"...... hmm. Karen! Stay with me!

Karen wakes up in the voice of Iris.

The surroundings were surprisingly quiet, and there was nowhere to see Hildor or Cecilia, who should have been just before losing his mind.

"... Iris? Where'd they go?

"I don't know. He was gone the next moment you got up. And sometime you were down, too."

"... oh. Bad, he was just a little down. Anyway, let's get out of here. They might attack again."

"I don't mind that... Why are the wounds blocked?

As Iris pointed out.

Karen's body, which should have been scratched in the last fight, was completely back on track.

As if it wasn't from the beginning, such as the battle.

"- I can't help thinking about it. Find Olivia and rendezvous with Serra as soon as possible."

"Yes...... I don't mean to be rude, but you're right. Without them, it doesn't mean they're in a critical situation."

Iris seemed convinced by Karen's suggestion to rush ahead.

Iris pulls his hand, and Karen stands up. I should have tortured my body, but I was able to move it so lightly that I was surprised.

The two of them start running ahead of Karen.

- Iris never noticed Karen smiling evil.

"Here it is! Serra's fighting here!

Rico, rescued by Serra's hand, had joined the Jillians as promised and had returned to Serra again.

Serra is fighting an immortal named Alice. That's what Rico told me. Jillian and Olivia were armed and vigilant, but Olivia raises doubts when she finds herself uncomfortable close to the scene.

…… Oddly quiet. "

I also notice that Rico doesn't make any noise when he hears the words.

Has it been settled sooner?

"But maybe there's a lousy woman lurking like that Alice. Do you both mind? First, come in carefully. -"

"Serra!"

"Hey, Rico!?

"Just listen to me!?

I can't be there or not, and Rico pops out refreshed.

I walked inside, but I didn't see Alice anywhere.

What happened to Serra? The answer will soon be found.

"Selah, Selah! Where did you...?

Picchi, the water noise.

When I looked at Rico's feet, the blood build-up was spreading to Rico's feet.

Ahead there was a pompous hole in his chest, his left arm and left leg half blown, and Serra's figure unnaturally broken and shaken his right arm.

"Huh!!?? Let, la........................!?

Rico vomits at the tragic look of it and steps back.

Gucci, stepping on something with his left foot with the unpleasant sound and uncomfortable feeling that

Unexpectedly, Rico turned to you.

A red and black crushed piece of meat pulled a sticky thread and stretched it to Rico's sole.

It was the limit already.

"-"

I couldn't even afford to scream.

Soon after, with his intense glare, Rico let go of consciousness.

"Ha... Ha..."

In a rough breath, Alice escaped to the side of the alley.

He leaves his back behind the wall and slips into the spot.

"Serra.................."

Calling a loving childhood tame name, but the look Alice had on her face was fear, not worry.

Serra showed you the intention to kill. Above all, I was afraid that hatred and anger were gone and that they were being directed at the mechanical will to just kill me.

"Looks like you've done something quite unsolicited."

The girl's voice echoes from nowhere.

When Alice looked up, the girl with bloody red and black eyes in her red hair - Sakura stood.

Staring at her, Alice asks.

"For what?

"I came here to punish Rico and Serra because I wanted them to keep their hands off me as long as possible but I broke that saying... but I see you've seen something interesting about how it goes"

"Shut up. Whatever you do, I'm on my own."

"How'd it go? Selah's Madness."

Second, Alice stops moving perfectly to the words thrown by Sakura.

"Unlike the fake (you) just pretending to be crazy, how was the real (Selah) madness that was totally crazy?

"... I didn't care about my body. It was like a machine that prioritized killing. Yet when you tried to kill me, you were laughing...!

Perhaps Sella wasn't aware, but when she was beating Alice, Sella did smile.

"You're the one who turned Serra into an immortal, aren't you? What did you blow into Serra then?!?

"Nothing. It's just an immortal curse that this Sakura gave Sera. That killing impulse is what she had originally."

"No way! I'm the closest I've ever seen to Selah! Selah is not such a girl!!

"Don't be selfish. Well, maybe Serra was a normal kid at first, as you say. But isn't it your fault you got distorted like now?

…… That's... "

Alice mumbles at Sakura's point.

Shards, as if to mock, Sakura stuffs up to Alice and speaks with a contemptuous look.

"Pretend crazy to earn the curse of immortality and use it to defeat this Sakura. Keri is put on by being murdered from a resentful Selah in the last state of breaking through a critical point. I think that's a stupid idea, don't you?

"Why did you..."

"This is Sakira, right? There's no way you're gonna find out. However, it was not suitable for Serra to carry out this operation. After all, isn't that all we're talking about? Seems like you've noticed, but Serra always had killer qualities, didn't she?

"Don't listen to qualities like you found out! You don't know anything about us!

"That's our line✩."

That's what Sakura says. She comes with her arm extended to Alice's left chest.

Immediately afterwards, he stabs that hand in his chest without hesitation.

"Guh, guh, no? Ahhh!?

"I told you, didn't I? You said you were going to punish me for doing too much random stuff."

From the attitude I had shown until then, I changed to a true face, and in a cold voice, Sakura said away.

"The eagle. I don't care what the miscellaneous fish say. You don't like a guy like you who makes sacrifices by playing random justice to justify himself."

"'Cause, I don't know, bye... hey"

"It's justification."

I scratch my hands with my hands stuck inside Alice's chest.

Alice receives such unspeakable pain that her whole body becomes gross.

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!???"

"You're involving a lot of people in a plan to kill eagles in the name of" necessary sacrifice, "right? You gotta be kidding me."

There is a quiet rage in Sakara's eyes.

"Immortality is stripped of you. But I won't let you die yet. Hate the eagle and have him die desperate for his stupidity and powerlessness. Until then, I'll make you regret suffering plenty and making you care about the eagle."

Doron, and Alice's heart pulsing.

Touching gently there, Sakara smiled madly.

"It's not ultra-luxurious pure earth that you fall. This Sakura will take you all the way to hell."

Immediately after.

Alice's heart was crushed relentlessly.

…………

A certain small private room set up in a passenger locomotive.

The room was surrounded by bitter air.

Since then.

By the time Rico's consciousness returned, Serra's body had almost regenerated. But Serra's consciousness at heart has not returned, and Alice ended up missing.

Afterwards, he rendezvous with Karen and the others who have rushed him. First, Rico and the others unanimously decided to act on Olivia's opinion that he would flee to the 'Saul' of the neighbouring town.

And in this locomotive headed to Saul, Rico and the others talked about the incidents that were all over the city and continue to do so.

(……… Alice)

Rico was thinking about that immortal as the bandage was wrapped and he rubbed four fixed fingers.

I didn't know Serra had childhood friends.

And her anger and willingness to kill that I see for the first time in my life.

Maybe it's close when we talk already.

Rico's "Secret". And Serra's purpose. Perhaps we should reveal what we are hiding from each other at this time than Sakura has made a full move.

... Most importantly, Serra still doesn't wake up.

That's when I thought so.

".................. yeah, um......"

Serra fills with groans and opens her eyes.

At last, her consciousness was restored.

"Serra!"

"Hey, Selah, are you okay!?

"Senior!"

Shortly after Sella wakes up, three people clog up: Rico, Karen and Jillian.

"That, Rico...... Guys, is this...?

Serra confused because Serra was not the only one asked what was going on after a long time.

Everyone on the spot was relieved not to think she looked unusual and healthy.

- But we soon realized that things were serious.

Rico and the others asked me about the situation and I was able to swallow the situation first.

... but the anomaly since I woke up had not yet healed.

"Selah............?

Would Rico's hair color have been so black to say so and peek into?

Rico's eyes, which were as red and beautiful as Ruby's, were also blackened, and the color of the contrasting skin was unusually white.

Rico isn't the only one. Karen and Jillian aren't just people.

All colors had been lost from the view shown in front of us.

…………

Rico and the others who heard about it are stunned, and the indoor air gets heavier again.

Barely, Mr. Iris opened his mouth and asked.

"... you're terribly calm for saying that"

"Oh yeah..............."

"If it were normal, the............ Don't you get sad or something?

"Sad...?

To the words of Mr. Iris I lean my neck.

Oh, well. Until then, it is only natural that what was commonplace should be lost and feelings darkened.

So Mr Iris' question may be the most important.

But, but.

I accidentally returned the question to Mr. Iris with a question.

And the air of the field shall freeze in my words.

"- What's sad?

- - Chapter 2: "The Coup," complete

- - Continues to Chapter 3: Absolute Love.