Chapter 282: Majin VS Ryoko
<span> At the same time the shadows of moths swarming around the streetlights are moving eerily.<span> Inomoto-senpai and I backed away from the creepy power of my former fiancé, Takehiko Nakamura.<span> He used to be fifteen years older than me, but now he looks like he’s in histe teens.<span> No matter how I look at him, he is not normal. But I don’t know what he be is.<span> Despite the fact that I had been told beforehand that he had turned into a Majin, I still felt as if I was seeing something unbelievable.<span> So, I wonder what Senpai Inomoto is going through in his heart.<span> Regardless of our fears, Nakamura looked at us with a calm face and narrowed his eyes.
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<span><span>「Inomoto, I’m not interested about you. So, If you want to run away, that’s fine. I’m only interested in Ryoko-san<span>」<span>「I see. But it can’t be like that, can it, Nakamura?<span>」<span>「Well, I suppose you could say that<span>」<span> Inomoto-senpai responds with a cold sweat, and Nakamura shrugs.<span> At the same time, I reached for my holster and quietly removed the gun’s safety.<span>「I think it’s a bit silly… but I don’t really know how to control my strength yet<span>」<span> Immediately, a deadly atmosphere suddenly swells around Nakamura. It is so dense that it tingles my skin.<span> Inomoto-senpai respond it by putting his hands in his pockets and hiding me behind his back.<span>「I won’t ept anyints even if you die, okay?<span>」<span> Regardless what he said, Nakamura walks up to me calmly. He is also a former detective. He must know what Inomoto-senpai has in his hand.<span> But he’s confident that Inomoto-senpai can’t shoot him.<span> And he’s right.<span> The psychological barrier to the act of shooting a gun is very high for police officers in this country.<span> Of course, Inomoto-senpai is no exception.<span>「Then I’ll do it!<span>」<span>「H-Hey!<span>」<span> At the same time I jumped out from behind Inomoto-senpai, I took out my gun from my side holster and pulled the trigger twice in session.<span> With a metallic reverberation in the silence of the night, the two bullets were sucked into Nakamura’s chest and stomach respectively.<span> *Twitch Twitch* His body trembled.<span> The sound of the bullets was drowned out by the sound of the gunfire, but under the light of the streetmp, I could see arge hole in the chest of his suit and a hole in the abdomen of his shirt.<span>「Wh-What are you doing! It’s not self-defense in this situation! Terashima!<span>」<span> Inomoto-senpai shouted at me.<span>「Just run, Senpai!<span>」<span>「What?<span>」<span> Senpai looks back at Nakamura with a look of astonishment on his face.<span> And Nakamura remained standing.
<span> Senpai looked as if he had been pranked by a child, and was worrying about the hole in his suit.<span> As I ran, Inomoto-senpai, who followed behind me, called out.<span>「What? Did you miss?<span>」<span>「At that distance, I wouldn’t miss! And it seems not a joke that the devil did something to that guy!<span>」<span> But by the time I turned around, Inomoto-senpai, who was supposed to be right behind me, was gone.<span> And there is a dyed sound of wind, scraping my eardrums, and I see Senpai’s figure mmed against the wall of a house as if he had been blown sideways.<span> Then with a dull crack, Inomoto-senpai crumples to the asphalt.<span>「Senpai!<span>」<span> As I was about to walk toward him, my cheeks involuntarily convulsed.<span>「Kh!?<span>」<span> I feel that Nakamura was close by.<span> And for a moment, the image of Master shed through my mind.<span> I wondered if there is any way he could summon me at this time.<span> Of course, such a thing would never happen.<span> Master doesn’t know that I’m visiting the crime scene. I didn’t even tell him, but before that, I was just following Inomoto-senpai’s idea.<span>(Anyway, I have to do something on my own!<span>)<span> The pistol in my hand, the М360J, is a customized S&W model that had been deployed to rece the New Nambu. It has a total of five bullets.
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<span><span> From right behind me, I can hear Nakamura’s breathing. I can only describe it as unpleasant.<span> Immediately, I turn around and pull the trigger.<span> From the sound of his breathing, I knew where his head was.<span> At point-nk range, I press the muzzle of the gun to Nakamura’s face and fire two shots.<span> Nakamura’s eyesses blow off, and he falls back like an Ina Bauer with the impact. But he doesn’t fall.<span> And when he next raises himself up, Nakamura’s face, from the chin up, is blown off and gone.<span> However, the reddish-ck flesh in the middle of the face is growing, and is being repaired.<span> The scene reminded me of the liquid metal androids I had seen in Western movies.<span>「Tch… what a pain<span>」
<span> The fact that I was not so surprised was probably because I was used to it.<span> I know firsthand that in the hands of a devil, repairing the body is no big deal.<span> I could probably challenge the Guinness Book of Records for the number of times I’ve been torn apart.<span>「I thought you were moredylike, Ryoko-san, but… what are you going to do when I die?<span>」<span>「I’d really like you to die<span>」<span> Almost as soon as I snort, Nakamura steps closer and grabs my arm.<span>「Kh!<span>」<span> In my panic, I pressed the gun to Nakamura’s chest and pulled the trigger.<span> It was thest shot and I fired at his heart.<span> The deafening sound of steel bullets eating through flesh echoed at close range.<span> But Nakamura only shuddered in shock.<span> His grip on his arm did not cken.<span> The next moment, a chill runs up my spine, a chill I have never felt before.<span> My eyes widen involuntarily. I looked and saw my arm turning ck from where Nakamura had grabbed me.<span>「Let me go!<span>」<span>「I’m afraid I can’t do it anymore<span>」<span> Slowly, all the strength drained from my body. I felt the desperate sensation of being preyed upon by a predator. And it felt overwhelmingly disgusting to be consumed by another.<span>「Ugh, s-stop…<span>」<span> My voice chokes in the back of my throat. But when I look at his face, Nakamura whispered to me with an enraptured look on his face.<span>「Let’s be one so that we can never be separated again. You know, Ryoko-san. Now, you and I will be together forever<span>」<span> Apparently, this man was trying to win me over to himself. And it made my face twitched.
<span>(I’d rather die rather than be the property of a man other than Master…<span>)<span> Just as I made up my mind and was about to bite my tongue with my teeth, a tremendous shock hit my shoulder.
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<span><span>「Gyaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!<span>」<span> I felt as if I had stuck my hand into the mes, and the pain was so fierce that I screamed with all my might.<span> I was blown away and rolled over and I saw my torn arm spinning like a windmill, spraying blood.<span>「Forgive me, Ryoko-sama. It was Lili-sama’s order<span>」<span> There was a maid standing in front of me, holding a great sword that had severed my arm from my shoulder, as if to protect me.<span> As I looked up with a pain face, I saw another maid with a huge war hammer raised, blowing Nakamura’s body sideways.<span>「Don’t mess with my girl, <ruby style="ruby-align: center;">handsome<rp>(</rp><rt style="font-size: 7.0pt;yout-grid-mode: line;">ikemen</rt><rp>)</rp></ruby><span>!<span>」<span> I heard a voice came from behind me, and I weakly turned my head.<span> There is a man in a gray sweatshirt that looked like a sleepwear.<span> There he is, my beloved Master.<span>(M-Master… Why is he here…?<span>)<span> I try to speak but I can’t because I’m weakened from the pain.<span> Master nced at me, looked at Nakamura who was raised himself from the wall where he had been knocked down, and let out a disgusted voice.<span>「Wooing a woman who was dumped you… How shameful<span>」<span> Then, from right beside Master, I heard Lili-sama’s voice. I couldn’t see her, but she seemed to be there.<span>「Coming from the man who confined the woman who dumped him, that’s quite telling, Devi<span>」<span>「…Shut up<span>」<span> Master’s lips pucker as if he’s sulking.<span>(………At a time like this, Master. His sulky face is also great. It’s quite moe to see him like that<span>)<span> I let go of my consciousness, thinking such things.