Hidan no Aria:Volume9 Epilogue

October 31st in the middle of night, after submitting theschool-transfer form to the Masters unscathed...the next day was Sunday.

The cleaning up of the Cultural Festival is left to the first years, so I shopped around for civilian's quests in the Inquesta's PC room to pass the time.

The problem of the hour is that I must solve my own financial problems. I must quickly do something for the left hand's 'Orochi' payment to Hiragai-san.

And having that in mind I searched for some job...but there aren't any good ones. The only quests that have a high payment are all jobs that are dangerous.

There was one job, just being a bodyguard...but that is also no good. It is for being the bodyguard of a princess from some big company. I can't have any more encounters with princesses. And so on, as I was picky with the quests it is now evening, and I still haven't found any jobs.

In the condition of not speaking to anyone for about a day, atnight, at Master's quest board I finally got the job I was searching for.

While looking at the printed paper in my hand, I returned to theboys' dorms―

"......?"

There was a trail of blood down the corridor. The blood itself is not something rare in Butei High School, but the blood marks were trailing towards the direction of my room.

Becoming a little worried, I quickly rushed to the door—

“……!”

The silver wolf Haimaki was crouching in front of the door.

“What happened……!”

Haimaki was hurt badly. His silver hair was saturated with blood.

To the panicking me, while trembling, Haimaki handed me the cellphone he was holding in his mouth.

That eyes were as if he had just handed something important to someone he really trusted.

If you look at the cellphone—it was Reki’s. The light green water-proof cellphone was wet with blood.

Although it was someone else’s cellphone, because ofthe situation, I opened it— “……!”

I couldn’t understand at first what I was seeing. It seemed like that the last thing the cellphone did was take a photo.

At the bottom of the screen it asked “Do you want to save it?”—

The picture showed—

(Wha….what, is this……!)

Silver and Black, Government.

The Japanese sword—Irokane Ayame.

The silver Remington Double Derringer

And—Dragunov sniper rifle.

Aria, Shirayuki, Riko, and Reki’s weapons are piled up easily……!

As I looked at that picture, appalled—

--pipipippipipipipipi—

The ringtone rung, from Reki’s cellphone.

On the screen, it showed “Unknown number TV call Incoming”

I pressed the call with trembling finger—

“You finally picked up, you’re so slow”

I heard a low voice, and for a second, a male’s face was is shown on the cellphone screen.

A face with covered with war face painting from some tribe.

(……this guy…….!)

I remember seeing him.

He is the guy from last month, present at the Bandire on the Empty Island—G-Ⅲ.

He was the one that told everyone to bring someone strong over…the one that seemed to like fighting the most.

--TV cellphone's image shook.

“H…Hey!”

“Fourth, look. This is Tohyama Kinji.”

G-Ⅲ’s voice was heard from outside the image, and in place was a person that had been handed the cellphone.

“……?”

The face—

I catch my breath.

She was a beautiful girl with sharp eyes. Her age is alittle younger than mine. She is wearing a red-sunglass-like Head Up Display,so behind each ears she wore something that looked like a sensor.