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 firstyears, so I shopped around for civilian's quests in the Inquesta's PC room topass 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' paymentto Hiragai-san.

And having that in mind I searched for some job...but there aren'tany good ones. The only quests that have a high payment are all jobs that aredangerous.

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 Istill 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. That itself is not something rare in Butei High School, but theblood marks were trailingtowards the direction of my room.

Becoming a little worried, I quickly rushedto the door—

“……!”

The silver wolf Haimaki was crouching in front of thedoor.

“What happened……!”

Haimaki was hurt badly. His silver hair was saturatedwith blood.

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

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

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

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

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

At the bottom of the screen it asked “Do you want tosave 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 pile upeasily……!

As I looked at that picture, appalled—

--pipipippipipipipipi—

The ringtone rung, from Reki’s cellphone.

On the screen, it showed “Unknown number TV callIncoming”

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 facewas is shown on the cellphone screen.

A face with, something like war makeup face painting

(……this guy…….!)

I remember seeing him.

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

He was the one that told everyone to bring someonestrong 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 thathad 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.