ALL NOVEL Chapter 33: The First Smile
“I know everything. Kenya-kun. Given that, won’t you trust me?”
Reina’s story didn’t get to the point.
But she is on her way here now.
She asked me to please listen to her without antagonising her.
“I see. …… Sorry. I’ve been working as a member of the resistance.”
“No, it’s okay. But we were enemies, weren’t we? I didn’t expect to fight you in real life, not in a simulator with you.”
“…Sorry.”
“There is someone who wants to talk to you. Three of us are on our way, including my dad, right now.”
“—”
“Katsuragi? It’s me. It’s Sieg.”
“Sieg-san, … I’m sorry for betraying you.”
“…… Well, I’m relieved. You’re still you. I thought you were even faking your personality, but …… there’s nothing to apologise for. I know you had your own reasons for doing what you did. So let’s talk. We have no intention to fight on our side, and if you don’t believe us, you can wait in that aircraft.”
Kenya knows that it is a significant concession to be allowed to show up in the KOG at the negotiations.
If Kenya had malicious intent, he could kill an unarmed person in a matter of seconds.
“Tanaka-san, ……”
” Sieg, you can believe him……. That man is an Empire Imperial citizen, but he is also an ally of the Japanese people.”
“I see. … That’s what I think, too.”
Tanaka nodded.
Tanaka, who knows Sieg very well, said he could believe Sieg’s words.
Kenya does not know why Sieg is so kind to the Japanese.
Still, he has been in contact with him many times.
He is not racist and can say that he would never do anything cowardly.
Because he is such a person.
“Okay, then I don’t mean to be rude, but I’ll wait for you inside Takemikazuchi.”
“Ah! Thank you. Katsuragi!”
Even so, believing everything is a fool’s errand.
That’s why I’ll wait inside the God of Thunder.
I was confident that from within it I could break through by force, no matter what tricks my opponent might try.
Tanaka and I wait inside the Takemikazuchi.
It is small, but there is still room for two people.
Then a military vehicle came towards us from the distance.
Kenya has no idea what they are going to talk about.
The vehicle stops in front of him.
The driver seems to be Sieg.
And from the stopped vehicle, one Reina got out.
— Reina
What kind of face should I meet her with?
I pointed my sword at her, even though my goal was to neutralize her.
Not a simulator, but a weapon that can really take a life.
“Kenya-kun ……, you’re there, aren’t you?”
Reina slowly walks over and touches Takemikazuchi.
“It was amazing. Really. I’ve never seen a battle like that. Kenya-kun is amazing after all. And even though I really fought, I still couldn’t win, even though I even prepared a special aircraft.”
She was shaking.
“I was scared, I really felt death. That’s as expected.”
Kenya sees this and stands up.
Seeing Reina’s depressed, sad voice.
“Tanaka-san, I’m sorry!”
“Huh. Ah, it’s fine. Go on.”
Opening the cockpit, Kenya gets out of the Takemikazuchi.
He must be an idiot, but he couldn’t believe that she had come to kill him by looking at him like this.
He couldn’t stand by the girl with the sad expression on her face.
The emotion moved Kenya.
—Really, he’s just the kind of boy when you look at him like this.
Tanaka looks at his back as he gets out of the cockpit.
The back that doesn’t look like a boy who has ripped off victory from the world’s most powerful empire.
“Kenya-kun!”
“Reina, I’m sorry. I pointed my blade at you. I wasn’t trying to kill you, but I was serious. I’m sorry if you’re a little injured.”
Kenya comes down from the cockpit using a ladder.
Reina is surprised, not expecting him to come down.
He appeared in front of her and bowed to Reina.
“Well, if you say that, I’m the one who really fought you.”
“No, because you didn’t know. I knew it was Reina, you know. That’s why I wanted to apologise.”
“I see. Did you come down to apologize? You could have been killed!”
“Yeah. .. sorry? Reina.”
She looks at Raina with eyes like a child before being scolded.
Reina was even more surprised.
It even looked as if the strongest pilot who had cut 100 people was afraid of being angry with her, who was much weaker than Kenya.
And immediately afterwards, that icy expression melts.
“Hmph. Fufu Really.”
It was the first time for Kenya to see this, and for Reina as well, for a long time, she couldn’t remember.
She smiles back at Kenya with a smile.
“You’re a funny person, aren’t you?”
“—”
Kenya couldn’t speak.
Seeing Reina’s smile for the first time, his mouth was still open and he couldn’t close it.
That smile that he had never seen even in his previous world. That innocent and carefree smile.
“Then I forgive you. I’m pardoned for your sincerity.”
“Oh, thank you! Raina.”
Then, Sieg approaches, seeing that the conversation has reached a lull.
“Katsuragi, we have talked about many things, but..”
“Sieg-san?”
“Now there is something I want you to hear first, from this man.”
Sieg-san then opens the back seat of the vehicle.
A boy emerges from inside.
“Oh, you .. why are you here!”
“Hello, Kenya-kun. No, dare I call you this now?”
He has golden hair, a little long.
Small in stature, but still a definite presence.
“A member of the Resistance [Amaterasu], and the first to soil me.”
The general of the enemy who had just been killing each other, the ruler of the world.
“With the Japanese Samurai.”
Rhode Asgar stood there.