Seiju no Kuni no Kinju Tsukai

Episode 98: In Closed Darkness

"An abnormal person," he said?

Hibigami slipped his arms into his cuffs, nibbling.

"One way to give an opponent a motive to fight is to have that human loved one in his hands. resentment, hatred that killed the beloved - it is this sentiment that rarely awakens a person to true warrior. It's moonlight, but it's also a useful means of detonating instant effects."

I will not break the curse and will go forward to shelter Mr. Currier and Mr. Cecily.

The promise not to lay a hand on the two of us is also only a word of mouth.

Even if Hibigami doesn't renege on that promise on a whim, it's not necessarily.

Just be alert, let's not.

"But in my case, there's something I can't read either way."

"... I'm not sure what you're talking about."

"Yes, I don't know who I am, Sagara Crohiko. There are times when unusually brittle parts become flickering when you wonder if the will is very strong. From me - if I do badly, I risk 'breaking' the moment my beloved loses his life"

It breaks, you say?

"On the other hand, I am prepared to use any means to protect those I love to protect them. Sagara Krohiko is a man who gives priority to others over his own safety. That's what I felt when we first met. Not long ago, I almost didn't hesitate to read the curse document."

Hibigami stroked his chin mustache slowly to the side in such a manner that it approached the core.

"Human beings who take precedence over others are by no means uncommon. The spirit of self-sacrifice is one of them. But there are two kinds of things."

Hibigami gently rubbed the soles of his feet on the ground twice.

"One is, in fact, if you are using the presence of others to increase your self-worth. At first glance, it looks like you're thinking about someone else, but you're actually using it to satisfy your self-indulgent desires. Well, this isn't anything strange, it's not a bad thing. Natural desire as a person. One loves oneself more than anyone else, weighs in on one's worth, and desires to be recognized by others - asking for approval. I take precedence over everything... people are creatures like that. Just..."

Hibigami narrows his eyes.

"Very rarely, but there are those whose values are reversed between self and others. If I were to say," A man who has entrusted everything to others. "

Those dizzy eyes that look at me seemed happy that they were special.

"Furthermore, in my own case, there is a verse that maintains the strength of its will by 'fearing excessive loss'. That's where I'm funny. It is the overwhelming 'weakness' that, on the contrary, strongly supports its odd strength. I mean, they're turning fear into power. The more you fear, the stronger you become - what do you call this creepy action without calling it an anomaly?

…………

Wow, I don't know.

I have no idea what Hibigami is talking about.

What's the matter with you?

Why did Hibigami suddenly start talking about something like non-physical...?

Well, I'm afraid of losing Mr. Currier or Mr. Cecily.

So if it's to protect them, I'm going to do anything...

"I guess it means that a human being named Sagara Krohiko has not gotten anything and has not been given anything until then, so much so that he fears excessive loss. It should be called a miraculous reaction that the personality thus formed has become a factor in the transformation into strength… Anyway, I am therefore - I don't know if I am unconscious - discarding myself the scope to consider good and evil. I mean."

Hibigami stared at one rubbed toe on the ground, mixed with joy.

"It's not the judgment of good or evil - whether it's your 'enemy' or not is the criterion for all judgments. Besides, it's like when there's no gap between the murmurs getting in. It doesn't matter if you're a good person or a bad person, you're a bad person from a person who wants to make a run for it… Depending on it, you can't see room for negotiation"

As always, I don't know what you're talking about, but what I remembered was what Captain Sochute said when he heard the circumstances.

'He's certainly an interesting man. But it's troublesome at the same time. It's the same as the Four Homicides, and decent negotiations work together.'

... I try to listen to people who feel decent.

Well, maybe what Hibigami is trying to say is that I don't want to lose my relationship with someone who finally got it because it was me who was a pull...... so I can work really hard not to lose it......

But if that's the case, Hibigami would have said something like 'I'm reversing my worth with others', but in the end, doesn't that mean I'm hanging in there for myself...?

Hmm.

After all, I don't know.

"If anything discerns its essence, it will act only to avoid being on the side of the 'enemy' first. Normally, it is extremely dangerous to be 'hostile' to such a ridiculously powerful human being. Yes... that means if you want to destroy Sagara Crohiko and disable him, you should rather be an 'ally'."

"Bad, Hibigami"

I said, with my finger between my eyebrows.

"I have little idea what you're trying to say."

"Kakaku, if you don't know, I don't mind. Besides, the tricky human analysis is inherently about Varaga, Kane, and homework around Lokia. But..."

Hibigami looked at Mr. Cecily with his eyes that dwelt on unreadable emotions.

"Currier hasn't come pin yet... but apparently he's told me what I'm trying to say. Well, let's apologize for your attitude so far. Thanks for understanding so quickly, Cecily Arklite."

"An analysis of Crohiko for you found an undesirable weakness for you… do you mean to understand the weakness' for you 'well?"

"That's right. We can't just kill ourselves here, and we'll have trouble getting them to die by the day we want to come. I have trouble getting my enemies to 'break' because of such boredom... but it's a sagara -"

Unwrapping his arm, Hibigami touched 'No Kill'.

"If you don't have long signs of climbing where you're supposed to climb... you know what I mean? Kill all your loved ones."

"I told you."

I spread my wings and put my strength into my left arm.

"You must, I'll take you down."

There is no hand here that inadvertently activates the third curse.

However, the failure to pierce the skin of Beshgum has diluted the exact killing properties.

Anxiety therefore lingers.

If Hibigami is more than equal to Beshgam, then the third curse is probably - it's not going to be special.

Yeah, and Hibigami snorted contentedly.

"I set a deadline of three years, but I am getting stronger at an unexpected rate. Therefore, I am also thinking of speeding up the deadline -"

"I could even borrow you this time. That's all right."

"That's a great idea... but only if we don't do it now, for sure. I still need myself to eat the power of the curse. I need you to be stronger, stronger to the limit."

Hibigami felt the will to tingle his skin and let the floating right hand of the blood vessel hang in front of his chest.

"Yes, the limit - I want to see the landscape beyond the limit. And if you were me, you'd show me the landscape... can you believe it, Sagara?

"I'll do my best."

"Correct answer."

Hibigami vanished his will and distorted the edge of his mouth to peek at his teeth.

"Well, if you look at yourself, you know you haven't missed your workout. So the first thing I'm about to say is I'm trying to get an ass in my environment. Bye. Oh, I see, someone wants something boring, huh? Did they despise our relationship, roughly every four murders, even with their raw friends?

"... like that"

"Hmm... so I ask one thing, is the Four Violent Disasters important to me?

"... no"

"Kakaku, then why are you lending me your ears?

"Huh?"

"That doesn't sound like it, Sagara.... Ready?

Hibigami drew an arc on his mouth, slowly floating his stripped front teeth.

"Interpretation, the enemy is the enemy. Enemies are just enemies, nothing else. Hence the words of the enemy and so on... Whatever you say, it's a kick. There's nothing hostile about it - just a kick. If you still want the deaf words, kill them without hesitation. Kill mercilessly. Polar theory, the only way to silence an enemy you consider an enemy is to kill them. Kill me if you have power. Kill them, seal them off. If the 'wonderful voice' of the enemy remains in the world after death, drag the body out to the unthinkable masses after death and tell them much about how the enemy was an incompetent man. And let the people throw stones at the bodies. If you do, the enemy - completely, dead."

"... well, you don't have to be that far"

It is precisely whipping the corpse.

"I only spoke of means. What you do is up to you."

Returning his expression to the loose one, Hibigami snuck his arm into his sleeve again.

"By the way, Currier"

Hibigami spoke to Mr. Currier, who did not break his risky look.

"As far as its fitness is concerned, it looks like you did it with the Four Felonies."

"... oh. Clean up the one who came to the castle with me and Lokia. In other words, the Four Weapon Disasters that struck the King's Capital will all be defeated."

Hibigami's eyebrows moved tingly.

It was not the part of Mr. Currier's mouth that moved, Four Violent Disasters.

Lokia, that was the part.

"Ho, was that the other six houses in Wangdu?"

"Ah."

Mr. Currier looked at me like, "Shit."

"Hmm? What's wrong?

Ms Currier answered Hibigami's question casually.

"Hmm... I had Rokia help me this time, so I thought maybe I shouldn't have given you a name. You're definitely gonna get involved, aren't you?

"Kakaka, I guess. That was a silence, Currier. Nevertheless, I didn't know that the two of us had interacted with the Four Homicides… I thought that myself and Lokia were incompatible."

"No, the compatibility sucks,"

So Currier said, "This is the time."

"Besides... Lokia is not the only one in this king's capital right now. There's noise in here."

"Ho, noise."

Hibigami with a delightful twinkle and grin.

"Oh well. That's the woman who rose the information on the six houses... I thought it was something with the odd ones, but yeah, you had that woman. So, that woman set the 'stage' here, he said. Kakah, that woman would have come at the point where Currier Verstein is. I thought so, but was it the organizer? Oh, and then you follow the noise to this king's capital?

Mr. Currier put aside a few moments before affirming.

"Oh."

"When it comes to being that woman's favorite, it's a tricky one. Even if I don't like it, I get put on stage. I don't seem to be very comfortable with her."

"Hung, you're not in six houses thinking about you."

"Kaka, it's something you hated. But there are verses where noise especially avoids me. If I tell that woman, I am an abominable creature who destroys the play, and as soon as I get out, all the plays become plays for me. That doesn't seem to bother the woman. I still don't know what that means."

Hibigami also seems to know about noise.

Mr. Currier said it was pompous.

"Hey Hibigami... you think it was the noise that summoned the Four Homicides to the King's Capital?

"That woman wouldn't do it. It's just that... the Four Weapon Disasters are just total annihilation. But Currier, this extravagant act of the Four Homicides on stage may be a little harsh on the noise."

"What do you mean?

"To say, it's like the opposite of Sagara... that woman who only thinks of all others as a stage device for performing herself - a woman who gave herself the name of a commandment to be 'intangible' in order to discipline herself, do you think she can put up with any more 'appearances'?

"... I don't know. I don't know what noise is thinking for a long time. Why are you so obsessed with me?"

Hibigami circled his neck as if overlooking the king's capital.

"In my reading, that woman should have come as far as she can't help wanting to get on stage anymore. Exactly as an actor, the Four Felonies were too broken. There, to my beloved Currier, came Lokia. No more - I can't think of any more performances before the final act, even noise"

"I'm gonna set you up, you mean?"

"Nevertheless, it's not good to come out ignoring the play's 'flow'. For him, 'The Play' is a noble ritual that can't be anything. Therefore, noise should be seen as wanting to be dragged out. Kaka...... but yes or no noise. Is there a noise here that was my favorite of" The Woman "? Well, the preferred thing about Noise Death will always be that it turns itself into a bad side role. I don't think that other people like me."

Hibigami adds his finger to 'No Kill'.

"Hmm, the Four Violent Disasters are out of my mind... they say there's also that 'Demon King', and we might still see something interesting in this king's capital. Apparently, I've got a little more reason to stay here."

"Hey, Hibigami"

"Hmm? What's up?

I was the one who spoke up.

"You don't fight me here. I can't even get my hands on Mr. Currier and Mr. Cecily. Is that what this is all about?

"... though. What's wrong with that?

"Okay. Thanks."

Good.

Now we can finally - break the curse.

"Crohiko...... what's wrong with you?

Cecily accidentally clouds her expression.

I think I guessed something.

"Excuse me, Mr. Cecily, I, I may not be able to move for a while. At least I want to fly away and get to school before I break it... but I don't want to use the power of the curse any more."

Mr. Currier is upset.

"Well, you..."

Oh, I did.

Speaking of which, did you tell Mr. Currier that after he fought the giants at the Holy Ruins?

"Yeah, probably because the load of curfew use is pretty good."

That's right.

This is why I never broke the curse all the time.

Unlike the loaded third curse on the spot, the second realm of the eighth curse, which alienates the left arm, suffers at once the accumulated load immediately after the curse is lifted.

And the fifth curse that grows wings feels overloaded in the same way.

I thought I couldn't help the Curiers if I could lift the curse immediately after the Beshgham war and couldn't move with that load.

Different digits than when you were that magma giant, whether it's time or power usage.

Then the load should also be different digits.

So I didn't break the curse.

I defeated Masso and tried to solve it once when I heard from Mr. Currier that the threat of the Four Felonies had left.

But the appearance of hibigami there prevented me from thinking and solving it in case.

However, Hibigami doesn't seem to intend to harm Mr. Curiers.

Well, enough to explain why I can't get my hands on you two for a long time, so it seems like it would be okay to assume that I'm not really going to get my hands on you.

"So maybe I'll lose my mind a little bit... to death, because I don't think I will"

"... sorry. I should have known sooner."

"Don't look like that. It's okay."

"Crohiko."

Mr. Cecily, who so called, was biting his lips tight.

"That word that you didn't mean 'just' to die no matter what... sorry, I didn't realize the discomfort then, even though I didn't know about the load of the curse.... after all, you are -"

After grabbing his arm tightly and biting his teeth, Mr. Cecily stopped by me as he shook his head to shake something off.

"But I believe you. You're okay. Sagara Krohiko will be fine."

"Yes."

I made him smile.

"Absolutely."

Well.

Let's break the curse.

"Eighth curse… Second world, closed -"

The pain runs on my left arm.

The pain begins to invade the whole body.

"... the Fifth Curse, the Closure -"

Dull and severe pain in the back.

Like a bunch of snakes, running around your body.

"Ugh... Damn, Gu... Huh!

Sweat bubbles out, breathing becomes painful.

The pain is increasing.

"Gwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

I peel my eyes and look up to heaven, screaming in too much intense pain.

From the cleavage of the chewed teeth, the foam leaks.

The sound of a thick tree branch breaking rings with a beckoning all over his body.

- If you die, I'll kill you, Sagara.

Hibigami's, I heard a voice.

"Ha, joke, kiddo, when... gu, gu, gu... death, gu, gu... in this, gu, about... dead, occasionally... crap, gu... ru! Guh-guh! but hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha"

The blue sky disappeared out of sight, or the voices of Currier and Cecily calling to me were deafened... which, in the hell, would have come first?

Intense, I was in the dark.

The consciousness was cloudy.

It felt strange.

I'm not sure if I exist or not on this occasion.

It was a strange feeling as if it had gotten into someone's consciousness.

Blurry, I felt like I could see people.

Bandages all over your body - no, it's kind of like lettering on bandages.

It looked more like a curse than a bandage.

Slightly to my ear, my voice came.

"- I feel sorry for you, De, for going crazy. Sa"

What are you talking about?

No, more than that. This voice...... The Curse King?

So, is that a curse king?

At that time, from the gap of the curse wrapped around the Curse King's body, a liquid like loose ends and coltar leaked.

Even in this darkness I was able to recognize it with wonder.

The black thing that shifts, shifts, and call-tarts crawls like a mite, aiming somewhere.

Ahead...

There was a black beast.

What a description.

I can't peek all over my body, so I'm not sure what size it is.

The appearance is unclear, too.

Only the eyes, red.

The beast is black, disastrous, just, black--

and notice a black chain wrapped around the beast.

What is it?

It's like the Ninth Curse.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu yo, shut up lo"

The Curse King said to someone.

It just doesn't look like it was released at me.

"Sister Te, don't tell me Te... thank you Le. But yo... if you get that fight, you're ready, you're gonna be yo... you backed up k, you're gonna be ga"

When he leaned down, the Curse King continued in a pungent manner.

"Ha, I appreciate you guys Sa... Ga, it's not him. Soraku Kurohiko Ja, hey Sa. That's what I decided, Sasaki."

The Curse King saw the black beast.

"So da. I'm sorry Na... so I'm going to ask you to hang out with me..."

A black beast narrowed his eyes like a thread.

What dwells in its eyes is a quiet but stabbing intent to kill.

It was so pure and wildly veterinary.

An ominous low roar echoing from the bottom of hell is leaking from beyond the teeth of the beast.

The Curse King dropped his shoulder.

"You can't stay... Ma 'k, you can't stay, yo. Being a man, whether he be a god or a beast, Mo, Ma, Ma, Ma, Ma, Ma. Nah, you think so, too, Ro?

The curse king turned his jaw and looked up at the black beast again.

"'Prohibited Beast' yo"

Dream or present...

The darkness I saw was that far.