Sky Striker Ace, but Symphogear

"Ugh-Amm!"

Just as Raye was pondering, seemingly frustrated by her inability to break free, Hibiki Tachibana suddenly lowered her head and bit Raye's finger that was holding the Sky Striker.

"Hey, you! Are you a dog? Don't bite my hand! Damn it, I haven't even gotten used to the fragment's permissions yet, I can't stop it..."

With her finger bitten, but unable to free her hand in any way, Raye could only endure the biting while trying to familiarize herself with the manipulation of the Hibiki Tachibana Gungnir Fragment's body.

P. S. Good evening.

Chapter 105 The Sober Hibiki Tachibana

Her consciousness was in complete disarray, and her head was throbbing as if she were about to die. This was the first feeling Hibiki Tachibana experienced after regaining consciousness.

[Ugh, what's going on? What's this feeling I get the day after drinking a lot of alcohol, like the adults have mentioned?]

With this thought in mind, Hibiki Tachibana tried to recall what had happened earlier.

[I remember, I broke the crystal that Miss Raye threw at me, then I ended up in a basement-like place, and after that... ugh, my head hurts, I can't remember.]

Despite Hibiki Tachibana's attempts to recall, the hangover-like feeling kept interfering with her thoughts, preventing her from accessing the memory in her mind that could give her the answer.

[Is the smell of disinfectant coming from a place like a hospital or infirmary?]

Just as Hibiki Tachibana was about to continue recalling, as her consciousness returned and her sense of smell gradually returned, she smelled a pungent disinfectant odor.

[Anyway, I first got up, opened my eyes, and looked around... My eyelids felt so heavy, like something was blocking my vision, and I had no strength at all.]

Hibiki Tachibana, having hit a wall in her recollections, decided to put her thoughts aside, get up, and open her eyes to see what was around her.

Soon, despite her heavy eyelids and weak body, thanks to Hibiki Tachibana Hibiki's continuous efforts, she finally opened her eyes, sat up, and saw her surroundings.

Just as she had guessed, it was indeed a place that resembled a hospital.

A clean, tidy white curtain separates the bed from the outside space. Clean slippers are neatly arranged on the spotless floor, while a thermos and fruit are placed on the bedside table.

Why am I in the hospital?

Although she confirmed her guess, Hibiki Tachibana's doubts only grew stronger.

She couldn't understand why she, who should have been arrested, was resting in a place that looked like a peaceful and stable medical room.

[Why is this happening...? Hmm, someone's here. Is it the doctor?]

Before Hibiki Tachibana could figure out what was going on, she saw the curtain in front of her being pulled open by a hand wearing white gloves.

"You regained consciousness relatively quickly, Hibiki Tachibana."

As the curtain was fully drawn back, a girl in a white uniform who looked somewhat familiar to Hibiki Tachibana walked in and spoke to her in a calm voice.

"Are you... Miss Raye?"

After sizing up the girl in front of him, Hibiki Tachibana said with some uncertainty.

"Did those drugs damage your memory? You can't possibly not even recognize the kidnappers who abducted you?"

The girl in the school uniform Hibiki Tachibana responded to her with these words.

"Ah, sorry, well, it's just because I've never seen Miss Raye like this before."

The girl with short, flaxen hair blushed slightly and smiled shyly as she spoke.

In Hibiki Tachibana's Raye, although Rei was still wearing her unchanging eye-covering device, her appearance in other aspects was, if not completely unrelated to, at least drastically different from what she had perceived.

"Is there a problem with me looking like this?"

Raye didn't understand what Hibiki Tachibana meant at first.

"That's right, this is the first time I've seen Ms. Raye in a doctor's uniform. It seems that, well, Ms. Raye 'Raye temperament is gentler than the ones I've seen before."

Hibiki Tachibana raised her hand and pointed to Raye's outfit, the one she had been paying attention to since earlier.

The light pink, form-fitting nurse's uniform accentuated the girl's slender waist, paired with light pink stockings that covered her legs, a departure from her usual style.

The overall fresh and elegant color scheme, coupled with her slightly relaxed expression as if she hadn't been fighting, gave the girl in her eyes a gentleness unlike anything she had seen before.

"Ha... it's just an illusion caused by changing clothes. Compared to that, Hibiki Tachibana, how are you feeling now? Is there anything else that's uncomfortable?"

Sighing, Rei, no longer wanting to complain about Hibiki Tachibana's Raye nature, gave a perfunctory reply and changed the subject to business.

"I'm not feeling well... I am a little bit. My head hurts a bit, and I feel a bit weak."

Upon hearing Raye's question, perhaps because of her clothing, Hibiki Tachibana obediently explained her feelings to Raye.

"Don't you have the urge to destroy anything, or rather, an unbearable sense of irritation?"

Raye took out a laptop and typed a question to Hibiki Tachibana, her eyes showing a serious expression.

"Why would Miss Raye ask that?"

Hibiki Tachibana asked, slightly concerned.

"To make sure you've truly been cured and there are no long-term effects."

Raye replied in this way, and for some reason, one could detect a slight weariness and impatience in her words.

"Oh, no, I don't have the feeling you're describing, Miss Raye."

An inexplicable intuition triggered a warning, Hibiki Tachibana quickly reported her situation to the other party.

"Phew... Really? That's good. It seems the treatment was successful."

After hearing that Hibiki Tachibana herself didn't feel anything bad, Raye breathed a sigh of relief and put away the tablet she used to record information.

"Um, Miss Raye, was I sick before, which is why I'm in a hospital bed?"

Intuition stopped her from calling the police, Hibiki Tachibana then asked her about something that had been bothering her.

"Hmm, do you want to hear it?"

Upon seeing Hibiki Tachibana's inquiry, Raye hesitated for a moment before asking this question.

"At least I need to figure out what's happening to my body."

Hibiki Tachibana confirmed that she desperately needed someone to help her sort out the series of events that were currently unfolding.

"Alright then, I also have something I wanted to ask you."

Since Hibiki Tachibana wanted to know, Raye had no reason not to tell her. So, she naturally stepped forward, walked to Hibiki Tachibana's bedside, and began to explain to her.

"Simply put, it means your body has been injected with a large amount of drugs that reduce the body's self-control and cause uncontrollable manic feelings."

"Because of this drug, your self-control dropped to an extremely low level in a short period of time, and you fell into a manic state where you couldn't distinguish between friend and foe."

"Furthermore, this mania of yours resonated with Gungnir within you, ultimately triggering your uncontrollable rampage."

Soon, Raye explained the other person's previous physical problems to her in as concise a way as possible.

"Do you understand what I mean?"

After finishing her explanation, Raye asked Hibiki Tachibana if she understood.

"Well, I think I understand now. So, Miss Raye, you healed me because I went berserk?"

When faced with Raye's question, Hibiki Tachibana gave a seemingly confused but actually clueless response.

P. S. Good afternoon.

Chapter 106 Torture?

Standing by the bed, facing Hibiki Tachibana's words, Raye was momentarily at a loss for words.

"Sigh... The point isn't the berserk mode, it's the drugs! Do you even understand the seriousness of having drugs injected into your body?"

Raye sighed helplessly, then emphasized the same thing to Hibiki Tachibana again.

"Um... Ahaha, sorry, because Miss Raye, you said a lot just now, I didn't really understand."

Faced with Raye's emphasis, Hibiki Tachibana was initially a little confused, then smiled and said...

"Alright, I'll put it simply again: you were given a drug that made you go berserk, so I treated you. Do you understand now?"

Seeing Hibiki Tachibana's reaction, Raye had no choice but to refine her words again, removing any concepts that Hibiki Tachibana might not understand.

"I understand, I understand."

Hibiki Tachibana nodded repeatedly, like a chick pecking at rice.

"Since you understand, then you should also know what I'm going to ask..."

After helping Hibiki Tachibana understand the current situation, Raye prepared to ask her what she wanted to know.

"No, never mind. Since you didn't react to what happened before, it means that the planners were hiding things from you as well. In other words, we can't communicate based on the premise that you know everything."

However, upon seeing Hibiki Tachibana's clear eyes, Raye realized she had to change her approach and stopped her initial questioning.

(ow°o)

Completely bewildered by Raye's long-winded Hibiki Tachibana stared blankly at the person in front of her.

"Hibiki Tachibana."

After a short while, Raye, having regained her composure, resumed her conversation with Hibiki Tachibana.

"Exist!"

Hibiki Tachibana reflexively shouted.

"There's no need... never mind."

Seeing Hibiki Tachibana's inexplicably obedient demeanor, Raye suppressed her urge to complain.

"I'm asking you, do you know who gave you this?"

Then, Raye reached behind her and took out a box. After showing the contents of the box, she asked Hibiki Tachibana a question.

"What is this?"

Attracted by Raye's movements, Hibiki Tachibana's attention shifted to the contents of the box.

Inside the box was a broken, transparent, ring-shaped device, with traces of colored liquid visible inside.

"Ah, this was put on me by a teacher who was giving me a physical exam."

Soon, Hibiki Tachibana remembered where this thing came from.

During a previous physical examination, a medical examiner secretly put a device around her neck while conducting the examination.

"The teacher who conducts physical examinations... Well, Hibiki Tachibana, do you know its purpose?"

After receiving Hibiki Tachibana's answer, Raye pondered for a moment and then asked her another question.

"Ah... I'm not too sure about that. I only know that she said it was some kind of secret weapon that could help me in battle."

Hibiki Tachibana also gave her answer quite naturally.

"Secret weapon, uh... have you mentioned this to the members of Second Division?"

Faced with Hibiki Tachibana's completely unquestioning question, Raye's expression twitched slightly before she continued to ask.

"Well... haha, no, because she said she's a member of Second Division, and that everyone knows about this, but it needs to be kept secret, so she told me not to say it directly."

Hibiki Tachibana said with a smile.

"... How did you know she was a member of Second Division?"

Seeing Hibiki Tachibana's comments displayed on the screen, Raye paused slightly before continuing to ask questions, though the expression management system was slightly overloaded.

That's what she said.

Then, when faced with Raye's question, Hibiki Tachibana answered quite matter-of-factly.

Raye fell silent; she felt she shouldn't have initiated the conversation.

"Miss Raye?"

Not knowing why Raye had suddenly stopped talking, Tachibana Hibiki Tachibana tilted her head slightly and asked curiously.

Are you an idiot?

Seeing Hibiki Tachibana's clueless expression, Raye could no longer suppress her urge to make sarcastic remarks and said this to Hibiki Tachibana.

"Ah... Miss Raye, why are you scolding me?" 99

Hibiki Tachibana, who was inexplicably scolded, asked with some grievance.

"It's nothing, just, Hibiki Tachibana, this is my advice."