Vol 1 Chapter 5 (1/2)

A HUSK, AN ENEMY, AND THE God OF DEATH’S DISEASE – PART 1

February 10, 2016Tgurneu

Colio andering around town He kept walking throughout the entire night

Where was he walking to up to now? Where was he heading to? His feet were tired and he had nothing Colio sat down by the roadside

As he did, a lone man came from the other side of the road and talked to him

“Good , boy Would you like a Book?”

It was the illegal Book seller

“…Huh?”

“You want some Books, don’t you? Got some money?”

The man pulled out a Book from inside his clothes It seemed like he had it in a hidden pocket

“This one belongs to that lady with the strange hair Do you want it? I set it aside for you”

“For me?”

“Yesterday, some really scary lady with sandals came to me She asked if I had Books”

That was probably Hamyuts

“But, I told her I don’t have any as far as I know She was pretty insistent, but she ended up losing herself to my enthusiasm and backed off That’s how I protected this Book So how about it? It’s cheap”

“I’ll buy it! Right now!”

Colio passed his wallet The man took some money out of it and returned it to him

Without even waiting for the man to leave, Colio opened the Book

Her form immediately appeared before his eyes That moment was utter bliss for him

She appeared to be younger than he ever saw her before Her body was delicate and she was shorter She looked to be around Colio’s age right now

She was sitting on the floor

Wearing a red dress, she hugged her knees on the carpet while looking ahead

A wide bed that looked like ten people could sleep in it inside a wide room A soft carpet decorated by fruits that looked like one could sink into it

“…”

shi+ron took a rough breath Her forehead eating and her

“…”

She was looking at a glass shard placed on the carpet

She grabbed it and brought it straight to her throat,

“Ahh… Uu…”

It was stopped on the verge of hurting her The trelass touched her windpipe

shi+ron took another breath She stared at the ceiling while starting to bleed frolass blade to her carotid artery, stroked her windpipe, and then poked the opposite side of her artery

She stopped cutting, and after she did, she once again brought it to her throat

“…ah, ah, aah…”

The glass knife fell on the carpet shi+ron’s red-gloved hands held her throat, and she kept taking heavy breaths while stunned like this

“…I can’t do it”

She said

“I can’t I can’t I can’t I can’t I can’t I can’t I can’t I can’t I can’t I can’t…”

She kept

At that , and entered It was Wyzaf He also looked considerably younger than in the Book Colio read before But his arrogant face and the feigned politeness of his tone haven’t changed at all

“I have good news, shi+ron-sama”

shi+ron raised her sweaty and tired face

“…”

“Is soood thing happened”

shi+ron shook her head Her face had dried up tears on it

“I’ve seen the future again It’s Dragon Pneumonia Caused by your relic”

shi+ron said in a terribly despairing voice

“Oho”

Wyzaf stroked his chin in interest

“Those are good news It seems that fortune awaits for the both of us”

shi+ron shook her head

“…Let’s leave the foroing to be really bad”

“That is splendid”

“It’s not splendid at all Even Big Sister is in danger My Big Sister…”

“Ho”

“Please, did I do so? Isn’t it fine? Please”

shi+ron prostrated on the floor, holding her head While looking down at her, Wyzaf said,

“Oh, right We have found the Memorial Weapon at the place you told us of As you said, it was a thin sword shaped like a spider”

Wyzaf opened the bundle he was holding Inside it hat Colio had already seen countless tiic Blade Shlamuffen

“Wait, shi+ron-saic Blade Shlaht? It is a splendid name”

He placed it in front of shi+ron, but she didn’t look at it

“I can’t do it anymore”

“…Oh ?”

Wyzaf placed his hand around his ear and drew closer to shi+ron

“I can’t do it anymore, it’s too much for me”

“Do what exactly?”

“I don’t want to see it anyon Pneu Each ti faces…”

“Well well”

“What happened to your promise? You said that if I told you about the cure ould save them”

“We will save them That’s obvious”

“Please make the cure We only have one year”

“We can’t do that right now It’s not profitable enough”

“That’s not the problem…”

“But it is”

shi+ron shook her head Wyzaf talked while grinning

“You seeht now Everything is thanks to Dragon Pneumonia”

“No, I don’t want that”

“So do you hate it? Do you wish to return collecting straws to use against the cold during the winter? Do you want to return eatingcorpses?”

“…”

“You may return if you’d like We already have plenty of money”

“I can’t do it I want to die I want to die I want to die…”

“Why is that?”

“This is all wrong I’m not happy at all!”

Wyzaf shook his head as if saying ‘oh dear’

“Young lady, listen well This is happiness You are simply confused because you did not adapt to it yet Coive you some extraordinary medicine and prepare some entertainment With this rarity that we acquired in southern countries, just one sniff will make you feel like you ascended to heaven”

“…”

Wyzaf grabbed shi+ron’s hand and helped her get up

“Here, co and feel much better”

shi+ron already lost all of her will for resisting and allowed herself to be led away by Wyzaf

Don’t take her, don’t take shi+ron – Colio thought to himself

But he couldn’t do anything

The Book ended there

At the ot pulled back into reality…

“You really are a bad boy”

In front of his eyes was Hamyuts The same instant he opened his eyes, the Book was snatched from him

“I’ it”

Of course, he didn’t want to give it up But he knew he couldn’t do anything against this kind of opponent Compared to Hamyuts, he was as weak as a flea or a fly

Colio thought he would rather die while resisting It see anyway

It would be far easier than staying alive like this

She will surely squash hi

“No If you want to die do it by yourself”

Hah him

“Why didn’t you kill me?”

Colio asked

“Who knows?”

Hahtly answered

“Did you want to save me?”

“Do you think I’ve saved you?”

“…”

“I didn’t think about saving you or about hurting you I’el or devil”

Hamyuts stood up

“Well, see ya”

Haain

Colio wondered why he couldn’t enter the Book He wanted to become a resident of that Book so he could meet her He wanted to talk with her He wanted to save her

Thinking this, Colio kept sitting by the roadside

There was nothing he could do

He didn’t even have the energy to stand up

“Hmm, so she also had some difficulties”

Ha, and put shi+ron’s Book that she just finished reading inside her pocket

Ha about Colio For her it was si the midst of battle If Colio had the will and power to live, it would be fine with her if he lived And if he didn’t, he would just die It was as simple as that

More i battle

No ht have been peaceful without anything happening yet, but it was already a battlefield

All the adults were busy with their work There were thestea clothes and attending to their houses; and children ere playing around all of those

Even while there was so incidents, life continued on as usual

Next to Ha with a tortoiseshell-colored cat using a stick with a caterpillar on it Hamyuts carefully passed by them, prepared for any attack However, for other people she looked like she alking normally

Haertip It was connected to a woman who stood further ahead in a nearby road

That woman stopped and looked around her at passersby countless of times As she passed the same road twice and then thrice, she see her

If so her in a norh to shake theainst Hamyuts

Hamyuts estimated her destination and went there in a fast pace

It was an abandoned house in the outskirts of town, after passing through the alleys

On the roof of that house were four holes that indicated soh it

Hamyuts entered that abandoned house and waited for the arrival of the woman

She arrived outside after about five minutes, looked around her many times, and then entered inside

“Hamyuts Meseta, I must kill Hamyuts Meseta…”

The wo

And as she opened the rotting door,

“Uh-”

She raised such a small cry and covered her mouth

She stood tre in the deserted house due to the smell of blood

The wo herrooain

Inside the room were four corpses of women

They were the corpses of the bombs Hamyuts shot down fro Town

The woman collapsed when she saw those corpses

Ha from the back of the room

After waiting in the back of the room, she opened the door and called towards the collapsed and tre woman

“I’ve waited for you”

The woman’s eyes opened wide in astonishment due to Hamyuts’s calm appearance

“As I thought, you were the one behind this”

Hamyuts said That woman was the innkeeper of the place where Colio and the rest lodged

Ever since she arrived at the inn, Ha tabs on her

That woal Crukessa’s subordinate atched over the bo voice

“Why me…”

“That’s simple You see, after I entered Colio’s room, you ran away at full speed

Well, even without that I would have found out soon When I caed me to find it”

After Ha stopped

And she took out a kitchen knife froh she saw it An a cutlery didn’t scare her at all

The innkeeper didn’t head for Hamyuts with that kitchen knife She instead led it to the nape of her neck

At that erof a cello The woman held her wrist and the kitchen knife fell It was a pebble Ha, she could shoot with a force coun

“You can’t selfishly die like that You will only die after I s”

“…to Heaven…”

The innkeeper muttered

“I ao to that cold Library

I didn’t e to kill you, but the cult always held some compassion for me

My Book will be by the side of God, so it serves you right!”

Saying this, the innkeeper bit her tongue

Hamyuts didn’t try to help her as she convulsed with blood dripped from her mouth She didn’t even finish her off She just looked down at her in silence

Hamyuts muttered,

“There’s no such thing as Heaven”

That voice held no anger, sadness, contempt or pity

It just had a slight emptiness to it

Ha body of the innkeeper and left the abandoned house

After that, Haain for the inn Colio was in He wasn’t there anymore Since that place had no other customers other than Colio, it felt as if it turned into ruins in the matter of hours

She opened a file cabinet inside this nonerless inn She only found guest books and accounting books inside, but without getting discouraged she checked thee

While turning the pages of the guestbook and looking at the names inside, Hamyuts’s hand suddenly stopped And she flipped to the previous page to confir inside the same room three times within two months The room was next to the room Colio occupied The name of the man was Fiboro

Hamyuts headed for that room

Using her Sensory Threads to poke around, she soon found what she was looking for

One tile of the floor could be rele piece of paper was hidden inside Hamyuts took it

“The death of Relia ashad been confirmed

Nothing abnormal with the others

Severance of contact with the Bohilin Company

Had been confirmed”

The handwriting definitely belonged to the innkeeper It was probably a letter addressed to the man known as Fiboro

She quickly found two clues

That Cigal Crukessa guy didn’t seeht

And at that moment, Hamyuts heard a voice inside her head

‘Director, I have soes’

The voice she heard in her head was due to Mirepoc’s special skill, the ability of Thought Sharing It was a Magic that allowed her freely sending her thoughts to other people while transcending the concept of space

‘First, from me

I have briefly explored the area around Toatt Mountains, but I can’t see any traces of people fro been here If the eneh chance they are inside the town’

That’s true, Haht She already found out one such hideout

‘From Mattalast-san

He conducted the investigation at the station, but for now hadn’t found any suspicious persons Since the investigation is still underway, I will contact you as soon as so is found

From the Headquarters

They are checking the archives for Books that belong to people froht now Over’

Hearing this much, Ha at her waist She scribbled so on paper she found inside the inn and then folded it The stone bullet had a lid and was hollow inside It was a bullet es

Haot on the roof, and shot it towards Mirepoc with her sling The bullet flew high towards the summit of the mountain

On the paper she had written the following:

“1) Investigate Bohilin Co the name of The Weasel’s Den Inn

2) Find a man called Fiboro

3) There is nothing out of the ordinary here I don’t require any help

4) If a boy named Colio Tonies leaves the town, restrain hied to the enemy forces, but he holds no value for them anymore He’s just a boy so there’s no need to worry about him”

Taking out the bullet frohts forward

‘Bohilin Co the Books from around here I will talk to Mattalast-san and also ask him about Fiboro’

Hamyuts nodded Mirepoc’s decisions were fine

The contact was severed and Hamyuts returned to look for documents inside the inn

A HUSK, AN ENEMY, AND THE God OF DEATH’S DISEASE – PART 2

February 11, 2016Tgurneu

‘Mattalast-san, this is from the Director’

Mattalast was on standby at a distance of about six hours by train fro Town – in the commercial city of Bujui It was there that he conducted hisTown

He received Mirepoc’s thoughts while he was s his pipe inside a small coffeehouse found in some corner of the city

‘Please contact Bohilin Company We don’t knohat kind of opponents they are, so be careful not to recklessly attack them’

‘Bohilin Company? Never heard of them’

Mattalast sent his thoughts back If a person was trained to soic, it was possible to send the thoughts back in this manner and establish a tay communication

Hah combat capabilities, couldn’t do this

‘There’s soe of Toatt Mining Town This town has several cri Books and commercial trade in the don That isn’t much, but…’

‘That’s good enough’

Mattalast slowly brought the slightly cold coffee to his mouth

‘How is the ?’

‘I’ with the sheriff Should I leave it to them and head over?’

‘No Please devote yourself to the work there’

‘Understood’

‘Also, did you perhaps find someone named Fiboro?’

‘No I checked the records going back and forth to Toatt Mining Town many times I’ve never seen that name’

‘If you do, please let al’

‘Fiboro, huh’

While hts back

‘By the way, are you slacking off?’

Slight anger was hts She probably felt sohts

‘I’ a break’

Mattalast answered shamelessly

‘…Is that so?’

He could suddenly iine Mirepoc’s disappointed face on the other side of the mountain

‘Mirepoc, I can’t exert myself I must preserve my stamina for the crucial moments’

‘I’’

This seemed to be common with novice Arht being like that had soht the opposite way about him

‘How’s the Director?’

‘See happened’

‘Really?’

‘Yes’

‘Nothing, huh’

Mattalast seemed bothered by these words

There were three possibilities to thethat was supposed to happen was prevented, nothing happened yet, or she didn’t notice anything happening

Mattalast thought that saying “nothing happened” wasn’t the sa they can relax

Mirepoc didn’t seem to notice that

Besides, he was thinking about Ha Even Mattalast himself didn’t understand why He couldn’t calm down at all

‘What’s wrong, Mattalast-san?’

Mirepoc asked, perhaps having received those feelings

‘It’s nothing But even though it’s nothing, I can’t seem to calm down’

‘Why?’

‘I don’t know, I’m just uneasy’