Campione! - Volume Ex - Chapter 2.3

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She came to another new world.

Parallel world. An earth that was walking a different history from Aisha’s original world. That was how it should be. However──

「What is the meaning of this?」

Aisha frowned.

「it looks completely the same like the earth that is the 『hometown』 for me.」

The capital Tokyo at Japan country in the first half of the 21st century.

Furthermore it was at Akihabara that was famous as electronic town and also a sight-seeing area──.

That was the girl’s current location. She asked for unreasonable things from the fairy king she met at the “previous world” so he opened a teleport gate for her. She arrived in Akihabara when she passed through it.

Perhaps she arrived here because it was a familiar town?

Aisha once was working here as live-in maid.

She also had familiarity with the area. She entered a large bookstore near the station that had its whole building used to sell book and headed straight to the history section.

She picked up a random history book and checked the chronological table.

「My. Jesus-sama didn’t become a rock musician, there was also no invention of the steam engine in the Middle Age, Europe. There was also weren’t aliens who came using UFO’s, became devout believer of Buddha and changed Calcutta into a spaceport……the chronological table is totally normal just like the earth where I was born and raised at. Could it be, I had inadvertently returned to my original world?」

The great expedition through parallel worlds was finally suspended for the moment.

Aisha sighed and returned the book to the shelves. She started walking trudgingly.

「It can’t be helped. Anyway it’s Tokyo, perhaps I should show myself at Godou-san’s place? Someone who seems like they know that person’s address is……」

She left the bookstore and wandered near Akihabara Station.

She found a major chain pawnshop. She immediately rushed inside because she didn’t have any Japanese yen in hand due to coming to Japan unexpectedly.

No, in the first place she didn’t possess any ready cash that could be used in 21st century earth.

But, Aisha was used to travel. In case something like this happened, she was carrying gems and small jewelry that could easily be converted into money no matter what was the era or country.

She pawned those things and somehow secured some cash.

Well, there was also some trouble in the process but……

「Eh, identification papers? I’m sorry, unfortunately I don’t have any in hand so……I have a suggestion, my smile will be the guarantee! I’m begging you!」

She overcame the difficulty with her usual pace and obtained traveling expenses.

Aisha resumed walking in the city──and then, she gradually began to notice.

「Eh? The pro-wrestling café in front of the station has changed into a different store now. Even though I really like that café……. The new café is AKB café is it……」

She continued walking while feeling disappointed.

But, Aisha was gradually frowning.

The impression she got from taking a glance at the electronic city didn’t differ greatly from her memory. The emporium that sold daily goods from electronic appliances until PC to even game. Bargain sale store that was tax free. Specialized store selling items of every kind catering to otaku. Adult store that was a bit indecent. Privately-run stores operating inconspicuously in the back alley, multi tenant building, or the like──.

However.

Looking closely, there was no store name that matched Aisha’s memory.

「The building that was for OraX or Hosomap has its name changed……. Animate’s rotten girl store that was visited by Harumi-san who was my coworker at the maid café each time it was break time had a bit different name──」

A great number of foreign tourists were coming and going. The maids were distributing sightseeing map.

It was that kind of town, so even an India beautiful girl 『wearing black nun garment and veil』 that she had been wearing since the previous world wasn’t that conspicuous.

Aisha fastened her walking pace.

It clicked on her mind. She dashed in order to ascertain her instinct. She arrived in a tidy manga café. She stared at the spines of the comics lined up in a row inside the shelves and yelled with a low voice.

「As I thought!」

At the corner of girl manga. There wasn’t even a single title that Aisha knew.

Even though she looked like this, when she was living in Akihabara, she would visit a manga café every night and thoroughly read a lot.

There wasn’t even a single work that she read at that time, in exchange titles like The Heart of Thomas, Banana Fish, Hi Izuru Tokoro no Tenshi, Yukan Club, Red River, Fushigi Yuugi, etc, were lined up before her──.

「So it was like that……」

Aisha nodded.

「As I thought, this is one of the parallel worlds. It seems that the historical events aren’t really different from my original world but──the world’s small parts that aren’t directly related with the history are really different.」

If her original world was version 1.1, then this place was 1.2 when all was said and done.

The difference between both worlds was only within the measurement error. She was surprised that there was also this kind of parallel world but──

「As a travel destination it’s a bit lacking in  appeal. Or perhaps, there is something here that I still haven’t noticed……oh?」

She was walking inside the manga café while vacantly staring at the extensive books collection.

Midway, for some reason she got curious with a long comic that she suddenly found. Aisha took a volume and tried reading it in place.

「Milky way railroad that can go until Andromeda sounds really nice……. Oh!? Ara ara, my my, Okaa-san is!? Ho──how unforgivable, machine earl!」

Without hesitation she pulled out the whole volume 1 until 10 from the shelves.

It was a great adventure tale of a young man who traveled the universe with a mysterious beautiful woman. Aisha moved to a private room and began to enjoy the manga without rushing.

……Aisha didn’t notice even here.

That there was a really suspicious young man within the same manga café.

The cloak that snugly hid his body was the same like a rag. It was grey colored and slightly dirty all over. From his height he looked like fourteen or fifteen years old, but he was wearing hood so his face couldn’t be seen.

And then, there was one more thing that was really strange.

Even though this young man was dressed this suspiciously, no one was paying attention to him at all──.

There was a small smile on his lips. Archaic smile. It was the smile of a hunter that 『finally found his prey』.

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She was focusing on reading, so the night was also getting late quickly.

「My, it’s already ten o’clock. I should go to sleep soon.」

Aisha closed the manga and muttered.

This manga café also had night pack. Customers could stay the night there. She planned to start her activity from early morning tomorrow, so she would retire for the night already at this time.

「Let’s investigate the situation in this world a bit more tomorrow……」

Aisha sorted the plan inside her head while exiting the private room.

She was holding the ten volumes of manga she was reading in her hands. She intended to return them to their former place. But Aisha gasped.

She roughly pushed the books into the nearest shelves and looked around inside the café.

She got a bad feeling. The air was excessively tense. Furthermore, there wasn’t anybody else than her, not customers, and not even the staff──

No. There was only one person, a person clad in a ragged cloak was standing there!

Aisha silently moved until near the window.

Her position was at the second floor of a building near the station. Inside the café she could look down to the street through a glass-sided wall. The traffic was light but there was still a lot of pedestrians.

Furthermore, she was really lucky. A metal bat was leaning on the window.

It seemed to be newly bought. It was wrapped in the wrapping paper of the shop that sold it. It seemed to be a lost article. Aisha took it without hesitation and swung it with all her strength!

「Tei-!」

A strike of metallic bat.

The glass window in front of her was smashed apart with *Gashaan!* sound.

Night wind was blowing in. Aisha lightly jumped outside the window.

「It was only for a short while but, I’m in your debt!」

A sudden dive from the building’s second floor to the ground.

She landed with a crouch and softened the falling impact.

A normal person would have their legs and knees damaged considerably, but Campione’s excessively robust body wouldn’t scream just from this much.

The pedestrians showered her with their gaze wondering what just happened, but she paid them no attention at all.

Aisha dashed through the walkway with rapid footsteps.

「Good results should accompany good deeds, bad results should accompany bad deeds. I will do good deed later without fail, so please protect Aisha……」

She muttered her chant while arriving at JR’s central ticket gate.

It was emergency so she swiftly jumped over the ticket gate. There wasn’t any time to waste to buy the ticket!

「Among others, I’ll also repay back the ticket price somehow so pleaseee─!」

*Tatatatatatata!* She dashed through the platform and stair.

She leaped into the train that was just a moment away before departing.

The inside of the train was quite crowded. But it wasn’t to a degree that there was congestion. Aisha took a breath 「Fuu~」 and leaned on the train’s door. Right after that.

She looked outside the window and got taken aback from the bottom of her heart.

「That’s!?」

Even though it was late at night──an eagle was flying.

It was soaring leisurely in parallel with this train. Furthermore the bird of prey’s eyes were directed to inside the train, furthermore that gaze was looking at Aisha who was leaning on the door!

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