Vol 3 Chapter 4 (1/2)
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And then three hours later -- when it had gotten dark outside, Yukariki Ichime and Aikawa Jun and I were still in the dean's room We had already become accustomed to the odor of meat and the odor of blood, and had finally settled down to the abnor down to such a thing was anything hile
I did not knohat Hi her fingers and playing around It see, too
As for Aikawa-san, she was the usual Aikawa-san, as she gorged on the rations stashed on the shelves in the roo what sees with no problems at all in this situation, in this place? She must have nerves of steel, or is just insensitive I wondered which
”-- Jun-san, how long do you intend to stay here?”
”Huh? How onna ask that?”
Aikawa-san crawled on all fours to me, a cookie still stuffed in her mouth
”What? You hungry? I know, I knohen you get hungry, you get irritable”
”That is not--”
”Here Ahhhh”
Aikawa-san stuffed the half-eaten cookie in my opened mouth
Delicious
”-- that is not what I i-chan has co at the crime scene, so they will suspect us even more”
”You're so hopeless! Why're you always like no this no that no that either no everything, so negative- You Prince Negative Ichihi”
”Master Political independents should sleep and wait-”[1]
”What are you talking about”
This girl ht?
”What sheto do is to wander around aiot struck by a check, alright? It's not checkmate yet, but we're in quite a pinch This requires deep thought”
”It is hard to tell a poor thinker fro, you mean?”
”Yup So, a break, a break Don't fret”
Said Aikawa-san, who then sprawled out on the floor While dried by now, it was still blood-stained carpeting, so I could not help but wonder about her sanity
”I think it would be easier to ask the police”
”The police wouldn't co like this The dramatis personae are all messed up, and the school itself is like this, too I feel sorry for him, but there's no place for Sasaki in this story”
”No, what do youme into this After all, I am a complete outsider this time, you know? This is what the police are for Why do you think I a taxes”
”You pay? Even though you're a et The police are fundamentally a publicly owned company They're protectors of the citizens who pay more”
Ahh, I see And because this acadeami name and the Rule name, they are probably quite friendly with each other I suppose in that case, the taxes I pay are like the tears of a sparrow In that case, Sasaki-san and his partner would not show up Well, granted, they did not have the right personality for this type of case
”I will accept that but staying here forever”
”And you know I fixed the door and got it to lcok again, so there's no place safer than this rooing High School Sound-proof germ-proof bullet-proof, can you think of a safer place?”
”And in such a case, the dean was killed”
Also, Aikawa-san's use of the word safe was purely based off the physical aspect, and it was doubtful she included the itive Yukariki Ichihi in the center of the academy, and in the dean's room at the top floor of the Faculty Ward, on top of that? In that sense staying here would certainly be going behind the enemy's back
However, if you were to askunpredictable, or surprising so behind their back That would be sio into ablind spot recklessly, you become unable to move You become captive to the escape route I had experience, so I knew Well, of course, this explanationhere
And tobothered ami Noa's closed-room dismemberment
'So showed up--”
shi+ogi-chan'sat the ti down of her guard, but her ot about her situation for a just a moment
Zig Zag -- it could not be so that even the strategist shi+ogi-chan wanted to keep sealed, still remained somewhere in this school?
”You know considering you prefer keeping things vague, you really demand results”
Aikawa-san said, irritated
” What do youfrom Jun-san, I cannot allow that to pass”
”You once said I a Yes, you're pretty patient You could probably sit on top of a rock for three years But that's only when you know the result When you don't knohat's going to happen, you beco, but you're really bad at waiting for so you don't know about”
”You make it sound like the truth”
”Because I'nation and coive up, who to negotiate with, like right now, it's probably hard on you But you knoell, that Yeah, you just hafta work at it, work hard-”
It seeh, as she became apathetic Work hard, she said, but I do not knohat I am supposed to work hard at
”No fighting- Master and Jun-san” Hime-chan butted in ”Let's be friends Like, if we start kicking each other it's no good-”
”You're right Friendshi+p is a beautiful joy Well, Ii-tan, if you want to leave this room, feel free I don't intend to tie you up or restrain you I won't reject comers and I won't stop leavers But in that case, you're leaving on your own accord, so don't expect for me to come help”
””
”But you know, Ii-tan Allowin the middle of a cooals, sometimes those with convictions, and sometimes those without any choice in the matter They're all er”
”Monsters”
”Ii-tan, you see school, but while that's true, it has another purpose Or rather, that other purpose is probably more important In other words, this is a cover Cover -- in other words While they're students, the top end are basically top-class soldiers”
Then as opposed to being a school, this was more like a private irls What era is this story fro Of course, this was contemporary However, still
”If you underestis swept out from under you While you're in this roouarantee you and Ichihime's safety, so just settle down Don't entertain me anymore”
” How about you, Higestions, do you have any? Knowing the terrain, you've been here for a year, after all?”
”Uuu Hime-chan thinks it's best to leave it to Jun-san Hime-chan's still an apprentice and a failure, and Master is a newbie in these cases So I think it's better to listen to the professional”
It was reasonable So reasonable that it made me sick Of course, I'd never heard reason that made me fel better
”I agree that this is the safest If anything, this is like the core of the Hanging High School as well as a secret [grave]yard”
”You uess ”Apprentice if you can evaluate yourself so well I do not think you need grade yourself so low”
”It's not grading o overboard with it Hime-chan feels this is a nice balance”
Overboard -- eh
Overboard becomes delusion becomes disappearance, they say[3]
It was true if you unnecessarily have an extreo insane - I had seen a nueniuses on that island, the failure at hu that of the world itself, yet were in soh in that case I could only think of Aikawa-san
”Being powerless is actually a source of self-explosive for Hime-chan”
”Why are you beco a terrorist”
She meant self-esteem, probably[4]
”Balance--”
-- in that case, ould thatto Aikawa-san, Full of confidence despite not having anything -- filled with pride despite being completely empty -- people with inconsistencies Would that make me the most unbalanced? But I am not warped Am not I think I am pretty sure
”I hope, that would be best”
I mumbled, and as usual, I
Ju any political affiliation is 無党(mutou), while nihilist is 虚無党(kyomutou)
Juraveyard, 基地 (kichi) = base
Jump up↑ Hard to translate this, but it's a pun-based idio, where 暴 (bou) means violently (in terms of extreination, a bit of a pun on 妄想 (delusion) Finally 暴喪 (bousou) using 喪 (sou), which ated disappearance
Ju pride, the for self-destruct
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For example, let us say that there is a user of nonsense that has the conviction thatThen how should he respond when he is asked this?
What's wrong with killing people on the battlefield?
What's wrong with a serial killer killing people?
The ansould probably look a bit like this -- that the existence of such things as battlefields and serial killers are wrong Then how to respond when asked this?
Is it wrong for dogs to bite people to death?
Is it wrong for earthquakes to kill people?
Would he be able to answer that the existence of dogs, that the existence of earthquakes are wrong? Of course not, going there would be si Reasons that come from conviction and conviction that cos
Situations where you must kill, or situations where youor doubt exist Yes, the reason to kill a person, that always exists as a sure thing Even if there is no reason to not kill people, there are reasons to kill people That is why the i that reason, to crawl yourself through life -- having come to that conclusion, I slowly opened my eyes
This was an hour after then -- Hi around (is that fun?), and Aikawa-san had fallen asleep as she laid down -- and I stood up
”Huh? Master, where're you going?”
” bathroom”
”Alright I'll go, too”
What the heck?
Iup, and explained, ”I want to act separately from you two”
”Separately?”
”Yeah I apologize, but I have grown tired of playing detective”
I lightly shruggedAikawa-san had created for ed shoulder
”As Aikawa-san said, it appears I cannot stand these situations when you don't knohat's going to happen It is a new discovery forlike uncertainty breeds anxiety, but ueness but I do not like uncertaintyIndeed, I am a rather narrow- here like this any more”
”But” Hi way ”C, can't you warrior, Master?”
Way of the Warrior, suicide?
Can't you wait, she probably had meant to say
”That'sas we're next to Jun-san? We can get out of the school easily if we leave it to Jun-san What's the point in ood situation?”
”I a this”
”No, you'll debate this If Masteris endangered For as long as we'reas a team, Master's one hand, one move, two states, forty-three prefectures directly affect Hime-chan's future”
I decided not to play the straight a serious discussion
”I've thought about that much Hime-chan It is better for me to not be here As Hime-chan just said Hime-chan may be an apprentice -- but I aative pieces should be cut away”
”That's a dumb--”
”Indeed,” I continued, forcibly shutting down Hiativity of less to Aikawa-san But -- I just thought No, I realized -- no, no, understood, perhaps Being by Aikawa-san's side is safe That is enough to estI do not want to escape from the battlefield for such a petty reason”
A bloodied rooa on the floor silently without even letting forth the sounds of breathing In such an environitive seventeen-year-old were engaging in an immature debate How could you not call this ridiculousness ridiculous, and ould you describe as buffoonery if this was not buffoonery?
”Then -- that wouldaround the ground Aikawa-san is enorive me at least that s of sin or guilt I have had a lot of things going on of late, so I had alotten What kind of person I was, and what sort of lifestyle I had pursued”
I will not provide anything to anyone
Therefore, I will not receive anything from anyone
I will reject anything and everything That was supposed to be the last shred of dignity I had
”In this case, Aikawa-san's job is to rescue you and it has nothing to do withto do with ood I do not want to have to repay that favor”
I do not have a will
But I am obstinate
”But, Master--”
”Stop calling me by that alias I cannot become a friend of a person like Aikawa-san I also have no reason to be called that by you”
I waved Hime-chan aside, who for a moment looked hurt, and headed toward the door The lock was easy to open fro and closing the door had been destroyed, I had to th
Protected by Aikawa-san Yet still not being a burden to Aikawa-san Protect Hi her, and become satisfied And hold each others' hands Friendly, cooperating
Indeed, what a dream-like human relation
Yet that was simply that, a dream
Dreams are, after all, dreams
”But, um Master”
Stop, I said what an over-familiar brat” I turned around, and placed a hand on Hime-chan's shoulder Just a bit, I pushed -- and displayed rejection ”Don't expect me to be nice Don't expect ”
”-- aa”
Hime-chan took a step back at my words
See, it is simple
It was that simple for trust to be broken
And along with it, fondness crumbled, frailly,
And I would become alone
”I a like friends This is my escape, Hime-chan Similar to yours Of course, this may confuse the enemies -- so feel free to do what you want in the meantime That is up to Hime-chan and Aikawa-san”
”Why,why, are you acting so distant?”
”Because we're strangers”
”But, Jun-san,”
”I do not want to be a burden on Aikawa Jun, I thought Even if I am not worth even a shackle”
The truth was nothing that stoic, but rather just nation and compromise
Do you not know about me?
Do you not kno I feel?
Do you not understand me?
Hime-chan
That is a truly wonderful thing
Of course, Hi above and beyond whatever lay beyond the ceiling But -- I was at , I had had enough I could notline And I had no intention of doing so to begin with
Yeah, that is what it comes down to
The User of Nonsense, even when it came to Aikawa Jun, rejected friendliness
”Because, but--”
”So, byebye”
I closed the door without letting Hi Aikawa-san aside, Hime-chan's slender arms and thin body would not be able to open this door Even if Aikawa-san were to wake up later, as she had said herself, she would not bother helping one off onthis whole tiood at deceiving others, after all
Siht me here
”-- and what's a myself to hate her”
I probably liked Aikawa-san quite a bit Although that is a thought, and far fro
””
Even so, despite having finally realized that I had been tricked, I was not kindly enough to sit around
And then Hime-chan Yukariki Ichihime
When I thought about inadvertently dragging her into the mess -- my actions would make sense It had just been a few hours since we had met, so I found ht I did not want to think that I was si Hi an irrelevant girl into ame of confession
” so, this is the end of nonsense”
I had heard that the floor beneath housed the faculty room, so I tried to make as little noise as absolutely possible, and headed toward the eency stairs we had used Fortunately it see from the faculty as simple Nohere was this -- I had simply followed Aikawa-san and did not comprehend the layout of the place I did not knohere everything was, and I did not knohat route we had taken to get here
” Oh, well”
I decided to ihara shi+ogi-chan shi+ogi-chan, according to Aikawa-san, is si into such people -- people whom are of the same type as I I do not knohy Perhaps there is a silly part of me, that hopes that I could become friends with someone of the same type, that someone could understand me
Visibility was bad It see -- of course, because schools are not designed to function at night It see such a naht activities Or perhaps, there just was no need to differentiate between noon and night
” but, there really is no one”
Although Aikawa-san had beaten down a nuive up at that It was unthinkable that there would be some sort of curfew and the faculty were likely not to remain observers forever
Then -- I thought
The suspect who killed the dean, Origa could be called a person -- the suspect, where had they gone? According to Aikawa-san and Hime-chan, this situation had come about due to the dean's orders In that case, you could deduce that the dean was killed after giving the orders And the scent of blood, the feel of meat, was not that old At the very least, it had not been over a day
Motive -- for this, there were enough to gather and toss in the can Origa despised by people, being begrudged by people, being cursed by peopleA rather crazy person, she apparently was
”Then a power struggle -- would be the most valid”
And then to place the blaood strategy Theout an enemy And if there was any hope for us, it would be that the dean's death was not yet widely known
Ahh So that hy Aikawa-san was staying where she was As I belated realized the reason, the fa with Grade 2 Class A was in front of me It alh
”Oh, right Photo”
I could care less about the blueprint now, but I realized that I had dropped the photo of Hi about, too I decided to look around for it Not that it was any useful either -- but I could find nothing better to do I could barely reate froh to think there would be no traps there And I had no intention of leaving the academy anyways I just wanted to leave that room From that uncomfortable room
I said a lot to Hi probably was si around Aikawa-san That was all, a boring, petty pride Not that pride is not petty to begin with
”Yes this is a rarity that I am bothered by other people this much”
Perhaps that was how special Aikawa-san was No, I felt like that was not the case There is only one special person to me -- and that one person is not here The person here was simply similar
I entered the building, looked for stairs, and clihts It was dark But I felt like visibility was better than when I was outside I felt like that may be a case of concentration Anyways, where was Grade 2 Class A if I use that as a starting point, I felt like I could find the photo Or perhaps the enemies had already collected it?
While I looked around for Hiht about the ain There were ts aside from the door, but they were both obviously locked They were double-locked, and could not be manipulated from outside And places that someone could hide, Aikawa-san had checked from the start hmm
Coe A factor The factor of being a sealed roo to frame us for the crime? But then one more factor how about the dis such an eerie feat as dangling a neck fro?
Dis a chainsaw the act itself would not take much time, but I also felt like it was not worth the effort to do it for the sake of it Was it dismemberment out of enine that it was done just to dangle a head froh School
”Disy
” Reminds me of teacher”
Not that I wanted to remember
Just as I had begun sliding into reram student
”Ssswaaayyyy”
A silhouette appeared in front of me
” Ssswaaayyyy”
No, that was a wrong for that a silhouette was improper I should clearly state person However -- in the darkness, the eerie and strange, swaying girl -- I could not see her clearly in the darkness with my vision
It was like she existed on a different diue her form looked
”-- Stop”
And her movement stopped
She wore a black sailor uniforo with her short-cropped hair Her uniform was cut up here and there as if she had been assaulted by a hoodlum, but it seemed to be her sense of fashi+on And from her hands that stretched out from the sleeves of that uniform--
”-- Ahh I'll introduce myself, for what it's worth, I'm -- Saijou Tamamo-chan A freshman”
Eliht hand Griffon Hard Custom in her left hand