Editing The Unexplored Summon Blood Sign:Volume1 Chapter3 (section)

===Part 5===

A heavy silence filled the guest room of Aika’s apartment.

Meinokawa Renge, Aika, and Lu Niang Lan were the only ones there. No, technically maid-outfit Higan was sleeping in the luxurious bed, but she was completely unconscious and thus so inhuman she nearly did not count. She had no presence and seemed more like a decoration.

She had not woken up since then and that succinctly indicated how dangerous her situation was.

“I lost my composure before.” Renge slowly inhaled as if switching mindsets. “But please let me check on Higan’s state again. I want an accurate knowledge of her state to think about what comes next.”

“Well, anything’s fine as long as it doesn’t end up ''like before''.”

Swimsuit Girl Aika’s quiet response held a tone of warning.

Renge groaned.

“S-sorry.”

“Now, now. Squeezing any harder isn’t going to get anything more out of her. Suicide and revenge generally are based in escapism. If that girl is saying she won’t try for a heroic death anymore, then why not go with that?”

Lu Niang Lan casually sided with Renge and Aika grabbed a hand light from the bedside table. Instead of a light bulb or LEDs, it had a fifteen centimeter fluorescent light in the side. Plus, the fluorescent light was not a normal one.

“You said that’s different from a black light, right?”

“It doesn’t cause cancer, so don’t worry. It isn’t a scientific issue. …Basically, it’s important to view this from a ‘different viewpoint’. And light from a different wavelength is a convenient way of doing that,” explained the Modified China Dress Beauty. “We probably need to remove your sister’s clothes to see this. Should we do that for you?”

“…! I’ll do it!! …How does this thing work? The top doesn’t seem to have any buttons… H-how are maid outfits made anyway!?”

“There’s a zipper on the back. It’s an apron dress, so it’s just a type of dress.”

“Why do you know so much about this?”

“Block C is all about movies and kung fu. You have no idea how many costumes I’ve worn for different campaigns.”

With some difficulties, Renge removed her sister’s maid outfit. Moving the unconscious form required more strength than she had expected, so it really was a kind of physical labor.

After she removed the clothing, she must have been filled with embarrassment and guilt because she pushed the removed clothing around the unconscious girl’s waist and chest.

“Could you not stare at Higan so much?”

“I have no interest in seeing anyone but Onii-chan naked.”

Aika clapped her hands twice and the room’s lights slowly went out. A thick light-blocking curtain covered the window, so the room was as dark as a home theater.

Then an unhealthy bluish light came from the hand light Aika held.

There should have been a slender girl lying there. The light should have reflected off her fine white skin like ceramic and she should have glowed like the moon in the night sky.

However, the dark blue marks covering Meinokawa Higan’s entire body were so vivid the three watching could almost hear them oozing.

Her body had the coloration of rotting fruit.

It covered about half of her body and the extreme white of her skin only caused that “decomposition” to stand out all the more to Renge’s eyes.

Simply changing their viewpoint was enough to see this. The “truth” hidden behind the normal light of day was anything but beautiful.

Renge had known it would be like this.

She really had, but the sight was still enough to shake her mind.

She gulped.

“''There’s even more than before.''”

“Time has passed without finding a fundamental solution, so of course it has.”

“And it’s ''12:30'' now, so it spread this much in just four hours.”

Even now, Higan’s life was being worn away.

The spread of that dark blue color visualized that life.