It Became a Time-Stop Slit-Eye

7. This is embarrassing.

“Hey, is it Grandpa’s keepsake?”

I was interested in the voice and asked again, and Kenichi cautiously continued, as if he had gained courage in his heart.

“Yes, it’s rare for people my age to be close with grandparents, right? But my parents died when I was young, so my grandfather took care of me all the time.”

“…… Um, I see.”

“Because I don’t have many memories of my mom and dad, while her grandfather has a lot of memories of this and that. I think she felt very close and precious.”

“… ….”

Kenichi remembers holding on to the cross necklace.

I didn’t flinch for nothing, I just kept my mouth shut and waited for the story.

This was fundamentally different from hearing it through game text.

“…… Ha, but the sky turned dark when my grandfather passed away suddenly the year before last. Of course, I sent it well, but…… As for the remaining people, I still have some regrets. The necklace my grandfather always wore like this caught my eye.”

While saying that, Kenichi suddenly made a startled expression and then smiled bitterly.

“Of course you were allowed while you were alive? Because his grandfather had told him whenever his memory was fading, ‘I have to pass this on to my grandchildren.’ I’m wearing it well to remember my grandfather.”

“…… That, that’s right Somehow, I felt the old-fashioned beauty of the necklace!”

“Oh, really? Thank you.”

It was a moment when I felt guilty for some reason watching Kenichi smiling brightly at the praise.

‘Plan B should be scrapped.’

With a smile on his face, he shook his head and chased away the regret left in his heart.

Wouldn’t it be too cruel to carry out the ‘plan to steal the main character’s weapon’ after hearing this story?

After hearing Kenichi’s story, I added a word to him as originally planned.

“Yes, yes, it is so pretty, so be careful.”

“Huh? What?”

“I went to an antique market the other day, and the antique and pretty accessories were very popular. Because there are so many people who are full of greed these days. As the owner of a super unique necklace, you’d better be careful. Did you inadvertently put it on a cafe table and go to the bathroom?”

“Ah, no. Look. You wear it so well during PE class.”

Looking at Kenichi waving his hands as if that could never be the case, I just smiled.

“Yes, always wear it like that.”

Unless you want to die a horrible death.

Since the fate that will soon befall him is cruel, I swallowed his whispers and patted Kenichi on the back.

“Okay, let’s go back to class quickly before class starts.”

D-Day.

The episode started today.

The promised day has arrived.

***

“See you tomorrow, Shiki!”

A street where the sunset light gradually permeates.

Towards the friend who was parting ways back home, Kenichi waved his hand vigorously.

Ichi Marushiki waved his hand slowly, with a sly smile as always.

Very slowly.

‘What is it?’

At that moment, Kenichi blinked his eyes, wondering if he had seen something wrong.

For some reason, I felt strange about Shiki today. Is the distance far away?

I feel that information transmission is half a beat slow.

However, it was only for a short while that he felt that way, and Kenichi soon let him go and returned home with his childhood friend.

“My mom said we should have a barbecue today…… ”

My childhood friend, Hotaru Ichinose, spoke in a lively voice as usual.

Usually, Kenichi would have helped too, but today he had a blank expression, as if he was consumed with wandering thoughts.

Hotaru tilted his head and asked.

“…… Kenichi, are you listening?”

“Huh? Oh sorry. I guess I’m not feeling well today. You keep getting lost.”

“Oh, that kind of day comes to Kenichi, the hot-blooded one too. This can be happen. So how far have you heard?”

“That, while your mother is having a barbecue party… celestial observation? Let’s do that.”

“What, but I was listening to what I was told.”

Hotaru grinned and stretched out his fingers toward the sunset-lit sky.

As he raised his head along it, Kenichi saw a round moon floating in the red sky.

Somehow, there was a full moon that was bigger than usual and was burning red.

“…… Uh, obviously the full moon is last week.”

“I saw it on TV too, and they said it was a super blue blood moon coming back after 50 years! It is said that three total lunar eclipses overlapped. Was it bigger than usual, redder, and the second full moon?”

“… ….”

“Anyway! It’s exhausting when you take an earth science class or something, but isn’t this cool? …… Hey, Kenichi, are you listening?”

“…… Yes, I am listening.”

In the middle of the sky that is getting darker, the full moon is burning red.

Meeting the eyes of the sky in full bloom, Kenichi felt an uneasy heartbeat.

Just when the sense of impatience about being eaten gnawed at him, he heard Hotaru’s voice.

“Ah, but Kenichi, did you finish your homework?”

“…… What homework?”

“No, the homeroom teacher gave it to me last week with a very solemn expression saying, ‘Release everything up to this point.'”

“Ah.”

Standing still, Kenichi remembered his math teacher and his classmate Baki Yamamoto.

Not only Class A, but also his nickname, ‘Killing Tank’, which the whole grade decided to call without disagreement.

His forearm muscles are also brutally developed.

Recalling all of the math textbooks in the school locker in an instant, Kenichi asked softly with trembling pupils.

“…… How long was that?”

“Tomorrow, right? How long have you not been?”

“…… At all.”

“… ….”

Hotaru Ichinose looked at his childhood friend with a stunned expression.

Retracing the length of the road he had traveled, Kenichi pondered for a moment, but soon made a decision.

“Go first, I’ll be right back.”

Kenichi busily teased his legs, thinking that if he ran hard, he would be able to make it in time.

Tak, Tak, Tak.

With every quick step, the cross around his neck jolted.

***

Episode 1, the promised day.

The episode begins with the phenomenon of a total lunar eclipse returning after decades.

The logic is simple.

The long-held seal of lineage is destroyed by the magic of the full moon, which has become even more powerful.

The spirit vein of Tokyo, Karakura High School, is in turmoil due to the lineage awakened in this way.

Because of the turbulence of that spiritual power, the whole of Tokyo becomes a state friendly to mysticism.

The story of the unpublished ‘End of Love Comedy’ begins as it enters such a crisis situation.

Honestly, I wonder if some Mi-yeon city doesn’t date a girlfriend and only beats monsters…….

“It must be my fault for playing that game.”

If I had known that it was the best manga game in the world, I should have gotten off it earlier…… Well, it’s already too late to regret it. It’s a situation where I’ve become stagnant among ‘End of the End’ users, and even entered the game.

Still, instead of being the main character holding a dog dung weapon, he became an unknown scammer. Moreover, after thinking about it for the past half year, we have come up with a plan.

‘Wouldn’t it be much easier if I trained not only the main character but also the heroines?’

There were a lot of restrictions when it was a game, but now it’s a much freer position.

To play the game with only one main heroine as the main focus.

Sudden death due to unknown variables.

If you proceed with the episode while adjusting those things one by one, if there are as many as four people who can participate in the battle, wouldn’t it be a dream to clear one coin?

‘I’m a bit afraid of what kind of monsters will appear in the mid-to-late game… ‘

At least in the beginning, a perfect start would be possible.

I might have been a little conceited that I could get everything I wanted.

Before the main character Kenichi Kitagawa’s awakening, I saw a familiar face on my way back to school after arranging monsters born in the city in advance.

“Oops, who is this?”

With a smile on my face, I looked at the girl with reddish hair bathed in the setting sun that blocked my way.

Also, the red pupil facing me.

“Aren’t you my precious mate?”

The ancient weapon, Sento Sawamura, stared at me with an expressionless face, then spat out.

“Ichimaru Shiki.”

Suddenly calling her name, she immediately began to recite someone’s life.

“Born in 1999 to her well-to-do parents. She attended kindergarten and elementary school in Tokyo, but dropped out after the sudden death of her parents. She disappeared suddenly at the age of twelve, and there were no records until last fall.”

“Oh, have you been investigating my background?”

“Yeah, I didn’t expect someone to do a background investigation, but I suddenly became curious about you.”

There was a deep magic power in her voice.

She didn’t mean it, it was because of the bright red full moon in the sky.

However, Sento, who was affected by it, glared at me with a more reddened gaze than usual.

“I think you may have noticed, but in many ways I have a good sense.”

“Hey, so what?”

“I can feel people’s eyes and feelings towards me. Even if I don’t, I’m shy, but when I feel that way, I have no choice but to hide it. I hide myself and put a mask over it.”

Ancient weapon, Sawamura Sento.

Sento smiled and looked at me.

In the pupils that were burning red, a man with a smirking smile, wearing a mask, was also reflected.

“A kind, a perfect kind. Is that why you looked at me like that? Was it the same classmate as if you were looking at a child, did you look at me as if you knew everything about me even though you were new to me?”

“Hmm.”

“Actually, there are people who call me pretense, but it was the first time I felt so completely penetrated.”

As time passed, the schoolboy who became the class president of her class looked at her classmate with a wide smile.

“You were the first person to look at me thinking I was an obvious ‘monster’.”

Sawamura Sento was given the destiny and talent to do anything due to her innate constitution, and she soon got the misfortune of losing everything she did.

Sawamura Sento, a collection of wishes that have been born every hundreds of years since ancient times.

When she wishes for something of her own, the wish comes true, and inevitably the backlash comes.

Fate pays the price.

From myself and her precious relationship.

‘Maybe I made a little mistake.’

I didn’t look at her with any strange eyes, but I thought she would read my thoughts.

“Do you know something?”

Sento asked me with a smile still on his face.

“My constitution.”

However, the pupils that were burning red were filled with resentment towards the world.

It’s a scare story that will stick to you if you don’t care.

Sento didn’t seem to get out of the way until he got an answer from me.

“This is difficult.”

I touched the dagger in my sleeve.

***

“Oh, I found it.”

The main character, Kenichi Kitagawa, was rummaging through his locker and found a math textbook.

I couldn’t see well because the sky was already dark, but this was definitely a math textbook.

‘What is it, did your night vision get better?’

As if it was something like that, Kenichi got up from his seat and looked at the reddish full moon outside his window.

It was bigger than the moon he usually sees, and he felt closer to him.

As if it were close by.

In an instant, Kenichi fell into the magic of the moon and met its gaze.

For some reason, my eyes felt like they were burning, and the blood in my whole body became hot as if it were boiling.

I wanted to keep looking at the ‘eyes’ in the sky.

“Oh, no. Gotta go fast-“

However, Kitagawa Kenichi remembered his promise to his childhood friend Hotaru, and turned his head away.

And ‘saw’.

“…… Uh?”

An oni (鬼-Oni)—who quietly poked her head through the classroom door—met eye contact with the red demon.

‘What is it, is it a dream?’

When Kenichi fell into confusion,

─Ugh?

The oni tilted its head once, and the red-skinned giant raised an iron club from his hand.

Seeing that, Kenichi widened his eyes.

He threw himself straight ahead.

Kwaaang—!

The mace struck.