Editing The Unexplored Summon Blood Sign:Volume5 Chapter3 (section)

===Part 4===

Not even Kyousuke knew what was to blame.

With renewed resolve, he left Shigara Masami’s lab and started back toward his living space in the Inner Circle, but he ran across doom along the way.

“———”

It began as a quiet voice.

It was only a small vibration through a door that a normal person might not have even noticed.

“Passing between worlds is truly inconvenient.”

The voice brought as much of a shock as a surprise blow to the heart.

(The White Queen? Why!?)

He looked to the door again. This was the Outer Circle where the adults lived and that was a room he had snuck into once before. It was the lab belonging to Akura Taisaku, the developer who had tried to create the strongest summoner by tuning the Hatter.

But the Queen supposedly could not communicate with anyone but Kyousuke.

He was utterly baffled as the voice reached his ears through the door again.

“As I stand at the very peak, calling for me is not easy. That would place a great burden on you, brother.”

“I simply wish to remain by your side like this, brother.”

What was this?

Both the voice itself and what it was saying made no sense.

With the completion of the Sewn Realm Summoning, the White Queen did not need to worry about the difficulty or time limit of summoning her. Everyone was aware of those conditions, but they were stripped away for a conversation even more meaningless than a lone spinning gear.

Yes, it was a conversation.

Another voice answered the queen’s disconcerting one.

Surprisingly, it was identical to Shiroyama Kyousuke’s own voice.

“I don’t think you should just have to obey the summoner’s orders just because you’re a Material.”

“I want to hear so much more of what you have to say. I want to hear your thoughts in their purest form.”

“After all, we’re comrades who place our lives in each other’s hands.”

Why? What was going on?

Inside Kyousuke’s confusion was a horrible – truly horrible – icy core that would not melt even in the warmest light. And those thoughts of absolute zero mocked that surface confusion.

———''Kyousuke, you really do understand, don’t you?

———''Your biggest weakness is that you’re not stupid enough to claim you don’t understand.

“Kah…hah…!?”

He had trouble breathing.

He could not reach this answer. It was too sinful to even put together as a mental theory. And he certainly could not even think about the possibility that it had been acted on.

He would truly – truly, truly – start to hate them.

He was prepared to reach an understanding with everyone, work hand in hand, and escape this dead-end situation.

But that resolve was shattering!!

“Wow! Wow!”

“It’s no longer restricted to ten minutes or to a battle. You can really summon me whenever and however you like.”

“Ah ha ha. Now I can go play with you whenever I want! I can give you anything I want!!”

He wanted to deny it, but he could not.

So he could not hold back any longer.

He did not bother unlocking the door and cracking it open to peek inside. He kicked the door down. The thick door had a double digit number of locks installed along the side, but every last one of them broke and the door really did collapse into the room.

The Queen was inside.

And of course, there was not a second Shiroyama Kyousuke inside.

A gloomy man in a jumpsuit sat in front of the Queen.

Akura Taisaku glanced Kyousuke’s way and spoke in a voice nothing like his own. It was the soprano of a boy whose voice had yet to change.

“Queen, this is dangerous. Get behind me.”