Vol 1 Chapter 4 (1/2)
A BOMB, A LIBRARIAN, AND THE EVER-LAUGHING WITCH – PART 1
February 1, 2016Tgurneu
It was
Colio spent the entire previous day in his room
He didn’t know about the third bo towards the town
He was sitting on his bed and staring at the wall
Colio was only thinking about one thing – Calico Princess
He didn’t even know her name He couldn’t call her by her name
Thinking about thisseemed so important for Colio that he was prepared to risk his life for it
“…Ever-Laughing Witch”
Thus she was called Both in the first and second Books, she was referred to as a witch
But he didn’t want to call her this way She barely had a nor” one, so as she called that?
In the first place, as she a witch? She gave medicine for children; didn’t that mean she was a splendid woman?
Colio continued praising her in his heart
But no matter how much he would praise her, she wouldn’t rejoice
Because she was already dead
“…It hurts”
He murmured
Thinking this far, Colio realized – what am I?
Aren’t I a bomb?
Can a bomb even love? Can a bomb seek happiness?
Since a bos?
Colio kept thinking
His thoughts kept going around and around and seemed to lead nowhere
After more than a day, Ha Town The air started becoy
“We really need to do so about the dirty air here”
Hah the
Toatt Mining Toas built at Hamyuts’s expense as a place to mine out new Books from
In order to dig through the hard ground, they set up a coal power reactor and advancedfacilities As a result they were able to dig out valuable ancient Books, but in exchange the smoke from the coal reactor covered up the town
“Wouldn’t some wind clean it up?”
Mattalast said Because there wasn’taround the area of the Toatt nant
Maybe if there was sohtly cleaner
“But we can’t use that as a solution”
“That’s true”
“I want to do so about it, but I don’t have much money”
While speaking about this, Ha in, vigorously blowing Hamyuts’ hair
“We’ve talked about this before, but Mirepo is just our contact She needs to hide in the Toatt Mountains because we can’t send her out”
“Yes ma’am”
“Mattalast, team up with the town’s sheriff Consult the railway co Toithin the last three months and match them with the headquarters’ records”
“Understood”
“All other people are to be contacted through Mirepo There’s no need for her to purposely co Town”
The two nodded Hamyuts’s instructions were always concise
“Well then, good luck”
“Director, be careful”
“You too”
After these s headlong, she lightly rotated her body and landed with a huge trace on the ground
The airplane was going away Mattalast threw the luggage froht it
“Well then…”
Haot off in the middle of the mountains area She could overlook the round around the area Hamyuts landed were torn away due to the i aith her Sensory Threads
The too kiloood and there weren’t ood
“It’s tiin I should hurry”
Saying this, Hamyuts released Sensory Threads from her body Two millions of them came out and rode the faint updraft
The invisible Sensory Threads spread far and went into the town
The feel of the stagnant air in the Toatt h them
Information was sent to Hamyuts’s brain fro Town’s soil, of houses, of people’s skins The vibration, quality and contents of sounds The feel of the town’s landscape and people
She tried sorting the information sent from the two million Sensory Threads to find what she wanted
“…Kill Hamyuts Meseta”
She felt the voice of a man who muttered this
She felt a paper with “Kill Hamyuts Meseta” written on it
A wo a knife
A man with a bomb inside his body
A woman with a bomb inside her body
People that kept on whispering “Kill Hamyuts Meseta”
Ha their numbers and whereabouts
There was a bunkhouse near the er called towards three people ere carrying piled up soil
“Hey You newco for a meal?”
“…”
The threeslowly raised their faces
“A meal, a meal If you won’t eat you can’t work”
“…Let’s eat”
“Right”
Those three seeether and never took off their clothes They never spoke about their origins or anything else They didn’t know if they were brothers or friends
The three kept talking in whispers
“Let’s kill Hamyuts Meseta”
“Right, we’ll kill Hamyuts Meseta”
It was near the entrance of the don
Beggars raised their voices towards people crossing the road Sohts, soing heartbreaking songs
A
Facing doards, he was justto himself
“Kill Hamyuts Meseta Kill Hamyuts Meseta”
There was a new house abandoned decades ago that nobody bought
Inside this supposedly e on the ground, their hair unkempt and their clothes dirty The women clearly had their spirits broken
“Kill Hamyuts”
“Kill Hamyuts Meseta”
The wo
There were people who finished reeting their neighbors
This four-people family sat around their only furniture which was a table
“Kill Hamyuts Meseta”
“Kill Hamyuts Meseta”
They continually muttered
The Sensory Threads were Haic, and the best sort of ability to support her This ability allowed her to discharge tactile, auditory and visual sensors from her body
She created invisible and intangible threads using her Magic power and sent theh these threads she could perceive the shape, color and sounds of everything they touched
That by itself wasn’t a difficult or special ability But as for the ath of the threads, none could compete with Hamyuts
The threads could reach up to fifty kilometers Their numbers could surpass ten billion It wasn’t very difficult for Hamyuts to completely wrap up this toith her Sensory Threads
“…Okay Is this all?”
In less than an hour, Harasped the locations of all enemies within a radius of five kilometers
“So I guess I’ll get to it”
Saying this, Hamyuts took a weapon out of her back pocket
At a first glance, that weapon see
Its length was a bit ht And on its middle, a small pocket made of cloth was attached
That weapon was co
It was a weapon older than guns, Magic or bows It was a weapon used by inning and the End, when they weren’tup stones with a string, they could use centrifugal force to hurl them
Of course, this wasn’t a
The string was ether a wo a divine ith theancient times The cloth pocket was on discovered inside an iceberg
It was a sling said to be difficult to destroy just like the Gods’ Memorial Weapons
It had four types of “bullets” There were polyhedral balls for general purposes, disk shaped balls for long range and round balls for close range rapid fire She could also use plain stones picked up froround
The shot could reach above five tie was thirty five kiloets at the range of twenty five kilometers
Other than God, no one was better at sniping from a distance than Hamyuts
“Hamyu…”
Thetowards the beggar sitting close to him
The beggar, after being dumbed for a little while, raised a terrified scream
Half of the back of the man’s head had been bloay His brain fluids poured out like some rich sauce
Ha above her head The polyhedral sniping bullet in the leather exceeded the speed of sound in the interval of five seconds And she shot it after exactly six seconds
Without checking if the ball hit, she loaded another one In another six seconds she accelerated and shot it
A as broken through A heart had been penetrated froround
With a gaping hole opened in the center of her chest, the body of a woman fell forward
“…Ah?”
“…Ahhh…”
Seeing the collapsed woman, the other wo
“Uhh…”
“Uahh…”
The wo
The next shot punched through the head of another wos were cut off
And after six h the last two re women
Hamyuts did not stop
Acceleration Shot Reload This process was repeated sixteen times without rest
The Sensory Threads transmitted the feel of the faraway bombs that were shot by Hamyuts
All of the balls hit without a hitch And all targets were instantly killed
For Hae of five kilo an apple from a table
“…Well, that was easy”
Haain
The battle had just started
“…Calico Princess…”
Colio murmured this name who knothe Book so he could see Calico Princess again
He didn’t know that in addition to hi Town in order to kill Hamyuts He only knew about Relia and Hyoue, and didn’t know Relia had already died
He didn’t know that the sixteen re bombs were sniped and easily defeated by Hamyuts
Colio was also unaware of the fact that just now, the invisible and intangible Sensory Threads carefully checked the bomb inside his chest and the Book on top of his bed
He was just lying on his bed in silence
While he didn’t know anything, the situation was rapidly changing
“Coal Crukessa-kun”
Haain
She was exploring the entire tohile searching for unusual people
She was looking for someone ould make a move now that she crushed all bombs
So unnaturally;
Soe;
Someone ould come near her;
She was carefully searching for those
Tih in the sky started sinking towards the horizon
The Sensory Threads enveloping the town gradually becoish
Hamyuts felt a headache
She returned the fully spread Sensory Threads to her body
Her Sensory Threads weren’t al periods of tirasp all of the infor breath and waited for her brain to recover
In her first search, she wasn’t able to feel the presence of Cigal Crukessa
She was only able to sense his expendable pawns, the bombs
Even for Ha more than 5000 people to look for her enemy was impossible
“Well then, he’s quite so…”
Ha her enemy was troublesome
Taking her luggage, Hamyuts carefully went down theher Sensory Threads
For Haerous
But still, there was a place she had to go to
I don’t know if it’s a trap or not, but I have to try and ht
She went into town,herself with passersby
Hamyuts was headed towards a cheap inn at the end of the main road
In this town, there was probably one bomb left
Hamyuts didn’t kill hiet infor a Book
Her Sensory Threads couldn’t read Books, but they could feel the person’s soul inside Hamyuts knew the feel of that Book
There was no ic power other than that woman
Hamyuts set her foot inside the lobby of the cheap inn
“hello there Hamyuts Meseta has some small errands here”
Hearing that unbelievable name, the innkeeper opened her mouth wide in amazement
“By H-Hamyuts, you mean…”
“Yes I’m Hamyuts Meseta”
Harin towards the innkeeper whoseopen and close
“I need to kill one of your lodgers”
The innkeeper’s mouth was open to the extent it looked like it would fall apart
“You don’t ht?”
The innkeeper shook her head vertically numerous times
Hamyuts’s name was so widely known that it caused that kind of horrified reaction Even notoriety was so useful
Following the innkeeper, Hamyuts went to the second floor
“It’s here”
She was pointing at a room
“Can you call him out?”
The innkeeper knocked on the door
“Colio Tonies-san Are you there?”
Hearing the innkeeper’s call, Haht to herself ‘Eh, so that’s his name’
“I don’t need to eat”
The dry response caloomy voice of a boy
“You have a visitor”
Hamyuts had already spread the barrier of Sensory Threads around She grasped the situation around the inn ale about the innkeeper Within a radius of one hundred meters, there were no arle kitchen knife She only had to be vigilant about Colio’s boh to make Hamyuts afraid
Nevertheless, Hamyuts didn’t discount the possibility of a trap yet She kept calilance and tension
She could feel Colio Tonies clattering as he ran up to door with her Sensory Threads
“Relia? Did you come back? Or is it Ia? Ia Mira?”
Hamyuts suddenly opened the door It bumped into Colio’s nose and he fell
“Oops, sorry”
Saying this, she entered the room
The innkeeper ran away
“…Who are you?”
Colio said while holding his nose He didn’t see
He seemed surprised by the unknown visitor
“Really? You don’t know my face?”
He had a puzzled expression
“Aren’t you a bomb?”
Hearing these words, Colio’s face was contorted with shock Harinned
“If you don’t know I’ll tell you I’m Hamyuts Meseta Nice to meet you”
“…Aa, aah…”
It seemed like Colio couldn’t move
“Were you expecting a scarier person?”
Ha
A BOMB, A LIBRARIAN, AND THE EVER-LAUGHING WITCH – PART 2
February 4, 2016Tgurneu
Colio who fell to the floor couldn’t s froze His mind became blank
“Kill Hamyuts Meseta”
“Kill Hamyuts Meseta”
Those words were bubbling inside his consciousness
In front of his eyes was Hamyuts Meseta Colio existed to kill her
However, his fingers that should have crushed the vacuu next to his body
“Were you expecting a scarier person?”
Hamyuts said
Colio thought about ers
Why won’t they s paralyzed?
Was it because Ha his bomb?
Move
Move your fingers and activate the bomb You’re a bomb
Kill Hamyuts Meseta Kill Hamyuts Meseta
Colio could feel hisfull to the brim with those words
“Well then… I have a question Where’s Cigal Crukessa?”
“I don’t know…”
Why are you answering? Colio scolded himself More importantly, activate the bomb and kill Hamyuts
But, if he’ll die he won’t be able to…
Be able to…
“Or it can’t be that you’re actually Cigal Crukessa?”
Hamyuts asked
“No I don’t know him”
Colio asked himself- why? He shouldn’t hesitate like this…
Shouldn’t hesitate…
“So, Colio-kun Where’s Cigal?”
“I don’t know”
“Do you kno Cigal looks?”
“No”
“You haven’t met him?”
“…No”
“Well then”
Hamyuts seemed to be surprised She scratched the tip of her nose, and then said the folloords
“By the way, Colio-kun Aren’t you supposed to kill me?”
“…”
“Haha I see So that’s how you are”
Her wide s
His heart kept shouting loudly to kill Hanored the battle instructions and just trembled uselessly
Probably wondering about Colio’s fear, Ha defenseless
At a distance he could feel her breath on his face, Hamyuts said,
“Well, let’s calet to business Colio-kun Show me shi+ron’s Book”
“Book?”
“You know You have it, right?”
Hamyuts smiled
“Show me shi+ron Booyacornish’s Book”
“…shi+ron?”
Colio asked It was an unfaed to
“Here it is”
Ha distance, she said,
“I’ it”
It was strange
Those words recovered his composure
Strong feelings of not wanting to lose that Book rose within Colio
His scared body retained its functions His hand reflexively went to his chest He forcefully made his fist touch the vacuum tube on top of his clothes
“…Oh?”
Hae The dreadfulness hidden behind her smile increased
“I won’t give it”
“Oh my”
“If you’ll try to take it, I’ll explode together with you”
“Together? Double suicide?”
“I don’t ive you that Book”
Hamyuts stared at Colio
“You sure are rebellious If you do that, you’llsister here very sad Just don’t call e”
Halare
“No I won’t give it up”
“So show it toit should be fine”
“…I won’t give it up”
Colio shook his head Hary little by little
“What are you thinking?”
“…I’m…”
While thinking of an answer, Colio started slightly questioning hih for her No,in the first place
In a second, she secured both of his hands His body was turned around and she twisted his arms and elbows above his back Until the moment he raised his voice due to the pain, Colio couldn’t understand as happening
“…I’ll break them”
Hamyuts said
“…I won’t give it up”
Colio answered Hahtly troubled tone
“What are you thinking? Do you want the Dragon Pneumonia to spread?”
He clenched his teeth due to the pain in his wrists He was already accustomed to pain More iin washis body
“I don’t know I don’t know about that thing I won’t give you this girl’s Book!”
“…Hmph”
At that ht his hands becae rope rapped around it
When he thought he felt it tightening, Colio’s consciousness sank into darkness
“Boy Wake up”
He heard Hamyuts’s voice Colio had been laid on the bed Hamyuts was on the next bed – probably the one used by Hyoue – and peeked at his face
“Hey I don’t understand the situation at all Did Cigal give you that Book?”
Haloved left hand She probably already checked its contents
“…Give it back!”
“Can’t do I need to store it at my Library”
“I don’t care about that Give it back”
Ha ‘Oh dear’
“Well then, if you’ll answer my question, I’ll consider it a bit Also, you can’t use your boers I’ll break your head”
It didn’t seeeration
Fro his wrist, he couldn’t think of her as human Colio could also not perceive her speed Before he could break the vacuum tube, Hamyuts would probably crush his skull
Haest person Colio could feel her ht with his whole body
“…I bought the Book froal Book seller He put up his store in some back alley”
“Wow!”
Hamyuts raised a wild voice
“Well then,I can’t believe it Is that actually true?”
Colio nodded
“So, do you know about Cigal Crukessa? Or about Dragon Pneumonia?”
“…I only know a bit about Crukessa”
“What is it?”
“I once heard that name I don’t know much else”
“And do you know about Dragon Pneumonia?”
Colio shook his head
“Nothing?”
Colio nodded Hamyuts seemed troubled
“That’s quite the coincidence But is that really it? You have shi+ron Booyacornish’s Book after all”
“shi+ron…”
He wasn’t sure, but that was probably her name That name seemed to fit her It didn’t feel out of place Calico Princess ithout doubt, shi+ron Booyacornish Finding out the name that he wanted to know so
“It’s scary when you suddenly smile like that”
“…shi+ron Booyacornish So that was her name”
“Did you by any chance not knoho she was?”
Colio nodded
“I feel like the situation is beyond my expectations…”
Saying this, Hamyuts suddenly rose up and went near the
“Hey, shall we go outside?”
As soon as she said that, Hah the
“Huh?”
Colio ran and poked his face through the , looking down
“C’mon”
He heard Ha from above Grabbed by his collar, Colio’s body was lifted She lightly picked hiers
He was flung onto the creaking wooden roof
“The view here is really bad”
Hamyuts said Colio didn’t feel intiht have becoilant towards him
“I wonder if you’ve fallen in love with her”
He was surprised that she suddenly guessed this But he didn’t know if it was true
“Hmph”
Despite not answering anything, she could understand by his expression She snickered while looking at his face
But suddenly, Hah her facial expression hadn’t changed, she turned from a meek and ordinary woman into a fiendish warrior
“…H-Hamyuts Meseta”
“You may call me Hammy-san”
Her tone was light, but she e feel Her mouth was like that of a docile wild beast but her face had some anxiousness to it His instinctsdifferences between them
After about fifteen seconds, Hamyuts seemed to lose her tension
“Probably just ht so Well, never mind”
He couldn’t understand at all
“Hamyuts Meseta I want you to tell me about her Who was shi+ron?”
“I don’t see any need to tell you”
“Please I want you to tell me… I have to know about her no matter what”
Haht for a while
“…Fine I’ll talk But what should I… oh”
“Huh?”
“Oh, I knohat I’ll tell you That woman’s name was shi+ron Booyacornish
She wasWitch”
“…”
“Around 250 years ago, there was a widespread disease known as Dragon Pneumonia”
“Is that even relevant?”
“At that time, shi+ron Booyacornish was called a savior She was honored by the title of Ever-Laughing Saint