Chapter 127 – Access (7)

It was hypnosis that I came up with in a hurry in an emergency, but it made me think of various things.
It is surprising that hypnosis, which causes a sense of rejection so great that resistance does not arise, has been slightly detoured and pierced lightly enough to be retried.
If you assume that there is a wall in your mind, does that mean that you just have to guide it well to reach the result you want, even if it takes a little turn, rather than trying to cross it by colliding with it head-on?
Rather, it might be said that it is closer to making a door and passing through without trying to break down the wall.

Come to think of it, this may be the first time hypnosis has had a positive impact.
It’s still the same that I manipulated or induced it at will, but it’s not like erasing my memory or making me do something I wouldn’t want to do… I hypnotized him so that he could help me do what I need and need to do now.
That this was also possible.
I realized that it is possible to accelerate, assist, or support actions that need to be done, rather than inducing them to do something they do not want to do.

For some reason, Grape let out a deep sigh, not happy at all that he had overcome his trauma and dealt with a monster in dog form.
As if thinking complicatedly, the tip of the sword trembled slightly and a long sigh continued.
It looked like he was worried about something, but the situation didn’t give Grape time to ponder.

“Here! Help me!”
“Help me! Mom!”
“Oh… !”

A disparate voice is heard from the door at the barrier wall where the demon dogs and tentacle dogs entered.
It is a desperate voice that one can imagine a boy and a woman crying and begging for help.
It’s nonsense.
There are no people on the railroad tracks.

“Help me! Help me! Aagh!”
“No! No!”
“Hehe… Heck… Heck… Heck!!”

The voices heard from beyond the dark railroad tracks are getting closer.
If you listen closely, you’ll find that the dog’s gasping breath is interspersed with the voices echoing through the cave.
I already know the identity of this voice.

He is one of the monsters who was trained to be bored at the training center because he is an elite monster who causes the most accidents.
An eerie monster imitating the voice of the victim he was chasing approaches.
Walks on two legs, has the head of a dog, and has a high intelligence… It is a monster that looks like a combination of a dog and a human.

“Krrrr… !”

A werewolf approached from the darkness with a human voice, hooking its large claws on the door and squeezing its large body inside.
Not one
Five, six… Continues to increase

“Wear Wolf?! No way Bricolacas… ?”

Bricolacas is the name of a negative executive.
Werewolves are one of the monsters that are rarely seen among negative monsters.
One of Negative’s executives, Lycanthrope, an elite monster led by Bricolacas, possesses strong combat power enough to treat tentacle dogs like pet dogs.
He purely follows Bricola Cass, and is also a monster that does not appear as a single entity.

The story that a werewolf appeared here is the same as saying that Negative’s executive is nearby.
But… Bricolacas is nowhere near.
I don’t know why I can know this, but these guys don’t feel like their camp.
If you look closely, you can see a little different characteristics from the werewolves I know.
Tentacles are stuck in the head and wriggling, and the pupils grotesquely twist each time they do so.

Could it be something like a hybrid monster like a tentacle dog?
This is the first time I’ve heard of a werewolf merging with tentacles.
It’s already well known in the news that a monster and an infectious body are combined like a tentacle dog, and the monster seizes the initiative by taking over the body of the infected… I’ve never heard of a monster taking over a monster.
I know that higher species of negatives can devour lower species, but the idea of ​​equals swallowing each other or merging… At least that’s something I don’t know about.

A werewolf with small tentacles wriggling from its head approaches Grape with strange behavior.
He put one hand in his mouth and chewed on it, dripping black blood from his teeth-marked hand.
It’s a bizarre figure that seems to know Grape’s trauma and stimulate it.

“I’m not afraid…”
“Krrrr… Mom… ! Mom… ! It hurts! It hurts!”
“Ha, I can… ! I have to!”

Grape immediately sent out his mana like a wave and searched my surroundings, then fixed his sword and set his shield in front.
Grape’s expression stiffened as he roughly estimated how many there were.
There are far more coming than expected.
A monster who isn’t even an executive wouldn’t be an opponent for Grape anyway… The problem is me

Grape could kill all the monsters if he had time, but during that time he couldn’t keep me whole.
If even the tips of my toenails touched me, my body would be cut in half.
Grape seems to be aware of that fact as well, glancing at me and getting nervous.

“Anger… Can I hug you?”
“Huh?”
“It doesn’t mean another, other sinister… Not asking for support or anything like that, but as an emergency shelter…”

The emergency shelter in the subway refers to a small shelter located a little further up from the boarding area.
Citizens can enter in case of emergency, and entry is possible, but when they come out, they must be opened by a magical girl or by the National Guard.
I don’t have the confidence to protect myself perfectly, so I’m going to leave it in a safe place for a while.
It’s not a bad decision.

“Wait a minute, if I’m alone for a moment… I will kill them all!”
“Okay.”

It’s difficult to get there alone, but it’s a different story if Grape hugs me and moves me.
No matter how fast the werewolf is, it’s not faster than Grape.
I held out my arms to Grape and took a quick hug.

“Ah, ah, can I hug you?”
“Huh.”
“To touch… Shall I touch you? Are you really okay? Shall I touch your waist? Doesn’t your back hurt?”
“Do it faster!”

He asks if he can hold her, and strangely, he asks for permission one by one and carefully touches them.
Even in this situation, I got annoyed at Grape’s passive attitude to the point where I wondered why he was doing this.
Grape grabs my hand tightly as I hold my hand to make sure I hold my waist properly.
My breathing becomes rough, and I feel my heart beating faster and faster.

“Ha… Ha… !”

It wasn’t that I was out of breath because I was stepping on the werewolf’s head, passing the boarding area, and sliding up the stairs.
Grape’s strange breathing sounds mixed with complex emotions.
Fragments of thoughts are mixed between guilt, impulse, and excitement.

If I keep running away like this, I wonder if I can keep holding you.
I need to go to the shelter quickly, but I hope the shelter doesn’t come out.
It’s cute how you hold on to the hem of the dress with your arms to keep it from falling off.

Isn’t this really what Grape is thinking?
Probably not… I need to put me in a safe place quickly, but I hope the shelter doesn’t come out… There’s no way Grape would think such nonsense.
A strange sensation continues from earlier, and it is confusing my head.
An improbable voice sounds like an auditory hallucination, then crumbles like dust and disappears from memory.

“Wait… ! Opening and closing approval number…”

A considerable amount of time had already passed since the monster alarm, and at the shelter door, which had already been left open automatically, Grape, who had slid the keypad and entered the password, touched his hand and let his mana flow.
Sensing the magic of the magical girl, the shelter door opened with a rattling sound, revealing a large vault-like interior.
Grape put me in the shelter with a familiar look and immediately started closing the door.

“Help me! Help me!”
“Where are you! Where, where are you!”

Opening the door is quick, but closing it takes a while.
The eerie voices of the werewolves chasing Grape are heard beyond the door that is slowly closing.
Grape glanced behind him briefly, then spoke anxiously through the gap in the shelter’s iron door, which was gradually closing.

“Because I’ll come right away, because I’ll get rid of everything and come quickly… Are you waiting a little bit? Don’t be afraid… If anything happens, I… Phone call! Do!”
“Phone call… ?”
“I’ll ask for support! Even if an officer shows up, I will never let him touch this place! I’ll be back soon! I’ll come right away, so don’t go anywhere!”

The sound of Grape swinging his sword could be heard through the crack in the iron door that was closing completely.
If the werewolf’s hand gets caught in the slightest remaining gap, the door may not close due to the barrier surrounding the monster’s body.
In a short time, Grape lures the werewolves who have come close to a little farther away from the shelter.

“Already… ! Come here! Come this way!”
“Are you here? Here!”
“It hurts! It hurts! Heck! Heck… !”

The voices of the werewolf and Grape fade away, and the shelter door slowly closes completely.
Eventually, the shelter door was locked, and I was left alone inside with a red light on.
I’m not worried about Grape, who is fighting alone outside.

Wait a while and Grape will come back after killing all the werewolves.
It is all the more relieved to hear that he even asked for support in case an executive from Negative would show up.
I was caught in a sudden attack and it became dangerous, but… This time, I think it’s good to be really relieved.

“Whoa…”

Inside the shelter, which is much safer than escaping through the emergency exit port, I sighed slowly.
Fortunately, the situation that was getting a little weird seems to have been resolved… This time, I think you can really be relieved.
After calming down in the dark shelter, a strange thought rears its head little by little.

When we were talking on the phone earlier, the strangely trembling voice bothered me.
I’ve already unsubscribed from Grape.
Did something happen that made me realize that something had been unsubscribed after I hung up earlier… ?
Strangely, in my head, when Grape kept calling me and he didn’t answer, I was anxious and searched for rejection on VisionNet.

When I am left alone in a safe place, I feel the forgotten pain and hunger as if I have been anesthetized for a while.
The muscle pain is considerable, but I don’t mind this strange feeling of hunger accompanied by a headache.
Unlike being hungry, it is the feeling that something more important, but not something you can fill with food, is lacking.
I want to go home quickly and rest.

“Huh… ?”

At that time, the sound of the opening and closing mechanism on the shelter door suddenly being closed was heard.
With a thump and the sound of air escaping, the hydraulic system moves and vibrates inside the shelter.
I don’t think it’s been long since I drove the werewolves to another place, but have I already killed them all?
Incredibly fast.

“Ah~ It’s frustrating to be open! The password is the same, the opening speed is the same… Do you have any plans to improve?”
“Uh?”

But, of course, I heard the voice of someone other than Grape in my ears, thinking it was Grape.
Along with a cute yet violent voice, an ominous yet warm mana rises with frightening momentum.
Like sparks leaking through the cracks in the open door, red magic flows into the shelter.

“Sun Blade.”

The blade, as hot as the sun, melted and cut through the thick iron gate like chocolate.
The iron door, the thickness of one person dyed in red, is torn to pieces, and a white hand enters through the cut gap as if nothing is wrong with the blazing heat.
A sudden fire from sharp nails melts the iron door and a red carpet is laid on the floor.

The inside of the shelter heats up in an instant, and sweat drips from my forehead.
Sweat from the heat and cold sweat mix, and a chilling sensation claws up your spine.
It wasn’t Grape that was coming into the shelter.
Not even the other magical girls who came to support.

“Haaa… Grape Why are you suddenly not afraid of dogs? Plaguy!”
“Uh… Uh… Uh…”

A different image from the memory is revealed little by little and brightly illuminates the inside of the dark shelter.
Red hair with sharp horns, wings that I have never seen before spread out from the waist, and a long tail swaying like a snake, attracting attention.
Esther slowly folded her bat-like wings made of tentacle-like mucous membranes and slowly approached her with sharp eyes.
Then suddenly he raises her hand and waves her hand as if he’s really happy.

“Hi, number 124! Long time no see!”

Her broad smile suddenly twists and turns, and a bloody aura oozes out.
As if she had met her nemesis, her body stiffened and she couldn’t move properly.
Esther came over quietly to me as she stopped and she said nothing, clasping her neck with her sharp clawed hands, she said.

“Did you finally find it?”