CH 15.2

Act 1-15.2 : Encounter With Hero’s Little Sister

Some of the girls around Reiji’s little sister also entered the building, thus, thinning out the escorts around her.

（This might be my only chance.）

Kuroki decided to approach her. But, remembering his initial mission, he started worrying about Gendor being found out before he was able to fetch him. He hesitated for a moment, then steeled his resolve.

「Nut, can you help me monitor the situation inside the building?」

「Roger that.」

Nut descended from Kuroki’s shoulder and went to spy on the knights’ activities inside the building.

（Well then, it’s my turn.）

Kuroki put on his hood, focusing for a moment to activate his invisibility magic. After succeeding, he slowly approached Reiji’s little sister. She was currently leisurely chatting with the maid beside her.

The girl dressed as a maid was of a rather petite stature. Her ink-black hair was sleekly tied up in a dumpling shaped bun with braids around it*. Her bangs loosely hung down on her cold and expressionless face; it was as if a Noh mask was plastered on it. [TL: Saber from fate/Stay Night’s hairstyle.]

Contrary to the lively little sister, the maid never spoke more than necessary, only responding with a few perfunctory words from time to time. From an outsider’s point of view, it was as if the hero’s little sister was talking to a doll.

Once he got closer, to some extent, Kuroki could hear their voice.

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「It seems they’re finally breaking in, Milady.」

「Yes, that’s quite good. I was getting tired of waiting.」

The little sister replied with a bored look on her face.

「But this is indeed strange. I can’t seem to hear any fighting sound. Maybe there really is no one inside the building.」

The woman called Kaya tilted her head.

「Oh my, could it be that they outmanoeuvred us?」

「That might be so, Milady. It seems they sniffed our movements first and fled as fast as possible.」

「Is that so? How disappointing. Could it be that, that demon beast called man-whatever it is, is also no longer in there?」

「It’s called a manticore, Milady. I have no idea whether that demon beast is in there or not. But in case that demon beast is in there, make sure that you don’t move from your current position. The area around here is protected by a barrier. But, just now, a simple magic…」

The maid called Kaya didn’t finish her sentence.

「Is something the matter, Kaya?」

Reiji’s little sister was looking at her maid in puzzlement.

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「No, it’s nothing. How about we move around for a while, Milady?」

「Yeah, I don’t mind. Are you sure that there really is no problem, Kaya?」

「It seems a stray rat has sneaked in. You lot, protect Milady.」

The maid called Kaya ordered the other escort girls.

At that exact same moment.

Kuroki bent over as low as possible. Something really fast flashed by the place where Kuroki’s head, or chin to be exact, was a moment ago.

（Roundhouse kick?!）

The maid, Kaya, after speaking her orders, had suddenly jumped and sent an extremely accurate roundhouse kick aimed at Kuroki’s chin. Had Kuroki reacted just a tiny bit slower, he would have been knocked out for sure.

After seeing her frighteningly accurate kick aiming for his chin, Kuroki had no doubt at all about his current situation.

（I was found out!）

Kuroki was always confident about his invisibility magic. In fact, nobody other than the maid called Kaya had noticed his presence. It seems she could see through Kuroki’s invisibility spell. He was really surprised as this was the first time his magic had not been exceedingly effective.

However, Kuroki had no time to dwell on these thoughts as another attack was aiming for him. Kaya, using her roundhouse kick’s momentum, spun in the air and sent a heel crush towards Kuroki, who was still bent over from the previous attack.

（BLACK LACE!!!）

Kuroki’s superhuman dynamic vision captured the content underneath Kaya’s skirt.

Normally, he would’ve spent his time enjoying such a scene, but the current situation didn’t grant him such happiness. Kuroki quickly rolled away to the side to dodge the descending heel attack.

The ground where that heel crush fell was obliterated to smithereens, scattering away bits of soil in the air.

「For you to be able to dodge my attack! Speak of your identity?!」

Kaya screamed. But, Kuroki didn’t have the leeway to answer her since he was occupied with dodging her relentless attacks.

As soon as he dodged the heel crush, Kaya launched another chain of attacks.

「Leyline Wave!」

Kaya struck the ground with her fist, sending a shockwave through the ground, and attacking Kuroki in the process.

「Tch! WAIT!!」

Kuroki, who spotted the innocent bystanders behind him, saw the imminent danger they would face due to Kaya’s attack. Trying to stop the oncoming chaos and casualties, he struck the ground with his fist, imitating Kaya’s attack and stopping its momentum.

「GOTCHA!」

Kuroki had no time to feel relieved. Kaya instantly closed in the distance between them. Her movements were fast and sharp, with no wasted effort or strength at all. Even Kuroki thought that her motions were beautiful.

「STEEL PIERCING DEMOLITION FIST!」

Kaya sent out a punch.

（What the?!）

Kuroki bent his body a little to the back.

Kaya slid into that momentary opening, destroying Kuroki’s stance even further.

（NOW!）

Kuroki grabbed Kaya’s outstretched hand, and flung her away.

（OH CR4P! I ENDED UP FLINGING HER BY INSTINCT!）

The throwing skill Kuroki used was an overhead throw, a counter-attack that allowed the user to drop their opponent head first on the ground. At this rate, Kaya’s head would smash hard on the ground; it’ll be extremely painful and might even cause severe damage. Thinking like this, the flustered Kuroki propped Kaya’s back with his other hand and forcefully dropped her on her bottom. At least it was less dangerous.

「Ugh!」

Kaya moaned in pain. It was still painful even when she was dropped bottom first.

「S-Sorry!」

Kuroki ended up apologizing too.

「You ruffian, what are you doing to Kaya?!」

When Kuroki raised his head, he saw Reiji’s little sister already heading towards his direction.

Different from Kaya, her movements were that of a complete amateur with zero history in martial arts. She also had a hard time running due to her long skirt. Just as he was thinking that this skirt was really inconvenient, the little princess got tangled in it and stumbled on her own feet. At this rate she would fall head first, Kuroki nervously mused.

「WATCH OUT!」

Kuroki’s body moved on its own to catch the falling Princess.

Funyu~

Instead of the waist he was aiming for, Kuroki’s hand grabbed and rested on something soft and elastic.

「WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!」

What his hand grabbed on to was the little sister’s b00bs.

「YOU HENTAI!」

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A powerful wave of mana was released from the little sister’s body as soon as she screamed.

（OH CR4P! SO THIS IS THE REASON WHY SHE GOT THAT DANGEROUS NAME! CR4P! AT THIS RATE, THIS AREA WILL BE…!）

Kuroki hurriedly gathered his mana in both hands. He seized the sister’s invoked magic, and flung it away to the sky.

Unluckily, his hood was flipped up for a few seconds in the process.

「Eh?」

The little sister’s eyes widened. Her and Kuroki’s gaze interlocked for a moment.

From the air above them, the sound of thundering explosions reverberated. Kuroki turned around and was faced with rising fumes coming from the vanished top floor of the Black Fang’s base.

「CR4P!!」

Kuroki unintentionally shouted loudly. In a hurry, he had tossed away the magic randomly, forgetting to throw it as far away as he could. Yet, no other building was destroyed, save for the Black Fang’s base. Kuroki didn’t know if this made him lucky or not.

（Please be safe, Nut!）

Kuroki fixed his hood and ran towards the building in haste.

The soldiers and escorts who had gone into the building were now scrambling out, trying to quickly leave the building. Kuroki dodged them, running towards the building to find Nut.

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「Kuroki-sama~!」

It was Nut’s voice.

Kuroki quickly scanned the area and finally spotted Nut’s figure. He was running amongst the people hurriedly escaping the building.

（Nut, thank God you’re safe! Let’s escape from this place!）

Thanks to the Fire Rat species’ innate ability, Nut had immediately sensed the oncoming danger and escaped beforehand.

Hearing Kuroki’s telepathic thoughts, Nut ran as fast as possible as they both fled the area.

Kuroki could hear the sound of a crumbling building behind him.

（We must leave this place immediately!）

When he looked over his shoulder, Kuroki found out that no one was chasing after him. They must have been too preoccupied with saving the people inside the building that they failed to notice him and Nut fleeing.

After arriving in a back alley, Kuroki turned around to make sure that there really was no one following him. When he was positive that nobody was around, he heaved a sigh and looked closely at Nut, checking for any injuries.

Fortunately, the fire rat didn’t seem to be injured by the previous incident.

「Are you okay, Nut?」

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「Somehow. What about you, Kuroki-sama? Did something happen on your side?」

When that br*ast groping incident happened, Nut was inside the building, thus, he had no idea about what happened outside.

「Hahaha… I’m okay. Just made a slip.」

Kuroki was smiling wryly while recalling his slip when he tried to approach Reiji’s little sister.

With this event, his existence would most likely be leaked to Reiji and co, and with him uncovered, it would become more risky and difficult for him to personally gather information from this point on.

He then recalled the maid called Kaya’s swift attacks.

（She’s more troublesome than a manticore, her movements were sharp and accurate. That’s clearly the actions of a trained martial artist.）

Kuroki’s experience in martial arts allowed him to see through Kaya’s martial arts skill.

（This kind of strength isn’t the strength of a human of this world. She might have been summoned to this world too.）

On top of that, he recalled that Kaya’s face resembled that of a Japanese.

The reason he had not previously considered the possibility of her being a summoned person was because there were many black haired, Japanese resembling humans from this world too. However, now, considering her skills and strength, it was most probable that she was another summoned person.

「Seriously, what should I do from now on?」

Kuroki was at his wit’s end. He started pondering about his future plans in the Holy Republic of Lenaria.

（As I thought, approaching Reiji and his companions with normal means is really difficult… I guess I can only ask Nut for help with this matter. Shall I just tell him the truth?）

With his skills, Nut could easily gather inside information for Kuroki. Kuroki had the skill to do it as well, but the only problem was that he was once regarded as Reiji and the other’s enemy, and with him being exposed, it would just be impossible.

（I wonder what Nut will think about this matter?）

Kuroki felt like he was placed between a rock and a hard place.

He then looked at his left hand.

「It was soft…」

Kuroki recalled the softness of Reiji’s little sister’s br*ast.