BVROOSH!
What was that sound just now?
I really don’t want to get out of my bed ugh, I’m so tired from today and traveling-
Really, alright I’m coming, I’m coming, I’m coming
WHRR!
What the hell was that?
That huge spike of pressure for a second?
And it was nearby, wait…
“MASASHI!”
Creak!
“Masashi?!”
He’s not in his room?
The hell?!
Is he still up on the balcony?
WHRR
There it is!
That strong impulse of Tamaryoku, so they did kidnapped you?
There’s a small residue of Tamaryoku on the balcony’s edge, who could have come here to attack him?
“Where the hell did they take Masashi?”
WHRR
There it is again.
If I can track it , I can figure out where they took him.
But should I really go out with my Pajama’s?
EEK!
That would look so ridiculous.
Tch, suppose I ain’t got a choice, maybe aunt Kasumi won’t wake up if I’m quick.
SWOOPT
I’m getting closer.
I can sense that it is also getting closer, are they a person?
Or something else, that energy is malicious.
Is that a?
No way a veil.
I’ve only heard about it from others that talked about them.
Never thought I’d see one…
“Have you finished, what was needed.”
“Yes, finding a host was quite easy. But I didn’t think it was that host, that boy didn’t explode into bits that’s for sure. He seems like one of the successful one’s, we’ll just see how far this goes.”
“Seems like you definitely found an ideal host for The Unwritten one. Well tonight was a successful one, you are lucky you are not going to get your arm chopped off this time.”
“Or even you-”
“Just shut up and get going. Besides, I don’t want to remember that…”
“Hmm, you are the one that messed up the Sidorendo commerce, so trusting You with such tasks is quite troubling.”
Are those the people?
They do sense like the residue being left over, but what is this strange feeling I am getting from them?
Swissh
Damn, they’re going into the veil.
I don’t see Masashi, but that man was the last one who attacked him so he must have known what happened to him.
I’ll just have to go in.
If I am fast enough to reach it before it closes, I’m so close—
Tip
Tip tap tip
Tip tap tip tap tip
Wa?
That fast, it was like I got sucked in.
It’s raining, this is unfortunate.
I kinda don’t mind it, but where am I even in this place?
It’s nothing but Woodlands out here.
So this is Ōchō Bunmei.
I expected something different, maybe a vibrant land filled with gems.
But it looks like any other place on earth.
It’s so different here.
The air feels a little thicker and my bones feel a little uneasy.
“Tch, how the hell am I going to get back home now?”
I can’t lose focus.
I still gotta find Masashi in this otherworld, I don’t sense his energy, I don’t even sense the energy of those two other men.
Did I end up in an entirely different location from them, Is it because I came at the last second?
WOOOOOO
This breeze, maybe I should have worn a hoodie on my way here.
And it’s even starting to get cold… Great… me in my pj’s… Out here in the cold… No way home… Stuck here presumably.
I’ll just get going…
“Ion Denka: Kasoku!”
ZOOPTOOM!
It finally feels good to use my abilities again, ah.
At this pace I could cover ground faster.
To be honest that English man Dr Samuel Glacier went on about things that didn’t seem to make sense, though he didn’t mention it would be this heavy on me?
Did I reinforce my body with enough Tamaryoku?
No, it’s the density of Tamaryoku that is making it hard on me.
Still it doesn’t explain why I am not sensing anyone nearby should there not be humans here.
ZZZUUUNNNNN!
What the hell was that sudden rise of Tamaryoku, coming from the west too.
It’s so different to what I would normally sense, Is it one of those creatures, those ghosts?
It’s so malicious it’s actually suffocating.
It disappeared?
W-wait, where did it go, I can’t sense where it is- There it is- Not there???
Why is it popping up all around me everywhere?
I gotta mask my–
SLICISH!
When was I cut?!
“Well damn! That took the feeling out of my shoulder”
“RAGRKKK!”
“Aren’t you a little ferocious today? Who’s pet is this?”
I’ve never seen a Tiger, Snake, Frog combined into one.
What an odd creature.
BIZZUT!
Did it just-
SLICNISH!
It has claws?!
Damnit, even if it grazed me.
It hurts so much.
“It’s getting faster?!”
That movement, teleportation?
No, I gotta focus.
I’ll just have to repel you away!
“Ion Denka: Hanpatsu!”
My arm it’s stiffing up.
My shoulder… The blood hasn’t stopped flowing out.
In fact I think… It’s worse now.
Ha, I’m glad I created an ability like that, too many people were just getting in my face.
Is this poison?
Tsk, it’s spreading fast.
“RAAAAAAAANNGKK!”
TWIMPTH!
Woah!
“RURAGHK!”
“Go back to your mother!”
My fists just hurt like hell hitting its skin.
It’s like trying to crack open a walnut.
BVROOOSH!
Ow!
That hurts like hell, crashing through all those trees wasn’t polite.
Sploosh
Is this a riverbed?
I got punched all the way over here.
Shit, where is it?
It’s tough.
When I strike, it just reverberates off its skin.
Though, heh, if I’m not careful I might get thrown off this water area.
“Tch.”
WHRR
This air gets denser and denser the more I try to channel my Tamaryoku.
“RAGGRRKKKKAGH!”
“That’s it, come to me. Come tango and see what happens.”
KVSWWISH
What’s this warmth?
I dodged it cleanly this time, fuck it stabbed me in my side.
Oh no, oh no blood is starting to come out.
It hurts like hell!
I’m not gonna cry, Ah, I can’t get off of it.
What the?
When did it get time to stab through my side.
To make it e-even w-worse, this toxin is spreading towards my chest.
SLQUISH
This thing, why is just smiling at me?
Tch, what’s so funny about impaling me and finding pleasure in that!
“Look here you bastard.”
SLICISH!
“You are not the only one with a sharp object, piece of shit.”
“Right in your fucking head, maybe pay attention.”
SLIUQSH!
Ow, ow.
It’s just coming out, oh god.
It’s just coming out.
Why did I try to be brave, I gotta stop this bleeding or it’s gonna get nasty.
What’s gonna be more nasty is if I don’t rid myself of this toxin.
I’ll just force the poison to slow down.
Even if it means burning my body down.
This will drain everything outta me.
“Ionka senjō ryōkō!”
WHR—
Did my ability just fail?
What the fuck?
It’s not like I perfected it.
But what the hell!
No, no, no!
THUD!
No way I’m going to die here… No way, I have to see my dad, my mom.
It hurts like hell, I’m holding it in so I don’t cry.
“I didn’t even get to become popular on social media, damn, not even get the boy of my dreams…”
Tip
Tap
Those are footsteps right?
Oh…
It’s just the rain, It’s intensifying too.
Just great.
Tip
Tip
Tap
Tip
Tap
BOUNG!
“F-father, father, father. She’s waking up.”
Damn I got kidnapped, heh who’s this little girl and where am I?
“Thank goodness, hello miss, are you ok? You barely were making it”
“Where am I exactly? Am still alive, thats a relief.”
“Huh? Are you not from around here, I can assume from your confusion.”
“Well you’re in my house for one. But you’re in the Unmei Kaitensuruha district.”
“Wait district? Of what country or province?” Follow the newest chapters on novelping.com.
“Hanranokoshita bokusō-chi tochi.”
W-what a long name… Even Japanese cities are not this long in name.
Does everything here just have a really long ass name?
Wait wait.
I can’t even think clearly, not with this pain.
Even the poisons gone?
“You seemed to be confused? You seem like you’re really not from around here, yet even outsiders would have a similar dialect to us.”
” But speaking of places, are you from around here?
I mean we are not a small population.
But they aren’t large either.”
“The clothes you were wearing when we found you, looked a bit similar to those from the societies far out.”
So there are different places other than this district.
“Y-yes you could say that–’
“AAAGHH”
Fuck this pain…
“Try not to move your wound from the side has been covered and disinfected, but you’ve been out for more than a day and a half.”
Wait what, I’ve been out for that long?
I gotta find a way out of here, aunt Kasumi, Masashi, Mom, Dad… This is not good… Not one bit.
“Nobana! Come here and bring this girl some water.”
“Y-yes father!”
“Um sir may I ask, What happened to the thing that attacked me?”
“Oh that, I would say you’re incredibly lucky to survive an encounter with a Sozatsunakara.”
“Soztsu-ka, what? That’s an odd name for something like that.”
“It’s a shortened name for Sozatsunakara Sonzai, or Kara for short, they are called many things.”
So that was the name of that animal.
No, to even call it that, the name of that beast.
“When we, a party of travelers arrived back at our district, it was already starting to wither away. These things after they are killed, slowly just fall apart and get turned into Tamaryoku.”
!!!
“Wait, you’re knowledgeable about Tamaryoku?”
“Well, it’s more so that the fighting class citizens know a lot about it.”
“So, it’s not everyone.”
I guess I’m not surprised, the air is dense and feels heavy.
It’d make sense for the people here to have some sort of resistance.
Not even the people back on earth have this type of knowledge.
“Here you go, miss!”
“Oh, thank you.”
“Sir, I’m sorry to ask, but I never got your name.”
“My apologies. My name is Chairo hōboku kusa.”
Really long names as well… This is all a lot to take in, it’s hurting my head…
“If that’s too long you can call me hōboku”
“Well Mr hōboku, I was wondering when can I get out of this bed?
“Judging from your wounds, it might take one day to barely get up and walk, two days till the pain dulls by a small amount.”
“And an entire week before you could move properly, sorry to say but that Sozatsunakara really did damage you, I’m surprised you even managed to hold out that long against something like that.”
“You’re strong yourself aren’t you?”
“Yeah.. Strong enough to hold my ground, but that was something entirely else. But I’m sorry sir I really have to get going.”
“Well I understand that part, it would seem you were traveling and had the misfortune of encountering it.”
“If you really want to go on your way now, you should be equipped with the utmost protection for your way out.”
“But you should clean up first, can you move properly, if even at all in your current state?”
“It will hurt but yeah, I can move…”
“Well when you are finished I will be waiting.”
Tsss
Tsss
Tsss
Ahh… That was so refreshing, Ow, it still hurts.
I have to give it time for this to heal.
Swissh
“There’s no showerheads, or even pipes. Huh, it’s just a tub that has water flowing through it all the time.”
I wonder If I can pull off any of my techniques with this injury?
“Oh, what are these clothes.”
“They are Nagareru kazenorōbu, standard issue clothing of scouting troops.”
I’m not getting any of that…
“I left them on the bed. I cannot come in since you are changing, but these are the clothes that will help the air feel less denser.”
“Those are my old pair from when I was in the force, they might be oversized though you can fit them to your liking.”
Oh my, It’s mainly a robe and a Hakama, is that a Himo?
I wonder how it’ll fit.
“You shouldn’t go picking a fight in your current condition. But that should help you move a little bit better.”
The robe is a silver color, the pants a bit on the blacker side of things.
Hmm not too shabby of an outfit, and what is this rejuvenated feeling I am getting.
It is like I am stabilizing.
I can move a bit more, this outfit feels different.
“That outfit is instilled with a small bit of Tamaryoku.”
“It gives troops of the scouting force the agility and movement they need to accomplish their missions, this won’t be a fix for your injuries but it can help you move around.”
“Thank you sir, I’ll get going then-”
“Wait, miss!”
Oh that little girl, wait she has my phone?
Did I really forget I brought it here with me… I wonder if it’ll work even in a place like this.
“Here you go!”
“Ooo, thank you! Your such a cutie~”
“Um, I never got your name miss.”
“Yanagidate Shimizu.”
“Woah, what a cool name. Aoi Nobana, nice meeting you!”
“Word of advice, Miss Yanagidate, around here be very careful and pay attention to your surroundings.”
“Many people just not in this district won’t show the same level of care as we did.”
“While I am not saying everyone here is purely malicious, still be mindful of the things you would encounter.”
“Understood Mr. hōboku and thank you.”
“You should be thanking my wife, as she was the one to nurse you to health”
“Oh then where is she?”
“She went to town early this morning, you should probably head there if you want to get on your way.”
“Then I guess I should travel there.”
“Bye Bye, Ms Yanagidate!!!”
“Safe travels, to you.”
ZOOPTOOM!