really didn't know what to say.
Was he supposed to say that he had almost lost control and almost slept with Origami Tobiichi, and now Origami Tobiichi, who had almost been slept with by him, was silently adjusting her clothes with a disappointed look?
"Ah, I don't know how to say it either. In short, I haven't found the rabbit doll."
Arthas said this, avoiding Kotori from asking any more strange questions, and decisively cut off the communication directly.
"Um... Sorry, Origami Tobiichi, are you alright?"
Reaching out his hand to the girl, the latter tilted her head very cutely, and then put her hand on top of his, seeming not to care at all about everything that Arthas had done a little while ago.
Just as Arthas was about to say something, suddenly.
The spacequake alarm sounded outside.
"An alarm...?"
The sudden sound made both of them slightly stunned. After a period of silence, Origami Tobiichi gently exhaled and pushed Arthas away, standing up.
"What do you intend to do?"
"Mobilize... What about you? Do you still want to stop me?"
Origami Tobiichi said coldly, staring fearlessly into Arthas's eyes.
"I've said so much, can't you understand my good intentions?"
The girl remained silent, and then, silently turned and left.
Left alone, Arthas could only sigh helplessly. Because Yoshino had left, he could freely search the room.
Soon, he discovered Yoshino's doll, and then carefully put it in his pocket.
"Great, I found the doll. Now I just need to find an opportunity to return it to Yoshino."
Thinking this, Arthas suddenly realized a problem.
"A spacequake... Could it be Yoshino?"
Frowning because of the alarm that was vibrating his eardrums, Arthas tightly gripped the doll in his pocket and quickly left Origami Tobiichi's house.
With difficulty, Yoshino opened her eyes. Her body trembled miserably.
At the same time that the feeling of dozing in the darkness suddenly disappeared.
Cold air brushed against her cheeks, and the scenery of the street flowed into her vision.
"Ah... Here..."
Yoshino looked around.
She didn't know where she was. It looked like she was in the middle of a street.
Only the area around Yoshino had disappeared as if an explosion had occurred.
And the cold rain was falling from the sky.
This was the sensation of manifesting in the world that she had experienced several times before.
The only difference was that her one and only friend wasn't on her left hand.
From the sky, she heard a voice she had heard before.
There, as Yoshino had expected, were several humans wearing mechanical armor floating in the air.
"Target confirmed. Everyone, begin the attack."
"Yes."
After such a simple and clear conversation, an extremely large amount of ammunition was fired at Yoshino from the humans' hands and feet.
Yoshino held her breath, stepped on the ground, and flew into the air.
In this way, in order to avoid the humans' attacks, she drew complex trajectories and fled.
"Don't let her escape!"
"Understood!"
Such a voice rang out from behind, and countless bullets were fired.
Each bullet possessed lethal power, a sure-kill blow.
Without an Astral Dress, it would be enough to kill Yoshino a thousand times over, an embodiment of malice and killing intent.
Why... Why were they attacking Yoshino? She didn't want to hurt anyone, she just wanted to take a good look at this world.
Although she had always been hated and resented, it was enough to just run away.
Yoshinon had always been with her, so it didn't matter.
But it was different now... Now, Yoshinon, who had always been with her, was gone.
Yoshinon was very strong and reliable, so it was enough to rely on him.
With him, there was nothing to fear. So Yoshino could calm down and not hurt other people.
But now... He wasn't there, he didn't exist. Yoshinon wasn't on her left hand.
But, now.
"No...!"
Yoshino felt a strong impact from behind, let out a short cry, and fell to the ground.
It wasn't an attack that penetrated her Astral Dress.
But it was a heavy blow that knocked Yoshino to the ground, even with the protection of her Astral Dress.
A sense of helplessness and terror spread through Yoshino's heart.
"Ugh, ah, ah... I can't anymore..."
Crying out, Yoshinon, where are you? Big brother, where are you? Yoshino is so scared.
Swish, swish. The raindrops were getting bigger.
"Alright, let's finish this in one go!"
At the same time that the female who seemed to be the captain spoke, the humans' weapons of disaster were all aimed at Yoshino.
And so, from there, the greatest killing intent to date took shape and poured down.
Just before it was about to hit. Yoshino raised her right hand high into the sky.
...And then.
"'Ice Puppet' 'Zadkiel'!!"
Accompanied by the name of disaster, she swung her hand down.
"Did we hit her!?"
Ryouko's voice, filled with excitement, was heard through the communicator.
Origami let out a long, thin breath, staring intently at the ground surrounded by smoke, not daring to be careless.
About ten minutes had passed since the alarm sounded and the evacuation of the residents had been completed.
Although she didn't know why Arthas hadn't appeared yet, this was a good opportunity, a perfect opportunity to eliminate the Spirit.
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