...
After 5 minutes of running, we found the place, near the one i was almost ambushed yesterday.
With footsteps that coudn´t be heard or felt, Reki walked behind me.
After entering a corner, i saw her.
I walked slowly towards her.
But...
She wasn´t moving at all.
Because i´m in HSS, i went to where she was without caring about the surroundings, Reki is here too, so no problem.
"Maria."
...
When i came closed to her, i noticed...
Oh no.
Hey, hey, your breathing is bad, say something, that fall, i know it was not enough to make you like this.
"T- Tohyama-kun..." Her words were said with a tiny voice, but then...
*Cough**Cough**Cough*
Blood came out from her mouth...
This is serious, this is bad.
Even if she is my enemy, she is a girl.
"HEY MARIA!" Shit
Where is the injury?
Damn it, damn it.
I started to analyze her body.
"Tohyama-kun."
"I will save you, so save your pretty voice for later Maria."
"T- the day i p- passed with you today, w- was great." This is bad, she is getting weaker.
"And we can do it again, just don´t die."
I continued to analyze until i found the reason why she was like this.
Found it, a bullet was near her chest.
Mmmm this type of bullet.
No no, save that for later Kinji, right now what matters is Maria´s life.
With that in mind, i took out my butterfly knife to extract the bullet.
"Maria this will hurt a little but, be strong."
The she placed her cold hand on mine...
"This day w- was so great, i even s- shared a k-kiss with you, from t- the bottom of my heart i thank yo, it hurts." I pulled the bullet.
"As i´ve said it before, save that for later."
"Thank you, also i´m so s- s- sorry Toyhama-kun, nee-sa..."
Her face was now facing looking at the ground...
"HEY! SHIT!" I tried to do everything i could but...
Maria was dead.
No way, this me in HSS main reason is to protect girls, yet...
Unwillingly i looked at the bullet that killed her and...
This can´t be...
This bullet is a 7.62x54mm, the only person i know that is here who use that type of bullet is...
"Reki" I showed her the bullet, waiting for an answer.
But with her normal expression she said:
"I didn´t kill her."
Why are you lying, i mean, the bullet is yours, also you didn´t negate that!
"Reki..." I looked at her, waiting for the true but...
"It was not me." Still wearing the same expression she said that.
A dead person is in front of you, how can you remain like this?
HSS purpose is to protect girls, so if one dies in front of me, of course i´ll be this angry, even the normal me would be like this, probably, but i guess that´s Reki for you, the face she is doing right now is her normal one, like this had nothing to do with her, but her bullet was reason why Maria died, damn it!
I sharpened my eyes while looking at her.
"Reki, i won´t be mad so why was your Dragunov´s bullet in her?"
"My shot was the same as that one i used before to stabilize Haimaki, she fall down because of that, regarding her dead, i´ve no idea how she died or how that bullet was inside her chest."
Reki is still wearing her normal expressionless face, this time she sharped a little.
"I didn´t kill Maria." Reki said it...
"Reki, listen..."
"When she felt she couldn´t move, i know my bullet didn´t do that injury, Kinji-san told me not to kill after all."
...
Reki smiled, she can´t read the mood, i´m angry you know.
I remembered Reki´s words when we first me Maria, "if you lay a finger on Kinji-san, i will put a hole on you"...
Me in Hysteria mode was only thinking about the dead of Maria and those words.
If it was Aria, Riko or even Shirayuki, they would make an expression based on their doings, but Reki isn´t doing nothing at all, just like she really did it.
I can´t think of anything else, although i´ve started to understand her, this can´t be helped.
And when i came back to reality i was holding Reki´s arms tightly.
And the words came out from my mouth without warning me about it.
"Reki, i can´t tell if you´re lying or not..."
What am i saying...
"..." Reki was looking at me, now with her eyes closed a little bit, what does that mean, it´s not the same eyes that i saw when i was forced to team up with you...
"Reki, if it wasn´t you then who was it and how?"
"Ah, all i did was, let´s call it Matrealization, for example, i can reconstruct the way bullets were before, but that bullet is mine."
"Ehh..." Because of this, i lost focus of my surroundings, now i was looking at a girl behind me that appeared out of nowhere.
"In other words, i..."
I can´t move, what happened?
"have unlimited bullets." The next moment i was on the ground, watching Reki´s face at the same time i was falling down.
Then i looked at the one who attacked me, and...
It was that girl with messy hair from before, the one who Maria "saved me" from.
"Don´t move!" She said that to Reki while pointing a knife to my throat.
Ah, how, the HSS is fading away...
"Fuahhh, and here i was hiding in the shadows and thinking how i could ambush you two, but you guys did all the job, i mean here i thought that your sniper didn´t have human emotions..." She said it with a cheerful voice.
Then she continued...
"If you wonder how i got behind you, you have the reason there."
What do you mean with that.
"Also don´t worry about that Maria, she was sentenced to death after all, you see in my organization, we have a lot like her, sentenced to death, so they can do those missions without worrying about dying."
Organization?
"The world is too wide, Tohyama."
"You´ve science, physics, well you can call say that, that is my organization high point and what it lives for."
"W- what are you saying?" Shit, still can´t move, how she did that.
"If you are wondering why you can´t move, she will tell you, go ahead."
She said it to Reki.
Reki...
"Kinji-san got stabbed with a niddle, a paralyzing niddle." She said it with her normal expression...
No that´s not it, she seems worried, no, i can tell, she is.
"Ahhahh, that´s Reki for you, neh, Tohyama, haven´t you told me this, "If you wonder for one second on the battlefield, that can be your end", right?"
This bad, i´m getting dizzy.
"W- who are you?"
"Me, i´m the one that will take the HSS from you."
If i was getting dizzy, what she did next took out all the dizziness from me.
-KISS-
"mmm"
Two kisses in one day, what a luck...
Something is off, right now my bloodflow should rise again, even if it´s a little but, nothing is happening...
"Well you may be thankful to me someday i think, ..., ahhahh, i can´t resist you after all..."
"W- wai..."
Then she leaned and kissed me again.
My energy is getting away slowly, what is happening to me?
Then she took out her lips from mine and said.
"You see Tohyama, even in all these years, i don´t know my ability true well, but i know i can do this."
"W- what?" I´m sleepy, this is bad, Reki...
And only now, i understood something.
The Hysteria me is gone, right now, i´m just myself.
Then the world arround myself stopped for seconds.
...
This means i´m going to die? Perhaps that kiss was the so called Kiss of Death?
But i´m not cold or anything, what´s this then.
Maybe this is the after effect of that kiss, i don´t know.
Also...
Reki.
I´ve a bad feeling about what´s going to happen.
Must tell her..
To run...
And with that in mind, i started to move a little bit.
But the next moment, Reki pointed her Dragunov to her, Reki really wants to kill her.
I blinked my eyes and next...
She hold Reki´s hand that was holding the gun, in a way that now she was pointing her gun at the sky.
S- shit...
So fast, like me in HSS.
"..."
And then.
*Pahh*
She pushed Reki to the ground, then she put her hand on Reki´s throat.
Shit, Reki...
I grab my butterfly knife in an attempt to help but, i lacked energy, i threw the knife at her but, it rolled next to where Reki was, damn it.
"Ahh, i can feel the power, this is amazing, so this is the so called Hysteria mode."
So that´s what happened, she copied the HSS.
No, that´s not it, i think she stole it, that explains why i can´t go into Hysteria argonizante.
Then i remembered what Reki said it to me when she force me to team up with her.
If i really wanted at that time i could had defeated Reki.
But that doesn´t matter right now.
I confirmed what i knew she would say
"Y- you stole my Hysteria mode?"
Still on top of Reki with her hands on Reki´s throat she said it.
"As far as i know yes, Tohyama, it has something to do with your brain, cells, blood, blood vessels, and other elements, i also don´t know that, but i know it can do this."
...
"After all i stole your HSS from you."
See.
"W- who are you, and why do you want the HSS?"
"The HSS is too powerful, if you use it right, it can move mountains."
She used a expression of speak, in other if the HSS was used in the right way, you can do some impossible things.
I know that.
"My name is Maria."
"Eh?" What are you implying, are you saying she is not...
"That was not Maria, she didn´t had a name, her ancestor was also a criminal, so she died like him, although she was my friend."
I remembered when Maria, the fake one, if, of course her confession was true, said Onee-san before dying.
...
This sound...
I can hear the police.
"Well the police is coming, so i must finish things here, i will make it like a death battle, after all that´s what a Butei is all about right?"
Then she began to strangle Reki.
"S- STOP IT!" With the forces i had, i cried it out to her but...
"Sorry but you know too much, mmm, you´re amazing, even like this you don´t move an inch, don´t blink, i can´t read you at all, although i successfully ambushed you because you lost focus."
Shit, move it damn it, move it.
Damn it!
Reki is going to die if i don´t do something.
"Tohyama, don´t worry about Reki, after all..."
Then the sounds from the environment stopped.
"You´re going to die too."
She stole the HSS from me, Reki can´t move, i can´t move, my cellphone was destroyed so i can´t call Aria or the other. this sucks...
And now she is showing such a murderous intent.
No, that´s Reki.
"Ehh, you can do that face if Tohyama is involved, hmmm, as a sniper too i can tell, the one you hold dear is going to die, although before it was hard to read you, now is different."
As a sniper too she said it...
"At least i will give you guys my full name, take it as a parting gift."
Then she introduced herself.
"My name is Maria Pavlichenko, i´ve roots with Lyudmila Pavlichenko."
"So that´s your true self."
Reki spoke, with her normal voice, even while being strangled.
"You can talk normally too but..."
"I analyzed you for 3 minutes and 20 seconds."
"And?" Maria´s voice is becoming agitated.
"Even if Maria is in HSS mode, you can´t control it too well right now."
Then Reki moved and at the same time, so did Maria and...
*slash*
"Damn you!"
Blood was splitted into the air.
"Reki!" Even if my body was this weak, i cried it out as if my body was not like this.
But the next moment Maria fall down from Reki and begun to press her left eye.
"What happened...?"
I´m getting dizzy again, is this what Maria talked about, those unknown effect.
But i could see it clearly, in Reki´s hand was my knife that i tried to use to help her earlier, now covered in blood.
Then Reki came to where i was.
"Reki..."
I´m losing focus, and i´m getting sleepy too, t- this is bad...
My conscious is fading away...
Don´t, Reki is still here...
"MY EYE! SHIT, MY EYE!"
Reki slashed Maria left eye with my knife.
"I can´t see from this eyes, i can´t, can´t..." Still pressing her eye with her hands full of her own blood Maria was spacing out.
With the force i had in my body, i looked at Reki´s beautiful face.
"Reki run" is what i wanted to say but the words were not coming out, instead Reki, she...
Put her hand on my hair and smiled at me.
"Reki..." I´m about to lose concious, the voice right now was just a murmur.
"Don´t worry Kinji-san, i will always protect you."
I remembered what Reki said to me earlier when the me in Hysteria mode was questioning her about the other Maria´s death, Reki said: "Kinji-san said not to kill", and smiled.
Now that i´m like this, i wonder what would had happen if it was another girl...
If it was Aria back then, she would probably throw a tantrum at me, Shirayuki would be crying, i think, Riko would be making an angry face probably, Kaname, Watson or Jeanne would be making a face of surprise, but i don´t know that at all.
But one thing i know for sure, Reki smiled at me, even after all the things i said to her back then, she smiled.
Ahhhhh, so warm.
If someone would die right now, seeing that smile would make him/her die happily.
Reki, in spite of all of what me in HSS mode told you, yet you didn´t get angry at me.
No, now that i´m this calm thanks to Reki, i remembered that expression from before, the reason why Maria ambush was successful, Reki was a little angry because i was not trusting her words.
So that was her expression when she´s angry...
Although i´ve already seen her like this but don´t know why, this was new.
Right now my only thought was: "It was cute."
And with that in mind, i lost my conscious while Reki gently carresed my hair with a beautiful smile that was warming up my heart.
The only regret i had was not saying sorry to her, even if it was the me in HSS mode.
Reki...
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Writer´s note: A special thanks to Fire lord 626 for helping me editing this chapter.
