[Master K] The bad one next door

The pain didn't come as expected.

Hatta felt Miya's soft arms wrap around his neck quickly, and before he could feel the touch of her body more clearly, a crisp gunshot exploded beside his ears.And what sounded almost simultaneously with the gunshots was a faint sound like a hard object shattering.

An indescribable scream resounded through the empty street in an instant.

Maya's back slammed into the concrete floor under the impact of the recoil, and Hatta was pulled suddenly, and a large piece of the arm around her shoulder was bruised.Hearing the girl in front of his chest let out a painful whimper, he was in a hurry, regardless of whether he was phobia or not, and quickly looked down at her: "Mami? Is it okay——"

At this moment, Maya who heard his voice also raised her head.The moment she raised her head, the tips of their noses brushed past each other in a very short time.

Hatta's breathing stopped suddenly.

At this moment, the distance between their faces was less than one centimeter, and he could even clearly see the lines in her pupils.When panting quickly, her warm breath intertwined with his breath, and the itchy feeling of licking his face made his brain go blank for a moment.

Hatta Misaki, whose thoughts were in confusion, didn't notice Maya's movements.Compared to his being stiff and unable to move, she was staring at his back. The gun in her hand was loaded at some point, as if she was ready to shoot it again at any time.When he regained consciousness, the ear-piercing mourning of the black humanoid creature had gradually weakened.He turned his head, and what caught his eyes was the scene where the opponent's body spread out little by little, turning into black mist and dissipating in the air.

With a "click", the orange-red crystal with cracks spread fell to the ground as if it had lost its support.

Time seemed to freeze for a second.

What broke the silence was Miya's violent coughing.She covered her mouth and coughed for a while, put her hands down, panted for a while, raised her head and smiled at him with her usual gentle smile: "Misaki, it's okay now."

When she said this, blood was dripping from her forehead, and the bright red color set off against her pale face seemed particularly shocking.Hatta had never seen such a distressed Miya. She was seriously injured and she was obviously in extreme pain, but even so, the black-haired girl still insisted on smiling at him, as if he was so weak that she needed her to comfort him.

He stared at her blankly, and his left chest, which was already stuffy, suddenly throbbed with pain.

——Obviously all important things are hidden from him, so what's the matter now, hateful.

Hatta really wanted to scold her severely as usual, but his throat suddenly choked up for no reason, and his eyes seemed to have sand in them, and they started to turn sore for no reason.He turned his face away from looking at her, held back for a long time, until his face was flushed, and then whispered a few words through his teeth:

"...you idiot."

……

As Maya had expected, the black humanoid's weakness was its heart.

When the bullet shot into the orange-red crystal, cracks quickly spread from the contact surface, covering the whole body in a short while.And the black humanoid creature turned into black mist and disappeared after its heart was damaged, and the only thing left was the shattered crystal.

Normally, Shinya would certainly not mind taking a little time to think about the source of the crystal, but now is obviously not the time to do such things.She forced herself to sit up, resisting the urge to go crazy with a splitting headache, while trying to recall the post-injury treatment steps she had learned from the hygiene teacher, while calming down and counting the injuries on her body.

After the humanoid was killed, she relaxed.Hatta didn't say a word from the very beginning, and kept turning his face to one side, as if he was having some trouble - this is only natural.She put down her hand, exhaled lightly, and hesitated how to speak.

"...That, Misaki?"

The orange-haired boy glanced at her, then quickly looked away: "Huh?"

"I have something to tell you..."

Maya's tone was very slow, she was still figuring out what to say.However, before the words finished, Hatta, who had been glancing elsewhere, suddenly widened his eyes and stood up abruptly: "Hey!...Damn it, I actually forgot about that guy—"

Mami was taken aback, and quickly followed his line of sight.Across the street in the distance, a man in a black hoodie was clutching his stomach and staggering away along the wall.

—— Kota Fujiwara.

After experiencing the attack of the black humanoid creature, it was completely forgotten by the two of them.

Miya was startled, subconsciously wanted to struggle to get up, but staggered and fell to the ground because of her leg injury, Hatta was about to catch up, caught a glimpse of her distressed appearance, and stopped involuntarily.This stop missed a good opportunity to capture Fujiwara. Seeing that Fujiwara's figure was about to disappear at the corner of the street, Mami became anxious.

"Misaki! Fujiwara—"

At this time, the girl's familiar clear voice sounded in the air:

"Izumi! It's that guy!"

Hearing the sound, the two looked up in surprise.The girl in the Butei High school uniform was flying down with a parachute, her short brown hair tumbling messily with the strong wind.The seat belt on her waist was tightly fastened to the black-haired boy in a white coat - he held the girl's waist tightly with one hand, and glanced at Fujiwara who disappeared into the street corner with his black eyes: "Understood."

As he spoke, he let go of his hands, opened his arms, and his body fell in a free fall, freezing at a point in midair when the seat belt was pulled to the longest.Zhui Tian deftly pulled the parachute to change the direction of the wind, "swept" over their heads, and was behind Fujiwara in an instant.

The next moment—there were a few more gleaming syringes in Quanliang's hands.He kept his expressionless face, raised his hand slightly, flicked it hard, and flew all the syringes out without hesitation.The syringe flew through the air at an extremely fast speed, and with a few "puffs", it pierced Fujiwara's back neck, back and legs respectively.Fujiwara's body twitched violently, staggered a few steps, and fell to the ground uncontrollably.

Then the two disappeared behind the building around the corner with the parachute, and what happened afterwards was also invisible to Miya.Hatta was stunned for a long time, then turned to look at her in disbelief: "That one just now...was Zhui Tian?"

"Yes." At this moment, Zhenya's expression has completely changed.She was full of joy, with a bright smile on her face, her eyes sparkling: "That's May."

——Chasing Tian Wuyue and Izumi Liangquan.

She gave it to the companion behind.

……

When Hatta and Maya arrived, Fujiwara was already handcuffed.Hirobe, who appeared out of nowhere, was leaning on the motorcycle, watching him being escorted into the police car with a smile, stabbing a few words at the side from time to time, as if he would not be happy if he didn't say a few words hard.Fujiwara, whose hood was pulled down, also revealed his true colors.His face is not quite the same as in the photo, it seems that it has been specially plasticized.Even at this time, he remained silent as always, and did not respond to Hirobe's obvious provocation.

He was locked in the police car all the way without a word.

The two watched the police car drive away, and finally disappeared at the end of the road with the weakening sound of the horn.Mami tightened her arms around the orange-haired boy's neck and sighed: "It's finally over, this mission."

The back of her neck was numb from her breath, Hatta immediately tensed up unnaturally, blushing and roaring: "Hey! I told you not to move around!"

"Eh? Ah, I'm sorry..."

By the way, Miya is now firmly carried behind Hatta's back.

After Zhui Tian and the others disappeared behind the building, Maya was eager to come over to check on the situation, but he had trouble moving, and couldn't even stand up, let alone walk over by himself.At this time, Hatta stopped her self-abuse attempt. While scolding her for being stupid, he squatted down in front of her, blushing shyly, but rarely offered to ask, "If you really want to watch it, it's a big deal for me." I'll carry you on my back."

Thinking of his awkward expression that he obviously wanted to make a bad face but couldn't hide his concern for her, Maki couldn't help but curl his lips.

"Speaking of which, Misaki is really cute."

"Huh? What do you mean?!"

Hatta darkened his face in displeasure.It's no wonder that any man would not be very happy to be described as "cute".

"No, it's nothing." Seeing Zhui Tian, ​​who was busy negotiating with the police in the distance, waving his hands in concern at her, Shinya smiled back and said to him, "Let's find a place to rest, Misaki."

Hatta responded, walked to a step with her on his back, and put her down carefully.After she sat firmly on the steps, he sat down beside her, putting the skateboard beside her that never left him.

Mami thanked, and then the two quietly watched the chaotic scene being cleaned up bit by bit under the command of the police.She wrapped her arms around her legs, curled up slightly, trying to distract herself from the pain with her thoughts.

——Although I don't know exactly how it was done, but the black humanoid creature is probably related to Fujiwara.When she thought that she was so bold that she wanted to fight alone with such a capable person, she couldn't help sighing that "the ignorant has no fear".

Conversely, if she knew Fujiwara was an outsider from the beginning, she wouldn't have the courage to intercept him single-handedly.In every sense, it was great that Misaki appeared at that point in time.

but--

Maya quietly glanced at Hatta beside him.The orange-haired boy was staring into the distance, and the raised chin was the resolute arc she was familiar with.

"Misaki...are you still angry?"

Hatta was taken aback for a moment, and then showed a very delicate expression.He turned his head away and said in a muffled voice, "No."

"Eh?"

"... At first I was really angry, but since you did such a dangerous thing without saying a word, you have your own reasons." He glanced at her, puffing up his cheeks as if unwilling, "Tsk , Of course, if you don't want to say it, forget it."

Maki was taken aback, and subconsciously clenched the hands that hugged her knees.She stared dumbly at his reddish side face for a while, and suddenly felt her eyes flushed: "...Misaki, thank you."

"Ah, ah?" Hearing her slightly choked voice, Hatta froze and turned his head in a panic, "Hey...why are you crying?!"

Mami blinked, resisted the urge to burst into tears, and smiled at him: "It's okay, please don't worry about it."

For a long time, she has been worried about her becoming Butei without telling him, and this anxiety was even worse after being bumped into by him, but now she can finally let go of her hanging heart.

Hatta's face was flushed, and he seemed to be on the verge of going crazy: "How can you not care about this kind of thing——"

"Well, it's not really a big reason."

"……what?"

Maya looked down at his palm, which had a thin layer of calluses from holding guns all year round: "Misaki should remember, it was the incident in Zhenmu Commercial Street two years ago."

On that day two years ago, she went shopping in the commercial street with Zhui Tian, ​​but she was involved in a terrorist attack by outsiders.It was on that day that Maya accidentally discovered Hatta's identity as the "Captain of Barbara Commando".

Hatta was stunned: "Ah, I know."

"At that time, although Misaki didn't know that I was there, I was indeed protected by Misaki." She smiled embarrassingly, "After that, some things happened... such as Kisaragi Station. Then I reviewed Looking back at the days I have gone through, I realized that I have been protected by everyone all the time, but I can't do anything. Misaki is the same, May is the same, and mother is also..."

The orange-haired boy opened his eyes slightly, and immediately denied anxiously: "No, that's not the case..."

"So, I want to become stronger." Maki said, with a determined expression on his face, "It's also for this reason that I chose to become a Butei."

"—I don't want to live under your wings forever."

"—I... also want to protect you with my own strength."

Hatta was stunned.

He stared straight at the black-haired girl beside him, speechless for a moment.Then, he saw her let go of her fist, tilted her head, and smiled embarrassedly: "Well, even though I said that... In the end, I still didn't have the ability to protect Misaki, and in the end, I have to be protected by Misaki again. I'm really ashamed .”

After her words fell, the orange-haired boy was silent for a long time.After a while, he whispered, "Idiot."

"what?"

"That means you are like an idiot." When Zhen Mi looked up in surprise, she found that Hatta's face turned red at some point.He turned his head away as if in a temper tantrum, and even the roots of the ears under the orange hair were red: "Who wants you to protect yourself?! You are so stupid! Stupid! Big idiot!"

"Ugh..."

Under a burst of cursing, Maki couldn't help shrinking her shoulders, and drooped her head in frustration.After cursing, there was a moment of silence between the two of them. Suddenly, Hatta broke the silence: "...there will be such a day."

"Eh?"

His sudden utterance made Maki suddenly raise her head and make a questioning sound of surprise.After such a long time, Hatta finally turned his head and looked directly into her eyes for the first time: "I said, there will be a day when you will protect me."

and so--

"Keep going."

Mama stared at him blankly.

The sounds of the surrounding people and the sound of sirens seemed to disappear in an instant.In the vast and boundless world, only myself and the orange-haired boy who blushed and said these words were left in front of me.

Complicated emotions mixed with joy welled up from her heart little by little, and gradually filled her whole heart, filling her body and mind with happiness.She was stunned for a long time, until her eyes were blurred by tears, then she nodded vigorously, showed a bright smile, and replied in a choked voice: "Yes."

When she raised a smile, Hatta's eyes accidentally touched her face, and instantly shrank back like an electric shock, and changed back to the previous blushing appearance.Just when the atmosphere between the two was approaching a strange silence, the silence was suddenly broken by a rush of shouts.

"Ya~Zawa~chan~"

It was a sweet voice like a coquettish puppy.