Strike the Blood, Vol. 4: Labyrinth of the Blue Witch by Gakuto Mikumo and Manyako

Author:Gakuto Mikumo and Manyako [Mikumo, Gakuto]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yen On
Published: 2016-09-20T00:00:00+00:00

4

The Akatsuki residence living room was eerily quiet. It looked exactly like Kojou had left it. There was no sign of Yuuma or Nagisa having returned. Of course, Kojou’s own body had not returned, either.

Yukina murmured as she looked all around the apartment interior.

“…There really isn’t anyone here.”

Right now, she was wearing an aquamarine apron dress, looking very much the part of the main character in a fairy tale. There was a large, identically colored ribbon on the top of her head. Apparently she meant this to be her Hollow Eve Festival costume.

However, her right hand was gripping the silver spear with a tip like a swept-wing fighter plane. This was a Schneewaltzer, the secret weapon of the Lion King Agency. The metallic spear was at its full length, breaking the fairy-tale ambiance.

“Yuuma’s things are gone, too.”

Kojou made a despondent sigh as he checked the guest room.

Yuuma’s luggage, her change of clothes, and the various souvenirs she’d bought while touring the island the day before had all been neatly whisked away. The only things left of hers in the apartment were a single miniskirted witch cosplay dress and her physical body.

Even so, Yukina searched the area for any trace of Yuuma.

Finally, she made a deep nod to herself, as if having had some sort of revelation.

“I have a broad grasp of the circumstances. I also have a strong suspicion as to the nature of the blue shadow you saw behind Yuuma.”

“Huh?”

For some reason, Kojou felt unease at the certainty in Yukina’s voice. His animal instincts told him that the rest was not something he should hear. If he did listen to her words, he felt like something precious in relation to his old friend would be shattered without a single trace remaining.

“Princess La Folia is probably thinking the same thing I am. No doubt she called earlier in an effort to confirm her thoughts.”

“…What do you mean?” Kojou spontaneously replied. La Folia didn’t know Yuuma. Surely she was not yet aware that Yuuma and Kojou had switched bodies.

Surely the only thing the princess had identified so far was that the spatial anomalies occurring on Itogami Island were related to magical power…

“Wait, you don’t think the Itogami Island spatial distortions are Yuuma’s work?”

“In one sense, I do. However, that cannot be Yuuma’s true objective.”

“…Objective…huh?”

Kojou stared at his own palms in silence. He’d been so hung up on the whole body switch thing that he hadn’t actually thought that far.

Regardless of who or what Yuuma really was, there was no way she’d swap bodies with another person for no reason. Of course she had a reason for it—reason enough to deceive Kojou.

Yukina suddenly changed the subject. “Incidentally, senpai…was it Nagisa who cooked this meal?”

Thrown for a loop, Kojou nodded.

“Yeah, probably. It’s the same thing Nagisa always makes.”

The meal on the dinner table was a huge omelet with fermented soybeans, fried seaweed, and a big helping of white rice. Kojou couldn’t imagine another girl on the entire planet inventing an original recipe like that.

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