Hidan no Aria:Volume6 Chapter1
1st Ammo: Manhunt
A slender body design, with a great aesthetic design.
It is very light, and it far surpasses other sniper rifles.
Also, its durability and reliability are not bad, and it is one of the world-class sniper rifles.
"Wa, wait. Wait a moment."
SVD sniper rifle is entirely different than the sniper rifles which only have shooting as an advantage.
In a hostile environment it won’t receive damage, it can continuously shoot through the semi-automatic function, and also, on the peak, there’s a bayonet, and making it usable as a pike……it’s a ‘real combat type’ sniper rifle that is frightening.
“Why are you unhappy……Reki!”
That muzzle, for now, was pointing directly at me.
The one holding the rifle was the Snipe division’s genius, Reki.
She is someone who has the potential of a genius, the S-ranked butei in the same grade as me.
“——You and Aria, cannot be united.”
Without any tone in her voice, Reki replied the same way as she did previously.
Behind her, there was a bit of Tokyo’s chilly night view, with today’s night’s huge moonlight blooming of radiance.
I was stirred up by the sight of that scene with a feeling of uneasiness……
“United……is what?”
After she spoke those weird words, I was slightly blushing.
Just then, Aria and me——
After cleaning the Inquesta building, we were on this roof. Under the sunset. Just two of us.
Looking like this, maybe it looked like a scene of a pair of intimate man and woman who loves each other.
But, why did Reki, who seemed to have seen us two do that kind of thing, draw her gun!?
“Don’t……don’t say rubbish. The relationship between Aria and me isn’t that kind. It should be just the opposite, just then we were saying……that, from now on……we will be separated. Us two.”
“Were you talking about breaking up?”
“What, what do you mean by ‘breaking up’?”
“If it’s like this, then it is even better. Because Kinji-san, can be my husband without being bothered.”
That, that point.
Only that point.
The weirdest thing would be that point.
After chasing Aria away from here, Reki is now pointing her rifle at me……
(And actually, proposed to me!)
“Reki, you, why are you talking about ‘marriage’……!”
Also, from the beginning, I have the Hysteria Syndrome in my body. I must live far away from women.
That you, actually say ‘marriage’. What the heck is that!
“——If it’s like this, Kinji-san can become ‘Ulus’.”
“Ulus…...?”
“It means ’family member’” (T/L note: Ulus is in Mongolian.)
Family……family member?
I don’t understand. It becomes more and more complicated.
My desire to cry is rising more and more. “It’s not wrong, after marriage, the man and woman become family. ……But I already have my brother, it’s more than enough for me. If you want to have family members, you can go find someone you can consider as a parent instead.”
I said that, trying to evade it.
“ ‘The wind says, that it’s you’ ”
Reki, said that with her previous hard tone.
“ ‘The wind says, that it can only be you’ “
——That tone, seemed to have an inexplicably strong confidence.
Her pupils, which looked like lenses, were staring at me as if she wanted to pierce through me with that gaze.
It is really transparent, the sniper rifle’s scope.
(……What the heck is that……!)
This Reki, is different from the usual Reki.
This girl’s nickname is ‘Robot Reki’. She's clearly a no words, no emotions, no expressions girl. But the Reki now, is making me feel some inexplicable intensity, makes me conscious as a target.
——As if, she has received an order.
“Lis-listen to me. Reki.”
I wanted to move my body out of her shooting line, and stepped back a bit as if it was nothing.
"Your actions are far too contradictory. Since you want me to be part of the family, why are you pointing your gun at me? Put that down, and let's talk about this calmly. Alright?"
"Denied. Men and women should not talk to each other--"
And doing the opposite of my suggestion, Reki shifted the gun with the slightest movement possible, pointing it at me while saying:
"--but steal each other."
Men and women should steal each other.
So, that's how Reki views boy-girl relationships. Well, if one had to talk about whether it was right or not, one couldn't say that it's completely wrong.
But, you, isn't that a really wrong way of looking at things?
Performing a Tsukommi on Reki in my heart, in my line of sight...
*Whoosh*
A leaf-brown cloth rode the wind, fluttering down.
Fluttering precisely within my reach, it was the jacket that I had taken off earlier for the sake of cleaning.
I looked up at the direction that it had flown from--and there, standing on the air-conditioning unit precisely one level above the ground, a beast was looking down at me.
That jacket appeared to be something that it had carried in its mouth all the way from the Inquesta classroom.
(Haimaki...!)
That was the silver-white wolf that Reki was taking care of, Haimaki.
Not understanding why he would be holding my uniform...
I caught it, and a little agitated, I put my hands through its sleeves.
Butei High's uniform--The jacket and pants are made out of the bulletproof fiber, TNK.
It's useless against the armor-piercing rounds that Reki was holding earlier, but wearing it is a little reassuring.
After all, the bullets that are stored in that magazine may not all be pierce rounds.
"Kinji-san."
"...What?"
"I too, do not wish to immediately make Kinji-san marry me."
Naturally.
"As such--I think that I will give you 7 minutes grace."
Just 7!?
"From now on, I will attack you 7 times. If you are able to escape being hit for more than 1 minute, I will retract my proposal."
This is like...explaining the rules of a game.
A cold sweat breaking out, I looked down at my watch.
"You can run where-ever you like. But, I'll warn you first. My "Killing Range" is 2051 meters."
--Killing range.
The farthest range at which a hit is a certainty...The people in Snipe have different names for it, but Butei call it "Killing Range".
Which is to say, that is the distance at which snipers will definitely take out the enemy--
"In short, no matter where you run to inside this 2051m radius, my rifle will be able to hit you. Because, this rifle will never betray me--"
*Kch* Looking at Reki, who had straightened her gun again, at last...
I too, strengthened my resolve.
--I get it, I get it.
It looks like no matter what, you're not willing to talk with me, Reki.
Then, as you wish, I will play this game with you.
The normal me would definitely be unwilling to listen to these words.
I don't know when Reki figured out how to make me change...But the me as of now has entered Hysteria Mode, where I will listen to anything that girl's say, because...
Without heat or passion, but all the more stimulating because of it--Earlier, Reki's kiss.
"Then, please marry me before the 7th bullet."
But...Why "7"?
I didn't have enough time to even voice that question--
*Thud!*
"!?"
Leaping off the air-conditioning unit, The silver-wolf Haimaki flew over my head!
I saw that--probably something that Reki had made him wear--on his back, thick metal plating, just like armor, was protecting it. This is...I no longer have the chance to use the paralyzing bullet technique to graze his back, like I did to his brother.
"--Uu!"
I, standing at the edge of the Inquesta Building, where the emergency stairs were, was smashed into by Haimaki, pouncing through the air.
Colliding with me like that, I fell onto the rusty steps.
As if pulling out its prey's organs, Haimaki ripped my cellphone out of my pocket, and just as that happened--
*Chnk!*
--The Dragunov's gunshot!
(Armor-piercing bullet--!)
I was in Hysteria Mode, but the blood froze in my veins.
I thought I was hit...but there was no pain. I was not injured.
As I felt a wave of relief wash over me, *Gchhng!*
"!"
Lumped together like a Dango, Haimaki and I tumbled over together. We struck the handrail of the stairs, breaking it, sending us falling into thin-air.
*Don!*
Haimaki jumped off me, using me as a step, returning to the stairs.
Quickly deploying the cable in my belt, I, like the Spiderman in the movies, lowered myself down to the emergency stairs a few floors below.
"...?"
Feeling a strange sensation, I glanced towards my left wrist, and my bulletproof uniform--
One of the buttons on the cuff was missing.
I could understand from the tiny piece of broken metal that was left on the sleeve. Just before, Reki had shot it off. The button.
Reki...Hasn't changed. She's still as impressive as usual.
As I was rolling around with Haimaki, she managed to shoot such that she only hit the tiny button of my cuffs.
"But, why did she shoot that kind of thing...?)
As I frowned, by my ear, *Kccccchhhhh*--
As its paws tread upon the steel stairs, I heard the sound of its footsteps fast approaching.
Haimaki was rushing down the stairs.
I stretched out the Beretta in my hand...before I stopped.
Haimaki's bulletproof armor. That should be the tactical body armor that police dogs or Butei dogs wear.
