Editing The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village:Bonus4 (section)

===Part 2===

It was like a meteor strike.

With an explosive sound, a nearby police car was crushed before violently exploding. The same happened to a JSDF truck soon thereafter. The JSDF official quickly tried to retreat, but she was knocked out by the blast.

But what in the world was happening?

I looked up into the sky as Hishigami Ama twisted my arm and something blotted out the sun.

There were a few objects in the blue sky.

They were…

“What!? Concrete!?”

“Didn’t you know? A tornado can throw building materials with lengths of a few thousand meters right up into the air. And of course, what goes up must come down. With plenty of help from gravitational acceleration, a single pachinko ball can be deadly. So get down.”

More and more heavy sounds rang out.

Each time, I felt a squeeze at my heart.

I could see something like a muddy gray pillar moving between the buildings in the distant sky. ''Don’t tell me that’s a tornado?

“The legend of a Tengu’s fan was probably used to artificially create a tornado. I’m guessing this was Shitsu’s doing. She says she destroys education, but she uses the legend of Ushiwakamaru.”

It was all too fragile.

Both the police and the JSDF had been using the vehicles as shields. So now that those shields were being crushed one after another, there was nothing they could do. Unable to maintain any form of leadership, they could only scatter in every direction.

“I always tell her not to do that since it isn’t all that accurate. …Now, detective, what will you do?”

“What…?”

“A few other Hishigami Women are after me. Your poor colleagues will be in danger if I don’t leave here. You don’t want to let me go, but that just means you have to go with me.”

“…”

“And more importantly, wasn’t your job here to protect that ambassador from wherever? Based on your behavior, you’re not part of the bodyguard division, but that doesn’t mean you want to abandon your duty, does it?”

''Dammit.

I had no choice. Sotobori was still in a daze, I had no idea where the ambassador had ended up, and she had me in an armlock.

“Fine. Let’s go with that.”

“I will praise you for the quick decision, Detective Uchimaku. But you need to pay closer attention.”

“Ah! That’s my police badge!”

The white witch let go of my arm and tossed me my badge and gun.

I was shocked.

I had assumed she would keep the gun for herself.

“Are you sure?”

“You can’t kill me with that. You can’t use it to kill the other Hishigami Women either.”

Ama’s white head shook.

A moment later, I heard an incredible explosion and a fist-sized hole appeared in the police car door.

“What…is it now!? Sniper fire!? Is it the JSDF!?”

“The sound didn’t clue you in? They wouldn’t use an antique like the 1941. One of the others is here already. More importantly, you need to run. Follow me. Unless you plan to take on an anti-tank rifle with that revolver.”

Everything about this was a complete mess.

The tornado was still going strong and now a large sniper rifle was firing at us. We were being pursued by two different assassins.

I could only run through the chaos while making sure I didn’t lose sight of Hishigami Ama’s back. She had iron balls attached to her ankles, but I couldn’t catch up. My legs nearly froze up from the occasional sounds of destruction pursuing us, but stopping was not going to improve the situation. A police car wouldn’t block a bullet like that. It would blow a hole in both the car and me.

“Hah hah! Can you believe this, Detective Uchimaku!? We’re being shot at with a gigantic rifle that blew holes in tanks seventy years ago! Can’t you feel the history!?”

“Shut up, you freak! What the hell is that!?”

“Yuu who Destroys Systems. As you can see, she’s a brawny combat type that’s obsessed with weird old Soviet weapons. Shitsu does some more general damage and Yuu finishes us off. That’s their impudent idea of teamwork.”

The dark smoke from the exploding vehicles may have worked in our favor.

We left the destroyed vehicles and arrived at a police car that was somehow still in a workable state.

I grabbed the driver’s side door, but only received a solid sensation. ''Oh, damn. They actually bothered to lock it!

I slammed my elbow into the window, but it didn’t even crack.

“It’s bulletproof!? Curse the parade specifications. My elbow’s tingling!!”

“We don’t have time to mess around. Yuu will shoot us. So excuse me a moment.”

She had said I needed to pay closer attention.

Even so, I couldn’t help but stare in shock when she smoothly removed my tie.

What happened next was an even greater shock.

She stabbed with it.

Ama swung the tie and stabbed it into the gap next to the car door. Then she pulled it straight down and I heard the internal latch breaking.

''You’re kidding, right?

''She smashed it…like with an axe?

The white witch then popped open the door.

“You can have this back. What’s that curious look for? A single hair is enough to kill a tiger, right? And a tie is far better than a hair.”

“No, wait. How much of an expert are-…!?”

“We can talk later. Or do you want to get hit by that 1941? C’mon, get in, get in!”

Before I could say anything more, she kicked me into the driver’s seat. Then she climbed in.

And sat right on my lap.

“Are you just messing with me!?”

“I don’t have time to circle around to the passenger seat. We need to drive off like this.”

“Traffic laws!”

“I don’t recall any laws against driving while sitting in a man’s lap.”

''I don’t even care anymore…

When I just about stopped caring what happened, Ama used her bare hand to smash the ignition below the steering wheel.

“This should be fun. I’ve always wanted to hold a steering wheel.”

“I care again! You mean you don’t even have a license!?”

But if we stuck around for too long, we would be hit by that Hishigami Yuu person’s 1941.

We really did end up driving off in a bizarre Nininbaori style.

…''Driving on public roads like this has got to be a yellow light for my life as a detective.

“Okay, let me introduce myself, Favorite-kun. I’m Ama, Hishigami Ama. I’m 18, I’m female, and I have no education history. I’ve never been to a school. Yeah, that goes against my duty as a citizen. People call me ‘Ama who Destroys Hope’. Whether you’re an individual or a group, bring it on. Nice to meet you.”

“You keep changing what you call me, but I’m Uchimaku Hayabusa. And that introduction doesn’t explain anything! What is going on!?”