Editing City Series:Volume8b Chapter11 (section)

===Yuo’s Sight Mode: In DT Castle===

'''<Yuo’s Over Reload>

Yuo silently read through the message.

The look on her face changed as she did. It grew pale.

<Oh, no.>

'''<Yuo’s Over Zoom>

She looked to the bed. The sheets were a light green.

<White.>

She turned her entire body to look left and right, but there was no white in the room.

She ran to the kitchen.

'''“Towel!”

A shattering glass sound came from her feet, but the carpet’s threads tangled around her feet.

She fell. But she got right back up. She groaned, frowned, and wiped the tears from her eyes on the way to the kitchen. A towel was draped over the edge of the sink.

<nowiki><I</nowiki> need to hurry. If they find me… If they find me…>

She grabbed the towel.

<nowiki><I’ll</nowiki> forget about Senpai.>

She suppressed the emotion, tugged on the towel, and gathered it between her arms.

<There’s still so much I want to tell him.>

The towel was damp and smelled of soap, but she didn’t care.

<nowiki><I</nowiki> still haven’t told him any of the important things.>

She left the kitchen and made her way to the window.

She was out of breath. She didn’t even have time to notice her panic before she gasped in front of the window.

She was too short.

<No!>

She held the end of the towel and swung it with both arms. The other end of the towel struck the windowsill, but it slid right back down. It simply made light thunk as it hit the wooden windowsill.

She tried three times before deciding to change tack.

She looked to the desk. There was a chair next to it. She threw the towel onto the floor and ran over to the chair.

<That’s it!>

Her feet tangled with the carpet again, but she made it to the chair.

Just as she placed her hands on the chair, she noticed a sound.

It was the quiet metallic sound of a key turning in a lock.

It came from the right. She turned to see the movement there.



'''<Yuo’s Over Zoom>

The stone wall to her right, where the door had originally been, was opening.

<Eh?>

Someone was entering. That realization made her reflexively let go of the chair.

<Just in case.>

She answered that thought by tossing a window to Puppy up on the bed.

It was a word mail window.

She also opened a transparent keyboard by her right hand, but…

<There’s no time.>

She changed the settings to voice input and made it a voice message instead.

She thought about the purpose of this message she was about to create.

<nowiki><I</nowiki> need someone to read this just in case I don’t make it.>

She gulped at the objective meaning of what she had just said.

Her small hand hesitated before rising toward the hair fallen on her shoulder.

But she resisted the urge to toy with the hair and clenched her fists.

<nowiki><I</nowiki> need to make sure Senpai will believe it even if I forget everything.>

She moved her lips to put her thoughts to words. She didn’t make a noise, but the word mail program recorded her voice as data. She only spoke for a few seconds, but she smiled in satisfaction afterwards.

Then she set the message’s send settings.

She gave two conditions for sending: the receive time and the conditions for opening it.

<This message will be sent only if all the conditions are met.>

She checked the time displayed in the window.

<Just in case I don’t remember anything myself!>

For just a moment, she squeezed her eyes shut as if making a wish.

After opening them again, she ran the program.

She used the word mail window to make sure Suedomsa had not retaken control of the central communications tower. A letter icon popped up and rotated to the side to say the message was sent.

She breathed a sigh of relief.

She checked the opened stone wall door. She sensed someone out in the hallway. They were checking inside the room.

She searched her hips for something she could use as a weapon.

She found a plate containing a program.

She turned the dial on the plate to set the air conditioning program. By setting the temperature to maximum or minimum, she could either roast the enemy’s skin or lightly freeze them.

<nowiki><I</nowiki> won’t give up.>

She hid behind cover and kept her attention on the open stone wall.

<nowiki><I</nowiki> won’t give up!>

Just as she had that thought, someone tall entered the room.

She prepared to hit the plate’s button, but she stopped. She recognized this person.

<Algo?>

During her moment of surprise, he turned toward her. He had long blond hair and wore a white robe. A miniature woman sat on his left shoulder.

That was Alternative.

When both of them looked her way, she gasped and prepared to hit the button at her hip.

A word came to mind on reflex.

<Senpai!>

'''<Yuo’s Sight Mode has ended>