Web of light. Part 1.2 chapter 18

"Why?" Rinko asked innocently.

"Because at the age of sixteen, our Yuto's amulet will stop working and he will turn from a human and a teenager into a figure at once."

"What? What are you saying now?"

"It's simple, you know," the snake supported the conversation. "Yuto chose the path of building peace... but to arrange a peaceful coexistence of humans and non-humans, you need something more than the desire of one person."

It's good that the bus is almost empty, and the old people sitting in front, in my opinion, do not even hear the stops.

"So what?" The swordswoman next door asked anxiously.

"And that's it!" Hiroe mimicked. "There is no power behind Yuto, and without the power of a person, no one will listen. They'll just make you do what you need to do. Most likely, to kill people like her."

Shizuka nodded.

"Yuto, what are they!" Rinko turned to me. There were tears in her eyes, and her face was desperate. "Is it true?!"

"However, this is indeed the case. When you and I talked about gaining control of my "blood legacy," learning all sorts of unsafe things, and figuring out the balance of power among the yokai and clans, it was all implied. Alone in the field is not a warrior. If everything works out, we will be able to find enough supporters among humans, demons and magicians, if we can find something to guarantee their loyalty and how to repay their loyalty, we will get an island of a new world in the old one. We will become the third force in the struggle between magicians and inhumans. And we'll try to become strong enough so that we don't get knocked down casually... and necessary enough that they won't unite against us.

"It sounds like a manga story," Rinko squinted. "And do you really think?.."

"Ha, it's not a boy's speech, but a husband's!" Ayakashi slammed it down. "You surprise me more and more... Amakawa Yuto!"

"But Yuto is a child, just like us..."

"We are also well-made" Kaname smiled rapaciously.

"And I was hoping for a quiet study at school, to finish junior, then middle school, to show off as a high school student, and to be a mature girl..." here Kuzaki blushed rapidly and stared at the floor.

"Just think of it as a job, like the guys in the mall." Kaname advised. "Moreover, this is the case. Politics is just a job. Even protecting yourself and others is just a job..."

"And it's going to be very hard for me to handle it without you." I finished for our analyst.

Rinko looked up at me with reddened eyes and grabbed my elbow. Her face, so childish and slightly angular, suddenly seemed to me like the face of an adult woman. A steely expression, familiar to me from her training and a few conflicts, appeared in her eyes. Predatory joy on Hiroe's part. Shizuki's calm confidence. The starting point has been set — now, for better or worse, I am responsible not only for myself, but also for the people who trusted me... and not people. And I thought it would only start in two years. Lucky me!