Chapter 11: Abduction (1)

“…I’m so tired…”

“But today’s schedule is all done~ Good work~”

On the way out from the central district of Gehenna to the outskirts, I was chatting with my senior in the vehicle as we moved to the outskirts of Gehenna.

The schedule in Gehenna was actually Seia-sama’s work, and I didn’t do anything special other than guarding Seia-sama, but apart from that, there were one or two minor skirmishes with Sukeban.

Fortunately, I responded with the Prefect Team members, so it wasn’t particularly overwhelming, but being tired is being tired.

“The one who really worked hard was Seia-sama. I was only able to follow the conversation…”

“Don’t say that. Just as each object has its own use and each piece fits into a puzzle, it’s just that each person has their own field.”

The meeting that started after the tour of Gehenna was… It was a meeting where difficult words were exchanged as if proving why high-ranking people are high-ranking people,

so I could only understand the contents of the story without having time to think.

Perhaps it was because it contained a lot of political content, I thought I wasn’t particularly bad at thinking, but I didn’t want to understand that I was completely hopeless in politics like this.

“By the way, the General Student Council President, she’s always extraordinary. She always brings new solutions that are unexpectedly effective.”

I was sitting next to Seia-sama, wrapping Seia-sama with one wing to protect her, and continuing minor escort duties inside the vehicle.

At first, Seia-sama seemed to be embarrassed, but now she seems to have gotten used to it, and she sips black tea with her small mouth without saying anything special,

and with one hand, she is reading the documents prepared through this meeting.

She sometimes glances this way, so it seems that she’s still a little concerned. But what can I do? She’ll have to get used to this escort in the future, since the defense method I’m most confident in using is my wings.

-Screech-

“S… Senpai? Suddenly, what…”

For the first time in a short period of time, I experienced a sudden stop while riding in a vehicle driven by my senior. Seia-sama… Fortunately, the teacup was empty, so fortunately, there were no burns.

“Sora… In front…”

“Sigh… It’s annoying, Sukeban. I’ll clear them up for a moment… Senpai! Get out!”

Beyond the front windshield of the vehicle, I saw Sukeban wearing helmets, the Helmet Gang, aiming an anti-tank gun. In this situation, action must be quick.

I shout to my senior and urgently pick up Seia-sama, kick the car door from inside the vehicle, blow it open, and jump out.

The senior also took her personal firearm and the weapon case that was in the front seat and escaped from the vehicle.

The vehicle… It looks like we’ll have to walk back to Trinity.

By the way, do these crazy Sukeban know who’s riding in this? An anti-tank gun on the first encounter? No, would Sukeban waste anti-tank guns like that?

Unless it’s a fairly large-scale Sukeban, they can’t waste such anti-tank equipment like this.

It’s expensive, and it’s difficult to deal with the aftermath due to the noise, so unless they can buy some time against the armed group of the school, in Gehenna’s case, the Prefect Team, they won’t use that.

I’m in real trouble….

Gehenna, ????

“Phew… Leader… We succeeded in this request, but… let’s not accept this kind of thing from now on… It’s definitely lucrative, but, Leader…

I haven’t seen anything like that since the Prefect Team leader? No, it wasn’t like the Prefect Team leader, but still, what kind of situation is it to rampage even after being hit directly by two anti-tank guns….”

“Yeah… After this is over, let’s get out of Gehenna. Even if it’s another academy, our scale is now enough to rampage.”

The surprise attack itself was successful. I hit the front with an anti-tank gun to take away the means of transportation, pushed with numbers, and pushed with firepower,

so I succeeded in quickly subduing one of the two people other than the target… But the remaining one… That damn big-winged b*tch wasn’t easy.

Wings, holding our target in her arms and blocking our attacks with the other one, subduing one person at a time steadily, it was like the main character of an action movie rampaging.

But even such a skilled person couldn’t avoid an anti-tank gun while holding a dead weight in her arms.

In fact, just surviving one shot is proof of having monstrous toughness, but she rampaged even more after being hit by the second shot,

and after all the ammunition was exhausted, she continued with hand-to-hand combat, and only after she finally ran out of strength and sat down could we secure the target.

By that point, the target was already unconscious, so transportation was easy, but that b*tch, who was still conscious even though she couldn’t move, only had a revolver…

How many people did she knock down… If possible, let’s not go to Trinity.

“So, how’s the target, that fox-eared sissy?”

“She’s still sleeping soundly. She’s restrained with handcuffs, so there’s no need to worry. She won’t wake up before the clients arrive.”

Yes, our clients, the guys who introduced themselves as Kaiser Guild, mercenary brokers, came and supported us with all the equipment, and when they asked us to kidnap a Trinity big shot,

I was going to refuse, but I was tempted by the amount of the request and the fact that I could take all the equipment.

All that’s left is to guard this place until the clients arrive. It was said that it would take about 2 days? Adults are really busy. Well, the size we’ve grown so far is for this, this moment.

By now, various small and medium-sized helmet gangs under our command would be rampaging throughout Gehenna.

In this back alley of Gehenna, we were on the large side, but in the end, we were just a simple helmet gang. The fact that we grew to this extent in an instant was thanks to those client gentlemen, so I might be a little grateful.

“Damn it…”

I’m now lying in the emergency room of Gehenna’s Emergency Medicine Department. The senior who was with me all the time… was still unconscious.

I somehow managed to maintain my sanity and… I was able to get help from the Emergency Medicine Department.

Yes, the conclusion is that I lost. Even Seia-sama was kidnapped.

If the Prefect Team’s vehicle hadn’t arrived just before Seia-sama, the senior, and I were kidnapped, the equipment, the senior, and I would all be lying in a Sukeban’s hideout somewhere, I don’t even know where…

Sigh… It’s not even funny.

“…Sorry, this is our mistake. We should have finished the background check a little faster…”

“So… Who are those guys? Some kind of huge underworld criminal organization? Or some kind of large-scale mercenary group?”

“Guragura Helmet Gang… It’s a Sukeban group that’s among the top three in terms of scale within Gehenna…

Recently, their size has grown rapidly and their equipment has improved, so we were conducting a background check, but we caused damage… I apologize.”

Sorasaki Hina, the Prefect Team leader, bows her head and apologizes to me. She might feel a little unfair in her position, but… this is a disaster in many ways.

[Sigh… This is really…]

A familiar voice from the terminal, Nagisa-sama’s voice is heard.

“This is clearly a thoroughly planned act. It’s strange that the situation is so favorable to the other side.”

Ako, the chief administrative officer, presents the data to me,

the Prefect Team leader, and the terminal connected to Nagisa-sama so that it can be seen on the camera of the terminal, on a small table placed next to the emergency room bed.

The content of the data was… that the number of violations of school rules and disturbances by the Helmet Gang and Sukeban, which had decreased sharply recently,

returned to normal at the same time as we were attacked, or rather, increased significantly.

It’s probably to delay the Prefect Team’s support to us and to maintain this state even after this to hide their hideout and hide the truth.

[…Sora-san… I’m sorry. It seems like I’ll be asking you to do something unreasonable. The Justice Realization Committee cannot provide support at this time.]

I understand. The moment the Justice Realization Committee steps in, the fact that the Trinity student council president was kidnapped in Gehenna,

an official public affair of Trinity, will be revealed to the general students, and the possibility will greatly increase.

The moment the Justice Realization Committee personnel are accompanied, information is bound to leak out.

Unlike the Prefect Team, the Justice Realization Committee was keeping the Eden Treaty matter confidential except for the executives.

And the fact that this fact is known to the general students means that after investing a long time,

we finally managed to downgrade the image of Gehenna within Trinity from an unparalleled enemy to just a bad-tempered, dirty horned person…

If one of the top three leaders of Trinity was harmed here, it means that the long-standing effort, the Eden Treaty, could completely collapse. Therefore, the Justice Realization Committee cannot provide support.

“Sorry, our Prefect Team can’t provide much help either…”

The Prefect Team leader said… The crime rate in Gehenna, which has jumped far higher than usual, and just suppressing and organizing this is a situation where the Prefect Team is fighting quite hard.

In addition, the relationship between the Prefect Team and Pandemonium Society, diplomatic issues, as a matter of confidentiality, it is judged that it is necessary to go through a meeting with Pandemonium Society,

so it seems that it is a matter that is a great burden for the Prefect Team to move independently, so support forces are likely to be delayed or difficult to expect.

In other words… the number of people who can move is… just me… It’s really hopeless…

Gehenna, Prefect Team Armor

As soon as the next morning dawned, I locked myself in the Prefect Team’s armory. I endure injuries with first aid and painkillers.

-Clack, clack-

I take slug rounds to use in the Benelli borrowed from the senior who woke up late, large-caliber rounds to use in my Daedalus, and even a 5-round large-caliber speed reloader that fits Daedalus.

The means that can be used are limited. The number of people who can move is also virtually only me.

Although there is support from the Prefect Team, it was a situation where it was difficult to expect Prefect Team members to directly attach themselves.

-Clack, click-

“It’s 7.62mm. Since this is our mistake, I’ll support you as much as I can. I’m still continuing the background check, so wait a minute….”

The Prefect Team leader handed me a large amount of bullets of the caliber I had requested earlier. I store them separately in the empty space on the side of the weapon case.

I haven’t even found out about their home base yet, but I have to go out first. The Prefect Team’s intelligence unit is still continuing the background check.

I… This time, I’m a little… no, very angry. I don’t intend to lose my temper and rampage like before. Keep your head cool… Let’s make sure of the target to aim the knife, the gun at.

First… If I shove a Benelli’s muzzle into the forehead of a couple of guys, I’m sure I’ll be able to find out about their hideout, right?

No, the Prefect Team’s intelligence unit isn’t stupid, so if they could find out this much, the intelligence unit would have already reported it. It won’t be easy unless I rob some large-scale Sukeban.

Well… Yes, I remember what I said then. Taste the justified anger… You damn social misfits….

Trinity, Tea Party Filius Faction Leader’s Office

-Bang-

“Nagi-chan… Seia-chan didn’t come to school today, something happened… right?”

Mika-san opens the door of the office as if it will break. Considering her strength, that must be her controlling her strength as much as possible.

Mika-san… started asking about Seia-san not coming today without any contact.

“Mika-san, Seia-san is said to be bedridden with a cold due to yesterday’s hectic schedule. Please calm down. I have separately attached Sora-san as a nurse, so there will be no problem.”

I respond to Mika-san with a lie. I’ve already used the method of turning a lie into the truth late in politics so much that I’m called a master.

But I never thought that the day would come when I would use this on Mika-san. If I tell her the truth….

If I tell Mika-san the fact that Seia-san was kidnapped…. She would probably gather her own Praetorian Guard without thinking about the pros and cons and go on an expedition to Gehenna.

She would probably be able to grasp even the relatively moderate people within the Pater faction under the ideology that the compatriots of Trinity were touched, and it would not be difficult to create public opinion to recklessly push Gehenna.

…I was already prepared.

I thought that something like this would happen once when I was promoting the Eden Treaty.

But… the target should have been me. That’s why I put all my strength into the Eden Treaty as soon as my host term came this time. The most troublesome thing in making the Eden Treaty null and void should have been me.

But… Is it that a carefully built tower, a tower with a solid foundation, can be brought down by touching only the foundation, not the top?

If only the perception of Gehenna, which was gradually improving, is destroyed, this treaty will collapse.

That’s why the General Student Council President, I, all the limbs that I can move, put so much effort into purifying and maintaining the perception of Gehenna…

It can’t collapse like this. Yes, I have to believe. I have to do my best to assist. Although the encounter was short, I can trust her.

She is, at least since recently, sincere about this Eden Treaty. And above all…. I, Seia-san, chose her, didn’t I? So she will do it. The person chosen by my friend, the wisest in this Tea Party, will do it.

So, Sora-san… If possible, quickly… Seia-san… No… Please save our friend… Please…