Chapter 152: Exposure (1)

"From a little before I thought somehow suspicious."

Contrary to me freezing from thinking bad, this is bad, I messed up, Knuckle is staring at me in normal operation.

"Frankly from before before there was a vague sense of wrongness. But I seriously started thinking maybe it is Senju-senpai from the Holy Water Monster Villain on."

"...What talk is that, in the first place even if told identity and such in talk of properly do studying I am troubled."

I pretend with full power I do not know I ran my mouth Leas.

I did not think it would somehow work with that, but even so I involuntarily ran my mouth to dodge. Damn, it is not that I am a particularly honest person, why can I not do one or two belly arts.

"Senju-senpai contacted only Gahel-kun in Atel-san’s figure, right?"

"What of it. I do not know you Sacred’s identities, but that guy saw the transforming figure at Black Knight’s time, right?"

"That is so, that is correct. Actually at that time I thought that is how it is."

Un un, Knuckle nods deliberately.

"But Gahel-kun at that time normally said onee-sama in that place, right. Toward Sacred Knight."

That.

I become aware.

I did not get conceited I did everything perfectly, but I was exposing stupidity more than I think.

"From there a diagram of Gure-senpai equals Knight seems about to float, right? Since you have specified Gahel-kun’s location you should also understand Gure-senpai’s location, and even if that is impossible if you ask Gahel-kun you got to know to call her you can meet, right?"

"...There is no evidence either that the sister is one. He calls Saber onee-san too, that guy."

"If you ask Gahel-kun that too everything is solved, right?"

The escape route I tried to make was immediately crushed.

"Knowing both before and after transformation, yet in Atel-san’s figure pretending not to know before transformation, in Senju-senpai’s figure pretending not to know after transformation. A feeling of messing up as a result of trying to thoroughly do that, this."

A type who cannot cheat, Knuckle laughs kera-kera.

As she says. I desperately kept up appearances so as not to slip my mouth as much as possible, but apparently to those who see it was in tatters.

"Ah, in the first place. Coming to the newspaper club saying a contact role is needed is also strange now that I think."

Even though I am starting to hate my own low ability, is there still something.

"Because see, I am not that famous, right? Not the Sacred figure, the identity side."

"What are you saying."

Really what are you saying. Putting on idol airs.

I tried to tease that way, but Knuckle’s eyes are seriousness itself. As if saying this is the biggest evidence.

"Frankly only the name Atel Octo gets quoted in articles, or written on summary sites, and my articles that are the primary source are not read that much. Since it is a school newspaper, natural if you say natural."

People who do not know where the word Atel Octo came from are more, she says.

For the majority it is treatment of a name the tentacle Vigilante was calling himself before I knew it.

The newspaper club’s information-spread ability is that degree, Knuckle laughs.

"Taking those into account, if I were an ordinary student, using me as an information-sharing person with Sacred I think is completely failing. Even if you knew Sacred are school students, how many students do you think seriously read the school newspaper? If it were a club that popular we could not freely use the club room now."

Even if not using equipment to make newspapers, it would be a hangout for members.

I could not rebut.

I had not thought that area would be poked so an excuse does not come to mind. Even spur-of-the-moment words, what I can wring out with my head’s rotation is only a hoarse voice that is....

"After that, well. Since Atel-san started appearing you got serious, Senju-senpai. Though a short association I was thinking amazing unreliable senpai, me."

That I did not have a strange misunderstanding and it was easy to talk is certain, Knuckle laughs.

That I was not suspected at the start is because she did not have much interest in the man named Furezawa Senjumaru.

Only a senpai she got to know at school, one of them. Because recognition was that degree it was a problem before suspecting or not.

But she deepened exchange, held reasonable interest toward me, so she noticed my disguise.

"Also, in Haga Reiko’s figure I have talked about cure-cure transformation heroines, but in Knuckle’s figure I have no memory of saying it. I said heroes and heroines help each other, but thinking from only this that I like Sunday-morning transformation heroines is a leap. Normally thinking it is Sacred, transformation heroines."

Ah, I see.

There was probably wrongness and suspicion.

But the last push was the words when I stopped Knuckle.

’You like Sunday-morning-like heroes, you like Sunday-morning-like heroines, so you are working hard, right!? Do not choose an easy road that easily...!’

With this shout she reached certainty.

And thinking well, in that fight once Knuckle shouted this way toward me.

’Senpai...!’

I accepted those words with no wrongness at all.

There is also the reason it was not a time for that, but because I accepted them with a feeling of course said that by Knuckle.

There is a limit to exposing flaws. I truly think story transformation heroes are amazing.

Already no good, this.

I put on a self-mocking smile and give up that I cannot hide it through.

Of course even now I can probably push through with I do not know.

It is only circumstantial evidence. If the transforming scene were filmed in photos or videos it would be one thing, but I can dodge as much as I want.

But in a state of being completely suspected can I hide the identity through? Can I hide decisive evidence through? If asked I have no choice but to answer absolutely impossible.

From a state of not being suspected I exposed flaws this far and had my identity seen through. However I struggle it is impossible, that kind of thing.

I let out a big, big sigh.

Truly I hate my own no-goodness.

"On top of that, the mistake that Vigilante is Latin, Atel-san also normally believed it, that part?"

"...Ha? No, the mistake is a thing you said, this."

"That is so... in a rough search range it seems read that way even in Latin, but it seems it was normally English, Vigilante. And yet at Adle-kun’s naming, including Vigilante it is Latin, you made the same mistake as me. I was thinking eh?"

"Saying it that full of confidence it was a huge mistake, you...!?"

’While looking up Latin is cool it mixed in the middle,’ Knuckle who laughs without shame, I shudder. I completely believed it...!

Self-loathing until just now blew away at once, what are you.

"...This thing, have Leas or Grace noticed?"

When I spit essentially white-flag words Knuckle put on a bright smile paa!, then slowly shook her head.

"No. For now only me. ...In the first place those two are the type who trust family too much. From the point they trusted they do not suspect much."

Come to think of it that, I still have not been able to say it is a lie, what to do... Knuckle who flows sweat tarari and puts on a dry smile. Are you still messing up something.

"That is that, is staying transformed the whole time not hard? Since the identity was exposed there is no need to force maintaining that figure."

"I am not forcing it. Rather for current me this side is more natural than being human."

The human figure is only mimicry.

Long ago I changed completely, and not the human figure named Furezawa Senjumaru, the figure as a Tentacle Monster Villain is the real thing.

Completely different from Sacred who transform wrapping magical power of light as humans.

In fact Knuckle in an ordinary human, Reiko state, is full just carrying Grace and walking, and I could easily carry her on my back and walk. The body itself is no longer human, me.

"...I see! In other words you can do hero in PE time! ...For that I do not hear talk of Senju-senpai being active, that? People who possess different abilities must not show power to ordinary humans, are you suffering that kind of chuuni?"

For an instant she puts on a sad expression, and tries to laugh as usual.