"Oh, Goubayashi... is it...?

To Ryuzaki's inquiry, the ouga nodded slowly.

"Oh, it's me"

The sound of that voice hasn't changed at all from that time I heard it a month and a half ago. Strong, fat, and full of majesty, it belongs to the great best friend of Kunihiro Ryuzaki and former Pope Haolin. The golden energy rising from his entire body showed that he had also survived several ordeals and moved on to Phase 2.

Ryuzaki wanted to cheer, and he wanted to cry. There were stories to pile up, and to be honest, there was a grudge festival. If it was Ryuzaki a month ago, he could have spoken of it easily.

Hydra's neck exposes alert in front of a sudden intruder. With the remaining five necks tongued out with tyrosis, I pull them all the way into the fog to get one end distance.

Ryuzaki deposits any emotions that boil on the shelf and rebuilds his posture. I saw Goubayashi, and he lay on the deck, and I saw Zekwu's body. How much strength does Ouga have? As far as believing Serena's left notes, it is good to assume that there is some leeway. But still, you can't roll all the way here.

"Fish residence, is my sister okay?

"No. The trout bills are on now."

"Well, the white horse can't move now either..."

What Ryuzaki cares about is the lack of a healing magic user on this occasion. In front of the mighty enemy, this one is forced to live in poverty.

Caorco, who was in action with the Goobbayashi, could also handle restorative magic, but its shadow is not found nearby.

"Thank you for waiting, gentlemen. Looking for me."

I hear a conceited voice and a black cat in boots shows up on the deck.

It's Miya Catmiya from Kett-Sea. Behind her, Thunderbird's Divine Birds feathers (what do you mean Kamizu...) glimpsed their faces from the shadow of the cabin.

"Cat Palace, are you okay?

"Shinseng pissed me off. If you have time to blame yourself, think about what you can do for Eagle Tail."

To Ryuzaki's inquiry, the cat palace shrugs its shoulders. Goubayashi frowned for a moment at the change in air, but said nothing.

"It's a common trick, though. But there's no way I can't move because I'm told by the goddess of fright. Right."

He's still a pain in the ass. but I appreciate you moving.

"Cat Palace, ask for restorative magic. Zeku is our top priority."

"And the chairman of the committee? There's blood everywhere, though?

"I still have it. Gobblefish, come back early, but I'll have one working for you."

"I don't mind. I came back for that."

Gowbayashi doesn't keep his arms in a slight motion, but the energy to rise from his entire body is still gaining momentum.

"You've grown, Ryuzaki."

It's about the body, and I wanted to talk about the blinding.

"Coming!

Kenzaki screamed, and at the same time, four of Hydra's necks burst into this one at once.

"Cage well, Kenzaki, Okumura and fish residence, one at a time!

Rapidly giving instructions, Ryuzaki ravages at the neck of one of the sticking sticks. Goubayashi similarly took one neck with both arms. The five-minute river plain gives instructions to the goblins and prepares for the surprise attack by the last bottle.

Shortly afterwards, Ryuzaki saw the goose palm directly next to him move into absurd motion.

"Ha-ha-ha... - Huh!!

Goubayashi converged the golden energy rising from his entire body into the empty other arm when he suppressed one head with one hand with his round-the-clock arm. The right arm, compressed with energy, emits a glow as if it were the sun. On the fog-covered heavy patrol deck, burn your sight hard.

"Phew!!

The moment I slap my right arm, my energy explodes. Hydra's head, for which Goubayashi was in charge, vanished easily where his fist touched or not, and the impact rocked the heavy patrol school. The aftermath of the explosion strikes other heads, naturally, as does Ryuzaki's body.

"If you don't see the men for three days, scratch them," is one of the motto of Goubayashi. As a friend of his, Ryuzaki intends to have grown as good as the word goes, but that seems to have been the same thing with regard to Goubayashi.

Can we lose?

Ryuzaki feeds both claws into Hydra's neck, slamming the braces from close range. Whoever burned his head took the bitterness and boredom with his jaw, and chewed it up.

Goubayashi turns to cover the struggling Okumura and fish dwellings. Finish the golden struggle and kick Hydra's head off as the two push hard. At about the same time, Kenzaki was chopping off one head with his bragging slash.

There's one left. Ryuzaki stares into the mist, but the valley is creepily quiet. A crawling, shifting, crawling sound was heard from the starboard side of the heavy patrol school, and at the same time the head of Hydra, thrown on the deck, fell off so that it could be pulled.

"Looks like he's gonna run away."

The cat palace with pins and ears squeaks.

"In the direction of the path?

"It's okay. Nothing seems to be happening."

"Okay. Five minutes Kawahara!

Ryuzaki screams as he heals his wounds in Shadow Spinning (Shadow Heels) at the Cat Palace, which rushes over.

"Whoa!"

"Tell Twilight. Institution max, through this valley all at once!

"I'm the Chairman of the Committee!

Pi, take a modus operandi similar to the salute, and Five Minutes Kawahara runs off the deck.

Ryuzaki disarmed the Complete Dragonization and confirmed his own wounds again. Some of the scales are peeled off and the blood runs dandruff. but, well, this much injury is usual. Not that it doesn't hurt, but there are a lot more important things now than that. The cat palace is healing the wound now.

Ryuzaki saw Goubayashi. It's not just Ryuzaki. Kenzaki, Okumura, and Zeku are staring at the man who's back.

"Sounds like a lot's happened."

Goubayashi said.

"Oh, lots of fun and pity."

"Right..."

Arm together, the gowbay snorts quietly. As Kenzaki laid down his sword, he asked in horror.

"Goubayashi, what about Kaorko...?

"Oh, including the matter, we talk a lot. Let's sort this out for once."

"Well, there's an eagle tail..."

When he heard the story, Goubayashi first closed his eyes and prayed silently. I can't see what emotions are at best behind that look from around me.

The news that Goubbayashi was back was evangelizing for the class that blocked him with the death of the eagle tail. Sometimes the Cat Palace and Shinseng, who went around touching the news, spoke with some footprints of his work on the deck, and it can be said that the minds of some students threatened with death were much contained.

Several students were coming to see the exchange of information with the Goubayashi that took place in the dining room.

There were a bunch of things I had to tell Goubayashi from here. It's not just the eagle's death. About Kokanai being exposed, or his contact with humans. What thoughts the class has now, begins to move, and is shaken by it.

The only thing Goubayashi caught his mouth listening to seriously was about the red-wing demon.

Goubayashi and Kaorko said they had engaged several times with a monster called Akahane and were following it. Apparently, as we move on, we come to the conclusion that the Akahane is the Pawn of the Red Moon bloodline (Red Moon).

When I heard that that was only Pawn, that Knight and Bishop had already been confirmed, and that Eagle Tail had been killed by that Bishop, the gooberpalm was also stunned to open his eyes.

Yes, speaking of classmate interest, it is Caorco.

What the hell happened to Kaorko, who was supposed to be traveling with Goubayashi?

"It's off. Instead, I let him go during my engagement with Akahane."

Goobbayashi, seriously injured by Pawn, has not been seen by Caorco because he was then hidden and rehabilitated by a human knight for about ten days.

"When it comes to Utsurugi and Rin, Koganei is the only one caught in Red Moon"

"He was confronting his inner self just like me, gaining new power. If you're just gonna run, you're not gonna get caught like that."

It was an overly optimistic observation, but as it stands, how much better that would be than to base your grief on uncertain information.

Goubayashi and Kaorko said they had a meeting in advance about the way forward in the event of a detachment. Caorco was supposed to be heading east with monsters on his side, including the little devil (Imp), using his Phase 2 abilities.

"That's right, gooby palm"

That's what Ryuzaki said just about the time the story came to a paragraph.

"Mm?"

Gowbayashi gives her face as she sips herbal tea with the served yuzu.

Tomorrow, we're going to have an eagle tail funeral.

"It's important. I mourn the dead and bid them farewell. It's the ritual we need for people to move forward."

"Goubayashi, will you give me the Sutra"

"Mm..."

Placing the empty yukata on the table, Goubayashi gave a slightly bewildered look.

Father Hao Lin is the son of the temple. Kid in front of the gate, not to say, but I thought that if he were to encourage training with his father and his brothers and monks, he could do as much as read the scriptures.

"Sure, you can rub some scripture... but not necessarily the same as the eagle's sect"

"It's fine. Because I think shape is important."

This isn't a game, or something.

Don't play games with the dead, or something.

There may be people who behave that way. But Ryuzaki thought “funeral home” was necessary.

We are human beings, and one day we will return to our original world. To remember those thoughts, Ryuzaki makes them take many different forms in their conduct in class. “Cross World Class Conference” is the case, and so is the name "Heavy Patrol School”. I treated Serena and Zeku as “transfer students" and gave them attendance numbers, because that's the intention.

Now that Eagle Tail is dead, the most important thing is to send him out as a "human.” The whole class is to accept the death of Humans/Eagle Tail Roata and bid his soul farewell. To that end, I want to be as physically fit as possible.

"I see."

Goubayashi nodded in arms, not knowing how much he had absorbed the intentions of such Ryuzaki.

"The most necessary thing in mourning the dead is condolence. If my boring sutra is going to be the hang-up to sum up my class's condolences, I'll take it."

"Thank you, Goubayashi"

"By the way, what's up with the whales?

Goubayashi looks around the dining room and asks. Naturally, there is no such thing as Kyosuke Akagi.

"He should have helped you after I was gone. I want to thank you."

"Utsurugi is a little..."

Ryuzaki is slightly out of sight.

After that, I heard a few words from Kawahara for five minutes. Kyosuke went out on the deck to join the battle and tried to merge with Rin, but he couldn't. It seemed to Ryuzaki that various incidents, including Eagle Tail's death, continued to occur and were caused by mental damage, but I don't know the exact thing.

I wonder if I can let a lot of my classmates know what I'm going to talk about. When Ryuzaki was thinking about it a little, Sugiura, who guessed the situation, slapped her hand on bread and said, 'Yes, yes, everyone out of the way!' He paid me, 'he said.

Sigh, Ryuzaki speaks again.

"Gowbayashi, the character of a sea urchin, what do you think?

"It looks a lot like you."

Goubayashi said lightly.

"The difference is, you're confident and you're not confident in the Utsurugi. That's how I saw it."

"Something tells me you're anxious when you look at the sea urchins here these days..."

There's something too priority for the others, Ryuzaki says.

I've always felt uncomfortable with Kyosuke. Maybe I care too much, but my initiative is too thin.

"Some people have no initiative, and others have too much priority. I don't think the problem with the sea urchin is that special."

"I guess so."

"That's right. Everyone worries. We're puberty."

I didn't expect the word 'puberty' to pop out of the mouth of a goose palm. Ryuzaki erupted in abundance.

"... Did I say something strange?

"Yes, no, I'm sorry..."

"There's probably a hang-up. Depending on that cut, the roots may be deep, even if the problem itself is not special. Keeping your problem harder than it needs to be is staying. Especially if it's the kind of a sea urchin."

Is this guy really the same age? Ryuzaki once again dwelt in his chest the doubts he felt every time he spoke to Goubayashi. But now, I miss even that thought.

The man I can count on, the gooberjack, is back for me. But like before, I'm not going to let him carry all the class issues anymore. We can't do it together, little by little. Just one thing I can't do about it, put him in charge, too.

This reduces one more thing, even the burden that the ewes have carried so far.

So if you can, I want Utsurugi to look healthy again. Goubayashi laughed when he saw Ryuzaki looking up at the ceiling.

"Again, Ryuzaki, you've grown up"

No, I was honestly happy with the words, answering.

Kyosuke hasn't left the room since then. Rin nodded disappointingly in the hallway, spreading all the way.

"Again, no, princess water"

"Yeah......"

Fluffy, weakly burning fireballs fly under Rin. It's Eung.

Ei, who had been completely weakened by seasickness, was also blaming himself for Kyosuke's heart being heavily wounded, and the day had finally come when Kyosuke Akiki's heart hole, which he could only watch grow bigger, while realizing seven years earlier. That regret, it would be considerable.

In addition, Eung is equally shocked by the death of Eagle Tail. Rin told Eung the end of the eagle. He helped Kyosuke and Rin, apologized many times for the apology, gave his will to Koganei, and scattered.

That seemed to be a heart-wrenching story for Ei, who refused to trust Eagle's words and actions and said it was an 'apology only in form'.

"Sorry, princess water. If only I could hold on tighter..."

"Yeah, I don't know what to say."

This matter is nobody's fault. Kyosuke had to face it one day.

But I just don't know how to heal that heart. For Rin, that's what it is.

Kyosuke is now in a state of total rejection of others. For once, if this one speaks up, he'll respond, and if he wants you to come out, he'll come out. But that attitude isn't weird, and if we don't talk, we'll be back in the room again.

"Maybe Kyosuke is losing faith in herself."

"Yeah. Me too, I think so"

said Eung. Rin snorts too.

Kyosuke has so far been thoroughly distracted from his problems. There was room to realize that I had been distracted. Or I was genuinely aware. But I didn't want to think it was my desire, I lived believing it was for others.

Once again, Kyosuke is the one who was shown it.

"Furano-kun, I wonder if Utsurugi-kun's current personality has anything to do with the fire I was talking about."

While away from Kyosuke's room, he asks.

"Maybe. That fire is Kyosuke's room. Was it a disposable writer?"

The words didn't really come to the pin, and Rin thought about it a bit.

"Does that mean Utsurugi-kun lit the fire?

"There is no certainty because the person won't say anything. It was when I was a kid. As a result, Kyosuke only survived the loss of her parents, but we can only guess how that affected her."

"Yeah......"

Sure, yeah. I just have to guess.

Kyosuke had a strong rejection of others losing their lives. We can associate it with fire, but we can also consider it to be an emotion stemming from his own kindness, completely irrelevant.

However, there may be such a fact in the context of 'I want to be thanked by others', which has often considered very commonplace emotions to be grotesque, and has tried to turn away.

"Well, I just found out, I'm talking about what I'm gonna do..."

Rin groans pompously.

"Maybe this won't help you understand Kyosuke, but it won't give you a clue what to do with Kyosuke now."

Eung nodded too.

"I feel like we need a different way to get Kyosuke back on his feet"

"More another way?

"Oh. I regret it, but I..."

That's what I was about to say, 'Colour' and a shadow showing itself from the corner of the hallway. Rin and Eung lost their words for a moment.

"Oh, oh... Goubayashi, it's been a long time!

Rin was the first to speak to the shadow.

It's Hao Lin's former minister in Ouga. In addition to the earlier battle of Hydra, he has returned electronically and brought a wind of relief into his class. Rin also watched the battle plenty from the cabin, but seemed to have the power to cross with each other around Pawn.

Goubayashi put his arms together and nodded 'Uhm', careful not to damage the low ceiling with a horn.

"How's the Utsurugi doing?

"Oh yeah...... I'm depressed."

Rin replied, Goubayashi only replied 'Really?'. I guess I hear the story from around Ryuzaki.

"Hey, Goubayashi"

Rin asked Goubayashi, having remembered.

"Mm?"

"Goubayashi, after all, how did you solve your problem?

As far as I can tell, Goubayashi should have left his class to face the existence of a "ghost” living within himself. Probably the first and most sincere student in the class who tried to face the problems that are within him. That is how he is able to awaken the Phase 2 ability even more of the inquiry and fully demonstrate it.

Rin does not have solid evidence of the awakening of abilities and whether the problems within him have some kind of causal relationship to fulfill. However, Kyosuke, who had faced his own problems, but had constricted his mind before, had been unable to merge with Rin. From Goubayashi's words, I wanted to get a hint to get Kyosuke back on his feet.

But Goubayashi's answer was unexpected.

"I haven't solved it."

"Huh...?

"I asked myself like every day and figured out how to erase the“ ghost ”in my own mind. But in the end, no matter how much you think, there's no answer. If you insist, the conclusion is one."

Neither Rin nor Eung utter any words, but wait for Goubayashi's next word.

"We just have to admit it. I have to go out with the presence of a ghost in me to purify my body and sharpen my mind."

That, he says, has wandered for less than a month and is the conclusion reached by Goubayashi.

"Of course, there could have been other means. But I chose this path."

"Yeah......"

"Did you find that helpful?

I don't know.

Eung answered Goubayashi's question before Rin.

"It's hard to make Kyosuke recognize his heart right now. But it's a means I've never tried before, or maybe it's the right answer."

That said, Eung adds at the end, 'I regret it, though'.

Let Kyosuke admit it. My heart. Tell me what you really mean. Can that be done? Admittedly, can Kyosuke really change? Kyosuke's confrontation with her inner self is only an act of repairing the crack in the cup after all.

Even if the crack is fixed, the empty contents remain empty.

"You can do it, princess. I can't."

Next to the troubled Rin, Eung said.

"The essence never changes while changing shape in a supple way to suit the vessel. Only water can fill an empty vessel."

The next day, the funeral of Rota Eagle was held. As Ryuzaki said, the body can be shaped in a variety of ways.

An impromptu Buddhist temple was prepared, and a sketch of an eagle's tail during his lifetime was prepared as a relic by a painting plain reincarnated into a painting spirit (a Japanese monster supposedly attached to a famous painting). The sketches painted by the painting hara were also to be called “illustrations”, in one way or another, roughly unrealistic, but nevertheless the classmate looked at its remains, which captured the characteristics of the eagle tail well, and missed him in his old days. I've even said that the original tail provides the coffin, but that politely turned it down.

As Goubayashi reads the scriptures, the students who can sit upright, and the students who cannot do so, also quietly close their eyes and pray silently.

Together, it is a surreal sight. But they came to the eagle's funeral with a serious face. Even Red Well, Dog God and Haruo (Pharaoh), who can never be said to be cooperative from time to time, sit in rows, close their eyes and pray for the blessings of the dead. The only thing left to worry about was not having the body at hand.

After a series of funerals, Goubayashi rises and looks back at everyone in his class. Move a little so you don't turn your back on the dead.

"The soul of the eagle, this puts him to sleep. Over the years he ascends to heaven to join the Buddha. We'll all die, too, and we'll follow the same itinerary as Eagle Tail around the post-mortem world. He was a senior then. You must live wisely so that you are not ashamed at best."

It's called a theory. Many students don't come with pins because they get somewhat religious stories.

Goubayashi reluctantly preached by saying, 'I'm not a monk and I haven't had enough training yet,' etc., but still eventually he acknowledged. I understood Ryuzaki's saying that formality was important, and I did feel that steps were needed to soften up the shocking event called "Death of a Classmate".

As much as possible, we have to be careful not to stink of religion.

"In ancient times, death was something very familiar and natural. We civilized people live away from it. But death is never special. It's next to everyone."

With that word, there are a few students who shake their bodies slightly.

"It is this ritual of funeral that clearly recognizes its natural but terrible“ death ”and sends out the dead. It's important to mourn the dead, and it's important to mourn. But we have to send out the eagle tail. To spare that life more than necessary connects the soul to this world. It's not good for eagle tails."

Saying, Goubayashi again realizes that something called 'funeral' is a ritual for the living, not the dead.

The eagle tail is dead. The dead do not speak. Because they do not speak, the bequeathed think of different things. I come to think that it is dishonest to forget, laugh and stand aside that the eagle tail is dead. But it is necessary for the living to remain alive.

The dead do not speak. I don't think anything. I don't resent what's alive, and I don't blame you for dishonesty. It seems to me that it is for the dead to envelop and 'forget' those certain rational ideas with human emotions. It's a ritual for that.

"The eagle tail was in good shape. Seeing us gradually stop talking about him. 'That's not true,' or so, well, you might think. But men never speak of the living. Still, you shouldn't forget, you wouldn't bother to talk to me about a friend you haven't seen in ten years. Still reminds me of it from time to time, and if we meet again, we talk. That's good. The day I meet Eagle will come again sometime. Sixty, seventy years from now, or maybe that's a long way from it, but that's all."

The deck, transformed into Saiba, is quiet.

"From me, that's it. Ryuzaki."

"Oh."

When Goubayashi called out, Ryuzaki gave a eulogy to the Buddhist altar of the eagle tail, then stood in the same position as Goubayashi and looked back at his classmates.

"After this, we go to the dining room and have lunch. Before that, one from me. I mean Koganei."

Slight tension runs between classmates.

Bringing up the name of Kokanai Fangshi was because he was treated like a taboo after Eagle Tail died. From the enemy's words, it is clear that Koganei is on the enemy's side. Even if there were unavoidable circumstances, now that Eagle Tail was dead, an air of difficulty was brewing to accept him.

"From Rin, I hear the last words of the eagle tail. He says the word he wants Koganei to tell him is' I don't care '. Everyone will have complicated thoughts, and it will take time to accept them, but I want to draw on the will of the eagle."

From within the class, there was no word to be raised about the matter. Ryuzaki sighs.

"Well, that's all. Then we'll move to the dining room..."

"Ryuzaki,"

There were students in the class who raised their hands perfectly so as to block his words. Ryuzaki rounds his eyes because that was such an unexpected student.

"... Tomorrow incense?

The queen of the class, the vampire Akai Tomika. From the look on Red Well's face, the usual lazy colors have disappeared.

"From me, too, I have something to say to everyone. I guess."