“Pervert!”
Mutsuki could hardly argue with her. A
merciless punch from an angel with top class combat skills sent him flying and
his back slammed into the bedroom wall.
“You…pervert! I let my guard down for a
second and you cover my face in…in… ~~You perv!”
“I never actually told you to suck it.”
“—————”
“Sorry.”
If he argued back, his life might really be
in danger. Sensing that in Ange’s eyes, he sat down and bowed over and over.
After his sixth ejaculation, she had
snapped and their trancelike state had left them. The two girls were wiping off
what covered their faces and Machina was fixing her clothing.
“Oh, honestly! Why do I have to protect you
of all people?”
An odd scent lingered in her mouth, so Ange
continued shouting in anger.
“C’mon, you say something too.”
After scrubbing her face with a wet tissue
until it grew red, she turned to the other victim.
But Machina showed no concern as she gently
wiped off the stickiness and calmly buttoned up her uniform and adjusted the
ribbon.
When Ange saw how unconcerned the girl was,
she must have remembered who it was who had gotten the other girl wrapped up in
this in this because she stopped arguing.
“W-well, sorry this got so weird. You can
leave now. Thanks for bringing us the printout.”
She gave a slapdash show of appreciation
and turned her back.
Machina nodded and looked to Mutsuki for
just a few seconds.
She immediately looked away once he raised
his head and started to leave the room.
“Ah, I-Ibekusa-san, wait.”
Thinking letting her leave now would make
him an awful person, he frantically called after her.
But when she looked back his way, he was
unsure whether he should continue speaking or not.
“Um, it’s pouring outside, so let me call a
taxi.”
“I have…an umbrella.”
“An umbrella won’t help when it’s pouring
this hard. Um, where do you live?”
He asked a perfectly harmless question.
However, that was enough for Ange to drop
the tissue in her hand.
First, her eyes widened in surprise, but
then they sharpened.
She grabbed Mutsuki by the back of the
neck, pulled him over, and threw him onto the bed. She then stood in front of
the confused boy.
“You’re Ibekusa Machina, right?”
“Yes.”
“How did you know about this place?”
She grabbed the pendant on the desk.
“The school was only given a fake address,
so how did you get here?”
“…”
Ange’s question was low and sharp.
Machina’s expression did not change, but her skin visibly tensed for just a
moment.
That was enough to confirm Ange’s
suspicions.
“It was that pin, wasn’t it?”
Mutsuki’s mind had yet to catch up, but the
clear angel gave her conclusion and pulled the boy from the room.
“~~~!?”
“Lithography: excellent.”
The living room had completely changed from
the one he had lived in for three weeks.
The TV, audio system, refrigerator, and all
of the electronics they had bought to fill out the room had vanished.
The table, sofa, and other furniture had
been crushed into rubble. And in that empty living room, something stood atop
the bisected sofa.
“Resuming capture of angel…positive.”
It almost looked like the previous spider,
but this mechanical soldier’s shell was even more offense-oriented. Its joints
creaked as it faced them.
The belly was made from a series of joints
below the head and chest. The giant joint-legged animal even had a long needle
attached to its tail. This steel scorpion had devoured all of the mechanical
devices in the living room and swept the furniture out of the way with its
giant tail.
Finally, Mutsuki understood. That one
remaining pin had become a Springloaded using the machine-consuming power that
could devour everything from a cellphone to a large truck.
“Beginning capture!”
“Gh!”
The scorpion Springloaded leaped at them.
The girl shoved Mutsuki out of the way and used her large sword as a shield.
She fought the machine’s great weight with just one slender arm.
“Run away, Mutsuki! I’ll hold this thing
back, so you escape from that girl!”
He looked at Machina who had left the
bedroom.
“Escape? From Ibekusa-san? Why?”
“She’s with FeTUS! She found this apartment
using the beacon in that pin!”
“~~~!”
Mutsuki faced her in stunned disbelief.
Machina was as expressionless as ever.
She was not at all surprised at the
half-destroyed living room or the moving scorpion machine.
With a sound that shook the entire
apartment building, the living room’s window exploded.
Ange was thrown outside into the rain.
“Why you…! Corona!!”
A thin film of blue flame instantly
enveloped her. The raindrops were large enough to see their droplet shape, but
they were vaporized as soon as they fell around her.
She used that air pressure as footing and
returned to the balcony, but…
“Movement range: excellent. Anti-angel
tools: prepared. Capture: possible.”
“Kwah!”
With eight legs identical to the spider’s,
the Springloaded clung to the outside wall and charged forward before she could
balance herself. The giant scorpion-like tail swung like a whip.
Ange somehow managed to catch the attack on
her sword, but even with her great power, she lacked body weight. She was blown
away.
“Kh…”
“Equal or superior power confirmed.
Capture: possible. Capture: possible!”
“Shut up!”
The girl clung to the wall and swung her
sword, but the mechanical scorpion’s many legs gave it more chances to attack
and a swing of its tail was enough to easily knock the girl away.
Unlike the spider Springloaded, this type
kept pushing and pushing with its power.
“Ahh! God, you’re annoying!”
“Ange, are you okay!?”
Mutsuki ran out onto the balcony and
shouted her way.
Ange and the machine used the apartment
wall as footing as they clashed. Even to an amateur, it was obvious the girl
was being pushed back.
“If you’re nothing but brute force, I just
have to fight smarter not harder! Prominence – Loop!”
She split her giant sword in two and
switched to her two-sword style.
Blue flames blazed along the back of the
swords. At the same time, the flames erupting from her back grew more intense.
The deep blue wings seemed to manifest as physical objects. The raindrops
around her were vaporized, creating an explosive blast of heat that reached
Mutsuki on the balcony.
“Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!”
The weight did not hold her back as she ran
forward. She raced along the outer wall and charged toward the mass of
machinery fast enough that Mutsuki could barely see her beyond the curtain of
steam.
Once she was in range, she rotated with her
arms spread wide.
The girl became a top that sliced through
everything in the vicinity. She even deflected the extended tail once she
touched it and the Springloaded noticeably faltered.
There was no avoiding her attack at this
range, but…
“Target within capture range. Firing
net…positive.”
“!?”
The raised tail fired the same white
threads – or metal wires – that the spider had used to toy with the girl. A
shield-like web formed between the machine and the sword.
The full-speed slice easily chopped through
the impromptu shield, but…
The metal wires split their tips into fine
brush-like hairs. They were as sticky as a real spider web and they wrapped
around the sharp blade.
Splitting her sword into two came back to
bite her. Their halved weight kept the sharp edge from slicing through the
thread, so she could not cut the metal machine.
The spiral of power Lucia had mentioned was
true. The angel could burn a demon with her flames, but her scissors-like
weapon had less luck against the solid Springloaded that was hard as a rock.
“Angel capture simulation: complete.”
“!? Oh, n-…”
“Checkmate.”
The needle at the end of the tail targeted
Ange. She deflected it with her other sword, but…
“~~~~ Kh!”
She paid dearly for leaving herself
defenseless within the enemy’s attack range. The scorpion had extended its pedipalps
at the same time as its needle, so it captured her arms and torso between them.
“Khah… Let me go! Let me goooo!”
The girl struggled, but her arms were not
strong enough to break free of their alloy bonds and her swords were useless
without use of her arms. Not that she could have cut through its shell with the
threads and wires tangled around one of them.
“Ange… Wah!”
A metallic groan accompanied every movement
of the frighteningly nimble mechanical scorpion as it hopped back to the
balcony with the girl in tow.
It landed right in front of Mutsuki.
“Likely Serpent’s Eye possessor spotted
within capturing range.”
“Mutsuki…you idiot! Why didn’t you run
away!?”
The machine had shaken the entire balcony
when it had landed, so the boy had fallen onto his butt. The scorpion extended
its mechanical tail with the girl still in its grasp.
With the sound of splitting metal, the tip
parted into a crane shape.
“Ah…ah…”
Mutsuki’s hips had given out, so he crawled
backwards to escape capture. But after taking aim, the catcher caught up
quickly.
Plus, his back hit something at the balcony
exit and he could move back no further.
“…”
He turned around and trembled like ice was licking
at his heart.
Machina stood there. Her usual cold eyes
were calmly observing the abnormal events.
That was all the confirmation he needed,
but…
“I-Ibekusa-san…”
He felt like he was praying as he asked the
question.
“Are you with FeTUS?”
Speaking it aloud filled him with a tremor
not brought by fear.
Just a few minutes before, he had felt she
was the closest person in the world to him. She was no longer a mere classmate
and that time had been so sweet and even more passionate than time spent with a
lover. He had been happy and he was confident she had enjoyed it too.
But when he thought back, he had to ask why
she had come here and why she had so easily opened her body to him.
“Positive.”
She gave a quick, precise answer and an
unconcerned nod.
“Are you one of FeTUS’s top level members!?
The FeTUS Witches!?”
Unable to move, Ange only shouted angrily.
The other girl once more nodded.
The boy’s mind went entirely blank and all
strength left him.
Then had she only allowed him her body and
heart as an act to deceive him?
He had longed for this classmate since
spring.
Just as he thought he was going to fulfill
that desire, the ground had crumbled below his feet.
“Mutsuki! Pull yourself together! You need
to escape, Mutsuki!”
Ange’s futile voice was drowned out by the
rain and the boy had stopped moving. Machina reached out a hand and the
Springloaded’s mechanical hand approached from the front.
“…”
The boy was surrounded and had no escape.
The mechanical hand continued forward.
“Mutsuki! Why you…!”
It grabbed the body of the chosen one.
“Let gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!”
“Eh?”
Why did Ange sound so confused?
Because the crane-like hand holding the boy
had broken to pieces?
Or because the two mechanical bonds holding
her had torn away like tofu?
“Ange?”
Mutsuki was just as baffled by the scene
before his eyes.
His gaze met Ange’s wide-eyed gaze. Her
eyes were as dignified and sharp as ever.
But they had shed their usual blue and
taken on a divine gold color.
To match her eyes, the usually blue flame
wings were also burning gold.
In a spherical shape around her, everything
was audibly vaporizing: the balcony wall, the window, and even the
Springloaded’s body. But as always, Mutsuki did not even feel warm.
“What…is this?”
“…”
Machina looked just as curious as she
stared at her own hand on the wreckage of the tail crane.
She was the one that had destroyed the
crane. Her outstretched hand had passed the boy by and grabbed the Springloaded
trying to capture him.
As soon as she had touched it, the tail had
fallen apart as if all of the screws had been removed. It looked just like when
the spider in the clock tower had been destroyed.
Had she protected him? Mutsuki was confused
by both this and what had happened with Ange.
“Damage level: 37%. Within capture range:
negative. Attack still possible. Switching to attack.”
Two of the Springloaded’s legs had melted
and its tail had come apart, but it approached the angel and boy with its remaining
six legs. However…
Ange and Machina swept their hands
dismissively toward it.
One hand melted it like chocolate and the
other dismantled it.
“What in the world is this?”
They both looked curiously down at their
own hand.
“The temperature of my purifying fire has
increased. It’s on an entirely different level.”
“I can input the Anti-Code so quickly…This
is six times as fast.”
They were both surprised by their own
power. They exchanged a glance, completely forgetting they were enemies.
Ange remained utterly shocked, but Machina
ultimately calmed down.
“Our bodies… Our cells and spirituality
have raised our abilities to protect Fujita-kun.”
“Wh-what are you talking about? Raised our
abilities? We can’t just get a power-up that easily.”
“It is not that surprising. The Serpent’s
Eye affects every part of a woman. And if he is the true origin…”
“—————!”
They both looked his way.
“Adam?”
“The perfect man?”
“Hm? Wh-what are you two talking about?”
Mutsuki grew flustered when they both gave
him a frightening look.
Ange seemed dumbfounded and Machina gave a
look of realization.
“Damage…level: 71%. Move…ment: im…possible.”
The metal scorpion could just barely stand
on its remaining four legs, but it gave a staticky groan like a poorly-tuned
radio.
“Securing…classified information…top
priority. Self…destruct approved…positive.”
“!”
“!”
Panic filled Ange’s and – for the first time
– Machina’s face.
“The astral source is reversing. The core
energy is being annihilated. The algorithm is shifting from libido to death
drive… Oh, no.”
“Self-destruct!? Mutuski! Get down!”
Ange charged forward, wearing flickering armor
of golden flames.
She almost seemed to trample his collapsed
form to shield him.
“Ange…!?”
At the same time, Machina stood in front of
the both of them and spread her arms.
He saw both Ange and Machina trying to
protect him.
And…
“…❤”
He saw the pouring rain grow a dark blood-red.
“Looks like my timing was perfect.”
“Vvvv!?”
The Springloaded let out a groan of surprise
with only five seconds until it self-destructed.
All of the raindrops on it became the dark red
of blood and began wriggling about on their own, so its surprise was
understandable.
Rock could not be cut by scissors, but it
was weak to paper.
A moment later, the black liquid surrounded
the Springloaded and tossed it into the sky. All of its groans were drowned out
by the rain.
“…! …!!”
Mutsuki did not know if a machine could scream,
but he knew this one had to be screaming if it could.
More and more rain wrapped around it,
slipped into the gaps between parts, and easily took control. At the same time,
it was smoothly carried up toward the source of the rain. It moved opposite of
gravity.
The raindrops acted like a slide as they carried
the Springloaded high into the sky.
The clock inside was accurate, so it
happened precisely four seconds later.
The thick clouds producing the intense
rainfall were blown to smithereens by a sphere of light.
Ange, Machina, and Mutsuki were
dumbfounded.
“Eh heh heh❤”
Lucia gently landed.
“Told you I would be seeing you sooner this
time.”
Just like on the day Mutsuki had been invited
into this bizarre new life, the demon boy winked with a glimpse of the setting
sun in the background.
Thxs for the chapter.
ReplyDeleteThis quote: "She was no longer a mere classmate and that time had been so sweet and even more passionate than time spent with a lover."
ReplyDeleteRighto~ So our manslut Mutsuki dares to feel 'betrayed' that the obvious machine girl (she's called 'Machina' and talks like a robot for Pete's sake!) might just have had an 'agenda' for so very casually and idiotically letting him pop her cherry in front of another girl...?
Oh man, this hentai logic is pricelessly funny... ^^
I dunno I feel like it's been made pretty clear that, rather it be the eye directly or by its influence on his psyche, the ability to have basically any woman he wants is affecting his overall character. That on top of the fact that he'd already liked her for some time and had no prior relationship experience with women (as far as we know) makes it at least somewhat believable.
DeleteIn short, he's naive and horny as fuck. Of course he's not gonna question it.