Then, Kissshot let out a long laugh, then stopped only to said
"I see... So there is that kind of future too... that kind of world too...that kind of route too--So, there is a chance that thee and I will meet with each other"

She said as she cried.
The very same as she did in the last Spring Holiday.

Bloody tears wet her cheeks--as she cried.

"Kukuku. Totally the best. I have messed it all up just because of my own jealousy. I've lost you after I ran away from 'home', and kept feeling something is not complete in myself... but there isn't anything that is more painful than this--To be shown the possibilities of meeting you like this"

"... ... ... ..."

"I see--That aloha ******* has told me the same, so he was right after all. He really can read all this too well, huh--It's laugahable. Didn't thee feel the same too?"

You guys.

With her eyes overflowing with blood, and her clouded eyeballs which seems like melting, she talks to us, here for the first time.

Being the one who is able to kill us without even using her pinky finger--But she didn't.


With her cramped smile stayed at it is.

She asked us.

"I feel the same"

The one who answered her, is Shinobu.
It is just like the one who questioned it answered it by herself.

"What a nice way of make a fool of thee own self. Such a great timing for some joke. What's with that look?--Thee still can't die even after becoming like that? Being immortal should have its limit--This is what they called of someone who is not knowing when to give up, damned immortal! Let me tell thee this--There should be no difference between thee and me at all. Even though there might be some difference in people we met along the way..."

With Hachikuji being alive.
or whether there is no Hachikuji at all.

"It is not because those situations have not being met, rather it is the difference that I myself buried along within me. This is my, just a little, of compromisation within me. If thee open up your heart to this man a little bit--put trust on him, and if thee do so, there is surely no difference between thee and me. And the history will surely correct itself. Honestly, I still didn't get it why thee failed this much..."

"... ... Haha. My feeling's getting better after thee told me all of that. Me too, didn't get it at all, why thee succeed in the first place"

I want a walkthrough book--said she.

After saying that, Kissshot laid her hips down onto the ground--No. Rather saying that, it's more like she's being broken into pieces, without traces of her power on the ground of the shrine.

Though the her surrounding atmosphere didn't weakened after all.
But her bloody tears has stopped.

"Me from the other world, and my servant from the other world"

With that she gazed upon us,

"I'll have thee return back to your own world"

She said.

"... ... Eh?"

In an instant, the meaning of those words is not understandable.
To us.

No, in the first place, how did Kissshot knew that we were travellers coming from another world? Sure that, Shinobu and I, looks very close to each other to her, but it is really impossible to know that fact in an instant. Maybe this is a bit rude, but she definitely didn't possess such amazing deductive capability.

But then--I still try to guess an aswer even though there are many doubts filling my head.

It is Oshino.
It is Oshino Meme.

Oshino had gathered the urban legend of Shinobu and me, of eleven years ago, during his pursue of collecting apparition phenomenons--He had predicted the possibility of our visit from the alternate route, supposedly in April or May in this timeline.

So, based on this reasoning, there should be some explanations.


That and--some hints she thought of during her stay with him in the school ruin.

Theory of the routes.
As if she's been told of the existence of parallel worlds during that time.

Though, she will probably let loose of what being told to her--But if she took it seriously back then, this world would not be in this state as it is right now.

She look upon us.
In a compromised way.

She look upon Oshino Shinobu and Araragi Koyomi, who are working together.
She, Kissshot most probably has realized something.
And,
Understand all of it.

Because to look upon at this such scene, where she herself work along with someone, is what she had been longing for her entire life, for hundreds of years--

"Return us back to the real world? What did thee mean?"

Shinobu, puzzled, look upon 'herself'.

It is like, when one is unable to read the surrounding atmosphere, at all.

Without even trying to understand the depth of the other party's heart--not to mention the person is she herself--So, if the world is different to your own reality, the person should not be the same--a stranger.

Even though one should not meet with himself in the past or in the future world--And it is so that I keep wary that I will not meet with my ownself of eleven years ago--but now,

What are these two looking at, and what do they feel?
To what point--will they clash with each other?
This is the so-called 'your different self'.

"What? Do you guys want to stay long in this collapsing world--in this world that I have destroyed? Didn't you guys wanted to return if you could do so?"

Said Kissshot, while seeking for that of our 'real world'.

"Yeah, we do. But there isn't enough energy left"
Shinobu replied, and Kissshot asked again,
"So, if there's enough energy, everything's perfect, correct?"

"Like--If thee could have those dead clans of mine which have been rampaging all over the city, don't thee will obtain those lost energy back?"

"... ... Nonsense. That's the reason thee have failed so much. Those zombies were the residents of this city, aren't they? They're humans. There's no way I could turn those into energy"

"So, humans can't be our source of energy eh..."
"Absolutely"
"This is so not like me"
"To me, this is like myself"

"Then, just convert my energy to yours"
And Kissshot replied.

While placing her palm onto her own chest.

"Even it risks of me dying, if the powerful Kissshot Acerola Orion Heart-Under-Blade converts her own spiritual energy to thee, thee should probably could jump into another route for one more time"

If there's a possibility--then it is good.
It is like waiting for a fish to eat the bait given.

And this time--I let go of these two pieces of demon blades.
Yes.
As Oshino had wrote in the letter, telling me to save the world--and that was one hell of a request to me--and there is no a part, even a word, telling me to defeat Kissshot, written in the letter at all.

He could have never wished for me doing that sort of thing.
And so, I look at her, face to face.

It is fine just by showing each other self.
And by only that deed--She is saved.
And the world can be save.
With the little girl in front of her eyes--also the same 600 years old Kissshot.

...... In actuality, if Oshino is here, while looking at Shinobu and me holding four pieces of these dangerous nodachi, and if he looks at us being all violent, he will surely say something like this,

[You guys look great. Is there anything good happened?]--At the very least.

And to her, this is a good thing.
And so,
for us too.

"Thee want me to turn your spiritual energy into mine--So, thee want me to suck your blood?"
"Surely. Yes"
"You sure? You'll die"
"Sure. I'm more like dying right now"
"I see"

And that is all.
That were all the conversations going along between Oshino Shinobu and Kissshot Acerola Orion Heart-Under-Blade. Probably, they didn't try to understand each other.
After all, oneself of another world is a different person, a stranger.
They will not understand each other if they do not desire to do so.
But and so,
There's no need any meaningless words to be exchanged between them.

As Shinobu moves towards Kissshot, I followed the same deed--And after we walk passed near her,

"Thee, my servant from the alternate route"
She called me.
Kissshot called me.

"This is not some kind of deal or bargain though, just a plead from me--Could you please pat my head?"

"----I would love to"
I answered her in an instant, and place my hand onto her head.
Slow and tender.

I pat her head softly as her whole body melting like a mud--Touching her soft blond hairs and stir them softly. As I keep doing that, her stiff expression changed and let loose, showing her most happy face.

Even Shinobu wouldn't changed into that kind of expression, even if I let her suck my blood.

With this, our Summer Adventure ended.
I have a feeling that this is fulfilling than doing my summer homeworks.