Editing Mahou Sensou:Volume 1 Chapter 2 (section)

===Part 5===

The senior high school Takeshi and Kurumi attended was around 20 minutes walking time from the neighborhood they lived in.

Takeshi was fortunate no other girl saw him leave the school, Kurumi hurriedly chased after them but for some reason the two of them were desperately running away and she could not catch up to them.

Yet it was still morning, Kurumi felt like she was going for a midsummer run, by the time she would get to her house somebody would be waking up.

“……I, I don’t beli……eve this……”

Haa, haa, she was breathing quite heavy and needed to take rest, she put her hands on the fence surrounding her house, suddenly she felt crowded.

“In the end, Takeshi returned home, just what is he doing?”

Nevertheless, she wanted to press a question on Takeshi, somehow she stood up and stumbled her way over to the gate in the middle of the fence.

Kurumi’s house was called Isoshima Residence in the neighborhood and was a mansion.

Someone came out of the residence, she was an oba <ref>Grandmother</ref> named Kayo and she had been their maid for many years. 

“Ara, ojou-san.  What a quick return home.”

You could see that she was holding a dust pan and broom in her hand, afterwards she went around the area and started cleaning.

However, Kurumi adjusted her breathing there and just passed by.

“Gomenasai, Kayo-san. I am in a hurry.”

As she approached Takeshi’s house she straightened her back.

She did not want to let Takeshi’s family see her staggered and out of breath.

“At any rate, that girl……I wonder who she was……”

The girl who was together with Takeshi bothered her.

Kurumi had only seen her profile for a moment, but it was a girl she did not know.

“Ahh, mou”

Her thoughts were all messed up, she just couldn’t agree with it.<ref>Jealous are we Kurumi?</ref>

As usual, she just needed to hear Takeshi out.

Kurumi rang the entranceway’s intercom.

A loud sound was heard twice.

Kurumi waited for a little while but there was no answer, she pressed the intercom again.

She waited, but there was still no sign of anyone coming out.

Unpleasant thoughts rose to the surface of Kurumi’s mind.

All of his family was out, but she was certain Takeshi ran here with the girl.

―It was possible that he was in a situation where he could not come out.

She rang the intercom several more times.

But, there was still no answer.

“Just what are you doing Takeshi?”

Kurumi went to the front porch without permission and knocked on the door.

Kurumi had a relationship with Takeshi’s family since primary school.

Although she hesitated a little, she grasped the doorknob and easily opened the door.

“It’s opened……”

Kurumi quietly looked inside, she checked for Takeshi’s shoes by the entrance, they weren’t there.

The girl’s shoes were also not there.

“I wonder if he did not go home.”

Even so, it would be impossible for him to leave without locking the door, she loudly shouted towards the second floor.

“Takeshi, I am coming in!”

She had the belief that even if nobody was home, they would not get upset at her for entering without permission.

She politely took of her shoes and arranged them, then she went up to the second floor.

She was familiar with Takeshi’s room, she went to it but it was empty.

“Nobody……is here?”

But, she knew someone had come.

There was a tray placed on the carpet with cups on it.

“Takeshi, where are you?”

The curtains had been closed, she quickly pulled them open.

From there she could see the garden of her house.

However, Kurumi saw something else she had not expected.

There were two men floating in the sky and looking at the window.

“Kyaa!”

The window suddenly shattered in front of Kurumi, she involuntarily screamed as the glass fell down.

She put her arms up in front of her to protect her face.

Kurumi was prepared for the broken glass to hit her, instead her arm were hit by lumps of something else and felt no pain.

Together with the summer heat, the men came in through the window.

A man with a good physique and evil looking eyes grabbed Kurumi’s arm and made her stand up from her crouched position.

Kurumi slightly opened her eyes and saw that the man’s muscles stood out from his big arms and thick waist.

She saw a sword hung from his leather belt.

“I’m sorry, did I injure you?”  Inquired another man who came in through the window after and peered at her face. 

He wore a green shirt with a creepy amoeba on it.

“Ohh, it’s a bibin-san,”<ref>Pretty girl</ref> the guy said in admiration.

Kurumi looked at the man who had grabbed her again.

From the front she timidly looked up at him.

The man did not look at Kurumi.

His gaze was presumptuously scrutinizing the room.

“Hanashite!!” <ref>Let me go!! or Release me!! You pick which one you want to use in your head.</ref>

Kurumi tried to shake off the man’s arm and he easily let go, now he looked down at her with a terrifying expression on his face.

“Were……you guys……flo, floating…………”

She saw it with her own eyes and she could not believe it.

Kurumi could brag that she was a realist since her childhood.

She didn’t watch anime or fantasy movies.

She was not manipulated by the opportunistic adults.

However, she had never felt the fear she did now.

Two people who were human, floated through the window from outside.

The glass from the window that had shattered was scattered throughout the room.

She did not know what the cause was.

Kurumi took several steps away and placed some distance between her and the two people.

The men searched around the room, they opened the desk draw and examined the closet.

However, they did not find what they were looking and once more their attention returned to Kurumi.

The man lowered his waist for the sword and came closer.

“St, stop……don’t come any closer!”

Kurumi fled to the corner of the room, almost immediately her arm was caught again.

“Itai!”<ref>It hurts!</ref> Kurumi screamed when the grip was tightened.

“Where are those two people?”

“Two people?”

When she heard that Kurumi asked in return but was interrupted by another voice.

“Oigami, Ushiwaka, that’s enough. Let’s go.”

When she looked, another man had floated in through the window.

It was a man with black hair, he looked a little older than the other two.

Kurumi’s arm was released, the two men turned around and were about to exit through the window.

At that time, Kurumi was in low spirits, she reached for the hem of the pants of the man who had grabbed her arm and pulled on them. 

“Wait just a minute!” 

Anger had overcome her fear.

Kurumi slapped the man on the cheek with all her might when he looked over his shoulder.

“……This woman.”

The man ferociously bared his teeth, he raised his arm.

Kurumi stared back at him defiantly.

This Isoshima Kurumi was different.

She wasn’t like the old Kurumi.

She was hurt and she wasn’t going to accept it meekly, she believed that she was not a weak person.

She recalled the many times before when she was unilaterally attacked and then ran home and how she thought that it was fine, she strongly disliked that kind of person.

Even if she hit him with all her strength and then was retaliated against she would have no regrets.

The mouth of the man formed into a thin smile when he raised his fist above his head.

“Heh, what a strong-willed beauty, but this is reality.”

He swung down his arm.

“It’s not like I hate you or anything.”

He pretended to turn his back on Kurumi and immediately walk away, however the man quickly turned around and Kurumi received a strike on the nape of her neck.

“……Ah…………”

Her vision blurred and she collapsed onto the floor.

Kurumi felt the short fur of the carpet brush against her cheek as she simultaneously lost consciousness.

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