“Huh? You want something?”
“I’m asking if you have a wish you want the devil to grant. Otherwise, you wouldn’t try to contact a devil, would you?”
While Baka was confused, Kaito looked like he was thinking, “Could it be that you don’t even understand that!?” So Baka tried his best to think.
…But.
“Eeeh… a wish? Eeeh…”
Baka thought. He thought and thought. He thought and thought… but he couldn’t think of a single ‘wish’!
“I wonder… eeeh? Hmm?”
“…If you don’t want to say it, you don’t have to force yourself.”
“No, it’s not that I don’t want to say it. It’s just that when you say ‘wish,’ there are so many things… hmm?”
“Did you perhaps summon a devil because you had a bunch of petty wishes…? No, knowing you, it’s possible you just ‘got lost and ended up here’…”
Kaito seemed exasperated, but Baka was serious. He was seriously, just being a Baka!
“No! I was on my way to work! I filled out my business trip form… my senior asked me to buy souvenirs… and then before I knew it, I was trapped… ugh…”
And as Baka remembered, he became dejected!
“I wonder if my senior is okay, I hope they won’t be mad if I don’t bring back souvenirs…”
“…If it’s a company where you can work, they probably won’t be mad, right?”
“Yeah, that’s right… Everyone at work is so nice… hehehe.”
But Kaito encouraged him, and he regained his energy. Meanwhile, Kaito looked like he was thinking, “What is even going on anymore?”
“Yeah… I really want to be useful to my seniors.”
Encouraged, Baka remembered a positive hope. It was like a light that always shone in his heart when he worked.
“I’ll learn my job quickly and repay my seniors, the foreman, the president, the president’s wife… everyone!”
“He’s… such a wholesome guy…”
Kaito still looked like he was thinking, “What is even going on anymore?” He also looked slightly dazzled.
“Yeah! I want to be useful to everyone! I hope everyone can be happy!”
Baka said with a bright, full smile.
“…You don’t have a shred of ambition.”
“Ambition? …Oh! Also, I’d be happy if Cutie Lovely Angel Construction became a more famous and bigger company!”
“W-wait! What!? What did you say!? What!? Cutie Lovely…!?”
“Cutie Lovely Angel Construction! It’s my company!”
“I don’t understand anything anymore!”
Baka had come to a conclusion and felt refreshed, but Kaito was getting even more confused. Why was that? Was there something about Cutie Lovely Angel Construction? Baka wondered. Ah, Cutie Lovely Angel Construction. Oh, Cutie Lovely Angel Construction…
…And then, after they had some more trivial conversations.
“Ah, time’s up!”
“It seems so.”
Seeing the open door, Baka and Kaito stood up.
“Hey, hey, I’m going to tell everyone that I became friends with Kaito!”
“Haaah!? W-what are you…!?”
And when Baka declared with a full smile, Kaito looked bewildered.
“…You should stop that. I made a mistake from the start. There’s no need for you to join the side that’s being antagonized.”
Kaito said with a bitter expression, looking down, and then he looked at Baka with a sarcastic smile…
But!
“Ah! Tama! I became friends with Kaito!”
By the time Kaito looked at Baka, Baka had already gone out the door, and was waving his hand while shouting loudly to Tama and the others who had just come out of the door!
Not listening to people when it matters is Baka Kabashima Tsuyoshi’s specialty!
And so.
“I see. That’s good, Kabashima-kun.”
“Yeah! It’s great!”
“By the way, what’s that you’re carrying?”
“Huh!? It’s the big coin from the room earlier! I’m going to make it a souvenir!”
Baka had been telling Tama about the Room of the Scales. Every time he said, “Kaito is really smart!” Kaito’s ears would turn red, and he would sigh, “Good grief,” but Baka didn’t care at all and continued to praise Kaito.
“I see… I wonder how many kilograms that coin weighs.”
“It’s definitely not a weight that a human can lift, that thing…”
As Baka praised Kaito and talked about the Room of the Scales, Tsuchiya and Venus, and then Mina from behind, arrived. Seeing them, Baka and Kaito tilted their heads.
“Huh? Old man Tsuchiya was with the girls too?”
Tsuchiya was supposed to stay in the Great Hall. Baka tilted his head, thinking, “I didn’t remember wrong, did I…?”
“Ah, that’s right.”
Tsuchiya chuckled and sat down on a chair in the Great Hall with a sigh.
“After you went into the room carrying Kaito-kun, we had a little discussion. The three women declared that their Unique Abilities were ‘unsuitable for game攻略,’ so I decided to go with them. I left Yo, Hibana, and Amagi-san to watch the door of the Great Hall.”
“I see. I don’t really understand, but I’m glad it worked out!”
For now, judging by the faces of everyone there, it seemed like things had worked out well. Baka smiled happily.
…But.
“…Huh? Mina, are you okay?”
“Eh?”
Baka noticed Mina. Mina looked somewhat gloomy.
“Ah, no, I’m fine. Please don’t worry about it.”
“Really? Okay, then I won’t worry!”
If Mina didn’t want him to worry, then he wouldn’t worry. That’s what Baka decided, but he was still a little concerned about Mina’s condition.
…Did something happen with the three girls and Tsuchiya?
But there was something else that bothered him more.
“By the way, where are the other three?”
Tsuchiya looked around. Baka also looked around, but he couldn’t see Amagi, Yo, or Hibana. According to Tsuchiya, the three of them were supposed to stay in the Great Hall.
“…Could it be that they went into one of the rooms?”
As Tama tilted her head, thinking that…
“Someone! Someone, please come here!”
Yo’s panicked voice came from above the atrium.
Hearing Yo’s voice, Tama was the first to run. Following her, Tsuchiya, Venus, and Mina also moved.
“Let’s go too!”
Baka invited Kaito and tried to go up the stairs. Since Yo was calling, something must have happened. They had to go right away!
“Y-yeah…”
…But Kaito was strangely lacking in energy.
“Huh? What’s wrong?”
Baka wondered and tilted his head, but Kaito looked down with a pale face.
“…Don’t you feel anything? What we’re about to see is probably…”
…It was at that moment.
Screams that sounded like Venus and Mina’s could be heard.
As Baka was startled, Kaito, with a very grim face, said,
“…This is what it is.”
With the thought of, “What is it!?” in his heart, Baka rushed up the stairs.
“…They’re dead.”
What Baka saw was the corpses of Amagi and Hibana, sitting motionless in their chairs.
While Baka was shocked, Mina moved.
Mina immediately rushed to Amagi, knelt beside her, and used her Unique Ability.
A pale blue light spilled from Mina’s hand and poured into Amagi. …But Amagi did not wake up.
“N-no way…”
“M-Mina-san? What was that just now…?”
As Mina was speechless, Yo gently asked Mina. Yes. This was the first time everyone had seen Mina’s Unique Ability.
“It’s my Unique Ability. I can heal wounds, but…”
But Mina’s expression was just dark.
“…It seems I was too late.”
Hearing Mina say that blankly, everyone fell silent.
“T-then, shouldn’t we try it on Hibana too!?”
“…I’m sorry. I can only use this Unique Ability once between bells…”
“Eh…”
Since she had used her Unique Ability on Amagi, she couldn’t use it on Hibana.
In other words… there was no way to save these two anymore.
Hibana and Amagi were laid to rest on beds they found among the junk.
Everyone was gloomy. Baka was also feeling down and completely dejected.
…This time, he wanted everyone to leave here alive. That’s what he had been thinking. But… Amagi and Hibana had died. Baka confirmed that again and became even more dejected.
How did this happen? Amagi and Hibana were supposed to be in the Great Hall.
Baka felt like the thoughts swirling in his head were melting away, and he just looked down, dejected…
“…Hey, Yo. You were supposed to be in the Great Hall, right?”
At that moment, Kaito’s voice echoed in the Great Hall.
“Tell me. What exactly happened?”