Returned from Another World, Earth Turned Out to Be Quite the Fantasy Too. Also, Losing Heroines, Stop Looking This Way. - Chapter 22

Chapter 22: “Isn’t this quite a troublesome family?” ①

“―Hah, ah, my body! It’s there, right?” 

Miyako Minazuki, who jumped up on the rooftop, checked that her torso was properly attached and let out a sigh of relief.

However, Miyako clearly remembered being cut in half by Natsuki.

The moment she lost sensation in her lower body, the shock of her body rolling on the ground without strength, the sight of copious amounts of blood flowing from the severed lower half. And the sensation of her consciousness fading away, as if slipping into sleep. It was something she probably couldn’t forget even if she wanted to.

Above all, as if to prove she had been cut, the midsection of her sailor uniform was missing.

Unable to gauge her opponent’s strength, she was certain she had died once.

She didn’t know how, but she was thankful that her body was intact and her life was still connected.

“You woke up?”

“…Onee-chan? Eh? Why are you here?”

Miyako, still trembling slightly from her fear of Natsuki, noticed the presence of her sister, Mio, and clenched her fists tightly to suppress her shaking.

“I was worried because your spiritual power almost vanished after your encounter with Natsuki Yura-kun. But you were supposed to meet him after school, right? If you do things on your own, mama will get angry.”

“I thought it was a good opportunity since I was alone! But, that monster!”

“Stop talking like that.”

“—Onee-chan, you can say that because you weren’t sliced in half by him! No matter how powerful, it’s not normal to attack someone without any hesitation…”

“Miyako, you also pointed your sword at him, didn’t you?”

“I just wanted to scare him a little!”

Miyako, making excuses, undoubtedly failed in her encounter with Natsuki. She was aware of this herself, biting her lips in frustration.

“Sigh. More importantly, what about your sword?”

“Eh? Ah! Why…”

What Mio pointed at was the spiritual sword, now split in half. It was a family heirloom given to Miyako a year ago when she was recognized as the successor.

“…It can’t be. This spiritual sword, passed down through the Minazuki family, cleansed with water bestowed by the gods… What should I do now?”

“Our family heirloom is gone now.”

Picking up the spiritual sword and trying to fit the broken parts together, there was no sign of it magically reattaching through some spiritual force.

As the next head of the Minazuki family, Miyako had made an unacceptable mistake.

Moreover, she had already failed in the task assigned by her mother to contact Natsuki. Weighed down by these two failures, Miyako felt anxious about the scolding she would receive from her mother.

If she were to be disdained or stripped of her position as the next head, Miyako’s very purpose would be lost.

“For now, let’s go home. I’ll apologize to mama with you.”

“—Don’t talk down to me like that!”

“It’s not like that.”

“Shut up! Just shut up, you’re just a sacrifice anyway!”

After blurting out her emotions, Miyako realized the meaning of her own words. But it was too late to take them back.

“…I’ll go home first!”

Without apologizing for her words to her sister, Miyako, with an embarrassed look, leapt high and jumped off the middle school rooftop.

Left behind, Mio, without getting angry at her sister’s words, let out a small sigh,

“Ah… I wish someone could help me… as if.”

She had no strength to fight against the destiny set for her, nor did she cry or shout.

Glancing up at the sky, she saw a black kite flying leisurely across the blue sky.

“How nice it would be to fly like that,” she thought, and with a resigned smile, Mio too jumped off the rooftop, following her sister.

〜〜Afterword〜〜

Another chapter without Natsuki.

Next time, at the Minazuki house.