were showing strange movement.By any chance, perhaps they were intending to do some kind of bold action.
In the current situation it was nothing more than a story that was still in the realm of conjecture, but… taking consideration of the political situation that was surrounding j.a.pan, it was not a story that could be fully rejected.
That was why for the moment, they requested her to just be on the lookout.
Of course the prime minister Kinugasa Yoshinori also knew about this story, the national defense magicians were spreading out their observation net but, …in actuality, the accuracy of Shiori’s detection net was higher than the likes of their observation net. In this event of victory commemoration festival where the people were always moving around everywhere, there was the possibility that this difference in precision could be fatal.
For the sake of their peace of mind they wanted to spread out a double observation net in this high alert state, that was how it was.
If this was also the request from Homura, then Shiori also didn’t have any reason to refuse.
The girl agreed to this with an immediate reply.
While doing her role of distributing flyers, she was also spreading out a detection net until the radius of two kilometers around her, she was prepared to continuously observe her surroundings.
Yet, despite so――
When she noticed… Shiori was in a world without sound.
Traffic regulations were imposed during the victory commemoration festival, even though Shiori was supposedly standing in the middle of the main road that had been turned into a pedestrian paradise where she was distributing flyers to the people coming and going there, …during the instant of the blink of an eye, the throngs of people as far as the eye could see had vanished completely.
There was only so much silence that it hurt the ear, lying ahead in a city without people.
“……Kuh-“
Even when she tried to search the enemy with sorcery, there was not a single reaction of a living being inside the sphere radius of 50 kilometers.
This was an attack sorcery of someone.
It couldn’t be considered as anything else with this kind of phenomenon occurring.
Shiori tried to activate the emergency alert all over the life sphere in order to invite vigilance from the national defense army.
But… she couldn’t connect to the network of mind transmission.
She couldn’t connect to the national defense army, or to Homura, or to anyone else.
The circuit was snapped apart.
Shiori understood the situation to a certain degree from that fact.
Most likely, …the one who disappeared was not the people… but just her alone.
She guessed that she was dragged inside a pocket dimension that was created by sorcery.
(Naturally, the also know about my searching ability.)If she was isolated like this because they feared her ability, then this situation was extremely bad.
She had to somehow find the rift of the dimension and raise the alarm outside.
Thinking so, Shiori raised the precision of her detection net until her limit and looked for the tear of this pocket dimension.
However, be that as it may――
(I don’t understand.)
With her dragged inside a pocket dimension like this, that meant that there was an enemy beside her who dragged her here like this.
Shiori didn’t notice at all that there was someone that close to her.
That was completely incomprehensible.
Shiori’s ability to detect the enemy… was honestly something inhuman.
It was not a metaphor that pointed at the excellence of her precision, but it was the honest truth.
It was not a power she obtained because she wished for it, but… she had the confidence that she wouldn’t overlook even a single ant.
Despite so… she didn’t even notice someone using sorcery nearby her.
―――Just what kind of person was the enemy?
Then, at the ear of Shiori, who was searching for the dimension tear while thinking of such thing,
*step, step, step*――――there was such sound.
The sound of bare feet walking on asphalt could be heard.
“Who……-!?”
Shiori was so surprised her heart leaped up from that sound which entered her ear.
Even though she couldn’t confirm even a single reaction of living being inside the sphere radius of fifty kilometers of her detection net, she could hear footsteps right behind her.
For Shiori who possessed absolute confidence in her own ability, that was not a normal matter.
It was only natural for her to be shocked.
She raised a voice that was nearly a scream and turned back while her hair became disheveled.
――What was behind her,
A body wrapped in a feather robe that was faintly shining… a young boy possessing pure white wings was standing there.