“Good grief, you keep getting involved in weird situations every time, Yuugo. It’s laughable at this point.”
“Don’t say that, Jinba. It’s not like I go looking for trouble.”
Guards led by Jinba arrived at the village the next day in the afternoon.
They received a report late at night, but had to prepare, so Yuugo was thankful that they rushed there as fast as they could. At the same time, he responded to him with a somewhat exasperated expression.
After the incident in the Yum Yum Mountain, it really seemed like every time he stepped outside for just a bit, some incident happened around him.
It was like this with Ehn’s problem as well, so he started to worry if he was cursed or something, when Jinba asked a question with a serious expression.
“This was also caused by a person who got the power of a monster armor beast, right? Was it the black hood again?”
“No, I questioned the culprit before you got here… But it doesn’t look like Lost was behind this one.”
“What do you mean?”
“The culprit, Narul, said it was a girl who gave her the slime. Her name was Drop, she was wearing full black, and her face was visible. She was young… A kid like us, was what Narul said.”
Jinba’s face immediately turned stern, upon facing the realization that there was someone else giving out items that turned people into monster armor beasts, and caused this sort of large-scale incident. His expression was that of a guard who protected the city and its people, as he continued.
“I thought about this because of the large scale support involved in helping Neid make magic swords… But it looks like the people causing these incidents centered around the Luminous Academy are part of a larger organization than we thought. Not only that, but it’s eerie how we still don’t know what they’re after.”
“…I can’t really put into words why, but it feels like they’re playing. Making a lot of people suffer and causing misfortune for fun… I can’t forgive that sort of behavior.”
These were not people doing terrorist acts for money or faith. Thinking back to the incidents they caused, they seemed to be for the purposes of driving people mad and cause misfortune.
After being granted the power of monster armor beasts and being defeated by Yuugo, Rush and Neid were unceremoniously put down by Lost.
If they were being scouted for that organization, it would make sense to help them before they were defeated… But Lost silently watched them losing.
Yuugo felt it was as though Lost was testing how strong the monsters being created were, like a child playing a simulation game.
At the same time, he felt it was scary how these people had the power to completely throw off other people’s lives.
“Yuugo, I know how you feel, but this isn’t something for a student to handle, it’s our job. Classes will be starting again soon, so don’t feel like you have to go out of your way to chase the culprits.”
“…Yeah.”
In all honesty, Yuugo felt that after being continuously roped into these incidents, he should not turn a blind eye to Lost and the others’ evil doings. But… He thought back to the words of a hero he looked up to, who said people could save others as far as their hands could reach, and understood he was being too arrogant.
He wondered if this world could also have an arm that could reach anywhere and give him medals of various colors, and raised his head to see the villagers being served food by the cooking club, helped by his friends.
Without their help, saving Shiroi would have been very difficult.
They joined hands and made up for what the others lacked, and Yuugo was thankful for having them fight alongside him.
“I’m sure you’re tired, Yuugo. That’s enough talking to this old man, go rest and eat with your friends over there.”
“Yes, I’ll do that. You handle the rest, Jinba.”
“Leave it to me. We will go ahead and send both Narul and Shian and Egos to the city. Those two haven’t woken up yet because they had their magic energy sucked.”
Shian and Egos were still out, after losing their magic energy, which was part of a person’s vitality, and being mowed down by Narul. Precia theorized that their natural healing ability was not working as well as it should.
They kept groaning as though they were having a nightmare, but not many people cared.
Even the members of the cooking club, who looked up to them before this outing, were sick of them and became disillusioned over the past few days.
Yuugo had no intention of forgiving them for not only abandoning Shiroi, but also trying to make Precia kill him, so he did not even think about putting in a good word for them.
At the same time, although there were ones like Lost and Drop working to cause misfortune, he thought about how people who were so blissfully ignorant about the misfortune they caused like those two could be even more troubling.
He said goodbye to Jinba, and went over to his friends.
But rather than enjoying a meal with Phi and the others, he walked over to Hao, who was by himself a little further away, and spoke to him with a bright tone.
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Tokutasu Reference Time~☆!!!
Kamen rider OOO
Theres a supporting character named Ankh that for plot reasons stays mostly as a floating hand that gives the main protagonist hino eiji colorfull medals for him to transform into kamen rider OOO
Also hino eiji is a good boy that faced with the crushing reality that heroes cant save everything, he decided he would save everything within his hands reach.