Chapter 138 – 11.8 Sana in Crisis, Rescue
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Steam rose from his body.
This is because the body is overloaded with sudden exercise.
Maybe it’s because of the heat in my head.
It didn’t matter because I was able to get it right in time anyway.
“This bastard!”
I kick the chin of the guy who jumped at me first.
He has a quick temper, so he’s the type to jump right in and see. This is the easiest to deal with.
“This!”
Then the guy who got out of the driver’s seat- tried to pull out his handgun.
He picks up a fallen car door and throws it at him.
He was shot in the head before he could pull out his gun and collapsed.
It’s stuck in a corner, so it’s probably going to die soon.
“Hick!”
The last one was the timid type.
I probably thought that other guys would take care of me, but when I came to my senses, I was left alone.
There is no need to rush. Cooling off the body was the priority.
I trudged towards him.
“Oh, don’t come!”
Is this guy a gun too?
He takes a pistol out of his pocket.
However, I couldn’t even unlock the safety device because my heart was in a hurry.
In the meantime, I approached right in front of me.
Just like that, he slammed his fist into his throat.
– Bahak!
“What?”
A man with a split face collapses with a gasping sound.
Trampling the face of the fallen guy on the floor with your heel.
– Kwajik.
The back of the head sunk.
This guy will die soon too.
“Sana. Are you okay?”
Sana was shivering while crouching in the van.
He barely raises his head at my voice and looks this way with frightened deer eyes.
Fortunately, there appear to be no injuries.
“Whew.”
Remove the heat from your body with a sigh.
Now, what do we do?
First of all, I called the person who would leave the cleanup.
“Senior. It’s me. There are three corpses in front of my house, please dispose of them.”
“Oh…… Mr. Hiroto!”
Sana, who had been trembling, finally came to her senses her.
But Sana-san still seems to be mistaking the man for Mr. Kurosaki.
『Target, Mental Contamination Progress: 21%』
“Sana.”
I block Sana who is trying to get out of the van with my arm.
The condition of the men was not good enough to show Sana.
The man, whom Sana-san mistook for Uncle Kurosaki, was also hit when the kick shattered his vertebrae and ruptured his intestines. If he left alone, he will die soon.
But Sana-san is probably trying to heal the man with runes. I couldn’t use the holy Sana-san’s rune for such a thing.
“Hiroto-san! Mr. Hiroto!”
Panicked Sana clings to my arm.
I saw the face of the fallen man, even from a distance.
“Sana. Come to your senses.”
“Knives! What have you done to Hiroto-san!”
“That man is not Mr. Kurosaki. You tricked Sana-san.”
“Knives!”
Sana couldn’t hear what I was saying.
It was because he was brainwashed by that man.
I can’t.
Instead of persuading me with words, I decided to forcefully remove the leeches from Sana’s head her.
『Target, Mental Contamination Progress: 19%』
“Get out of the way! At this rate, Hiroto-san!”
“I’m sorry, Sana. It will be over soon, so please be patient.”
I forcibly hold Sana struggling in my arms and release his brainwashing her.
『Target, Mental Contamination Progress: 17%』
“Knives! Why did you attack Hiroto-san!”
“Miss Sana…….”
“Hiroto-san only came to see me! The others are also Hiroto-san’s colleagues!”
In the original story, no details were given about the sudden disappearance of the main character Yuuki’s mother.
But looking at this situation, I could roughly infer it. It must have been hypnotized or something.
If I didn’t notice and Sana-san was dragged away…….
…… I didn’t even want to imagine such a thing.
『Target, Mental Contamination Progress: 14%』
“Oops, oops!”
When I don’t release it, Sana tries to loosen my arm with force.
Of course, there was no way Sana-san could do anything about me.
I held onto Sana-san tightly with just enough strength not to injure her.
『Target, Mental Contamination Progress: 10%』
“Ugh.”
When I could n’t untie his arm her, Sana ended up biting my arm her.
It hurt.
The bitten arm doesn’t hurt.
My heart ached.
The heart of Sana who resents and hates me came intact.
Being hated by the person I was in love with was more heartbreaking than I could have imagined.
But, it’s okay.
I closed my eyes and accepted all of Sana-san’s feelings for her.
The pain I feel cannot be compared to the pain Sana-san will feel when she is freed from brainwashing.
『Target, Mental Contamination Progress: 5%』
“…… Why? Why are you blocking it? We just met, why…….”
“I’m sorry, Sana-san.”
“Free me, Knives. I’ll do anything if you release me. If not treated quickly, Hiroto-san…… Hiroto-san is dying…….”
Sana was crying.
The sadness was stronger than the resentment toward me.
The sadness of a loved one dying right in front of your eyes, the feeling of helplessness that you can’t do anything about, the heartbreaking pain. All of Sana’s emotions of her were conveyed to me desperately.
But I couldn’t let Sana go.
『Target, Mental Contamination Progress: 0%』
…… Is it just over
I released the arm holding Sana-san.
“Hiroto-san!”
Sana-san ran to the fallen man with tears in her eyes.
“Hiroto-san! Mr. Hiroto!”
Sana tries to shake the fallen man to wake him up.
I moved to Sana-san’s side of her.
“Sana. That man is not Mr. Kurosaki.”
And if you shake a person with a broken spine like that, you’ll be in big trouble.
Well, it looks like he’s already dead.
“Hiroto-san…… No?”
Sana looks back at me blankly with a tear-soaked face.
Perhaps because of the brainwashing, he didn’t deny it as recklessly as before.
I flipped the fallen man over to his feet so Sana-san could check his face his.
The man was dead with his tongue sticking out and his eyes wide open.
“Wow!”
Seeing this, Sana-san gave a small scream and hugged me.
I carefully wrapped my arms around Sana’s shoulders his.
“Sana-san, did you see it? I am not Mr. Kurosaki.”
Sana carefully looked away from my arms and checked the man’s face again.
Then, he hurriedly turned his head again, then raised his head carefully to check his face.
Sana-san repeated that action several times.
How many times, how many times.
“It’s not Hiroto-san. But then why did I think that person was Hiroto-san? I do not get it.”
“That man brainwashed Sana with a strange rune ability. He made himself believe that he was his husband her. That’s why Sana-san believed that too.”
“No way…”
Sana could not easily accept the reality.
It was a vicious tactic.
To take advantage of people’s biggest wounds?
It will probably take a lot of time to completely get rid of these aftereffects. Maybe it will remain as a trauma for the rest of my life.
“Then, what about Hiroto-san? What happened to Hiroto-san?”
Sana-san asks with an anxious heart.
I had to bring the cruel reality to Sana.
“You know. Uncle Kurosaki is already dead. During the Great Disaster 10 years ago, he was killed while fighting to protect Sana and her children. That’s something that Yuuki also confirmed when he was in the military.”
“I can’t…… I can’t……”
Mr. Sana breaks down.
The strength drained from Sana-san’s body as she leaned against me.
The shock Sana received was indescribable.
He said his husband his, whom he thought was dead, was alive. He barely met and was killed right in front of his eyes her. It turned out that it was fake, and it was true that her husband her died 10 years ago.
The higher the expectations, the greater the disappointment when betrayed.
Mr. Sana said that he was worried that his children would be disappointed if they hoped for nothing, but in fact, it was Mr. Sana himself who expected the most. As such, the shock Sana received was great.
I never thought it would be so painful to be able to read other people’s minds.
As I listened to Sana-san’s suffering her, I felt like my head was going crazy.
“Sana. Go home and rest. I’ll clean up after myself.”
“Yes…”
In fact, I’m not the one who cleans up, but the seniors will do it.
Support Sana and enter the house.
Sana-san, who had lost her soul her, leaned on me weakly and moved on.
The house, where no human presence was felt, felt even more empty today.
Go into Sana’s room and sit Sana on the bed.
The Kurosaki family came and went every day, saying that they were far away, but they rarely came to Sana-san’s room in her. Most recently, um…….
…… No It is not the time to think strangely.
Isn’t Mr. Kurosaki also watching from the family photo on the table?
Let me move away quickly so that Sana can rest in peace.
“Sana. It must be difficult, but cheer up thinking of the children. Don’t think about anything, get a good night’s sleep, and when you wake up, you’ll be able to forget everything. Sleep even if you are forced to. Did you know?”
I tried to leave the room after giving Sana-san an obvious consolation.
“Knives.”
The hand that pulls my collar.
Sana was looking at me with sad eyes.
“Knives, what should I have done?”
“Miss Sana…….”
“Did you have to shut the door for not being Hiroto-san? Since Hiroto-san is already dead, should I have told him not to lie?”
“…… Sorry for the delay, Sana-san.”
If only I had realized the anomaly sooner.
So, if Sana-san had dealt with them before they were brainwashed.
If that was the case, Sana-san wouldn’t have been so confused.
My lax mindset left Sana-san a scar on her heart that will never be erased.
I felt like banging my head against the wall.
Mr. Sana vainly shook his head.
“No. I’m not blaming Knives. Because Knives saved me, I was able to escape. But if the same thing happens next time, I will follow them again. Even if you were fooled once, even if you knew they were fake …… If there is even the slightest possibility, then I…….”
“Miss Sana…….”
Sana-san trembled as she hugged her slender shoulders.
What should I do?
I sat next to Sana-san and just panicked.
“I hate this. It’s okay if you just live missing the dead for the rest of your life. But to live in fear because of that person’s shadow. If I go away fooled like that, I, my children…….”
“Sana. Do not worry about anything. Next time something like this happens again, I’ll save you the same. No, sooner than this, I won’t let you come near Sana-san at all.”
“Nives…….”
Carefully hug Sana’s shoulders her.
How much sadness did Sana carry on her small shoulders?
I wanted to share even a little of the burden that was pressing on my shoulders.
“Knives.”
Sana also wrapped his arms around my back her and hugged me.
But it felt a little different from me wrapping his arms around him.
“Sana?”
“…… Knives. Will you hug her auntie her?”
I knew right away that I wasn’t asking for a hug as the word meant.
Sana-san raised her teary eyes and looked up at my face her.
“Let me accept that he is dead. Let me forget him make me a mess Let me think of nothing…… !”
Sana cried.
Her tear-stained face was so sad and beautiful.
Sana-san was driven to the edge of a cliff.
To the point where I’m worried that if I refuse and leave like this, I might be making an extreme choice.
The answer I would give back to Sana-san was decided.
“I’m glad. To be able to hug Sana.”
“Nives…….”
It’s not because I’m worried about Sana-san.
Rather, I was secretly expecting this situation to come.
I grabbed Sana’s chin and adjusted the angle.
I kissed Sana-san on the lips.
Her delicate lips her were quivering.
