Book 3: Chapter 5: Part 8 (Ibuki)
I let out a deep breath overlooking Horikita who had lost her consciousness completely. It’s been a while since I had such a stubborn opponent. Maybe if her physical condition had been good, it wouldn’t have been a ridiculous situation regardless of the winner. She was that strong.
I continued what I was doing shortly afterwards and dug up the flashlight and transceiver wrapped in vinyl. Although I would have rather gotten by without using those if I could.
“What…?”
Right after I took out the two items buried in the ground, I was caught by a mysterious sensation. I didn’t know the cause of it. It’s just that for some reason I had a feeling they were different compared to the last time I had buried them.
“Could it be… due to rain?”
Concluding it must have been only my overthinking, I got my hands on the transceiver. Then I reported my current location to him who was waiting to be contacted from somewhere and sat down to rest.
30 minutes must have passed since then. A flashlight flashed its light in front of me. Two times. Three times. It was well-regulated like the Morse code. I did the same and sent a signal using the flashlight near my feet. In order to resonate with each other, his guiding light went stronger. With his irritating face I didn’t want to see, Ryuuen showed up.
“Oi. Thank you for your hard work, Ibuki, it was a good performance.”
“… That was justified, right?”