Chapter 125 – Access (5)

My mind is blank as if my memory has been torn here and there, but the sense that I have tasted and dissected Grape’s emotions in detail is still lingering in my head.
Confusing.

“Hey, Anger? What’s wrong? Sick?!”
“No… It’s okay, it’s okay… Ha… Ha…”
“Everything, everything, aren’t you hurt? Colic?! When I opened the coffin shell earlier?”

Grape looked at me with his hands on his belly as his intestines were twisting and worried that when he opened the clam holding Arna, he might have been exposed to a gas that gave the man severe stomach pain.
I slowly removed my hand from my belly and pushed it forward to signify that it was okay, and Grape suddenly picked up the Louis I was carrying with one hand.
The light movement, like carrying a small cat, suddenly lifted the weight off my shoulders.

“Painkiller! Ah… ! Everything I had back then…”
“Wait, it was just a sudden dizziness…”
“Go quickly, go quickly, check… The antidote must be right… !”
“No, there is no antidote for the coffin shell, and it’s better if you just get sick…”

Grape, who suddenly became desperate, took the lead and began to blow away the infected and monster corpses in front of him with his enchanted sword.
It seems like a waste of mana, but it certainly makes the dark path a little easier to walk on, and the movement speed increases.
The mini-monster seemed to be visible for a moment, but as soon as Grape swung his sword, it vanished like powder.
Moving at such a high speed, it wasn’t long before I arrived at the station with the barriers down.

“I’ll open the door, Mr. Anger, get here quickly… !”
“Ha… Ha…”

It may have been just a little light walking for a magical girl, but it was a little too fast for me, an ordinary person, to follow.
Grape hurriedly placed his palm on the small door on one side of the barrier wall and channeled his mana, and the switchgear that responded to the mana opened slowly with a popping sound, spewing compressed air.
And almost at the same time, tentacles poured out from inside the station.

“Joy!”

Hearing the sound of the door opening, the tentacle monster’s blade tentacles, which seemed to have been waiting in front of the door, poured out like sea anemones, but were cut off in an instant by Grape’s sword.
The sword, swung at an invisible speed, slashed, slashed, and slashed the tentacle monster to pieces.

Following Grape’s back as he enters the station, he sees a mess inside.
Unlike the railway, the brightly lit station was already full of tentacle monsters.
The sight suddenly raises a question.

Where the hell did you come from?
The railroad side and the station where the monsters were coming were clearly separated by a barrier.
You cannot enter the station from the railroad tracks.

“Sigh!”
“This way!”

As Grape swings his sword as he heads for the emergency exit port, body fluids mixed with aphrodisiac splash and wet the floor, causing nearby tentacled monsters to react and howl.
This isn’t a cry… It’s a signal to come this way.
However, you can’t stop Grape to the extent of the tentacle monster.

In an instant, Grape’s sword made a path leading to the edge of the boarding area, turning the tentacles into thick worms wriggling on the floor.
Even with two magical girls on her shoulders, the numerous tentacle monsters are no match for her.
With one arm holding the shield he borrowed silently from Louis, he exquisitely moved the tentacles away, and slashed them with his sword.

As I ran after Grape, the questions that popped into my head continued.
The fact that these guys, the tentacle monster is here… It means that they were led by other monsters.
The question is, where did it come from?
I am running fast and my breath is rising and my head is not working well, but the sense of incongruity from the reality that the tentacle monsters are here does not disappear.

While running with a sense of incongruity, the emergency escape port quickly approaches.
The emergency exit port is a four-seater, and although I have never boarded it before, each one enters a capsule and is launched to the ground.
It’s like an insurance escape device that is mainly used by magical girls working on the subway to escape in case of emergency, so it can’t be activated unless you’re a magical girl.

“Sister Grape, everything was burned!”
“I’ll be blocking it, so let Mr. Anger go!”

Grape comes out and turns his back on Rosé and fends off the gathering tentacle monsters while Rosé picks up the thrown comrades into the pot.
Seat the capsule-like disposable ejector and fasten it securely with the seat belt.
Rosé, who had Louis, Arna, and Sienna on board, tried to pick me up and send me out for the last time.

The idea is that Rose and Grape, two magical girls who can still fight, will remain and take care of the rest of the monsters.
You can escape like this, but… A strange sensation grips my ankle.
Would it really be safe if we escaped to the ground through the escape port?

The railroad and the boarding area were completely separated, and if there was no railroad, there was only a road leading to the ground.
Thinking that far, I felt a chill run down my spine and swallowed my breath.
Emergency exit ports must not be used.
The tentacle monster came down from the ground.

“Rosé! You get on board!”
“Yes?!”
“Hurry!”

Realizing the current situation, I refused to board the escape port and pushed Rosé’s body.
Then, because she is a magical girl, Rosé, who cannot move no matter how much she pushes her, makes a surprised expression as if asking why.

“This is not the time, you must board quickly… !”
“Where do you think the tentacle monster came from?”
“Yes? Suddenly it…”
“On the ground, it must be because the barrier is down. Maybe there’s a monster up there… No, there will be!”

I spoke briefly in an urgent situation, but Rosé understood my words correctly and stopped moving.
If I let Arna, Louis, and Sienna escape upwards like this and there’s even one monster… Everyone gets caught and I die.
Rosé must protect her comrades, so she must escape.
The escape port can only be used by 4 people.

Although she understands that Rosé, who quickly grasped the situation, has to be like this, she hesitates to escape because she has to leave me behind.
I took Rose’s hand and led her to the escape port.

“Because all the other kids are incompetent… You have to keep it.”
“But… That, but to leave an ordinary person behind… !”
“Didn’t I tell you to reduce the defense line earlier? This is for the best.”
“Ha, take one down… !”

It’s not a bad method either.
If Rosé and I board and leave the other alone, we’ll be nothing more than a burden to Grape, but once I can escape.
But I didn’t want to.

If you had to choose between Rose, a middle-ranking magical girl who had already consumed a lot of mana and was exhausted, and Grape, a high-ranking magical girl who had just arrived… I will choose grapes.
I don’t know how many monsters remain up there, but Grape can face dozens of tentacle monsters alone, but Rose can’t even handle two right now.
In addition to that, when you go to the ground, you will have the baggage of three incompetent magical girls.
It seems safer to stay underground with Grape.

“Rosé, calm down. Are you talking about abandoning her co-workers?”
“That… That…”
“Unlike the other kids, I can move and walk on my own, though it will be a burden… It would be less than leaving one person behind.”

I have to escape anyway, and getting rid of the burden quickly increases my chances of survival.
It is a natural fact that you can know without thinking that it is safer to protect only me between protecting me and protecting other magical girls, including myself.
Even after saying this, Rosé was unable to board her escape port.

“Rosé! Are you still there?”
“Uh, sister… !”
“It’s getting hard to stop everything… ! Hurry! Too many tentacles!”
“Oh…”

Grape, who was swinging his sword at an unbelievable speed and blocking the tentacles like hitting a wall, spoke without looking back, but still Rose did not move.
I understand the situation and the reason, but it seems that I can’t bear it when I put it into action.
Talking any longer is a waste of time.
I took the vision phone out of my pocket and hypnotized Rose.

“Get on the escape port right now, activate it. Everyone get out on the ground.”
“Oh… !”

Then, in rare cases, a ring of light appears on Rosé’s head, showing a sense of rejection.
But Rosé, a magical girl with only a middle class level, can’t resist her hypnosis.
With her unfocused eyes, while making her face, he boards her capsule, fills all of her safety devices, and activates her magic power to activate the escape port.

“Oh… ! Why why?! Teacher?!”

Rose, who regained her consciousness in her capsule, regained her senses and said in surprise, but her escape port had already started working.
The body that protects the capsule closes and turns into a rugby ball, and the door that reveals the escape port closes right after the red light flashes with a warning sound.
Immediately, the sound of the launching of the rides is heard, and the magical girls who are only burdens move away.

“Please go back… No!”

Hearing that sound, Grape, realizing that Rosé had safely escaped me to the ground, sent her tentacles behind her on purpose.
It looks like he was trying to get Rosé to deal with the remaining tentacles, but it’s me, not Rosé, in the back.
As I froze, unable to properly respond to the blade tentacle poking into my shoulder, Grape, who felt something strange and glanced behind him, jumped towards me in fright.

But tentacles are a little faster.
The tentacle barely touches me first.
It is a situation that cannot be reached.

“… Hiss?!”

But then, the tentacle that was about to touch my body suddenly shrunk so that I could see it.
With a startling sound, Grape approaches me, swings his sword, cuts off the tentacles, and lunges at me with terrifying speed and embraces me.
At the same time as the shock of being hugged by Grape, the language of the tentacles crackled and felt blurred as if there was noise.

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