While I was on my knees in despair over the shocking news that I had to kiss Itsuka-kun, Itsuka-kun was moved to the infirmary.
Apparently, since he wasn’t in a normal state, they were going to have him rest there.
After Itsuka-kun was moved to the infirmary, Murasame-san added an explanation.
"...The number of people who need to kiss the god is six: Tohka, Kotori, Rinne, Origami, Ren, and Hiki. That should be enough."
"Huh? Just now you said everyone had to do it...."
"Since Higakieta is sending most of the spirits' spirit power to Shido, they'll be taking the place of the spirits he sealed."
"Ah...."
As Ren answered in Murasame-san's place, Mayuri-chan nodded, and at that moment I felt a question rise in my mind.
"Does Rio not have to do it?"
Rio should be a spirit too, so why wasn't she included?
That question was answered surprisingly easily.
"...Rio was born from the leftover spirit power of Rinne."
In other words, since she was a child born from the spirit power of a spirit that had already been sealed, only Rinne needed to kiss her.
Come to think of it, when Rio first appeared, she wasn't sealed by kissing Itsuka-kun either.
That was perfectly plausible.
"Haa...."
My question about Rio was settled, so I let it go. What I needed to worry about most right now was kissing Itsuka-kun.
I didn't even want to imagine it, and just hearing about it was disgusting, but if that was the only way, then I had no choice but to do it.
I didn't want Itsuka-kun to die either.
"Haa...!"
Still, I couldn't help sighing over and over.
It's not like I like men.
"Is that really the only way?"
"...Yeah."
I asked Murasame-san just in case, but the answer that came back was the same as before.
'There really isn't any other way...?'
I briefly considered whether I could forcibly expand the pass using the power of souls, but I came to the conclusion that it was basically impossible.
No matter how amazing the power of souls might be, if all I could feel right now was that I was connected to Itsuka-kun and couldn't properly sense the pass itself, there was nothing I could do.
Then was there really no other way?
"Hmm...."
[This is bad, Commander!]
As I groaned and tried to wring my brain for any method that didn't involve kissing, a crew member's urgent voice came through the speaker in the room.
[Shido-kun has disappeared from the infirmary!]
"What!?"
At that news, everyone rushed to the infirmary where Itsuka-kun should have been.
What we found there was an empty bed, crumpled and caved in, and a wall that had been smashed apart and collapsed.
"No way...."
In the short time since he had been moved to the infirmary, Itsuka-kun had escaped.
*******
A blue-haired boy walking down the street after leaving [Fraxinus].
His name was Itsuka Shido.
Right now, he was walking the streets, trusting his instincts.
"...Itsuka Shido!?"
And then he ran into a woman.
He had come face to face with Ellen, a member of DEM and an enemy of [Ratatoskr], the organization Itsuka Shido belonged to.
"A girl...?"
Seeing Ellen recognize him, Shido thought,
'There's a girl. I need to seduce her and make her fall for me. That's my mission.'
Originally, he was supposed to be targeting spirits, but with his spirit power overheating and his mind no longer right, Shido had expanded the scope from spirits to girls.
And that wasn't the end of it.
'Home.... I have to go home.'
A faint soul flowed in through the pass connected to Higakieta Hai.
The longing for Hieta's home engraved in that soul was also transmitted to Shido.
'Seduce her, and take her home...?'
Shido, casually thinking dangerous thoughts that anyone else would find alarming, immediately sprang into action.
"Aaah! Ellen!"
"What...!?"
Shido approached, calling Ellen's name familiarly.
Ellen tried to block him with [Separation], but there was no way she could stop Shido, whose body had already been enhanced by spirit power.
"What the hell is going on? This should be inside [Separation]!"
For a moment Ellen was shocked by how easily Shido was holding his ground, and then the words that came out of his mouth irritated her even more.
"Don't be so cold, Ellen. I just want us to understand each other!"
Words that the usual Shido would never say, especially not to an enemy like Ellen, flowed naturally from his mouth.
"What a ridiculous joke."
Ellen tried to crush him with [Separation], but...
"It's not a joke."
As expected, it didn't work on Shido.
"Even if Ratatoskr and DEM are enemies, love should still be possible."
Shido truly believed that, driven mad by the rampage.
That sincerity was in both his words and his eyes.
"Ellen, I—!"
"Just shut up already...!"
Disgusted by the sight, Ellen threw off the hat she was wearing to block Shido's vision and spun around.
Then a kick flew toward Shido's head, but he avoided it by casually leaning his head back.
"...!"
Because Shido dodged, Ellen lost her balance and was about to fall, but Shido caught her in the so-called princess carry.
"Don't make this so difficult for me."
As he said that and set Ellen down on the ground, she was still flustered when Shido kissed her on the forehead and said,
"Want to come with me? Cute Ellen."
He took Ellen's hand and tried to lead her home with him, but Ellen, feeling humiliated, tried to shake him off.
"Oh, fuck. Cut the crap."
But before she could shake him off, someone else appeared and kicked her away faster.
Boom!
Ellen's body flew into an alley and slammed into a trash can.
At the sudden turn of events, Shido blinked for a moment, then looked at the man who had attacked Ellen.
"Itsuka-kun, why are you really doing this...."
Saying that with a look of contempt was a man with red hair and blue eyes.
Someone Shido knew well, and a friend he could rely on more than anyone.
"Ah, Hieta."
Higakieta Hai was the first to find Shido.
*******
I can't fly.
Well, I mean, how could a person fly? But the catch is that everyone around me, except for the Fire Keeper, is a spirit, so they can fly.
Because of that, even though I knew where Itsuka-kun was, I thought I'd be the last one to arrive, but surprisingly, I was the first.
Maybe it was because there were so many people around that he couldn't fly, and the fact that he came by transport was probably part of it too.
So I found Itsuka-kun, only to see that he was somehow trying to take Ellen away with him.
I'm sure that was also because of that damn rampage, but just watching it made me so disgusted that before I knew it, I kicked Ellen into a nearby alley trash can.
Then I looked at Itsuka-kun, and unlike just a moment ago, he definitely looked lively.
The problem was that it was only on the surface.
"This feeling, the drowsiness I felt just now feels like a lie!"
"Please...."
The others would be here soon too, but until then, watching him burn through spirit power and try to seduce women to take them home was making my mind go blank.
What the hell did the rampage even do to turn a person into a second Tonomachi-kun?
Still, this was a rare sight.
Ding!
I secretly filmed him on my phone so I could show it to Itsuka-kun later when he came to his senses.
Call it a little revenge for all the trouble he caused.
"Shido!"
Thanks to the others arriving quickly, my suffering from watching Itsuka-kun's disgusting behavior came to an end sooner than expected.
I was a little disappointed that I didn't get to film much of the shocking scene, but more than that, I wanted to stop Itsuka-kun's rampage as soon as possible.
"Yo, Tohka! And everyone else! Hieta too, so what brings all of you to me?"
"Papa!!!"
Thinking Itsuka-kun had come back to his senses, Rio charged at him with a body slam.
"Ahaha, my cute princess. You came looking for your daddy."
Seeing him catch Rio and spout words he would never normally say, Rio trembled and backed away from Itsuka-kun, then clung to me instead.
"Uncle... Papa is acting weird."
"...I know."
Itsuka-kun wasn't hurting, so Rio didn't cry, but since she knew his condition wasn't normal, it seemed she had come to me for safety.
"Hey, princess?"
Flustered by Rio's behavior, Itsuka-kun called out to her and gestured for her to come over, but...
"U, uncle!"
Rio was even more horrified and clutched my clothes tightly.
No, Rio, you have Rinne too, and that's your dad, so why are you acting like that?
"......"
"Ah, he froze."
Maybe he had been hit hard by Rio rejecting him.
Itsuka-kun froze with his hand still outstretched.
"R-Rio? Itsuka-kun's frozen, you know?"
"Papa is weird.... I don't want to go because he's this gross..."
Crack!
Itsuka-kun completely froze at the words of Rio, whose tastes were apparently very clear-cut.
I could almost hear the sound of stone splitting.
"Uh...."
"Haa.... I guess I should be glad we managed to stop him here."
Seeing that, the commander let out a sigh and said,
"Listen, Shido. We came to save you."
"...Kotori. It looks like he can't hear us anymore, doesn't it?"
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