322 319. Epilogue Part 2.txt (2/2)

But soon I switch.

...... Now, next. Next.

I climbed the final stairs, over the last fountain of blood.

With my body red from killing and killing, I make my way down the blood-soaked path.

And up and up and up, I finally reach it.

The rooftop of Hoosier's Castle, touching the outside air that night.

'Whew, I'm on ....... So this is the highest place in the world ......--

It was an empty place.

It's not used for anything in particular, so it's not surprising, but there's not even a fence, just a cobblestone floor. Looking around, the only thing I could see was the stairs I just came out of and the hole in the central atrium.

I immediately walked forward to the edge of the rooftop.

The top of the fifty-floor tower is really high.

It was so high that the clouds could reach it, and the great holy city below the tower was too far away.

It would be a high place that could no longer be called a different world.

It was not only the physical height, but also the spiritual height.

This is the richest continent in the world, the 'mainland' - the richest country of the 'mainland' - the Fouzeyards home country - the Fouzeyards Castle - the richest castle in the world. This is the rooftop on top of the reigning Senate - the most reigning Senate. In every sense of the word, this place is high.

And the darkness that surrounds that high rooftop is not jet black.

The midnight hour has already passed. The Hoosiers were approaching morning as Kanami's group rushed in and fought.

Before long, it had changed from a dark black to a bright indigo color.

What's more, it was a midnight sky that was anything but clear.

Cottony clouds floated sparsely, hiding most of the stars.

It's kind of ....... The colors are a bit interesting .......

Maybe it's because of the time of day when we don't often look up at the sky, but the exquisite colors are a novelty.

The clouds are painted a pale blue or green in the sinking indigo night sky like the deep sea. Glimpses of the stars are all white, but sometimes they are mixed in with the darker three primary colors.

I hadn't really paid attention to them before, but there were a lot more colors in the sky than I had expected.

I had assumed that the night was always all black, but I guess I was mistaken. In this case, it would not be bad to get up early sometimes and look up.

When I was having such an unimportant thought

-- The blinding light gently burned both of my eyes --

...... Huh?

Suddenly, a strong light shone in from the side, interrupting my thoughts.

The orange sunlight scattered from the horizon was shining from right beside me.

The color of the clouds changed to a reddish-yellow color, a stark contrast to the previous one. The stars that had been scattered between the clouds disappeared, swallowed by the light.

It was as if a star had awakened and opened a window to reveal a completely different world.

My mind went blank and I continued to turn my burned out eyes to the horizon.

I am wrapped up in that dawning time.

'Oh ....... Oh, the morning--

The sun is not visible.

But the sunshine, which I am sure shines hidden beneath the horizon, sinks into the world like a cloth dye.

Deep within, the sky is red, gradually changing from orange to yellow in the dye.

--the morning sunrise.

I'm not blinded by the sun and its color.

My back is pressed hard.

When I turn my head in that direction, the wind is blowing off my back.

We knew from the amount of clouds just before that we weren't going to have good weather today. But it was too unusually strong a wind. All of the clouds that had been building up over our heads were moving towards the horizon at an unbelievable speed.

It was the first time I had ever seen the speed of the clouds and the first time I had ever seen the sky shine.

Instead of the beautiful stars disappearing, the clouds were now emitting a pale light like a yellow jewel (topaz). And that complex group of colors was being sucked into the sky at a visible speed. It's as if a river of golden sand is flowing and taking my whole body with it to the horizon.

It's a pleasant feeling of floating and golden glitter.

The sky itself is a jewel, radiating a beauty that makes me want to call it a 'treasure sky'.

Thanks to the fact that I'm looking at it from the highest point in the world, my whole body is bathed in its beauty.

I'm not looking up. I am swimming in the ”Treasure Sky”.

Below the tower, to the left and right, in the sky - everywhere I look, the clouds of topaz are flowing. I am being sucked in with the light. That far, far away, far away. Streams and streams, to the end of the world -.

At that sight, at that time, I had one word to say.

...... beautiful.

I had my first impressions in my life.

And the feelings never stopped.

Golden emotions that can only be called rapture welled up and overflowed.

''Ha, haha--''

He laughed and his fingertips trembled.

My knuckles and the backs of my hands trembled as I caught on.

It traveled from my wrists to the tips of my elbows, making both my shoulders jump.

The hot water of pleasure rushed down my spine, filling my stomach with a feeling of hot (hot) happiness.

The hairs all over my body stood up. The pores called pores widen. I was trying to breathe in the first cold air of the morning to cool my burning body.

The wind caresses its sensitive skin all over its body without reservation. The wind caresses the skin from the back, tickling it immensely. It's hard to bear, especially on the cheeks and neck as if they were being touched by human hands.

The hot and cold air kept mixing together, and it was as if the feeling of release after patience kept on and on. All my skin kept trembling. Naturally, my brain is trembling too. I continue to be moved by the uncommon brightness, breadth, beauty, purity, and divinity of the world. It's--

It's as if an infinite number of platinum coins were falling from the sky.

It's like an endless flock of platinum birds taking off into the sky.

No, no: ......!

Not even close: ......!

Faster, prettier, shinier, and more glorious, anyway--

It's like, poof, poof, soooooooooooo!

Kanami's brother!

I stopped ruminating and recruited an emotional sympathizer.

That person was the man who was the best match of my life. The corpse of the strongest nemesis I had finally killed over the years - the corpse of my nemesis. I look at that morning sunrise with Kanami, whom I hate and can't help but hate.

''Mi, look!　Look, look, Kanami's brother!　This place is so f*cking gorgeous!　It's so beautiful!　This is the highest point in the world!　High, high, dazzling, dazzling, and yet cool!　Aaaaah!　It feels so good!　It feels so good!　Haha, hahahahahahaha--!

Excitedly, I lifted Kanami's limbless torso higher and higher, sprinkling the return blood on my body onto the rooftop. Then, like a couple on a first date, we laugh innocently at a spot with a good view.

''Hahahahahahaha!　Hahahaha!　Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha--!

In the golden hour, I keep laughing and smiling and laughing and laughing and laughing and celebrating my accomplishments.

And I reaffirm that I'm the 'best'.

This rooftop is without a doubt the highest point in the world.

I've just reached the top.

There is no doubt about it.

And when I reached the top, I would have gained the highest value for my life in the world.

Because I killed the beings who were whispered to be the best in the world with my own hands.

The Senate and the Great Hero.

I killed two of the strongest of the two opposing species with my own hands.

I don't know if they were in fact the strongest or not, but the people who live in this world have no choice but to admit it.

If you killed that 'Senate' and 'Great Hero', for whatever reason, you have no choice but to admit that you are the best in some way or another.

That's the important thing.

Among them, ”the most resentment” will be a tremendous thing.

At any rate, this will break the balance of the world.

The war will be in full swing and unstoppable. There is no ”Senate” to manipulate and adjust the numbers from behind the scenes. An unchecked war may reduce the human race to the point of irreversibility.

People will die.

Dying anyway.

A lot of them die because of me.

I'm not going to coordinate that war of death on behalf of the 'Senate'. Or rather, it's out of my control, having taken the summit with violence alone and without preparation. Even if someone else has brainwashed me now, there is nothing I can do about the mass deaths that are about to occur.

In fact, I'm not going to stop it, but rather accelerate it.

I'm going to drop Hoozeyards Castle and make it my base of operations.

Unlike the Senate, I won't use the power of the Stealers of Reason to keep the world in balance. I will use all of my powers to the fullest extent to change the world through warfare.

As a first step, I will end the Great Sacred City that is currently under my control.

It will only take a moment to confront Mr. Fafner with reality and let him run amok. As long as we can get him to give it his all, this wasteful, large, rich country will sink into a sea of blood. Overnight.

I will surely be known to the world as the great war criminal.

I will be hated, resented and awe-struck by the whole world as the main culprit.

At least I won't be made into something I'm not.

Everyone will know me. Everyone will see me. Everyone hates me.

The best 'value' in the world comes with this life.

Simply put, a very famous person.

Then I should finally be able to be born into the world.

I'll be born a mama's daughter, and I'll finally be the best mama in the world that she's ever known.

I've had a really bad life, but I've come a long way.

It's been a really long time since the day I promised my mama that I would be here.

Looking back, I have so many memories. I went from ”not being one” to being a maid of honor, from being a maid of honor to being adopted, from being adopted to being my own child, from being my own child to being a knight, meeting all kinds of people, working for all kinds of different countries, and at the end of it all--

--In the midst of that runaway nostalgia, both eyes finally get used to the blinding light.

”--hahahahahahaha!　Haha, haha, hahaha ......

We laughed and laughed and laughed and laughed - and as we continued to laugh, the golden hour seemed to be over.

Time has passed and the world has not changed the weather.

The sky remains like a golden river.

But my view of it has changed.

The tactless me said, ”So what? And it waters me down.

What was so bright, wide, beautiful, clean and divine begins to look dark, narrow, ugly and sickeningly poor. Mercilessly, little by little, it loses its value.

'Haha. Even the beautiful sky is only a moment away.

It's not pretty anymore. It's not bright.

The place I'm standing now doesn't feel high at all.

The world has become darker, scarier, and worse as usual.

I know it's a given, but it's not going to last forever, is it? Even if your life's dream comes true, even if the story is complete, the world will go on. It won't end as neatly as a book. People have to live. You have to keep fighting until you die. ...... hahaha.

It was quite a joy, just the view I got with my life on the line.

But that's it (・・・・).

But that's it (). Next, next. I'm running out of time because I'm a bit dumbfounded, so I have to hurry: ......!

If we don't hurry, this battle of Hooziyaz Castle will be a one-off.

At the very least, we need to move before the proxy struggle between the 'Blood Stealer' and the 'Fire Stealer' in the basement is over.

I shred the hem of my clothes and go to wrap it around the Heart of Helmina in my hand. I wear it by attaching an improvised sheath made of cloth to my waist belt.

And then, you can embrace the corpse, which is only the head and body, with both hands.

It's a heavy ......, but if you don't carry it around, you're going to get ripped off. It's just a matter of time before you pull out the magic stone. ...... But I wonder what the people downstairs would look like if they saw this.

Kanami is still of paramount importance.

There is no doubt that it is the heart and soul of all those who are fighting in the castle right now.

--even though it is, horribly, a corpse (・・・・・・・・・).

I'm sure these corpses will be taken away.

And that's what the real--.

Now, let's go. The real battle for Foozier's Castle is about to begin.

I move away from the edge of the rooftop, one step at a time, with Kanami in my arms.

Backing up and retreating, I move to the hole in the central atrium.

-- falling off his back.

The golden light fades away.

It's the highest light in the world that I've gotten, but I don't need it anymore.

So there is not a single hesitation in falling.

As the darkness of the hole swallowed me up, the light became a thin streak of radiation.

A thousand streaks of light became a hundred, then ten, then one - and the world was enveloped in complete darkness.

I became accustomed to it, falling toward the depths of the earth where there was no light.

The wind slapping my back hurts and the wind hitting the back of my ears is annoying.

During that fall, I make a final review of my plans for the future.

After all, there was no one at the top of Hoosier's Castle that I wanted to see. Today, I won a great victory, but I'm still not 'best' enough.

Rather than ......, the word 'best' was just a word after all.

It's impossible to prove it clearly. It's an illusion that exists only in the midst of the rapture, similar to the one I mentioned earlier. A meaningless, childish, deceitful word to aim for.

Therefore, no matter who you kill, you will never be 'best' enough forever.

I knew this from the beginning--.

However, I'm not fazed.

The breakthrough in this case is properly heard from that smelly senior knight.

It's a method of artificially tampering with the world's ”reason”.

It's a way to change a bird that is determined to be white by reason into a black bird.

A very simple and very straightforward method.

I'll go anywhere to achieve it.

Whether it's the highest place in the world or the strongest enemy in the world.

Even if it is the 'deepest' or 'the end of the other world'.

I'm going to aim, reach, and kill.

That's it.

This story of 'The One Who Stole the Star's Truth' starts right here, right now.

-- this Lagne Kaikwola fight.

So I fall, praying to my mom to please watch me.

From the highest point of this world to the deepest point of this world.

Now, a 'stealer of the reason of the stars' is born in the world, and I am falling.