Kino no Tabi - the Beautiful World - Volume 10 by Keiichi Sigsawa

Author:Keiichi Sigsawa [Sigsawa, Keiichi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-08-27T16:00:00+00:00

“H-hey! Is that a persuader?!”

The boy stopped in his tracks.

“The kid’s just bluffing! That’s probably just a toy!”

“Then take that away, too!”

The other boys cried irresponsibly from behind him.

The leader waved his right arm.

“Take care of him quick. And bring that toy back.”

A second later, there was a hole gaping in his arm.

The sound of the gunshot was nearly inaudible. Only the footsteps of the boy approaching Elias sounded, the noise of gravel under shoe.

“Huh?”

The leader turned his face and gaze towards his right side. He raised his left hand and brought his fingers to his right arm.

“Huh?”

He was bleeding. A crimson stain was spreading over his sleeve.

“Huh? Wha… ARGH!”

Pain shot through his body in a moment’s notice. He finally realized that he had been shot. The leader pressed down on his arm and fell to his knees.

“He shot me… Damn it! He shot me!”

He began with a mumble and ended with a scream.

The looks on the boys’ faces changed instantly. The boy approaching Elias in particular quickly looked around, noticed his friends gathering around the leader, and turned tail. In other words, he fled.

Elias approached the five boys, steadily gripping the persuader with both hands. The boys crowded together in one mass, and exchanged glances. They looked at Elias as though one would a monster.

Elias drew three meters closer. The persuader was trained on the boys.

“Leave. Please.”

The four boys nodded, grabbing their wincing leader by his armpits and feet.

“Argh! That hurts! Stop, you bastards! Let me down!”

The boys ignored their leader’s cries and fled with him.

When the boys disappeared, Elias armed the safety on his persuader.

He placed it back in his pocket without a word, and took Sarah’s hand as she stood there like a silent ghost.

“Let’s go. I’ll listen to your story later.”

He began to walk in the opposite direction from the five boys.

It was just past noon.

The sun shone in the sky, neither too strong nor weak. But the clouds in the west were growing darker. The wind was blowing to the east. It was an autumn afternoon that would clearly give way to bad weather.

“A boy about twelve years old and a girl with pigtails? And they’re both a complete mess? Why, in these streets, you see children like that everywhere.” A woman replied to the traveler on the motorrad. She soon disappeared into the crowds with a mountain of laundry balanced in a basket on her head.

They were in the middle of the slums. Kino, wearing a long coat and riding a motorrad, stuck out like a sore thumb.

“If they came this way… This is the only slum here. Finding them is not going to be easy. And there’s no use asking people, either…” Kino said. Hermes, who was not currently running, agreed.

On Hermes’s luggage seat was [Flute], dismantled and wrapped up in cloth.

What would Kino do next, he asked her.

“I’m getting kind of hungry… Maybe I should just forget this job.” Kino replied.

“Already?!”

“But Hermes…”

“No ‘but’s! Even the worst marksman in the world’s bound to hit something eventually if he keeps on shooting! Go on and ask someone else.

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