“Oh yeah Shidou, speaking of Natsumi, there was something I've been wondering
about from before”
“Hn? What is it?”
“Natsumi is called natsumi[10a 1] because she is loved by everyone?”
“…….Ah---“
Although he was relieved that the topic changed, it was only for a brief moment.
Sweat flow down Shidou’s cheeks.
The word [Natsumi] was taught to Tohka by Shidou a few days back ago. The
meaning is [I like you]. ……..well actually, It was something Shidou made up to
trick Tohka when he called her Natsumi.
“T-that’s right. Words like [Love] and [Like] are good ones as expected. It’s often
used as names. You see, Yamabuki from our class is named [Ai] too if I am correct
right?”
“Ooo! I see!”
Shidou brought up something random and Tohka hit her hand as if she was
impressed from the bottom of her heart………….his chest hurting. Incidentally,
Yamabuki from his class was [Ai[10a 2]] not [Ai[10a 3]].
After talking about that while walking, both of them reached the high school.
He changed his shoes like usual, climbed the stairs as usual, entered the classroom
as usual and reached his seat as usual. Shidou’s seat was the second seat from the
window, Tohka’s seat was beside him…………for some reason, the moment Shidou
entered the classroom, his classmates were sending cautious looks to him but, well
he decided to now worry about that.
What’s left was to prepare for classes and he should just have a random
conversation with Tohka until homeroom starts. This was also the same as usual.
---But.
“………….”
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He looked at the seat to his left silently.
The seat was still vacant. Shidou’s classmate----Tobiichi Origami’s seat.
Yes. There was something missing in his days which should be normal.
“Origami…….”
Shidou called her name with a soft voice.
“Mu…….”
When he did that, Tohka looked towards Origami's seat when she noticed him doing
that.
Origami was in the AST-----a member of the team that aims to exterminate the
Spirits. And of course, Origami was not close to Tohka who was a Spirit. No, their
relationship was so bad it’s even proper to call it the relation of dogs and monkeys.
But, what is going on, he could feel that Tohka’s eyes had some kind of complex
emotion inside when she was looking at that vacant seat.
However, that was something only natural. Shidou made a small nod to answer
Tohka’s word before sighing and recalled back the memory of when he last saw
Origami.
---it happened a few days earlier. Tenguu city was in danger.
The DEM industry dropped an artificial satellite with explosion arts installed on the
city from the satellite's orbit.
Thanks to the efforts of Shidou, the spirits and , they managed to stop it
at the last minute but, DEM industries had one secret move prepared.
A bomb with the same power as the one installed on the artificial satellite was
dropped towards Tenguu city from an airship.
Completely depleted of energy, Shidou and the group were in a predicament. There
was nothing left they could do.
At that time-----a Wizard appeared from the skies and destroyed it with one hit. That
was Origami.