Woooooooooooooooo——!!!
At lunch, just as Mikoto opened her bento box, she heard the sharp sound of an alarm.
"What an unpleasant sound."
A spacequake alarm.
It was the sound that forcibly dragged Mikoto out of her normal daily life and back into the abnormal.
She closed the lunch box she had just opened.
It seed lunchti would have to wait.
She left the classroom and followed the line to the shelter.
Looking around, she did not see Shido anywhere. Only Tohka was sitting across from her, looking very uneasy.
It made sense.
A spacequake ant a Spirit had appeared.
So many days had passed, and AST had not attacked her again. That ant this was not a false alarm like last ti.
Naturally, Shido was on his way to conquered the Spirit.
[Is this really fine?]
Mikoto asked herself.
[Am I just going to hide in the shelter and do nothing, waiting for news from Shido?]
Her feelings were not the sa as they had been during the last spacequake.
Whether through her own experience, or through hearing from Ratatoskr about what had happened when Shido conquered Tohka, Mikoto now understood much more deeply how dangerous it was to make contact with a Spirit.
Even though she knew Shido had the ability to heal himself, she still could not help worrying.
[But what can I even do now?]
Her Spirit power had already been sealed. She was not that different from an ordinary human now.
Her emotions told her she should go find Shido.
Her reason told her that would only be getting in the way.
It was the sa as soone who could not swim jumping into a lake to save another person.
[Fine. Next ti there's a spacequake, I'll tell Kotori to let go up to Fraxinus.]
From the airship, she should be able to better help Shido.
Even without power, she could at least offer suggestions.
As for now, Mikoto decided to stay quietly in the shelter.
"Ah..."
But just then, she saw Tohka suddenly run out.
The anxious look on Tohka's face was definitely not because she wanted to go to the bathroom or because she had forgotten sothing.
"Not good."
She had to bring Tohka back.
Thinking that, Mikoto stood up and chased after her.
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[What is going on?]
Shido felt a little confused.
The girl nad Yoshinon was pressing down on him. Their lips were pressed together.(TL:this is not tl error, shido didn't know her na was yoshino until later, he only talk to yoshinon and thought her na was yoshinon too)
There was no doubt about it.
This was a kiss.
In order to find the Spirit whose codena was Hermit, Shido had co to this departnt store.
There, he t the girl he had once seen at the shrine.
Cute clothes.
A rabbit puppet on her left hand.
Without a doubt, this Spirit was the sa girl he had t before.
The Spirit's na was Yoshinon.
She was a gentle child, like Mikoto.
From eting to talking, everything had gone smoothly.
But what felt strange to Shido was that the girl had never once spoken with her own mouth.
The only one he could talk to was the rabbit puppet.
It was almost as if the one nad Yoshinon was not the girl herself, but the rabbit.
Because AST was outside, the only place they could have a date was inside this departnt store.
Then Yoshinon, who had been climbing the indoor play structure for children, accidentally fell down, leading to the current situation.
Beep—beep—beep—!!!
A sharp alarm sounded in Shido's earpiece.
It was a warning from Fraxinus, used when a Spirit's mood dropped and Shido was in danger.
[Wait, shouldn't the sealing have worked?]
Although it was an accident, logically, the sealing should have succeeded.
[Shido, this is an ergency. And it's the worst and most dangerous kind.]
Kotori's anxious voice ca through the earpiece.
[Oww, oww, oww. Sorry, Shido-kun. I fell down by mistake.]
The Yoshinon in front of him did not seem angry.
Then the source of the lowered mood was...
Clack!
Footsteps sounded behind him.
Shido nervously turned his head.
What he saw was Tohka and Mikoto, who, for so reason, had appeared here.
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"Tohka! Wait for , Tohka!"
No good.
She could not catch up at all.
Tohka was running very fast. Just keeping enough distance to not lose her was already difficult.
And no matter how much Mikoto called out, Tohka kept running toward the place where the spacequake had occurred without even looking back.
After running for who knew how long, Mikoto followed Tohka to a departnt store.
[Could Shido be inside?]
She did not know why, but Tohka had accurately grasped Shido's location.
Could it be by scent?
Mikoto thought that with a helpless laugh in her heart.
"Ah."
After turning a corner, what entered her eyes was Tohka frozen in place.
And Shido, for so reason, lying on the ground.
The girl from the shrine was lying on top of him, and their lips were pressed tightly together.
It looked like they were kissing.
"Shido... what were you just doing?"
"Wh-what was I doing...?"
"I was worried about you, and here you are flirting with that woman! What are you doingggg?!"
In an instant, with Tohka at the center, the floor cracked.
[Spirit power backflow.]
Kotori had said before that when a Spirit's emotions beca unstable, their Spirit power would flow backward.
"When Shido said he had sothing to do, did he an eting this little girl?"
"Um... Tohka, calm down."
Mikoto tried to soothe Tohka.
In order to avoid putting too much pressure on the Spirit, Ratatoskr had not told Tohka why Shido had co here.
Because of that, Tohka misunderstood Shido, thinking that he had abandoned her just to et this little girl.
[Oh my, oh my, so that's what happened. Tohka-chan, it's because you're too much that Shido-kun got tired of you.]
But it was already too late.
One line from the rabbit puppet lit the fuse.
[Not good. Tohka won't listen to anyone right now.]
Mikoto sighed and went to Shido's side.
"Did the sealing succeed?"
"Um... Yakumo-senpai, what just happened was completely—"
"A misunderstanding, right? That girl fell off the climbing fra?"
"How did Yakumo-senpai know?"
Shido froze.
But for Mikoto, the scene in front of her was not hard to understand.
The children's climbing fra, the place where the two of them had fallen, and the position of the kiss.
Although it was only a guess, compared to "the girl fell from the climbing fra, was caught by Shido, and the two of them fell together and kissed," the idea that "Shido conquered the Spirit so well that she willingly lay in his arms and kissed him" was actually much harder to believe.
Even an idiot couple would not choose a sha level 9 pose like lying on the floor.
"More importantly, right now we need to think about how to calm Tohka down."
Mikoto sighed.
While the two of them were talking, maybe because she was too angry, Tohka grabbed the rabbit puppet from the girl's hand and threw it away in one motion.
[Shido, Yoshinon's ntal state is shaking. Hurry and do sothing!]
In the next mont, Kotori's voice ca through the earpiece.
But it was already too late.
"Zadkiel!"
The girl raised her hand high, then swung it down.
In the next mont, her Angel descended inside the departnt store.
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