“Ku…Kurumi!?”
He called the girls name with a screechy voice.
Yes. The girl that entered Shidou’s view was the Spirit-Tokisaki Kurumi, who sent Shidou back 5 years ago.
It seems that Kurumi was giving a lap pillow before Shidou noticed.
“Ufufu, nice to meet you, Shidou-san. Your sleeping face was cute”
“…………!”
It was really embarrassing so, Shidou jumped off Kurumi’s lap.
“Oh my, oh my”
Kurumi giggled because Shidou’s reaction was funny to her, before standing up with elegant movements.
Kurumi’s outfit was not the usual red-black Astral Dress that he was used to seeing. It was the Raizen high school uniform that Shidou saw when he first met Kurumi. Her long bangs were covering her left eye which was carved with the number of the clock.
“Kurumi, you…………”
Shidou’s body got nervous at that moment.
Now that Shidou thinks about, there might be a chance that the Kurumi existing in this world might not have the same memories as the Kurumi Shidou knew. Shidou was forced to know that today. It was a normal procedure to be cautious around the worst Spirit-Kurumi.
But, after Kurumi widen her eyes, she placed her hand on her mouth and laughed.
“It’s okay, you don’t have to be that cautious, Shido-san. If I wanted to [Eat] Shidou-san then, I would have done so when you were sleeping defenselessly”
“Uu………….”
It’s just as Kurumi says. Sweat flow down Shidou’s cheeks.
But, she’s not someone to be relaxed around with. Even though Shidou agreed with Kurumi’s words, he kept a watchful eye at her behavior without lowering his guard.
“Oh my. How distrustful.-------we are comrades that changed the world after all”
After saying that, Kurumi shrug her shoulders jokingly.
Shidou widen his eyes when he heard those words.
“………….! Kurumi, you-----“
“Yes, I remember. I know of the previous world.----and Origami-san too”
“…………..!”
Shidou felt goosebumps when Kurumi said that name.
That’s obvious. Other than himself, she was the first person in this world he met that knows of Origami. It’s like a traveler who was thrown in the desert finding a guide. Shidou halted his clingy emotions to Kurumi and opened his mouth.
“Kurumi, listen to this. There is something wrong with this world. Origami-----“
“-----She became a Spirit, right”
Kurumi said it as if to cover Shidou’s words. Shidou widen his eyes in shock.
“…………, You knew?”
“Yes. I found out just now though”
“I see…………”
Shidou slightly looked downwards before he continued.
“Just……….what is going on? Did something happen to Origami?”
“Even I am not sure what it is. Hooweveeer-----“
After saying that, Kurumi made a spin.
“If it’s the Origami-san now then……it’s not like there is no way to find out”
“Re-really?”
“Yes”
After Kurumi smiled, she used her heel and stepped onto the roof. When she did that; the shadow lurking under Kurumi’s foot covered her body and formed the red-black dress.
Astral Dress. The castle and armor protecting the Spirits. Shidou glared at her cautiously when Kurumi suddenly manifested that.
“Ufufu, please don’t look so scary”
Kurumi said that while holding up her right hand. A long pistol jumped out from the shadow when she did that before settling down in her hands.
Kurumi licked her lips and continued.
“If I use this [Yud] and shoot Origami-san then I can find out just what life she has been going through in this world. Well of course, I can’t take everything in but, if I focus on the point on how she become a Spirit then, I think I can gain the information you wish for”
“[Yud]………..i get it!”
Shidou widen his eyes. [Yud]. If he was correct, that bullet will give Kurumi the target’s past memories. If she uses that, she will probably be able to gain the knowledge on what happened to Origami.
“But………if that’s the case then, you could have just used [Yud] on the Inverse Origami of the previous world to find the cause right?”
When Shidou asked her without any particular reason, Kurumi shrugged her shoulders exaggeratedly.
“Well-----That will happen according to theory. This only happens if I managed to get close to that Origami-san and shoot her with [Yud]”
“Uu…………….”
Shidou’s cheeks twitched. It’s true that, she don’t have such a time for such a leisure activity, if she was dealing with the Inversed Origami.
“A-anyway, we will be able to find the cause for Origami inversing in this world if we have that right? I am counting on you, Kurumi. Lend me your power”
“Ufufu, what should I do”
Kurumi placed her gun mouth at her lips as if she was enjoying this.
After school. Origami, who was on her way back alone, came back to Raizen high school.
There was one reason. When she was going back home, she noticed the hair ornament she usually wear, was missing.
It’s didn’t really hurt for losing one small pin but-----it’s a different story if it’s the one bought by her late mother.
Nonetheless, it’s not like she knew clearly where she dropped it. In the end, Origami followed back the path she walked and after looking through the, entrance, corridor and classroom, she reached the stairs leading to the roof where she spoke with Itsuka Shidou during the afternoon.
“Ah----found it”
After Origami lean down, she then picked up the pin dropped on the floor.
It looks like she dropped it when she was talking to Shidou. It probably happened when she grabbed his hands excitedly when she found out that he was brothers with the boy of that time.
“I have to be careful………..”
While mumbling that, Origami simply cleaned the pin with her fingers before wearing it on her hair.
And at that moment.
“Eh………..?”
Origami saw 2 people on the roof through the glass.
One was her classmate, Itsuka Shidou.
And the other person------was the Spirit- wearing her red-black Astral Dress.
“Ah-------“
The moment she recognized that,
Origami’s consciousness got shut down as if there was a power outage.