Vol 2 Chapter 5 (1/2)
THE SELF-REPROACHING SOUL, THE SACRED EYES – PART 1
March 31, 2016Tgurneu
The next day, Noloty went to the warehouse Zatoh slept in
There were still traces of destruction around it and people who looked like related officials talked an of Zatoh Noloty left the place
He was at the next place she went to Seeing his face, she felt some sense of relief
However, Zatoh probably didn’t share her feelings He clearly looked annoyed when he saw her
He was at the vacant lot in the back alleys, exactly where Noloty first -beaten business When they first met, there was a crowd around, but now he sat all alone next to the signboard
“…What do you want?”
Zatoh murmured
“The sa that I can still do it somehow”
He sighed with a genuinely annoyed look on his face
“Can I sit here?”
Noloty pointed next to Zatoh He didn’t answer, so she just sat down there
“…”
He didn’t say anything Did he already give up telling her to kill him?
“You don’t seem to have any customers”
“Because it’s daytime”
Saying so, Zatoh looked around the barely crowded streets
The two of them didn’t speak with each other, and eventually the sun sank and it becaht
“You don’t seem to have any customers”
The pedestrian traffic began to increase in the dark streets after the sun sank When the people walking down the road saw Zatoh and Noloty, they talked silently a them One of them whispered as he pointed at Noloty
“Hey, that’s an Armed Librarian…”
“Scary She can probably kill 100 or 200 people like it’s nothing”
“Don’t make eye contact We’ll be killed”
“What kind of monster is she?”
Apparently, the fact that Zatoh endured Noloty’s attack had become a rumor in the city If he was able to endure that attack which was certainly unlike that of a trainee but of a full-fledged Ar him
“You don’t seem to have any customers”
“Because of you”
“…I’m sorry”
“You’re really annoying me”
Zatoh said, looking displeased
“Thinking about it, why do you need money?”
Noloty asked She thought about this for quite some time
“…I planned on going to Bantorra Library If I were to come to a mass of Armed Librarians, they would undoubtedly killto sneeze at”
“Don’t you already have enough?”
Noloty pointed at a bundle of money placed next to Zatoh He pointed with his chin for her to check it When she picked it up, it seeht Only the top and bottom were real banknotes, and the rest was newspaper
“…Horrible”
“I don’t mind They didn’t beat me Besides, if the person who can defeat o to Bantorra”
“…But it’s still horrible It’s so hollow”
“I’ you that’s what I want”
Noloty sighed He was such a troubling person
After a while, she rose on her feet
“Well, it’s tio back”
“What did you come here for?”
Zatoh’s question was natural For the entire day, she did nothing but sit next to him
“I’”
“Do you still want to save me?”
“Yes”
Noloty nodded
“Honestly, after yesterday, I think it ht be impossible to stop you”
“…”
“So, I tried thinking of another way of saving you besides killing”
Zatoh scratched his head with a truly perplexed expression
“Does your idiocy have no bounds?”
“We are the saard”
It see there, as he prepared to go away
“Zatoh-san I’ll see you tomorrow”
Zatoh turned around
“Noloty, I have a question”
“What is it?”
“I once killed many people”
“…”
“…Savingthose people’s lives Do you understand that?”
That question was a little different than his usual For the first time, Zatoh didn’t tell her to stop him, but instead asked if what she wanted to do was fine
“Do you want to atone by dying?”
“There is no other way of atonement”
“Why do you have to atone by dying? Everyone can die
It happens naturally to everyone, but it doesn’t ”
Zatoh seemed troubled for a while Then, he spoke with a bitter voice
“I see Do as you want”
It was the first time Zatoh listened to her Noloty felt a bit happy She smiled broadly
Seeing her face, he suddenly said,
“So you can smile as well”
“Huh?”
“No… never mind”
Zatoh, averting his gaze, ran away froht He turned his back to her and quietly disappeared in the night-time city
Noloty returned to her lodging in the sheriff’s offices There only seeht shi+ft there Noloty sat on the couch and sighed in relief
For now, it seems this day was a success
But was doing this really fine? I need to recover Luimon-san’s Book
However, right now it didn’t seem like she could both save Zatoh and retrieve Lui tomorrow I’ll make Zatoh-san talk
Suddenly, the sheriff spoke to her
“It seee hair today What were you doing?”
How should I explain this?
“Let’s call hi like a material witness”
“But I heard you were sitting there doing nothing”
The sheriff looked at Noloty with suspicious eyes
“It can’t be that he’s paying you, right?”
“Hey, hat are you even saying? Stop that”
Noloty denied while waving her hands
“Well, I don’t really think so, but what are you really doing?”
“Uuh, just trust me…”
She sighed The sheriff then said with a serious face,
“It’s just that I heard about so terrible that happened in Bantorra Library”
Noloty’s face becaid
The information about the current incident was strictly controlled so it wouldn’t reach the nations of the world or news agencies However, it seemed like rumors couldn’t be stopped
“This doesn’t have anything to do with Luimon-san The Library is far away from here in the first place”
“But there was also that incident in Toatt Mining Town…”
“It’s alright There’s no problem”
Noloty said forcefully Since she denied it like that, it ht have become more suspicious instead
“…There’s no way the Monster is in this city, right?”
The sheriff said anxiously Noloty tried cal her heart
“Don’t say such an absurd thing”
“So everything’s fine…”
The sheriff stopped the conversation short and went back to his desk Noloty put a hand on her chest in relief
Even so, she was thinking She didn’t have any guarantee that guy wasn’t the Monster It’s just that he vaguely didn’t seem to be him
Noloty recalled the face of a certain Armed Librarian If only Minth-san was here, he could tell with one look
During the saht about staying there for oneany heed to the soft bed, he lay on the floor He was unable to sleep well on a bed
While lying on the floor, he recalled Noloty’s face
He felt as if he went along with her pace
“Do you have any wish?”
Zatoh recalled her saying those words At that ti
“I want to smile”
He alood he didn’t, as he was already supposed to get rid of that wish
Zatoh closed his eyes and tried sleeping He then noticed that his hand started tre
“Again?”
While still lying down, Zatoh grabbed his finger and broke it Clenching his teeth hard to stifle the pain, he bent the joints of his fingers to the opposite side When he reached his ring finger after starting froers twitched and then regenerated to their previous shape
The frequency of the treer than before He has to die as soon as possible
After his fingers finished regenerating, Zatoh closed his eyes and tried to sleep However, after a short while, he once again jumped up
His hand was tre his short sword However, as his left hand was also tre, he couldn’t hold it well
“shi+t…”
He bit both of his hands He sunk his teeth down to the bone and barely started chewing His hands regenerated, he chewed theain However, the treiven enough pain didn’t
Zatoh’s tre his own face Both fists powerfully pounded hiain The tremors ceased just as he lost his consciousness
“…Noloty-san! What’re you doing!”
Noloty, as sleeping on the sofa in the sheriff’s offices, oken up by this voice Above her head she could see the sheriff’s mustache
“W-what’s wrong?”
“This isn’t a time to sleep! The Monster came to this city!”
He clenched a newspaper in his hands Noloty couldn’t read the contents, but she could see the words “Monster” and “Armed Librarian” on it
“That rumor?”
“This isn’t any rumor We received a report froolden helmet on the roofs of the northwest district!”
It was during the same day and salaring at reports su information froht Sharing with Armed Librarians from various places
Ireia held her head In addition to the the Monster, there were now rumors that he appeared in various places Even if they could overnments and police officials stay silent about this, they couldn’t suppress the news agencies and ordinary citizens who had a thirst for knowledge At this rate, if they keep concealing inforrow and Armed Librarians will lose the citizens’ trust In the worst-case scenario, the greatest taboo of Bantorra Library – the existence of the Indulging God Cult – will coht
“At this kind of time Hamyuts-san is…”
Ireiaher usual calht Sharing had opened her eyes
“A top priority e from Minth-san”
“What is it?”
Ireia bent forward
“He found a person who’s seely the Monster in Ismo Republic’s Bujui”
“Seely?”
Ireia knit her brows
“Yes This is what he said”
“That’s strange With Minth-san’s ability, there shouldn’t be a ‘seely’”
“However, that is what he said I’ll atte”
Mirepoc closed her eyes and sent her thoughts
“My thoughts have reached him, but there is no answer He is apparently in combat”
THE SELF-REPROACHING SOUL, THE SACRED EYES – PART 2
April 4, 2016Tgurneu
Noloty ran out of the sheriff’s offices The sheriff and the rest didn’t follow her Even if they were to use their guns, that wouldn’t change anything against people like Noloty and the Monster
Noloty was thinking while she ran It can’t be But there’s no other conclusion Is the Monster really Zatoh-san?
Before reaching the place the eyewitness olden object entered her line of sight A person wearing a golden helmet and a black cloak leapt fro froht to left
She ran up to the roof and began ju for his back He was faster than her At this rate, she won’t catch up to him Noloty hesitated whether to call “Zatoh-san”
Then, she noticed so on the rooftops behind her
Noloty turned around and looked at their figure
“Zatoh-san!”
Noloty called in relief So Zatoh wasn’t the Monster after all
With his transparent hair fluttering behind hie leap and overtook Noloty
When he lance Both the Monster and Zatoh quickly grew far fro ahead
Noloty was lagging behind, but Zatoh had no intention of stopping Can she even catch up at this rate? Rather than that, it wasafter the Monster ahead
That Monster was seen during theAfter Zatoh had beaten his face and lost his consciousness inside the hotel rooht He didn’t notice his blunder until then
A person with a golden hel like in the hter, stared at Zatoh People had already started gathering around the area and became noisy
Zatoh immediately kicked theopen The Monster i
Zatoh ran along the port He already noticed he was being lured
He ran across the port and into the harbor to the outside of the city
Upon exiting the city, the shoreline extended endlessly northward
The Monster stopped there There were no people around It seeht to a deserted place
Zatoh thought to hi to a deserted place intentionally was unlike the Monster
He started talking to the Monster as he turned around His hands were e
“First, let me ask you – who are you?”
TheHe just breathed heavily
“…What’s Ganbanzel doing?”
Once again, silence He didn’t show any intention of attacking or running away; his cloak merely swayed
Zatoh stopped trying to talk to hi and clenched his fist to attack the Monster
From within the cloak, a swarthy hand stretched forward and blocked that fist Zatoh repelled the onco counterattack kick with his elbow
Neither of the each other to wait-and-see, they exchanged blows
Using the recoil fro a front kick with his two hands, Zatoh drew back His hand e the end of the preliminary test
“Come, impostor”
Zatoh spoke At the same time, the Monster dreord from inside his cloak It was a wide and bulky sword, si it in front of hi by defending against the lightning, the Monster leapt ahead
How naïve Zatoh read those movements
He jumped forward before the Monster and tra hi up sand
“…What’s that? You’re weak”
Zatoh said with a disappointed expression
“It’s time for you to reveal your true identity”
Then, the Monster talked for the first time
“Right, I’m no match for the real deal”
Zatoh noticed that voice sounded fa about it, so was that sword he stepped on
“But did you really fall for this?”
While saying this, the Monster put a hand to hiswith heavy breaths
“Aah, s-so it started… Zatoh-san, are you okay?!”