Gate: Thus the Sorcerous Kingdom Fought There

CHAPTER 13: An undead king and his toys

Sadly, some people in this world abandoned reason and allowed their emotion to rule them. For instance, insane killers running amok in the streets. There were also those murderers who hated monks so much that they even hated their cassocks as well. There were those who would even turn their blades on their targets' family members.

They would also turn their emotions on the wrong targets. Sometimes they would go after people who were completely unrelated. In the case where their hatred transferred to the perpetrator's family, the sins of the fathers would be passed on to their sons, as in how debts would be left to them or their relatives to pay, in the barbaric Roman way. However, those were how civilizations from 2000 years ago did things because they were not as spiritually mature as people now.

However, to the victims of the Ginza Incident, Rory, Lelei, and Tuka, as guests from the Special Region, were in a sense the first citizens of an enemy nation they had seen. And of course, there was the third party. The heir of the mysterious Sorcerer Kingdom and his two bodyguards who visited the country of Japan.

They were buried in the huge crowd thronging Ginza, and there was no guarantee that the people here would not transfer their anger onto them. As a result, Itami relaxed the stern look on his face and spoke despondently to Kuribayashi and Tomita.

"Let's forget it for today. We'll spend the night at Risa's place."

The two of them sagging. However, it was only expected that Itami — who ran away from things he did not like — would say something like that. However, Kuribayashi replied:

"But if we wait until tomorrow, we might be ambushed by agents from somewhere, and when the time comes, we'll have to force our way through as well, right?"

The original plan was to protect Piña, Beelzebub and Bozes from the Americans using the crowd Risa gathered. If they ran away now, her efforts would be wasted.

"Ahhh, we run, and they chase us over and over again, they're like debt collectors or something."

Ichinotani nixed the idea of hiding in a military camp. If the government protected them, then when the American President called, they would not be able to escape. Prime Minister Motoi had resigned for that as well. Because their movements were not under government control, they could say, "They ran off, so sorry," and then stick their tongues out at them in their hearts. His Excellency Tarou had laid the situation out to Itami, and he understood.

"Ahh, what a pain..."

Itami squeezed his eyes shut and grabbed his hair; then he sighed deeply before turning to Kuribayashi and Tomita and giving them an order.

If anyone tried to harm the girls, Tomita and Kuribayashi would shoot them. This was not "permission granted"; this was an "order." Tomita and Kuribayashi had volunteered to join the JSDF, and as career soldiers with the rank of sergeants, they had been highly trained. In addition, they were veterans of actual combat. Once they heard the command phrased as on "order," it flipped a switch in their minds which turned them into killing machines. Following that, the two of them inspected the magazines of their looted weapons that the soldiers left who captured by Zero and his forces, and they stuffed more spare magazines into their waist pouches or pants pockets. Of course, they would not open carry their weapons and frighten the people around them. Instead, they tucked their weapons into their coats, but with the safeties off so they could shoot at any time. Surrounded by the huge crowd around them, they got off the bread van and set feet onto Ginza's pavement.

Kuribayashi Shino wore a black leather jumper.

Under that, she wore a stone-washed denim mini-skirt over a pair of stockings. Her feet were encased in a pair of heeled boots. Perhaps the heels were because she had a complex about being short? As her nickname of "titty monster midget" suggested, she was a petite woman, but unlike the long bodies and short limbs of real midgets, her muscled body and slender limbs were proportionately scaled. That was to say; she gave the impression of a woman who had been shrunken down with the exception of her breasts.