That was when Masami was ten.
I went to the sea to get rid of Leviathan, one of the village fishermen is not coming back.
Masami couldn't help but be anxious. Assuming the worst case, he was trembling with fear. I was desperately praying.
"Leviathan is here. Sent me."
Eventually, the villagers came to report to Masami's house with a sinister face.
Masami knew what sending meant. The villagers all know.
Masami hurries to the harbor. I saw Leviathan expose his head and face the village. The villagers also gather and join hands as if to worship Leviathan.
This was the first experience for Masami. I was shocked by the sight I saw for the first time.
A schematic whereby a person, arguably his own master, becomes a body of aquatic death and is carried by the monster who killed him. And somehow, the villagers are trying to accept it very naturally.
"Uh-oh!
When Masami cries and screams, she takes the bamboo.
"No! Masami!"
"Fu!
Masami in a school swimsuit trying to get on board the ship with her, Daisy Man, who was the village's best fisherman at the time, and her elders control her with a harsh face.
"Not now. When Leviathan comes to deliver to the village the remains of the fishermen who fought against him, you must never fight. It is against the courtesy of one another who fought with his life."
"Why did you kill Mr. Retention?" I don't know! It's gonna get to my head!
Jung-mi stares at the daisy man and cries out in tears in his eyes.
"Fu fu fu..."
"If you've got it in your head, you can hit that anger when you fight. But now is not the time to fight. Leviathan fights with us fishermen and sea people in Blue Rust Village. But I don't hate you from the bottom of my heart."
Elders and daisy men come to teach.
"If Leviathan cares about it, he can easily destroy our village. He fights with all his might only against opponents who come before his own eyes and turn his fighting spirit. It's a very annoying story, and that's why we fight for it."
"I don't know why. How can you fight for your life and then do this? Do you need to fight?
"Even the fishermen in this village are fighting because they want to. If you really don't want to fight, you can stop being a fisherman. Or you can do fishermen somewhere else."
"Faggot."
Seeing a daisy man and an elder speaking with an invincible grin, Masami was annoyed.
"Masami fights him, don't you like it? Masami's only fought Leviathan twice, but she looked like she was having fun."
Daisy Man points me out and I become conscious. It was fun indeed. It was exciting and awesome. You could die - no, that thrill was great because you could die.
I was aware that it was a battle that was dying alive, and I was ready. But that was just my readiness to die. I wasn't even ready for my fellow villagers to die.
If I die, would I resent Leviathan? Imagine a place where you can send your own corpse. And I wonder how Leviathan feels, delivering the remains of himself and those who killed him, that much I think.
Masami wets her tears and drops the tears in her hand. The chrysanthemum man who sees it leaks a soothing exhale.
"Phew, phew, phew."
Hearing the elder's words, Masami looked at the dropped bamboo in surprise.
Masami's mother also said she died fighting Leviathan. When her mother was still a teenager, a year after she gave birth to Masami. And when Leviathan delivered the wreckage of Masami's mother, she didn't let go because she was dead.
Masami picks up the sight of my mother. Tears spill over again.
Because Leviathan delivered the remains of my mother, this wax is also in this hand. Be so strongly aware. And he said it was Leviathan who killed my mother.
There is no resentment there. I have always done so in this village. That's what Leviathan has always done.
I don't know why I have to fight. You don't have to know why you've been fighting. It's just that I've always done that, so I've done that. No resentment or anger arises there.
Then Masami had the same experience several times. Those who died in the battle against Leviathan were returned to the village by Leviathan. Sometimes some of them remained missing, but I understood that was something that Leviathan couldn't even find.
The sea man tells me that even during the battle against the sea man, oh Leviathan delivers the defeated and the dead.
At one point, Masami thinks. I wonder what I should do with Leviathan one day when I have finished Leviathan. I was wondering where to send it.
Is there anyone who can deliver it to Leviathan? Nobody knows that. Maybe he's here, maybe he's not. Even if we were there, we wouldn't be able to deliver that giant.
Then it's decided to do it. If you killed Leviathan, it would be a courtesy to Leviathan to see the end.
"Uhhhhhhhhh!
The roar of mourning rises. A voice that may be crying, glorifying, mourning, or all of it.
Masami will hear that voice many times after that. Aware every time I hear it. the mindset that comes when you kill Leviathan.
"Does it still hurt?
Tyrone speaks to the little demon Ayakashi, who sleeps in the infirmary bed.
"I did it at all costs with the secret medicine of the demon fox. It should be healed by now."
"Why did you help?
Massago wakes himself up and stares at Tyrone.
"The lord is a friend of Junko Yukioka. I see. That's my family. I think it would be better if we let them live because we have that kind of connection."
"Not even a very intimate pattern. I've done my job before, to some extent."
"I see. It doesn't mean I just saved your life. Will you please ask your Lord's companions for a message? He said he wanted us to stop raiding for a while."
To Tyrone's request, Misago becomes a suspicious face.
"That's all I'm gonna help you for, huh?
"There's also a reason I like it because of Menkoi. To sell thanks."
Questioned by Misago, Tyrone laughs prankily.
Misago had conceived about a few seconds, but eventually he jumped out of bed and saw Tyrone.
"I understand. Goodbye, then."
Saying so, Misago just left the room.
"You don't look so good, but you don't. Speaking of which, that kid named True did too. Is that what's fashionable?
Tyrone shrugged as he watched after Misago left.
Those who raided Grimm Pennisville were lurking in a certain place to work out their future policies. Some of them are Kiriko, Viper and Tsukuri. The cocoon and milk were returned to Medicine Buddha City first.
"They say the Massago has been freed. According to Misago's story, Van Damme seems to intend to come up with a compromise to avoid any further contention"
Kiriko communicates the contact she received from Misago.
"A compromise..."
"You were under attack at first."
"There are quite a few dead people out here, and depending on the compromise proposal, I'll get my hands on it."
The aspirants who joined the raid speak out.
"You're getting disbanded mood. It's about Van Damme, so I can think of a case of oil on fire."
Viper says next to Kiriko.
"Besides my thoughts, my guard was strong, and I found it difficult to push any more force unless I could clearly see the signs that Van Damme would cause a serious situation"
As a matter of fact, Kiriko was already on the lookout at this point.