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    Chapter 110 : The Story I Started

    Chapter 110 : The Story I Started

    Rumble―

    The sound of destruction heard from afar.

    Another building collapses.

    “■■■■■!!!”

    “■■■■■!!!”

    Reddish-brown soldiers and black lions pushing through the debris, roaring and indiscriminately searching for people to massacre.

    It’s been a long time since thoughts of economic losses or damage recovery disappeared from Yamashita’s mind. It was because a few of them were already chasing him.

    Step

    Step

    Step

    “■■■■■!!!”

    Acrid smoke and the heat of flames tickle his cheeks through the burning city.

    He moves his two legs frantically and runs forward.

    “Uwaaaaa!!!”

    The police notebook, handcuffs, and gun in his pocket feel as heavy as a thousand pounds, giving the illusion that they’re grabbing his ankles.

    Step

    Step

    Step

    Though he’s running until he’s out of breath, that sound shows no sign of getting farther away.

    “Huff! Hah…”

    Under the red sky, in a landscape where everything seems like it will burn to an end.

    Yamashita was running frantically through a residential area.

    ‘I must be crazy!!’

    After reviving the dead magical girls.

    The magical girl of [Beginning], who the national agencies had instructed to respond to as a kind of god-like being, though they didn’t show it outwardly.

    The magical girl of [Beginning] asked Tokyo citizens to evacuate, staking everything she had built up.

    To prepare for the day of destruction she had strongly argued for since the beginning of this year, they had barely managed to establish an evacuation order for Tokyo residents by mobilizing all of Elysion’s capabilities, but.

    “Uwaaaa!! Save me!!”

    “What’s going on?!”

    “I, I don’t want to die!!”

    There were too many citizens remaining in the residential areas, ignoring the order to go to shelters. And lions and soldiers attacking them.

    Bang! Bang!

    Citizens in crisis.

    Warning shots fired unconsciously.

    “You damn things!! Come over here!!”

    Yamashita was luring those attacking the citizens while running away.

    Logically, he should have sent an emergency radio message to Tsugumi, the magical girl of [Order] leading the security team and focusing on relief activities, and observed. Or he should have driven a security team bus and transported as many citizens as possible.

    Why on earth was he doing such a foolish thing.

    ‘Has my head turned into a flower garden from eating and sleeping with magical girls?’

    He’s just a powerless ordinary person.

    What’s happening under this red sky is beyond his control.

    He should have just stayed at the Metropolitan Police Department’s special countermeasures headquarters as a radio operator.

    As he was running while thinking all sorts of things, Yamashita saw a ruined house in front of him.

    Grrrr…

    Ruins where a black lion that had just finished its destructive activity was casually leaving.

    ‘If it’s already achieved its purpose, it won’t come back!’

    Swish!!

    Yamashita slid further than he ever did in high school baseball and desperately crawled into the debris.

    “…”

    He covered his mouth and lay flat, quietly watching outside.

    Step

    Step

    Step

    The soldiers that had been chasing him until just now look around and then disappear down the road in front of the residential area.

    The chilling footsteps fade away.

    He survived.

    “Whew…”

    “Kyaaaaaaa!!!”

    “…What?!”

    “Save me!!”

    “■■■■■!!!”

    A woman’s scream.

    A black lion’s roar.

    Yamashita’s breathing quickens and his heart starts pounding madly.

    He should send a radio message to Tsugumi now.

    No, what use would sending a radio message be now.

    It can’t be helped, rushing out would only lead to mutual suicide.

    Thump―Thump―

    What on earth should he do in this situation?

    Is there anything Yamashita can do?

    Thump―Thump―

    In time flowing like eternity with each second, Yamashita suddenly looked at the watch on his wrist.

    The watch his ex-girlfriend bought him as a birthday present in college.

    -Tadayoshi, why do you want to become a police officer?

    Politician. Lawyer.

    Having graduated from Tokyo University’s law department, he could have gone anywhere.

    ‘Why did I want to become a police officer?’

    A childish dream forgotten under the ambition to become the Superintendent General of the Metropolitan Police.

    A dream held by a bookworm who knew nothing of reality.

    -Because among high-ranking officials, those who work hardest to protect people are…

    “…police officers.”

    -I’ll become a high-ranking person who protects people!

    “The duty… of police is.”

    [Protecting citizens is the natural duty of the police!]

    Yamashita ran out just like that.

    Dozens of black lions had gathered at the intersection of the residential area, surrounding children and pregnant women who were belatedly evacuating, making chilling howls.

    Black lions gathered like cockroaches on an abandoned warehouse wall, when even one would be difficult to handle.

    “■■■■■!!!”

    “■■■■■!!!”

    Yamashita fired at them.

    “Look over here!!”

    Bang! Bang! Bang!

    Clink

    The bullets bounced off with a weak sound, but dozens of gazes suddenly focused on Yamashita at the unexpected attack.

    Dozens of pairs of eyes full of killing intent and hostility look at Yamashita.

    He will die now.

    Accepting that fact, Yamashita shouted loudly.

    “Citizens!! The police are here!! Please evacuate with peace of mind!!”

    “Hiiiii!!”

    The woman, covered in tears and snot, grabbed the children’s hands with trembling hands and hurriedly ran away.

    “■■■■■!!!”

    As the black lions started looking back at their screams, Yamashita fired his gun at them. But each time the bullets hit, they just bounced off with a futile sound.

    Bang! Bang! Tick!

    The sound of the slide moving, completely empty of bullets.

    ‘Ah…’

    Rather, there was no fear.

    Yamashita slowly relaxed his shooting posture and faced the lions approaching him.

    After a while of frantic communication, Tsugumi’s voice began to be heard from the radio.

    [Superintendent Yamashita!! What are you doing!!]

    “…”

    [Superintendent Yamashita?]

    Even now, Tsugumi must be saving many people as a magical girl.

    It’s not an adult’s job to interfere with what this simple but righteous girl is doing.

    “There’s… no problem. Miss Ishikawa.”

    [Superintendent Yamashita! Call me Team Leader during work hours!]

    “I hope Miss Ishikawa continues to live righteously. It was an honor to work with you.”

    [Wh-what? What kind of words that sound like a will…!]

    “I’m sure you’ll be an excellent police officer…”

    Baaaang―!!

    In the distance, the sound of two magical girls with transcendent powers fighting can be heard.

    Yamashita prayed with a detached mind as he watched it.

    That the magical girl of [Beginning] would be able to win.

    That the world of humans would not end today.

    Perhaps Yamashita had started living as a real police officer since he faced her at the Odaiba broadcasting station.

    [Ugh! I couldn’t hear well because of the surrounding noise! Superintendent Yamashita!! I’ll come over there…!]

    Yamashita put down the radio with a despondent heart.

    “■■■!!!”

    “Haha.”

    If I had known this would happen, I should have proposed to my ex-girlfriend instead of breaking up.

    Yamashita closed his eyes.

    Lions charged.

    Approaching footsteps were heard.

    And a girl’s voice.

    “Superintendent Yamashitaaaa!!!”

    “Miss Ishikawa?”

    Swish!!

    A navy blue police line appeared to drive away the lions, and a girl with a serious expression fell from the sky. The black lions were scattering in panic from the starlight contained in the navy blue bullets she was firing.

    Bang! Bang!

    “■■■!!!!”

    Woong―

    Tsugumi landed beside Yamashita with dust.

    There were a few tears in her eyes shining strongly under her thick eyebrows.

    “Don’t say such things! Even as a joke!! Hurry and evacuate from here!!”

    “…Hahaha.”

    “Observatory!! There’s one civilian isolated hereeee!!”

    “Not a civilian.”

    “Huh?”

    “…A police officer like you.”

    Yamashita said, a little embarrassed but proudly.

    “Team Leader. Let’s save people together.”

    Tsugumi was so happy and reassured by those words that she smiled brightly.

    “Yes!! Superintendent Yamashita is a police officer!! My proud subordinate!!”

    * * *

    In the shelter set up in the open space of Elysion, tens of thousands of people watched the battle of magical girls being transmitted above the sky with bated breath.

    “God…”

    “Please…!”

    The prophecy uttered by the magical girl of [Beginning] had come true.

    “Goddess!! Please!!”

    “Holy maiden of salvation!! Please save us!!”

    Now people were just praying that the holy maiden who had risen to save them would win the battle.

    Demons falling like rain under the red sky.

    Gods mocking human fate.

    Unreasonable enemies that all the technology humans had built up was useless against.

    They heard that even the military and police were being overwhelmed without being able to do anything.

    “Ugh… it’s over.”

    “Are we all going to die like this?”

    “Why is this happening.”

    People despairing.

    An old man entered among them who had their heads bowed.

    “Stop saying such negative things and have some of this.”

    “Wh-what?!”

    • A savory smell. Corn soup.

    “When people have negative thoughts, they should drink something warm.”

    “…Thank you.”

    Slurp

    Because of the taste of the warm and soft soup going down his throat.

    The anxiety that had risen calmed down and the desire to live grew.

    The Master looked up at the sky while serving corn soup to many people.

    “…”

    In the screen floating like a kaleidoscope in the sky above Elysion.

    The girl who started all this was fighting desperately, swinging her fists.

    “Please… win and come back.”

    Hikari

    Kyoko

    My beloved daughters.

    The Master felt like the lights in the screen were becoming entangled and gradually turning white.

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