Strike the Blood, Vol. 7: Kaleid Blood by Gakuto Mikumo and Manyako

Author:Gakuto Mikumo and Manyako [Mikumo, Gakuto | Manyako]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yen On
Published: 2017-09-19T00:00:00+00:00

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At the time, Yukina and her fellow classmates were in physical education class. It was girls’ volleyball that day. Once the basic preliminaries were complete, the class continued training for matches.

Yukina, dressed in a gym uniform, mingled with her classmates and earnestly participated in the match.

The serve from the opponents’ side descended like an avalanche. The rear guard received the serve at the very edge of the court. The ball danced up into the air, sailing toward the unguarded edge of the net. It’ll probably hit the sideline and be out, everyone thought, but that instant…

“Geh… Yukina?!”

“Yes!”

Yukina ran under the ball and lunged lightly from the floor. Her small body effortlessly sailed into the air, gently touching the ball with her left hand and tapping it into the opponents’ court.

She landed soundlessly. The opposing students just stared dumbly at the ball before them on the floor, unsure of what had just happened.

Seeing what she had done, Yukina was a bit crestfallen.

“Ah…”

Raised and trained as a Sword Shaman of the Lion King Agency, Yukina’s athletic ability was far above the norm for girls her own age, even without augmentation via ritual spells. She was able to hold back appropriately during individual events like track and field, but it was much harder to do so in a volleyball match.

As Yukina stood rooted in place, a current member of the basketball club, Minami Shindou, aka Cindy, smiled and ran over. She was a sports prodigy in her own right, so maybe seeing Yukina’s crazy ability was no big deal to her.

“See what I mean? You’re really cut out for sports, Yukina,” Cindy said.

Yukina’s smile twitched a little as she took the praise in stride.

“Y-you think so…?”

Cindy gave Yukina a rather amused look.

“You sure don’t look it, though, what with that ditzy, spaced-out look you have.”

“D-ditzy…?”

The unanticipated change of direction gave Yukina a rude shock. Seeing herself as a very levelheaded girl, she couldn’t hide her consternation at her friend’s assessment.

With Yukina’s match concluded, Nagisa and other girls came on to the court. Cindy remarked, “Ah, Nagisa there is pretty lively, too, huh?”

Just as Cindy said, Nagisa was a trooper on a mishmash of a team. Due to her short height, she wasn’t good at spiking, but she more than made up for it with how she received serves. Somehow, she seemed like an adorable little animal.

As they sat on a bench against the wall, Yukina asked Cindy, “I heard Nagisa was in the hospital a while back?”

Cindy smiled fondly.

“Yeah, she was. When I was in my first year here, she was away from school for almost six months. She was always watching from the sidelines in gym class, too. I’d say she’s been doing better since about autumn of last year… That’s about when she joined the cheerleading club, too.”

“Autumn of…last year?”

Yukina bit her lip and fell silent. Her Sword Shaman instincts told her something was odd about that.

She’d heard that an incident had been the reason Nagisa Akatsuki came to Itogami Island.

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