Chapter 8 (1/2)

Soul Eater of the Rebellion 8

The Meaning of “Sora”

I've always hated the name Sora

Every time soinside

No, someone had actually said it like that to me back then

It was at the tiuna, in the dojo

I would have been fine if it was just hi like that to e as well

”This guy… rather than Sora, you should be called Kara You have nothing in you”

(This the pun 空 = Sora (= sky) 空 is pronounced Kara in 空っぽ(Karappo) 空っぽ una to have that weakling who's got nothing in him as his family's heir instead of hiuna would be aheir”

We were seven years old at the tiuna and all the other pupils had become clear, and when everyone around me — especially my father, started to look at me with cold eyes

I went to iveit out on her, but she didn't say anything back tome- her pitiful son, and then she took me out to the courtyard

My mother was someone as always sick

Her body had always been weak her whole life, but it becaave birth to me and she spent most of her days in bed

Her room, the mansion, and the courtyard That was my mother's entire world

Maybe it was because of that, she really liked looking at the sky

She liked the sunny sky

She liked the cloudy sky

She liked the sky when the sun rose, she liked the sky when the sun set

She liked the sky on rainy days…although she would joke that she hated that a little since she couldn't walk in the courtyard when it rained Nevertheless, I understood that she loved to see the rainy clouds just fro the look on her face

No matter where and when, the sky was always there for her when she looked up, showing her all of its different forms

Even the people ere i at the same sky as her They were all connected under the saht of it like that, she did not feel lonely

Since she loved watching the sky so much, she told me that the first name she came up hen I was born was Sora

”I wanted you to be sonanimous man with a heart as vast as the sky”, it was a wish like that

”And you knohat, Sora?”

My hty son as still crying, even though I had been listening to her story

”There's nothing bad about being told that you have nothing inside If there's nothing, then you can beco Fros and become who you want to be No matter which path you'll choose to take, as yourthe best for you”

「…Haha, was that what they called seeing the last pleasant flashback of your life before you die?」

Inside the Fly Lord's nest I sround like a caterpillar

In this situation where all hopes of getting saved were lost, I seemed to have recalled the last conversation I had withtold by oing to report to her in the afterlife that I becarace I am

I ht aric has been coots at the wound

It was devoured by a group of ots to the very last drop of blood after it fell onto the ground

I already had no toes left on either of my feet, and my left hand had disappeared up tosounds that I could hear, I could tell that theinon the bones of one mad or died from shock under the severe pain already…

However, I was still sane

There was no pain either But instead, I feltin pleasure whenever they took a bite of ots

Just like how asoht be doing so similar as they eat

As the result of that, I' but it didn't feel like I was going to die The fear of dying was also being eaten away as I die

When I realized it, ather around my face

「D-Don't co the only body part that I could still freely control – ots in check

The , they slowly ca to see if I was still weakened enough just now? Or were they just playing with their food?

In any case, it was clear that the ht for a second that ”This prey was better at living than the others”

Otherwise, they would have coo

Sora instinctively believed that there were a lot ht now, the ots that he could see in the area probably weren't even ten percent of their whole population