"What?!"
Iyatsuki? What is he trying to do?
"Your Majesty, I think there is a misunderstanding here! Can't you just listen to him?"
"And what is there to listen? I won't believe any words that will come out of his mouth, He disgrace my people and...And he even r*ape and killed her! That's Unforgivable!"
The king glared at me and gave a cue to the guards, They surrounded me, pointing their spears at me and Iyatsuki.
What the hell? Don't I have a say in this? They don't even want to Listen to me, What the hell is wrong with them?
""You're in my way! Flakes!"
A beam of energy shot out from the tip of Iyatsuki's fingers toward the soldiers blocking the way.
"Gahhh!"
Everyone was left speechless and the room fell silent when they saw the soldiers go flying through the air. I seized my chance and created a gun using the [Crafting] skill and fired it at the guards. Of course, I throttled the power so that it would only knock them out of the way and not kill them.
"I believe Miyuki-kun. He didn't do it. This is all a conspiracy, I say!"
I wasn't sure what was going on. But what is Iyatsuki trying to do? Defending me?
But he was telling the truth, it's a conspiracy. He just gave them the bare facts.
"You seem intent on doing something thoughtless while the real boss is out, but if you're going to try to harm my friend, then I, one of the Hero—will not allow it, I say! It goes against that which is love!"
Huh? so he's really defending me, but what did he mean by love?
Iyatsuki always tried to talk to me and saying that we're friends, I just ignored him though. He casually joke around and I don't even know what is he trying to do for the past few days, but could it be... Is he really telling the truth that he wants to be my friend?
The soldiers were still blocking my way to try to keep me from talking. But they better not think that was all it took to stop me!
I pointed my Gun threateningly at the soldiers who were restraining me. I fired some bullets on the ground and they keep their distance away from me.
"Let go I say! I don't care who you are. I won't forgive anyone that interferes!"
Iyatsuki bravely confronted everyone who stop him.
It felt like there'd been a fog that had settled over part of my mind, and now it began lifting away as I awakened to a clear picture of what it was I wanted to have. I just wanted someone to help me and try to believe me without anything in return... Can I trust him? Really, can I?
I glared at Taruki and Uto. They're freezing and sweating a lot because they didn't expect this to happen. They probably thought, everything is going to play as what they plan.
"That goes for you two, as well. You two are no match for me in your current state."
Iyatsuki Threatened the two and he held his hand out to me, who was now free of restraint, and bared my soul. This was my chance. Maybe I can finally have someone that I can really trust. I'd realized the truth, I thought I'd have to live with the regret of what I'd done forever. Not trusting someone and not even giving them the chance, may be this is an opportunity. This was a once-in-a-lifetime chance to put things right. I had no intention of making the wrong decision again, I'm going to trust him. He believe me so much that he would even try to fight everyone without asking anything in return. I'm quite confused and felt really happy at the same time.
"Come! Let's go!"
I reached toward Iyatsuki outstretched hand, he took my hand into his and I stand up.
"Iyatsuki, you . . ."
At a loss for words, I glanced at him. No! Miyuki, Don't get anything wrong, what If he have his own intention? B-but, I really.. Really..Tears flow onto my cheeks and I began to feel something I haven't felt before.
"It's best not to believe anything that bastards next to you says, Katsu!"
"Bastards? Judging from the way you worded that, I'm guessing you mean Taruki, right?!"
"That's right. He's lying, Isn't the one who told you that there is a crime happening in that room is him?"
"Yea-ah"
"Isn't that suspicious? How did he know it? If he knows it, why didn't he stopped it?"
Iyatsuki's words froze Taruki blood cold.
"Wonder why? Vision!"
Iyatsuki waved his hand in the air and some unknown symbols appeared, glowing and emitting a magical aura. A board that looks like a one meters size appeared in front of him.
"Want to take a look at this then?"
"Hiyaahhh!! No! Please let go of me!"
A sounds of a begging girl came from within the board. I looked at it and saw a familiar face. That girl, she is the one who was in the room.
Everyone was speechless and the sounds of a screaming girl echoed into the room.
The board that looks like some kind of cctv camera showed everything what happened on the girl. It was terrible, Taruki, Uto, and Kakuri barged into the room and started abusing her. Just watching it makes my Bloods boil. They're the worst! They'd engaged in sexual activities and the girl wasn't able to fight back, it may be because of the skill Taruki used on me, he also used it on the girl. Those bastards! Are they even a human?
After they finished with her, without letting her say her last words, Taruki finished her life by stabbing her in her belly.
They clean all of the evidence and covered the victim. After a few hours of fast forward. A loud yelled was recorded and that was when I came in the room.
"You bastards! Hurry! And seize them!"
The king, without hesitation, ordered his knights to restrain the three of them.
"Hii!!"
"Not a Chance!"
They tried to run but Taruki, Uto and Kakuri suddenly drop on the ground and can't move when Iyatsuki throw some
pebbles at them.
I want to teach them a lesson but I guess, the king would be the one who will now do that. Apparently, the girl was one of the Knights and one of the king's benefactor, they better be prepared for the consequences of what they've done.
***
"Th-thanks, Iyatsuki."
"No problem, aren't we friends?"
"I-I guess haha.."
The king, Katsu and others apologized to me before letting us to leave the Chamber room. They're now busy, dealing with the three criminals who did something terrible to a girl.
We are now resting at the Water fountain in the center of the palace. The Healer earlier gladly healed my wounds and also apologize for believing the rumors.
Those bastards is really insane, why would they do that to a girl? Even though that girl is not one of my acquaintances, Still, I feel like killing those three because of what they did to her and also because they'd tried to put the blame on me.
"Miyuki-kun!!"
Suddenly, I heard a woman's voice, it was an angelic voice and she sounded very worried. I looked where it came from and see Akari running towards us from afar.
"Miyuki-kun, Isn't your girlfriend worried about you? Why don't you spend some time with her, I'll leave, so take your time."
Iyatsuki stand up and smiled at me, giving me a sign to do something about her.
"Yeah, thanks for helping me today."
"No, No, didn't I tell you? Friends shouldn't thank each other, We should love each other!"
Iyatsuki placed his hand on my shoulder, he lean closely and whispered something "Do your best."
He's talking about love again, What the hell? Do my best at what?
"Then see you later Miyuki-kun!"
He smiled and left, heading towards the grey building.
"Miyuki-kun, are you alright!
Oh.. Is that Iyatsuki, he left? I didn't interfere, did I?"
Akari is now in front of me with her worried face.
"Y-you're wounds? It's already gone?"
Akari touched every part of my body as if she was looking for something.
"The Healer had already healed me."
"...Uhm, What happened? I'm very worried you know. Why did you get blame again, everyone always misunderstood you!
I am taking my lesson with the pope, and the knights suddenly brought you there while pointing their weapons at you and restraining you. They're horrible, they even tried to blame it onto you, thankfully there's an evidence."
"Yeah, if it weren't for Iyatsuki, I may be spending my time in jail."
"Wait here, Miyuki-kun, I-I'll do something about them, They hurt you and even tried to blame it on you.."
Akari turned and started to walk.
"Wha-what are you trying to do?Get back here!"
I pulled her hand to Stop her.
"B-but they did something to you, I'll teach them a lesson!"
She pouted her lips and she sounded very angry.
"Just leave them, the Knights would be the one who should do that!"
I should be the one who's worried, I thought those bastards did something to you, I'm glad she's fine though. Sigh,
I can't tell her that the reason why I came to that room was because of her.
"Well, I'm just very unfortunate, I got the wrong room. I was looking for the bathroom and I ended up there and got blame. hahaha."
"Geez! Don't lie to me, they did it on purpose, right? And the bathroom is too far from that room, there's no way you'd made a mistake like that."
"Ehehe.. I guess, but don't worry about it, Iyatsuki helped me and the culprits have been caught.
More importantly, sit here. I have something to tell you."
"O-okay."
Akari slowly sat next to me and seems like she finally calm down.
"Let's end this."
"E-end what?"
"This relationship, Our fake relationship. We're not in school any more and I'm not strong here, I won't be able to protect you If something happened, So let's stop lying to each other. Actually, I don't really like you and the way you act. Telling lies to people that we're couple, let's stop it. I only agreed to your request because I want you to repay me and help me to clear up the misunderstanding, but now we're not on earth any more and the rumors about me will be gone soon. I don't need you anymore."
Yeah it's better this way, I know that Akari is a kind girl and she will keep helping me if we continue this relationship. But I don't want that, I don't like superficial relationship. It's also not good to continue this, I don't know if Taruki and his friends are the only one who hate me, they may be hiding and waiting for the chance to let my guard down, and Akari may get involve if she continued to hang out with me.
I know that she's not doing something wrong here, and I sometimes thought too that "they" also lied to me because it's for my own good. That's why I never really got angry at "them". I just felt that, may be "they" don't trust me enough.
"S-sorry, I wasn't useful, I wasn't even able to help you. And..And I know that I'm the one who got you into this, if you want to end it, i-it's fine. B-but...Uhm..We can still become friends, right?"
"Sorry, but we can't be friends."
"B-but.. I promise, I'll be useful to you, so please! Don't leave me again.
"Again?"
I somewhat felt that there's something wrong here. Although we agreed to help each other, the way she cares about me and trust me is just not normal.
This nostalgic feeling, it reminds me of my sister.
We just met, and we don't really know each other but the way she acts around me, it felt like we've been together before.
When we first met, she said "I can't help it, I finally able to see you after such a long time, and You're the Yusuri Miyuki I know." I thought she just mistook me for someone but now I think there's more to it. Isn't there a phrase that "There's more to it than meets the eye."
This is just an hypothesis but if she ever had met me before, that wasn't me.
"Y-you, Akari, Did we met eight years ago?"