KABUKIMONOGATARI: Dandy Tale by Nisioisin

Author:Nisioisin [NisiOisiN]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Fiction, Occult & Supernatural
ISBN: 9781945054846
Google: s_qDswEACAAJ
Amazon: 1945054840
Publisher: Vertical
Published: 2018-04-24T04:00:00+00:00

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It’s a common trope in manga and elsewhere. When a child—or maybe it’s a cat? Or a dog?—is about to be hit by a car, some guardian angel races out into the street and thrusts them out of the way, only to be run over in their stead...

When I was a little younger, I too was moved by such episodes of devotion, with their heroic elements and embodiment of a certain type of self-sacrifice, but as one might expect, once I reached high school, I came to wonder whether such a feat might not in fact be physically impossible.

In reality, no human can run faster than a car for even a moment, so there’s no way they could react by the time they’ve realized what’s about to happen.

And animal bodies, be they child or pet, are constructed with an exquisite sense of balance, so even if you got a hand on them, they Wouldn’t necessarily comply with your desire for them to go flying out of harm’s way. To put it another way, don’t take gravity lightly. In which case, both the person who is doing the saving and the Person who is being saved would get hit, so what would be the point?

There’s also the notion of wrapping your own body around theirs

to protect them instead of trying to thrust them out of the way. But the impact from being hit by a car is too much for any human body to cushion. Don’t believe me? Just try listening to the appalling sound a car accident makes.

And if things go poorly, the one being protected is going to end up doing the cushioning.

Ultimately, the issue is the out-of-spec power and surprising girth of a car—however.

However, this was different.

I was a vampire whose power and speed surpassed any automobile’s.

I had enhanced my vampiric level simply for the sake of a smooth stakeout, in other words to turn Shinobu into a middle schooler, but—here it worked to my advantage.

I ran at Hachikuji who, dead center in the crosswalk, didn’t notice the truck bearing down on her—and thrust her out of the way.

With a Hie! she went flying, helpless in the face of my vampiric strength, and all the way to the far side of the crosswalk—there was no equal and opposite reaction to stop me, so my excessive dash power carried me to the far side of the street a split second after her.

Where I smashed my face into the ground.

The truck grazed the heels of my shoes—

Never slackening its pace as it went by.

Sounding its piercing horn for all it was worth.

From the driver’s perspective, an elementary schooler and a high schooler had come flying out in front of him while he was going through a green light at a perfectly legal speed, so that was probably all we could hope for.

I hadn’t been thinking that carefully about it, but since I was a vampire, I probably would have been fine if I’d been hit—a body that can withstand the

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