Chapter 131 - Brother’s Crisis or Action ※Celica POV

“Ah, this is bad.” (Karen)

Seeing that the climax of the conversation had passed, Karen took out her cellphone and muttered this after confirming the state of Brother.

I stood up and peeked at the screen, and it was right when a giant monkey monster had jumped in front of Brother.

It is far bigger than a gorilla, and it is a size that’s far from being foughtable by a human.

“Wait, you gotta be kidding, right?! Something like that can show up?!” (Celica)

“W-What’s the matter?! Did something happen?”

“This…!” (Celica)

I turned on the tablet that was out, and the figure of Brother was shown soon after.

Seeing the giant fire monkey roaring at Brother, I felt as if my heart was being squeezed up.

“O-Onii-chan! W-W-W-What do we do?! Anything we can do… Anything…” (Karen)

Even though we are watching the screen this closely, we can’t do anything.

Only watch.

How powerless.

I, for the first time, cursed God who created this situation.

There’s various opinions as to whether that is actually God or not, but even if it is a God, there’s no doubt it is a demonic God.

The giant monkey let out a roar that made the body cringe in fear, and it rushed over to Brother.

Brother was practically standing upright, unable to run away, or even show any suggestion of fighting.

I ended up closing my eyes.

“Ah! Barrier Stone!” (Karen)

“Eh?! Ah, right!” (Celica)

The sudden appearance of a monster had made me forget it, but Brother had bought something that looked like a Barrier Stone.

In the screen, there’s text showing up saying [Barrier Stone in use. Remaining time: 11 hours and 59 minutes].

The giant monkey acted in a way as if it had suddenly lost sight of Brother, spit out fire everywhere as it ran around, and disappeared somewhere just like that.

Brother was sitting there absentminded.

A Barrier Stone seems to certainly be a useful item, and it seems like he managed to keep his life there.

But…this is…

“…Grandfather, as you can see, I think it is going to be difficult for Onii-chan to escape this forest alive. To the point that I don’t know if becoming number one in viewership…is going to serve in achieving that.” (Celica)

“Then, more reason to. No choice but to do this, right?”

“Yeah. Thanks, Grandfather.” (Celica)

The only bright element here is that the effect of the Barrier Stone is strong.

Being effective for 12 hours means that he should at least be able to hang on for today.

It is valuable time that Brother has created.

In that time, we have to do what we can.

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“Also, Grandfather, if we spread the fire worldwide, we as family won’t be unaffected by this either, so I think we will have to move. And when that happens, I don’t think we will be able to meet like we have before.” (Celica)

After telling Grandfather the outline of my plan, I added that at the end.

“Move? Where?”

“Most likely America.” (Celica)

“Huh? America, you say… That America?”

“Yeah. We have been called by their enterprises and research facilities there since way back. The opportunity is just right… The problem is our parents, but we can just give them money and there should be no issues.” (Celica)

Our parents are hopeless, but if I told them that they can earn money and live playing around, they will happily follow along. I actually want Grandfather to be our guardian, but we can’t do that.

Even if they are like that, they are still without doubt our parents after all.

“…Koichi is the same as always, huh.”

“Yeah, playing around as always. The pretext is that his main occupation is house-husband.” (Celica)

Our household is being supported by the night job of mother.

Of course, it is not like we can buy what we want with that, so our household has been running with the money that Karen and I earned since elementary school, and now our mother is barely working, and father is playing around the whole time. Our household is honestly a pretty peculiar case.

“Good children like you all were born from that idiot, so…good grief, I shouldn’t have exiled him and properly educated him. Because of that, it ended up causing trouble to you guys as well…”

Grandfather says as if repenting, but I can’t just go ‘exactly’, so I simply stay silent.

It is true that we have been troubled by those parents of ours after all.

Brother, Karen, and me.

It is because we had us three that we managed to reach all the way here. And it was also big that Brother fought with our mother and won the battle to have her not interfere.

“Grandfather, this is my last unreasonable request. Once we go to America, we won’t be able to come back here often, so…I think I will give the order to release the culprit from over there.” (Celica)

“Orders? You…”

“Yeah, orders. That’s why, introduce me to a person that can perform them please.” (Celica)

“Got it.”

Grandfather said this and called someone.

This residence is also serving as the…company’s offices, so there’s always gang members.

Regarding the orders, the schedule of the confinement, and what should be done at that time, it is all in my head. There’s parts that would be slightly troubling if I were to throw the whole thing onto them, so I want to give the orders and supervise it.

“Boss, did you call?”

“Ooh, Kenji. You and Izuna, hear out the request of my granddaughter here. It will be all on my ass.”

“Hoh, you granddaughter’s? I won’t be dirtying the ass of Boss, but…what business is it?” (Kenji)

“Ask her directly. There’s apparently no time.”

The one Grandfather called was a serious-looking man with a suit, and a woman in a suit too with dyed brown hair.

I explained what to do to the two.

“Hmm, I have a nice place to confine someone. The apartment building in Nishinomiya city. It is a second floor for exclusive use, so it won’t be known to the populace.” (Izuna)

“Thanks. I want to get a confession too, so I am thinking about calling him with the pretext that we will be sheltering him from the police. Before coming here, I divided my phone number and LINE.” (Celica)

The two understood the situation at once.

Most likely competent people even among the gang. It really helps me out here.

“Well then, I myself will be getting the car, so please shape up the plan with Izuna, Celica-san.” (Kenji)

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Karen and I were in the car Izuna-san was driving.

Kenji-san got on with 2 burly young men and drove off at high speed to the house of the real culprit.

In the meanwhile, Karen sent a LINE to the culprit.

[I am God. You have shown me your desire to go to the parallel world. I am thinking of prioritizing you on the next batch to the parallel world… But that was bad. At this rate, you will be arrested and executed. I have ordered my subordinates to shelter you. They will be arriving soon, so bring your clothes covered in blood and the knife you used, and come to the outside of your house.]

[For the people in your house, just leave a note saying that you will be going on a journey to train in order to go to the parallel world. There’s the need to gather energy for the next isekai transfer, and it takes time.]

[It is possible to trace your smartphone, so leave it behind. We will provide you with a different device on our side.]

Drowning people grasp even for straws.

The culprit replied with a ‘Got it’ and ‘Thank you very much’.

Looks like he really believed this is a message from God.

Of course there’s the chance that he gets cold feet at the end and doesn’t come out, but we can brute force it if that happens, or we could invite him to a mixer; whatever works.

“Right after that turn…he is there. That’s a relief… If he had surrendered himself, we would have been done for. Then, let’s do this as planned.” (Celica)

I was about to say ‘it is a relief he is an idiot’, but it really is the case.

The black Sedan that we were in passed by the true culprit -Ozawa Yuichi- and the white Hiace car at our back welcomed him to enter.

There’s no doubt he is truly scared out of his wits being in between 2 burly men.

Anyways, with this, we have cleared the first stage. It was important to secure him faster than the police.

The place they are going to be confining Ozawa in is an apartment complex that is seriously a place you could find anywhere. It has an elevator, but it is an old building that might be 50 years old, and gives off an atmosphere you wouldn’t want to get close to even if you had business with it.

“We have been using this place since long ago, you know? It has been soundproofed, and not only for months, we could even go for a year here.” (Izuna)

Izuna-san says listlessly.

Is this person also a yakuza? I don’t know her relationship with my grandfather, but I heard that the members of the yakuza are treated as a private business. In other words, she is most likely a related member.

“At any rate, there really is a confinement room, huh.” (Celica)

“There’s a lot of uses for it after all.” (Izuna)

We were watching inside the car how Ozawa was being escorted into the building.

There’s no pedestrians around.

It would be problematic if there were witnesses, but it looks like that won’t be a problem. He was made to wear a black parka, so there should be no worries about his face being exposed.

Whichever the case, it is fine to just have Brother be misrecognized by society as the culprit for around 1 month.

After that, we will have Ozawa be arrested by the police swiftly.

The problem is when the message system will be starting. There’s the possibility it won’t even be implemented, but I don’t know.

At any rate, this is until Brother reaches a safe place.