Arifureta Chapter 146 (2/2)

In Ryuutaro’s case, thethe darkness in his heart to his face so he would self-destruct was pointless It seereat labyrinth tried to attack Ryuutaro by strengthening its conscious entice, possibly to drown his heart in desire and erase his positive emotion as his virtue

In that way, this could be a troubleso mad But, Ryuutaro didn’t lose his sense, and he avoided turning into an incarnation of his desire The prime reason for that, rather than because of Ryuutaro’s th it was because of…

“Realistically stealing her is impossible, anyway There ain’t just no way Rather it’s suicide I’ll get killed by Nagumo, also by Yue-san, too”

“Heh? … … … … … … … … … … … eEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEH!!?”

Suzu kneas inside Ryuutaro’s heart from the flow of the story, because of how unexpected it was, Suzu raised a nificently loud voice of shock after a few beats

And then Suzu whose ely began to confirm it timidly Ryuutaro looked aith a sullen expression, but his ears turned red so it was obvious that he was hiding his embarrassment

“Ryu, Ryuutaro-kun, eh? Lies? Really? You liked Onee-sama?”

“Aa, what’s with you, is it really that strange for me to be in love with that person huh- “

“N, no, that’s not true at all But, you didn’t show anything that pointed at that at all so…”

“… You, in front of those two, do you think I can show any kind of attitude like that?”

“… Ryuutaro-kun… what a pitiful…”

“Don’t pity ed somewhere somehow!”

Ryuutaro howled at Suzu as sending hi Her speech and conduct strangely turned straight so what he pointed out was correct She was not just a girl as only s anymore

But right noas ie, but the wound of Ryuutaro’s heart (lol) who kept being shown the spectacle of the woardless of atching Indeed, in front of Hajime and Yue, there was no way he could take action as someone who fell in love with Yue He was also made to hesitate by the atmosphere those tafted off His pride as a ed

If he was asked what he could do, then it was to recognize it as unrequited love and make a clean break with it In reality, that hat Ryuutaro actually did And the great labyrinth forcefully dragged that out but…

The side he needed to steal from was just too bad Whether it was the male side or the female side In front of desire and whatever, there was only a definite future of helplessness Nohim to steal her, as impossible was impossible Rather, it evenabsurd! Look at reality you idiot!” at the other self that was instigating him

“Hht that Ryuutaro-kun was in love with Onee-sama…?”

“It’s not really that strange, right? Even you called her ‘Onee-sama’ since that day, ain’t you?”

“Aah, so it’s like that Yep, perhaps that is indeed not that strange”

Suzu clapped her hands pon as though she was convinced of Ryuutaro’s words

‘That day’ which Ryuutaro reat pinch at Orcus Great Labyrinth Yue’s beauty and overwhelon made any watcher even feel divinity Her i at appearance, and the slight kindness she showed to Suzu… all of those were just too charh school student, whether male or female

Similar to how Suzu came to yearn for Yue as Onee-sama, several male students (and a part of the female students) had their heart stolen by Yue that day Ryuutaro was just one person aroup

“Don’t say this to the others, okay?”

“That’s, well, Suzu won’t talk Saying that will only dae Ryuutaro-kun Rather, isn’t it better if you didn’t tell Suzu?”

“… Certainly, that’s true but…”

“Aaa, is it so like… you want to tell someone else, just for once?”

“Ain’t you sharp? Well, so, my bad”

Looking at the wryly s Ryuutaro, Suzu also returned a wry smile

“But, challenging the opponent froed like that is unacceptable, isn’t it?”

“… That bastard’sWhen I recalled it, it ain”

“I think you can just use a mirror for that”

Suzu one through a really strange trial, but before long the end of the road beca they had reached their last stop

“O? It’s the next room”

“Please, Kaori or Tio-san be there…”

Suzu anted to ask for healing clasped her hands in prayer while approaching the ice wall The ice wall reacted to the the entrance toward the room inside

In the end… it seemed Suzu’s prayer reached

“Kyah!?”

“Uoh!?”

Theshockwave and the torrent oftheir face with their hands And then Suzu soure of two Tios, both of the black and pure white flashes at each other

The opposing two colored flashes were clashi+ng right froe of Tio wearing white kimonos and hair that hite like snow The two flashes were sing each other The shockwave that trampled the room of ice was created from the collision of the two breaths

{Fufufu, I feel it Thy hatred and rage The fear and resignation No edy that cannot be forgotten, the betrayal of the people thy protected as easy as flipping over one’s hand, the gazes of scorn and fright, the murder of thy comrades, friends, parents, the humiliation carved on their corpse}

“…”

In the middle of the space that was dyed hite and black flashes, the false i with a voice that was resounding with excessive clarity That was the on clan froest race of the strongest country, however, they by no reatest country that was far unrelated with the violent rule, and it was their last

Because the dragon clan was few, the country they ed didn’t differentiate any human or demi-human, they had prosperous coexistence between various races They protected the powerless, supported the weak, opposed when evil appeared regardless of country, hoisting ht from the front Such way of life was a joke, but they were undoubtedly persisting in that ideal Besides the people of their own country, the surrounding countries even extolled the dragon clan as exactly the ‘true royalty’

Everyone was saved and protected by the dragon clan sometime, somewhere, by some kind of reason Everyone held respect and idolized them

But, such days suddenly met their end

―Dragon clan was a monster

Such foolish thinking was spreading ahout the continent, no matter which clan you looked at, there was no race that could coth and the beastly appearance of co that blurred the boundary between human and monster

Even so their achieve couldn’t possibly be denied Regardless the , the eyes of the people changed from reverence to fear, from trust to doubt, and then from aspiration to disdain

{O thee At that ti, wasn’t it? Remember, that tireat persecution, the felloho cornered us and united all the countries together against us were the church Tra the hateful enemy, it was an indescribable pleasure wasn’t it?}

The false i up Hajihted was accoe At the end of the day, for Tio Claus, rather than Nagu for her was obtaining the just cause for the sake of her revenge, the false ie said

Hearing those words, Suzu and Ryuutaro that usually only knew the figure of Tio as always frankly showing her affection to Hajime opened their eyes wide in shock and stared at Tio

However, Tio didn’t even try to protest, she was only staying quiet and kept firing her breath It was as though she was affire

Perhaps getting into a good e of Tio was getting increasingly smoother

{At first, even when thou thought of going together with Naguht was to ‘use’ him correct? The power of that man is abnormal And then, there is no way that poon’t stand out And, in that case, the reat persecution that unnaturally started suddenly―the God too would surely direct his attention at hion clan who once possessed power, the God would also bare his fang at hiuht be of assistance for the killing of God, that hat thou thought}

That was really a calculating thinking It was a way of thinking that was even more and more distanced from the usual Tio Suzu and Ryuutaro that listened froht it was unbelievable

However, the words that the false ie of oneself talked were by no ht, even if the person themselves didn’t aware of it, it was certainly an e at the unknown side of Tio as a pervert with suffering fetish but who soentle and intellectual aspect of her, made Suzu and Ryuutaro unable to hide their shock

Perhaps noticing the condition of those two, Tio sent a glance at them At her face, there was no e sht of intellect, none of those were reflected there The expression of Tio that they saw for the first time made them sed their breath

{Human, demi-human, the devil, and then God At that ti who stole those i natural for thou to have ―Yes, revenge, is thy legitiht!}

The white flash was slightly beginning to s the black flash The rivalry of power began to crue were shaking the heart of Tio

Tio re proudly and nobly In fact, both of theht in order to let their clan escaped, until the very end they persisted in the dignity of the dragon clan Therefore, these feeling inside Tio that justified hatred and rage toward other people, the feeling that affire, they were betrayal toward her parents

Theat the weakened strength of Tio while, slowly, she presented her hand that wasn’t releasing the breath

{Take my hand If thou do that, I will enable thou to accoe It’s fine already to not forcefully repress the hell fire se won’t dull because of the toru unfavorably of me He is a sweet man toward anyone who has entered his heart There are so many ways to do this}

That was a tee sealed deep inside Tio’s heart into a hell fire It wasn’t so to hurt Tio’s heart and broke it so it could kill Tio, it was similar like with Ryuutaro’s trial, it was an attack that ai temptation It was also a trap to spur Haji Tio

The er, the black breath was getting weaker as though expressing Tio’s heart Perhaps they felt a sense of danger fro “Tio-san, don’t listen to that!” “Get a hold of yourself, Tio-san!” with expression colored by uneasiness

The white flash was just about to hit Was Tio going to be erased just like that, or perhaps she would take the hand of the false ied Tio that would make use of her comrades In that case, it was unthinkable if Suzu and Ryuutaro that witnessed this would stay safe

But, right now,of Suzu and Ryuutaro that didn’t want to see the figure of Tio whose existence was a pervert but also a reliable big sister for the was so strong to the degree that they were thinking even if Tio wouldn’t look back at theht the false ie

But, at that time when it seemed that Tio would fall, suddenly a voice resounded That was the voice of Tio who until now hadn’t said even a single word

“We, don’t know theof our own existence”

It was a cal, it wasinside oneself

“Is this body a beast, orthen where is that answer could be”

{Those words… }

The false i and leaked out a ress of the breath she fired stopped still

“Many months and years without an answer In that case, whether man or beast, ill hold our soul with determination”

{-, th…, impossible, just what in the world, starts this―}

The black flash wasforward With hard effort the white was dyed by black, the stolen distance was stolen back The false i with her pushed back breath Tio should have been listening all her words all this ti quiet She wasn’t unable to refute for even a single thing, a gap was ative self, that was how it should be

Despite so, without even any previous sign Tio suddenly e was confused, sonorous words resounded clearly that it gradually even painted out the thunderous roar the breaths played out

“The eyes of dragon see through the straight truth, destroying deceit and suspicion”

Although it was the eyes of the beast, it wasn’t so so intellect as well, it would see the truth and beca someone

“The claw of dragon tears apart the ra malice”

If there were people to protect there, then it would crush any kind of eneon ielded only for the sake of overthrowing evil

“The fang of the dragon crunches one’s oeakness, washi+ng away hatred and rage”

It was a gigantic figure, far separated from man, exactly because of that, they had to strictly discipline the even to oneself To let one’s body burned in hatred and rage, and lost one’s reasoning, was soivable by oneself

“Benevolence, at the time that is lost, we are merely a beast”

If oneself was reduced to wielding power bythe innocents, let’s recognize it Themselves were merely a beast

But,

“Be that as it ―we are the dragonkin!” (TN: All this tion onfor me)

Tio opened her eyes wide together with her proclamation Her pupil split vertically and showed her bestiality, shi+ning brilliantly in golden color At the sa frorand waterfall but different with Hajime’s brutal storm, this pressure was like when soh, causing one to want to lower one’s head to nature Such coercion―if it was said strongly, then this hat one called supreme will (TN: Or Haki, like in One Piece)

{… Don’t tellback?}

The false i look That couldn’t be helped There was nothing that should trigger this, how even though Tio’s e, yet she suddenlyThere was only one explanation

Tio was controlling the weakening and strengthening of her own mind

It wasn’t so ordinary to control one’s reat labyrinth If every one of Haji cheat, then Tio could be a th cheat

“O will of great labyrinth I thank thou A chance to listen objectively to one’s own true heart objectively cannot be found that easily Because of the heart, is soap created while I myself don’t notice it and so I made use of thou but… unexpectedly, I collect quite a harvest here”

Those words caused the false ie to comprehend that her assuly unbelieving

{… But, there is no falsehood in what I said! There is no way thy false eone! Why I’m this easily-}

The words of the false ithened her th of the false iht to the core

The sleeves of her black ki s due to the torrent of ure where her hand was stretching straight ahead, was so beautiful that surely if Hajiet stolen even if Yue was right beside him

Not even a frag figure that could be , Tio put her soul into her words and resounded it

“Don’t look down on me Know just who I am”

As long as one was huative e side, her revengeful heart were certainly existing inside Tio’s heart But, if the doubt of the false ie was to be answered, the answer could be seen froon clan’s soul just before this The oath that was handed down ahly supporting Tio’s on clan, it would be her absolute core that would never break

If she still didn’t understand from that, then, Tio proclaion clan

“The proud dragon―the descendant of Claus clan, Tio Claus is here!”

That was the answer Because she was the dragon Tio Claus that she didn’t break That was all there was to it

The false ie of Tio had no words In her expression, it looked like there was soh to say that she was beaten, she was floating a vague smile that looked like that

Toward such false iifted her last words

“Thing like fang of revenge… is no coon Thou can taste it by that body of thee”

Right after that, Tio’s breath pulsed, it turned thicker as though it was doubled, not tolerating even the littlest of resistance and sed all the white And then, without stopping it opened a large hole in the wall of the room and dispersed

Later there was nothing left After giving a glance at the ice space that was ie, Tio turned on her heel without looking especially happy or moved

Looking for the result she was unwounded She waved the sleeve of her black ki in front of her with one hand That tranquil atesture, coth of just now, caused words of peerless beauty to naturally float in one’s mind

“This is bad… it’s like, Suzu is going to find her second Onee-sama”

“I’ anything and I’ to that God dammit”

Perhaps the conversation between Suzu and Ryuutaro reached her ear, Tio turned her gaze at the two and sently Even that smile made the two of them completely flurried with every bit of it

“Both of thou are safe For thou both to arrive here h thy trial then?”

“Ye, yes So, somehow…”

“O, ou, desu We passed, desu” (TN: Ryuutaro here suddenly used a polite language)

Tio tilted her head toward Suzu and Ryuutaro as behaving strangely Even such gesture wasn’t soh norap was just foul! The two of them wanted to make that tsukkomi with a loud voice Especially Ryuutaro

Even while feeling confused about the state of the two, Tio looked at the passage Tio and Ryuutaro passed behind them

“There are only the two of thou that linked up?”

“Ye, yes We didn’t see, anybody else”

Nodding “Is that so” at Suzu’s words, Tio made a little disappointed face And then with her pained expression that caused the body temperature of Suzu and Ryuutaro to increase, even more, she leaked out in a small voice

“If the ht when I first ht noithout delay Furthermore, it will be an extraordinary punishment without a doubt How unfortunate”

“What is unfortunate is you”

“Unconsciously, Suzu and Ryuutaro made tsukkomis har

However, just for a little, it was relieving to see that Tio was really a pervert just as expected, but it felt like losing somehow to feel that so they absolutely wouldn’t say it out loud