Arifureta Chapter 144 (2/2)
(… I, was thinking of that man as a father? But, that’s, my real Otou-sama and Okaa-sama were…)
To someone who should be a betrayer, who should be a hated enement of her memory was contrary to her expectation She searched for her true parents deep in her hazy memory
However, no matter how hard she fished at the shelves of her etting, it was more like there was no impressive event with them that she could remember even after three hundred years passed… that was how she felt
On the contrary, she had the feeling in her fragmentary recollection of her parents, that they somehow resembled closely the atmosphere of the people of the country that she saw at the trial of the Merujiine Undersea Ruins
It felt like an ice block slid down Yue’s back Chilling shakes assaulted her whole body
(… Don’t tell me, Otou-sama and others were…)
After she started doubting, unnaturalout the more she pulled out
Based on Yue’s memory, the war at that tiion with no exception But she thought that her country was unnaturally thinly related with such thing
Even after Yue was enthroned, when she caious envoy her uncle would also attend with her without fail In the first place, as long as the situation wasn’t so that was really important then it would be her uncle that would deal with all that
Her uncle was deeply knowledgeable and wiser than anyone If it was about domestic affairs, if it was on the battlefield, he was a powerful familiar user that ht about it, it felt like he was off the proper track as a vampire
Both of Yue’s parents treasured her and raised her up like a princess, they would give her anything she wanted and allowed anything that she wanted to do, but nohen she looked back, rather than seeing it as love of parents toward their child, it felt like more of a respect and affection for her
Rather, it was her uncle that gave her love as a parent
Yue suddenly recalled
(… That an to put distance with me… he looked really painful)
Her uncle, after one year past her enthrone in distress, it was like he was rapidly aging That change was surely unnoticed except only by the people ere extre very worried at the sa anxiety and sadness from their distance
Her uncle betrayed her for the sake of his a time inside the prison of darkness Yue believed that, but she was shaken by the words of her false i Yue another possibility
Surely, looking at it objectively, being imprisoned in endless darkness had fixed itself in Yue’s memory completely If she didn’t hate someone, didn’t throay her hope and soaked in despair while passing her time apathetically, her heart wouldn’t last That hy she fir that looked the most correct as truth
But…
(… I mistook my memory?)
By any chance, there an to think so and once more asked a question
That hy did her uncle have to seal her?
At the sae flashed
――You really think that you can be at his side forever?
“…”
Terror ran through Yue’s body Reflexively, she e to tremble
Haji apart the darkness, illuave her peace and happiness To lose that, was the same as death for Yue
But, if, if it turned out that she couldn’t stay by his side…
“Yue-san!”
“!? Ah, shi+a?”
When she noticed, shi+a had caught Yue’s shoulders and stared at Yue froaze Just how hts? When she noticed, the end of the path was visible behind shi+a as looking at her, It seemed they had walked until the end of the path
shi+a released her hand frorasped Yue’s two hands tightly She clasped those hands to her chest in order to transmit her existence and warmth to Yue even for a bit
“Please talk, Yue-san What was said to you?”
“That’s…”
shi+a threay her hesitation looking at Yue’s abnorht that she must not wait anymore to deal with Yue because there was no more time for careful consideration
shi+a was staring fro a at shi+a’s deterhed deeply
“… I’m sorry shi+a I myself still haven’t sorted this out”
“You cannot talk about it?”
“… Nn I was told of various things about the past… s toward Hajime and shi+a is not shaken at all so there was no probleht be a mistake in what my memory remembers I want to sort it out, so wait for a little”
“Is that so…”
shi+a didn’t see Yue’s hands tightly and didn’t loosen at all
Thinking back, shi+a had really co, Yue secretly srasped hands
Even though she was just a regretful rabbit that could only run away and cling to other people, she desperately worked hard, followed them with her all, and before they realized it, she had become like this, someone that could protect them She even made the obstinate Hajime surrender Perhaps she couldn’t even call her as someone like her little sister anymore Now she was a splendid woman
Perhaps because of that… the words which welled up from her bad premonitions leaked out from Yue’s mouth
“… shi+a”
“Yes What is it, Yue-san?”
“… If, if, so happens to me then please take care of Hajime”
“…”
Those words were entrusted to a beloved person, with a serious gaze For Yue, those words were the greatest and highest words of trust
But, shi+a as entrusted with those words…
PAN-!!
“!?”
Returned a slap
It wasn’t done with body reinforcement, but even so, it was a serious slap without anyback The eyes of Yue whose head was turned away froaze at shi+a, there, she e that she had never witnessed until now
“… Are you joking?”
Her voice too contained rage that she had never heard until now shi+a’s body was tre e Even her atma that she experienced at the Guuryuen Great Volcano
It was shi+a’s serious fury That great pressure and rage made Yue stiffened for a moment
She immediately opened her mouth to make an excuse
“You, you’re wrong… I, if it’s shi+a…”
“So it’s not a joke?”
shi+a confir a step back from Yue She then abruptly shouldered Doryuken She looked down at the duerously narrowed eyes And then, shi+a opened herlow voice
“I don’t knohat you were told about, but you really turned into a pathetic coward, didn’t you? That pathetic face, I’ll put it into shape together with your guts”
“… shi+m shi+a? Wa―”
Toward shi+a as releasing tree, Yue tried to tell her to calle drop ofat her
Yue barely back stepped to dodge the horizontal sweep Doryuken passed by and i it with a thunderous roar Although the ice wall began to regenerate immediately, the radial hole that was instantly created showed shi+a’s seriousness
“… shi+a This joke has gone too far”
“Joke? Are you still saying cowardly thing like that after it has reached this point? If you don’t understand, then I’ll say it clearly, I’ statement… yes, I, will seriously wreck up Yue-san”
“… shi+a, I’m seriously-”
“FLY AWAY! SHAORAAAAAA!!”
“!?”
shi+a’s Doryuken ung fiercely oncesurpassed the sound barrier and generated a wall of air like a whitesound exploded And then, the ice wall of the passage that was hit was pulverized into very sments with just one attack
Yue desperately evaded that attack in the narrow passage with few places to dodge But in the first place, close range combat wasn’t her specialty She was already surpassed by shi+a who specialized in that range It was clear that she would be immediately cornered
Yue thought that she had to restrain and calround in the stor doith a terrific ht shoulder and pulverized her shoulder bone just from that
Even while staggering from the pain and ieneration’, invoked her ‘Calaround At the sa forward shi+a
While turning around, ice was visibly rising rapidly from below shi+a’s foot Just like usual, Yue’s ‘Ice Coffin’ was trying to lock her inside the ice
But, for the current shi+a, there was no way a ic of that level could stop her
“That’s naïve, Yue-san!”
Doryuken should be hard to ht of ‘Cala too close to the body that she wouldn’t be able to break it with Doryuken…Yue thought that but shi+a suddenly raised one of her hands and struck down on the ground
Instantly, DON-!! such shockwave sound was generated while the surrounding ice was bloith shi+a as the center She bleay the ice clinging to her body by generating an impact with her fist
Further she lifted up Doryuken with all her strength, changing it into firing er without a moment’s delay
A bullet flew out along with a bursting sound A slug bullet in a narrow and straight passage ― naturally it was hopeless trying to dodge it and Yue e at that, this ti bullets rapidly Inside the passage,inon
“… shi+a! Stop playing around”
“That’s my line, Yue-san Have you come to reflect on yourself a little to withdraw your statement?”
“… Why?”
“Why? Do you really not understand?”
“…”
The protective as cracked due to the i bullets Naturally, Yue immediately repaired it, but she couldn’t move due to the extreme rapid fire
Yue looked at shi+a across the protective wall She was looking while frowning sadly, wondering why shi+a was that angry toward the proof of trust she gave her
But, ahead of her gaze ― the expression of shi+a as pulling the trigger of firing mode Doryuken was even sadder than Yue’s, even now she looked like she was going to cry There was still fury overflowing there, but she was obviously hurt by Yue’s words
“You said you entrusted, that means the future ahead from there will be without Yue-san there isn’t it…”
“… shi+a”
“So like that, such a future… do you think I will accept it? Do you think I will be happily per that!”
The reason shi+a was angry was, in other words, so like that It sounded nice if it was called trust, certainly it was the greatest trust Yue could show, but for the receiving side it was so intolerable
That was natural shi+a loved Yue A trust with the assu she could accept with a s “Yes, that’s fine”
After shi+a fired the last bullet of Doryuken, she stepped forith a force that pulverized the ground Yue whose eyes widened in realization from shi+a’s words, for a ic
That was a fatal opening in front of the current shi+a Doryuken weight was increased up to two tons in one mercilessly strike
“Guh!”
The protective as pulverized, a shockwave along with strong wind attacked Yue She has bloay nificently
In that interval, shi+a instantly reloaded Doryuken’s bullet And then Yue has bloay until the wall of the dead end The e behind her opened, she was further struck by the bursting slug bullet
“‘Divine Severance’!”
Once more Yue deployed a protective hile she was protected by that spherical wall she has bloay into the room from the entrance due to the impact
From inside the flae, shi+a leaped into the roo
Ahead of them was…
“Fue!?”
{Wha, what is!?}
The appearance of Kaori and a gray false ie in Nointo’s appearance stiffened in their posture where their tords locked with each other
“Now, Yue-san! If you don’t want to be wrecked up, please say sorry right now!!”
shi+a pointed with a snap at Yue with her Doryuken
… It seenore Kaori there completely