The Empty Box and Zeroth Maria, Vol. 6 by Eiji Mikage & Tetsuo & Tetsuo 415

Author:Eiji Mikage & Tetsuo & Tetsuo 415
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yen On
Published: 2019-07-17T16:00:00+00:00

We beat a hasty retreat, and once we’ve got some distance, we begin walking over to Kokone’s again.

But there’s a problem, and I shouldn’t even have to say it’s Mogi.

Mogi has no idea what any of this is about. I can’t tell her about Boxes and drag her into this.

If Daiya is going to keep giving Orders that involve Mogi, though, then I can’t just take her back to the hospital and be done with it. There’s no telling if a similar incident might happen again.

Maybe I should explain just a bit of what’s going on to her? And is it the right thing to do, to take someone who can’t move freely?

“Mogi, what do you wanna do?”

Unable to decide myself, I instinctively ask the person in question. Clueless about the situation as she is, there’s no way she can make a good call, but still.

As Haruaki pushes her wheelchair along, Mogi doesn’t answer right away. Then she says with a troubled look, “What would be the best course of action?”

It sounds like a throwaway response. But it bothers me.

I mean, that’s definitely not a natural reply. Normally, wouldn’t someone ask what’s going on or just be lost before they got to that?

“Mogi, I’m sorry!”

“Huh? Oh!”

I can’t stop wondering about what’s hidden in her shirt.

I shove my hand into her pocket, and it touches something hard. Mogi’s face has gone bright red in either panic or discomfort over being touched, and she protests weakly. She doesn’t have much strength, though, so I take the hard little object with ease.

It’s—

“A stun gun…?”

Why? Why would Mogi be carrying this? Would she have had the time to hide this in her pocket when Daiya’s fanatic took her from the hospital? Did Mogi always have a stun gun with her there?

My conclusion is only natural.

Mogi had that stun gun beforehand.

In other words—

—she knew that the fanatic was going to attack her.

“……”

Then there’s the thing I discovered when I touched her.

As the one with the “Empty Box,” I had to notice this, at least.

—Mogi is an owner.

—Mogi is a Subject.

If she knew she was going to be attacked, then why didn’t she use the stun gun when it happened? Who did she plan to use it on, then?

What Order has she received from Daiya? If Daiya has given her an Order, then who would her target be…?

“I didn’t want to tell you,” Mogi says in a small voice. “I didn’t want to tell you I had remembered about Boxes. After all—”

She grabs on to my sleeve with her shaky strength.

“—I remembered I gave up on you.”

“Huh?”

That was not what I expected her to say.

Given that she’s a Subject, I had thought she had been ordered by Daiya to attack me.

But when I really, really think about it, using Mogi for that would be more trouble than it was worth for Daiya. So the reason why Mogi is being so uncomfortable is…

“I remembered the Rejecting Classroom,” Mogi tells me sadly.

Yes, because I found out she recalled those days of hopelessness.

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