Chapter 8: Thus, The foreshadowing of his enemy
-Sōbu High School, Theatre Room Back Stage
"No, I am Zero..."
Hikigaya said as he acted his Zero persona with an embarrassed feeling while he was doing a signature pose of Zero.
(Ahh, I want to die.)
"Ehhh, I thought Hikki came here."
Yuigahama said with puzzlement as she managed to see Hikigaya going backstage at the Theatre Stage a few minutes ago.
"You must be mistaking me for someone."
"I see..."
"Then, If you excuse me."
Hikigaya, no longer waiting for Yuigahama to respond, decided to leave with haste together with Luxion, whose floating beside him.
"Wait!"
!?
Yuigahama suddenly grabs Hikigaya's hand, making Hikigaya surprised by her action as she looks at him with an intense look.
"What is it, Miss?"
"..."
"..."
"Hmmm, I see, nothing. You can go now, mister Zero~."
"Ahhh, then..."
Hikigaya said as he left backstage with a hastened foot while being nervous about being exposed by Yuigahama, whose instinct was basically peerless, particularly regarding any related to Hikigaya himself.
[That was a dangerous situation, right, Master?]
"..."
Hikigaya did not say anything as he left the premises of the High School building and decided to go to Middle School building.
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"You did not change... even in this former world or this world... you're still sacrificing yourself for others..."
Yuigahama murmured her thought as she looked at Hikigaya's silhouette.
"Good luck, Hikki..."
Yuigahama whose looking sadly at the departing shadow of Zero.
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-Sōbu Middle School, Underground Evacuation.
"Rice-chan! What should we do!?"
A cute teenage girl with shoulder-length bobbed flaxen hair said while acting scared in front of another teenage girl who has medium-length black hair and a strand of hair standing straight from her head.
"Iroha-senpai, acting coyly with me won't earn you senpai points to me in this situation!?"
"But~"
The teenage girl, who has medium-length black hair, sighed in frustration as she tried to pacify her senior, who has a lack of urgency in this situation. However, she's also the same as she is not scared of what's happening outside the school.
(Well, big brother was only a building away from me... He would likely do something about this...)
"Let's go, senpai! Let's help out our teacher!"
"Ehh?!"
Hikigaya Komachi hoped for the situation to finish right away as she helped the teachers together with Isshiki Iroha to pacify all the scared students in the underground evacuation of the school.
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-Sōbu Middle School, Front Yard
"Tch! Does dogs of UFN... How did they know that we're going to attack this place."
Jessica said as she clicked her tongue with hatred while looking at Knightmare frames that surrounded the whole building of Sōbu Middle School, together with her comrades that were in their IS frame, an unidentified IS frame that was manufactured illegally.
"Leader! All the students have evacuated underground the building."
"HAH! Do they think with that minuscule force, they would be able to stop us? Initiate our plan."
"Yes!"
(Now, come Zero... If you don't want me to massacre these brats.)
Jessica, hoping for Zero to come, manages to see a silhouette of a man walking in her direction without protection, as though he owns the whole world itself. A man that would make any ordinary terrorist and country leader tremble in fear.
"How tasteless for remnants of DEM industries to attack this place. You guys must be desperate just to look for me."
Hikigaya, now Zero, said while holding a chess piece with a button switch in its head. His dramatic walking was filled with swift gait while his uniform fluttered the very wind itself, making a certain former reporter filled with ecstasy as he recorded all that was happening in front of him.
[Master, that idiot was filming you again]
"That Diethard still obsesses over Zero, huh? After this long year of my absence, he is still looking upon this character."
Hikigaya shakes his head while continuing to walk towards the terrorist group, who become petrified as they did not expect that the objective of their mission would show in the early stage of their plan.
"You bastard have a gall, huh!? DIE"
"Don't, Jessica!"
-CLINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
A sound of grating metal could be heard as Jessica decided to hack Hikigaya in half just for her to be intercepted by the absolute territory that was deployed early on by Luxion, a barrier that could deflect any physical attack according to the power of its enemy.
"Foolish! Don't bother attacking me."
"Zero, ZERO, ZEROO!!! I won't forgive you and Takamiya Mana."
"..."
(Oi, this woman is crazy!)
Hikigaya screams in his mind though he's action differs outside as he looks at Jessica with disinterested eyes. An attitude he would show if he found someone as boring or nothing worth looking at.
"Then, where's Isaac, Women?"
"HAH!? Like hell I would tell you!"
"Then, I have no business to you..."
Hikigaya said as he pushed the button in his chess piece, making all the IS frames no longer work as they started crushing on the ground.
"Electric Disturber!? How come you have that thing in this school in this advance?!"
Jessica said with hatred as she looked at the antenna that was suddenly come out of nowhere while disturbing all kinds of electronic devices powered by electricity, including their IS frames.
(Idiot, this is my little sister's school, Of course, I'm going to install this thing to protect her from Knightmare frames and IS frames)
Hikigaya thought, as he had already installed all kinds of defensive facilities in the whole city of Sōbu for this kind of situation, then Luxion, whose been on his side using its analytic ability, decided to tell him the motive the terrorist would likely do base on what he scanned.
"Quite explosives IS frame you guys have... did you plan to kill me by using those explosions that could penetrate absolute territory?"
"You..."
Jessica was speechless. True to his legend, Zero was unparalleled and unpredictable. His analytical abilities to know the situation was already in the domain that any human couldn't perceive.
(His cunningness and intelligence were absurd as if he already knew everything from the beginning...)
"Demon..."
"Well, it's been a while since someone called me that... The Demon King of the East, was it?"
Hikigaya said with a nostalgic expression while remembering his childhood past. Then he suddenly snaps and shakes his head repeatedly.
(No, no, there is nothing to remember about those things!)
"Don't you think you can-"
-BAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMM
Dust of explosion could be seen as Knightmare frames powered by Sakuradite surrounded Zero while kneeling towards him as if they worshiped him.
"We've been waiting for you, Zero-sama. By order of his highness Schneizel, we come to respond to your wishes. Please, issue us your orders."
!?
"Very well. For, I am Zero! The one who destroyed the world, the one who created it anew..."
Hikigaya said that even though he was embarrassed inside as he started to act cool outside, making a certain former reporter become ecstatic as he videoed the return of Zero.
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"Look, Ellen, those Knightmare frames... those are personal bodyguards of Zero... That guy is genuine, Zero."
A tall man wearing a formal jet-black suit with blonde said as he looked at the woman beside him, looking at the dozen Knightmare frames that came from UFN headquarters, which can take a whole army of a nation by itself.
"Yes, Isaac, If Chief of Staff Schneizel El Britannia is moving, then the UFN must be serious."
"Then it's time to retreat..."
Isaac Westcott said with a smirk while looking in the particular direction of a school building.
"Let us meet again, the one who destroyed my dream."
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