Saving

Tengu City.

In an office.

"A boy?"

"Yes, with the princess, the boy disappeared too."

"I see…"

Sitting on a chair, a black-haired young woman in her 20s is gritting her teeth on her nails while thinking about what she will do next.

Her name is Kusakabe Ryōko, the current commander of the Anti Spirit Team.

"What should I do…?"

Normally, there are civilians involved in the incident because occasionally there are still people who are curious about what happens every time there is a space quake.

The government issued a warning, if they have an accident and die, it is not their problem.

In the end, she passed the decision to her superior.

Meeting room.

Currently, Ryōko tells her subordinates about the upper authorities' decisions.

"They decided not to do anything about it."

Then she shows the video of the boy in his last moment.

"What a waste. That boy is quite handsome. I would like to meet him if he is still alive."

One of the girls said this.

Suddenly, a white hair girl immediately stands up.

"Hey, Origami, where are you going?"

Ryōko asked her, but she didn't answer her and immediately go out of the meeting room.

The rest are confused about why she is like that while Ryōko felt another headache coming up.

At the hangar.

Wearing her Combat Realizer Unit, she opened the gate and fly to find the boy.

…

"You said that you had no intention of killing me. What a blatant lie. What are you trying to achieve?"

Currently, he is pushed into the wall by her.

Looking at her eyes, loneliness— no, sorrow.

Her eyes are full of sorrow and can't look at him directly.

Like she is hurt and instead of being hurt by him, she is scared that she will hurt him.

He makes a gentle smile then it becomes a serious expression.

He looked at her while showing his seriousness about her stance.

"What sorrowful eyes."

She looked at him, confused.

"I'm not trying to achieve anything. Not all human wants to kill you."

"Liar! Every human that I have seen has said that I deserve to die."

"Of course, you don't."

"Then, I must know, if you don't want to intent to kill me, why do you take me here?"

Presently, his gentle smile appears again.

"Did you forget? I take you here to talk to you. I don't care what are we talking about. As far as I'm concerned, I don't care if you ignore me. But… there's one thing I want you to know. I—"

Until now, this girl had nobody who would reach their hand out to her.

After all, with just one sentence she could have been in an entirely different situation, but the person who would tell her that one sentence, not one had existed there.

The girl had nobody with her.

Since that's the case—he had to say it.

"—I won't reject you, I will not deny your existence."