Chapter 201

It was a motel along the highway, with dazzling billboard lighted by showy and stale neon. Inside one of the room there, there were the figures of Vanessa whose upper body was only in underwear, and Kousuke right beside her with his face strangely blushing.

「Nn-」

「Oops, sorry. Does it hurt?」

「No, there is no problem. Rather than that……you are skilled.」

「Well, it’s just this much. I have a lot of chance to practice.」

「Indeed, your movement seem experienced.」

It wasn’t like the two of them were doing anything indecent. After they entered the motel and calmed down for the moment, Kousuke treated Vanessa’s flank with the emergency kit that Kousuke happened to have.

In the first place, he was taught first-aid treatment to a certain degree at Tortus (they were taught that in the case that they ran out of magic power and couldn’t use healing magic), and after returning to earth he also learned by self-education and going around the medical treatment spot in battlefield, so Kousuke’s first-aid skill was high. His return from his personal trip of going around battlefield’s medical treatment spot was also bearing fruit.

He spread haemostatic agent, pressed a clean gauze and wrapped bandage around. During that time he also stimulated her healing just a little with a method that didn’t exist in this world

「Yosh, something like this I guess. It missed your vitals, and the important vein is also uninjured. The bullet, you treated that yourself huh. I guess you will be fine because your first aid in the beginning was done properly. But, there is the risk of infection, and it’s not a light wound by any mean. You need to receive medical treatment soon.」

「I understand. However, right now is not the time to say that. Although you have come for us, it can be said that we are still in an isolated and helpless situation……at the very least until the reinforcement can take over the protection of Doctor Grant, there is no way I can rest.」

「That’s, well, perhaps that’s so.」

Vanessa wore her shirt while showing a grave expression, however, next she showed a wry smile while turning her gaze to Kousuke.

「Having said that, I don’t think that I can even operate at my original 50%, so from here on, it seems that Mr. K, you will be considerably burdened.」

「……No, look here, I’ve said this many times but, I’m not Mr. K. I’m Kousuke. I’m a student at Japan. In this kind of situation, isn’t it better to contact that real Mr. K one more time――」

Kousuke who didn’t admit that he was Mr. K no matter what caused Vanessa to think of speaking the doubt that she was harboring. Her penetrating gaze was attempting to grope around for Mr. K’s true intention.

But, before she could start, the *shaaaa* water sound that Kousuke tried to ignore to the best of his ability stopped at the same time with the *kyu-kyu-* sound of handle turned. Kousuke twitched in reaction and he suddenly became quiet. For some reason his expression was turning strangely nervous but……that couldn’t be helped. Because, he was a boy.

Like that, a vivid rustling sound from the other side of the thin glass door slightly leaked out and became audible……

「……What’s the matter you two, staying silent like that?」

From the door that was only half-opened, only half of Emily’s face peeked out dubiously. Her eyes were containing a clear wariness. Especially toward Kousuke.

Kousuke settled the figure of Emily who had just finished taking a shower only for a moment in his eyesight, then he quickly averted his face to the side. The sight was relatively brutal for him.

Emily was undoubtedly a beautiful girl. Such girl was showing an appearance that was only wearing blouse and short skirt with her damp hair let down. Two buttons around her chest were unbuttoned and her beautiful nape was exposed. Her black stocking was dirty so naturally she didn’t wear it. In other words, the bare slender and supple legs of Emily were being exposed with nothing to spare.

「Doctor Grant, it’s nothing. Right now I have just received treatment.」

「I see. Vanessa, are you okay? You were shot you know? Are you really okay?」

「Yes, perhaps it should be called a small mercy. I’m still not feeling at my limit currently. It’s not a wound that can threaten my life.」

Emily rushed at Vanessa still barefooted, she climbed on the bed while looking worriedly at Vanessa’s wound.

At that time, Kousuke’s gaze that was similarly returning to Vanessa sharply noticed. The skirt of Emily who was on all fours peering at Vanessa’s flank. The light bulb of the room had warm color type so the room was dim, “that part” became dark and couldn’t be seen but……

(Oy wait, the dirty stocking was thrown away but, then, the dirty underwear……what happened to it?)

Electricity ran through Kousuke’s muscle. No way, no way……

「You are……not wearing it?」

「!?」

Emily pressed down on her skirt with a force that seemed like it could make *hyuba-* sound while taking a girl sitting posture. Her face was dyed bright red, her almond-shaped eyes glared up with shame and rage.

「Ah, no, just now……」

「I can’t help it! It’s still not dry right now!」

「Ah, yes.」

「Mr. K, as expected, just now is too lacking in delicacy.」

「Yes, I’m ashamed.」

The person who she had just grandly peed on now pointed out her no-panty state, however, for the moment it was someone who had saved them so she also couldn’t frankly throw her anger at him, the peeing no-panty Emily-chan crawled into the bed and turned small while holding her head.

As expected, Kousuke was also aware that he had made a verbal slip, so he apologized at Emily who was trembling *purupuru* beneath the blanket while leaking out his impression「This girl, he is a girl that often turn small huh」. Of course that one was said inside his heart.

「I want to talk about what we will do from now on, is it fine?」

Seeing Emily who heard Kousuke’s apology and peeked out her face from inside the blanket like a cat with its wariness in full alert, Vanessa opened her mouth with serious expression.

In contrast with the nodding Emily, Kousuke lifted up his hand to hold them for a bit.

「Before that, can you teach me something first? Can’t you contact people who can help you two right away? Since we arrived her I saw no sign of Vanessa-san contacting anyone……I guessed it somehow but, Vanessa-san, you are a member of state organization right? Why don’t you report and request reinforcement from your organization?」

That was the major premise needed to let their talk progress. Kousuke saved the two of them was because Vanessa was almost killed and also because Emily seek help. As expected, Kousuke couldn’t draw a line from other people to the degree that he could pretend not to see someone else getting killed in front of his eyes.

But, at the same time he also couldn’t continue helping Emily and Vanessa and judged Kimberly and his group as evil without grasping the situation. He chose to flee with these two at that scene, but if Vanessa contacted her comrade and arranged a force that could oppose Kimberly and others, Kousuke planned to vanish right away then.

For that reason, before he heard about the detail of the circumstance, he asked Vanessa to quickly contact her comrade but……

「Doctor Grant, I will talk about that matter――about【Berserk】. Is it fine?」

「……Yes. In any case, we have passed the stage where it can be hidden. I don’t mind.」

「Oi you. What are you doing ignoring me so naturally like that. Just quickly contact your comrade already.」

Vanessa asked Emily(ignored Kousuke) with a serious air, Emily looked down while agreeing(ignoring Kousuke) with a voice that was vanishing down. Her expression was shaded with dark shadow that was darker than the shadow created by the room’s coarse light bulb. Kousuke’s shadow was getting thinner.

Kousuke who until now only saw the figure of Emily flustered, or shaking all over, or snapping in anger was feeling concerned that such girl was covered with this much deep shadow, even so he demanded explanation to Vanessa「Heey, why aren’t you contacting your comrade? Heey, come on tell mee-」.

「The start of this matter, is the medicine that is the byproduct created from the course of Doctor Grant’s research――【Berserk】getting out to the outside.」

「I cannot hear-. I cannot hear anything! Something like that medicine with naming that sound chuuni, I don’t know any――」

「【Berserk】――it is the word root of berserker, the powerful warrior of god that rampaged in the battlefield without differentiating enemy or ally. It’s unknown who named it with that word, but it’s a naming that really to the point. After all, 【Berserk】is the worst medicine with the effect of “Berserkerification” just like the meaning of that name, where the victim cannot return into normal human for the second time.」

「……」

Beside Emily who was holding her knees with dark expression, Kousuke was also sitting down with the same posture while blocking her ears and shaking his head in refusal. The sound of the talking Vanessa was piercing into the ears of such Kousuke, as though the sounds was forcefully being screwed in,

「Doctor Grant is being targeted by the people who is pursuing that knowledge. This is a serious incident that concerned with the country’s safety, so, for her protection, we, the national security bureau moved but……Kimberly’s betrayal annihilated the whole team except me.」

Perhaps thinking of her comrade, Vanessa slightly narrowed her eyes while adding more words.

「At first, I thought that it was only Kimberly’s betrayal but……thinking back now, I couldn’t link up with the reinforcement so unnaturally. That is also the reason that I contracted you in the preparation of the worst case……anyway, this situation is enough to make me think of “possibility” toward the headquarter. Until I can be clear about this matter, I cannot make contact with headquarter that easily.」

「Aa, yes. You more or less answer my question. But, there were a lot of unnecessary things included there……」

Kousuke who was turning over the content of what he head inside his head while hanging his head down crestfallenly, and then he slowly looked up to the ceiling.

Ahead of his gaze was the ceiling that was blotted with stain at various spots, and the electric light bulb that was earnestly driving off the night’s darkness. The deep black stains that represented ill will, and the night’s darkness that was trying to swallow the light of hope……it was as though those things were representing the current situation of Emily and Vanessa.

He accidentally came to this country due to demon king-sama’s instruction to him, he accidentally encountered these two at the café that he stopped by at, he accidentally needed to wait for airplane schedule, and he accidentally entered the hotel where these two were at.

What a prank of fate.

Even though he was burdened with the unpleasant title of man with world’s thinnest shadow, the world discovered him only at this kind of time.

Even so,

「It’s already too late by the point of time I got summoned to another world huh.」

Yes, for the demon king party who survived that rigorous world, getting involved with this kind of case was certainly, something too late.

「? Mr. K?」

「What’s the matter?」

Vanessa and Emily tilted their head, unable to understand the meaning of Kousuke’s whisper.

Shaking his head saying「It’s nothing」while smiling wryly to those two, thinking that it was hard for his conscience to just run away from this matter without hearing their story, for the time being Kousuke decided to lend his ear to these two’s explanation.

AN: Thank you very much for reading this every time.

Thank you very much too for the thoughts, opinions, and reports about misspelling and omitted words.

Above a bookshelves fully loaded with light novel (area fill type), coffee splashed……

The light novels dyed black. Hakumei’s heart is also dyed black.

The world, is always filled with things that shouldn’t be like so……

The march of self-destruction, will also be at 6 z Saturday too. Perhaps, surely, if I revived.

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