A Misunderstood Mentor

Back Chapter Azatose and Bats

The music was playing.

It's a song I've never heard.

Probably not from this world.

(d) A long tone, four quarters of a beat, followed by a beautiful melody that was gentle and serene and felt soothing.

"Ta-ta ♪ Ta-ta ♪ Ta-ta ♫"

Unexpectedly mumble and walk.

I was not willing to hide.

You've already been noticed since you walked in here.

Vision was in total darkness.

Still, I feel signs of Bonyari and Soitz and head there.

The music gradually gets louder, and eventually, I realize he's right on the side.

"... that would be good music"

In the dark, his voice sounded.

"Oh, it makes me feel so much more at ease"

About 10 minutes of piano playing has been played over and over again.

I didn't talk about anything for a while, just listened.

After hearing it about 10 times, the performance is over and he gets up quietly.

"Are you seeing it? Mr. Batts."

"No, I don't see anything. Totally in the dark. But I can feel it, and somehow I know it."

"... just fine, it seems. Well done on getting here."

"Oh, I'm surprised at Ouilla, too."

Yeah, mostly it was like a hand job.

Takumi and Alice, Shilo and Cro.

In a state of emergency where the world was about to end, I perceived more danger than that.

Where it comes from.

At first, it was like I didn't know.

Rely on your intuition to sharpen all of your five senses as you untie (about) your memory.

Perhaps the discomfort was felt from the beginning.

"Hey, who the hell are you?

The identity is wrapped in darkness, and no one has seen what it really is.

"Dark King, Azatos"

In the darkness I see nothing at all.

Plus, I guess he's covered in darkness himself.

Still, Oyla found out that Azatose just laughed.

"The pursuit of truth begins with all the truthful suspicions that someone previously believed"

I felt uncomfortable.

The words Azatos always used most seemingly felt like the words someone used, not his own.

"I'll ask you a question, Azatos."

And those words are nowhere in this world.

"Where did you come from?

"Not here, somewhere, and now I can only answer"

Force him to answer.

And there's no way.

I don't know the bottom of my strength.

I can see that I've never really fought before.

Oyla's hazard detection was setting off an alarm all shaken up.

"Then here, what are you going to do?

"... I won't do anything. I just want to report everything I see."

It's also troublesome to be sharp.

I even know what I don't even want to know.

We must not step in any further.

This is the last branch to survive and go home.

Yet Oyla asks Azatose a question.

"... are you watching Takumi?

Darkness spread in darkness.

The darkness that Azatos had wrapped around his whole body is covered in oils and enveloped.

"Better not say anything more"

You're still gonna let me live?

No, I guess this is the last warning.

"Be careful. When you look into the abyss, the abyss is looking at you again."

Damn, my whole body's hair has turned upside down.

Hazard detection stops like this.

Still, Oyla won't stop asking Azatose questions.

Nor did Takumi pull a step toward Alice, who fused with Cro.

If I pull it here, the name of the big bandit, Master Bats, will be given.

"... you, no, you guys brought in Takumi?

A little silence.

Later, the music that had stopped plays out again.

"There are only three things I've brought into this world"

The darkness that was covering the azatose slowly peels off.

At some point, the space of darkness he had created was gone.

In the center of the small room, Azatos plays the piano.

"Canon of Pahelbel, the words of Nietzsche, and…"

The darkness was not gone.

All the darkness is gathered at the feet of the oila, climbing from the lower body as it slopes.

"... Holy Grail, Kuyuan (Kumon) Masonry (Takumi)"

It was a name I wasn't used to hearing.

My first name is coming later.

A name that does not exist in this world.

Is that Takumi's real name?

The darkness of Azatos is gone and its appearance is revealed.

But I don't know that face.

He turns his back and plays the piano all the time.

"Hey, you..."

It would be the last question.

The darkness is already rising to the neck.

"... are you on Takumi's side?

"People refuse to listen to the truth. That's because we refuse to let our fantasies break."

Until the darkness crawls up and covers the whole body of the oila.

All of the five senses are blocked and everything is wrapped in darkness.

At the end of the day, however, Oyla didn't miss hearing the words Azatos whined in a small voice, all over the piano playing.

"... I misled him into thinking he was the strongest in the universe, just a sacrifice."

... Sacrifice?

Right, was it?

They use takumi...

Something approaches me.

It overshadows the reason (proverb) of this world from the ground up.

Another world connected to the world of the Oilers.