NOVEL NEXT Chapter 73 – First Meeting with Roboco Part 2
From A-chan's expression, I could see she wanted to call Miyako right now. It's easy for me to understand where she is coming from. I would do the same thing if I found my acquaintance's twelve-year-old son alone in the middle of the city in the late afternoon.
I'm sorry, though, A-chan. I still wanted to indulge myself without being around Ruby and Ai for a while. Well, I basically also wanted to get used to my situation without the two of them and since I had gained access to this energy. I thought it would be good to get used to parting ways while it was still new, and I was quite excited myself.
In the end, I used my acting skills and closeness with Sora to convince A-chan to give up calling Miyako, and it all ended with me texting Ruby with a picture of myself with the two of them. To give away that I was with someone Ruby knew.
I have known Sora for six years, and the connection between me and Starlight was very close because almost all of their hit songs are songs I wrote. Therefore, it's not strange, but we work together a lot and interact with each other, and we are all very close to each other.
That's why Sora doesn't seem to spoil me compared to Mem-cho and Rin. When I begged with a pleading face and sparkling eyes acting like a child, Sora still couldn't refuse my request, and in the end, I ended up following them around.
Well, although a serious person, A-chan follows the preferences of the artists she handles as long as it doesn't deviate too much from the schedule and doesn't contradict the company's vision. She also knows about me, better known as the genius son of the company's owner, Miyako.
I'm also the reason why A-chan, who was new to the company, was immediately able to become one of the managers who took care of the group, Starlight, which Ichigo used to do. Even she had difficulty rejecting my request.
It's not like they are going to a weird place, or maybe because they brought me with them. We just visited a store and did some shopping. For me, I just followed them around and saw all kinds of spirits in the different places we went. There was a time when a small spirit approached me, and I tried to hold onto it. There seemed to be some spirits that I could hold and absorb into myself. It's just that I don't think it was very significant, just like what happened to the bathroom spirit.
"Did the weather suddenly change?" A-chan spoke while looking up and stretching her hand into the air to see if it was raining or not.
"Yes, isn't it different from the weather forecast?" Sora replied to A-chan's words.
"How about we call a taxi?"
What caught my attention was not the change in the weather but the change in the aura around me, whether it was a bad omen or the number of spirits that felt more and more.
Then despite the many spirits, I felt a different and recognizable aura— Ah, it felt like the same aura I felt in Jimina Production House, but why could I feel it here? It leads to a passageway between buildings. Unquestionably, I walked straight into my feelings.
"Eh, where are you going?" Sora immediately asked when she saw I had moved away.
"Ah, sorry. But I feel like I saw something there." I replied and continued stepping into the passageway, where I soon found someone who looked exhausted and sweaty.
The person was a girl not much different in age from Sora, with darker brown hair that turned slightly pink at the bottom and golden eyes. It was a girl I recognized because I had seen her performing on stage a week ago. A girl that had the same appearance as Roboco from my previous life.
"Ha… Haaaa… What? Why is there a kid here?" She said so while trying to control her breathing.
Then a short time later, I heard a cliché scream from many movies.
"She turned over there!"
Before, two adult men dressed in all black entered the passageways while pointing to Roboco.
"Stop right there!!"
"Shit!" Roboco swore when she wanted to run away again, but because Sora and A-chan followed me, which made the passageways a little crowded and probably because she was exhausted and the weather started to rain. She slipped away and fell toward the two of them.
"You can't run away!"
Seeing two men with rather angry faces approaching them, Sora and A-chan immediately went on alert.
"What are you trying to do to her?" Sora immediately threw those questions toward them; of course, they replied with a rough voice.
"That's not your problem."
"Wait, don't touch her, or I will call the police!?" A-chan immediately acted as Sora's manager.
As for me, even though they are much bigger than me. They don't make a strong impression like Ryuju-san. Therefore, I immediately stood between the two men with Roboco and the others.
"Isn't it embarrassing for a man to act like that to a girl in front of a child?" I said while looking at the two of them, wondering what I would do.
"Hah!!? Do you want to get punched or something?"
Well, at least they didn't try to hide their objective and immediately tried to push me away. But before one of them could touch me, I evaded with ease and replied to their words mockingly.
"Hm, It's not like you can touch me anyway."
"This little rascal…"
Oh well, because of the difference between adults and children. I don't think I need to play fair or anything like that. Especially when those people almost certainly underestimated me and were also in a hurry to catch Roboco before he escaped again.
Hm, okay then.
Ryuju-san taught me that when fighting someone with a big body, utilize the power they give. I think people in my previous world called it Aikido or something like when one of the men caught me this time. His hand that was about to grab my body was already at a disadvantage because his body was slightly bent down to grab me.
He may have thought his movement was fast, but for me, their movement was slower than Ryuju-san's fast and precise movement. I evaded it while grabbing his sleeve rather than his hand, but it was enough for my hand to pull him down and with my strength plus his already downward position and aided by gravity, my strength was enough to make him lose his balance. And used his collapse to create enough strength to smash his face with my knee.
""What!?""
That person and I were both surprised. The man was surprised at my ability, while I was surprised at the power I got from my kicks. I still didn't know how to use it, but it seemed like the energy I had from sucking in those little spirits rushed out and gave additional power to my kicks. That was enough to knock him out.
"Shit!! How dare you!?" The other man changed his posture to a fighting stance, something different from what he had done before, but he was still not skilled enough compared to me, who had learned martial arts and also sparred with Ryuju-san, who was a martial arts expert.
After his many attempts to attack me were unsuccessful, he changed his plan by aiming his attack at my casted hand. Well, it was a pretty good plan, but unfortunately for him, my hand didn't really hurt anymore.
Well, it hurt, but not that big of a deal, so I deliberately let him catch my hand. I could see his face that looked 'Ha– I caught you' as I used that split second of carelessness to viciously step on his feet without pause before violently attacking his fragile family jewels without any care. Since I'm still a child and much weaker in people's eyes, I don't think I will be judged harshly, right?
After making sure those two wouldn't wake up I immediately looked toward the three of them and said.
"I think we should leave immediately since we don't know if their friend will catch up with us."
The three of them seemed to agree with me as they looked at each other and nodded before leaving the passageway.
"Haaaah… Thank you for saving me, but I think it would be much better for us to part ways," Roboco said, still looking exhausted and her breath still rough.
Sora and A-chan were worried but understood what Roboco said.
"I think you should stay with us, Roboco-san," I answered him. When I said that, her face was shocked momentarily before looking at me suspiciously.
"How?"
"I know about you and Azki since I'm interested in you two."
"Ha?"
Once again, she looked shocked.
"I know. I might look suspicious in your eyes. But we also know about the Jimina Production House and we also know about their drugs and petty prostitution, so how about we work together." I said that to her with some small whisper in the middle of my sentence so Sora and A-chan don't catch on to those words.
The look on Roboco's face turned into a serious expression.
Before I told her once again, "Well, how about we talk for a bit?"
Roboco nodded her head in agreement with my proposal.
