245 Proper growth
Shiki: Rei! Don't give in! Hold out until help arrives!
Researchers: All right, half an hour break.
Shiki: He's been quiet all this time. Did he pass out...? Don't you let them break you even if you black out! It's gonna be okay!
Rei: ...You've been making so much noise this whole time.
Shiki: Eh?! You been awake?! Are you for real... I can't believe you endured all that without screaming your head off...
Rei: Shut up, you're distracting me... And for the record: I require no help. I told you I want to die, that's why I came here.
Shiki: Why the hell would you wanna die! But even if you do, you don't have to die a death like this, you know?!
Rei: Shuddup... Don't talk anymore.
Shiki: I can't help it! If I don't talk, it starts hurting even worse! If you're intent on dying anyway, it won't kill you to provide me with a distraction while you're at it!
Researchers: Now then, let's pick up where we left off.
Shiki: You're kidding me...!
Box: Koto City, oni's underground passage
Kyouya: Make preparations to evacuate the people I'm done treating to other districts as fast as possible.
RandoOni: Yes, sir!
Kyouya: Bring in the next patient. Ah, busy, so busy. Hn? Woah~~ If it isn't Jin-Jin~~ And that's quite a serious wound~~
RandoOni: We found him collapsed in a back-alley. We figured he'd suffered damage in battle.
Kyouya: I see. Hey, easy now. Better not move around much.
Jin: Need to...
Kyouya: Mm?
Jin: Heal me, quickly... I need to go and check if they're okay...
Kyouya: Even after I heal you, you're to rest and recuperate for a while, you know?
Jin: As if I can lie around in bed when I have no idea what's happening to them...!
Kyouya: Hm~~~ The fact that you now have people you care about shows beyond doubt that you've been doing some important growth as a person. In which case, the next thing you should work on growing is your heart.
Jin: Huh...?
Kyouya: Surprisingly enough, having faith in your friends is something only a person with a strong heart can do. Oh well, your panic is par for the course for proper growth, Jin-Jin, so rest assured. Anyone would worry sick when they'd finally found something important to them. But what truly counts is not only to treat your important people with care and kindness but also to have faith in them and trust them to do their job.
Jin: Faith...
Kyouya: I'm a doctor... all I can do is see off my friends and allies as they leave for the front lines. If I said I'm not worried every time, I'd be lying. There were many among them I saw off to their death... But despite that... my faith still prevails. I trust them not to make me sad. There are no shortcuts to growing a strong heart. And what matters for accomplishing that is to keep confronting your anxiety time and again. Now then! Let's get you healed, shall we, Jin-Jin~~ Get those blood transfusion bags here.
Jin: (Faith...?)
Juubee: Let's get this oni extermination underway, shall we.
Reporter: Ladies and gentlemen! Over there you can see Supreme Commander of Momotarou Agency... ...Momobami Juubee-sama!
People: Juubee-sama! | He's so hot!
Paper fan: Juubee Love
Woman1: They're showing Becchi!
Woman2: Really?!
Reporter: His opponent is one of the wanted criminals... Mudano!
People: Murder the oni vermin! | Behead him! Off with his head! | Kick the oni's ass to outer space again!
Girl1: Eh? This oni's actually real hot too, no...?
Girl2: True... But we can't fangirl over an oni... but then again...
Juubee: This'd lack excitement, wouldn't it if we had no audience. So I was right to call them here. Let's get this started, you scoundrel blending in with humans! I'm gonna kill you here and now and protect the good citizens from the oni menace!
Mudano: You're quite the actor. But you just want to let loose and hog the spotlight, don't you.
Juubee: What about you? Think you can spare me a pathetic showing in this fight on the account of your worries about your precious little comrades?
Mudano: Not going to be a problem. I have faith in them.
Juubee: Then focus only on worrying about yourself from here on out!
Juubee: Starlight Blade Comet
Mudano: Blood Eclipse Release: Profuse Autumn Shower
BOOM
Reporter: Eeek!
People: Woah! Holy shit! This is crazier than a movie! | The ground shook all the way here just now, no?! | Both of them gotta be dead from that, right?!
Juubee: For the battle start signal that lacked grandeur, doncha agree.
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