It Became a Time-Stop Slit-Eye

27. Was it real?

An alley in the city.

In the shadows that no one can see, there are the corpses of monsters spawned here and there.

In addition, a boy stained with purple bodily fluid sat on top of the corpse with a dazed expression.

Passisik… At the same time that the monster’s corpse turned to ashes, bodily fluids scattered all over the alley and traces of the fight also began to change.

As if nothing had happened, the painted over turns to ash, and the destroyed swells up to fill the flesh.

The bodily fluids on the boy’s body turned to ash and flew away.

Passisik…… Only then did light return to the boy’s empty pupils as the liquids that gave them the terrible texture began to disappear.

There were no wounds on the body, but it was a feeling that the soul was worn out every time the bodily fluid was smeared.

Boy, Kenichi murmured dejectedly.

“…… It was such a terrible experience.”

Ichimaru Shiki, the self-proclaimed teacher who had been watching him silently, replied with a smile.

“Certainly, it seemed that way.”

“…… More than that, Shiki, why aren’t you fighting?”

It was in the name of eradicating night monsters.

But this damn teacher and (former) close friend didn’t do anything.

Ichimarushiki shrugged his shoulders with a calm face.

“Yeah, extermination of monsters also serves as Kenichi-kun’s training. If I help you, you’ll be cut down with a single knife, so you won’t be able to practice?”

“…… Wouldn’t it have been enough to cast a spell so that the level of bodily fluids would not be asked? You know how to do it.”

“Ha ha ha! Kenichi! Enduring such discomfort is part of your training, right?”

“… ….”

Kenichi gave up on the conversation.

I kept arguing more and then saying, ‘Oh, if you want to be comfortable, that’s okay, but maybe I should go to the mansion and fill up my training time?’ Hearing that, I felt like I really wanted to give up on life.

My head, which had become accustomed to Ichimaru Shiki’s behavior, outputs plausible lines.

‘This is more terrible.’

Heavenly Heaven—He realized that there was a sky above the sky, and immediately rose from his seat.

He got used to whether it was really training, and he wanted to eliminate the possibility of additional training.

Kenichi, a boy who just loved to play, has long since become an adult who desperately tries to get one of the two.

“Oh, great! Another monster just appeared!”

Ichimaru Shiki, who had been clapping with a smile, suddenly reached out into the air.

Kikiiik─

At some point, the sword was in hand.

In addition, the dust flying in the air and the black ashes of the monsters were all still.

In a world where everything stopped, Shiki Ichimaru calmly spoke.

“Now, shall we go?”

Just as he said, Kenichi went down a dark alley to defeat the next monster.

It’s already been 15 days since we exterminated the monsters like this.

Kenichi Kitagawa recalled the ‘Apocalypse’ spit out by a former damn close friend.

***

“For now, Tokyo will become a sea of fire.”

After saying that, Ichimarushiki belatedly caressed his chin and tilted his head.

“Oh, I will correct it. Because I am there, no one will ever die. The Shihei family shaman is alive and well. But there will still be sacrifices.”

No matter how hard you’ve been running around before, you can’t stop it completely without taking any damage when the timidity starts to flare up.

Be it human or property, traces of burnt remains.

While talking like common sense, Shiki Ichimaru met Kenichi’s eyes as he sat down on the drawing room floor.

“Once Tokyo is overrun with youkai, I will run to kill Kenichi first. They will soon find out who will seal them away. Everyone will flock to eliminate all variables.”

“…… That is a terrible story.”

“Well, that would be the story when a full-scale disaster had begun and I wasn’t there, but if possible, it’s better to be prepared to survive on your own.”

Shiki said with a smile as always.

“I will be kind enough to help Kenichi fight the monsters alone!”

Who the hell is kind?

Kenichi had a lot to say back then, but now he has more.

The guy who claimed to be his teacher only found the monster in the city and brought it in front of him, but he didn’t teach or help anything more.

“Puhahahaha, this monster is a tomato monster. It seems that someone hates eating tomatoes to death.”

“…… Please shut up.”

Even when he was covered in the dark red bodily fluids of a tomato yokai—is this a yokai in the first place?

“It was easy this time. Very! A little bit! It seems that his skills have improved.”

“…… Everything is bad.”

I’ll punch that guy in the face someday.

Perhaps it was because of that commitment that I rolled on the ground every day, but my skills improved.

I also learned how to handle the sword, and the movements of the monsters became clear to my eyes.

Thanks to that, the number of times I was hit by the monster’s Aman attack was significantly reduced.

“Kenichi, I guess you weren’t beaten yesterday?”

That was clearly visible even to his childhood friend.

Hotaru talked while looking at Kenichi’s handsome face today and the parts that weren’t covered by the school uniform.

She made her excuse that she recently went to a karate dojo.

‘It’s better than causing concern by saying that I’m fighting a monster in the city.’

It’s hard to explain that to believe.

Kenichi shook his head and looked at Shiki in the back seat behind him and Sawamura Sento next to him.

I know these two, but on the contrary, they were strange opponents to talk about.

‘…… It’s inconvenient.’

He’s friendly, but he doesn’t want to give excuses for fear of teasing him.

He was like a boss at work, and Sento seemed to be learning the same thing in the same place, but he never ran into him.

Yeah, we weren’t very close.

‘A hero is lonely.’

Kitagawa Kenichi suddenly realized.

Kenichi, who had a gloomy expression on his face, looked at his partner, Hotaru, next to him and said.

“Let’s not change from now on and stay close.”

“…… ? Uh, yes.”

Hotaru had an expression that she didn’t understand, but she agreed.

Kenichi was satisfied with that.

She says that recently her free time has decreased and she has less to play with, but she has to be nice to her.

I buried my head on her desk, making a promise to myself.

“Kenichi, are you going to sleep?”

“…… Yes.”

Since the next class was for homeroom teacher and math teacher Baki Yamamoto, I had to go to sleep.

Just as Kenichi was about to get into the water with his head down, a raucous sound came from the other side of the classroom.

“Oh my, hasn’t he become so pretty?”

I looked up and saw that the girls in my class were chatting.

Perhaps it was the guys who hung out with the half-blond Eris, but she was nowhere to be seen, and instead there was a beautiful Japanese woman.

‘Who was that?’

At the time Kenichi was saying his name,

“It was originally pretty, but I started decorating it.”

“Ah, but the cosmetics I use. There will be no such thing. These days, I heard that Korean cosmetics are good for K-beauty, should I use them too?”

“Oops, I’m not feeling well. I’m worried that I’ll buy something weird again this time, but try drying it.”

A female student said to a gorgeous beauty.

“Sawako.”

Yeah, that was the name.

***

One Sunday morning.

Eris Betelgeuse complained about the earlier-than-usual contact from England.

“Come on, give me something strange.”

A gift from Shiki Ichimaru.

…… A jet-black poison called .

In case you didn’t know, I checked all of them, such as toxicity tests, but they weren’t reliable.

Nevertheless, the reason the item was shipped to England was that it needed a corner to hold onto.

Ichimaru Shiki was definitely a strange guy, but he didn’t seem to be the villain of the world.

‘Well, the first time I saw it was because I was rescuing someone on the stairs.’

Well, that doesn’t mean the guy’s unique sinister aura is completely gone, though.

Not only the atmosphere, but also his behavior was very insidious!

This is an undeniable fact.

I was anxious for that reason, but I believed it and sent the potion to England.

In the first place, it was not possible to administer an unknown potion to a patient, so he was going to do all the tests there as well.

And it seems that the results came out today.

Eris answered the phone with a troubled face and immediately asked.

“So the toxicity came out?”

— … No.

“Really? But what’s wrong with your voice?”

She used to attend her parents, but today her voice was wet with her tears.

Eris Betelgeuse felt a tingling sensation for a moment and asked cautiously.

“…… Are you feeling unwell again?”

— … Not even that.

“No, then what is it?”

Eris spoke in a slightly annoyed tone at her anxiety and frustration as she swarmed her.

However, the woman on the other side of the receiver didn’t seem to care at all, sniffed her nose and answered right away.

─I administered the medicine that the lady sent me a while ago to the head of the household and his wife.

“…… What?”

You mean you’ve already administered it? She said that even she herself was anxious, and it was the drug she sent… ….

Eris Betelgeuse asked again, swallowing her dry saliva to see if her tension was evident.

“…… So how did it go?”

As for her answer to that question, the woman on the other side of the receiver did not give a specific answer.

But she was clearer and clearer than any answer.

— … Congratulations, lady!

The moment Eris heard that story, her leg power went loose and she thumped! Fell to the floor

She thought with a blank look on her face as she looked at the thumping telephone receiver.

‘Was that real?’

It wasn’t really poison, it was an antidote?

…… No really?

Eris Betelgeuse was spread out on the floor with a bewildered expression for a while.