Chapter Thirty-Seven: Do Adults Also Make Mistakes?

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The instant the kaiju died, the electricity of the entire city miraculously recovered in an instant.

This was not some causal effect, but because this sudden incident had truly and actually affected Tsukimi Ryuune as a god.

The other party had released the kaiju on his own initiative, not only without discussing it with her, but even colliding with the time she least wanted to be disturbed.

This made her unable to help wanting to stomp the cosmic being in front of her to death with one foot.

Facing the gaze cast from those beautiful golden pupils, Jelanos only felt that the gazes all over his body instantly froze.

“Trash.”

“This thing is simply a waste in your hands.”

As the words fell, the Evil Beast Lock in his hand directly flew toward her without his control.

Seeing this, Jelanos dared neither speak nor get angry.

He could only kneel down long before the girl in front of him like a subordinate who had made a mistake.

As the most cunning cosmic fugitive, he was very clear about whom he could afford to provoke and whom he could not.

As long as he could live, even losing a bit of dignity was no big deal.

“You listen to me, Jelanos.”

“If you dare act on your own like this again in the future, you know what the consequences will be. It won’t be as simple as just expelling you. I have ten thousand methods that can make you wish you were dead.”

A cold light shone in Tsukimi Ryuune’s eyes.

This subordinate understands…

She snorted coldly, then her gaze turned to look toward the place where the giant had disappeared.

Ultraman Roya, this fellow who played a role like a policeman on the planet she dominated.

If the first appearance had only been a coincidence, then the second time it was simply as if it had already been waiting in the city.

The kaiju had only appeared for a short while when it followed and appeared together, just like the city’s guardian deity.

Usually without a trace, yet appearing to protect life at critical moments.

This made her quite strange.

With her control over her own world, she actually had no way of locating a fellow who hid such energy inside his body.

This made her unable to help being curious about what method the other party had used.

“Just treat this as a reward for making a move in my place, you meddlesome fellow.”

She looked at the city in the distance that had become brightly lit once more.

The sounds of rescue vehicles continuously rang from near to far.

The red and blue lights swept across her cold and moving face.

Tsukimi Ryuune lowered her head to look at the bag she was holding in her hand, which contained the gift she had prepared for a certain man.

This was the first time she had given a gift to a member of the opposite sex, yet she had not succeeded in delivering it into the other party’s hands.

Even though she still had the chance now, she also did not really want to give it anymore.

She directly threw the bag into the trash can at the side, letting this token of her feelings wait to be taken away together with the stinking garbage.

“I’ll take it that I misjudged the person.”

“…So Sensei, you’re also a guy full of lies.”

Her gaze that was full of grievance gradually became cold and dim.

Then her entire being walked into the spatial rift without looking back.

At this moment Kagami Yuto inexplicably felt a wave of panic for no reason.

After canceling the transformation, he ran back to the mall without stopping, and relying on his memory found the bench where the girl had agreed to meet him.

However, he did not see her here.

“…She’s not here.”

“Ryuune… she must have gone to take shelter together with other people, right? Damn it, if only I had her contact information.”

He regretted on his own, and his entire being waited in place for a long time again.

However, all the way until the mall closed at closing time, he still did not see her figure.

This made his heart unavoidably feel a sense of loss.

It was not that he cared about the so-called gift or anything.

It was just that with a result like this, he was quite certain that he no longer even had the chance to make up for his mistake…

He was like a liar who had broken an appointment.

The instant he walked out of the mall, his entire being was a little listless.

“This way, it’s impossible not to be disliked…”

His face was full of bitterness.

His only wish now was to pray that she could be safe.

Otherwise he would never forgive himself in this lifetime.

Yuto… you look a little…

Roya in his consciousness saw him like this and also did not quite know how to comfort him.

“Yeah, it’s you, Roya-san. Did you see? I just eliminated the kaiju that was threatening the city.”

His tone carried a kind of complexity that was hard to put into words.

It was clearly something very worth celebrating and making one happy, yet his reaction at this moment was incomparably calm, and his speech was also like stating facts without any emotion.

Mm, I saw it.

I saw your transformation as a warrior, Yuto, and at the same time I’m also very glad I chose the right person at the time.

The other party’s voice rarely carried a few traces of sentiment.

Kagami Yuto smiled.

He was very clear about the gold content of this recognition, but he was also clear about the sacrifice he himself had paid behind it.

One could only say this was the fate one ought to bear after choosing to become a hero.

“But I don’t feel how happy it is… Because I let down someone else’s expectations.”

“She originally should have been a child who needed healing, but after this, perhaps even I have become the person who hurt her…”

“Roya… can someone like me really be counted as a hero?”

Yuto…

This time the other party did not continue to speak.

Perhaps it was because both of them had the answer in their hearts.

Kagami Yuto himself was clear in his heart, and Roya was also very clear.

Saving the world is just like this…

But as long as one can become strong enough, then one day one will definitely be able to establish a world that will not make anyone feel sorrow.

“Mm…”

Upon hearing that, he looked toward the star-filled sky above his head and stood under the moonlight for a long time without speaking.

…

Three days later, Suzuran High School.

“Yuto-sensei, did you hear? The news the principal just announced today!”

“…What?”

In the office during lunch break, Kagami Yuto was biting into a yakisoba bread as he looked at the colleague in front of him who spoke very excitedly.

“The school festival! Because of the successive disasters that have appeared in Minamihara City recently, the school leaders discussed it and directly moved it forward. Now we teachers get a break.”

“School festival…”

Listening to this word that was somewhat familiar yet also strange, a trace of nostalgia could not help but rise in Kagami Yuto’s heart.

“Actually I can also understand the reason the school leaders did this. After all, disasters have been frequent recently. When I hold class I rarely see smiles on the students’ faces anymore. Sigh… they really need some light and happy activities to soothe these kids.”

“…Mm, that’s true.”

“The children are innocent. They don’t have as high a capacity to endure as adults. We adults ought to appropriately send them some humanistic care.”

Speaking of this, he could not help recalling the person he had been deliberately avoiding these past few days.

Tsukimi Ryuune, this girl whose heart had been fiercely wounded by his action of saving the world, and at the same time the most unattainable Unattainable Flower in all of Suzuran High School.

As a psychological counseling teacher, Kagami Yuto felt at a loss for the first time because of his own mistake.

Although he had always wanted to make it up to her in his heart, the current him did not even know where to start in explaining the matter from that time.

This caused him to keep evading these past few days.