Editing The Unexplored Summon Blood Sign:Volume2 Chapter3 (section)

===Part 11===

The entire area had become a pile of rubble.

It had originally been a giant factory, but that had thoroughly crumbled into a pile over ten meters high.

The scene looked hopeless at first, but there was a surprising escape route.

The inside had not been entirely crushed, so it was now something like a vast labyrinth

“Dammit…”

Kyousuke cursed as he crawled out into the rain that had resumed pouring outside.

He held Librarian-chan’s limp form in his arms.

A few dozen firetrucks and ambulances were gathered out front. Their red lights were flashing all around. The pressure that should have kept them away was no longer functioning.

With Librarian-chan still in his arms, Kyousuke turned back toward the pile of rubble.

“How many people were buried alive in there…?”

<Eh heh heh. Did I come in handy?>

Even now, the White Queen was laughing.

She had already left his smartphone’s screen.

A life-size version of the White Queen stood next to Kyousuke as an image projected on the raindrops.

“The Rainy Screen, hm?”

He received a response from the directional speakers that were used to make the voice data sound like it was coming from the projected image.

The White Queen clasped her hands behind her back and moved her chin in needlessly close.

<Well, you can say it’s an alliance, but it’s really a master/servant relationship. And this was just a dull way of proving that. So on the way back to Toy Dream 35, you can take a look at every high-resolution nook and cranny of my youthful body.>

When she passed right through Kyousuke, the Queen puffed out her cheeks.

The bombs had been set up to destroy the massive factory’s most important structural points. But that meant the blast spreading within the factory was not evenly distributed and it was thus weaker in places.

Kyousuke and Librarian-chan had quickly hid in one of those “air pockets” to escape the danger.

But not even Kyousuke could make those calculations on such short notice.

Searching out all the bombs in that instant would have been impossible. Without help from the White Queen who had seen where the bombs were in advance, he would not have even had the necessary data for the calculations.

“Were you hoping I would thank you? After you just let this happen?”

<Then I will serve you to my utmost until you do thank me. How about this?>

The White Queen projected on the night rain spoke with the expression of a girl opening a homemade lunch in front of the boy she had a crush on.

To her, this may not have been much different.

<Their deathless world requires more than just disseminating a special substance through the air. That is the only the setup. It needs to treat every human on the planet like a summoner, but the general public isn’t aware of the summoning ceremony. So for the very final step, those expert summoners must ignite everything with a special ignition switch.>

“…”

If they could stop that ignition, they could prevent the world without death from being constructed.

“Rain and factory smoke, linking the people who bought the character goods with the factory’s activity, the End of the World, and the final ignition…”

Kyousuke muttered to himself and the White Queen waved her index finger in front of his face.

<Eh heh heh. Yes, I knew you wouldn’t need me to give you the answer after that hint, brother. Now, now. I’m looking forward to your valiant effort.>

The Queen’s image grew badly distorted with static. That continued for about ten seconds before returning to normal.

Kyousuke heard a wet sound like a child’s rain boots scraping against the wet asphalt.

He slowly turned around.

Since Librarian-chan was unconscious, he could face this ghost without seeing it through her emotional filter.

He found a small silhouette quite nearby. A broken umbrella hid the face of a girl in a bloody raincoat who was between ten and twelve. She was the Rainy Girl. She was Librarian-chan’s sister and was supposedly plotting to kill that girl who rejoiced at being able to live on her own.

This was not the same as the fake Rainy Screen.

This was a mistake that appeared in the world itself.

He could only see her lips and they were moving silently.

Librarian-chan had been terrified from beginning to end, but when he calmly observed her, he could read her lips.

This is what she was trying to say: ''Save my sister’s world.

When had this ghost realized the truth?

And to how many people had she tried to tell the truth?

She had not been appearing to kill Librarian-chan.

Even after death, she had been wandering the earth in order to protect her family.

<Eh heh heh. Did you let her go because you realized this from the beginning, brother?>

“I’m not that perfect. I just thought the Rainy Girl’s actions weren’t focused enough for me to accept what Librarian-chan said at face value. If I hadn’t heard this here, I might have taken Librarian-chan’s side and helped eliminate the ghost.”

At the very least, the summoner and vessel advocating a world without death had seen the Rainy Girl as a danger. They had gone as far as bugging Librarian-chan’s house or modifying the communications equipment nearby.

They had not directly killed Librarian-chan because the Rainy Girl had been fixated on her sister. It was a lot like the relationship between Kyousuke and the White Queen. If they got rid of Librarian-chan, they would no longer be able to predict the Rainy Girl’s actions. That was why they had left her alive.

Ghastly wide eyes peered out from the gaps in the torn umbrella.

It was true that ghost did not look normal.

Given how she had died, some might have screamed as soon as they saw her face.

But that was not the girl’s fault.

That did not explain why that girl would be malicious.

In the end, the Rainy Girl had only been focused on the nearby people she cared about. But no one had noticed and she had become the star of a ghost story.

<What are you going to do, brother?>

The White Queen seemed to be enjoying herself.

She asked despite knowing the answer.

And that was why the boy responded as if to confirm what she already knew.

He had been asked to save someone and Alice (with) Rabbit could only give one answer when he had heard those cursed words.

“My answer is of course, ‘as you wish’.”