Time had passed since the death of Umeno, and for some reason the situation in which Umeno said he should still have died was moving around was causing him to lose his sense of reality from Kigure and Shura.
Whatever you ask around, keep your mouth shut and say, "I saw Umeno," so it's easier and more convenient for both of us to think that his death itself was a lie in the first place.
I was dreaming that day.
It didn't take that long for the two of them to come to that conclusion.
And then, little by little, they calm down and turn away from reality and return to everyday life.
I can't forgive you for that.
Out of the Emperor's room, I headed straight to the chamber of the Emperor.
At this time, which has a little time to go to dinner, Kigure should not have come to the room yet.
When I knocked lightly and named her, she immediately put me in the room.
I have already visited Kushiro several times so far, and the alarm seems to have been completely lifted.
"I'm sorry, it's not getting any better"
"Fine, fine, let's heal it slowly. Because when the environment changes, it really breaks down."
It is still a tremendous pain to pretend to be a good man in front of them.
But the fact that I know the environment surrounding them gives me a greater sense of superiority than that.
The joy was the driving force that pushed me.
Speaking of which, you had fruit with Mr. Takashi the other day.
"Yeah... it was a fruit called Milly, it was delicious."
"I'm glad you like it, I'll bring it back. But I think I forgot my knife in this room."
She reacted with a fright in her body.
It's easy to understand, ha.
But I'll pretend not to look. Because I'm a sweet boss now.
"I don't know, don't you? I borrowed it from the dining room, so I lost it and it pissed me off."
"I... don't know"
"That's right. That's funny, so where did you drop it, when you get back to the dining room?"
When I say it as I act so exaggerated, Kira is hunted down on her own.
My hands trembled in small pieces and my neck muscles were sweating.
So, one more push.
Gattang.
Me and Kira saw the door at the same time to the sound we heard from outside the room.
"I don't know, it sounded like something fell, right?
"... yeah"
"I'll take a look, hang on."
I got up, opened the door, and I picked it up, which was falling at my feet.
It's a small knife with a blade in its sheath.
It's the exact same type of fruit that I had when I gave it a treat. [M]
"That, why is the knife in here?
With that said, she opens her eyes when she shows the knife to Shirley.
You must have thought the exact same thing about me.
But for me, it's just a fruit knife, but for Kira, the murder weapon that killed Umeno.
The seriousness of the reception is much deeper for her than for me.
"Huh!?
Shouldn't be feeling well. As he crawled out of bed in a quick move, he rushed over here and took the knife from my hand.
"Ha, ha, ha!
"Duh, what's the matter, Kira, if you get up so suddenly, you're not feeling well again? And that knife, the one I brought you, right?
"Ha, ha, ha."
"I have to give it back to the dining room, can I have it?
"No. Eh!
Ji Liang screams desperately.
And he shifted his sheath slightly as he peered, and when he looked at the blade - he saw the blackened blood sticking snugly there, and he rushed again to hide the blade.
A blue face, a look full of despair.
Yeah, yeah, good approximate look.
I put the knife outside on purpose to see it. [M]
What do you think? How does it feel to be drawn back to reality?
It sucks the best, you want to throw up.
Then let's make it look like a tree next time. Share your despair.
And you should be aware.
I'm the one who killed Umeno.
"If you like that knife so much, I won't force you either. If it's no longer necessary, give it back to me, because I have to put it back in the dining room."
"Phew... Phew..."
"You look worse than you just did, okay?
"Ha... Oh, it's not okay, it's not. Because I feel sick... you go to sleep. Alone, do."
"Okay, if anything happens, call me or Kiyoshi-kun."
When I pulled back until it was unnatural, I left the room.
That's good.
Yeah, I can see it, Kira is a terribly self-centered woman.
Kira and Sasaki were among the few girls left, dating relatively well, two who could also be called friends.
Even so, Takashi took Kiyoshi from Sasaki.
A gentle, laid-back girl who receives well from men - such a mask can be peeled off by herself if she hunts down Shirley.
When that happens, there is not enough weight in the tree to accept her calling out to hysterics.
Whatever, because the twilight is the twilight. I couldn't be a class winner, because I'm a halfway man.
As a result, the two are isolated.
When someone you can count on is gone, they are no longer but pathetic guinea pigs.
Let them dance as they please on their palms and kill them when they're exhausted.
Well, let's start with...
◇ ◇ ◇
The difference between Kiyoshi and Kiyoshi occurred earlier than I expected and within the course of the day.
Being cornered and reaching his limits, Shiraito blamed Kishi.
"This happened because you wouldn't hide the body properly."
The opposing tree twilight, of course, argues.
"Why would I have to tell you that if you killed me?"
Yeah, the truth is definitely the tree twilight one.
But Ji Liang doesn't stop believing he's right.
The argument was parallel, there was no exchange of views between the two - the fight heated up, and Kigure popped out of the room.
Even the next day, Kigure doesn't go to Shirai's room.
And at the same time, at some point, Sasaki was no longer visible.
Even today, when I went out to work, a tree twilight with a non-floating look approached me.
"Um, white stuffing. Do you have any idea what's going on with Pear Ri?
I guess I can't even go hear it directly in front of Sasaki and I recently had a fight.
I immediately answered. [M]
"Actually, I've been feeling sick since yesterday and I've been asleep."
"Up to Pear Mile!? No... you know, I was sick as soon as something hard happened before, and I can't help it."
10% of the time, it's your fault, though.
"I wish I had just fallen ill"
"Is something wrong?
I said in a low voice, making a face that looked like I was showing Sasaki. [M]
"Aphonia. She developed stress or something, but she didn't have a voice for a while."
"Oh no - when did Pear Ri!?
"Yesterday, I think. For Sasaki-san, the fact that she didn't have a voice seems like a shock to herself, but she doesn't want to leave the room."
Tree ate up his regrettable teeth.
I guess it's because I realize I'm the cause.
But still, he doesn't want to go see Sasaki.
What aspect of human beings who even have a physical relationship with Takashi should we lower to meet now?
"Hey white pack, I know it's irresponsible. But... please, look at Pear Ri!
Deeply bow your head, please, Tree Twilight.
I can't believe that Kiyoshi, who has beaten me up, trusted me and bowed his head.
Ridiculous, makes me want to laugh at you.
"Okay, I've been entrusted with Mr. Sasaki. Instead, good luck with the work, Kiyoshi."
"Oh, okay. Thanks, White Stuff!
Thank you, huh?
How can this man not realise that everything is what I think it is?
I mean, I don't know, you can kill one of your people, bury it, and face the leader of the group, right?
I respect the thickness of the skin on that surface.
◇ ◇ ◇
My plan was to hunt down and kill Kiyoshi, who had become alienated. [M]
But that night, something unexpected happens.
It was a glaring sweet mistake of mine that drove the plan insane with a possible development if you think about it.
In short, the story of why Takashi became such a well-received personality for men.
She was fundamentally lonely.
I miss him so much that I can't stand it without always putting someone else next to him.
Come to think of it, since I was in Japan, there has always been a man next to her.
The vice has not changed since she came to the other world - losing her tree twilight, she sought a replacement.
I mean, one remaining boy, that dark, root-dark, colored white Nagaho.
Nagaho was worried about Shiraito from the beginning, so he worried about her being confused with Kigure during the night, so he visited the room.
At that time, the mental state of Ji Liang had reached its limits.
With the knife back, I can't even clean up Umeno's death as a dream, no tree twilight, and no one comforts me.
A weakening mind, a loneliness to come and go, a physical condition that deteriorates in tandem.
Hunted down, Kurya impulsively - seduced Nagaho, who visited the room.
I'm not interested if I don't like it, I used him to fill the hole.
And the next morning, when he returned to sanity and regretted what he had done, he summoned me to his room, who was now the only one to consult him.
Even more pale than before, and with her cheeks sprinkled, Yuliang looks older than her age.
"I... I was attacked yesterday by a man, what am I supposed to do?
Kira does not reveal that her opponent is Nagaho.
Of course, she doesn't know that I use Lily, Ellea, my sister, Francus, and sometimes Roppei to gather information about everything.
So I don't think they realize that's an act on consent, and it was obvious that I was going to be a victim at the time I lay down the other person's name.
"Forced, pushed down. I was scared, I was scared, I wasn't very scared, but I couldn't resist."
You see.
And there's probably another reason why she lay Nagaho's name down.
That's to hold me accountable.
Give me Nagaho's name, and my boss, I might lighten the punishment on him.
But if that's a strange man a would blame the man relentlessly and harshly.
If the punishment for Nagaho has become heavy, I am trying to protect myself by deciding to say that it is Cape White Stuffed, not me.
Smart, ugly woman everywhere.
But I dare to ride it. [M]
The plan is changed.
Let's put him behind us and kill Nagaho first, because that's what we decided.
"That was tough, Mr. Takashi..."
I held her in my arms to comfort her, suppressing nausea. [M]
... I'll have to shower later.
"White stuffing......"
"It was hard, wasn't it scary? I can't believe you're attacking a weak girl!
"Ugh, yeah."
It seems a little confusing because I exaggerate too much. [M]
I guess they think I'm not such a character.
Well, I think so myself.
"Let's go tell the castle guards."
"What, guard?
"Tell them, I'm sure they'll keep an eye on the person who attacked them. You want to be as calm as you can be, don't you? Then I think that's the best part."
"A guard is a man..."
"There's a woman here, and she's got a hard mouth, so it's okay."
"Well, should I give you the name of the person who attacked the guard?
"Yeah, I'm sure that'll tell you. Let's go now, because I can introduce you now."
Without giving me a gap of objection, I pulled out of the room.
To see where there is not much resistance, she also thinks it is reasonable to punish Nagaho.
What matters to her is not that Nagaho will be punished.
Because I'm the victim and I'm sympathetic to everyone.
◇ ◇ ◇
When Takashi told the guards Nagaho's name and his guilt, they promised to protect Takashi and not divulge information.
He then gave me a relieved look and went back to his room to thank me.
- And in the course of that day, the information that Nagaho had committed the crime spread instantly throughout the castle.
Without waiting for dinner time, rumors spread to the castle, eventually propagating it out of the castle - to the imperial capital.
Regardless, the rumors reached her ears, and she was greatly bewildered.
How could it have become so widespread when I promised I would never tell anyone?
When Nagaho walks, he hisses and someone rumors.
"He attacked a girl."
When Nagaho walks, someone pounds his tongue and throws up.
"You can walk around a lot with the guy who did this to her."
When Changbao walks, someone catches him on the shoulder and beats him.
"Hey rapist, get the hell out of the castle!
For him, it wouldn't make sense.
Why should I be cursed and why should I be beaten?
I only know one thing while I don't know everything.
That I slept with Kira last night.
But that's what he asked me to do. I can't believe he called me a rapist.
And no one believes in excuses.
Nagaho was no longer a unanimous and evil man.
The people who found out the rumors will continue to scorn him until he is brought to justice, when he has become an overwhelmingly bad man because of facts and whatever else is good.
The next morning, as we headed to the dining room, everyone took a distance from Nagaho and rumored from a place away.
I can punch a hot soup in my head when I think of someone rarely approaching me.
Nagaho cried, but there was no one to pity him as one.
Then when I go outside and start working, someone is still rumouring.
And when I wondered if the child was approaching, I threw a big stone there at him.
When the stone hits the side head, the skin is cut off or the flowing blood tangles in the hair and wets the temples.
Nagaho collapsed and shook his body in tears, but no one came to help.
... except me.
I approached Nagaho pretending to worry. [M]
Remove the handkerchief from your pocket and hit the wound.
"Nagaho-kun, are you okay?
"It's not me, it's not me..."
"You're talking about that rumor, I know that."
"Really?"
"Yeah, I believe it. Nagaho-kun didn't do anything terrible, he just kind of left his feelings empty."
Nagaho was stunned by my words.
Oh, you don't even believe in me - despair and tears in your eyes.
"Nagaho-kun, don't move. We need to treat the wounds properly."
"No, it's not! I didn't do anything, I'm not bad, it's all a mistake of some kind...!
"Yeah, yeah, I know. Because I know."
"You know nothing about White Stuff, okay? No!
With tears zeroed out of his eyes, he held his hands strong and screamed in a plain voice.
To the sounding voice, the surrounding people looked at Nagaho at the same time.
Colder gaze pierces than ice.
Many, many.
"I didn't do it. Whoa! Why don't you believe me? I don't know!
"Nagaho-kun!
And Nagaho, who had become unbearable, ran away somewhere with a plundering scream.
Look at his back like that. Say something.
"Ha, you're broken."
I did not go after Nagaho, who disappeared, but turned my heel back and headed to the place where Lily and Ellea were working in a light foothold.
I'm talking about Nagaho, whose mentality isn't very strong from the beginning, if we were to meet the limits, around tomorrow?
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That night, after dinner, as I was out of the castle and breathing the air outside, Fran showed up.
"Are you next door?
Seeing her ask that innocently, how many people would think she was a murderer?
Even I still can't believe it.
"As you can see, I'm free. I wonder why I bothered to ask."
"I thought you had an appointment. Lily, Ellea, Mikoto."
I don't have an appointment right now, but I think Lily will be waiting for me when I get back to my room.
"Oh, you've been thinking about someone right now"
It's a lily.
"Heh, the other person for tonight's night games is Lily."
"Geez... where the hell does Fran remember those words"
"When I'm with Xynia, I can hear the nasty words of the old men in the lawless zone (Laures)."
These are the kind of people whose very existence is not good for emotional education, has Fran been distorted because he has grown up in it?
No - it seems to me that she has more fundamental problems.
It seems wrong from the starting point, not distorted.
"No, I've been wondering."
"Hmm?
"Why did Fran like me?
"Didn't I tell you that before? If you're not convinced of that, you can't explain it to me. If I insist, I guess because I smell like it. I'm just acting like I like someone who thinks I like them."
"You mean that was Mr. Xynia and me?
"Yeah, I love the two of you as much as a killer. So I love it more when two people kill people!
I accidentally held my head to an honest word that was not false.
"Why do you look so troubled?
"Hello, but..."
"Uh-huh."
"After the battle with the kingdom, if I told you I wanted to relax in a place where there was no battle - Fran, would you follow me?
"... a place without a fight? Is that in the world?
"I can never say, but I think there's a place far away."
"There I am?
"Of course, Lily and Ellea are going to take your sister with them."
It was a story of the future, where revenge gradually grew more realistic as it came to an end.
Vengeance is just a process.
What matters is how you spend the future after all the burdens (classmates) have disappeared.
For that happiness, I'm killing them.
"Hmm... you can't even kill people without a fight"
"But I'm there."
"Is your sister going to take me there too?
"If you're bored, I won't force you."
"What do you want your sister to do?
"... I want you to follow me, I guess. We haven't been dating that long, but I'd like to be with someone who says he likes me."
"I wanna be with you, huh?"
Fran rebelled to bite the words off.
The word we're together, does that also mean anything special to her?
When she breathed heavily, she spoke with a rare and melancholy look on her face, looking up at the sky.
"Me, you have skills on the other shore of good and evil, right? That one day I woke up suddenly. Playing outside, when I got home, no one noticed me. My favorite mommy and daddy, no one."
That was when I was younger than I am now.
Even though I'm still young enough, for Fran at the time, the loneliness of not even being noticed by her parents would have been too harsh.
"Talk to me, touch me, nobody notices. If I attacked you, you'd notice, what a condition, because there's no way I knew then. But I wanted him to notice me, so his actions escalated a little bit."
I keep listening to her as I hammer small. [M]
"My dad was an Animus mechanic. I wanted my dad to realize that. I dropped a big tool from a high place and hit my dad on the back. If it hurts like this, you'll realize it."
The young Fran didn't know about death.
The cruelty of ignorance, has it given rise to tragedy?
"That was a tool for Animus. It's big for people, but for Animus, it's a small, silver, thing to use to crush things. The murder weapon that killed my dad. His name is, Punisher."
It's like that tool that she usually carries and that Arkedia uses as her main weapon again.
No, you mean it was really a tool after all?
If it's for Animus, I can convince you of that size.
"But, you know, because of that, my dad found me at the end of the day. My dad's last words were, 'Finally, thank you'. I was happy, I always wanted you to notice, because my dad noticed me."
So, what's next for the father?
"So I killed my mom, too. It was the same tool that killed my dad, and I slaughtered him from the back. And my mom said 'thank you' too, so I've been repeating the same thing ever since. Killing people is a good thing, because yes, my mom and dad taught me."
So, the young killer was born?
Perhaps, but Fran even kept killing people indiscriminately until he met Xynia.
That is why it stopped in the eyes of the army and was captured by Xynia.
"But, you know, I've been feeling a little different lately. Meet Xynia, spend time with her, create discomfort. And then I met your sister, and I talked to her so many times, and... I knew what that discomfort was."
"What was that?
"Mom and Dad didn't just say” thank you "before they died, they also said" sorry. ”" I'm sorry I couldn't be with you, "and then, thank you for seeing me for the last time. The important thing my mom and dad wanted to tell me wasn't really” thank you, "it was” sorry. ”
What underlies Fran's homicidal habits is loneliness in seeking out her parents.
I put my parents in my hands to bury it, and I kept killing people.
Full self-assertion, of a girl no one will notice.
"If you can't stay with me, I'm sorry, what is it? Being next to someone who says you want to be with me is the most important thing. There was a” thank you ”because there was a goodbye. But if there's no goodbye, I've never been over it. And now there's someone who wants to be with me."
Honestly, I didn't think so deeply that I spoke.
So although I feel a little silly and guilty, I wonder if Fran will accept my offer as a result.
"Murdering is fun, and I'd still like to do it if I had the chance, but if your sister would tell me she wants to be with you, I think that would be best. Probably the happiest choice for me."
"Well, I guess the answer is yes,"
"Yeah, if the battle was over and me and your sister survived, though. I guess it's going to be a lively and fun life! Oh, of course you'll do something to me, won't you?
"No, because it's still early"
"Yea! You want me to get my hands on my real sister?
Ugh, it hurts when they poke me there.
That said, I haven't got my hands on it yet, and I just can't act like I'm sorry for such a little girl.
"When you're a little older."
"Eh, Ellea had a great voice, so I was interested."
"... were you listening?
"If I happened to pass in front of the room, I could hear the whole thing, couldn't I? It doesn't seem very expensive, so you should be careful, sister."
That's good advice, I almost made the same mistake tonight.
Uh... but hey, the lilies are pretty loud, and it's going to be exciting, especially since it's been a long time today.
Well, maybe we need to break it off in some cases.
"Later, sister. You were trying to kill that six people who've been in exile, weren't you?
"Hmm? Yeah, but"
"I saw your sister disguise herself as Umeno, but she's already dead."
"He's dead, 'cause I dared you to let my people kill him"
"So it's your sister's fault that Ira looks like a woman and a guy named Nagaho are dying, right?
I'm gradually cornered by Fran, who laughs like a little devil, with his hands behind his back.
It's nothing. I don't mind telling her everything - don't have a bad feeling about it.
"Of course, I'm going to kill them all."
"From what I've seen, Ira and Nagaho seem to be packing up already, so I'm not saying I can't force myself either. But there's still room for the other three, right?
"There's two of us left. One's already dead."
"Oh, yeah. Then let me help you with either one of them."
... I knew it was coming.
"I knew if I had a chance to kill you, I'd want to kill you, and I'd definitely have fun with your sister! You know, I could just help."
I just need to say I can still afford the plan.
I've already made up my mind about how to kill Roppei, and when it does, is it Kigure?
I wonder if there's room for Fran to go in... well, I wonder what I can do about it.
As I was troubling my head, Fran clung to my body and started wasting it.
"They don't see me, and I'll definitely do it right! Hey, okay?
Fran's selfishness continues, as if she were a sister who gives things to her sister.
In fact, if we were to spend time together after the battle, we'd settle into a position like my sister.
Because I wanted to adore him, so I invited him.
There will be some imposition... but I don't have a choice, do I ask?
"Okay. But it's my job to stab the stubborn, so add or subtract them so you don't kill them."
"Yay! Sasu is your sister, I love it, I really love it!
I'm in good shape.
Still, I don't know.
My face is stingy. I'm a pretty good one, too.