Re:Zero - Starting Life in Chaos.

"what!!!"

Kitagawa couldn't hold on any longer and screamed.

As she screamed, the cash register flew into the air.

Without any suppression, Kitagawa rolled and crawled out of the store.

"At least Nanami shouldn't be implicated." This was Kitagawa's only thought in his panic.

Then, she felt a hand grabbing her shoulders, and her body began to spin and fly up, and the scenery around her was changing rapidly.

"Oh!"

"Puff! Cough, cough, cough!"

The violent impact on his back caused Kitagawa to cough violently.

Before his body fell to the ground, a rough hand grabbed his neck and slowly lifted him up.

"Cough! Cough!"

The man's left hand was strangling her neck, and the discomfort in her throat made her cough repeatedly. Kitagawa felt that her breathing was becoming difficult.

"Run~ Why don't you run anymore?"

Listening to the man's words, Kitagawa raised his head with difficulty.

With the dim green light of the emergency light, she was able to see the man's current situation clearly.

The left half of the man's body looked as if it had been splashed with sulfuric acid, his combat uniform was badly damaged, and the exposed skin was bloody.

From time to time, unknown liquid would flow out from the places where flesh and clothes were stuck, emitting a foul odor that made people feel nauseous.

The scariest part is the cheek.

Due to severe corrosion on his cheeks, the man's gums were exposed.

If Kitagawa had to find a reference, she thought the man's current appearance was as ugly as those skinless giants in Attack on Titan.

Seeing the man's horrible look, Kitagawa suddenly smiled and opened his mouth towards the man:

"Hey~tui!"

Spat a mouthful of blood on the man's face, Kitagawa released the man's wrists with both hands and raised his middle finger at him.

In Kitagawa's eyes, the ugly guy was obviously confused by her behavior.

The expression on his face was funny and ridiculous.

But then she felt the pressure on her throat getting heavier.

"You stinky Biaoza! How dare you laugh at me!"

"If it weren't for you, would I be like this?"

"It's all your fault! It's all your fault!"

"Ha ha ha ha."

As he was speaking, the man suddenly bent down and his body began to shake as if he had a cramp.

Kitagawa opened his eyes with difficulty, not knowing what was going on.

But the pressure in the throat was still gradually increasing, and the feeling of dizziness became increasingly stronger due to lack of oxygen in the brain.

Kitagawa felt that he might be dying.

"Ah~ That's fine, let's just die. I don't know if I can get out of the maze if I survive anyway."

"It's a pity that I couldn't stick with Nanami."

"Nanami, I hope you can keep your promise and don't come out."

"You must cherish your life. You are going to be a great singer in the future."

"Voice actor~"

"That's great. I also want to voice my favorite character~"

"Hey! I just want to make a cosplay costume, why do I have to endure this kind of suffering?"

"Shizuku-chan, Shion, ..."

"I've come to see you..."

Just as she was replaying her favorite characters in her mind like a revolving lantern, a figure suddenly rushed out from the direction of the warehouse. It was Nanami Aoyama.

At this time, the girl was holding a pole in her hand and poking it towards the ugly monster's kidneys.

The sudden scene scared Kitagawa back to his senses. When he saw Nanami coming out, Kitagawa was angry and anxious.

"Didn't I tell you to stay out of the outside world?"

"Nanami-chan!!!"

With the last breath left in his chest, Kitagawa hurriedly warned Nanami:

"go!"

Although no one knows what happened to the man, no matter what, he is not someone Nanami can deal with.

Sure enough, as she expected.

Even though the man was in an unknown state of convulsions, his reaction speed was still much faster than theirs.

The top of the pole in Nanami's hand didn't even touch the man, and he dodged it.

Then the man raised his free right hand and punched Nanami, who was running towards him, away.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

After rolling on the ground for a few times, Nanami lay on the ground coughing repeatedly, with blood spurting out from the corners of his mouth uncontrollably. It was obvious that his internal organs were damaged.

"Oh~ and it's a girl?"

The man's voice sounded again.

It turned out that at this moment, Nanami was wearing sportswear and a ponytail, revealing her pretty face.

When she heard Kitagawa's scream, she realized that something was wrong. In order to facilitate the battle, she took off her doll costume in the warehouse.

After finding a steel pole to use as a spear, she looked through the half-open door towards where the two were.

When I saw the man twitching all over and pinching Kitagawa with one hand.

She realized that her chance had come!

So she went out.

Then, he was punched back.

It was at this moment that she deeply felt the gap between extraordinary people and ordinary people, even though she was a person who had one foot in the extraordinary circle.

Intense pain came from her internal organs. Nanami couldn't even make a scream, and she couldn't muster any strength. Eventually, even her trembling reaction gradually subsided.

Kitagawa, who was standing by, couldn't stop crying, but because his throat was tightly strangled, he could only watch.

Perhaps because he didn't want Kitagawa to die so easily, the man swung his arm and threw Kitagawa to the side of Nanami.

After recovering from the dizziness, Kitagawa opened his eyes, looked at Nanami not far away, and struggled to prop himself up and crawled towards her little by little. It took him a while to reach Nanami's side.

"Nanami-chan! Nanami-chan!"

"Ahem! I... ahem... hug... ahem... the least... protected..."

"Stop talking! Stop talking! It's all my fault that I got you into trouble."

Looking at Nanami, whose breath was weak, blood was constantly coming out of her mouth, and her face had a strange purple hue, Kitagawa's heart was bleeding.

"Oh~sisters love each other so deeply~"

"She's the one who stinks."

The man's frivolous voice woke the girl from her regret.

Kitagawa glanced at the ugly monster and said nothing. It would be unnecessary to say anything at this time.

He simply sat up, leaned against the wall, and used his remaining energy to pull Nanami into his arms.

He pressed his face against Nanami's still warm forehead, humming something softly.

That's the music in the game.

Kitagawa liked it very much and she wanted to do as much as possible for Nanami.

The man was not angry when he saw the girl ignoring him. He felt it was a pleasure to enjoy his prey's frustration.

"Hey, you must be wondering why I found you guys?"

It is undoubtedly exciting to hunt down prey and then attack it psychologically and make it despair.

It’s a pity that the prey in front of him didn’t cooperate and didn’t even look at him, which made the man feel a little bored.

"Tsk, I wanted to give you some pointers so that you can be more careful when escaping in your next life and not make so many stupid mistakes, but you guys refused to cooperate. It's boring."

"In that case, let's get to the point~hahaha."

As he spoke, the man's face showed a ferocious expression. After playing with his prey for so long, it was finally time to harvest...