超ヒロイン戦記 - Super Heroine Chronicle/Flow Chart/Episode 3: A New Incident

第3話: 新たな事件

Episode 3: A New Incident

Meru: ...Is it really here?

Claude: The address on the card says it's here...

Meru: Uu...but this looks like a really run down apartment building though...

Claude: But, the Ayanokoji Detective Office has a nameplate here. It's says that 'We investigate all kinds of strange incidences'...

[Rem arrives]

Rem: Ara? You came already? That was fast.

Meru: Ah, Rem-san!

Rem: Even though your group is missing a few people?

Meru: Yes. Noel and Tsubasa-san will be dropping by later, so the two of us came here first.

Rem: Ah, I see.

Meru: Your cat and dog are really cute.

Rem: The cat is called Alpha, and the dog is Beta. Come on, you two, go greet them.

Alpha: Nyan.

Beta: Wan!

Meru: They're really smart! Nice to meet you, ehehe~!

Rem: Sorry for leaving so suddenly before. But, I had to return to the office to take a call from an acquaintance who is a police detective for various information.

Meru: You even know a police detective? That's amazing! You're like a private investigator!

Claude: No, she did say she was one earlier...

Rem: Together with the information the police detective gave me and what I've investigated about the 'Outbreak of People Sleeping on the Road Phenomenon', there seems to be a lot of strange events.

Claude: Strange events...? Is it dangerous to talk about?

Rem: First of all, the 'Spirited Away' case where people are suddenly disappearing without a trace...

Meru: That's the same as what Tsubasa-san said. How scary~...

Claude: Um, that also includes us too.

Rem: Yes. But there's still more people getting involved. This is a really strange case...

Meru: T-That's really scary to hear...

Rem: Then there's the person who looks exactly like me, the 'Doppelganger Phenomenon' case...

Meru: Is it a ghost...?

Rem: Next are the creatures not from this world, the 'Unknown Life-form Invasion' case.

Meru: A-Aliens!? Like ones with dog heads!?

Rem: And finally, 'Meeting you from another world' case where people start appearing suddenly.

Meru: Mysterious~!

Claude: Um, as I was saying, that one also includes us...

Rem: The fact that all of these are happening within such a short amount of time. This is not ordinary at all.

Rem: Along with the 'Outbreak of People Sleeping on the Road Phenomenon' case, all of this can't be a coincidence.

Meru: That's also including us who came to this world?

Rem: It's difficult to think that it's not related. If that's the case, how about this proposal.

Rem: Won't you cooperate with my investigation?

Meru: Cooperate?

Rem: As you are involved, if you cooperate, the investigation can proceed faster.

Rem: Also I can help you out with living here. Not a bad deal right?

Meru: That would be a great help! Uuu, I was so worried about that.

Rem: Don't worry. I have a lot saved up, got all the necessities here.

Rem: If we manage to solve this big case, there could also be a big reward for it?

Meru: I understand! I'll do my best!

Rem: Then, sorry about rushing but let's start searching right now!

Meru: Eeh~? Already!?

Rem: We're heading to the area where the 'Outbreak of People Sleeping on the Road Phenomenon' case happened. Are you two good to go?

Claude: So sudden...

Meru: We're good, ready to go!

[Location change]

Meru: There's one over here!

Rem: Yareyare...that makes it 8 victims now.

Youth: Guu....Guu...

Office Lady: ZZZ...ZZZ

Meru: They're really sleeping.

Rem: Can't say it's a coincidence if there's 8 people all sleeping on the road.

Rem: Nnnnnn.....

Claude: Rem-san? Did you find something?

Rem: Today, doesn't seem like there's only sleeping people.

Claude: Eh?

Rem: Look, right there.

Meru: There...

Meru: HYAAAAAAAAAA!?

Claude: T-T-T-T-T-T-T-There's no head!

Rem: How sad...the killer must have their head...

Rem: This seems similar to that mass murder case from back then...

Dream Demon: ...!!

Meru: Hawawa~! Something is coming here!

Rem: Dream demons!?

Claude: All of a sudden!?

Meru: There's even more coming!

Rem: We're going to attack! But don't push yourselves!

[Battle Map] [After several enemies defeated]

Claude: S-Seems like things will go well...?

Rem: Yes. If we keep going like this.

Rem: Muu!?

Rem: The ones over there! Show yourselves!

[Black Shion and Black Mion appear]

???(Black Mion): ...

???(Black Shion): ...

Meru: Hwawawwa, the same face!? It's those doppelgangers!

Rem: What's going on? Even though there are dream demons around, they're not afraid?

???(Black Mion): Now then...let's begin today's club activities...?

???(Black Shion): I'll help you out, sister...

Rem: No matter how we look at it, they don't seem to be friendly...

Meru: They give off that feeling of wanting to kill someone. That kind of feeling is no good~!

[After Black Mion and Black Shion are defeated]

???(Black Mion): Dammit...Today's club activities ends here...

???(Black Shion): Let us go, sister...

[Black Mion and Black Shion leave]

Meru: Ah! They're running away!

Rem: We can't chase after them. We should focus on protecting the sleeping people here first.

Rem: ...This mystery became very troublesome.

[After the battle]

Rem: Now with the dream demons exterminated. Let's help out the sleeping people?

Meru: I'll handle waking the people up! I'll be borrowing the Waking Alarm!

[Meru goes to the sleeping people]

Claude: Do the dream demons normally kill?

Rem: No, not really, is what I want to say though.

Rem: One thing I can say for sure, that headless corpse, the dream demons don't attack people in that fashion.

Rem: Besides, dream demons only put people to sleep, they won't hurt sleeping people.

Claude: That's true...it really is only just sleeping people...

Rem: Though, there's still too many things we don't know. We'll leave the investigation of the sleeping people up to Detective Sakaki...

Meru: Rem-san! Please come over here~!

Rem: What's wrong?

Meru: This girl, she's in a lot of pain!

???(Hibiki): Uuuuu~....

Meru: Is there anything we can do?

Rem: Could she be stuck in the dream world? We need to wake her up...

Rem: But I can't do it the way I am now...

???(Hibiki): I...

Meru: 'I'?

???(Hibiki): I'm so hungry...

Meru: ...huh?

???(Hibiki): F-Food...

Rem: Ah, so it's that...

[Scene change, they are at a restaurant]

Hibiki: Phew~!! Thanks for the food~~!!

Meru: She ate three times more than I did...

Hibiki: I can still eat more~!

Rem: This is the first time I've seen a person eat that much. You must have been very hungry.

Hibiki: Hahahaha...How embarrassing~.

Hibiki: But, this was the first time I was able to eat all this good food. It brings tears to my eyes.

Rem: Come on, you're exaggerating.

Hibiki: Well, to tell you the truth, I wasn't able to eat anything for 3 days since I came here.

Hibiki: This really helped! Thanks a lot!

Rem: Give your thanks to Meru-chan here. She's the one who found you.

Hibiki: Is that so~!? Meru-chan, I owe you my life!

Meru: N-No, um...I was simply trying to wake up people...

Hibiki: No no, I was really in danger of dying of starvation right there. Really, thanks a lot~!

Meru: Auuu...

Rem: Meru-chan is not very good with first time meetings. Treat her kindly.

Hibiki: Ah, that was a failure...

Meru: Anyway, what about you! Why weren't you able to eat for 3 days?

Hibiki: Well, there's a lot of circumstances. To be honest, I'm not sure where to start.

Rem: Whatever you want to tell us is okay. No matter what you say, it shouldn't surprise us.

Hibiki: Really? Then, I hope you won't treat me like a weird girl when you here me say this but...

Hibiki: To tell you the truth, I'm not a person of this world!!

Rem: Eeeh~ so it is that.

Hibiki: Huh? You're not surprised? Then I'll continue.

Hibiki: While at work, though it isn't a part-time job, while in the middle of it, I was suddenly blinded.

Hibiki: Then I realized that I was suddenly in an unknown town. And this is only where it begins...

Hibiki: Deciding that I couldn't talk with the police about it, I ended up wandering, then soon started getting hungry...

Hibiki: I really thought I was cursed.

Rem: I understand the circumstances now.

Hibiki: It's hard to believe huh? Even though I've just been saying strange things...

Claude: If that's the case, then we're also cursed...

Hibiki: Huh?

Meru: Before you were blinded, did you happen to see some kind of strange light?

Hibiki: Yeah, that's right! Why do you know?

Rem: Those two also come from another world.

Hibiki: Eh!?

Meru: That's how it is.

Claude: Seems like we're caught in a spell...

Rem: Because of that, I believe what you are saying. Um...

Hibiki: Ah! I haven't introduced myself. I'm Hibiki Tachibana. Age 15.

Hibiki: My birthday is September 13th, Blood Type O. My hobby is helping people...

Rem: Ah~, stop stop. That's good enough...

Hibiki: Eh? Is that so?

Hibiki: Ah!? Could it be that we're going to the police so they can carefully investigate me!?

Rem: I won't do that. I'll listen to you, but you don't have a way to go back home right?

Hibiki: Yes, just as you say.

Rem: I'll find out why all of you came to this world. It would help with your cooperation, how about it?

Hibiki: I'll cooperate, whether it's cleaning or laundry, I'll help with anything! I'll definitely return my gratitude for the food.

Rem: It's okay not to be so stiff about the details. I feel that this is all fated somehow.

Meru: Hibiki-san, it's nice to meet you..

Hibiki: Yes! Same here! I hope we'll be friends!

Meru: Y-Yes!

[EPISODE 3 MERU ROUTE END]

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