Chapter 326 – #3-14 Traitor, Escape (4)
Dorothy, who was in confinement, was also noticing the abnormality outside.
The sound of the alarm that went off throughout the building was clearly audible even in the room where Dorothy was being held.
Since she could guess who it was, Dorothy didn’t panic and just waited in silence for the other person to come.
And after a while
I felt a presence outside the door, and there was a knock on the door with a thump.
“Dorothy. Are you inside?”
“That’s right. I’m here, Rahe.”
When I answered the voice that came through the door, I heard a voice from outside the door saying I knew.
The locking device for this door is on the outside, and No. 13 has the authentication terminal required for entry.
Dorothy hurried to tell the truth, but before that, an unusual sound came from the door.
Beep beep beep beep
Kwadeuk Kwajik Kwajik Kwadeuk
Right, right, right!!
Loud noises came from around the door and doorknob.
And after a while
The sturdy door, which Dorothy had inspected many times, was bent into a strange shape, the doorknob part bizarrely twisted out of its original place, and the wall on the side supporting the doorknob was terribly demolished.
Opening the half-dented door, a hero in a white uniform entered.
“I have received an order. … Get out of here.”
Rahe held out his hand.
“Your brother——Did you send the bellflower?”
“That’s right. He told me to rescue Dorothy.”
“… Yes, thank you Rahe.”
Getting here, she must have passed the interceptor system she designed, and 13 and Hachee.
However, despite this, Dorothy looked at her with complicated eyes for a while at her appearance, where her breath was not disturbed and her clothes were not stained with dust.
Just like that, she took her outstretched hand and slowly raised her body…
* * *
After finding suitable clothes around her and wearing them, Dorothy descended the underground passage, the entrance to the hideout, escorted by Rahe.
Inside a closed room with an entrance.
In the room filled with cold air due to the influence of Rahe’s magic, No. 13 and Ashe were strewn about like garbage.
No. 13 was impaled on the wall with an ice pick that was taller than Dorothy’s height, and her entire body was covered in ice and frozen.
In the case of Ashe, one of her arms and one leg was severed, and she was gasping for breath.
Rahe’s beloved sword was pierced vertically into his back.
It’s like a bug with her wings removed and pinned…
“… Did you kill him?”
“I didn’t kill him. That man will quickly recover once my ice is gone. Ashe doesn’t die like this. Her consumption will be great, but this much can be recovered with her ability.”
All of them acted with careful calculation.
2 to 1, moreover, even though one side was at the level of a captain, Rahe was cocky enough to ‘not kill her opponent’.
Even the word she was a monster would not suffice.
As long as she didn’t kill her anyway, no problem.
Of course, if it was her sister’s personality, she wouldn’t have stopped killing all of them until she ground the corpses to powder, but Dorothy had asked her to avoid killing people if possible.
She is grateful for her sister’s consideration for doing her own favor.
Rahe anchored Ashe to her ground, pulled out her sword from her stick, and took it as she walked toward the passageway leading out of the hideout.
Dorothy glanced back at Number 13, which was frozen and unable to resurrect, for a very brief moment, then immediately followed Rahe towards the entrance.
And just before passing through the entrance.
“Where are you going, Dorothy?”
On the stairs leading down to this room, he heard a voice calling him and stopped walking.
The organization’s boss, Violet, was on the stairs.
She clattered down the iron spiral staircase into this room.
“… Boss.”
“Where are you going? You are my subordinate, and a valuable member of this [Abyss].”
Violet says.
Dorothy looked back at her and lowered her eyes for a moment, but then she looked right at her again.
Violet’s golden eyes and Dorothy’s blue eyes intertwined.
“… Excuse me, Boss. In this organization, so that there is no more damage to the boss… We will do that in the future. I will convince him too.”
“Dorothy, I don’t mean to say that.”
“… Beyond that, I have nothing else to say.”
“Dorothy!”
At Dorothy’s attitude to push her Violet to the end, her Violet raises her voice a tone.
And, perhaps judging her appearance as a threat, Rahe, who was escorting Dorothy, attacked Violet.
Such Rahe was stopped by Dorothy.
“Rahe, stay still. … Boss, as I said, I have nothing more to say. However, I am sincerely sorry for disturbing and confusing the boss.”
Dorothy said with a calm face, but with a decidedly gloomy look.
She mumbled for a moment, hesitated whether to say something, but soon she sighed and decided to shake everything off of her without lies.
“… Boss. A boss would understand. A boss who has lost her sister and has held that loss and regret in her heart for a long time will understand.”
“Boss, I have a younger brother too.”
“She’s prettier than me, more sociable than me, taller than me and has a better style… What a wonderful little sister.”
“I love that child so much.”
“I owe the child.”
“To that precious child, I have something to atone for.”
“So, it cannot be stopped.”
“So, I couldn’t quit.”
“… Still, after all, the fact that the child tried to touch the boss, and even helped it… I don’t think so either.”
“For that part, I will somehow convince him.”
“So the boss.”
——Forget everything.
This one, the one with Dorothy, everything.
Just forget about it, never try to get involved again, and it all works out.
So.
Therefore…
“There’s no way you can do that.”
Violet says.
“There is no way I can forget it. There’s no way I can just get over it.”
“… Boss.”
“Don’t be funny, okay. Even the bullshit is small.”
“Boss, I apologize for this incident. I was wrong. I know you’re upset because you brought up something about your sensitive younger brother. I will definitely make up for that part later. I will atone. So now please——”
“There’s no way you can do that, Dorothy!!”
Violet cuts off Dorothy’s words.
Tears welled up in Violet’s eyes.
“This day… You dare to gossip about my sister, that makes me angry. That’s right, Dorothy!”
“But what I am most angry about right now is.”
“The thing I can’t tolerate the most is.”
“It’s because I suddenly said, ‘Forget it,’ without end, Dorothy! Huh?!”
“How can I forget it!”
“How can you just send it away!”
“I can’t send it!”
“There’s no way you can do that!!”
Violet says.
Violet says.
Violet says.
“Dorothy, Dorothy——They are no different from my family now!”
With those words.
Tears flowed from Violet’s eyes.
* * *
“To me, my brother is so precious.”
“It was the only family I could open up to.”
“By the way, by the way.”
“Your younger brother is also important, but now… Dorothy, Number 13, and the staff are all precious.”
“It’s a relationship that lasts only a few years at most, and it doesn’t even bleed.”
“But, still…”
“I thought of Dorothy as family.”
“… I thought it would be nice to have a sister like this…”
“But does it make sense to leave like this?!”
“Without even explaining properly!”
“I can’t even say hello properly!”
“Without telling you what you’re thinking!”
“But does it make sense to just forget it?!”
For Violet, who had already lost her family, Dorothy’s actions now were not very different from causing her to lose her family again.
The villain organization [Abyss] Is an organization for Awakeners who must lose their lives mercilessly, like Violet’s younger brother.
They are those who work to protect them, oppress society with their existence, and have the purpose of serving the minority without human rights.
But to be honest, that purpose has become secondary to Violet now.
Rather than achieving a great cause with this organization, if these few members can live together like a family… That was enough.
No matter what hardships and thorny roads go together in the future, if we live together proudly and together… If so, I thought that the rest of my life wouldn’t be too bad.
If you are with them.
If you are with your valuable organization colleagues…
“… Family… Is it?”
And.
Dorothy muttered, narrowing her eyes at Violet’s words.
It seems that Dorothy was also not without feelings for Violet’s words.
Strange feeling. Strange feelings.
Enjoy for a while a certain feeling called nostalgia or nostalgia, also called anticipation… And I shook it off with a blink of an eye.
“Boss, it’s a pity, but I can’t be the boss’s older sister.”
“… Seriously, I’m sorry.”
“Do you have a younger sister who has a strong desire for monopoly?,That sounds a bit difficult.”
Dorothy bowed her head as she struck it off in a cold, cool voice.
Then, after beckoning to Rahe, she turns her back on Violet and passes his entrance.
Immediately after passing the entrance, Dorothy looked back at Violet for the last time.
“… Still, I really enjoyed my time with the organization.”
“The staff, I will send you back as soon as possible.”
End with that.
Dorothy said good-bye, and left through the passage beyond the entrance.
“Chi… !”
Violet stood blankly behind Dorothy, then took out her anger by stomping on the floor as if she was annoyed…
