I will swear to protect the beauty with my life

While everyone was enjoying their meal downstairs, the two people upstairs began their escape plan.

As a result, the mission failed.

Rikka, who planned to climb down from the roof through the window, stepped on the trap set by Touka as soon as she took a step.

The people who were eating downstairs only heard a sound of steel knocking, and an iron basin tied with a rope fell down.

"I fell into a trap."

"Eh?"

Without waiting for the others to react, Shihua put down the dish in her hand, took off her apron and walked out the door.

He jumped slightly and grabbed the eaves, then turned over and flew up with an almost perfect gymnastics move, showing off his ancestral bird swimming skills, and then quietly looked at the two people in front of him.

Before Rikka could recover from being shot in the head by the iron basin, the big boss Touka had already arrived.

"I didn't expect you to side with her... What do you mean?"

Looking at Yuta who betrayed her, Tohka felt puzzled. They agreed to stand on the same side, but in the blink of an eye he ran to the opposite side.

"Who knows? I don't know myself."

This was true, Yuta didn't know why he did this, but seeing Rikka so sad made him want to go with her, and even he couldn't explain why.

"That was a cool sentence just now."

"Shut up."

The two people in front of him were still in the mood to chat even in such a situation, and Shihua felt a little melancholy in his heart.

Maybe Yuta is not reliable at all.

"Really...it seems like you are still a dangerous person!"

Touka has already drawn Yuta into the enemy camp and raised the spoon in his hand, ready to clear the gate first and annihilate the enemy camp at the same time.

Facing her sister, Rikka naturally drew out her weapon (folding umbrella) and stepped forward to meet the enemy, while Yuta seized the opportunity and jumped directly from the second floor without caring about his original plan to leave sneakily. This made Touka, who was standing by, very nervous. If something happened, it would be a big deal.

Fortunately, Yuta still had some sense and jumped to the bushes below. He used the plants to buffer the gravitational potential energy as much as possible in exchange for elastic potential energy and fell onto the road.

Yuta climbed up, not caring about the pain from being pricked by the bushes. He stood up and looked at Rikka who was still in a confrontation with him, and opened his arms.

"Jump! Jump! Rikka!"

Just as Touka was breathing a sigh of relief when she saw that Yuta was safe and sound, she was numbed by Yuta's yell, because she saw Rikka really jumped down, and her heart was in her throat.

Fortunately, Rikka, who also fell on the bushes, was caught by Yuta when she bounced up. Although Yuta was also thrown to the ground by Rikka, both of them were fine.

"Are you okay?"

"It's okay... I'll take you to where the twin blue wheels (bicycles) are hidden..."

Watching the two people slowly going away, Shihua did not chase after them. She knew that she could not stop them. Even if she blocked them here today, they would still find another chance to get past.

But she was afraid. She was afraid that Liuhua would collapse after seeing the truth. Since her father's house was sold, she never let Liuhua go back and never told her...

She looked at the two people going away, especially Yuta. Maybe he could really help Rikka get out of the haze. Just like Dongfang said, give them more time...

"How...nosy..."

I don't know if she is talking about Yuta or herself.

At this time, Fang Wuwei, who was drinking tea in the living room, was also ready to take action. Seeing Shihua turning around and leaving after coming down from the roof, Fang Wuwei stood up and followed.

He just didn't know the way, but he didn't plan to take Shihua's car. He had another way. Apart from anything else, he would probably be faster than Shihua if he ran there.

On the other side, Yuta has already started riding his bike towards a still unknown destination, dragging behind him Rikka who is skating in roller shoes.

Even though this has some impact on his progress, it doesn't matter. If it's Rikka, it doesn't matter and she has no complaints.

"How much further to go?"

"About ten kilometers."

"What... is this far?!"

He wasn't wearing any shoes, so his feet would hurt if he rode the bike.

"It doesn't matter! Because the Dark Flame User is the strongest!"

"The strongest?"

"Well, you are the strongest after all! The Dark Flame User is the strongest!"

For a person with Chuunibyou, the best confession is to admit that the other person is stronger than oneself.

Although Yuta didn't hear the love hidden in Rikka's words, since Rikka said so, Yuta couldn't be discouraged and had to endure it no matter how painful it was.

"It's speeding up, hold on tight!"

"...But the real strongest one is the Evil King's True Eye."

"Haha, okay, okay~"

————This is a lovely dividing line————

Along the way, the two talked and laughed, and chatted as they moved forward. It was not until they were close to their destination that Rikka began to tell how she discovered the invisible boundary line.

"You said you saw it? Three years ago?"

"Well...I saw it the night Dad left."

At that time, Rika was still a normal and cute child, standing alone on the seawall. In front of her was a drop of more than ten meters and the ocean. She stared at the sea, but her eyes were as lifeless as ashes.

Suddenly, a flashing white line appeared in front of her eyes, as bright as the Milky Way, with countless halos, dividing the sky and the sea.

Even though it was just a line of countless lights from the other side of the sea, for Rikka it was the only light, the only hope, and even the faith.

“Through the invisible boundary, I saw my father… I saw him, so he is still here, watching over here and watching over me from the other side of the boundary.

must."

We have no way of knowing why Rikka was standing alone on the levee that day, and we don't know what the disheartened Rikka would have done if the 'invisible boundary line' hadn't appeared.

Chuunibyou is not only an escape from reality, but also the motivation that keeps her alive.

The invisible boundary saved Rikka, but it also harmed her.

Rikka, who was already tired of skiing, sat in the back seat of the car and let Yuta take her forward.

For Yuta, he could neither confirm what Rikka said nor deny her. Reality was extremely cruel and Rikka would eventually have to face it, but... he couldn't bear to hurt her.

Suddenly, Rikka asked Yuta to stop the car and jumped out of the back seat.

"Reached?"

"Yes! It's right in front of us. It's my base, where I lived with my father and everyone else!"

Rikka wanted to walk by herself, through the familiar streets, towards the place she once called home.

She was full of expectations. She expected her father to still be there, she expected the happiness she once had, and she expected the happy times in the past.

However, there was no home as she remembered, nor the beautiful warmth. There was only an open space full of wild flowers and weeds, and a for sale sign in the middle.

She stood there blankly, unable to accept this reality for a moment. Her mind went blank. Yuta, who was walking slowly behind her pushing a cart, could only stand there when he saw this scene.

Not far behind them, Shihua, who had already arrived by car, opened the car door and got out. She had known that they would come here and had been waiting for a long time.

But they didn't know that, on the roof farther away, there was a figure standing quietly, with a red light flashing in his right eye...

Looking at Liuhua who was walking blankly into the barren land in front of him, Shihua did not comfort or apologize, but just spoke coldly.

"This is reality, Daddy is gone! This is it, right now! Can't you accept reality?!"

Rikka didn't respond, nor did she make any movement, as if she hadn't heard it at all...but the tears that she shed silently gave the answer.

There was a long silence. Even though the sounds of cicadas and crickets continued in their ears, both Yuta and Rikka felt only a dead silence.

Finally, Liuhua gave her own answer...

He pulled out a folding umbrella from under him, and began to chant his own spell in a crying voice...

"Explode, reality... break, nerves..."

In response, Touka in front of him took out his spoon from behind his back.

"Exile...from this world!"

As Rikka took off her blindfold, the tears floating in the air and Rikka's right eye reflected a golden light that flashed away.

The battle is about to begin...