This is not the date I wanted.

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"Kyousan——!"

After climbing over the fence on the rooftop, Shidou kicked the ground, and his feet burst out with incredible power, and pounced towards Kurumi.

Hugging Kurumi in his arms, Shidou narrowly avoided Origami's rays.

"Mr. Shidou!?"

"Kyouzo" looked at Shidou with surprise.

However, Shidao had no time to answer Kurumi at this time. The "wings" floating in the air seemed to notice Shidao's existence, and flew towards Shidao quickly as if they had spirituality.

There was no other choice, Shidou gritted his teeth and prepared to use the angel to stop Origami's attack.

"Arise, Ratziel (Dawn--"

However, Shidao's voice suddenly stopped in the middle, because at this moment, the familiar dark blue arm guard on his right bowl did not appear in response to his prayer.

(Oh right... In this world... Meng Yue is not by my side...)

Without the sealed spirit, Shidou naturally couldn't use its power.

"Mr. Shidou!"

"—!"

The shout of "Kyouzo" brought Shidou back to his senses from his momentary daze. Origami's "wings" had already locked onto Shidou and "Kyouzo", ready to shoot out deadly rays of light.

"Deploy——Raphael (Hurricane Knight)! Zadkiel (Ice Puppet)!"

As Shidao finished speaking, ice walls condensed in the air, deflecting the dark light. At the same time, a whirlwind swept up the dust and sand, gently catching Shidao and "Kyouzo" who were falling rapidly from the sky to the ground.

"Wow--!"

Shidou couldn't help but let out a scream of pain.

"Are you okay, Mr. Shidou? Mr. Shidou!"

"Kyouzo" hurriedly supported Shidao and asked anxiously.

"It's fine……"

Shidou forced a smile, but that smile was uglier than crying.

Because he was a step too slow, the ice flakes created by the Bingjie puppet did not completely deflect Origami's attack. Part of the laser still grazed Shidao's body, revealing blurry flesh and blood. The pain was as if a whole piece of skin and flesh was being ground away, which was almost enough to make people faint.

Moreover, it was not just that. Without the mediation of the Sage of the Dawn, using the power of two angels at the same time made Shidao's body seem like being in a furnace. Internal organs, bones, muscles - every part of the body was torn apart by this terrible power.

At the same time, the healing flame ignited around Shidao, with a scorching burning sensation, healing Shidao's broken body.

"call……"

Taking a deep breath slowly, Shidou raised his head and stared at the Demon King in mid-air. It seemed that the other party had no intention of letting them go.

"bring it on……"

Shidou said in a deep voice.

【--Fool】

Suddenly, such a voice came from the loudspeaker on the school playground.

[Railgun! ]

"—!"

Although she didn't understand what the voice meant, Origami seemed to sense some danger after turning over. The "wings" that were originally pointing at Shidou were retracted to her side and gathered to form a "shield".

The next moment, an orange-yellow light shot out from the distant side and hit Origami accurately.

"This, this is..."

Shidou's eyes widened as he saw the familiar moves in front of him, and his voice couldn't help but tremble.

[What are you two doing? Hurry up and take back the spiritual equipment and the angel. She will react to the spiritual power.]

The girl's anxious voice came from the speaker.

"Mr. Shidou."

"Well, I see..."

After hearing the voice of "Kyouzo", Shidou finally came to his senses and nodded reluctantly. Together with "Kyouzo", he put the spirit suit and the angel back into his body.

“————!”

Sure enough, after taking the angel and spirit outfit back into her body, the reversed Origami no longer paid attention to Shidou and "Kyouzo", dispersed her shield, and looked into the distance with empty eyes.

[Sa De Origami, let me play with you from now on. 】

Provocative words came over the loudspeaker.

Boom boom boom——————————!

At the same time, at a building three kilometers away, a bolt of lightning struck from the sky as if in protest.

"Spirit...spirit..."

After uttering a few inarticulate and dry syllables, the "wings" floating in the air gathered behind Origami, turning into a pair of huge black wings, and flew towards the direction of the falling lightning at an almost instantaneous speed.

"Goo-"

After his injuries were almost healed, Shidao left the support of "Kyouzo" and stood up unsteadily.

"Mr. Shidou, what are you doing..."

"Kyousan" asked in confusion.

"I'm going to go find her...Kyousan, the AST people will be here soon. You should leave as well."

With his back to Kurumi, Shidou said slowly,

"If possible, I don't want to see you die again."

After saying that, Shidao took staggering steps and rushed towards the direction where the lightning was falling.

(Mengyue, I have a lot to tell you.)

……

"What do you think? The real me."

Looking at Shidao's gradually leaving back, "Kyousan" turned her back to her own shadow and asked in a somewhat inexplicable tone,

"Shidou-san and Mengyue-san... they should all know that I am just a clone created by Yagami. But even so, I was saved."

After a long time, a sigh was heard from the shadow, and the tone was unclear whether it was a blame or a thank you.

"There's nothing I can do. These two guys are complete idiots."

06 Searching for Mengyue (Part )

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"Ha ha……"

Running on the busy street, Shidou's breathing became rapid due to physical exhaustion, and sweat began to seep out of his forehead.

Although he has undergone a lot of training in the virtual world, Shidou's physical fitness in the real world is only at the level of an ordinary high school student. After sprinting for less than two kilometers, he soon felt that his physical strength was running out.

It seems that I need to exercise more often in the future, Shidao couldn't help but think in annoyance.

"Finally... we're here..."

Putting his hands on his knees to steady himself, Shidou took a deep breath and looked around.

Tiangu Station, this is the location where Mengyue's lightning fell after Shidao confirmed it through the mobile phone map.

Since it was almost evening and it was the rush hour for people getting off work, Shidou could see many office workers waiting for the bus at the entrance of the station.

"……strangeness?"

Looking at this station where nothing seemed to have happened, Shidao couldn't help but feel strange.

You know, just now, Shidou saw with his own eyes that Origami was flying in this direction after turning over. Putting aside why Origami didn't destroy the city, if Origami and Mengyue's spiritual waves were detected, the city would have sounded a space quake alarm, and the citizens would have gone to the air-raid shelter for refuge.

Rather, even if the alarm did not respond, Mengyue should have sounded the alarm herself.

"what is going on?"

Shidou couldn't help but mutter to himself in confusion.

With a little expectation and anxiety, Shidou began to look for Origami and Mengyue around the station. Soon, Shidou saw Origami, who looked at a loss, in front of the statue of Tomoe at the station entrance.

"Eh? Itsuka-san?"

Seeing Shidou, Tobiichi Origami couldn't help but widen her eyes, as if she was surprised to meet Shidou here.

"Why is Itsuka-san here?"

"Well... it's a bit hard to explain." Shidou smiled bitterly and evaded Origami's question, then asked, "Origami, why did you come to the station?"

"Well, actually I... don't know either."

With a wry smile and a sigh, Origami could not help but press his forehead in confusion.

"This has been happening a lot lately... I don't know why my consciousness suddenly went out, and when I regained consciousness it was already some time later. The doctor told me I was suffering from anemia... But I remember that I was on the rooftop of the school looking for a hairpin... Why was I already at the station when I regained consciousness?"

"Awareness..."

Hearing Origami's words, Shidou couldn't help but frown.

Obviously, the Origami in front of him did not have the memory of transforming into a reversed elf. The contrast between the elf Origami who was full of negative killing intent and the cute beautiful girl Origami now is really too great. If the state of Origami in front of him can be explained by the word "acting skills", then Shidao will definitely give Origami an Oscar for Best Actor without hesitation.

Thinking of the information Meng Yue said in the previous broadcast that "the other party will react to spiritual power", and the fact that after the angel was taken back, the origami no longer paid attention to herself and Kuang San. Maybe the origami in this world will become a spirit and reverse because of the reaction of spiritual power.

Perhaps, after attracting Origami's attention, Meng Yue withdrew her spiritual power and hid herself. So Origami at the station felt that she had lost her target and returned to her original form.

After confirming this in his mind, Shidou took a deep breath and said to Origami,

"Are you okay? If there's anything bothering you, you can tell me."

"No, no! It's not a big deal. Thank you for your concern, Gokawa-san."

Origami hurriedly waved her hands to show that she was fine, then seemed to think of something, her pretty face flushed, she lowered her head, and whispered shyly.

"Um... Gokawa-san, did you read the note I handed you during class?"

"Eh...? Ah, ah... I saw it. It's Saturday, right?"

"Yes Yes……"

Hearing Shidou's answer, Origami couldn't help but smile with joy.

"Ah, it's almost time for dinner. I should go back soon, Itsuka-san. See you tomorrow. Oh, by the way—"

Origami, who was about to go home, seemed to have suddenly thought of something and suddenly turned around and looked at Shidou with some curiosity.

"Speaking of which, Gokawa-san, you still haven't told me why you came to the station?"

"Uh..." Shidou hesitated for a moment, then replied somewhat melancholy, "I came here to look for my family...a family that suddenly left without a word."

Hearing this, Origami couldn't help but be slightly moved.

"Is that so...it must be a very important family member, right?"

"Ah."

Perhaps because she understood the pain of losing a loved one, Origami gently held Shidou's hands and spoke softly.

"Come on. I hope you can meet your family soon."

Shidou nodded silently.

"Thank you, Origami... It's better than anything else for you to say that."

"Really? That's too much, Itsuka-san."

Origami smiled bitterly, let go of her hand, and turned away.

After seeing Origami off to go home, Shidou let out a long sigh and stared at the bustling train station.

Among them, he did not see the figure he had been expecting.

(...)