Episode 124: Abduction (Third Person Perspective)
"Oh, Satou, Takahashi, are you going home now?"
Near the school gate, a Junior High School teacher calls out to Nanami and her friend Takahashi Yui.
"Oh, goodbye Morokoshi-sensei ~ ."
"Goodbye ~ ."
The two say goodbye as if it were a daily routine.
"Okay. Goodbye, take care on your way home. It's been pretty rough lately."
"Yes, I will be careful."
"Yes."
The two of them nod firmly at Morokoshi, who gave them a warning with a solemn face, and walk out of the school gate.
"There have been a lot of disappearances around here recently."
"Yeah, even though it's in the countryside, this area is also dangerous."
There have been reports of disappearances in the news in recent days.
The two were worried about the frequent disappearances in their neighborhood. Which isn't surprising. All of the girls who have disappeared and gone missing are cute Junior and Senior High School girls. The word disappearance comes to mind when someone kidnaps or abducts someone. They never knew when they would be involved in the incident.
Nanami also awakened as an explorer, but she has no proper combat experience, does not understand the meaning of levels, and does not know how much power she has, so she was as frightened as the other girls.
If Fuhito were at that place, he would not have been able to leave the incident that frightened Nanami alone and would have moved to solve it immediately, but unfortunately he was not there.
"The teachers also told me not to go home alone, because it's difficult around here because my house is far away."
"That's right. Hey, do you want your Mom to come and pick you up?"
"No, no, our houses are right next to each other."
"I see."
Yui is worried that Nanami will be involved in a disappearance case after she leaves her, so she makes a proposal, but Nanami shakes her head.
The Satou family and the Takahashi family are neighbors. Even though it's called neighbors, it's the countryside. It is far enough to have a few rice fields in between. However, Nanami thought that there would be no problem since they could see each other at that distance.
"Come to think of it, Onii-chan was there yesterday ..."
To dispel her anxiety, Nanami concludes the story of her brother that she talked about yesterday on 'LINNE'.
"Ahahaha. Seriously, you really like your brother, don't you?"
As usual, Yui asks Nanami while being slightly amazed.
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"Isn't that obvious? Didn't you know?"
Nanami replies with an expression as if to ask how many years she has been with her.
The two are childhood friends who live right next to each other. They've known each other since they were in kindergarten, so the have been friends for a long time.
"No, I knew about it, but recently you've been liking him even more. Just the other day, you rejected the most handsome and talented senpai in our Junior High School."
Yui responds again to Nanami, who has been spreading love for her brother lately.
Nanami has been confessed to several times before, but this time, the most handsome and talented senpai in school confessed to Nanami, but saying, 'I can't do it because you're not as cool as my Onii-chan.' she refused.
Even though Nanami had never accepted a confession before, thinking he would be accepted, the senpai who triumphantly confessed, because his brain refused to understand Nanami's words for a while, was stunned.
Nanami was not interested in such a senpai, so she left him alone and returned to the classroom.
Of course, even if his confession to Nanami was accepted, her senpai had no way of knowing that it would be difficult for him to be with Nanami unless he was able to say that he could defeat Fuhito.
"That person is selfish and disgusting. Besides, many things happened during Golden Week, and Onii-chan is always protecting me. There is no better man than Onii-chan, you know?"
"Yes, yes, thank you for the meal."
After sticking out her bottom lip and looking like she was about to spit out something full of disgust, Nanami talks about her brother with a face that says it's common sense. Yui replies in amazement.
Their houses were located on the outskirts of the school district, in an area where the view was filled with nothing but rice fields, but since the school was in the middle of town, it woudl take about 30 to 40 minutes to walk from their houses to the school.
For that reason, the two always took shortcuts through back alleys where there weren't many people, taking as little time as possible. Of course, they could go to school by bicycle, but the two of them walk to school.
When just the two people can be seen in such an alley with few people, a car approaches from behind. However, for some reason, they can't hear the driving sound at all, and the two continue to talk without noticing the one-box car that is gradually approaching.
-Kikikiiii
Without hearing a sound that should have been heard, the one-box car stopped right next to them, the rear door opened and a number of masked men attacked them from behind.
"Kya ..."
"Eee ..."
The two of them were caught helplessly by the men, and a cloth containing some kind of chemical was applied to their mouths, and before they knew it, they fainted.
"Target acquired."
[ Oh I see, take them to the HQ. I'll head there too. ]
"Roger."
After the two were carried on their shoulders and placed in the back of the one-box car, the door was closed and the car departed.
All that was left behind was an empty alley.