Chapter 64: Get Set, Go! (3)

“…Just what happened!”

“…Haha…”

As soon as the borrowing things race was over, we headed to the joint medical headquarters.

The reason was Mika-senpai’s free fall from the stands.

Mika-senpai is tougher than me, so she was fine, but Seia-senpai and Nagisa-senpai couldn’t handle it and fainted during the fall, so Mika-senpai and I had to carry them separately when we reached the finish line.

“So…you free-fell from the stands…”

“Which floor?”

“Yeah! It was probably the top floor, right?”

Mika-senpai answered Serina-senpai’s short two-word question, which meant how many floors did they free-fall from to faint from shock during the free fall.

“…I thought why do people with strong bodies not take care of their bodies…but they’re just generally bold…”

“Haha…still, I’m tame compared to that…I’m sorry.”

I was about to say that I was tame compared to that…but Serina-senpai’s gaze became sharp, so I had to take back that word.

Serina-senpai and I have known each other well since middle school, a kind of close senior-junior relationship, but recently, we were downgraded to a level where we could barely contact each other.

If we didn’t have each other…no, if I didn’t have senpai, the only person I could properly talk to was Ichika-senpai, but it’s a relationship that has inevitably drifted apart.

What can I do?

We are in the busy Hospitaller Knights and Tea Party, so it’s strange if we have time, and even though I’m in a bodyguard position, there aren’t that many things that hurt my body.

In the meantime, the first thing I say when I meet her after a long time is that I jumped from the stands, which is far from the stadium, and free-fell to the stadium, and the two people who were dragged along fainted from shock,

so if I think about it one by one, I have nothing to say even if Serina-senpai scolds me.

No, I’m a little wronged.

I drew a note that I had to find three people…and the three people happened to be on the top floor of the stands, and it was my sister who picked them up and jumped.

If I were to complain about my injustice, it would be to my sister who would become the original owner of the reprimand I’m receiving now…um…let’s just take it…

In the end, Serina-senpai scolded me for a long time.

“Th-that…Se-Serina-chan…? It’s more my fault? Yeah?”

“…Sigh…yes…well…it was an unavoidable situation…but I’m a little upset about not showing your face for a long time and only bringing work…fufu…”

“Eek…”

So I had to listen to Serina-senpai’s lecture for a long time.

“Still…it’s nice to see you after a long time. See you later.”

“Yes, senpai.”

Well, what can I do?

After the lecture, she returned to her usual Serina-senpai…and we parted with a promise that we don’t know when it will be fulfilled, as we are both in busy positions.

-Munch munch…-

As soon as Seia-senpai and Nagisa-senpai woke up at the joint medical headquarters, we headed to a restaurant on the street where Sanhegyeong’s Xuanwu Sanghoe was located.

I ate takoyaki before the morning game started…but that was already digested after helping Hanekawa-senpai with her patrol and playing the game, and as a student in her growth period,

I got hungry as lunchtime approached, so I quietly followed.

It’s an excuse.

Honestly, recently…no, quite a while ago, the amount I eat is gradually increasing…I’m thinking a little myself…fortunately, I’m really sorry to Hanekawa-senpai, but this body doesn’t really gain weight like Haruna.

Still, just in case, I’ve been increasing the amount of exercise I hate so much, so I’m not really worried about gaining weight…but people are creatures that can fall into laziness at any time,

and I’m no exception, so the uncomfortable feeling that comes with the happiness from my mouth is hard to ignore even if I try to.

And I…in other words, as a high school student Yumetsubasa Sora, not as the Tea Party…I’m not very good at hiding my expressions.

“Huh? Sora-chan? Is there something you’re worried about?”

“Ahaha…no, not really…”

“Hmm~? You’re lying! Anyone can see that you’re hiding something!”

Ugh…Mika-senpai started questioning my expression first.

Mika-senpai is honestly at a level that is quite unique within the Tea Party when it comes to reading someone’s emotions or thoughts when dealing with them as a person to person,

so it was a natural course of action for me, who is not good at hiding my expressions.

“Ueeeh?”

“Hmm…certainly…it has increased…”

Suddenly, Nagisa-senpai gently pulled my cheek.

While pulling it, the words senpai said were enough to make me worry about it, and it was a natural flow to ask directly what had changed.

“Th…what do you mean…?”

“Pfft…you’ve gained a little weight.”

Shock, I’ve been taking care of myself quite diligently…but it seems that snacking on the way back after work has finally caused trouble.

The feeling that comes is obviously worry, it was a moment when I came to understand Hanekawa-senpai a little.

“Th…a lot…th…”

“Pfft…no, it’s not that much, and it looks good. Nagisa is joking, right?”

“Fufu…”

Damn it…I was fooled again.

Still, it seems to be true that I’ve gained weight, so it would be good to increase the amount of exercise a little from now on…excluding reducing the amount I eat…how dare you stop a high school girl’s snacking…

“Huh? Those people…”

“Oh my, it’s lunchtime, but they’re moving busily. Should we help too, Seia-san?”

“Let’s do that.”

A student wearing the executive committee’s name tag can be seen far away.

Iochi Mari, a child of the Sisterhood who I often met due to chapel classes, was here.

The number doesn’t end there, and Hayase-san, who I often owe a favor to at the Seminar, and Amau-san, who often appeared when talking about diplomatic issues with Gehenna, were also present.

All three were in high positions in the executive committee, so it was a conspicuous combination, but in fact, as long as they were wearing the executive committee’s name tag,

it’s not strange to be anywhere on this street where the Millennium Festival is in progress.

But Sensei was also attached to them, so I started to get interested.

That’s because when Sensei is involved, it usually leads to an incident, big or small, and this is because I have a thought in the corner of my head that I want to block the incident at the source or minimize its scope if possible.

It might be an overthinking to say that it’s something that Sensei is involved in, because he’s just a person who often helps students in normal times and doesn’t try to receive any compensation,

but it was even more so because I could see Valkyrie students and Hanekawa-senpai next to him.

“….So you saw a student with a box of supplies heading towards the underground entrance?”

“That’s right. I thought it was strange because he was struggling to carry a box full of metal, but he refused help. I was worried that he might get hurt, so I kept watching where he was going, so I’m sure.”

As I got closer, the content of the conversation started to be heard, and there was a person running a stall in the conversation, but it felt a little heavy to be just a question and investigation during patrol,

so it was a simple matter, but in my head, I was convinced that something unusual, unusual was going to happen.

“We calculated the quantity and list of supplies that were not returned after the game ended. The shot put box used in the shot put game and the hurdles used in the individual obstacle course…”

“The following students entered the stadium even though they were not players after the game was held. Kirino-san, do you recognize any of these faces?”

“Ah, this is the person! This student was the one who was moving the supplies earlier!”

“Combining the evidence, it seems that the student in this photo is secretly moving the supplies to the underground entrance of the stadium.”

How focused on the incident are they that they didn’t even notice us approaching, except for Sensei, who turned his eyes to this side because of the angle he was standing at, and Hanekawa-senpai, who has good senses.

“You’re working hard, everyone, but…isn’t it lunchtime? Did something happen?”

[Nagisa, welcome. Did you eat well?]

“Wow! Sensei! You look busy? And…Gehenna’s horn…no, Gehenna’s executive committee is also here…yeah, what’s going on?”

“Yes, Nagisa-san…no, everyone was together, and we were investigating because we saw a movement to steal the Millennium Festival’s supplies.”

It’s definitely a big deal, Millennium, the school in charge of this Millennium Festival, almost covered the supplies for this Millennium Festival, so there will be many expensive items or supplies with new technologies applied.

The financial damage will be significant…and if there is even a slight part that can be applied to combat, it’s already in front of my eyes that a mess will unfold in many ways, so I couldn’t help but cooperate since I heard it.

“The underground entrance of the Athletic Stadium? That place is small, so it’s an entrance that’s not used now, why would you try to pile up supplies in such a place?”

“Hmm…Hanekawa-senpai?”

“Yes, Sora-yang…it doesn’t seem like a simple thief.”

“What do you mean? Justice Realization Committee Vice-Chairman?”

Yes, the underground entrance of the Athletic Stadium is definitely small, and even though there is some space inside, there is only one properly open entrance due to the loading of other supplies,

so it’s not a good place to load something and steal the goods later.

In other words, it’s like showing the meaning of we’re going to hold a sit-in here, so the choice we’ll make next was fixed.

“Just by playing an active role in this festival that all media are paying attention to, you can become a hero who will go down in the history of the school,

and you can leave a message that will remain in the hearts of future generations.”

“In other words…”

As soon as I arrived at the narrow stadium underground entrance, I could hear voices from among the many supplies piled up far away.

Yes, I was already expecting it to some extent, but it was a moment when it became clear that they occupied this place and stole the supplies, not for the purpose of simply making a profit, but for another purpose.

“So, if you stage a protest here, the ripple effect will also…”

“So, so why did you gather all these expensive supplies and use them as a barricade?”

“Of course, it’s our long-cherished wish for a 3-day work week policy…wait, who are you?!”

It’s really a sitcom…because they were talking to each other, they didn’t even notice that I and the executive committee members were approaching, blatantly crossing the barricade.

“….You used all these expensive supplies as a barricade for such a reason?”

“E-executive committee members?! How?!”

When the mercenaries saw me, who came forward first, they were embarrassed, but only after seeing Hayase-yang’s executive committee name tag did they finally understand the situation.

It was an act that had no meaning because it was already too late, but it was clearly their struggle to overcome this embarrassing situation.

“It’s natural to stand out because students who are not players kept collecting supplies at the stadium.”

“Yeah! And if you’re wearing those work clothes, isn’t it like saying look at me? I wonder…ahaha☆ Did you really think it wouldn’t get caught?

It’s so funny! Yeah! Even I, who is a physical and reckless person, would have a better head than that?”

“Well, I guess that’s what you call not being smart. Foolish…and a 3-day work week…you’re lazy, don’t you have any sense of responsibility?

As much as you rest, there are people who work more than you. Pushing it on others for your own rest…I see, it’s contradictory.”

[Wow…haha…it doesn’t seem like a good choice to argue with those two…]

“Fufu…it’s quite useful to learn?”

“…Sigh…it seems like it would be more uncomfortable to argue than with the raccoons of the Pandemonium Society…to point out each and every one so blatantly…”

Wow, Mika-senpai and Seia-senpai’s deep sarcasm has begun.

Yes, I hate to admit it, but Trinity is a poisonous snake…recently, the internal atmosphere is gradually brightening, so it has decreased, but even if the toxicity has weakened, a poisonous snake doesn’t just become a snake, right?

Trinity’s unique way of hitting with words has begun.

Originally, Trinity’s unique way of hitting with words is a way of making each other angry by themselves, mixing in roundabout expressions and various figures of speech,

but I guess they didn’t feel the need to do that to these people who blatantly said they would commit terrorism and sit-ins at an event where almost all schools gather.

As such, even Nagisa-senpai, who always acted as a suppressor and stopped the two between them, was taking a stance of indifference this time.

Mika-senpai and Seia-senpai, who don’t have a suppressor, didn’t choose the boring option of braking themselves…and it worked quite effectively for them.

“E-everyone! Prepare for battle! Bring that too!!”

From behind them, many mercenary students, each holding their personal firearms, aim their guns at us, using the remaining supplies that made up the barricade as cover.

It’s not difficult to subdue them…but all of those are Millennium supplies, so I couldn’t run wild considering the financial loss.

Also, the words they said later, bring that too, I don’t know what it is, but at least against the Justice Realization Committee, the Prefect Team, and the armed groups of many small schools, it must be an unusual item to show such confidence.

It would be nice if they surrendered willingly, but that seems to be impossible.

“Ahaha☆ Millennium’s accounting-chan? And Nagi-chan and Seia-chan?”

“Ah…? Yes?”

“Please leave at least one person intact, Mika-san. And Sora-yang.”

Ah, so it’s going to flow like that…

As soon as Nagisa-senpai’s words were finished, Mika-senpai’s phantom was shot forward.

-Bang!-

What follows is a roar, Mika-senpai tears off the barricade in front, grabs the collar of the mercenary student hiding behind it, throws him over her shoulder…and slams him into the ground.

Of course, as the barricade made of supplies was torn off, some of the supplies were on the floor…oh…that must hurt…

“Uaaaaak! The supplies! Do you know how much those are worth?!”

“Don’t worry, it won’t be a big loss…”

Hayase-san’s scream and Seia-senpai’s moderate comfort can be heard from the side.

I understand Hayase-san’s scream roughly.

Just breaking normal supplies will make your head hurt, but Millennium’s items are all expensive, so it’s natural.

However, Seia-senpai’s comfort is not wrong either…creating a situation, now, breaking the supplies here is Mika-senpai and me, a passing participant student, and…

the opponent is a mob trying to overturn the Millennium Festival, so isn’t it obvious which side should be held responsible?

I don’t really intend to hold them responsible for everything…I’ll start to join in soon…

“Then Sensei?”

[Haha…leave the command to me…]

I leave the command to Sensei, and soon I also take out the SRM and start running forward towards the enemy camp.

“Kyaaaak!! Save me!!”

“Are you trying to fight me with just that? Huh~? Am I being underestimated? Huh?”

Mika-senpai had already crossed the barricade and started hand-to-hand combat.

Mika-senpai wouldn’t even need to take their attacks and close the distance, she could just break through the barricade, but yeah, didn’t I say we wouldn’t hold them responsible?

Me and Mika-senpai are thinking of quickly dealing with each one, saving the supplies used for the barricade as much as possible.

“Ahaha☆ What, Sora-chan! You’re late!”

“I’m sorry!”

-Click, Bang!-

I turn the SRM’s unique cylinder-shaped tubular magazine and load all 12-gauge buckshot.

The one I mainly use is slug rounds.

The reason why I mainly use slug rounds while using a shotgun is that, thanks to my blessed body, I was confident in close-quarters combat, so it was to cover the lack of medium-long range engagement.

But this fight is not just about sweeping them away, but also protecting the supplies.

The initial forced charge while breaking the supplies?

It just gave them the impression that we don’t care about the supplies, but in reality, we were engaging in battle while paying a lot of attention to the damage to the supplies.

That’s why I chose the battlefield, close combat in the middle of the enemy camp that I already crossed over the barricade made of supplies,

and the most effective bullet in close combat is at least among the bullets I have, it’s only 12-gauge buckshot, so this guy is the best.

What, even if it’s an engagement in the middle of the enemy camp, my wings are already a cover, so what else do I need?

Their equipment is mostly assault rifles for medium-long range, and that too, low-cost mass-produced M4s.

They can never stop us.

-Bang Bang! ,Ratatatata!-

In the barrage created by Mika-senpai’s Lancaster and the M4 used by the mob, numerous steel balls rush in.

If there is even a slight distance, a barrage of steel balls and 9×19 Parabellum unfolds and strikes them.

“What~ are you running away? That’s cheating!”

“Uaaak, they’re monsters! Run away!”

Certainly, considering the age and type of firearms and the number of people, it would be common sense for their firepower to be ahead,

but since my sister and I are already properly imbuing each bullet with mystery and shooting, the difference in power is so severe that we are ultimately ahead in terms of firepower.

“Wow! It’s a knight! Step on me!”

“Wo-oh…Sora-chan…?”

-Bang!-

It seems like there was a dangerous student in the middle, but now there isn’t, so I ignore it and charge again.

“Eeeiit!”

“The attempt was good!”

-Bang!-

Among the mercenary students, a guy who is a little bigger than the other kids rushes at me, but he is quickly grabbed by the collar and thrown to the ground.

It’s a facility that would be a big problem if it were broken, so I adjusted my strength, so he was still conscious, so I additionally hit him in the forehead with a 12-gauge shell.

There were a few more students who had the same idea, so Mika-senpai and I had to carefully stun each one one by one.

“Catch!”

-Thump, Click, Bang!-

“Ouch…”

I kick the second guy who rushed in the side and blow him away.

While kicking, I turn the SRM’s cylinder and switch to slug rounds, immediately aiming at the forehead and firing.

“There are only two of you anyway…”

-Thump! Crack!-

“Ugh…”

Mika-senpai hit the third guy who rushed in the solar plexus and then knocked him down with Lancaster.

If she had hit him with all her might, wouldn’t he have fainted from the first solar plexus hit?

-Crack-

“Kyaaaaak!!! It hurts!!!”

“Ahaha…a little horror…”

I grab the arm of the last guy who rushed in, the fourth one, and put him in a clean joint lock.

I had to avoid dislocation and fracture, so I adjusted my strength properly…but rather, it’ll hurt more because of that?

The guy’s scream resonates, and the movements of the guys who were about to rush in hesitate, and soon, some guys start to back away and some guys start to run away saying it’s impossible.

As I said before, the exit to this basement is already blocked except for the place where we came in, so in the end, there is no way to escape, which is unfortunate for them.

“Ugh…it’s hard! Do I have to adjust my strength like this?”

“Sister…you know…but…it’s definitely hard.”

Yeah…well…even I, who is more skilled at controlling my strength than Mika-senpai, was getting tired because I needed precise strength control to make them faint in one blow if possible and to minimize the damage to the facility.

[This…did I need to follow?]

“Haha…it definitely feels like overkill. I didn’t know they would be guys with such poor equipment and plans…”

“Ahaha☆ Sora-chan, it’s a bit embarrassing, but you know that even the black market wouldn’t be safe with the two of us?”

…In fact, it’s not wrong.

Mika-senpai is the owner of combat power equal to that of Kenzaki-senpai, and I have also reached a level where I can follow Mika-senpai to some extent…

We were slowly stepping into the interior of the facility because almost all the mercenary students had been subdued and now all that was left were the guys who had fled.

-Bang!-

As if knowing our efforts to control our strength and leave the facility, a tank in the shape of a giant sphere broke the wall far away and revealed itself.

“…Sigh…”

“Hahaha! You damned humans who are steeped in the bourgeoisie! Did you think we would think of dealing with you without any countermeasures?”

“That’s right! I’m glad I brought the tank parked outside the stadium on the way to get the supplies!”

Wow, a tank that embodies Millennium’s technology?

That would be a piece of equipment that’s more difficult to deal with than I thought.

It was a moment when I understood why they were confident.

However, Sensei, who knows the identity of that, froze as soon as he saw it.

[…Um…that…that’s probably not a tank…]

“Yes? That’s not a tank?”

“Huh? If this isn’t a tank, what is it? Is there anything other than a tank that has an endless track, armor, and a machine gun?”

I don’t know what that is, but Sensei said it wasn’t a tank.

After that, the mercenary student, who appeared triumphantly riding the tank, continued to say that if this is not a tank, what is it, but for us,

who don’t know what that tank was originally, it was just a scene where he continued to say that if it’s not a tank, what is it, to a tank.

“Ha, if you’re thinking of buying time with meaningless questions, it’s useless! Go, Bourgeoisie Crusher!!”

[Another new name has been given to the cheering robot…]

With Sensei’s meaningless muttering, the tank’s charge began.

However…very unfortunately for them, that tank couldn’t do any damage to us.

The reason is…

“What! Hey! I told you to fill this with ammunition!”

“I filled it properly?! Didn’t you operate it wrong?!”

Yeah, that tank wasn’t in a state where it could fight from the beginning.

I heard later that the machine gun was deactivated from the beginning, and the strong power that comes from the physique was controlled by the system, so it couldn’t exert 100% of its power.

[…In that state, it’ll be easy, Sora Mika, please follow my command for a moment.]

“Ahaha☆ Yeah! Sensei! Leave it to me!”

“…Sensei, you know about that, right? I’ll ask you.”

After that, it wasn’t that difficult to stop the tank and the process of subduing all the remaining mercenaries was neatly carried out under Sensei’s command.

Sensei’s words earlier, “Do I need to be here?”.

Considering the speed of processing and the drastic reduction in the time it takes to suppress them since Sensei started to intervene in earnest, it has become a difficult word to sympathize with.

Afterwards, we handed over the situation to the executive committee and left the place.

I heard later that the tank was a cheering robot made by Millennium’s engineering department, and even though they tried to be careful,

a considerable amount of damage occurred because a gunfight broke out, so a considerable amount of damage was incurred…in the end, the repair cost was charged to the mercenary students.

…Wait, that wasn’t a tank, it was a cheering robot?