“Are you insane!?”
“Not at all.”
As expected, Ange was mad, but Mutsuki did
not care. He focused on his work.
“You…! Hey, Micha! You talk some sense into
him!”
“Hmm, is it really that big a deal? Mutsuki-kun
has made up his mind. As guardian angels, it’s our job to fulfill our bodyguard
duties while also respecting his decisions as much as we can.”
“Gh…”
“Or, Ange, are you not confident you can
protect him?”
“O-of course I am!”
Micha was good. Her thorough knowledge of
Ange’s personality let her completely cut off any argument.
Mutsuki returned to cleaning up the house
he had been living in for two weeks now.
And he was doing so in order to leave it.
“Just to be clear, I intend to keep this
place on hand as an emergency hideout, so we’ll only take the important stuff
with us. We can just buy all the daily necessities again.”
“Okay.”
“Eh heh heh heh heh. And that means I’ve
gotta buy a whollllllle bunch more beer tomorrow♡”
“Do you really have to fill the entire
fridge with alcohol this time?”
“Of course I have to.”
Micha puffed her chest out proudly and
returned to her alcohol as the boy continued cleaning as usual.
It seemed the drinks were the only thing
she was interested in taking with her. She showed no sign of touching anything
else in the house.
As she had said, they planned to return
here if they ever had to. They were leaving the power and water services active
and the large furniture was staying. Not all that much preparation was needed
because not even Mutsuki had all that many belongings.
However, that did not mean he could make the
move entirely empty-handed. He was cleaning up the messy kitchen and sorting through
some of the smaller items.
“Um, we can take this…and this…”
He was packing some kitchen items and other
miscellaneous items in a cardboard box to carry with him. Then came his
personal belongings. For him, that meant his clothes, laptop, school supplies,
and…
“What’s this?”
“Ah, wait. Be careful with that.”
Ange snatched up an object wrapped in
bubble wrap in the corner of his cardboard box.
She ignored the boy’s protests and
unwrapped it. She knew little of the human world, but even she recognized the
humanoid shape made from angular pieces of plastic.
“Is this what they call a plamodel?”
“Yes. Ah, ah! I said to be careful with it…
Honestly.”
He somehow managed to get it back.
“Come to think of it, you had some of those
displayed in your room.”
“Yeah. I like them.”
“…”
“What’s wrong with that!? Giant robots are
the romance of men!”
Ange’s reactions were usually a little off,
but the cold look in her eyes here was just like a normal girl. Mutsuki escaped
that look and returned the model to the box.
“Are you all packed up?” he asked her.
“I am. …And you were the one that said we’re
moving, so you carry my things.”
She still seemed displeased, so she pouted
her lips and shoved her own box into his arms. It had seemed light when she
held it, but it was surprisingly heavy. He nearly fell forward when he took it.
He glanced inside and mostly found clothes
and school supplies just like him, but…
“…Heh heh.”
He laughed quietly at the fact that she
really was the same as him.
He could see the face of the Lazy Bear body
pillow he had given her as a present a while back.
“Fujita Mutsuki is returning to his previous
home?”
“Yes. Miss E just contacted us with that
information.”
A giant white rabbit sat in a large dark
space.
An equally giant pocket watch hung from its
neck by a leather strap and FeTUS Witches Miss A sat in a corner of that watch
that was untouched by the seconds hand.
“Would his previous home be the that
apartment that they abandoned because it was destroyed in that Springloaded
attack and because both Miss E and that demon named Lucia had discovered its
location?”
“Yes.”
Her eyes widened at the report from the gently
smiling maid.
As the leader of FeTUS, a secret organization
that mastered all of mankind’s knowledge, she generally acted with the utmost
dignity, but at the moment, she looked just like a confused five-year-old girl.
It took her ten whole seconds to regain her
aged composure.
“I see. That was clever.”
She laughed quietly in her throat.
“With the three groups in a three-way deadlock,
the angels protecting him are under a heavy burden. But by actually placing
himself in an environment easily targeted by both us and the demons, he has
created a situation where no one can lay a finger on him. He is a surprisingly
calculating boy.”
“It seems he simply wishes to get along
with those two.”
“Even if so, I am impressed he can take
such bold action. If he had been born two hundred years earlier, he might have
become a revolutionary.”
She closed her eyes in an expression filled
with far too much hidden meaning and mixed emotion to be called a smile.
She also hid her twisted mouth behind her
small fingers.
“Where is Black Cat?”
“She seems to have given up on approaching
the Mutsuki boy inside the school because Miss E and the demon are there. However,
we have confirmed that she has prepared a few Springloaded semiconductors, so
she is undoubtedly planning to attack the boy. It would be fairly dangerous if
she were to encounter him in his private life when only the angels are nearby.”
“I see… What a troublesome kitten.”
“One other thing.”
As Miss A shrugged, the maid straightened
her back and raised a finger.
The effect was amplified by facing Miss A
who was only 120 cm tall, but the maid was incredibly tall. She was easily over
180 cm, so even when she put on a soft smile…
“When the boy contacted Miss E, he used the
phone number he gave to the school…in other words, a standard line. Even if the
cellphone he used was prepared by the angels and cannot be traced, the
conversation itself is almost guaranteed to have been intercepted. Miss C will
know that he is moving.”
“Does she know where the apartment is?”
“No.”
Her voice had an odd intensity to it.
“But if she knows what store they will
choose when buying supplies after their move, she will have an opportunity to lay
a trap for them.”
thanks for the chapter
ReplyDeleteIt's always good to see chapters like this mixed in with the sex chapters. Relax chapters showing the characters daily lives is always nice
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