Narrator - Recap, hori is taking on 3 sinners of idolatry!
"No I'm not!!!"
"c'mon, I'll step in if I see your in trouble!"
Haruki tried encouraging her.
"...fine"
She dropped his luggage and slowly walked towards the damaged house.
The truth is I wanna see if she can recreate what happened during that time.
He was referring to the dark frame Hori got when she caved that NPCs nose in.
"ehm.. hello there"
Her hands trembling as she called out to the sinners of idolatry.
"For the wages of sin is deeeeeeaaaathhhh!!!!!!"
It screamed after noticing Hori, causing her to flinch.
She was scared.
This was Hori's 3rd encounter with a sinner.
1st was a sinner of Sloth
2nd a sinner of Addiction
3rd a sinner of Idolatry.
Narrator - Considering she has been missing for about 8 days, encountering 3 sinners was quite rare.
Narrator - Almost as if she attracted them....
"The ominous message isn't helping!"
She snared.
"For the wages of sin is death."
Its shoulders sank. Signaling the other 2 sinners to surround Hori.
Here they come!
She took a fighting stance! But, Hori has never fought someone before!
Ahhh!!!
She started running.
The sinners immediately chased after!
"Why are you running?! Just punch it!"
Haruki ordered from the bushes.
"This is way too scary!!"
She yelled whilst maneuvering her way past the three sinners.
One of the sinners jumps! About to strike hori from above.
"Hori don't be scared! You wanna become a priest right?! Well this is what they do!"
Narrator - Haruki's words made sense. To speak with her father, Hori would have to perform astonishing feats to get a single meeting with the Founder of SHO Japan.
Narrator - So three human sized
Sinners should be childs play given what she aims for.
In that moment, Hori's first day of disappearance played through her head.
She needed to find answers, reunite with her father, make sense of it all!
And so with the quick pep talk, Hori stopped running.
Dark Frame
The backgrounds saturation reduces to zero leaving only the sinners of idolatry and Hori with color.
"Yes!"
Haruki cheered on! Hori was about to perform an impressive feat!
In that split second, she rapidly swung her fist.
As soon as Hori's right hand landed on the sinners face, it's entire upper body was ripped to pieces.
Plop
The lower half falls to the floor.
"....woah"
He thought in awe, if that was a human they would be dead.
"For the wages of sin is death!"
The remaining 2 sinners immediately run away after seeing such strength.
Haruki comes out from the bushes.
Did I just do that?!
I knew i always had strong hands, but this strong?!
"Well done!"
Haruki tapped her shoulder.
The sinner of idolatry's lower half was still twitching as it was still alive.
Normal looking blood flowd from its body.
"Oh no,i couldn't finish it off!"
Hori said with a remorseful face seeing the corpse still struggle in pain.
"Don't worry."
He squats down and quickly eats the corpse. Hori stared with an uncomfortable expression.
burp
"Urgh, gross"
He tapped his chest.
"I was correct!"
"Huh?"
"Your hands aren't normal!"
Haruki said, pointing.
"Yes...i know... their strong."
"yeah no shit, but it's not just ordinary strength. It's almost as if their hard."
Hori looked confused from Haruki's observations.
"Here, try punching my face!"
"Absolutely not!"
"It's alright, I'm a sin so I can regenerate!"
"I would never hit you Haruki-san!"
"ugh! stop being such a pussy and just hit me!
"I am no cat!"
"Just do it!"
"...fine, if you say so."
Hori lean's back holding her fist.
She gave a clean jab to Haruki's face.
Narrator - When Hori decides to inflict harm on an entity, her fists gain 3 properties.
Narrator - Firstly her hands gain the hardness of 10 mohs, the equivalent to actual diamonds.
Narrator - Secondly, because of such density, her fists also become EXTREMELY sharp, piercing through flesh, muscle and bone as easily as a knife cutting cake.
Narrator - Thirdly, also because of such density, her fists gain weight, around the weight of a medium sized bowling ball, increasing the destructive force of the punch.
Narrator - All the listed factors will end up completely CRUSHING Haruki's skull!
splat!
Black blood stains the green grass of the forest and Haruki's head is no longer visible.
His neck seemed to be steaming as the smell of roasted flesh filled Hori's nostrils.
Plop
His headless body falls to the ground as black blood gushed through the tip of his neck.
Haruki's brains were scattered on the floor along side pieces of his skull.
Hori stood there in terror with her heart racing.
The smell from his corpse as well as the imagery of the scene made her nauseous.
bleugrrrrhhheggg~~~~~
Hori threw up whatever food she had eaten, she was still new with seeing such disfigurations.
Fwip
She quickly wiped her mouth.
Ok he should heal by now!
Her brain reasoned, Haruki was a scene, they were immortal to normal human attacks.
C'mon~ heal!
His neck let out a bubbling sound and the bleeding stopped.
Haruki's head slowly healed.... but he was still unconscious.
"Narrator! Why isn't he conscious?!"
She yelled as she panicked.
Narrator - Don't ask me.
Hori squats down to check his pulse but rememberd.
Oh that's right, Haruki-san said sins have no pulse!
She sat properly and placed her arms on her laps.
...so what do I do now....
She peeks at Haruki's face, a faint blush on her cheeks.
...he's so beautiful.
She thought to herself.
Narrator - I hope your not going to assault him while he's unconscious right?!
Wh— what are you saying?!
5 minutes pass and Haruki was still asleep.
Her stomach growled, like an annoying notification.
Hori was starving and Haruki promised breakfast.
Okay! I'm a maid for Haruki-san for now! I should stop thinking about food and carry this luggage inside!
She did so and brought Haruki into the damaged house.
Narrator - The curtains close for now, when will Haruki wake up... will he wake up?
"Stop saying such negative things! Haruki-san is going to wake up!"
Her brows furrowed annoyingly as she layed Haruki from her back.
....
gasp!
"H—Haruki-san! Thank goodness— your finally awake!"
Hori was laying Haruki's head on her lap, via a lap pillow.
"... it's night?!"
He yelled seeing the sky through the window.
Haruki slowly raised his head, touching it to see if he regenerated properly.
He was unconscious for about 10 hours.
He turned to see Hori but was suddenly enveloped in a hug from behind.
"P—please don't look at me... At least not now"
Her voice was breaking, as if crying.
"You should have told me you'd take time waking up! I was so worried!"
Her grip on him tightened.
"I'm... sorry about that, I didn't think it'll take this long, it's freaking night!"
He said trying to lighten up the mood.
Hori released Haruki, and cleaned her tears.
".... here you go"
Haruki handed her a handkerchief, she blew her nose and took a deep breath.
"Better?"
He said trying to look at Hori who was hiding her face.
growl~
Her stomach exclaimed loudly! And I mean loudly!!
The scene once again ruined... but... wait a minute.
"You haven't eaten?!"
Haruki placed his arms on her face.
"Yes,"
She answered clearly.
"Why?! It's so late already! That means you haven't eaten throughout today!"
He panicked while turning on his flashlight and laying it down.
"That's true, I carried you inside and was with you ever since, so.... I'm really hungry..."
Hori said with a lifeless face.
"Oh my God you must be starving!! I'm so sorry!!"
"No, I should be the one to apologize Haruki-san, it must have been painful having your head blown apart."
"Screw that! let's get you something to eat!"
He stood up dragged Hori's hand up.
She held her stomach trying her best not to pass out.
"It's already late so let's just order pizza."
"... pizza? is that a food?"
"Nah, it's more of a wait what?! you've never eaten pizza?!"
"I've never heard of it..."
She said calmly with no strength to claim knowledge of it.
Narrator - That's just...sad...
"Well, Father always cooked for me, so my meals were strictly healthy..."
"Well you're gonna love this! I'm gonna order plenty since you eat A LOT!"
"How shameless of me!"
Haruki quickly places the order.
"In the meantime, you can have this"
He handed an Anpan to Hori.
It's a Japanese sweet short bread, basically a light snack.
She accepted it and bowed her head.
Munch
"This is delicious!"
Her eyes brimmed to life.
"Okay, until the pizza gets here, tell me about what happened."
"oh! you must be referring to the punch!"
"Well, at first your head... scattered, but it healed shortly after!"
"Shortly after?!"
Haruki parroted.
"Then why did it take so long for me to wake up?!"
Munch
"I'm not sure, oh! but narrator explained why my hands are so tough!"
"This tastes really good!"
"Narrator?"
"Oh it's some woman that keeps talking in my head."
Narrator - How rude!
hmmm the hunger must've gotten to her head...
Haruki nodded slowly, pretending Hori was making sense.
"Anyway, she said my hands get, hard, sharp and heavy, equivalent to natural diamonds.
"Woah, seriously?!"
"That is correct. I didn't believe at first but I tried testing it while you were asleep"
Hori pointed outside to a large tree opposite the inn.
They both stood there and Haruki faced his flashlight at the tree.
It was broken down with its roots having holes resembling fist marks
Freaky
Haruki thought whilst touching the marks to confirm if they were real.
"I guess that explains everything."
He turned off his flashlight as they headed inside.
"but wait,"
Haruki grabs Hori's hands
Hori immediately blushed as the nylon for the Anpan fell to the floor.
"Your hands feel normal."
He said slightly pressing them
"e..eh..ehmm, Narrator also said it happens only when I want to harm something!"
Hori said with a flustered face still seeing Haruki hold her hands.
"ehmm you could let go of my hands now"
Her face was red.
"huh... your getting embarrassed from just this?"
Haruki teased Hori.
"Wah?! th—th— there's nothing to get embarrassed from! it's not anything inappropriate now is it??!"
Hori said trying to avoid Haruki's gaze.
ehmm this is the place right?
The delivery person wondered as he approached the inn.
He peeked into the house which had a damaged front from that Sinner of Addiction.
He knocked at the side of the wall to notify them.
Haruki let go of Hori's hands and went to answer.
"Yo"
"Hello... Did you order this? "
Haruki pays for the pizza and collects them, 10 in total.
"Would you like to add a tip?"
"I WOULD RATHER DIE, buh-byyyye!!"
He turns and locks the door.
"What is this smellll??!"
Hori crawled towards Haruki, curiosity written on her face.
She leans in closer as Haruki arranges the food.
"Now I know you're hungry but try not to rush it and choke okay?!"
He said with a smile as he opened the first box.
"Wooooow, what is this?!"
Hori was astonished,it was a pineapple styled pizza.
The aroma and design were both firsts for her.
"Dear God, thank you for the food."
She said a quick prayer.
God?! I'm the one who paid for it!
Haruki thought to himself, also surprised Hori was Christian.
She gives Haruki an informative look, saying "Can I really eat this?"
To which Haruki gave a simple smile.
Hori carries a slice, and touches it with the tip of her tongue.
Tiiiiiiiiiing~
Something snapped, it was simply delicious.
Her teeths sunk in and she took a big bite.
With a Muffled voice she said
"Oh, my God this is delicious!"
"It has so much flavor!!"
"Yeah it's pizza, now stop talking and eat"
Haruki said while wiping sauce from her mouth.
2 minutes later.
"ughhhhh my tummy hurts Haruki-san!!!"
A paralysed Hori wailed with a cartoonishly big stomach.
"That's what you get for eating that much! What kinda anime ass character eats 10 packs of pizza under 2 minutes?!"
"Ahhhh.... I'm sorry...I didn't leave any for you..."
Hori said apologetically.
"It's cool, anytime I regenerate my stomach gets full for some reason"
"Oh yeah.... Haruki is a sin...I always forget that-
buuuuurp
"ahhhh i feel much better!
Hori stands with a completely flat stomach.
"Wait what?"
"Oh, I have really fast metabolism Haruki-san!"
"Now if you would excuse me,I urgently need to use the bathroom!"
10 minutes later.
"Ahhhh now I feel much much better!"
Hori said coming to the living room.
"That's good to hear, yeah Hori there's something you should know"
Haruki said with a suddenly serious tone.
"What is it?"
Hori sat down.
"You can't fight with those hands."
"huh? Why not?"
"I'm no expert like you, but I'm sure the Sabbath exams has a tournament section, where applicants will face each other."
"In other words a 1 v 1 tournament"
"Yes, that makes sense, although only members of SHO are allowed to watch the Sabbath exams, it should have a tournament section us civilians might not be aware of!"
"So if you use those hands against ordinary people, THEY'LL DIE."
Haruki said bluntly, causing Hori to shudder.
"I would never wish for that to happen!"
"Mhmm"
Haruki opened a bottle of water to drink while Hori digested the news.
"Then in that case, I'll fight without my hands!
"Figured you'd say that! Then from tomorrow, I'll start teaching you fighting styles that don't involve using your hands!"
"Sir yes sir!"
"Now let's get some sleep, tomorrows a busy day."
Haruki stretched and headed to bring out the futon.
"...Haruki-san, thank you."
"For what this time?"
He asked with a light chuckle.
"For everything thing you've done for me so far."
Hori said honestly, bowing her head as low as possible.
Haruki froze and thought to himself
At first, I only took her in because I was EXTREMELY bored with my life.
Killing people, ignoring moms calls, sleeping, I did it so many times i lost count.....but since she came, I feel like I have purpose....
"... I should be the one thanking you Hori. So raise your head already."
She complied and they both smiled at each other.
Haruki brings out a futon and spreads it on the floor.
There's only one futon!!!
Hori was set to panic mode.
"...well... I'll be sleeping outside, please excuse me-
"No you don't!"
He dragged her back.
Haruki brought out some pillows and dropped them on the futon.
"You'll catch a cold if you sleep outside."
Haruki lays down on the futon.
"Now get over here!"
He said patting his side of the futon.
".....then, please excuse me "
She slowly laid down trying to be as far away from Haruki as possible.
He chuckled softly seeing her adorable innocence
"Good night Haruki-san."
"Good night Hori."
Haruki scrolls down his phone and sees some missed calls from his mom, he ignores it and switches off his light.
Some time passes by when he notices Hori shivering from cold. She was too far from the bed sheets and the front wall was broken down allowing cold air to directly enter.
The season was Autumn after all.
Haruki shuffled closer to her facing opposite sides.
"Haruki san?"
She called out half awake.
"You looked cold, so I'll warm you up with my back."
"oh.... that's so kind of you"
"Stop being ridiculous."
They both laid down for some time.
".... I noticed some missed calls on your phone from your mother."
"....huh?"
"I know it's non of my business but I think she might be worried about you."
"If it's non of your business then stop talking.
Haruki cut her off with an irritated expression.
"....my apologies...."
Hori shut up and tried to ignore the atmosphere.
She closed her eyes and tried to sleep but couldn't.
Narrator - Awkwaaaaard!!!!!
Shut it!
Some time passes by and they finally sleep.
Narrator - NINE DAYS LEFT UNTIL THE SABBATH EXAMS.