บท 47: Infiltration (2/2)
What did she just say?
Haruto couldn't believe what the person in front of him said just now.
About ten minutes ago,
He finally slipped inside the interior of the mansion while bringing along Selianna with him. Just like in the afternoon, he used the silver feathers filled with [Disintegration] magic to disable all the sensory wards and barriers along their way.
They were bewildered that no guard had appeared before them. Feeling something was off, Haruto decided to concentrate his sense and felt the surrounding energies.
To his surprise there's almost no guards left on the lower floor, what left were ordinary people who he suspect were maids, even their energy was static as if they were all unconscious.
And then he moved his attention the upper floor.
Finally, he could detect some presences of guards on the 3rd and 4th floor while there's only filled with knights on the 5th floor, there must be where the most important place in this mansion was located.
Suddenly one of the presences of guards disappeared so he was alerted. He realized they were killed by someone, because before the energy signature faded out a thin but large energy just approached them.
This someone was concealing their presence it was proven by the thinness of the energy this person was radiated. If he not focused enough he may not even notice it exist.
'Huh?'
Somehow this presence feel familiar?
Yes, it was exactly one of the hazy energy signature he detected on the top most floor back on his observation. So one of them went out of the room? But why did they kill the people guarding the house? Could it be someone who's hostile with the house residents?
In any case he must took a look at the person first. Those two presences had always appeared on his mind ever since he came back that noon because they're just feel so familiar even though their presences were supposed to be blurred by the magical ward.
And now one of them was there above him, there's no way he's not curious!
Selianna was confused seeing him being absentminded next to him. Just as she tried to snap him back to his senses he suddenly left the place and dashed forward to the stairs.
He knew he was being naive, what if the person turned out to be an enemy? what if they would try to kill him or his companion?
Even though such things appeared on his mind but for some reason his legs kept moving forward without any hesitation. His logic was warning him but his instinct told him to head there as fast as possible. Two conflicting thoughts were clashing in his mind but in the end his body obeyed his gut.
Just a few minutes later he already reached the third floor from the first floor. He immediately head east towards the thin presence was located sensing them just killing another guard silently.
Just when he finally only about twenty meters away he began to feel hesitation, right now his logic finally pushed back his irrational gut and calmed his mind. He raised his guard and approached them slowly, making sure they could hear his footsteps.
That person seemed startled when they heard his footsteps, the aura he felt on his sense were flaring violently and turned hostile, charging towards him with incredible momentum, as if they were trying to commit suicide.
He put his stance right away reflexively from the sudden attack, he could see a blade being drawn and swung against his neck with terrifying speed. That sword drawing technique was amazing, it aimed his neck with precise accuracy and cut through the air and gravity without being hindered from the skillful movement.
He raised his right hand and grabbed the blade with his fingers, holding it from moving further to his skin.
He just had to use most of his power to keep the sword from moving so he's really impressed from their strength.
"?!"
The figure in front of him was shocked, he could only saw a shadowy figure with their head being masked and crimson eyes. From the moonlight behind the person he could see the shape of their body. It was a slender and feminine body with the swellings on the chest part, so it must be a woman.
She unleashed another kick and he blocked them with his left arm, the woman used the recoil from the hit to jump backwards, creating a distance a few meters away.
Haruto could feel her overwhelming killing intent, it was such that she lost her thin energy signature, making it flare fiercely like a ferocious carnivore.
This person was really trying to kill him, and yet his instinct once again telling him there's something off about the situation. And so his feet move silently once again, approaching the masked woman glaring at him hatefully with her bloody red eyes.
He stepped on the moonlight and the light brightened his body, revealing his figure. The moment the red eye masked woman saw his face she became stunned and widened her eyes in shock.
No way, could it be this person really know about him?
He thought, confused seeing her reaction. He tried to open his mouth to ask the masked woman but she beat him first and said something he couldn't possibly ignore.
"Sugimura...kun...?"
....
Sugimura Haruto.
It was his full name that he already sealed not long after he left the first town he's staying at on this world. Except for people like Elsie, Kaori, or Rayne (who he accidentally told her), no one else know about his last name. It was because only nobles could possess a last name in this world.
And yet this person in front of him just called out that hidden name?
"You... what did you just say?" He asked the woman, full of bewilderment.
"!"
Once again her body jolted when she heard his voice this time, she covered her masked mouth with her hands with her now black eyes shivering and started to get wet before it let out tears like rain from her eyes.
*Crash*
"Wha!?"
She dashed forward and crashed at him with crazy momentum, slamming him to the ground with the masked woman pinning him on the ground.
Her wet eyes staring at him from above very closely while her hands were rubbing against his face as if she was trying to make sure the person in front of her was not an illusion. Haruto was still stunned from being pinned on the ground with his back so he stared back at her eyes with absentminded gaze.
"It's...really you...." She said with emotional voice.
"It's not an illusion *sob*...." Her voice began to weep.
"UWAAAAA!!"
The girl was screamed loudly and buried her face on Haruto's chest, embracing him tightly while sobbing like mad. His clothes was wet from her heavy tears while he just lay there dumbfounded from her sudden outburst.
What is happening?
Why is this girl suddenly crying?
Who is she?
His thought was in chaos because he couldn't fathom what just happened. He heard her screaming cry, her sorrowful yet happy voice sounded from his chest.
Wait...this voice....he know this voice....
A voice he hadn't heard for a long time.
A voice he always missed ever since their separation due to his own cowardice.
A voice from someone he dearly loved.
"Kisaragi...?"
A voice from Kisaragi Rikka.
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She finally stopped crying and both of them now looked at each other eyes, full of emotions.
"You're...Kisaragi...?" Haruto asked doubtfully.
The masked girl's eyes turned soft as if she's currently smiling inside the mask. She reached her hand to her mask and tore it off immediately, revealing her full face.
"Un, It's me, Sugimura-kun." She smiled lovingly at him
"...."
"Sugimura-kun?"
She was expecting him to recognize her right away after she removed her mask but for some reason Haruto put on a very dumb face.
"...Who are you...?" He said stupidly.
"Huh?"
EEEEHH!? Rikka screamed on her mind.
"W-What do you mean who are you!? It's me you know, Rikka! Kisaragi Rikka! Sugimura-kun did you forget about me!?"
Rikka shouted on his face while violently shaking his shoulders. Right now if Haruto was on his right mind he would realize the situation just now was a déjà vu, like his recent reunion with a certain beautiful receptionist girl.
"NO WAYY!!"
Haruto made a grand retort to her introduction with a very loud voice. Rikka was startled from his fierce denial.
"You said you are Kisaragi!? Don't give me that crap!! What the hell's happening to you?!" This time it was him who shook her shoulders violently.
"W-W-W-Wait wait wait, Sugimura-kun, what do you mean by that!? What's wrong about me??"
"YOU SAID WHAT"S WRONG!? Fine then, I'll tell you!"
He released her shoulders and pointed his finger at her eyes.
"You, where is your glasses?"
"What?"
"What's with that hair?" He pointed to her hair next.
"Eh?"
"Haaah....."
Haruto sighed very very deeply seeing her dumbfounded expression, not understanding what he meant.
"The Kisaragi Rikka in my memories is a girl with two braids dark brown hair. She was short with fragile looking body, and wore a very lame round glasses. She was the very definition of a bookworm geek young woman. But you? You're tall, your figure put the actresses in our world ran away in shame, your face did not lose to a certain goddess that I know and Kisaragi's definitely not a kind of girl with fashion sense to stylishly modeled her hair to a cute side tail. With all of this facts you still asked me what's wrong!?"
"...."
Rikka's mouth was gaping wide from all his accusations. She examined her figure by rubbing her face and body before she tilted her head innocently and asked with a very stupid voice.
"Did I change that much?"
"...If only Kaori's here I'll definitely asked her to project my memories using the Regeneration Magic to show her how she looked before." Haruto grumbled quietly seeing her putting on a dumb face.
Wait he's forgetting something far more important here!
"Hey Kisaragi, how are you being in this place?"
This is a different world you know? He continued in his heart.
"Ah yes, actually...."
*BOOOMM*
"What the!?"
Explosion suddenly erupted from the floor above them. The ceiling collapsed from the shock. Haruto embraced Rikka's body and protected her from the falling debris.
The entire mansion soon began to collapse so Haruto hugged Rikka tightly and flew over from the building while carrying her on his chest.
Rikka was stunned from the sudden explosion and her being hugged tightly by Haruto while they flew outside and land on the ground, at the mansion's yard.
"Haruto!"
Haruto glanced at his side and noticed Selianna approaching him from afar. He already sensed Selianna immediately jumped from the windows during the explosion when she was searching for him in the mansion.
"Selianna, what happened?"
"I don't know too, there's suddenly a massive explosion from the top most floor, look!"
Haruto raised his head and looked upwards, he was startled of what he seen.
A pillar of flame was rising high to the sky from the collapsing mansion.
From the pillar of flame a gigantic figure leaped upwards and rolled in the air before it landed on the ground right in front of them with a huge crash.
"That's..."
He was stunned seeing the giant figure clad in infernal flame in front of him.
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