It Is A Different World And Yet I Am Cultivating Monsters

"Hah... hah... hah..."

The boy was running alone in the desert at night.

Many times along the way, they fall into the sand, but they still stand up and scatter the desert at night.

Away from the palace where you were, away from the city, and into the desert.

Untouched running. But he runs in one direction as if he knew where to go.

"Hah... hah... mom... dad..."

Boy Singh murmured as he burst into tears at the edge of his eyes.

The murmuring of his mother and father is not about his actual parents.

His father is unknown and his mother is already dead.

And Sin is traumatized by his mother's death.

Manticore was supposed to be the monsters who picked up those thins in the desert.

They picked him up, and Sin lay his real mother on the manticore, and lived.

But Manticore, who replaced his mother, died.

At that time, Singh remembered the trauma of losing his mother and tried to shut herself down and choose death by debilitation.

But thanks to my sister and the geese, I was able to regain consciousness.

Still, for Singh, the trauma in the detachment where his real mother died never disappeared.

I want to escape.

Singh was running the desert with his heart at his heart.

My place is not that detached house. The place where Manticore picked me up is where I belong.

Sin then sees some shadow after running through the desert at night.

As Sin approached, his figure gradually became clear, and by the time he understood the shape, Sin could smile at his face.

"... Father!

It was a crack in the manticore that picked up Singh.

He had been watching near the city ever since he had entrusted Shin to Kew and the others.

Singh couldn't have mistakenly seen the Manticore who had raised him up to now. He smiled and approached the monster at a glance.

But the next moment, I came to Singh with a shock that betrayed his expectations.

"- Stop right there. Humans"

Numerous needles are released from the tail of the manticore.

It was just thrown at the foot of Sin, who was about to rush over now, and the sight of Sin stops there as if frozen.

"... eh?

Thin opens his mouth, dazed by the events in front of him.

But the words Manticore sent to chase him were incredible to him.

"Stay away from me at ease, human."

It was a word unimaginable from Manticore, who raised himself instead of his father.

A rude word against a stranger fills Sin's chest.

"Nah... why... why, Dad...?

Manticore's poison needle is released again at the foot of Shin, who tried to approach Yoroyoro with tears.

"I told you to stay away from me. Get any closer and I'll kill you. Humans"

――――――

The word that came from the presence that was supposed to have replaced the father.

Singh stood as if he had lost his way.

"Ugh, that's a lie... because my father said that I was important... and that I could stay there forever...!

But still, Singh tried to approach the manticore in front of him, and as he walked to the point where his hands touched him, he could see the manticore in front of him sighing, and when he saw it, Singh looked relieved.

"... I warned you. Don't hold back."

At the next moment, Manticore looks at the murderous expression and throws a poisonous needle in his tail at Sin's body.

"......!

Looking at the countless poison needles approaching in front of him, Sin felt desperate but relieved somewhere in his heart.

Why did I feel so relieved for a moment that I might die?

Manticore's voice reaches as if he had spotted the question.

"I don't know what you're running from... but it's a mistake to ask me where to escape."

(... escape...?

Thin questions the words from Manticore in his heart.

What the hell are you running from?

From that detachment? From the trauma that happened over there?

From the people there, the servants, the royals?

Looking at the imminent poison needle, Singh looks back at the events until then like a running horse lamp.

That place certainly was a trauma to me.

But that wasn't all.

There was also a happy time there. I also remembered the warmth I spent with my family.

The moment my sister wrapped herself, she stopped shaking slightly.

However, when the sister accepted the duel with her brother Masauda to protect herself, she trembled again in fear.

It wasn't a fear of being killed, but imagined a future in which my precious family would be hurt.

(... ah, I see...)

This is fine.

I don't have my mother anymore, and I don't have a mother to replace me.

And my only relative is trying to hurt himself.

If that's the case, it's better to end it here.

Rather, I wanted it to happen somewhere in my heart.

As soon as I realized it, I heard a cry for myself from behind as I slowly tried to close my eyes.

"--shhh!!

Before turning to that voice, Singh tastes the feeling of being pushed by someone from behind.

He fell straight to the ground, his face hit the ground, and sand entered his mouth, but raised his face immediately regardless.

Beyond the gaze, there was a girl with two faces, herself and melon.

It was the image of my only remaining relative, my sister Alicia.

"... hey, honey..."

Sin murmured when she saw her sister. But the voice was trembling.

That should have been the case, as countless needles from the manticore were piercing her left arm.

"....."

Alicia distorts her face in pain.

Naturally, the needle present in the tail of the manticore contains poison.

Subjects were deprived of their liberty and even died a few days later.

For Singh, who coexisted with Manticore, the horrors were too familiar.

Sin immediately worried about her sister, but Alicia opened her mouth earlier.

"... are you okay, Sin? Are you hurt?

The expression had a smile on her face, and Shin saw the kindness of her sister, who shouldn't have worried about the pain of the poison needle.

"Don't worry... Sin. I'll protect you. I promise I'll protect you no matter what happens."

Sin crouched in her chest as Alicia reached out.

"... so don't tremble anymore"

Hearing those words, it seemed that the body, which should have been trembling, would subside until it left the palace and ran away from here.

Alicia stands in front of him to protect him as he sees Sin's body tremble.

"I don't know why you're attacking Singh. But I assure you, this is it."

Already suffering from manticore poison needles, the left body is paralyzed and unable to move freely.

However, Alicia still holds the sword in her right hand, grips Shin's hand with her left hand, which should be paralyzed, and declares without fear.

"I will never forgive you if you hurt my brother with one needle! He's my dear younger brother!

"... ah"

Sin remembers the words.

When I was with my mother, I always had a sister next to me holding my hand.

I thought I was my sister's friend.

But my sister shouldn't have thought of that.

My sister still holds her hand when she says she cares about herself.

She lost her mother and no longer exists to replace her.

There's no point in living anymore.

But it wasn't.

My sister still holds her hand when she says she cares about herself.

When he realized it, Sin shed tears, and there was no tremor there before.

…………

Manticore, who was just staring at it, eventually turned his back slowly to see what he felt.

"Ah...."

Looking at it, Sin reached out without knowing.

But Manticore's eyes staring back at it were as cold as anyone he'd ever seen before, not as Sin knew it.

"... boy. I don't know why you want me. But let me just say this."

Manticore then pointed to Alicia holding her sword to control herself while still holding Sin's hand.

There was sweat on her forehead and her expression turned into pain, but still she stood tall.

"If there is someone who cares about you, I shouldn't leave him. Whether it leads to a load or not, that load is the proof of what is important."

Hearing the words, Singh lowered his hand to Manticore.

The manticore in front of Sin is certainly important.

But there's more to it than that right now.

When he understood it, Sin leaned down and just shed tears.

Manticore, who was watching it, turned his heel quietly and disappeared into the desert at night.

Sin wipes his tears as he looks at the back of a monster who has been raised as his father for several years.

And the next moment, as the tension subsided, Alicia's body collapsed and she lost consciousness.