Sinking into the Abyss / Jalter, You Bitch~
The blonde girl and Little Holy City threw punches, while only the silver-haired girl threw scissors.
"Damn it!" Black Saber cursed bitterly, looking at her two raised fingers.
"Then we'll leave this place to you. We'll keep watch over you outside," the blonde girl said reassuringly to her sister.
"No need, I don't need you guys. You're all useless. In the end, I'll have to do it all by myself. Get out of here!" the silver-haired girl said sullenly.
"I think it would be safer for you if we came to your aid," the blonde Jeanne d'Arc advised.
"No need! Hmph! Hmph!" The silver-haired girl huffed and puffed like a fighting panda, then dragged her sister out.
"Why did you come out so quickly?" Shirou asked, puzzled.
"Well, that child said she's enough on her own," the blonde girl explained.
"How willful I am! Why did I grow up to be like this? I really hope she can change for the better in the future," Little Saint sighed helplessly as she was pushed out.
The incandescent light on the ceiling flickered, sometimes bright and sometimes dim, making a sound like there was a problem with the wiring.
"Really, with me here, how could any ghost possibly come out?" The silver-haired girl tossed her hair and said confidently, walking into the toilet stall, closing the door, pulling down the lid, and sitting down.
"..." The surroundings remained quiet for a while, and no one came out.
"Tsk, so it's not like you can't really go to the toilet!" Black Saber said unhappily, and had no choice but to stand up again, lift her skirt to reveal the garter chain that connected to her stockings, and bend down to sit down.
At that moment, a strange noise came from beside the silver-haired girl.
"Haahaha..." came rapid, panting sounds from inside.
"Aaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!!" Then, the silver-haired girl's scream came from inside, echoing throughout the entire teaching building.
"It really... appeared!!!" The blonde girl standing at the door exchanged a glance with Little Saint and quickly rushed inside. For Jeanne d'Arc to scream like that, it must be a truly terrifying monster.
When the blonde girl and Little Saint went inside, this was the scene they saw.
The silver-haired girl blushed, lifted her skirt, and one of her black stockings slipped down to her calf. Below her, a woman with light green hair was being pressed to the ground with her head being stepped on, her face showing a subtle, infatuated expression that seemed to be both in pain and pleasure.
"Hehehehe... Elder Sister." Brynhildr collapsed to the ground.
"You stupid, infatuated woman! What were you thinking when you did something like this?" Black Saber roared in embarrassment and anger, growing angrier with each passing moment, and increased the force of her stomp.
"Ah~! Elder Sister ~ I just heard you were coming here to investigate something, so I came ahead of you, hoping to help you in some way." Brynhildr explained, her face flushed as she was being trampled on.
"What's going on?!" Little Saint asked the older sister beside her with a puzzled look. She was too naive to understand what was happening.
"It seems everything is alright. Let's all send them our blessings. In this era, God will accept them too," the blonde girl said with a saintly smile that seemed to embrace all.
"Huh?" Little Saint was even more confused.
"Who wants your blessing?! You bastard!" the silver-haired girl yelled in a frenzy.
"Thank you~! White Rose Elder Sister, as expected of your Elder Sister, and your Elder Sister too! Being in the bathroom with all three of you at the same time, I... I'm so happy~! Hehehe... Uh!"
"Shut up! You idiot!" Black Saber forcefully lifted the head of the woman with long, light green hair and stomped it down again.
"Ahhh~! It hurts so much! I can feel my Elder Sister's love~! Intense love~!" Brynhildr hugged Black Saber's leg, twisting and contorting her body as she spoke.
"Jeanne d'Arc? Everyone? What's going on inside?" Shirou asked, puzzled.
Little Saint called out from inside, "It's nothing, no, well, there is something, but that doesn't quite add up. Anyway, someone came out and is currently being stepped on by my sister. But she seems to be enjoying it. Brother Shirou, should I stop her?"
"Uh... no need, I can roughly imagine what happened." Shirou's forehead was covered in dry sweat. He hesitated, wanting to say something to persuade Black Saber, but in the end, he gave up.
At that moment, a black shadow appeared behind Shirou. This shadow had no feet and floated directly in the air. The Black Shadow silently approached Shirou and reached out its hand, about to touch Shirou's back.
Chapter 532 Sinking into the Abyss
The Black Shadow figure reached out and grabbed Shirou's shoulder from behind.
Just then, Shirou dodged the outstretched hand, turned around, looked at the figure behind him, and greeted, "Good evening, Miss Hanako... so this is where you are."
"Good evening. No matter what, with Mr. Shirou here, I wouldn't feel comfortable coming out from the women's restroom area, would I?" The Black Shadow didn't panic when discovered; he simply stopped what he was doing and replied.
The Black Shadow figure dispelled its black aura, revealing a young woman with medium-length black hair, bangs covering her eyes, and wearing a high school uniform. She was none other than Miss Hanako from the Toilet, one of the legendary Ghost Four Heavenly Kings.
"How surprising! I originally intended to scare you, Mr. Shirou, but it turns out I'm the one who's startled by your quick wit," Delia said in a low, emotionless voice.
"Well, there are magical fluctuations after all. I've experienced similar situations before. Didn't you come here to talk to me? Why in this way?" Shirou asked.
"Well, that was under the premise that we were in charge. I was just trying to invite Mr. Shirou to our place. Although it was a bit abrupt, Mr. Shirou was as easy to talk to as ever, which is really great," Delia said softly.
"I also hope that we can clarify things without hurting either side. So can't we use a gentler way of communicating? Some of my companions are a bit rough, so it's best not to start a conflict rashly," Shirou advised.
"Ah, I know, that woman with the Black Rose... she's really annoying and troublesome. But thankfully, I'm not the only one here this time," Miss Hanako said with a smile.
"Huh?" Shirou looked in surprise towards the direction of the women's restroom.
At the same time, a somewhat eerie laugh from a little girl came from inside.
Hehehe...
Then, a little girl named Sachiko, dressed in red, crawled through the wall, floated in the air, and met Shirou. She gave him a pure and lovely smile and greeted him, "Good evening, Shirou- Onii-chan ~!"
"Damn it! You finally showed up! Don't Run!" Black Saber lifted her skirt and rushed into the toilet.
At that moment, a long line of fire shot out and flew over, passing between Shirou and Sachiko.
"Get away from Shirou, you old hag in a child's skin!" Black Saber glared at him and said.
"You... you really are... annoying and persistent guy!" Sachiko also revealed a ferocious expression, glaring back and shouting!
"Oh, that's good news. In the end, that's the only good thing I have. I'm very clingy, you know. Even a ghost can't compare to me," the silver-haired girl said with a wicked smile.
Black Saber is about to fight Sachiko.
Meow~!!!
Then the Kuro Neko reappeared and stood in the center of the crowd.
Knock knock knock.
A series of footsteps echoed on the wooden floor, the sound of running.
A ghostly figure of a little boy with a watermelon-shaped haircut ran towards them, grabbed Little Saint's hand, and pulled her back a few steps.
"Huh? What? What's going on?" Little Saint looked at the ghostly little boy in confusion.
The little boy didn't say anything, but just pulled Little Saint back a few steps.
Just then, the sound of running water came from inside the toilet. The water piled up to a height of more than two meters, like a flood, and then a large amount of water gushed out from the door at once, hitting Black Saber who was standing right at the toilet door.
"Watch out!" Shirou shouted, but it was too late.
"Waaaaah! Glug glug..." The silver-haired girl let out a scream as she was helplessly swept to the ground by the massive torrent.
At the same time, a black current surged from the floor, turning the entire corridor floor into a black swamp. People felt as if they had no solid footing and could not even stand steadily. Everything they touched was cold and soft, like falling into a mud pit. It pulled everyone present into a world of darkness.
"Whoa... Shirou!" The silver-haired girl was knocked to the ground and was the first to sink into the black swamp.
"Jeanne d'Arc! Everyone." Shirou slid with difficulty through the mud, trying to get closer. He reached out his hand towards the silver-haired girl, Projection a dark chain in an attempt to grab her, but the chain missed its mark, and he was too late.
"Brother Shirou! I can't take it anymore~! Stop pulling, stop pulling!" Little Saint was also almost drowning at this point.
However, the ghost of the little boy beside her was pulling her hand down, seemingly trying to comfort her as he did so.
"Little Saint!" Shirou hadn't retracted the chains yet, and could only watch as the little girl was pulled down.
"Shirou, I'm almost unable to move either," the blonde girl cried out, raising her hand.
"Grab it!" Shirou threw out the chain, which the blonde girl grabbed, while the other end was thrown out and hung on the wall, wrapping around several times to secure it. With the strength of the chain, the downward momentum was finally stopped.
At this moment, two female ghosts were floating above the swamp in the corridor, laughing as they watched the two people on the ground.
"Hehehe... As expected of Shirou -Onii-chan, well then I'll go home and settle the score with that woman. It's okay if Shirou- Onii-chan doesn't come over. Next time, Sachiko will come to the cafe to hang out with you." Sachiko smiled mischievously at Shirou, and after saying that, she floated down into the ground.
"Wait, what exactly is going on between you and Jeanne d'Arc? Why do you resent them so much?" Shirou asked.
"Lady White Rose, we don't have any grudges against each other. However, there are some things that need to be clarified regarding that Black Rose. Although I would like to invite Mr. Shirou to be my guest, if you are not willing, then that's fine. Well then, see you next time." Delia said, bowing to them.
"Shirou, do you have any ideas?" the blonde girl asked Shirou.
"There's no other way! Let's go in too! Whatever happens, we'll face it together!" Shirou said.
"Yeah! That's what I thought too~! Shirou is so reliable, I've been thinking about this for a long time, it's so great that we met you." The blonde girl nodded and smiled, showing an approving expression.
"Of course! We're family! So, let's go!" Shirou said, taking a breath, crouching down, and diving into the swamp below.
Chapter 533 Black Saber, you bitch~
When his face came into contact with this blackness, it didn't feel like sticky Black Mud, but rather a space composed of gas. Yet, he could still breathe here, only feeling a bone-chilling coldness, not of temperature, but a chill that went straight to the heart.
However, it's different from the malice Shirou encountered in the Black Mud before. The black aura here...
It's a kind of melancholy, well... it's a little different from sadness or resentment. Although melancholy is also a negative emotion, it's a feeling of helplessness. There's nothing you can do to solve it, nothing you can do to change it, that's the feeling.
If a person feels sad, they can still find a way to get back up and start over. If a person feels resentful, they can be angry or seek revenge.
A sense of desolation signifies that all of this can only be accepted and relinquished.
In the dark space, Shirou continued to sink until he finally stopped. Shirou then felt the center of gravity of the space shift, and everyone fell in the direction their heads were facing.
Just as Little Saint was about to fall, the little boy's ghost grabbed her hand, carried her through the air, and gently lowered her to the ground.
Shirou and the blonde girl fell onto a patch of soft, grayish-green grass, their legs in the air, but thankfully they were unharmed.
"Ouch!!!" The silver-haired girl was the only one who fell. There was nothing there but a hard stone slab. Her head hit the ground with a dull thud.
Fortunately, her own defense is among the best of Servant; she only got a bump on her head. If it were an ordinary person, their head would probably have shattered like a watermelon that had been smashed on the ground.
The silver-haired girl covered her head, feeling as if the world was full of malice towards her.
"Thank you... little brother." Little Saint smiled and looked at the little boy who had helped him.
The little boy waved his hand sheepishly, let go of my hand, and ran into the inner courtyard.
Only then did everyone begin to observe their surroundings. It turned out to be a courtyard with square stones paving the ground, surrounded by lawns and flowerbeds, and in front stood a large, traditional Japanese-style house. However, the overall tone was rather dark, giving the impression of watching an early color film.
After a while, a woman who looked to be under thirty years old came out of the courtyard. She held one hand affectionately with the little boy, and upon closer inspection, it was discovered that she was also holding a Kuro Neko in her other hand. She was observing the group of people who had come here with her bright blue vertical pupils.
"Mr. Shirou, Sei-chan, and White Rose, welcome to our world." The ghost of a woman, holding a boy's hand and cradling a Kuro Neko in her arms, stepped forward and spoke.
"Hello, you must be Ms. Kayako."
"Yes, I am Kayako, and this is my son, Toshio. He's not very talkative, so please don't mind," the ghost lady said politely.
"Thank you, Aunt Kayako, this child helped me," Little Saint said as he stepped forward.
"No need to thank me, it seems he likes you very much. When this child came into this world, he also had the opportunity to have a physical body and could go to school with you. However, because this is an all-girls school, he feels that he is a boy and is unwilling to enter a girl's body."
So in this world, he's always been by my side as a ghost. But he seems to really enjoy your school life; he always sneaks away to watch you go to class. If you can, please try to get along with him."Kayako said, patting her child's head.
"Oh, I see! I understand now!" Little Saint suddenly realized. She looked at the little boy and smiled, saying, "Thank you! Let's be friends! Even if we don't go to the same school, we can still play together after school!"
"Mmm." The little boy nodded happily, holding hands with the cute girl, and swayed his hand up and down.
"So... now that we've arrived here, are you willing to tell us what happened this time?" Shirou asked, looking at Kayako and Sachiko and Delia floating on either side of her.
"It's all because of this woman... She did something we absolutely cannot forgive." Delia pointed at the silver-haired girl, her voice deep and filled with suppressed resentment and anger.
"Huh?" The silver-haired girl glared at Delia, veins bulging on her forehead.
Kayako, standing nearby, continued, "When we first came to this world, although we didn't meet or negotiate directly, we heard about her being burned at the stake, her hatred for her homeland, and her hatred for the church. Initially, we thought she would be someone we could get along with."
However, unlike us, who had a phobia of school and chose to live a quiet, secluded life after gaining physical form, she chose to enter school in a glamorous way and seemed to enjoy it. So we didn't go to contact her, maintaining an attitude of observation and keeping to ourselves. That's why none of us had ever stepped into that coffee shop before.
Until this woman barged into the sanctuary that healed our inner wounds. As soon as she arrived, all the princes in the shop abandoned us, busy greeting her.
She sat in the shop as if it were her right, grumbling and cursing, yet she mingled with the princes, eating and going out with them as if it were her right.
"Although this makes us very jealous, since the princes like her and their relationship with her seems quite special, we just endure it, only compromising by cursing her a hundred times every night..." Kayako raised her head, biting her hair, revealing a terrifying expression, and roared.
"Is this a compromise?! No wonder I've been having such bad luck at school every day, it's all your doing! After all this talk, aren't you just jealous?" Black Saber said in a fit of rage.
"And what we didn't expect was that it wasn't just the Black Tea House; she was also keeping Mr. Shirou, such a perfect man, all to herself at her place. She's clearly just a reckless little girl, yet she wants to run a harem? Absolutely unforgivable!"
Miss Sachiko. Sachiko spoke, she revealed a dark and terrifying expression that only comes to mind when a woman is consumed by jealousy.
"She reminds me of those wicked women who only act cute in front of men but bully and harass them behind their backs. Mr. Shirou, Mr. Arash, and Mr. Siegfried are all good people; they must have been deceived by her," Miss Hanako said.
"Ah... School bullying, no matter the era, can never be changed. Even after leaving school or the workplace, you can't escape this fate. Even if you avoid outsiders, your family will eventually find all sorts of reasons to bully you. The husband bullies the wife, and the wife takes her anger out on the child. When the son grows up, he starts sucking his parents' blood."
Otherwise, it's the other way around: parents are sucking their son's blood, and grandparents are sucking their grandson's blood, demanding without any reason and without any gratitude.
In this world, there always needs to be someone to be bullied among people, otherwise they can't live a normal life, hehehe..." As Kayako spoke, black energy emanated from her body.
"And this woman is the biggest cancer in this world! The biggest bitch!" The three female ghosts simultaneously raised their hands, pointing at the silver-haired girl.
"Huh?" Black Saber Alter pointed to herself in surprise.