Volume 6 Chapter 2 Part2 (2/2)
Arkit spat on Noloty’s face She wiped it off silently
“Don’t lu to infect only Armed Librarians”
“Why?”
“I made the townspeople drink preventive medicine Only the Armed Librarian didn’t drink it”
Noloty recalled what the innkeeper told her So was that the so-called testA person as still shouting for her to die wouldn’t lie now
“So your own target was Armed Librarians”
Her anger towards Arkit lessened But it still didn’t change the fact he was her enemy
“I’ll have you come to the Library with s”
Saying so, she pulled Arkit’s hand Then, he picked up the knife at his feet and directed it at his own chest
“What’re you doing?!”
Noloty grabbed his knife Arkit struggled, but her hand didn’t move At the next moment, he opened his ue Noloty quickly thrust her fingers inside his mouth
Arkit bit down on her fingers
“O-o, stop, it hurts!”
Her fingers creaked It was so stabbing his chest with the knife Noloty hit his head and shouted
“I told you that you can’t do it! Don’t just go and die!”
Arkit hung his head, breathing hard After staying silent for a while, he suddenly opened his mouth Contrary to his frenzy just now, it was a terribly calm voice
“Please stop it”
“…Huh?”
Noloty replied Arkit was staring at the knife that fell to the ground
“Please finish it”
“Finish what?”
“If I die I don’tSo I want to die”
Nothing answered him but silence She was shocked at the fact that such words came from the mouth of a boy who appeared to be around ten years old or so It was so that an old person who spent decades of hatred would say
“So you want to end it all?”
“If I win it will be over The sa I want to end it all”
While speaking, Arkit kept staring at the knife He had an expression that was despairing to see The boy’s innocent face was painful to look at
His expression overlapped with that of Enlike in heronly so he could die, and so it seemed somewhat similar
“You can’t”
Noloty’s words this ti than before
“You can’t die That’s no ending”
Arkit sobbed quietly In a short ary and then broke into tears He is a child after all, Noloty thought Adults were not so open about their feelings
She then had a certain premonition If she lets this child die she will feel horrible regret Her anger had vanished before she noticed it She couldn’t stay angry at a child who did nothing but cry
After Arkit stopped crying, the two exited thehands There was no need to stay there
Where did his followers go? Seeing how they ran away, they’re probably not coht
What e do now? she started considering For the ti suicide The moment I take my eyes off of him he will probably immediately do it
“Say, what can I do for you?”
“…About what?”
“How can I make you not kill yourself?”
Arkit, who had been crying until noidened his eyes
“Die”
This voice sounded like he spit it out froained the expression full of hatred he had before crying
“If you do so I’ll feel better I also won’t kill myself So die”
“How horrible”
Noloty sighed
“I actually want to kill every last Armed Librarian But there’s no way I’d be able to So I’d like to kill at least one if possible So die”
Arkit kept spitting out curses It didn’t seeainst his will He hated Armed Librarians from the bottom of his heart
A food vendor walked next to Noloty She bought one hotdog and tried giving a half of it to Arkit He shook his head, however, so she had no choice but to eat it herself
“I don’t want to die, you know”
“So just kill me”
“I don’t want to do that either”
“Then letme alive?”
“I have no reason I don’t want to let you die”
“But why! shi+t!”
After spitting these words out, Arkit once again fell silent The two kept strolling around the town’s streets while holding hands We probably look like we get along well froht Noloty
“If you can’t die then kill someone else Doesn’t matter which Armed Librarian it is”
“I can’t do that Like I said, I won’t kill or die nor will I let you kill yourself”
“What’s the matter with you! I can’t understand!”
He started crying again He probably felt hu around with a person he wanted to kill
“Really, what am I supposed to do…”
Noloty was utterly perplexed She couldn’t think up of any way to keep hi suicide Why did it trouble her so hts surfaced to her mind
However, Enlike was thinking while reading the Book The one creating problems for Noloty was only herself Any other Armed Librarian would let Arkit kill himself without any hesitation That alone would have solved the problem At the end Noloty was the one to create problems all by herself
“Suicide is bad So don’t do it”
“Shuddup I don’t care Die”
“How horrible Listen to me”
“I have no reason to listen to you I don’t want to hear anything from an Armed Librarian!”
“But if you won’t listen we can’t do anything”
“I don’t care! Die, just die!”
He was coe the subject
“Then, what can I do to get you to listen to me?”
Caught off-guard, Arkit was confused
“I’ll do anything that I can do for you, so at least listen to me”
“Anything you can do?”
“I won’t do just everything you tell h”
Arkit distorted his lips as ifNoloty
“Become my minion If you’re my minion I can at least listen to what you say”
“…Okay”
“Huh?”
Arkit was the one surprised Even Enlike reading the Book was surprised Noloty was completely calm
“Is that fine?”
“I ”
Arkit stayed with his ape for a while
“No, thinking rationally it is not good at all, or a bit strange… It’s really strange and not good at all… but there’s no other way…”
Noloty cocked her head while covered in cold sweat
“Are you stupid?”
She was deeply pierced by these words she didn’t want to be told But she had no way to reply
“Well, that seems to be true…”
“You’re really stupid”
Arkit spat out However, his expression lost its edge Since he was flabbergasted by Noloty he seemed to lose his desire to die
“I feel like that’s hoas before…”
“Huh?”
“Nothing It’s my business”
Saying so, Noloty sighed When she o it also happened like that She didn’t knohy, but it see involved in this sort of business
However, she hadn’t noticed that this was essentially different from the previous incident She saved Enlike because Ha on her own
Noloty would have probably tried to save Enlike even without Hairl in the first place Therefore Enlike was saved
She was a girl who acted on her oill and was a nuisance to others It was all thetroubles for other people
Why is she doing this sort of thing? Enlike couldn’t help but think What was her reason to save both Arkit who had no connection to her and Enlike whose life orthless?
Enlike turned back ti Noloty’s past