Chapter 266 – LEAP (5)

“Ha…”
“Now, wait… !”

As I watched X turn to trash, I jerked away from Esther’s tail.
Esther treated me so well beyond my expectations.
I didn’t know it would mess up like this.

“Put me down!”

As soon as Esther released her tail and dropped me off, I walked over to the wreckage of X and started digging through the hot trash.
X was holding a data chip containing my hypnosis app.
I’m sure you have… There must be.

“Ah… Oh!”

Fortunately, the transparent data chip remained unshattered among the remains of the Reef and was attached to a brightly shining crystal.
I don’t know why this is stuck here, but thanks to that, I lived.
I took the data chip in my hand with a sigh of relief.

“Whoa…”

I got my hypnosis app back.
Only then did I turn my gaze to Esther.
I see Esther turning her head with a red face.

Was it the opponent whose blood was boiling enough to make his face red like that?
I thought it would be just because it was an invention made by a low-class magical girl… Stronger than expected.
But Esther’s opponent was not.

But that doesn’t mean X was weak…
As soon as Esther took out both hands and fought, it was over in an instant, but in other words, even Esther was an opponent that could only be defeated by using both hands.
In other words, X is an intermediate magical girl or higher… A high-level magical girl.

Come to think of it, Grape is also at the level of a low-level magical girl who can only use magic inside her body and in the palm of her hand.
If X is this strong, should we think that its owner, Leaf, is also quite strong…
I’m glad Esther came.

Esther is needed to survive here.
Just like before, you need to be protected by Esther.
I got up and hugged Esther again.

“Oh my… Esther, I lived thanks to Esther… !”
“… Away.”
“Ah… Yes.”

As soon as he hugged Esther and pressed his whole body closely, he was strongly pushed away by Esther.
Her face is redder and more contorted than before.
… Seeing that he is frowning, it seems that the excitement of the battle has not gone away, and he has become sensitive enough to refuse to approach.

Somehow, I feel a much more terrifying atmosphere than I’ve seen before.
I fell a little further back, thinking it would be better not to provoke Esther.
Then Esther snapped her finger and told me to come closer.

“Who would fall like that?”
“Uh…”
“A little away.”
“This much… ?”
“And cover that.”

Esther reached out her hand to me and stood within reach of her, pointing her finger at my cock.
I immediately spread my hand on the side that wasn’t holding the hypnosis app and covered my cock.
It is not completely covered with one hand, so the tip leaks out of the hand.

“Wait.”
“Yes? Ah yes.”

Esther looked around, stared at the ruined wall, and traced it with her fingertips.
Esther reached into the melted wall and inside, what looked like an iron cabinet… The iron cabinet was pulled out.
Inside was a set of a white gown, a white shirt, and a black skirt, presumably from Leaf’s.

“Put it on.”
“Yes?”
“… Put it on quickly.”
“Uh…”

I’m a man… Skirt… ?
More than that, it doesn’t suit me and I think it’s going to burst and tear… ?
Could it be that Esther has such a taste… ?

I hesitated, but I had no choice but to put on the shirt first.
The small shirt tightens the skin, and none of the buttons on the chest are unfastened, giving it a funny look.
The skirt didn’t even come up to her waist.

“Come on.”

Seeing this, Esther picked up a white gown and tied it around my waist like a long skirt.
A white shirt and a white skirt… It’s not something a man would wear…
I was a little dumbfounded and complained to Esther.

“It’s not even a wedding dress… To a man…”
“… Shut up.”
“Ah, yep…”

If the benefactor who saved me shuts up, I have to shut up…
I obediently wrapped the gown that had become a skirt around my waist and put the data chip in the pocket of the gown.
I had to get dressed anyway, and oddly enough, the pockets of the gown had zippers to keep stuff out, so it seemed like a good place to put a data chip.
Esther left me in the skirt and muttered as she looked around.

“Leaf you bastard… What were you doing in the Outer Zone… ?
“The outer zone?”
“Here, in the basement of the Outer Zone.”

If it’s an outside area… It is a place that often appeared as a place where Ash is when looking at hypnosis applications.
The area occupied by the Negative… Areas that are so damaged that it is impossible to distinguish them even outside the barriers surrounding the city are called outer zones.
According to Esther, I’m probably in the basement of the Outer District near City A.

“Well, it’s like a secret laboratory from a game… You dissect people here, right?”
“Ah… Maybe it is? Me too… I did…”
“Tsk… This bastard…”

Esther looked at me without saying a word, then turned his head away.
I closed his eyes and licked the surroundings, as if stroking them, and gently released his mana.
Esther looked around for a moment using her magical powers, then put her hand on the broken wall and pulled out his mechanism.

As Esther smashes his mechanism with her hand, the wall half-opens and he stops.
It seems to stop because the signal is lost between operation and malfunction.
Esther put her foot on the broken wall and raised her foot as if lifting a light cloth to open the wall.

“You… I’m waiting for you here.”
“Uh?! Oh no… Alone… ?”
“Okay.”
“Why? Together, going together… ? Wouldn’t that be nice?”

It’s scary to be alone in a place like this…
I can’t use the hypnosis application because I only have it as a chip now, and looking at the space where these broken machines are crackling, I’m anxious that it might explode right now.
I want to be with Esther.

“Number 1, it seems like she was suddenly kidnapped by Leaf, but that bitch has always been a bitch who can’t stand it when she has questions about herself.”
“I know Riff… ?”
“Yes, that bitch is one of the researchers involved in magic… Because it is as good as the ability.”

Esther looked down at her palm, where the sharp claws suddenly stood.
As I slowly clench his fists, the tips of his fingernails retract on their own, transforming his palms into non-piercing forms.
When he opened his hand again, the red fingernails, hard to tell from human nails, shone brilliantly.

“The magic theory she developed was quite helpful. Experimenting with my body… It’s annoying, but it’s helped a lot… After being negative… I posted a post about the magical girl infection that I made as a hypothesis… It also made me accept reality.”
“That… I see…”
“So I know, if that crazy bitch said he was going to dissect you and even kidnapped you in a place like this, even if I take you to a safe place now, he’ll come running again when I’m not there. Therefore… Kill.”

To the extent that Esther even called her a crazy bitch… How amazing…
As Esther said, I agree that if I don’t kill Riff, he will continue to attack me.
I was about to nod slowly at the words that I would kill Riff, but stopped.

I am… You can call Esther.
For me, killing Riff is a simple matter.
If Riff knew that I called Esther, he would think the same.

Then… Do I really need to kill him?
If a dangerous situation arises, you can call Esther at any time.
Normally, I ask Grape to protect me, but if something like today happens, I call Esther and ask her to solve it… Maybe I’m safe

“Tail… Should I really kill him?”
“What?”

I don’t have to kill the riff if it doesn’t kill me.
I want to kill you, but… Killing is not worth it
I haven’t even asked Riff what I’m curious about yet.

“You… You crazy bastard… Now, are you telling me not to kill Riff too?”

Riff must not be killed.
I need to squeeze a little more and use it as a biomassager and computer that gives me the information I need.
I nodded slowly at Esther’s bewildered voice.

Then Esther suddenly came up to me and grabbed me by the collar.
Esther’s fingernails tear the clothes that didn’t fit because the shirt was too small.
Esther got angry, tattering my clothes.

“Do you think Leaf is the same as other magical girls?! One year to kill you… What to protect… Do you think she’ll thank you for letting her live? You idiot!”
“No… I won’t thank you, but…”
“Even knowing that! Even after being treated like that, she continues to be a magical girl… No… Okay…”

Esther didn’t get angry and slowly released her hand from my collar.
He averts his gaze and drops his head helplessly.
Esther suddenly looked down and murmured softly.

“It’s not something I want to say…”

Esther looked at me with a slightly calmer face.
It’s a serious, bloody look.
Esther raised the spell of fire and threatened me, speaking in a low, terrifying voice.

“You… I guess you’re misunderstanding something that I cherish, but I’m negative. Even if you asked me to, I could kill you if I wanted to.”
“So could you please think about it before killing me… ?”
“I’ve already thought about it, so I’ll kill you.”
“Or not! Yes, take me first… Time for a little chat… Persuade! I’ll try to convince you!”

If it’s Riff, the moment she takes Esther, she’s sure to feel the fact that she’s been defeated.
The moment you realize that there is no chance of winning without a hypnosis application, you will have no choice but to accept my request… If I take Leaf’s vision phone and hypnotize him, it’s my complete victory.
In order for that to happen, it is important to go with Esther in the end.

“If it’s in front of you, after all, it means don’t kill… This son of a bitch…”
“No… I’m just asking for time to convince you…”
“Stupid bastard.”

Esther cursed at me, and before I could say anything, he lifted me up in one arm.
Then, as before, he wrapped his wings around me and began to walk.
Completely covered by Esther’s wings, I couldn’t see her face, so I hugged Esther and clung to her.

“Thank you Esther… Be sure to convince…”
“Shut up.”
“Ah… Huh.”

I don’t even want to hear thank you.
Am I angry because I couldn’t kill you when I said I wanted to kill you… Negative too…
I shut my mouth, thinking it would be better not to provoke Esther further.

“There’s no other fool in the world like you.”
“… Uh, that’s right… ? I am a bit stupid.”
“It’s noisy, if you say that one more time, I’ll kill you first.”
“Ah… Yes… I won’t.”

Esther murmured quietly as she watched them continue to climb the dark stairs that appeared to be a broken escalator through the gap in the wing.
What came back to me after answering those words was incoherent verbal abuse.
I don’t know where else to tune in.

“Leaf’s magical power… It’s here.”

Esther continued up the stairs and stopped in one place.
Standing in front of a blank wall, Esther reached into the wall and pulled out the mechanism, just like before.
Then the wall opened just a little bit, and a thin vertical light entered the dark space.

“Since I’ve been hiding my magical powers since a while ago, I’ll take care of it if I want to kill it after persuading or whatever…”
“Energy… Wait… Please don’t kill me…”

Then, suddenly, Riff’s frightened voice came through the crack in the door.
Esther and I both stopped and turned our heads toward the beam of light.
Eyes that have been accustomed to being in the dark for a while slowly adapt to the bright light, revealing the inner scene.

Inside Leaf’s study-like room, there were broken monitors, brochures that looked like various research materials, and thick books scattered here and there.
In the middle of the messy room, Leaf stood up on tiptoe.
Strangled by someone, forcibly… Is being raised

“Please… Please… Cooperation, cooperation… I’ll do, yes, what you want… OK… If it were me, only me… I can listen… !”
“It’s the same line every time, Riff.”
“This time… ! This time for real… ! Wake up… ! Coo… !”

A slender sword of fire that glowed pure white stabbed Leaf’s heart without hesitation.
Silently, silently… It is an emotionless movement, as if a machine were slaughtering an animal in a factory by repeating its actions.
He then stabs Riff in the lower abdomen, slicing him sideways, and stabs him in the head as his half-fallen lower body dangles with scorched wounds.

The womb, the source of the magical girl’s magical power, the heart, the weak point of humans, and the white black leaf that pierced the brain, left heat behind and came out cleanly.
The corpse, unable to produce even a single drop of blood, let go of the hand holding its neck before falling to the ground, spraying blood as if bursting from a burnt wound.
Even in that state, Riff twitched his body and let out a bloody voice.

“Really, Rook…! Help, can…! Help…!”
“Life fixed? You woke up pretty quickly, I’ll wait until you die.”
“Kahak…!”

I put the sword of fire back into Leaf’s head and held my breath as I saw the opponent holding my brain.
Gray silver hair rolls, sportswear that is easy to move in, magic aids that shine like crystals… Rod.
Inside the room, Ash was killing Riff.