2-13: It is a Simple Thing to Destroy One’s Everyday Life (5/6)
Unfortunately, Shinichis group was near the escalators and the stairs.
Everyone wanted to be the first to go down, so there was a lot of panic among the custors in the first floor.
This isnt a joke! Like hell Ill get caught up in this!
Wait, theres a kid!
Dont push!
Youre in the way! Move it!!
The security yelled out to try and calm the people down, but no one was listening.
As the last fragnts of clarity were swept away, the panic of the fleeing custors turned into a wave that rushed full-speed toward the entrance made by the converging flows. Human waves were a terrifying thing.
The very people that ford it were swept by it as if amidst a tsunami or a raging stream.
Shinichi had already foreseen this result, however, and his family was already outside of that terrible flow.
This isnt a situation the security can handle.
Shinichi muttered as he watched that raging stream quietly.
Everyone was headed toward the sa exit, so if one tried to do sothing different, it could easily cause the people to panic even more, but sohow Shinichi easily avoided getting caught up in that flow.
W-We have to run too!!
But Nobuhiko didnt think this was a good thing.
The sound of people screaming and guns shooting could still be heard from ti to ti.
The fear of not knowing when those n might co spurred the people onwards.
The people descending from the upper floor had decreased, but there was still no end in sight.
Thats why Shinichi had to calmly point it out.
If we enter that flow now, Shinji will be in danger.
Ah.
If it were just them, then it wouldnt be a problem even if they bumped so people, but they had to carry Shinji too, so it was simply too dangerous.
As such, the best course for them to take was to patiently wait for the number of people to decrease and then leave.
Of course, that was only because the direction the gunshots were coming from didnt seem to change and there were no ard n descending from above.
Ive contacted the police and the counterasure departnt.
Theyll be here in less than 3 minutes. Well go outside through the entrance there!
Rinko said with a firm face as she pointed toward a slightly different direction from where the people were headed.
There was another entrance so ways away from their position, but no people were going there.
That was because they wanted to leave as soon as they could, so they picked the nearest exit.
Yeah Lets just pray that there arent any ard n by the entrances, Shinichi said.
I intentionally left that part out, so dont say it, Shinichi-kun Rinko said.
Shinichi intended to say that in jest to lighten the atmosphere, but while it worked on Rinko, it had the opposite effect on Nobuhiko who was between them.
Part of that fear was because of how calm Shinichi was despite their situation.
Nobuhiko-san, right now, just focus on getting out of here!
Y-Yeah!
As Rinko said that, she took the lead.
But when they were about to go, soone with a desperate look passed by them.
W-Where are you going!?
The security guard helping the people escape caught her as she tried to head up the stairs.
The security guard was also scared, but he tried his best to fulfill his duty.
Alas, the woman cut him off.
Let go of ! My kid! My son is at the third floor!
He wasnt with the people who ran away! Let go!!
I-I cant do that! We have no idea whats going on above right now!
The woman desperately tried to push the security guard off, but the guard was a man, and she could not shake off his restraint with just her strength.
Rinko probably sympathized with her since she too was a mother.
She worked with the security to try and convince her to run away first.
Right. Im a mother too, so I understand your feelings, but the police and the counterasure departnt will be coming soon. You should just leave this to them!
But Ah, youre the boy from earlier
Perhaps it was because another woman was talking to her that the desperate mother was able to regain so clarity.
But when she noticed the Nakamura family, she turned to Shinichi and yelled.
Youre strong, right!?
Then hurry up and defeat those n!
Huh?
Shinichi titled his head at the strange implication hidden behind those words.
Although this woman was a mother whose child was in a dangerous place and was evidently panicking, she had no problems asking him to take out those n.
That alone shouldnt be strange, but there was sothing odd about her.
W-Wait a mont, what are you Nobuhiko said.
Dont hide it! Youre a high ranker, arent you!?
Guns are useless against you, so go!
Isnt that the duty of those with high stats!! The mother said.
P-Please calm down! Hes not a high ranker! Rinko said.
The woman ignored Nobuhiko and Rinko and put on a tough act despite her fears as she yelled at Shinichi.
A plea from the bottom of her heart to save her child. There was nothing special about that.
But why did she refuse to move from Rinkos side?
And then
KyuU!
Before anyone else could, she howled (barked) in response to the impudent and criticizing look of those around her master.
Even those who just descended were quietly sending a look that said do sothing despite not knowing what transpired on this floor.
But there were many who knew just what kind of creature she was.
Before her nacing posture, their gazes returned to that of fear and they returned to fleeing.
But that was enough to prove just what it was that the mother was thinking.
I see. So Thats the kind of fear it was!
Shinichi finally understood the aning behind their gaze.
No. It would be more apt to say that he rembered. After all, he once held the sa eyes.
Monster Beast
Monster
Bandit
Before that incident.
Those that wielded great power. Those that used their power only for violence. Those that were weak and could not defend themselves.
Shinichi rembered that he too once looked at those sort of existences with the sa eyes.
The eyes one has when looking at a monster
Earth had misunderstood the aning of status, the duty that ca with it, and the necessity.
That was especially true for this country that had caused fissures to erupt between the high rankers and the low rankers.
It wasnt just because of the preferential treatnt that the high rankers received.
Shinichi didnt know which ca first since he wasnt in this world at the ti, but the low rankers mustve also discriminated against the high rankers and rejected them.
The difference in rank was dreadfully rciless. Shinichi knew that full well.
That was even truer in a world where the concept of the skill stat did not exist.
But unlike Shinichi who sought it out of necessity, this country was peaceful.
Before sothing as strange as another world, it was necessary to be peaceful.
Shinichi felt that there was even that kind of obsession sowhere.
Thats why they instinctively feared him. Soone who was able to acquire the power of another world.
The reason everything is a ss is because they adopted the rules of another world even though they didnt need it!
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