Chapter 186 – Dayte (2)

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I have a question that has been asked over and over again to the point of getting tired of it.
Why do I like Rapid?
Now, this question itself is a question.

Who is it that hypnotizes people?
What is a hypnosis app?
Esther… Why did you release me from hypnosis?

I was able to get away with it little by little, avoid it because it seemed dangerous, or manage to ignore questions that didn’t seem to harm me.
But at least this, strangely, continues to remain a mystery.
Why do I like Rapid?

It’s not that I don’t know why I like Rapid.
It’s cute, pretty, strong, kind, I’ve always liked it, and it’s erotic… It’s my taste.
Still, the doubts don’t go away…

What can I compare this feeling to?
It’s similar to when you’ve written a code, but you don’t know why it’s running.
First of all, I understand why you like it, what you want to do, and how you want to do it.
I understand why the code is running, and that I am getting results that fit my purpose.
But… Something is missing.

The problem is, I sense that something is missing, but no matter how I look at it, there is nothing strange about it.
Something is lacking, but there is nothing wrong with the look.
Something, something strange…

“Whoa…”

Let’s not think…
What matters now is not how, why, or how I came to like Rapid.
It’s important to date someone you like now.

[Vehicle arrival. Please keep passengers away from the barrier.]

I closed my eyes and lost myself in my thoughts, but I opened my eyes when I heard the sound of a subway car arriving.
He had closed his eyes in order not to look at the out-of-focus eyes of the people around him.
People around me were already standing in line to get on the subway car.

As the vehicle arrives and the barrier rises, people push themselves into the vehicle with so many people inside that it seems cramped.
Seeing that, I fell into a short agony.
In a car full of people with blank faces as if something went wrong… Should I ride

I don’t want to ride, I don’t have to.
As always, I slinked to the side and went inside the barrier, knocking on the cab door as everyone got in and the door closed.
Then, as if waiting, the cab door opened.

“You… !”

Arna opened the driver’s cab door and came out with a surprised expression on her face, then froze and stared at me.
The clear eyes convey complex emotions toward me.
Arna stood still for a while, not doing anything, then grabbed my wrist and pulled it.

“Wow?!”
“Uh?! Teacher… !”
“Rosé, broadcast on your own!”

Arna immediately closed the door of her vehicle and she pressed the start button without an announcement.
Embarrassed, Rosé hurriedly began to broadcast into the microphone, and Arna grabbed me by the wrist and dragged me to the corner of the cab.
Arna, who pushed me against the wall in a panic, said angrily in a nervous voice.

“You… If you’re alive, you don’t have to call to say you’re alive!”
“Huh?”

He suddenly dragged me into the car and said something…
I am angry at Arna for daring to pull my arm even though she is a middle-ranking magical girl who cannot even resist me…
… No, is there anything to be angry about?
I replied with a blank face.

“Communication?”
“Do you know how surprised I was when I came to my senses? Ordinary people send magical girls up, and ordinary people go there… !”
“Ah…”

Is that…
She’s talking about staying in Grey Fran and escaping all the magical girls on the subway.
It is an exemplary and natural behavior for her to worry about ordinary people as a magical girl.
It’s not something to be angry about at all.

“Arna, so it’s okay as long as you were with Grape-sister…”
“She doesn’t know what grapes are! If she’s a high-ranking magical girl, she’ll know more about magical girls! What is she doing to someone who has no powers!”
“Ah… I’m sorry sir, Arna was worried about you a lot…”
“Worry?! Who cares! I’m just saying the obvious!”

When Rose, who had finished her car announcement, intervened between Arna and her, Arna put her hand on her ear as if there was something dirty on her ear and pushed her backwards.
Her gold-glossy hair is disheveled, her large breasts bobbing wildly.
Seeing Arna like that, Rosé turned her head slightly to her side and said what she was talking about.

“Uh? Arna… From then on, every day, here and there, she contacted me to double check her survivor list…”
“That’s natural for a magical girl! I don’t have to check if she’s alive or if she’s dead!”
“So, even though she said that if she went with Grape-sister, she would be calculated separately from the shelter personnel, so she wouldn’t be able to find it with her computer…”
“How can you trust a Grape that doesn’t even come down on the subway every time!”
“Are you worried?”
“Who… !”

While listening to Rosé’s story, I figured out why Arna was doing this and asked with a smile.
Then Arna blushed at her and bit her lip, and she suddenly calmed her raging emotions, straightened her back and stood upright.
Calmly, I return with the same appearance as the Arna I know.

“… Who was worried? I just wanted to be clear.”
“What?”
“Don’t you know that? Wasn’t she a foolish commoner who mistakenly thought she was great, acting without knowing the subject and risking her life… I didn’t know that there would be an idiot who would do such a thing, but if he really did, in the future he would act assuming a retarded child who would do such an act…”
“Arna… To be honest, to say I was worried…”
“Rosé? Won’t you shut up?”

… It’s a strange feeling.
She used to just look cocky when Arna was like this, but now she’s cute.
Come to think of it… Rose also looks cuter than I originally remembered.

I know that even talking about it is just because I have strong pride and I am ashamed.
If she was the same as before, she would have already thought of punishing her by hypnotizing her because she was in a bad mood, but now it seems that she is just a disingenuous child.
I left Arna and Rosé and walked over to the bed in the driver’s cab and sat down on it.

“Yes, yes… I’m sorry for committing suicide.”
“Who wants to apologize now… It’s not that I was hoping for an apology… !”
“Yeah, I’m sorry, Arna, I’m sorry I made you worry.”
“Kuh… !”

She must have been angry at being teased. Arna clenched her fists and turned her sideways as if she didn’t want to see her.
It looked cute again, so I smiled a little.
Sitting comfortably on the bed, I said a little late greeting while looking at Rosé.

“Rosé, long time no see.”
“Ah, long time no see.”
“Wasn’t Rosé worried about me?”
“That, that… I contacted my mother, so she gave me some National Guard records… I made sure in advance that there are no problems.”

If it’s Rosé’s mother… Yes… She is someone who can peruse the materials of the National Guard sufficiently.
Not only would I be safe, but I would have been able to know in detail what had happened.
It’s not that I didn’t worry, it’s that I didn’t have to worry.

“What?! Rosé, why did you do that to me… !”
“You didn’t even listen when I told you…”

As soon as Arna, who had been pouting, heard that, she was startled and angry.
And after she heard Rosé’s answer, she turned her head away with her pout again.
I looked at it and laughed.

“Looks like you’re laughing, after doing that…”
“You mean that?”
“Are you asking because you don’t know? This is why the poor commoner… Ordinary people with no powers like you just need to find a safe place and hide. If you don’t have the ability and die instantly if you get bitten by an infectious agent, how dare you make an emergency escape first to save me?”
“Hmm… I didn’t do it because I thought of Arna, but because I thought of all the other magical girls…”
“This is why the stupid lower class… Why do you care about magical girls? Wouldn’t it be natural for you to leave me and the other magical girls underground and go up there?”

To be precise, it’s correct to say that I was only thinking of myself at the time, but… Still, the reason Rosé was sent upward was to protect the magical girls.
Grape protects me, and Rose, who has escaped to the ground, protects the incapacitated magical girl.
I hide a little lie and tell only the truth.

“If Rose and the three of us go up, we can fight even if there are monsters on the ground. But she left Rosé, and if there were monsters, she would have been killed.”
“Then you and Rosé will go up…”
“If you put a neutralized magical girl under you, you would become a burden to Grape, right?”
“How stupid… A magical girl doesn’t die even if she’s dragged in by her infected body! Just… Kut!”

She doesn’t die
She is only beaten to death until rescued.
I said that far, and before I could answer, she clicked her tongue as if she knew what she was going to say.

“You mean you didn’t want to let it happen?”
“Um… That’s right.”
“So, even if you don’t like it, you can forcibly restore your magical power… Even if you are hated and sacrificed yourself, will you reduce the damage to us magical girls as much as possible?”
“Right?”

Listening to what my actions must have looked like from Arna’s lips, she looks very sublime and beautiful.
I can’t believe this is really about me.
I’m such a cool person…

“Is it because you want to be acknowledged by me that much… ?”
“No… What are you talking about?”
“Don’t pretend you don’t know, for showing me a noble sacrifice as her teacher…”
“Excuse me… I thought about it before Arna, isn’t it overly self-conscious? It just seems like it should be, and it’s because it’s right.”

She thought it would be dangerous not to do so.
So she acted like that.
And the fact that she made the right choice was told by Rosé by her side.

“Teacher is right… As soon as she climbed up, she said she had a hard time with the tentacle monsters.”
“Is that so… My choice was right.”
“I still think it’s great. No matter how much she knows the correct answer, she decides to remain in that situation… She’s not even a magical girl, she’s an ordinary person.”
“Still, that… Ugh… Ugh… !”

Arna, who heard Rosé’s words and saw me nodding her head, couldn’t control the anger welling up inside her, and made a boiling noise from her mouth.
Then she let go of her hands, letting out a long sigh.
She embraced her power like someone who had given up on something, and Arna, who became expressionless, looked down at me sitting on her bed, she said.

“… Yes, I think it’s great.”
“What… Because you are a teacher.”
“Kuh… Yes sir… I deserve it.”

Having said what I would have said as a teacher in the subway, I opened her eyes wide in amazement at Arna’s answer.
It’s not like Arna to be so calm.
Arna let out a heavy sigh and continued her words with her eyes tightly closed.

“I apologize… You, I thought you were trash, but I guess you weren’t trash…”
“Trash… ?”
“Joy… Or should I say the sex-crazed monkey? I thought he was a liar who was only looking for his own pleasure and had no intention of playing a proper role… I must have misunderstood the person.”

It’s a pretty hot word.
He hypnotized me as a teacher, lied to me, and saw through me, who had no choice but to have sex…
Maybe it’s because she’s a girl from a rich family who has met many people since she was a child, so she has a good eye for people.