My Vampire Older Sister and Zombie Little Sister

Book 9: Chapter 6

The Noble Ingot fire had been extinguished.

Not all the microplastic snow had been cleaned up in the city, but it helped a lot that no more was falling. A ton of dump trucks had come from outside Kukyou City to carry away the snow.

Theyre called the greater wax moth, said the forehead glasses Class Rep. Their larvae actually eat plastic. They were saying on TV we can introduce those here if shoveling the snow isnt enough.

There were a lot of animals that you had to wonder how they ever evolved that way. And didnt the greater wax moth infest beehives?

With all the confusion still ongoing, school wasnt going to start back up for a while yet, but I doubted it would be all that long now.

Once back home, I found Ayumi lying on the living room sofa.

Fugu. Everything on TVs so boring. What theyre saying sounds reasonable enough, but none of it actually solves anything.

What are they supposed to say? If you cant find a culprit, then you have to rule it an accident. And on TV, they can only say what has been confirmed true. Even if someone is clearly dead after being eaten by a croc, they can only say theyre in cardiac arrest until a doctor has declared them dead.

Youre as bad as them.

What do you want from me?

My clumsy older sister had been shoved into the ocean at the end there and she was asleep in her coffin right now since it was daytime. But I had a feeling she wouldnt emerge even once night fell unless I apologized.

Fuguu. But we worked so hard to fix this, so I hate seeing them act like they know what theyre talking about.

We cant go public with what happened and you know it. If youre bored, go help mom.

That mom, Amatsu Yurina, was folding the laundry in a corner of the living room while humming along with the TVs background music. She must have been ecstatic that the power was back on and at her age that apparently meant she wanted to do some ironing. The way she was acting, she might not be willing to give up the work even if you offered to help.

JB.

There was no mention of that name on TV or online. There had been no crew aboard the Noble Ingot, but the ignorant people had all reached their own conclusions, ranging from it was a ghost ship to the crew fled after screwing the pooch so bad.

You want to know what happened with Hotaruzawa Kezuri and the uncontrollable goddess Hecate?

We gave unconscious Umikaze to that god of witches, but we still have no idea what Hecate wanted with her.

But that must have satisfied her in some way because, the next thing we knew, she was gone and the limp Scylla was all that remained.

Hecate had not seemed interested in the mysterious JB and she had not even tried to take that blonde girl away with her.

She lent people her power for fun.

On a whim.

When she felt like it.

We had not been able to leave Umikaze Speechia or Hotaruzawa Kezuri with the normal police. Because the previous JB had been shot by another member of that group in a Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department holding cell after that incident.

But I only knew one place with better security than that.

Mom.

Absolute Noah.

The actual ark had been more or less destroyed and the group really only existed in name only now, but I didnt know any other group with roots hidden all over the underside of the world.

Where had Hecate gone?

Like I said, Umikaze was still with us and Kukyou City was not flooded with witches. Also, there had been no motorboat out on the ocean. She may have chosen some deserted part of the world to go on a secret journey.

But anyway

Sorry about throwing this trouble in your lap.

Its fine, Satori, she replied cheerfully.

Yes.

She really did sound like it was no problem at all while she was down on the floor folding my pajamas.

So, Satori. What do you think JB will do about us holding those two criminals?

Eh? Well, they wont be able to do what they did last time, so wont they be at an impasse?

No. They will come for them no matter what it takes. If they didnt want the police to learn about their group, then they really wont want us to, she stated quite plainly. And that actually works out really well for us. I am thankful for this, Satori. If I told the others we needed to start a war ourselves, I might get some complaints from our own weary people. But if JB is attacking us, we have no choice. We have to defend ourselves, right?

Wait a second, mom. What are you talking about?

We have feelings too. Remember Charlotte the Echidna? Do you know how much JBs appearance affected her and others like her? But if we hunt down JB, they will be drawn back to Absolute Noah. No matter what happened, our power will all return to where it belongs.

No.

Wait.

That wasnt why I had left Umikaze Speechia and Hotaruzawa Kezuri with her.

This wasnt meant to start a new war!!

Absolute Noah may have stopped functioning, but that doesnt mean the Calamity is gone. We did discuss this a fair bit, but we never did find a fundamental solution, so it cant hurt to hold onto the ark. I want to get the ark back up and running as soon as possible and that requires excellent personnel and funding. And Im sure JB needs that too. I dont know what exactly their jailbreak entails, but I can imagine they need a lot of skilled personnel. So the two groups will now be fighting over anyone they can use.

She had said she was thankful.

So was it me?

Had I dumped new oil on Amatsu Yurinas fighting spirit that might have been fully extinguished given enough time!?

A war is beginning.

Her words were frightening and inexcusable, but she sounded somehow refreshed while speaking them.

And we are not up against a natural or manmade disaster this time. This is a battle between organizations.

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