I held hands with Tamamushi and approached the warehouse.
Tamamushi shivered
and looked up at me.
I squeezed
Tamamushi's hand.
By focusing my
ability on a single point and extending it to the limit, I was able to reach
the warehouse within the effective range of my ability. However, since the
range was stretched to the limit, I had to move my eye to the left and right in
order to examine the warehouse in detail.
If we get close to
the warehouse, we can check the inside of the warehouse within the normal
effective range, but if possible, we would like to check it from a distance.
In short, it's going
to take us a little while to get a grasp of the situation.
――Suzuhara?
Tamamushi, who has
stopped and staring at me, is tilting her head with a chuckle.
I've given up to get
this idiot to understand the situation. I'll leave it alone.
I slowly move my
ability to the left, and when I reach the edge of the warehouse, I slowly move
it to the right this time.
There it is.
I couldn't help but
grin.
――Su, Suzuhara's smile is scary.......
Tamamushi who was
looking up at me muttering inbarrierly.
Kukuku, how can I
not laugh at this?
The number of
enemies whose seen by my ability is five.
I had expected them
to let Tamamushi and Alice crush each other before throwing their forces into
the battle, but it seems that they have been throwing their forces into the
battle from the beginning.
Perhaps the enemy
was just using Tamamushi as bait to lure the spies, and not intending to make
them fight each other.
If that the case, it
is highly likely that the enemy is underestimating Tamamushi.
Tamamushi is
capable, but she's also good-natured, innocent, and stupid. Perhaps she's been
screwing up the work that the organization sends her to do.
It's no wonder she
was underestimated.
If my guess is
right, they're stupid.
But, as long as they
know how to handle her, Tamamushi are terribly strong. Stupid, but strong.
Although her
physical abilities are inferior to Rikka, she is extremely strong and have a
body that is hard to kill. In addition to that, she can manipulate insects, has
various knowledge of different kinds of power, and is quite skilled.
Their barriers have
limited her abilities, but not all of them have been disabled. And the
conditions are applied for the opponent too.
It's like an idiot
using a scissors.
That being said,
just to be sure, I checked the entire warehouse with my abilities.
Above and below.
My ability allows me
to check "underneath" the ground as well.
As a result, there
were five enemies. I couldn't find anything else.
If they're just
using Tamamushi as bait and don't have any hostile intentions tobarriers us,
they'll just pretend to be ignorant and help us get rid of the spies. In other
words, we'll let the enemy and the spy crush each other and take the best part.
However, if the
enemy wanted to get rid of the Tamamushi and the spy, they would have to go all
out from the beginning.
As I pondered this,
I drew a "5" with my finger on the palm of Tamamushi's hand.
――So there are five enemies.
I nodded silently to
Tamamushi answer.
――B, but, do you know? When Suzuhara's fingers touch my palm, I feel a
little ♡
Tamamushi's cheeks
flush, she rubs her thighs fidgety, and looks up at me with moist, upturned
eyes.
What an idiot. If
you're going to go into heat, think about the time and place. That's why they
call you stupid even though you're capable.
But it's good to
know that Tamamushi isn't out of her element in the face of the enemy.
I laughed as I let
out a sigh and made circles with my fingers on Tamamushi's palm.
―― I, I can feel it when you do that ♡
Tamamushi's ears
turned red as my fingers touched on her palm, and she panted as she rubbed her
thighs together.
You idiot. It's not
a good time to be in heat.
I let out another
sigh, and pulled Tamamushi's hand away.
I drew a circle on
her palm, a symbol that meant to go around the warehouse.
The enemy is inside
the warehouse, but the area around the warehouse is a forest. They can hide in
the woods as long as they want. But hiding doesn't work with my ability. So I
should check before entering the warehouse.
So I pulled
Tamamushi, who was in heat, and went
around the area while pretending to look for the entrance to the warehouse.
As it turned out,
there was no sign of the enemy hiding within 30 meters, the maximum range of my
ability.
It was possible that
the reinforcements were waiting outside the range of my ability or outside the barriers,
but if that the case, the enemies inside the warehouse would not be able to
communicate with the reinforcements too.
The barriers don't
only work on us, though.
So, if there were
reinforcements, they would probably be using the same method as us.
They'd probably have
a predetermined time to enter.
If that's the case,
I'd say they're idiots.
My eyes seem to be
special, but I'm sure they'll disable my search abilities inside the barriers.
In addition, the ability to communicate is also disabled, and once they're
inside the barriering, they can't get out unless we destroy the barriering.
If that's the case,
they should deploy reinforcements near the warehouse where we're meeting.
But their
reinforcements are not nearby, at least not yet.
It would be a
terrible to destroy the great barriers they've put up a while ago.
One of the five men
in the warehouse is probably a spy.
Are they
overconfident that the remaining four will be able to handle the two of them,
Tamamushi and the spy?
If that's the case,
I'm grateful.
I've been planning
for the worst, but maybe the situation isn't as bad as I thought.
I looked down at
Tamamushi and smiled, having a rough idea of the situation based on my
expectations and guesses.
I looked down at
Tamamushi and smiled at her. Tamamushi shuddered when she saw my smile, and her
eyes turned into dots and her mouth into a triangle.
―― W, what's wrong with you, Suzuhara! You look like a demon or a
devil smiling at me!
Tamamushi shivered
as she screamed in her mind.
I'm sorry, I didn't
mean to scare you. My bad.
I laughed to
reassure Tamamushi, but it seems my smile make her trouble now.
I pulled Tamamushi's
hand and stood in front of the iron door, and opened it.
The door opened with
a creaking metallic sound, as if the oil had run out.
I knew, of course,
that there were no enemies "beyond" the door. In fact, I already know
where the enemy is.
Surprise attacks
don't work on me. I'd rather have you take me by surprise.
After all, with my
"eyes", I can "see" in advance if there is a surprise
attack. It's a really cobarrierly ability.
I think it's a
really cobarrierly ability.
Anyway, there is
something strange about this.
There are five
enemies. One of them is a spy.
If my information is
correct, the spy is a woman.
The five men in the
warehouse are four men and a woman.
And I've
"looked" inside their bodies, and three of the four men are probably
beastsman. Like Rikka, their physical structure is fundamentally different from
that of humans.
The enemy seems to
have used beastmen as I expected.
The remaining man
looks physically like a normal human, but there is a red light circulating
inside his body. He must be a person with different abilities, but what is he
doing here? Because of the barriering, most of different abilities will be
blocked. They're the one who put up the barriers, so they should be familiar
with it.
That's fine, but I'm
having a tremendous sense of discomfort right now.
Is there something
wrong with my senses?
There are five of
them in the warehouse, but I can't help but they feel extremely weak.
I look down at
Tamamushi, who notices my gaze, looks up at me and smiles.
It's strange. There
was something wrong.
I can't help but
feel that even if the five people in the warehouse attacked with all their
might, they would be helpless against Tamamushi alone.
What's with this
confidence?
The self-confidence
without any cause fuels my anxiety.
I'm trying to avoid
wishful thinking.
I pull Tamamushi's
hand and walk down to the dark corridor.
The enemy is
gathered in the square inside the warehouse.
By approaching the
enemy, I returned my abilities to normal state, but this made me feel more and
more uncomfortable.
This is strange.
That's strange.
The spy was a
Category D according to my information, and Tamamushi was also a Category D on
paper.
According to
Nanafushi's story, a person with Category D abilities was one of the strongest.
If they wanted to
destroy Tamamushi as well, they would have to bring two Category D.
Even if their
abilities sealed by barriers, they were not an opponent to be taken lightly.
No, that's not the
problem.
The woman who seemed
to be a spy was the same rank as Tamamushi on paper. In reality, Tamamushi was
probably higher ranked than her, but I couldn't help but feel that Tamamushi's
strength was on a different level.
The same goes for
the three men who looked like beastmen.
They are supposed to
be physically enhanced, but their physical abilities seem to be much lower than
Tamamushi's. I just can't wrap my head around that.
Is this a trap? Is
this a trap? Did they gather a bunch of weak guys to catch us off guard?
No, but at least
there were no enemies within a 30 meter radius of the warehouse. Because of the
barriering, there was no way to contact them, so the trap would not work unless
reinforcements were nearby.
Even if it was a
mechanical trap instead of a biological one, it would not work for my eyes.
I can't find it. No
matter how hard I searched using my abilities, I couldn't find anything that
looked like a trap.
It's a trap? Or it's
not a trap? Or am I missing something?
Calm down, calm
down, calm down.
The worst thing I
can do is misjudge my enemy's capabilities.
It's a distraction.
The margin of error is disturbing.
The self-confidence
that we are overwhelmingly strong is a hindrance.
I won't die. I won't
let them die. For the first time in my life, I've made "friends", and
I can't let any of them die.
Pull yourself
together. Don't let my guard down.
No matter how many
times I told myself that, the overwhelming margin and self-confidence that we
was overwhelming the enemy kept growing.
What's wrong with
me?
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Edited by Kanaa-senpai. (tinytranslation.xyz)
