Chapter 122 – Access (2)

I can see that it is gradually changing from the Grape I used to know.
Fortunately, he didn’t attack me as soon as he saw me, and he was simply contemplating whether he could come near me, but his hands trembled, as if his anxiety was severe.
I feel like I’m going to impulsively do something wrong.

“Ha… ! Ha… ! Ha… ! Ha… !”

Grape, who grabbed my collar with trembling hands, clung to me with a breathing sound that no one could see normally.
Seeing the ring of light on his head tightening, he must be in pain resisting hypnosis.
When I turned my head and looked behind me, all the monsters were cut in half or powdered and collapsed.
Although he seems to have become impulsive, Grape doesn’t show any aggression… If it’s somehow safe, it’s a situation that can be said to be safe.

“Sister?! Why is that in my head… ! Could it be a mental attack?!”
“Grape, Rosé… Look here.”

A little relieved, I showed the hypnosis app to Grape, who was in pain, and Rosé, who collapsed and then said in surprise.
The light fades from Grape’s anxious head and eyes.
Similarly, Rose sees the hypnosis app and falls into unconsciousness.
After confirming that Grape was hypnotized, I immediately canceled the previous hypnosis.

“Cancel the hypnosis of not coming close to me… It’s okay to come closer.”

Next is the Rosé side.
It seems that he had doubts after seeing the resistance to the hypnosis application, so erase his memory.

“Forget the fact that I saw the light shining above Grape’s head.”

The current situation is not so good for another hypnosis to put on a safety device.
It’s safe now, but you don’t know when another monster or infection will appear and attack you.
After I had no choice but to finish hypnosis to this extent, I closed the hypnosis app and was wary of my surroundings.

“Hey, Anger! Anger, Gwa, are you okay?!”
“Hot!”

Grape, who was freed from unconsciousness by the hypnosis application and regained his senses, first confirmed that he did not feel a headache, looked strange for a moment, and then asked me how I was doing.
Rose is also surprised to regain her sanity, but she doesn’t feel any sense of incongruity because she was mesmerized by the way Grape swung her sword once to get rid of all the infected and monsters.
After looking a little at the scratches on the backs of my hands that were covered in dust, I confirmed that there was no problem, and answered calmly.

“Ah… Yes, yes… It seems fine.”
“Sah, hurt… Wound…”

However, when Grape saw the small wound on the back of my hand, his eyes trembled nervously, and then, as if he had heard me say that I was fine, he let out regret, anxiety, and guilt, filling the surroundings with a sticky, sweet smell.
It’s so sweet that you can’t breathe, and your mouth feels dry.
I am anxious that reason will fly away.

“… It’s not even hurt.”
“Cow, hand… Hand, can I hold your hand? Wait, wait a minute… I won’t force you to do it.”

I hesitantly reached out my hand to Grape, who was trembling with anxiety, and Grape’s hand carefully covered the back of mine.
Magical power tickled the back of the hand and pricked the inside.
The strangely painful pain turned inside out and the wound on the back of his hand healed.
Rather than recovery magic, it was more like activating my physical activity itself and forcing me to heal.

“Ha… Haaaaa… It’s not too late… It’s not too late this time…”

Grape looked at my body after making sure that the wound I didn’t know when he had been hurt was gone, and after confirming that there were no other injuries, he let out a sigh of relief.
The sweet taste gradually disappears, and the stimulation that causes headaches and thirst disappears.
I calmed down little by little and looked at Grape. I turned my head to the side with a slightly awkward yet strange feeling.

Grape is the rapist who raped me, which is strangely reassuring.
I feel relieved and anxious, but this anxiety itself feels strange.
Strange but… Not strange.
It’s natural that it’s not strange, but I don’t know why.

“… My sister and I know each other… Anyone know?”
“Ah, Rosé…”

When Rose, who saw her holding hands with Grape, said in disbelief, Grape was surprised and let go of my hand, as if he had finally found Rose.
Grape looked at Rosé as it was, then slowly nodded his head and replied.

“Yes… Friend… Gee, work… Colleague.”
“Colleague… ?”

Rosé’s eyebrows are raised and his face is stained with questions.
The me that Rose knows is like a secret agent hired by the National Guard.
It’s not impossible to be acquainted with the magical girl Grape, but she senses something is wrong.

“You are the head of the company I work for.”
“The head of the company… ? Are you Grape?”

I don’t have to worry about Grape finding out about my relationship with Rosé.
Rosé is clearly aware that his relationship with me is a secret, and he is clearly under hypnosis that he must not tell other magical girls.

“Yes, the company I work for… It’s exactly the company I worked for.”
“… Ah! That’s it… On the surface… All right.”

When I emphasized the word “I work for the company” Again, Rosé nodded his head, thinking of a situation that he could understand himself.
He would have understood it as a company he worked for to hide his identity.
When Grape mentioned the company I worked for, he raised his head and winced, then slowly dropped his gaze from me.
Seeing her toes, he cries as if he were about to cry, then suddenly raises her head and asks something strange.

“For a moment… Two, two… Knowing both… Is it? It’s strange to talk…”
“Huh? Uh? That, that…”
“… Somehow, we only ended up getting to know each other on the subway.”

I can’t think of a good way to explain it.
Grape, fortunately, did not ask further if the fact that she knew her was more important than how Rosé and I knew each other.
But for some reason, with uneasy eyes, she slowly scans Rosé from her toes to her head.
Still, Grape’s gaze, which had been fixed on Rosé’s not-too-tall, moderate chest, slowly rose up and was fixed on the messy bobbed hair covered in dust.

“… Magical girl, breasts… Head…”
“… Sister?”
“… Rose, maybe… Have you ever cut your hair? Uh? Raised?”
“Suddenly, out of the blue, what do you mean… ? I always have short hair.”
“Ah! Huh… ! It did? Huh! You know each other!”

Grape’s expression suddenly brightened a little, and the concentration of negative emotions slightly faded.
I don’t know why I feel the taste of emotion.
Strange but… Strange things are natural, so you don’t have to worry too much about them.

“This is not the time, sister… Hurry this minute… Take me out Another infection could come… Can I get out through that hole in the ceiling?”
“There… Probably not, I don’t know what it is, but I cut the wires and came back…”
“You’ll be electrocuted, the way out is then… Go to the station and break through little by little…”
“I think it would be better to go to the emergency exit port.”
“… You still have to go back to where you came from.”

Grape, who is gradually calming down, speaks like a magical girl.
The emergency escape port is a one-time elevator that is installed in a small amount in the subway and literally ejects the internal personnel and shoots it up as if ejecting it.
It is a device that is approved for operation by magical girl magic only in emergency situations, and is installed in the boarding area.

“Then sister, to the station… Help me a little. I’ll take care of the demon dog as much as I can, so I’ll rescue the other magical girls at once…”
“… Another magical girl?”

Rose, who thought of taking me to the emergency exit port and sending me up with the other magical girls, said it, and Grape froze in response to the strange words.
You bite your lower lip, feel anxious about something, and spill negative emotions stickyly.

“Another magical girl… Right? Is it the subway?”
“… Sister?”
“No… But, if that’s right… If I’m mistaken again… From the beginning, I was alone, only me… Only me…”

Gradually covered in gooey emotion, like coating sweet sugar water around her body, Grape raised her head and looked at me still.
The eyes quiver and complex emotions mix, filling the air with savory sweetness.
All negative emotions.

“… This station… Easy?”
“Yes.”

A strange pressure emanating from Grape oppresses Rosé and me.
I went back the way I had fled, standing next to Grape, who carefully tugged at my collar with his fingertips.
Grape didn’t say anything as if he was nervous about something he shouldn’t open, and he blew away all the approaching infectious agents and monsters with a single stroke while keeping his mouth shut.

When a bat flies in, it swings the sword at an invisible speed to get rid of it, and when a hugger approaches, it stomps on the ground with its foot to send vibrations to stop it from moving, then stabs it to death in an instant.
When Ma Dog approached, she flinched for a moment, but Rose stepped forward and dealt with it, or she sent a pebble kicked at her feet and pierced her between the eyebrows, killing her.
It’s obviously the same monsters and infected as before, but it’s changed to look too weak just because Grape, not Rosé, is dealing with it.

Grape walked absentmindedly, lost in thought, and instinctively swung his sword.
The way to escape seemed so far, but the way back was quick.
After walking leisurely with Grape for a short time, I wondered if it was such a short distance, and I was able to return to my original position shortly after.
And after I ran away with Rosé, I was able to find out what happened between the monsters.

“Ugh, uh, uh…”
“Siena!”

Returning to the place where the monsters and the infected were victorious, the first thing that came into sight was Sienna, swallowed by a large slime and stimulating her whole body.