CH 13

On the roof of the domed hotel, with the rappel wires hung on some poles, Raika was sideways on the ledge.

If she were to rappel from here, though, she would rappel far from room 703.

(This is fine though. I just have to follow Shima Kirin’s idea.)

Closing one eye, she eyeballed the angle many times – and eventually, Raika stopped moving.

Looking under her, she could see a large pool on the ground.

The area above the pool, Raika’s current standing position, and room 703 are all exactly in a straight angled line. (TL Note: This is kind of hard to write while staying accurate to what is said. Essentially, if you are looking at the wall, from right to left is Anchor point -> pool -> Raika. You can probably see where this is going.)

(… okay!)

Raika grips the wire with her left hand and hangs one foot on the holder attached to the end of it.

Just like Akari earlier was riding the Tarzan Swing back at the amusement park part of Raccoon Daiba.

(Maybe… Shima Kirin saw the amusement park rides at Raccoon Daiba and came up with this idea…)

After taking a deep breath, Raika hefted her assault rifle from the roof–

And threw herself into the air.

§ §

Back in room 703, Akari and Shino were now sitting on the floor after having their weapons taken away.

“Hahaha, we got more hostages and weapons!”

The black-haired kidnapper is holding Akari’s UZI and pointing the muzzle at them.

Since Shino only had a sword, it was left in the corner of the room…

And so now Akari and Shino had joined Shima Kirin as hostages.

Even Shima Kirin’s giraffe, which was in the silver-haired mans arms as if it was strangled also seemed to have given up.

But, Akari had one more hope left.

(Raika. I am sure Raika will come through the window…)

At that time.

“!”

──Babababababababa!

Suddenly, the sound of rifle fire and the shattering of window glass by the bedroom rang out.

The eyes of everyone in the room turned to the large window.

However, for just a moment, Akari was able to see Raika.

There must have been no place to hang the wire directly above. Raika swung from left to right in front of the window like she was on a trapeze, then disappeared far beyond the window.

“You idiot! There is nobody over there!”

The black-haired man, temporarily panicked by the sudden gunfire, laughs at Raika, making fun of her for shooting at the unoccupied bedroom.

Just as Akari, who had lost all hope, gnashed her teeth…

Kirin’s Giraffe…

Paa, his face lit up, and…

“–you are right!”

The giraffe bit the arm that was around its own neck and escaped from its restraints.

“You little…! Stop!”

Karin, who was just earlier scared of the kidnappers…

She now had a cute and dainty smile that was completely out of place in such a desperate situation.

She acted as if, out of everyone there, only she understood what was happening.

“–Love is like a pendulum, swing, swing, swinging–♪”

While singing, pon, pon, with dance like steps, Kirin escaped to the bedroom. But in there there was no exit. It was a dead end with a broken window.

It wasn’t just the kidnappers, but even Akari and Shino were raising their eyebrows at her mysterious behaviour.

“3, 2, 1.”

Kirin counted down the seconds on her fingers.

Pon! And used the bed as a jumping platform.

“Kyahan.”

And with a Burikko girl pose with her loosely clenched hands under her face with the window to her back..

She jumped out of the room.

That is, she jumped out the window of the seventh floor of the hotel!

“–!”

At that moment, everyone in the room was stunned by the sight of Kirin seemingly smiling as she committed suicide.

–pashi!—

The small body of Kirin, which leaped out the window was successfully caught by Raika, who was now swinging from right to left like a pendulum.

Akari and Shino witnessed this rescue from still in the room.

Kirin had written on the paper airplane “Tarzan Return Swing”. That is, she wanted her rescuer to not do just a tarzan grapple maneuver, but to rescue her mid swing in a pendulum motion.

”I will time my jump with your swing, so catch me” was the meaning that was hidden.

After rescuing Kirin in mid-air, Raika, putsu!, and cut the wire herself with a knife!

Akari immediately understood what she was doing.

With the trajectory of her fall… Raika would fall into the large pool that was next to room 703. (TL Note: remember the order from earlier that I explained?)

But now, the two kidnappers,

“– damn it!”

The silver-haired man standing by the window points the muzzle of the Colt Anaconda at Kirin and Raika.

“Raika!”

Akari shouted a warning and Raika realized that the gun was pointing at her, but she could not take evasive action midair.

(At the very least I can protect the hostage…)

Rika put Kirin’s head to her chest, turning to expose her own back to the muzzle of the mans gun.

–Datsu!

To help Raika, Akari ran to the silver-haired kidnapper.

“Don’t move!”

Her path was blocked by the dark-haired man.

He was holding the Dillinger in one hand and Akari’s micro UZI in the other.

“Akari-chan! Look out!”

Akari did not stop even at Shino’s warning.

In the back of Akaris mind was Aria’s scolding from a few days ago.

(Aria-senpai was right… I am not aware enough as a butei…!)

Akari tried to forcibly pass by the mans side, but they got tangled together and both fall down!

Akari’s hand can no longer reach the silver-haired mans Colt, who is still aiming at Raika.

(… I wont get to it in time!)

The distance between the silver-haired man pointing the Anaconda and Raika was not far.

Even an amateur could land the shot if they took a second to aim.

(The man looks like he has a better aim than I though–)

(If he shoots… he is hitting Raika in the head or neck.)

(I do not want this to happen…! So…)

Akari, as if she could not contain her voice…

“–help me–!”

She screamed out.

As if to drown out the sound of her voice, basun!, the sound of a gunshot rang out mercilessly.

The silver-haired man had pulled the trigger on the Colt Anaconda.

Raika in the air was holding Kirin’s head tight.

(…!)

But… the bullet… it did not hit Raika.

Crawling to the bedroom window, Akari leaned out, and…

Raika and Kirin were falling into the pool with a splash as they hugged each other.

– on the other hand,

“– you bastards!”

The dark haired man who had fallen after getting tangled with Akari got up, his face bright red…

And then began trying to scare Akari and Shino with the Dillinger and micro Uzi…

“…!?”

But the guns were no longer in his hands; Akari was now holding both of them.

–tobi-ugachi–

Using that technique, she was able to grab both of the mans guns the moment that they impacted each other.

In the midst of the chaos, Shino had picked up her sabre and was pointing at the silver-haired man, who was still standing at the window, forcing him to drop his Colt Anaconda…

While the now unarmed kidnappers raised their hands in surrender, Akari…

(Raika…!)

While pointing her guns at the two men, she looked down at the rippling pool and began praying for Raika and Shima Kirin’s safety.

It seems that her prayers were answered by the heavens, though.

There was a splash in the centre of the pool, and Raika appeared on the surface on the water along with Kirin.

“Raika…!”

Akari sighed in relief.

As far as Akari could tell from a distance, the two of them on the surface of the pool appeared to have no major injuries.

(I was sure that that bullet would have hit one of them, but it somehow miraculously did not…)

(No, I am sure this was not a miracle…)

(…surely, Aria-senpai…)

§ §

On the roof of the Snipe department building at Tokyo Butei High…

“…”

Reki, a prodigy sniper in the Snipe department, lowered her Dragunov rifle that she was using from a kneeling position.

The muzzle of the gun was blowing out a little bit of gunpowder smoke, indicating that it had just been fired.

Next to the beautiful girl with short hair and an emotionless face, Reki, was…

“My, my. She is a handful.”

Aria, who had been Reki’s observer, took her eyes off of her military binoculars with a look of exasperation on her face.

The two had received a text message from Butei High informing them of the situation, and had been observing the situation from the rooftop of the Snipe department building.

And so they found Raika on the rooftop of the Raccoon Grand Hotel–

Reki had just completed her covering shot.

Reki slung her sniper rifle back over her shoulder as if she had not done anything special at all.

“Even for an S rank you are amazing. I have never actually seen someone do a billiards shot before.”

Looking impressed, Aria speaks up.

The scene through the binoculars was firmly etched into Aria’s mind.

A magnum round from a Colt Anaconda was fired at Raika.

But the Anaconda shot aimed at the defenceless Raika was reflected by a Dragunov 7.62mm round fired by Reki, who had anticipated the shot.

The bullets were invisible to the naked eye, but Aria could see the sparks that were made when the two bullets collided with each other.

Reki’s bullet had hit the Colt’s bullet in Raccoon Daiba, nearly 2km away.

Reki, who can effortlessly perform psychic-level divine feats…

“…”

She was still silent and had a vacant look in her eyes, Aria not even sure what exactly she is looking at.

§ §

Soaking wet, Raika was breathing heavily by the pool.

Droplets of water were falling from the tips of her ponytail, and the white blouse of her sailor uniform was now see through. However… (I… managed to save… Shima Kirin…)

“Are you okay? You…)

Raika called out to Kirin as she came up to the poolside…

“!”

–at that very moment, Raika’s heart made a big jump inside her body.

(I did not notice it as I was helping her, but her appearance is…)

Girlish, fluffy, chestnut hair.

Large, shining eyes, with two, cute, rounded eyelids.

A hair ornament with a large pure white ribbon that only girlish girls can pull off. A modified sailor suit, trimmed with plenty of frills, that resembles a cosplay outfit.

And… she is even smaller than Akari, a petite girl that makes you want to protect her no matter what. And yet, she has a modest bust, which cannot be good for her back…

(…Uoo…!) (TL Note: not modified for memes, I promise.)

She looks exactly like a bishojo from a shoujo manga.

She was the type of girl that Raika was weak against, a girl who is exactly what a girl should be. She was the kind of girl that Raika had always dreamed of – or perhaps, Kirin even exceeded those ideals, a girl who had girlishness concentrated within her.

But now, it was reality, and… there she is.

“… found…”

The line that Raika was thinking was just muttered by Kirin, as if they were each others reflection.

Then, with a face teeming with happiness… “Kirin’s prince..!”, she shouted out a strange line.

After the two kidnappers were taken into custody by Akari and the others, they were later taken to a detention centre by responding police officers.

Leaving Akari and Shino to give witness reports for now, a soaked Raika and Kirin…

(First, I need to change my clothes.)

Raika borrowed a staff room, and changed into a new sailor suit brought to her by a senpai named Aya Hiraga (for a fee) from the Amdo Department…

Raika, though, is a little uncomfortable, partly because she is alone with an incredibly cute junior.

Raika’s heart was so unsteady that she was completely silent.

“You. If you are a butei, you should solve problems before they even happen. Usually, if you get caught, it is completely over for you.”

While talking to Kirin, Raika begins to scold her.

Raika unhooked her black bra that Raccoon Daiba provided her for free in case she needed to change it.

“You are still wet! Onee-sama!” (TL Note: onee-sama is a way to refer to a older girl.)

Kirin, holding a bath towell in her hand, hugged Raika from behind.

Her hands were grabbing both of Raika’s breasts with all her strength, as to whether she intends to wipe Raika dry or not…

“Ah… hey! I will wipe myself dry…”

Raika tried to escape, but Kirin was quicker than her, and began wiping her breasts in a round massage motion…

“–nn…!”

A sound came out of Raika’s mouth.

The sound was so feminine that even Raika was not sure if she could even make such a voice.

“Ya-n, your moaning is sexy too!”

Kirin looked like she was having fun, but “what the hell is up with this girl? Why would a woman do this to another woman?”

The actual attitude of the petite devilish Kirin is very different from her dainty first impressions…

–kaa, Raika’s face quickly dyed bright red.

“You…! You pervert!”

Kirin was so nervous that she tried to elbow Kirin out of her way, but for some reason Raika couldn’t muster the strength to do so, and she just ducked.

Kirin, who was keeping her distance away from Raika like a baby squirrel…

Kururin.

She did a twirl now in her sweet lolita underwear, trimmed with layers of ruffles.

“Kirin has made up her mind. This year…”

Kirin’s finger started pointing, pishi!

And it was directed at Raika’s face!

“…?”

“I am applying to be Raika onee-sama’s War Sister! I’m gonna do it!”

(…huh!?)

And then, in response to Raika’s exclamation…

Kirin snapped her finger, smiled her best smile, and winked.

“–if I catch you, it’s over!”

Go For The Next!!!