The Hero's Sword, those were the words Uchi had left them with. Thanks to being only a day prior, and pretty bizzare as well, Saki still remembers well that conversation.
Uchi:It's the Hero's Sword, Kumagawa-senpai.
Saki:Are we talking about some sort of RPG game...
Uchi:Upupu. That ain't it, Sukinasaki-senpai.
Even though Uchi almost died, her cheekiness was still strong. It seems idiocy wasn't the only thing that didn't go away after you died.
Kumagawa:[Saki-chan, when you say RPG game, you're repeating the word game that's already in the acronym.]
At that moment she decided to just shut up. So she sulked quietly and watched their conversation.
Kumagawa:[The Hero's Sword. Is that the message that Anshin'in-san wanted to give to me?]
Uchi:That's exactly it. And before you ask, she didn't give me any other messages after that. Kumagawa-senpai, the message that Anshin'in-san sent you is, "Find the Hero's Sword!". And that's it.
Saki began to be more and more curious about this Anshin'in-san they alwais seem to be talking about. Whoever Anshin'in-san is, at this point they seem to just play around with Kumagawa.
Kumagawa:[Guessing from the direction this conversation is going, is it safe to assume that that Hero's Sword or whatever is somewhere within Suisou Academy? Is it safe to assume Anshin'in-san is telling me to go find it somewhere in here?]
Uchi:You're free to assume whatever you want. Well, Anshin'in-san is the one that thinks that too much freedom can make a game boring, so if it were up to me, I'd interpret it as the game field being limited to the grounds of Suisou Academy.
Kumagawa:[Okay, then I'll just think like that. Saki-chan, it's getting late today, so tomorrow after school. Come along with me. Since I'm still not used to this academy yet, so I barely know where anything is in this school, let alone the Hero's Sword. I don't even know right from left.]
And now after finishing today's lessons, that is after she finished her lessons while Kumagawa just rested in the Student Council Room, they were searching for this Hero's Sword. This really felt lije an RPG, although she'll still continue refereing to them as RPG games in her mind.
Saki:...Thinking about it, a Hero's Sword isn't exactly an item that suits you, huh.
Kumagawa:[Saki-chan, you didn't even have to say that for me to be aware of it, though.]
On that note, resting seems to have done some good to Kumagawa. Although he still wasn't at full health and his voice was a little frail.
Kumagawa:[It can't be helped. That in itself is probably how Anshin'in-san is harassing me.]
Saki:Harassing? Is she the kind of person that harasses people, that Anshin'in-san?
Kumagawa:[Well, she's certainly not the kind of person that doesn't, so yeah. She's the kind of person that enjoys making her friends wear clothes that don't suit them.]
Saki:Isn't that awful...
It seems making people wear clothes that didn't suit them somehow tramsitioned to making Kumagawa use an item that didn't suit him. Although Saki had no desire to dig into his past.
Kumagawa:[So, Saki-chan. Any ideas?」
"Huh?"
「I'm asking if you have any ideas regarding the Hero's Sword.]
Saki:Of course I wouldn't...Eh, did you perhaps think that I actually had any ideas?
Kumagawa:[You know everything about this school, though, don't you, Saki-chan?]
Saki:How much are you overestimating me...That's too much of an overestimation. It's true that I'd done something along the lines of cooperating with Jakago-san before, but that was only a little bit. Really, it was only just a little.
Kumagawa:[Is that so? Then that's fine, too.Then, where should we start looking... This academy is surprisingly large, after all, despite the number of students actually attending.]
Saki:Since it's apparently a sword, shouldn't we be looking somewhere like the Kendo Club room or the dojo? Although that's a pretty normal way of thinking.
Kumagawa:[The Kendo Club only has katanas, right? Whether they're made of bamboo or wood...They're not swords.]
Saji:Hm? What's the difference between a sword and a katana?
Kumagawa:[A sword has two edges, while a katana has one, that's the general idea of it.]
Saki:I see...
Although she nodded her head, sge didn't really believe any of the facts he spouted. He was, after all, an compulsive liar.
Saki:But, ignoring wooden katanas, bamboo katanas are round, so couldn't you say they have two edges?
Kumagawa:[No, no, even bamboo katanas have a proper top and bottom. You can tell by the string. The side with the string is the edge, so even if you manage to land a hit with the wrong side, it won't count as a hit.]
Saki:Then why is it called kendo, the way of the sword? Shouldn't it be called the way of the katana?
Kumagawa:[Well, I'm sure there was some guy like me that misunderstood something somewhere.]
Saki:...Suisou Academy also has an Iaido Club. But in iaido, they also use katanas, right? They use Japanese swords.
Kumagawa:[Well, for them, apparently they don't have such a strict definition, and in terms of the dictionary they can use both swords and katanas, so I'm not unwilling to go check their club activities out. But since I'm a pretty contrary kind of guy, I'd rather approach this from a different perspective than starting from such an obvious place.]
His reasoning was all over the place. Good, it seems he has recovered to full health.
Saki:In that case, how should we approach this?
Kumagawa:[How about the girls' locker room?]
If that was the case she has to stop him even with the cost of his life. However, went past the door in question, descended the stairs, and left the school building.
Even though he asked for her to guide him, he was moving around just fine on his own. Although she has come to expect this level of selfishness from him.
Saki:But really, after using a pistol in Russian Roulette, we now have a sword called the Hero's Sword...I wonder if there's a connection.
Kumagawa:[Maybe. It could be interesting if we discovered that it was something story-like, but it's hard to say with only two keywords. In the first place, Saki-chan, what do we need to do for this game to end, again?]
Saki:Eh? That's, finding the Hero's Sword, right?
Kumagawa:[No, surely that isn't just the end of the game. Swords are meant to cut things down, aren't they? In other words, Anshin'in-san, as the gamemaster, probably wants me to use that
Hero's Sword to cut something down.]
That made sense, this item has to have a purpose if this Anshin'in-san, who was apparently a girl, was making them look around for it. Although she thought there was more to it to such an intense game.
Saki:But I wonder what that something is?
Kumagawa:[Who knows. We'll probably only learn that after we find the Hero's Sword. Although it's not like we can't guess right now. Perhaps, if Anshin'in-san is trying to do something like make me wear clothes that don't suit me. If she's trying to make me play the role of a Hero, then a natural opponent that I need to cut down comes to mind.]
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