In the palm of my hands, there were two stones that continued to pulsate.
Putting off the intense pain of my palms into the corner of my mind, I noticed that I was looking at Aoinoun-san.
“Eh? Hah? Eggs?”
“How are they hatching!? For one whole month, I’ve tried talking to them, stroking them, and warming them, but the children wouldn’t awaken at all!”
Well, even if you ask me…
“Eh, rather, the police…”
“Ah, that’s right!”
Aoinoun-san, who had her arms crossed and was concealing her chest, held out her right hand.
“S-sorry. I didn’t know how to use it, so I accidentally broke it…”
“M-my smartphone…”
There it was, with a pitiful big hole and its circuits exposed, my apple phone.
“T-that stuff aside! My eggs!”
Did she just say that stuff?
“Damn it, I told you to call an ambulance!”
I was a little bit irritated, so I involuntarily spoke too casually.
“Ah, I recover fast, so it’s not a problem.”
As she said that, she opened up the jacket and displayed her right shoulder.
She brushed away the blood that was already starting to clot with her finger. She showed her beautiful skin that didn’t have a single injury in order to emphasize her point.
“…Ah, is that so.”
So in the end, I was the only one who got injured?
“Then, we should take the kidnapper to the polic…”
It seems like what was stolen were actually eggs, so there was no difference from a kidnapping.
That crude lion, Gasaraio, must be handed over to the police.
I shook my head and looked at the fallen Gasaraio.
“Ah.”
Eh?
My eyes met with someone from a bird tribe that was currently shouldering Gasaraio.
She had colorful hair, like from the South. She had a yellow beak and just like Gasaraio, a down jacket furnished with red fur, but this one was silver.
A woman from a bird race that resembled a parrot was carrying the fainted Gasaraio into a van.
“Te-Tehe?”
There was a bizarrely huge thing from the right side of the beak. What is that? Is that the tongue?
The tongue-like piece of flesh was exposed and the bird tribe laughed.
I wonder if she was trying to TehePero, but what came out was “Tehezuron”
“That guy’s running away!”
“Please don’t move, Kunpei-san!!!!”
“Y-yes.”
Aoinoun-san shouted with a voice louder than mine.
That vigor was intense, I was overpowered and couldn’t move.
“Let’s get out of here, elder brother! We were exposed!”
“O-k, g-e-t o-n.”
I saw a gray furball sitting in the van’s driver seat.
Was it a uniform? This guy was also wearing a down coat with red fur, but the coat was black.
Ah, after getting a better look, that guy looks like a sloth. What’s the name of that tribe?
The van’s door was slammed shut and the engine sound resounded.
And just like that, the van fiercely took off.
“You dare steal my eggs!! I won’t let you get awaaaaaaay!!!”
Aoinoun-san roared.
She flung off my jacket and leapt.
At that instant, a lightning-like light illuminated the surroundings.
“W-what was that!”
“Gaaaaaaaaaaah!!”
A roar sounded with the earth.
My field of vision was blocked due to a flash, I took priority in protecting the pulsing things in my palms.
I closed my eyes tightly, then opened them wide.
After a short time, my eyes adjusted and I realized that I was enveloped by a large shadow.
I looked up.
“O-ooh”
The one that was there, was a dragon.
The dragon spread its large blue wings with all its might and roared towards the sky.
“Ah, what’s that?”
Before the roaring dragon, far away in the sky, there was a revolving, dazzlingly ball of light floating in the air.
It swallowed up the surrounding black clouds and gradually grew in size.
The dragon closed its mouth for a moment and took a deep breath.
“Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!”
The dragon once again opened its mouth and roared.
The ball of light simultaneously flew forward in a straight line.
It flew towards the van that was escaping.
“U-uaaah!?”
I saw the impact when it hit the van.
I couldn’t see anything because of the intense flash of light, I also couldn’t hear anything because of the explosion, thunderous roar, and the tremors of the earth.
But I knew the result.
They died, right?
(Though I later found out that those three including Gasaraio were alive. In the charred remains of what used to be a van, they were twitching inside and was arrested by the police. How tough.)
The shockwave finally settled down, the dragon emitted a pale light and gradually shrank.
“Phew. That was refreshing.”
The light disappeared and a beautiful girl appeared.
“U-um”
“Ah, please stay like that Kunpei-san! The eggs might be hatching because you touched them!”
Eh, me?
I’m already too confused to know what I should ask about first.
First of all, I’ll go to a cellphone shop tomorrow. Was I escaping from reality?
“Ah! Please look!”
Aoinoun-san put on the jacket that had fallen and crouched down beside me.
“Look! The child on the right! It’s almost time! It’s the older sister!”
Certainly, the egg that I was touching with my right hand was rattling and shaking differently than before.
It felt like something was whittling down the interior.
My right hand that was originally seriously injured started to feel warm.
“Do your best! Just a little bit more!”
Aoinoun-san’s tension kept on rising.
It doesn’t seem like she has any leeway to answer my questions.
Something cracking and a splitting sound could be heard.
The egg in my right hand started shaking even more intensely.
At the same time, the egg in my left hand also started to shake bit by bit.
“Wow, wow! The child in the left hand as well! Amazing!”
“I-I can remove my hands now, right?”
“Ah, yes! It seems like it’s okay already! Here, please look!”
I finally let go and calmed down for the time being.
I took a deep breath.
Let’s be calm about this Kunpei.
A noticeably high-pitched sound was created and large cracks appeared on the egg to the right.
The eggshell was falling in large pieces.
I glanced at Aoinoun-san and saw that she was shedding large drops of tears and dripping snot.
She continued to earnestly murmur “do your best, do your best”.
The egg on the left also successfully started cracking, Aoinoun-san was anxiously turning her head and looking back and forth.
Some time passed.
Before I realized it, I was gripping Aoinoun-san’s hand and hugging her shoulders and watching over the eggs. I was unable to endure and couldn’t just watch without doing anything.
I had no ulterior motive.
Soon, just before Aoinoun-san became dehydrated due to her tears, that moment arrived.
“Ahh, Acchooo!!”
She sneezed at the same time that they hatched.
A head penetrated through the last layer of shell, she opened her eyes and blinked with all her strength.
“Ah, aaah… she hatched…!!”
I felt Aoinoun-san’s hand began trembling, overcome with emotion.
There was thin whitish hair on its head, it was probably fluff.
It hasn’t grown out yet so you could see the scalp.
The partially opened eyes showed beautiful dark eyes, before we were aware she was staring at us as we were nestled close to each other.
“…Ahー”
“Un….un! It’s mama!”
Aoinoun-san reached out towards the child sitting on the shell.
The girl gazed at the hand for a moment, then suddenly grabbed Aoinoun-san’s middle finger.
And then…
“Ahー!”
It was the cutest smile in the world.
That was perhaps the day I had my destined meeting.
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