Immediately after the building of the Agarage Agency collapsed, Kyou and Reimi entered the facility through the main entrance. There is no guard and the gate is open. Countless bloodstains remain in front of the gate.
I didn't want to get too close to it because there was a lot of dust, but now I can't help but go closer and see what's going on. Of course, you can't enter the building.
"There's no doubt that Junko Yukioka is one of those people, and if she's involved in some kind of trouble, if you help her out and give her a favor, she'll be cooperative with us. Maybe."
That's what Reimi suggested.
Anne was skeptical that the story would progress so smoothly, but she decided to let Reimi do what she wanted. Reimi's haphazard ramming ceremony was a regular occurrence. Anne thinks that she is acting together in this way in order for her to follow it.
The inside of the facility beyond the wall was a garden. Trees grow thick and flowerbeds form a line.
Anne often visits the botanical garden to paint, so she didn't think she was very well taken care of. She wonders why she has such a garden when she doesn't care for it.
"If she was inside, wouldn't it be doubtful if she was still alive?"
Anne said while staring at the collapsed building. You can see inside through the automatic door at the entrance, but the inside passage is also blocked by a mountain of rubble. I don't think I can come out if I stay before it collapses.
"Even the notorious mad scientist was crushed to death in the end.
At that moment when Reimi was frowning and about to sigh――
Reimi suddenly pulls out her gun and points to her right hand. Anzu also reacted with a slight delay, and she turned her head.
"Drink"
Reimi said briefly. Without her having to tell her, Anzu puts the capsule on her wrist to her mouth, mixes it with her saliva on her tongue, and then swallows it. Of course she's drinking Reimi as well.
When it comes to gunfights, she always takes the drug, the outlet.
"Someone is lurking behind the trees." It seems that the other party noticed it at the same time as I noticed it. I don't know if the other party is hostile to me, but it's certain that the other party seems to be on guard for the time being.
"That's why I'm also on guard." If it was right after such destruction happened, they would have to be even more wary of each other.
"Is it related to this facility? Or is it the guy who destroyed this facility?"
Reimi gets closer to Kyou and whispers in her ear.
For a moment, Kyou felt a rush of murderous intent. She, of course, reacted to Reimi as well.
Reimi pulls out her gun and runs to her right. One tempo later, An pulls out her gun and runs to her left. There is no sign of gunfire or grenade attacks from her opponent. Only filled with murderous intent.
"I can hear some mumbling." I knew immediately that it was like a spell—or rather, a spell itself.
Many long thin flames burst out and danced around Anzu.
Although it didn't hit me at all, perhaps because I was moving so violently, I felt threatened by the attack with supernatural power--and it was designed for the purpose of killing.
It's not the first time I've faced a person with supernatural powers, but I've spent many years researching and refining them, and I've had almost no encounters with magicians who have inherited them for hundreds of years.
Using spells and rituals to open channels into the realm of non-humans, they are a rare existence even in the backstreets where anything is possible. It's only natural for those who don't have supernatural powers to feel an unknown fear about the existence of those who do. I don't know what you're going to do.
"But that doesn't mean he's inviolable."
Reimi's shooting easily proved that.
(Amateur...)
Seeing the caster who couldn't react to Reimi's counterattack and easily collapsed, Anne decided so. She may have powers beyond human comprehension, but she will die if shot. Moreover, his movements and reactions were so poor that I could hardly believe that he was a resident behind the scenes.
A long, thin flame dancing in the air screamed. A giant serpent emerges from the flames. A translucent serpent suffering from being scorched by fire—the spirit of a serpent. It seems that it was released by the death of the magician, and it slowly disappears.
"This guy...!"
Seeing the caster who was shot through her head and collapsed, Reimi let out a rare voice containing her anger. His expression has also changed.
"I immediately understood the reason." The assailant was wearing a black kimono with a white star embroidered on her chest, a cult-like group that had slaughtered her family, as I had heard from Reimi.
"What about this kimono?"
When Anzu asked, Reimi silently nodded while looking down at the assailant with a dark expression.
"This facility, the cult group that killed Reimi's family, and Junko Yukioka are all connected."
"Let's go in"
Reimi didn't respond to Anzu's words, looked inside the building, and started running.
"Wait a minute. It's dangerous if you enter now!"
She ran a still voice, but Reimi didn't stop. She rushes into the entrance of a building littered with rubble.
"It doesn't look like you, stay calm. Even if Yukioka and those guys are in here, there's no way they're alive in this situation."
Grabbing her Reimi's arm, Anzu shouts. Reimi also seems to have regained her composure a bit because of that, but her expression still oozes with her suppressed anger.
"Think about what we've come to do. Even if Reimi's enemies are here, it's less important to know who they are than to kill some of them. Or are you satisfied with just killing a few people who happen to be here?"
"Yes. I'm sorry."
Looking at Anzu, Reimi smiles shyly.
"Thank you, Kyou. What can I say, my revengeful spirit was so strong that I started to go on a rampage from the inside of my stomach to the core of my head. What is this feeling? It's so black. , it's hot, and then... it's strangely comfortable...Is this kind of feeling a normal human being able to feel while living?"
Reimi said in a self-deprecating tone. Her profile is reflected in Anzu's eyes with a terribly melancholy look.
"I've felt it only once, so I know."
Anne answered while remembering the time before she fell into this world.
"Hatred is a pleasant feeling, isn't it? You can surrender your whole heart to it. There's a lot of catharsis in releasing it."
"Ah, but it would be foolish to destroy yourself with that guy. It's totally embarrassing, nahahaha."
Anne was relieved to find that she had returned to her usual open-minded reimi.
"Honestly, the mystery has deepened, or rather, it's been an amazing coincidence, or rather, it was a perfect match for Junko Yukioka.
"It can't be irrelevant. On top of that, when you come here, it's like this all of a sudden..."
Anne looks at the crumbling building.
"Since he was outside, there must be some survivors."
She points her gaze toward the caster's corpse, and Reimi guesses
"I don't even know if there were people inside before it collapsed. Maybe everyone was able to evacuate before that, or maybe not even one person was able to evacuate..."
"Let's go around the back door.
"Sure"
The two go around to the back of the building. Although I said it was dangerous inside, Anzu thinks that if there is nothing behind it, the only thing left to do is check inside.
Worrying about the dust on her sunglasses, Anzu followed after her while holding her gun and using Reimi as a shield.
When the two of them act together, Reimi always takes the lead and moves in a position where she can protect them. That said, Reimi also reacts and moves immediately during battle, so she doesn't always maintain that stance, but due to the difference in pure strength due to combat actions and the difference in responsibility, between the two, This positioning has become natural.
The two of them have gone through many times of carnage together, but Reimi is the one who actively fights, and Anzu is devoted to supporting them in battle.
She walks around the building to the back, but there is no sign of anyone. The back side of the garden is even larger, and the site area is quite large. There are more trees than flowerbeds, and there are even benches and walking paths in the woods.
Anne felt that it would be a waste to be in such a suspicious facility, even though it was in the city center. The only people who use it as a place to relax are those who work in the facility.
Reimi stopped her foot. She is seduced by Anzu, who also stops her.
At the end of the promenade stood a middle school boy in uniform.