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Chapter 59 - Secrets

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  November 2nd

  Shidou "--I heard that Natsumi is awake!"

  The high-tech iron door was still opening to the left and right, and Shidou's loud voice had already been transmitted.

  He is now in a corner of the underground facility owned by "Ratatosk". The structure of the room is designed like the bridge of "Fraxinus", and various measuring instruments and huge screens are placed.

  "Oh, you are here very quickly, Shidou."

  The chair in the middle of the room turned around, and the girl sitting on it answered Shidou. It was Kotori who had returned and was holding a lollipop. Yesterday, Natsumi was defeated by Ellen Mathers of DEM, and the ability of "Fake Witch" was lifted when she lost consciousness, so Kotori and others also returned to their original state. At the critical moment, it was Tohka and the others who saved Natsumi.

  Now Natsumi is locked in a room in this facility.

  "Hmm? Kotori, what's wrong with your face?"

  Shidou stared at Kotori's face and asked. After a closer look, he could see a few red marks on Kotori's face, as if she was scratched by a cat.

  Kotori said "Ah...", scratched her cheek, and said to Shidou, "...Anyway, you have to be careful."

  "Uh, what should I be careful about... Forget it, where is Natsumi? Has she regained consciousness?"

  "…Why are you in such a hurry? Are you so thirsty that you want to do something to her? Humph, you kiss maniac." Kotori pouted unhappily, stood up from the chair and walked to Shidou. "This way."

  Shidou followed Kotori's steps and walked out of the room. Yesterday, the injured Natsumi was transported to "Fraxinus" and then immediately sent to the medical facility here. It is too dangerous to keep the elves with full powers inside because of Airen. It seems that DEM has also set its sights on Natsumi. By the way, Miku was also treated here after being gang-raped.

  The two walked in the corridor, passed a few corners, and stopped in front of a heavy door. Mana was guarding the entrance. She greeted Shidou with great energy and returned to her post.

  "We're here." Kotori entered the numbers on the terminal next to the door with a skilled movement, placed her palm on it, and the door slid to the side. "... Humph, your "sweetheart" is inside, go in and win her heart."

  "Haha... I wish it was that easy..." Shidou smiled helplessly while looking inside. The space inside the door was very spacious. Various machines were lined up in the dark area, and in the middle there was a room separated by glass that seemed quite solid.

  Sitting on the bed in it was a girl with an unhappy and sad face, she was playing with a doll. She had a messy head of hair and seemingly unhealthy pale skin. She was short and her limbs were as thin as tree branches. The appearance seen through the glass in front of him was the true appearance of Natsumi, no longer a mature woman with a proud figure.

  On the way here, Kotori had already explained to Shido that now was a great opportunity to take down Natsumi - Natsumi was seriously injured, and although her life was not in danger, she could not use her power at will, and she was also imprisoned in an unfamiliar environment. Even if she tried to be strong, she would still feel very uneasy. As long as a hero who saved her came forward and eliminated her anxiety, it would be very likely to increase her favorability and seal her.

  Kotori said it so simply as before, but it was never that simple. Shido adjusted his breathing slightly and touched the entrance of the room separated by glass with doubt.

  Slowly opened the door and entered the room. From the outside, it looks like a transparent wall, but from the inside, it looks like an ordinary white wall. In addition to the bed, there are also cabinets and tables in the room, and various entertainment supplies are also prepared.

  "...!" The moment Shidou stepped into the room, Natsumi, who was sitting on the bed, shook her shoulders.

  "Hi... Hi... Natsumi" Shidou tried his best to smile and greeted her. This was the first time they met in such a peaceful way. As a "battle-hardened" man, he thought of countless words in his mind to deal with what would happen in the future.

  "Shidou! Let me out!" While shouting, Natsumi threw a pillow at Shidou.

  "Wow! Hey! It's dangerous, Natsumi!"

  "Let me out now! You pervert, are you planning to keep me as your young wife?"

  "No, Natsumi, stop it! Where did you learn such a word?"

  Pillows, bolsters, and dolls swarmed towards Shidao's head, but Shidao dodged them one by one. When Natsumi realized that there was nothing left to throw on the bed, she panicked for a while and then dived into the quilt. After moving around inside for a few seconds, only a pair of eyes appeared and stared at Shidao.

  "Why... do you want to save me..."

  Natsumi stared at Shidou with hostile eyes.

  "Why? A girl was slashed, how can you not save her?"

  Shidou said as a matter of course, without any false emotions, just purely speaking his mind, and Natsumi was speechless at his naive look. She had done so many bad things to him, making him exhausted, but he was still willing to lend a hand to her... How naive can this man be?

  "Ah... Really..." Natsumi waved her hands vigorously in the quilt, raising dust around. It seems that she is not satisfied with Shidou's answer.

  "By the way, Natsumi, I have a few more questions for you."

  "Ask whatever you want to ask quickly... and get out of here quickly..."

  "Why did you transform into my appearance and make everyone disappear? Why on earth did you do such a thing?"

  "...!" Shidou asked this, and Natsumi glared at Shidou through the gap in the quilt.

  "That's of course because... you saw my secret at that time...!"

  "Secret...?"

  "Of... you mean... my real face!"

  "What...? Wait... wait a minute, why would being seen like that be a motive!"

  Shidou asked Natsumi who was crying and shouting. Natsumi gritted her teeth and continued:

  "You actually... asked me why...? There should be a limit to... joking! You can figure it out with your own hands! How can you not care... if you are... seen like this... by others? Or what? Is your purpose to make me say this in person?"

  Natsumi roared in a hysterical tone and pounded the bed hard, which seemed to touch her scales. Afterwards, she began to hate her true appearance and developed an inferiority complex after hearing her talk about the injustice she suffered when she showed her original appearance and the flattery she received when she showed her adult appearance. However, in Shidou's view, no, in everyone's eyes, Natsumi was as cute as Yoshino... It was just that her skin and hair lacked luster. Now it was not a matter of eliminating her anxiety, but of finding a way to eliminate her inferiority complex... If not, even if Natsumi's spiritual power was sealed, once she showed her true face, it would trigger a return of spiritual power.

  After half an hour of complaining, Natsumi jumped out of bed, picked up all the things she had thrown out, piled up a small bunker on the quilt, and then crawled back into the quilt.

  "You said you had a few questions... What's the next question..." Natsumi said while sniffing ,

  "Well, didn't you say before that there was someone around me who was a threat to me? Can you tell me who that person is?"

  As soon as Shidao said this, Natsumi immediately turned from crying to laughing, and her eyes rolled around, as if she was thinking of something evil.

  "Hehe... about this... I tell you, how about you let me out, and by the way, I can also tell you some little secrets of the girls around you... It's not too late to know now..."

  "Uh... I can't make a decision on this... But, if you tell me... I'll buy you a lollipop, how about that..."

  "You think I'm a kid!!! You ¥#@@#%@#"

  Natsumi said those obscene words, Shidou quickly denied it,

  "That's not what I meant... Natsumi... calm down!"

  "Anyway, you must be thinking I'm a kid, and you can just easily get some information from me and then sell me out, right! Let me transform on the street and yell for everyone to come and see" This ugly girl is actually getting carried away by pretending to be a beautiful big sister, how disgusting! "Such a show"

  "Your imagination is too vicious!!"

  "And then you pushed the leftovers in front of me with a pitying look... I saw through it a long time ago!! You just want to make fun of me for looking worse than a beggar!!"

  "No one thinks that!"

  Shidou shouted and denied Natsumi's delusion. It seems that her problem is more serious than it looks. Natsumi, who was emotionally excited, waved her hands vigorously - bent her fingers and scratched Shidou's face fiercely.

  ——

  "..."

  "Didn't I tell you to be careful?"

 As soon as Shidou walked out of Natsumi's room, Kotori, who had scratches on her face like Shidou, shrugged and said so. It seems that Kotori was also scratched by Natsumi like him.

  "...I'd better ask, how is the situation now?"

  "All kinds of emotions are very unstable, or should I say it's a mess, but fortunately, the favorability towards you is still maintained within the controllable range, and you also saved her life"

  "...Really, that's good"

  "What a big head" Kotori scolded, "What "buy a lollipop to eat" I'm ashamed that you can say such a childish thing"

  "...I'm sorry...because Natsumi is about your age, I couldn't help but coax her the way I coax you"

  After Shidao finished speaking, Kotori blushed, lowered her head shyly and whispered, "Well...I can't be easily appeased by a lollipop...I also need kisses, kisses, etc..."

  "Kotori, what did you say?"

  "Hmph, nothing. Come to think of it, Natsumi, what are you going to do? You can't even have a normal chat with her like this."

  Shidou put his hand on his chin, thought for a while, and said, "Yeah... It seems that she is very insecure about her original appearance. We must find a way to resolve her inferiority complex..."

  "But we can't waste time with her. After all, there is a time limit."

  "Time limit?"

  "Of course, why do you think she stays here so quietly? It's because the injuries on her body have not healed yet. If she recovers to the level where she can use angels, she will run away immediately."

  "Oh... How much time is left?"

  Shidou said, and Kotori raised two fingers and made a "V" as if making a victory gesture.

  "Two days, Reine said, we must find a way to resolve her knot within two days."

  Time is really tight, Shidao thought. At this moment, Shidao had a flash of inspiration, slapped his palms, and told Kotori the plan he had thought of - "Natsumi's Transformation Plan". At this moment, Natsumi climbed down from the bed inside the glass wall, picked up all the dolls she threw out, and replenished her ammunition.

  "Got it. I'll prepare the things you need. I'll also ask Miku and the others to come over later. Shidou, you can go home first."

  Kotori said so. Shidou nodded and was about to leave the room when Kotori called him,

  "Shidou, what did you want to ask Natsumi just now?"

  "Ah... I just wanted to ask who Natsumi said was more threatening than her..."

  Kotori Tamaki crossed her arms and answered with an ugly face, "Humph, that's just an excuse she made to confuse people. Shidou, you don't have to ask anymore in the future. Or... do you want to know our secret?"

  "Uh... That's not what I meant..." Shidou took a step back as if frightened by Kotori's aura. Thinking about it carefully, Natsumi must have monitored their every move when selecting the hostages, so it's not surprising that they know a few little secrets. And they want to use this as negotiation material, which is underestimating Shidou... Everyone has things they don't want others to know. Considering this, Shidou decided to put this matter aside for the time being.

  After returning home alone, Shidou ran into Daiki at the door. For some reason, he begged Shidou to go to school tomorrow... He said it was Origami's message... He turned on his phone and saw that he had received several text messages and missed calls from Origami... Maybe the facility where Natsumi was located had signal control, so it didn't receive it.

  Because this fat guy was really hard to pester, he was just about to cling to his thigh like a piece of taffy, so Shidou agreed first...

  "Origami and Natsumi... Natsumi is more important..."

  After all, there are only two days left.

  -

  At night, when Shidou left Natsumi and went back to think about countermeasures.

  Kotori opened the partition door of Natsumi's room again. Natsumi naturally took a defensive posture and shouted at her and the two people following her,

  "You, what are you doing again!"

  Kotori looked at the empty plate on the side, snorted softly, took out a lollipop from her pocket and put it in her mouth. She looked so cute, but the aura she exuded was not that simple.

  "It seems that the meal is delicious, you stinky witch."

  "Huh?"

  Natsumi was startled by Kotori's reaction and took a breath of cool air. Her body instinctively produced a danger warning and threw the doll at Kotori, but Kotori turned her head and dodged it. There was a flash of a knife, and the doll that should have hit the glass wall was split into two halves in mid-air.

  "Eeh!?"

  Natsumi's face was really livid this time, because behind Kotori, Tohka, holding a large sword, stood majestically behind her, with an obviously unhappy face.

  "You...you...what do you want to do...I'm a wounded person."

  Even her voice began to tremble. Natsumi looked innocent and weak. If Shidou was there, he would never allow Kotori and the others to behave like this.

  "Although I don't want to do this, what do you want to say to Shidou today? Can you tell us now?" Even if Natsumi didn't say it, Kotori could guess what secret she had. She had been hanging around people Shidou knew for so many days, it was not surprising for her to see those things... During this period of time, Kotori alone was fucked no less than five times by Daiki, and the number of times the other people had been fucked was only known to them themselves.

  "Hmph, hmph... I won't tell you. This is my trump card. Let Shidou come! I want to talk to him!"

  "You still don't repent at this point, Miku, you go ahead." Kotori said to Miku who came in with her,

  "Is it okay for me to use an angel~"

  "It doesn't matter. After things are resolved, let Shidou seal you again."

  "Hehe~ Date with Darling~ Great"

  "Mmm!? Kotori! What about me!"

  "...It will be your turn.

  " "Wait... what are you going to do..."

  Miku slowly approached Natsumi's bed, her eyes looked like she wanted to eat her up. Natsumi was so scared that she immediately shrank into the quilt, but it was in vain.

  "——Pojun Songstress" Miku, like Tohka, had a limited edition spiritual outfit on her body, a skirt made of light... and several loudspeakers like loudspeakers appeared behind her.

  Then, she leaned down and said in a sweet voice,

  "Tell the truth, you little rascal~"

  "...Yes...Onee-sama."

  If Natsumi was in her prime, she would not be afraid of Miku's little tricks, but she was injured and could only become Miku's captive.

  When Natsumi finished telling what she knew, Miku's ability was also lifted.

  This time it was the turn of the three to be livid. They didn't expect that the fat guy Daiki would even attack Yoshino... And if Shidou did these things, who knows how much damage it would cause to Shidou... This is the only thing to avoid, after all, they don't want the people they like to get hurt.

  Finally, Kotori threatened Natsumi that if she dared to say anything to Shidou again, the doll on the ground would be her fate, and she would be chopped in half if she ran to the neighboring area... Natsumi was so scared that she wet the bed on the spot, and he also caught her handle...

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