Campione! - Volume 19 - Chapter 1.4

Part 4 

Three days later after the decisive battle against prince Rama. 

Godou was visiting Shinjuku Kabukichou after so long. 

But, he was unable to meet with the youth who he wanted to meet and the people related to that youth, he whispered to himself. 

「Completely deserted, huh……」 

「The people here had gone somewhere aren’t they……」 

Seishuin Ena who came along with him was also looking dubious. 

The time now had just reached seven o’clock. If speaking from the standard of this district, then it was a period of time that was nothing more than the start of the night. 

「The hideout of Hong Kong’s Lu family, it should be here isn’t it?」 

「Yeah. I too have come here before. That guy Linghua should be staying here, generally there should be someone here.」 

They were at the top floor of a certain multi-tenant building. 

This place――was the Japan branch of Hong Kong’s Lu family where the personal pupil of sect founder Luo Hao, Lu Yinghua was acting as the leader. Cheap looking business desks and chairs were lined up in this place that looked like an office of a small company. 

There was no one here. 

Not to mention Lu Yinghua, not even one of his underlings could be found here. 

……For the time being, their personal effects and PC, things like paperwork and so one were mostly left behind. 

But not even a single person was here. The whole floor was『 completely deserted』. Of course, not even a single lamp at the ceiling was turned on. 

The moonlight and neon light that were shining in from outside the window became the source of light for the pitch dark office. 

It was a really lonely sight. 

Furthermore, the key that Godou used to open this door was hidden at the rusty mailbox near the common entrance. Previously Lu Yinghua was the one who taught him of that hiding place. 

「Yinghua-kun of Lu family, he doesn’t even answer the call from your majesty right?」 

「It didn’t connect no matter how many times I called, he doesn’t even call back. On top of that even Nee-san has disappeared from the Sky Tree……. Perhaps, they have start preparing I guess.」 

「For the demon king civil war where all the Campiones will crush each other, is it……」 

Godou and Ena sighed together. 

Even the girl who was always being an optimistic nature child was feeling anxious. She had sensed the nearing of the battle royal opening where the one who would confront prince Rama would be decided. 

「Let’s go your majesty. If it’s about where the underlings of Lu family has disappeared to, then let’s have Amakasu-san or someone else to investigate it. Ena and others――also need to prepare too.」 

「I……guess. Nevertheless that Nee-san.」 

Godou whispered to himself while nodding at the princess shrine maiden of the sword. 

「Disappearing like this without even a single message to me, she is really motivated huh. I think that she is surely full of spirit intending to fight me.」 

It was a statement that was filled with conviction. 

Ena also didn’t refute that statement. Normally that would be a possibility that was too erratic, but thinking of Luo Hao’s disposition, it could even be thought as the natural development instead. 

In any case, the two returned to the downtown of Kabukichou. 

The downtown at night was very lively. There were too many people neon lighting and people. The two of them were loitering around in this kind of place while being underage, so naturally they had changed from their school uniform. 

Godou was wearing a simple grey coat and sweater, and also jeans. 

He didn’t look good or bad. It should be said that his appearance in civilian clothes was just like an average high school student without any particular consideration to look stylish. 

Ena too had taken off her usual uniform. 

She was wearing a black loose sweater with flare miniskirt. And then her feet were dressed with black tights and short boots that reached until her heel. 

Her look was fitting for a Yamato Nadeshiko of a good family with pedigree, where she was looking really like a daughter of a high class family. 

But, she was also walking around while carrying a cloth bag that was storing a long sword a meter and half long. The bag was fastened with a string and she carried it by hanging it on her shoulder. Because of that large baggage, she also looked like a girl who was in a band. 

「……Yosh!」 

「What’s the matter, Seishuin?」 

Godou asked her. His girl company was suddenly clenching her fist. 

「Ena is thinking that if it’s like this then Ena and others has to resolve themselves, even if the likes of Sect founder-sama or his majesty Salvatore turn into our enemy altogether.」 

Ena recovered her usual liveliness and she strongly declared so. 

「So that Kusanagi Godou can confront prince Rama without fail, Ena and others will back up your majesty!」 

「…………」 

「Eh? Your majesty, you yourself don’t have the motivation for that?」 

「See here. I have said this many times but I am a pacifist. Something like a battle royal where all the Campiones will come out uninvited is something that I don’t want to participate even in the slightest you know.」 

「But.」 

Even after hearing Godou’s reply, Ena still spoke calmly. 

「Even if his majesty don’t have the motivation to fight gladly, your majesty is still planning to participate right?」 

「……Well yeah.」 

「Isn’t that right. If that’s not the case then your majesty won’t remain in Tokyo!」 

「Speaking frankly, that’s because the Campiones other than me cannot be trusted. Though personally I think someone like Nee-san or America’s Smith is quite reliable even though they are like that.」 

Godou quietly declared. 

「But whether they can be depended or not is another story.」 

「Hahahaha.」 

Perhaps Ena had guessed what he wanted to express with his complicated round about talk. 

Ena was laughing without any worry. This girl who was like an amiable male friend for him, was one of his comrades that he could rely and depend on. 

Leaning on that sense of security, Godou suddenly murmured. 

「Besides, among the current Campiones, the one who had fought that Rama the most……is me. That’s why I think I should be the one who fight that guy.」 

If it wasn’t him, the it was impossible to win against that powerful enemy Ramachandra――wasn’t what he was thinking. 

It was because this feeling was completely different from emotion like self-confidence or fighting spirit or anything, that Godou talked matter-of-factly. By any chance, that might be because of the something that was forming between him and the war god Rama. 

Godou nonchalantly talked without even a speck of fervor. 

「Yep. As expected I have to have a match with that guy.」 

「Is that so?」 

「Yeah. I think, that will be something for the sake of both me and him.」 

「Fufufufu」 

Ena was suddenly letting out a chuckle with hidden meaning, so Godou tilted his head. 

「What’s the matter Seishuin? Did I say something strange?」 

「It’s not strange your majesty. It’s the reverse. Because, Ena love that aspect of your majesty.」 

「!? Do, don’t say something strange so suddenly!」 

「Isn’t it fine. It’s the relationship of your majesty and Ena. There is nothing strange at all.」 

The princess shrine maiden of the sword hugged Godou’s arm laughingly. 

With a wide cheerful smile on her face, she was looking really happy. Godou unintentionally also smiled from the lure of that smile, both of them was sharing to each other a relaxed mood. 

……It was by chance. 

Young male and female couple passed through in front of the two of them. 

Surely they must be around university student age. The girl was hugging at the man’s arm while they were talking intimately with smile on their face. The two looked just like Godou and Ena just now……. 

「…………」 

「…………」 

Godou and Ena came to their senses and their faces turned bright red. 

「Co, come to think of it. Going out like this with your majesty, this might be the first time isn’t it……」 

「Ce, certainly. Seishuin is often shutting yourself inside mountain, and a lot of time we go out together was when there was awful incident.」 

He was walking alone with Seishuin Ena who was wearing plain clothes, at night in an amusement district. 

Thinking about it, it was a situation that had never happened before. It was like they were a normal male and female doing a normal date……. 

The instant he became aware of that, Godou became excessively startled. 

Perhaps Ena was also feeling the same like him, she suddenly looked down and fidgeted her body. 

She looked meek that her usual cheerful and openhearted attitude as a nature child felt like a lie. But, even so Ena was still hugging at Godou’s arm and――. 

「I, I didn’t notice though-. In this area, people in group of two of a boy and girl looking close with each other……are quite a lot isn’t it……」 

Ena was murmuring with small volume while her eyes weren’t meeting with Godou’s. 

It was a gesture that wasn’t like Seishuin Ena. But when she became conscious about the genders, she suddenly drew back seemingly in rumination. This too was also a personality of this girl. 

And then, in this kind of time Godou was also someone who could not act with composure. 

「I, I too normally didn’t come here so I forgot but……this place is also that kind of place huh……. this place is like the best place for drinking party or something……」 

「Aa――!?」 

「What’s the matter Seishuin!?」 

「I, it’s nothing at all your majesty-!」 

Ena tried to dodge the question. However, ahead of the gaze of Ena who had lifted up her face once more, there was the couple of just now. And then, that couple was entering into――a hotel that could be found several in Shinjuku Kabukichou. 

As the result, the two of them became quiet「…………」. 

Ena who was clinging on Godou’s arm strengthened her embrace『gyu-』and glued closer to him, to that Godou’s heart went『doki-!』with his heart beat going through sudden rise―― 

It was a moment where all kind of momentum was swelling up. 

Suddenly, Godou’s cell phone began to play the melody of receiving call. 

「「!?」」 

Even while feeling taken aback along with Ena, Godou took out his cell phone from his coat’s inner pocket in fluster. It was a call from Liliana.