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Chapter 191.2: Strategic Meeting For Yamata No Orochi Subjugation
Just when I was about to arrive at such a terrifying conclusion, a small girl raised her hand, although she seemed timid it felt fake.
「Is something wrong, Kotori?」
The 『Sage』, Takanashi Kotori stood up, seemingly wanting to say something.
「I think, we can go back.」
「Is that true, Kotori?」
「Yeah, maybe…」
Too slow, you should have said it quickly if there was a way to go back. But I wasn’t the kind of guy who would snap at such trivial matters. I should leave this matter to Class Rep and Souma-kun to force her to blurt out all the information that she knew.
「We use the transfer circle on the first floor to teleport into another fairy plaza.」
「Seriously!? Then let’s do it immediately, our destination would be an uninhabited island’s beach.」
「HIII!?」
「Calm down, Momokawa-kun. You’re scaring Kotori.」
Fu*k off, it’s much better than Mei-chan literally charging toward her, right?
「Well then, first, let’s confirm whether it is really possible to use the transfer circle again as Kotori-san said.」
Thus, they all left the fairy plaza and went to the first floor immediately.
This place was a tower whose structure resembled the jungle tower. I realized this fact when we left to scout Yamata No Orochi. Naturally, this tower was much bigger than the jungle tower. It was no exaggeration to say that it was as big as an office building, but then Class Rep said that there was nothing special about the tower aside from its empty room.
And naturally, at the entrance was a spacious hall just like in a huge office building.
It was covered, but there was a circular pattern on the floor, it seems this was the transfer circle that Takanashi-san talking about.
「… I see, it’s written in ancient script, huh.」
Upon a closer look, in that gloomy entrance, amongst the countless letters, I discovered a few that I had learnt before.
Perhaps she knew the existence of the teleportation circle because she had read this.
「As expected of 『Sage』.Takanashi-san is really reliable at a time like this.」
「Ehehe, I’m really happy that Souma-kun is praising me!」
「Takanashi-san, how many ancient letters can you decipher? Is that a skill name?」
Although I asked that, I didn’t give a sh*t about Souma-kun and Takanashi-san who formed their romcom-like space behind me.
Takanashi-san grimaced but still replied albeit reluctantly, perhaps wanting to maintain a good image in front of Souma-kun.
「Kotori has 『Ancient Language Decoding-Complete』… But then, it doesn’t mean that she can decode everything since there are many parts that she can’t understand.」
It should be a better version of Yamajun’s 『Ancient Language Decoding-Beginner』. It isn’t intermediate, it was complete eh?
「Could it be that Momokawa-kun can read ancient letters?」
「Not at all, I don’t have the ancient language decoding skill after all.」
I didn’t lie.
However, I had learnt how to read a little from Yamajun.
The reason I didn’t tell her that was simply because I couldn’t trust Takanashi Kotori. I swear that this had nothing to do with my grudge when she tried to use me as a meat shield when we got flanked by spawn ant back then.
Takanashi-san was a rare frail girl without direct combat skills like Sakura or Kenzaki. Simply put, she couldn’t hurt me with strength. But it didn’t change the fact that this girl was one of the girls who was head over heels for Souma-kun.
In short, when push came to shove, she would take Souma-kun’s side, and become my enemy.
Takanashi Kotori was one of the members of Souma’s harem; she was my potential enemy. There was no reason to reveal all my skills to her.
Nevertheless, I didn’t lie to her about not having ancient language decoding skills, I could only read one part of it thanks to the note left behind by Yamajun. This might be a piece of trivial information, but I should pay attention to this little fact and get used to this lie.
「So, what do you think, Kotori? Can you use teleportation?」
「Uhm, let’s see… The destination is three… Uhm, maybe four. And then, we need the core to activate the function.」
Class Rep cautiously asked Takanashi-san who could read the ancient letters. Honestly, I wanted to ask outrightly but left the matter to Class Rep.
「Meaning that there’s no problem with teleporting to the other side from here, but can we teleport back to this place?」
「It’s okay. It seems that an infinitely formed to-and-fro path can be used when we use this teleportation circle to another place.」
If that turned out to be a teleportation circle that could only send people out but didn’t allow them to return was no different from banishment.
「So, is anyone willing to volunteer?」
That question was followed by a long and awkward silence.
This reaction was natural since no matter how used to we were to the teleportation circle, the one we used till now was the teleportation circle in the boss room which was automatically invoked by placing the core of the boss. Honestly speaking, I didn’t want to trust Takanashi-san only to find myself teleported to an unknown place.
Nevertheless, since I knew that there was a sacrifice-type teleportation circle activated by Higuchi, I already knew another teleportation method other than using the boss room. I don’t think someone like Takanashi-san would tell all of us about that kind of teleportation circle that she could use to secretly banish someone.
But humans were creatures that couldn’t help worrying about whether the teleportation circle could really send them to the other side and send them back again or not.
「Well then, it’s your turn, Souma-kun.」
「Momokawa, you…」
「You believe in Takanashi-san, right?」
「Naturally, I believe in her, but I get a really bad feeling when such a proposal comes from you.」
「No Souma-kun, you absolutely can’t use this teleportation circle!」[Monotone tsundere]
「Are you screwing with me?」
Tch, I thought he would become a single-minded idiot once I said the opposite. What a heartless man you are, Souma-kun. Limited to me though.
「Okay, everyone~, since our hero over here is getting cold feet and is scared of accidental death when trying Takanashi-san’s teleportation circle, I’ll go in his place!」
「Ko-Kotori, believe in Souma-kun…」
「Stop it Kotaro-kun, it’s too dangerous!」
Seeing Souma-kun glare at me, Takanashi-san hurriedly sided with Souma-kun. Thereafter, Mei-chan rebuked me while glaring at Takanashi-san as if considering the option of killing her. Class Rep who noticed the situation seemed to be trying to find the best solution as fast as possible… Ma~n, it was so easy to make a mess of the situation with a single remark when there were so many people.
「Get a grip already Momokawa-kun, and stop looking at the horizon as if you want me to solve this mess by myself!」
「I did say that I’ll go, but of course, I’ll use my offshot, so you can rest assured, Mei-chan.」
「I see, well, it’s not a problem then.」
I mean, I really had no intention of becoming the guinea pig for Takanashi transfer magic.
And in this situation in which I needed a sacrificial pawn, my 『Twin Shadow』 could act as my eyes and ears.
「Well then, Souma-kun who got cold feet, you’ll supply the core needed for transfer.」
「… Kotori-san, tell us how many cores we need to activate the transfer.」
Hero-sama forcefully ignored me and asked Takanashi-san for the number of cores needed for transfer. Okay, I’ll leave the payment to you!
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Note: Momokawa’s attention to trivial matter would save his ass later.