Editing Mushi Uta:Volume 4th Episode 14 (section)

===Part 7===

The moment his fingertips grazed the railing, one thing passed through Daisuke's mind.

It was a doubt.

It wasn't about the mysteries surrounding Hanashiro Mari or about Ichinokuro Arisu reaching out even toward complete strangers.

''Why have I—''

He unconsciously grabbed the hand reaching for him from the other side.

''Been trying to save Arisu—''

Even Harukiyo had given up on her once. Kasuou had abandoned her while smiling. Daisuke himself had also thought the same as them.

But even though he saw Arisu fall to the sea, he couldn't give up.

And he couldn't understand the reason for that.

"Hmph."

The hand reaching from the other side of the railing grasped his arm.

It was Harukiyo.

It was a rescuing hand from an unexpected person.

Yet he understood when he locked eyes with the flame boy.

''Is he the same as me—''

It wasn't that he wanted to save Daisuke. He also didn't understand anything but he didn't like it. As if he was saying only Daisuke could solve this mystery.

Raising Daisuke lightly with one hand, Harukiyo pulled him to the deck.

Landing safely and then standing up, he instantly checked the condition of the collapsed girls.

"Urara! Urara!"

The younger sister clung to the older and cried.

Arisu was facing upwards, her chest slowly rising and falling. She'd probably lost her consciousness along with Urara from the impact of hitting the sea. She didn't seem to have swallowed much water.

Meanwhile, Kasuou was conscious but couldn't really move. She groaned and desperately tried standing.

"Haa…"

The exhausted Daisuke sat below the railing.

He ended it without anyone dying.

And this meant that basically—everything turned out like Arisu wanted.

But as expected he couldn't agree to it.

"I don't like this."

He heard an annoyed voice from overhead.

Although tired, his pride prevented Harukiyo from sitting. Still hanging to the railing, he glared at Arisu.

"She made me help people… what's up with her."

"I dunno. Kasuou and I are also bad at saving people."

"Also—Kakkou, you bastard."

Harukiyo's gaze passed from Arisu to Daisuke.

"What relationship do you have with Hanashiro Mari? She's said she wanted to meet you."

"I dunno about that either. What have ''you'' done alone with Arisu?"

The two boys argued while looking at the four girls.

Kirara was caring for the unconscious Urara. Later she would probably be taken by the SEPB and separated from her sister.

Yet the twin wiping her older sister's face looked much stronger than she had been in the warehouse. It was probably her first time saving her sister since they were born. How Kirara would live from now on depended on her.

A Mushitsuki who until now never saved people before rushed out to do so and even managed to save the captured twins.

The rain wetting the person responsible for this ceased.

A boat with lights approached the ship. A voice claiming to be the authorities resounded through its speakers. They'd probably seen Harukiyo's ability from afar and thought there was an explosion.

Nearly all of the battle personnel on the ship have been rendered powerless by Daisuke and the rest. If there was an investigation, the sponsors of the auction party would all be arrested without being able to resist.

Both Harukiyo and Daisuke naturally ended up looking at Arisu.

The more they investigated the mysteries surrounding Hanashiro Mari, the more mysteries they found.

Ichinokuro Arisu.

The two boys were toyed with by her late best friend, but this girl was confusing them as well—

"Shit… I don't get it at all. I didn't even have a chance to enjoy myself."

"I didn't have that in the first place."

Above the heads of the two bickering boys who forgot they were enemies, a small fissure was born in the dark clouds.

The first rays of moonlight appeared from the night sky.

The blinding light covered Ichinokuro Arisu.

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