Eirun Last Code v1 Chapter 1

Chapter 1: Nuzzles and Witches

September 9, 1999, A.D. ------------------ humans are no longer be the top of the ecosystem.

A mysterious giant life form.

Simultaneously occurring in 108 locations around the world, it has chewed through the earth, plants, animals, and humans.

The United Nations declares the monster as “Maris” and ...... recognizes them as hostile creatures.

Humanity continued to fight off sporadic attacks by the Maris with the best of civilization's tactics and weapons.

However, it only took fifteen years that the Maris became not an enemy man can win against.

The Maris underwent a dramatic evolution. In the blink of an eye, the power relationship with humanity was reversed.

In just a few years, billions of lives were lost.

The world situation changed in the blink of an eye. The word "peace" was nowhere to be found on earth.

A turning point came for the downtrodden human race.

The acquisition of weapons and the birth of sacrifice.

Advanced nations began to acquire the "neighbor" weapons that would be their trump card against Maris.

What was more important than anything else was the birth of sacrifices, or "Hexa".

The governments of each country began to isolate and control Hexa, who were targeted by Maris as a top priority, and use them as decoys. And it's still going on today, in 2070 AD. ------------------------

 

------Someone.

 

A dozen supercomputers lined up in the command-and-control room, incorporating the latest in science and technology. In front of them is a huge monitor screen. There is one sub-monitor on each side. The interior was somewhat reminiscent of a movie theater.

A group of boys and girls in dark blue officer's uniforms were running around.

They wore blue ribbon ties and intercoms in their right ears. On the back of their right hands, which were sending and receiving information, was engraved a [hexagonal imprint], a sign of ----- Hexa.

“I'm going to make a final check.”

One girl stands in the middle.

The mature beauty of the girl gives a cold impression. The long, lustrous black hair is unique to Japanese people and has a certain beauty to it. The atmosphere she wears is as cool as her appearance.

“How is the evacuation situation on the mainland?”

She, Shiki Kokonoe, began the usual confirmation process.

“Martial law is still in effect. The Tokai area is almost complete. There are only six districts left in the metropolitan area.”

"It seems to be going well. Have you received permission from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport?”

“Roadblocks are almost complete. All trains in the Kanto and Tokai regions have been evacuated to the nearest shelter station at a slow pace. They say it will take another 30 minutes to complete. “

“I'm sure the estimate is inflated. I'm sure they've been overestimated. “

Hexa Special Military Guidance School [Himuro Private School].

It is a combat organization that specializes in training young Hexa and fighting Maris. They have the authority to give orders to the state (including ministries and agencies) and various similar authorized organizations.

Shiki communicated with the ministries one after another. After confirming everything, she turns up.

"Commander. All preconditions have been cleared.”

One level higher than the control area was the command seat. Dressed in a luxurious fur coat.

The old woman sitting in the command seat gave Shiki and the others a wrinkled smile.

“You've done a good job today.”

The old woman's name was Himuro Raichou --------------, the chief executive of this Himuro Private School.

She took out a cigarette. With a slow motion, she lit it.

“Notify all relevant parties at 2^nd Fuji. Move the battle situation to A.

““Understood!””

At the sound of Raichou's voice, all the students simultaneously issued commands to their respective communication points.

Shiki also switched on the intercom.

“This is the Seito-kai. This is the headquarters management squadron (CCV), from the president of the Seito-kai, Kokonoe. We will now begin our operation. The 5th tank squadron (Nimal tk5) will be deployed at point D4. Support artillery fire will be provided by the 1^st (Ichigo HSPS1) and 2nd (Ichigo HSPS2) Specialization Squadrons from points C5 and C8, respectively.

The "Seito-kai" is the information control organization of Himuro Private School, and refers to these students.

The name is a combination of the kanji life and path.

“What's going on with Neighbor? How much longer until we can get out of here?”

Raichou asks the male student in charge. The boy turns to Raichou without saying a word. His face was pale, as if he had seen a ghost. Raichou asks again.

“What is it?”

“The Neighborhood… has escaped.”

Everyone was shocked, including Raichou. The report threatens tens of thousands of lives.

 

------ Someone......

 

Japan's No. 2 Hexa storage territory, East Fuji Artificial Island. It's also known as [2^nd Fuji].

A fortress-type giant artificial floating island (Mega-float) with a total population of 70,000, located 1,000 kilometers south of the eastern coast of Shizuoka Prefecture. It floats as if it were attached to a small island that has risen from the sea floor.

The capacity of the Hexa is 6,000 people ......, making it the largest Hexa storage area in Japan.

Hexa belongs to Himuro Private School, and specialized deparment teams that assist them. Also, 14,000 Self-Defense Force members are assigned to defend Hexa.

In addition, the relatives of Hexa and other civilians, as well as the employees of the various facilities, live on 2^nd Fuji. There is also a downtown block on the island, hence it functions completely as a city.

Currently, on the neighboring small island of 2^nd Fuji, gunfire and explosions can be heard.

 

---------- Please, someone.

 

A single corridor runs through, lined with multiple classrooms. None of them are occupied.

Then an agent in a black suit leaps out of the stairs. The agent ran down the hallway in a straight line. He stood in front of a trash can at the end of the hallway.

Checking the GPS in his hand, the agent turns the trash can over. Candy trash and empty cans were scattered about. A crucifix strap emerges from the scattered trash.

“Oh my god.”

It was a small transmitter in the shape of a strap. -------

“This is Name W. The Neighborhood had discarded the transmitter. According to the camera records, she couldn't have gotten very far.”

The man cut off communication and ran off again.

 

----------------- Someone, anyone.

 

"M! mm!!”

A small girl put her weight on the heavy iron sliding door and pulled it. The girl barely made a gap big enough for one person.

"Shiro!”

She grabbed a white sealskin that she had placed at her feet. She clutched it around her body and stepped inside. I closed the door from the inside and locked it.

“Ha! Ha! Ha!” (panting sfx)

She had been running all this way, and the girl's heart felt like it was going to explode. But the girl ----------------- Cellentina Engveyse cannot rest.

She has elegant eyebrows and large light blue eyes. Her skin is translucent white. She is wearing a white dress. Similar to a Western doll...... Cellen has both dainty and well-rounded beauty.  

But now, Cellen's beauty is distorted by fear. Her long golden hair swayed as she searched desperately for a place to hide.

Cellen found an exercise mattress.

She reached for it, which was propped up. With a jerk, the mattress collapses, and Cellen's body falls underneath it. The mattress smelled musty and was cool to the touch.

"Fugu”

Cellen realized for the first time that it was cold here. When she stopped moving, the anxiety that had been lurking in the background began to creep.She felt like she had been thrown out into the endless wilderness alone.

“~Ee, u ~ee”

The tears that she had been holding back for so long overflowed from her blue eyes.

Cellen wipes away the tears that won't stop.

On the back of her right hand was the imprint of Hexa. However, Cellen's imprint has the Roman numeral [I] engraved inside the hexagon. The exact same thing is on the nape of her thin neck.

It was a symbol of the curse that tormented Cellen.

“Someone please ...... save me.”

The girl's sobbing only reached the stuffed toy that was underneath her along with her.

 

Black smoke drifted along the southernmost coast of the neighboring small island.

Armored car wrecks and mortars littered the beach like trash dumped on the beach. There were also tanks that had been turned into scrap. Mixed in with the mud on the beach, scattered about were pools of blood.

"No! Giiiiiiiiiiii!”

There were screams of desperation here and there. They all sounded like animals.

One Self-Defense Force member slumped down on the beach. The SDF member was watching only one side.

"First line of defense ...... is destroyed. Permission to withdraw. I repeat. Permission to withdraw.

He turned to the walkie-talkie and repeated the same words.

In front of him, two [monsters] were fighting for the bait.

The bait was his companion, who had supported the front line until the end.

One of them grabbed his companion's arm carelessly. The other grabbed his companion's leg.

"Stop! Stop it! No!

The blood splashed on the slumped SDF member. The amount of blood looked like it had been sprayed in a bucket. The Self-Defense Forces member's eyes were wide open and he did not move.

“Waa a ~a”

It was over four meters long. It has no lips, and its fangs are bared. The blood dripping from its mouth is gobbled up by its serpentine tongue. Its limbs were as thick as logs.

This monster was the external enemy ---------- “Maris” that humanity was fighting to avoid extinction. After finishing their meal, the two animals set their gaze on the slumped Self-Defense Force member.

"You monsters .......”

The Self-Defense Force member drops his walkie-talkie. He iimmediately pulled the pistol out of the holster and blew his head off without hesitation.  

 

 

 

“Hurry up with the search. The enemy has already entered the second line of defense.”

Shiki said in a firm tone.

A three-dimensional map of the neighboring islets floats on the monitor on the right side of the command center.

A large number of red markers in the shape of "soldiers" were entering the neighboring islands at a very fast pace.

“Headquarters Management Company from the Seito-kai. Discard items 7 through 2 of the battle flow. Wait for further orders.”

“Commander! The invasion speed is far exceeding our expectations! In ten minutes since the start of the landing ...... 88? That's on par with Operation Akenomiya! The first line of defense has been destroyed!”

A male student reports. Raichou, tapping on the optical panel at the command desk, shows no sign of moving.

"Bad things happens, don’t they? The second defense line will remain the same. Anyway, it will stop the enemy."

“Copy that! Headquarters control squadron from the Seito-kai. Notify the 4th Tank Company (nimal Tk4) at Point C3. Hold the line. I repeat, maintain the front line. No retreat allowed.”

Through the war situation delivered by [Seito-kai officer], Raichou moves the board.

“Jeez, where did the princess go?”

Raichou blurted out with a troubled face.

 

 

 

The pitch black room was covered in dust.

Cellen hid her breath under the mattress that was covering her.

Cellen has escaped to the equipment room in the gymnasium of Himuro Private School.

Up to this point, she had closed all the locks she could see.

I'm not sure what the master key to the gym is. The master key to the gymnasium was stolen and thrown away days ago. Cellen’s escape this time …… has been planned for a long time.

She also threw away the transmitter. It was a gift, and She have been carrying it for years. 

------I'm not going to ride it anymore. I absolutely …… hate

Cellen bit his lip. During the battle, the students are never in the school building. They are rushed to their respective posts as student soldiers. Cellen thought she had exploited that blind spot.

“!?”

Cellen raise her body upward. She hears a sound coming from the outside. It sounds like a heavy machine being driven. Cellen whispers, "It's okay.” many times.

The number of times she checked the lock of the door. How she got here without anyone finding her. And the fact that the warehouse door was heavy and strong. Cellen struggled to gather up all the things to reassure herself that everything is okay.

But the next moment, ------

“~tsu!”

With a roar, a huge [fist] appears as it smashes through the wall. Rubble were scattered around Seren.

In the midst of the reverberations, the outside world expands all at once ------ Cellen’s vision reflects it, even if she doesn’t want it to.

Behind the missing wall, an Iron Giant bends down. The mechanical eyes of the lens mechanism repeatedly contracted. The giant's eyes caught the frightened figure of Seren.

Seren's mind went blank. She hadn't expected this so far. No...... she didn’t expect she would make it this far. Cellen began to shake his head, as if refusing to accept reality.

The Self-Defense Force members pass through the side of the giant flowing in.

“Nooooooooo!”

Seren crawled out of the mattress in an attempt to escape. However, her small body was immediately seized by the SDF members.

"No! No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!”

The only sound in the cold warehouse was the girl's screams of despair.

"Fifteen forty-eight. We have found the Neighborhood, and are now proceeding the Neighborhood.”

 

 

 

This islet, bordering on the south of the 2^nd Fuji, is treated as a battlefield.

The island is crescent-shaped, and it surrounds 2^nd Fuji. Since Maris always attacked from the southern sea, they have to pass through this islet to get to 2^nd Fuji.

This is point C3 ------ a hilly area with bare soil.

The tank units on the west side of the second line of defense were on the verge of being destroyed.

The three surviving tanks fired their 20mm tank guns without a break.

Dozens of Maris blasted through with the shells. They were not intimidated by the splash of sand and soil. They looked like an angry herd of buffalo.

A few of the Maris were blown off the ground by the tank gun. However, the amount of Maris getting killed were out of proportion to the amount advancing.

The ironclad rule of intercepting maris is to "keep your distance”.

The reason being that there was absolutely no chance of victory if they get close. The theory is to repeatedly bombard them from the very edge of range, and shrink the front line when they get close to a certain level.

This time, however, things were different. They were not allowed to retreat, let alone shrink the front line.

One of the tanks was attacked by Maris.

In front of the Maris, iron armor was useless. The strength of its arm tears through the canopy like wrapping paper. The same goes for the main gun. The barrel, like an iron pillar, is easily snapped in a single hug.

And the people inside are eaten up one by one.

Following that example, one person was dragged out of the tank. Maris raised its big mouth.

"Stop, stop, stop! Stop!”

The man's head was gone. Maris opens its mouth again, this time with a mouth full of gore.

Bullets struck the Maris. The line of fire was from above. The bullets blow a hole through the Maris and also engulfed the people inside the tank. -----------------------

The bullets were fired from the rear of the tank unit, from the top of the hill.

One Self-Defense Force soldier was half-mad, scattering machine gun rounds. In his field of vision, his comrades screamed.

“You! There's someone still alive inside!”

“It's better than being eaten alive! Didn't you learn that? And what about Neighbor? Why hasn't it come out yet?”

The gunner yelled back, and continued to fire the machine gun downward.

“The 22nd Platoon's been wiped out! We're all that's left!”

Says the Self-Defense Force member carrying a launcher from the weapons tent. The member then launched a counterattack with the launcher.

After kicking the tank troops out of the way, the rest of the Maris started to climb the hill, this time aiming for them. One of Self-Defense Force shouted as he pulled the pin out of his bundle.

“I've called for help many times! Can't the Senkiso come to our aid?”

“It's unlikely that they will come! They are babysitting the hexa in the inner citadel, damn it! We are … pieces meant to be thrown away!!”

Another one half-heartedly began firing a machine gun.

“Aaah! One of them's climbing up!”

Maris finally reached the high ground. The temporary barricade was blown away like a toy.

Maris attacked the gunner who was close at hand. The Self-Defense Forces personnel around him aim their muzzle on one of them. In the meantime, the 2^nd and 3^rd Maris were gathering on the firing platform.

“We’re fucked”

One of the SDF members tried to flee.

"!?"

All the Maris stop moving at once. All the Maris looked in the same direction at the same time. The Self-Defense Force members who were being attacked instinctively did the same thing as Maris.

"Get down!” ------ A woman's voice sounded over the speakers.

As soon as they saw the owner of the voice, everyone in the scene moved as fast as a they can on reflex.

There was a roar, and in the next instant, half of the head of one of the Maris was gone. The remaining tongue bounced vigorously. 

A storm of gunfire erupts. The sound of gunfire shook the internal organs of the SDF members on the ground. One by one, Maris was shot to death. Their bodies were gutted, and died like their dancing.

Maris, who had climbed to higher ground, were quickly exterminated.

"It was your unit that was calling for help, right?

All the SDF members looked up.

The one that saved them was a meter-long iron giant.

A slender body with a sharp design. The head looks like a headgear with an eye camera attached. Two sensors extended from under its chin.

It has boosters on both shoulders for turning. Two fuel tanks are inserted in the back of the waist.

The coloring is red from head to foot. On her shoulders is a hexagonal hexagram with a sword thrust into it, representing her affiliation with Himuro Private School.

It was a mounted giant armament for combat [Senkiso] (War Calvary).

A girl's voice flowed from the external speakers of the Senkiso armor.

“I'll draw these guys away. Retreat to the third west side immediately.”

The war machine slid down the hill. Then all the Maris in the vicinity began to chase after it at once.

 

 

 

She can see the Maris on the cockpit monitor.

Aoi Ichinose, the head of the Mobile Division, narrowed her eyes.

Her hair is semi-long and brown with hair dryer burn. Her powerful eyes are sharpened to a sad degree for a girl of seventeen.

She wears a black and red protective suit made of interwoven machine parts.

The fiber material adheres to her body, revealing her supple body lines. Her body is well-proportioned and slender. It's not only graceful, but also powerful.

“That state…… perhaps the seito-kai”

Aoi rotated her Senkiso. The Senkiso armor switches to a reverse run.

Senkiso held up the operational assault riffle [Sweet Bee] that it carried.

As Aoi squeezed the trigger on the control frame, the oversized machine gun with a 45mm diameter roared to life.

Maris' body was torn apart like a piece of paper. Its head disappeared. Its hands fell off.

--------------- a wind hole in its stomach. Maris's corpse bounces and rolls around like a piece of trash.

However, it doesn't matter how many of its allies are killed; Maris, unconcerned about this, relentlessly pursues Aoi's Senkiso.

“Come to me! I’ll service you with bullets for now!”

Maris's characteristic -------------- is to gives priority to attack the hexa in any case.

It was this trait that caused Maris to change their target to Aoi alone as soon as she appeared.

Aoi is a member of the Mobile Division, which is the Senkiso unit of the Himuro Private School and is made up of hexa with a particularly high aptitude for piloting.

It's not just a matter of time before you'll find yourself in a situation where you'll be able to't get out of it. In terms of piloting skills alone, these people are more skilled than even the regular military pilots of other countries. In terms of piloting skills alone, these people are more skilled than even the regular military pilots of other countries.

The main purpose of this unit is not to fight.

The main purpose of the Mobile Division is battlefield operations ...... in other words, decoys.

Despite their high level of piloting skills, the Hexa are not required to fight. Aoi and her team, the Hexa, run around the battlefield to guide the Maris who are dazzled by the bait.

“There are many of them. There are thirty of them...... at this rate, by the time we reached 3^rd central it will exceed 100.”

Aoi retreats and steadily shoots the Maris on the monitor.

“My flesh!”

“My head”

“My eyeball”

Senkiso's sound-collecting speakers picked up the voices of the Maris.

"When the fighting starts in the center, we'll increase the battle line. But if these numbers hit us in our sides…”

Based on his experience, Aoi simulate the deployment ....... in a snap judgement  

She turned the end of the control frame grip with her thumb.

The red light reading "Retreat" on the left side of the main monitor switched to a green light reading "Advance".

The huge tires under Senkiso's feet smoked and braked, then it spun in reverse.

Senkiso started to move forward. It caught one of the legs of a Maris and it fished it upside down----------

“I have no choice but to do it here!”

She slammed the Maris into the ground, cracking both the ground and the head of the Maris.

The spattered pieces of flesh paint Senkiso's armor with blood.

“This way! Come here! “

Aoi's Senkiso dumps the corpse in its hands and glides off.

Aoi's Senkiso began to destroy the swarm of Maris on its own.

 

 

 

Men in a black suit walks in front of and behind Cellen, who has been forced to change into a black-and-white (reminiscent of a straitjacket) pilot suit. The area is dark.

Using the emergency lights on both sides of the stairs as a guide, Cellen found her footing. She held the baby seal in her arms.

"Walk faster!”

The black suit behind Cellen pushes her back, and Cellen looks behind him with a frightened look.

The man was even more furious when he saw Cellen's eyes.

"It's your fault that I am here!

The man yells with spit flying and yanking Cellen's hair. The pain causes Cellen to drop her stuffed toy.

Tears welled up in her blue eyes.

“Hey! Stop it!”

“I can't believe the Neighborhood got away during Special Ops.......I can't believe you let this scandal happen!”

The subordinate raises his fist with bloodshot eyes, not listening to the boss's command.

“That is enough!”

The boss's black suit grabbed his subordinate's hand.

“We need to get him on board now!”

The subordinate shut his mouth in frustration. He roughly let go of Cellen's hair.

As soon as he let go of her hair, Cellen picked up the fallen stuffed animal. Tears welled up and fell in to the ground drop by drop.

Cellen crouched down and spoke to the stuffed animal, "Shiro, Shiro.”

“Get up.”

The boss of the black suit grabbed Seren's arm and forced her to stand.

“Do your part, Neighborhood.”

The lights came on at once. The head of the giant robot filled Cellen's field of vision.

 

 

 

The right-hand monitor in the control room showed a three-dimensional image of the situation on the neighboring island.

Blue friendly markers, such as tanks and humanoids, form a triangular formation in the center of the map.

A little farther to the west, the blue humanoid marker was eliminating the red markers of the soldiers one by one.

“Why? This is the frame of Chief Ichinose.”

A female officer from Seito-kai shouted. Everyone had a similar reaction.

Shiki immediately picked up the wired phone in her seat. The sound of the call echoed through the command center. After a while, Aoi's face appeared on the side corner of the monitor.

“Chief Ichinose, why are you there? The mobile division is waiting at the central third defense line. Aren’t you a diversion is in store for us?”

Shiki asks Aoi in the video.

“Shiki…… the second line of defense on the west side was unstable. It was difficult to escape from, let alone fight. They already sent out a request for help, right? Why didn't you let them pull back?”

Aoi asked, trying to suppress her emotions. The other officers gasped.

“You don't have the authority to know. Return to your assigned operations immediately. That's an order.”

Shiki commanded. But Aoi smiled coldly in return.

“I gotta tell you, I’ll be here. And the way you talk to me? It's really annoying.”

Aoi said in a low voice. Shiki could see that Aoi was trying to control her anger. Shiki then let out a sigh. She pulled her long black hair back over her ears.

“We were going to send two tank platoons to meet up with them, and then withdraw, that's the plan we had.”

“That is false ...... the markers weren't even moving. That's why I went here.”

Shiki's eyes flickered slightly when Aoi said that, and Aoi didn't miss that.

“Shiki, answer me. You were actually going to cut them off, weren't you? The West side second line of defense...... all of it.”

The command center froze at Aoi's question. Shiki let out another sigh. This time the sigh was heavier.

“…… The Neighborhood escaped.”

When Aoi heard that, she was lost for words. Aoi's face began to pale, and she looked down.

"Cellen?”

“At this rate, withdraw to the 3^rd line of defense where the mobile division is located at before you get damage.…… we cant afford to sacrifice the Hexa”

Shiki put her hand on her forehead as if to say, “I'm sorry.”

“We were trying to minimize the damage. ...... What do you think the tactical value of Hexa is? Don't add to our workload at a time like this.”

As soon as Aoi heard this, she became angry as lit on fire.

"People are dying!”

Aoi's angry voice echoed through the command center.

"Shiki, you can say that because you haven’t seen any blood! Minimum!? Don't put a number on a person's life!”

Aoi was furious. Perhaps it was because of Aoi, but Shiki’s expression turned icy.  

“In the event that the sixth line of defense is breached, the next target is the 2^nd Fuji. More than 5,000 civilians and Hexa will be eaten. Please don’t demonize me with your one-size-fits-all view of things. “

“Aaaah, wait, wait, wait, wait. Stop. End it.”

Raichou, who had been watching quietly, interjected to calm the situation.

“Aoi, don't waste fuel, just go to point B8.”

"Listen, President! The Maris momentum is stronger than usual! As things are, we might get pinned down! Some of these kids were just released from the hospital yesterday! We can't get into a melee fight!”

Aoi looked at Raichou and shouted.

Raichou replied in a stern tone, “You call me Commander for now. And it's not your job to think about it. You do your job.”

“But .....but for the Seito-Kai to cut off their people ------”

Aoi looked accusingly at Shiki, and Shiki's face tensed up.

“I don’t care what other people say.”

"Don't be a spoiled brat!”

Raichou loudly rebuke. Both Shiki and Aoi rolled their eyes away.

“There are a lot of things that can't be helped in the field and in leadership. By the way, it was I who ordered the second line of defense to take over the battle, not Shiki. In the case of the Self-Defense Forces, fighting to the death is part of the paycheck. If it means that Hexa and the others don't have to die, I'll discard as many as I can. ...... It's just happens that It wasn’t necessary to do it until now.”

Aoi's shoulders slumped at Raichou's words, and Raichou softened her tone when she saw Aoi's body expression.

“But I like that about you. You will become a good woman. You and Shiki both will.”

“...... Ichinose frame, will return to operations.”

Aoi cut the communication with a gloomy face.

On the right monitor, Ichinose's marker begins to move again towards the group of blue markers, and Shiki takes a deep breath as she switches it off.

“……Commander, thank you for your help.”

“Don't mind it. So, Tanaka, did you find Cellen?

Letting Shiki’s thanks slide, Raichou change course and asked different male student.

“Aa, Yes, apparently she was hiding in the equipment room of the gym. The self-Defense Forces reportedly forced their way in using Senkiso. They’re currently preparing her to board.”

When Shiki heard the report, she turned her face slightly down.

--------Cellen.

Her heart is heavy with sadness, but the situation gave Shiki no time to grieve.

“The Rook is coming ashore! 20 of them!”

One of the female officers reported.

Tension ran through the group.

Dozens of red "fort" markers, each larger than the red "soldier" marker, begin to appear on the shore of the three-dimensional map of the neighboring small island on the right monitor.

"Its all over. Get the Neighbor out as soon as possible.”

“““Copy that!”””

The officers responded and returned to their respective communications at once.

While everyone was on the move, Shiki was the only one watching something on a different channel in her seat.

-------------- I would have ...... hanged myself.

It was a video of men shoving a figure that looked like a girl into something. Listening closely, crying, screaming and noises of resistance coming from the monitor can be heard.

At the feet of the men who seized her, a seal stuffed toy had fallen there.

“Cellen, I'm sorry…… Forgive me”

Shiki said in a small voice, and turned off the monitor image. 

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