Chapter 8

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Kotori just hit Y/n at the top of their head, they let her and stayed silent.

Kotori: What's gotten into you?! I told you it was too dangerous!

Y/n:...Sorry...

Kotori seemed a little moved.

Kotori:...I thought of letting you continue but Tokisaki Kurumi is too unstable. Stay away from her from now on.

Y/n:...I respect your decision. (Doesn't mean I'm gonna follow it though.)

Kotori: Good. One last thing...

Y/n looked at her as she took off her black ribbons and replaced them with white ones.

Y/n: What-

She jumped into their arms, sobbing.

Kotori: I was so afraid for you, N/n! Don't scare me like that again!

They felt a tug in their heart as they wrapped their arms around her.

Y/n: Sorry, Kotori. But I told you, right? I'm a tough person. Nothing bad will ever happen to me and I'll be there for you.

They stayed like that for a while.

The next day.

Tamae: Hm? Tokisaki-san isn't here today again? Is she still unwell?

Y/n looked toward her seat, worried.

Y/n: Kotori, do you know something about that?

Reine: Sorry, honey. Kotori had some urgent business. But we don't know why Tokisaki Kurumi hasn't showed up today.

In an abandoned building.

Mana: The Ratatoskr organisation. I can't believe you, Kyōdai and Nii-sama are working for such an organisation.

Kotori: I see you did your homework. What are you after?

Mana: Answers. Kyōdai told me they lied and tricked me. What did they mean?

Kotori: That's what you'd expect with an evil corporation like Deus Ex Machina Industries.

Mana frowned.


Y/n: *Sighs* It's already lunchbreak and Kurumi still isn't here.

Shido placed a hand on his shoulder.

Shido: Hey, it's gonna be o-

He was cut off by a wave of dizziness. Y/n supported him.

Y/n: What's going on?!


Kotori: Could you not underestimate me? Deus Ex Machina Industries is a private military corporation that supplies every military and police force, except for Ratatoskr, with Realizer units. You're a dispatch employee in the AST right now, aren't you?

Mana: An "evil corporation"? I don't think I can let that one go. The corporation gave me a reason to live after I lost my memories. I owe them everything.

Kotori: Are you serious, after what they've done to you?

Mana: What are you talking about?

Kotori: *Remembers* (Reine: I performed an analysis on the saliva from Takamiya Mana's cup. Extreme amounts of magical energy have been infused into various parts of her body. I don't think she'll live longer than another ten years.)

Kotori: *Shocked* Could it be that you have no idea?

Both their phone then rang and they picked up.

Kotori: It's me. What's the problem?

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