Volume 9, Chapter 8 - Ambush
"What? What's all this commotion about?"
I asked upon hearing the explosion while we were all relaxing in the underground chamber.
"Brothers, let me check," Apolito said and used his skill for detection.
"Ho-ge-ge-ge-ge-ge-ge!"
Apolito screamed as if he had heard that cry somewhere before.
"What's wrong, brother?"
"Momo-momo-momo-momo, Raptors!"
Apolito exclaimed, grinding his teeth.
"Raptors? What are those?"
Ryujosan asked curiously.
"They are women from Yamato who will stop at nothing to make a man their own," I replied.
Explosions echoed all around.
"I can see them; I can see the enemies too," Kunihito Colonel suddenly returned to Ikeda's voice.
He hasn't been healed, huh?
Uh-oh, the shock from the Raptors turned him back into Colonel Shi○a!
"They've infiltrated inside!"
"Darn it, they're tough!"
We could hear Asanato's group shouting.
"What should we do? Should we use the emergency exit to escape?" I asked Aoi.
"No, we will repel them," Aoi said with intense determination.
Eek!
At that moment, the Kazanzakis Mansion shook from an explosion.
"What was that?"
It felt different from the previous explosions.
"It's not just the Raptors! They're here too! They've attacked as well!"
"Darn it, they used the Raptors to distract us!"
Shouts from Asanato's group echoed throughout the mansion.
"Darn it, they used the Raptors! Let's go!"
I said to everyone, but Apolito was frozen.
"Oh, this is bad."
"I'll stay put, so it's fine," Kunihito Colonel said in Ikeda's voice.
He's still broken, isn't he?
For now, leaving Apolito behind, I, along with Aoi and Mr. Kazanzakis, headed upstairs with everyone.
Colonel Kunihito followed us.
What's going on?
It seems that he becomes more physically capable when he's broken and becomes Shi○a.
As we reached the destroyed upper floor, we could hear Raptors and my father hurling insults at each other from afar.
"You deceived us!"
Mio shouted.
"Isn't it your foolish son who came out behind you? We didn't deceive you, young ladies."
Father said, fully armed in camouflage combat gear, with an M4 carbine in hand.
"No way!"
Yuna turned around.
"This isn't how love works," Kyoka said.
Well, I wonder?
I don't think either of these situations qualifies as love.
"I was at the royal library, carrying books, and I almost fell and got hurt, but he helped me that day. Since then, I've never forgotten him," Kyoka said with her head down.
Oh, come to think of it, that did happen.
I was a loner, so I avoided making eye contact, and I never clearly saw her face.
So, it was her.
"So, I challenged him to understand my feelings... and now, to be used by enemies like this," Kyoka shed tears.
"Huh? But back then, Yuuki-sama, you were a loner. If you had confessed normally, wouldn't you two have started dating?"
Murasaki tilted her head.
"Yeah, probably," I nodded.
"Eeeee! That's not how love works!"
Kyoka was shocked, and the other two were too.
No, isn't that how it usually goes?
Something's weird about Yamato, after all.
"Over there, he wasn't popular, but here, he seems quite popular, you foolish son," Father laughed while looking at us.
"Yeah, maybe I'm going through a 'popular phase'?"
"No, big brother was always popular. You just didn't notice," Mitsuki laughed beside me.
"Sigh, first I've heard of this."
I was a loner, so I avoided people.
Don't say that here.
Aoi and Murasaki's eyes look scary.
"Well, I won't apologize for using the Raptors. It's the way of the world," Father laughed.
"Yeah, it's mutual, so don't worry about it."
"...Did you do something?"
"Now that we know your base's location, we arranged a forced matchmaking..."
"...Shura?"
"No, Shura is cheating!"
Father got furious and raised his voice.
"What is Shura?"
The man next to him, who seemed to be his adjutant, asked.
At first glance, he appeared normal, but he was quite muscular.
He looked like a black man, but his skin was slightly lighter, so maybe he's biracial.
"Lieutenant Lewis, it's an evolved form of Raptors."
"Evolved?"
"It's like when Squirtle in Pokémon evolves into Blastoise," I explained, and Lieutenant Lewis nodded deeply.
"This is dangerous!" Lieutenant Lewis looked at Father seriously.
He understands this story.
Pokémon is amazing.
"Darn it, you foolish son! The base is done for! But we can't end it like this!"
Father looked at us and shouted.
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