Hitsugi no Maou

How long was the brightness shining in the eastern sky?

Sabitoga put her hand over the smoke vent of the tent and tried to put heat on her stiff fingers, but the burning fire seemed to have already burned out, and the cold night chills just clung together.

There were signs that Straw would lift his hips from Wakusa. Sabitoga vomits low, staring at her cold toenails.

Weiss and the others are still after you.

Straw replied, "Oh," in a bitter voice as if he were putting up with something.

"I fled all sorts of countries using the ID and money I took from them. He crossed many borders, crossed continents, and crossed the Sea of Shinya. But in the end, I couldn't shake off their tracks. They really followed... even to the end of the earth."

"How many people did you kill?"

"I don't remember. The villagers probably go together, like, sixty people. Which is the number of people you executed or more...?

"I have more."

Straw rolls his eyeballs at Sabitoga who answers instantly. Sabitoga repeated, "I have more" again, rubbing her stretched nails together.

"Sixty is not a big number."

"... is that what you're talking about?

……

"... Weiss and the others... when I hear that kind of dialogue, it turns like crazy. The value of a human being weighs heavier than a nation."

Sabitoga blatantly disgusted his face. "Are you kidding me," Straw smiles back thinly at him.

"Right. I've been using my life to crush it, and I don't know what you're talking about. But they throw up that kind of dialogue with a big, serious face. Outside the Federation… in places with foreign eyes."

"A land of goodness and equality, huh? Trying to spread the reputation of one's own country and the opposite to another is proof that we are aware that our ways have not been honored. As you said, I wonder which way collapse was inevitable."

"Weiss and the others are not externally chasing me as a fan or leader of civil unrest. I'm only arranging for the murderers of my countrymen's villagers. Otherwise, even the people of my country will find out that I'm going to (...) bee (broom), and hence the touch of a land of goodness and equality. He must be hiding what Weiss is doing to me. The country's authority will be undermined."

"It's just lies and hiding."

"That's why they tried to crusade me as little as possible without involving the official constitution of another country. All you come after me is a white vise, always trying to keep things inside.

... I've managed... but it looks like the civil unrest in the Federation is finally escalating. The pursuit of Weiss and the others has also become more serious, and at last the borders have been consolidated and they are unable to move. In the realm of the Devil's Island. "

When Sabitoga lifted her eyes, Straw looked like one evil face, with a disappointing head. "I'm sorry," her lips (creaking) itch.

"I looked like I'd been traveling for immortal water since the beginning, but I didn't really want to come. I was cornered, and I just ran away. You'll never be able to live again, in the magic of death."

"You told me. He wants to drink immortal water and liquidate his life. You bet your life on a dream legend because you're a man who can't live without dreaming."

"... oh, I told you. I did say."

"If we stay off the island, Weiss, who consolidated the border, will turn to the assassins one after the other, and they will soon be surrounded and killed. If you landed on an island, there is no other way to survive than to tread (and) get immortal water. You were not challenged to the Island of Demons by the power of immortality. Just not to be killed... not to lose a 'war' with my country..."

Just for that.

Sabitoga squeaks her teeth as she sinks her eyes (yes, she does) into her long dark hair. Straw turned his back on such an opponent's trick, and next he looked at the brightness of the sky.

Soon the morning sun will illuminate the world with a blade-like light. A new morning is coming. The day of battle begins.

"... there's the one who says it this way. People should not be happy at the expense of others. Happiness built on someone's misfortune isn't real happiness.

And someone else, in a clearer way, says something. The one who killed people doesn't have the right to be happy. I have to get a report. Otherwise, the world will go crazy. "

……

"Considering the Federation and Weiss, there are a lot of people who don't want me to be happy. Anyway, I killed too many people. Even the villagers can tell you that I had to be Weiss to be greedy in the first place.

A decent story. Then I'm a villain. It's a sin. If the righteous have to be slaughtered, it's scum. "

Sabitoga rises and points her pitch-black eyes (hitomi) at Straw. It was like a ball of darkness, and some light ran.

"- But it is - everyone who has given me something in my previous life has asked me to be 'raw'. He told me to live, to be happy, to keep my mouth shut. The ones who told me to die, they all took something from me.

... which wish I want to fulfill... you know, Sabitoga "

Signs of the morning sun loom from across the trees and sky.

Straw's eyes (Hitomi) eventually absorbed the color of the burning star and emitted human light.

"I'll grab your happiness with my hands wet (not) in the blood of others. I will see the collapse of the Federation and live beyond it. Neither sin nor reward matters. I can only make the wishes of the people I love. Immortality for that. And for that, I will... try the legend of my dreams and put it all together."