Vol 3 Chapter 6 (2/2)
rip
it seemed, as if just a part had fallen off, to be pulled fro lost its root spun around and around in the air like it was just sliding on a surface it spun around around and around, and then it thudded onto the dark, unlighted hallway floor
”-- what”
shi+ogi-chan looked at her wrist with dazed eyes And then she saw her right ar the end She did not screa a hurt sound She si -- and turned around
It was too dark to see Deep and unpleasant darkness And a girl wearing black stepped out from that darkness--
”I guess I was found out--”
Along with that line
”The more you plan, the more you succumb to your plan -- just as Jun-san said Really, really, I am a failure; this was a s -- Hagihara-san and Saijou-chan of course, but Master, you knoas too ht use an assistant but I never thought it would be someone like this”
With a melancholic smile, --Yukariki Ichihime appeared
”Ah gh--”
Even though her wrist had been ripped off, shi+ogi-chan never wavered -- and charged at Hi like nine steps, it was further And that long range -- for Hime-chan
For Zig Zag, it was futile
Hi there's no helping it, then And then she showed her hand that was covered by a black glove to shi+ogi-chan and I
”The more you plan, the more you succumb to your plan -- that's why”
And then like the conductor of an orchestra
She flicked[1] her fingers -- and dropped the finale
”Your line of thought, snaps here”[2]
Fwip -- at the sai-chan's body went twang and stopped in mid-air, but even that was but an instant, as by the tis -- minced apart Like a pile of blocks had crumbled, the head and chest and torso and shoulders and ars and feet, one by one in proper order splattered about the ground in a circle, and finally, blood began splurting
It was the second tiht The extres Blood sparkled and glittered Darkness glowed and glittered And then again, fip -- it sounded
It was the sound of Hi
”-- in the end, strategy cannot suppress a berserker, senpai[3] If you wanted to live through this, then you needed to seal s with a surprise attack like the first ti on you directly You had that chance twice, yet let ihara-san”
And then Hime-chan said, ”However”
”I don't get it for a strategist of your level, to wander into the eneirl in a RomCom, it was patheticNot that it matters to me”
She finished speaking to shi+ogi-chan's rolling head, and then Hime-chan turned to me A smile, filled with melancholy
”I want to thank you but it seems like you did not come to help me”
”Nope nope,” Hi Hi students as much as possible--”
”You already killed one Tamamo-chan”
”Ahh Yeah, true”
As if she had cootten
”Right Witnesses, are a bother”
Yes -- Zig Zag That time, e had rappelled fro, but she was probably actually pulling the wire she had wrapped around Tamamo-chan's neck
”Well, by the tiihara-san it was too late, but oh well”
” I am still surprised that you can cut peoples' necks with your level of strength?”
”Yup You know, Master -- Hith Friction Pressure, Gravity, Magneticisal Force, Centripetal Force Action and Reaction Pulley Laws and Franck-Condon Principles Coefficient of Restitution and Couloth Hith--”
And then Hihtly It was hard to tell in the darkness, but her gloves had layers and tens of layers and even more layers of wires wrapped around, like a puppeteer, or rather like an illusionist--
And the glass panes behind me shattered without a sound
”Killing people is simple”
Yes These were strings and a string user
”-- what a failure Zig Zag is the na or rather a slip occurred Of course, Hi and completely fooled me”
”I didn't deceive you Though I did lie”
But -- that made two of us
” when you told ht it was odd that you could explain it so well Even though you were passing yourself off as not knowing anything else”
Like Zig Zag usingwas just a bluff by Hi the string is, in the hands of a string-user it would be used to its fullest
The gloves and such was also just a half-truth When you think about it, there is no need to wear a glove twenty-four-seven Just using string would be fine with bare hands -- only when you are going all-out to kill someone, yes, like the current situation
Running away cannot be done Already, this hallas probably filled with string, like a spider's nest I could not seevisible string and invisible string), but I could deduce that much After Hime-chan confir, she went ahead of us and set up this trap
This was literally Zig Zag It is hard to explain, but confir, then adjusting the force of each string, and then confir, and then confir all of that with just the fingers Outside is one thing, but inside, where there are plenty of bu and divide up the force on each one -- Zig Zag was obviously invincible, and more importantly, was limitless in versatility That tilance at me, made perfect sense Why Ta Hime-chan's voice -- this was the answer If a berserker on a different tier appeared, then even that Ta in ambush in the courtyard was also obvious spacious places are Hiest threat
”Hah, I see”
When we had stepped onto this floor, shi+ogi-chan and I were already caught in the spider's nest
”And the one who killed the dean was you, too”
”Yes,” she nodded, as if that was nothing And she continued, as if that was nothing ”Zig Zag aside, as you've realized that much, I have to kill Master, too”
”As I've realized it -- eh Did you think that would stay unsolved?”
”I did I sought it I wished it I prayed it”
””
”Because Jun-san is soft on friends She would never suspect Hime-chan”
Aikawa Jun's one blind spot
That was not betrayal but deception That person -- trusts allies and never suspects them
”But that is simply a blind spot and not a weakness,” Hime-chan sadly continued ”Can you understand that? What kind of life Jun-san has lived to date, you h a world in which everyone and everyone deceives each other, a world in which people first kill the person next to theure out what sort of person they were, she lived in such a world -- and even though she's only seen the dirtiness of people -- she still believes in others Without -- even suspecting Hime-chan”
It sounded like those words were said with solared at me, constantly
”To people like Hime-chan, it's a pretty nasty concept For Aikawa Jun, with thatwith others No, but that's why she's strong, I' Master all along, too Leave it to ured you would sell Hime-chan out anyways”
She tracked me not out of worry Not just that, but the first time, when I left the dean's room, the reason why she folloas si was fake
That she cried for me
That she tried to stop me
That she followed me
That she helped me
-- by doing that, and s, that, too
She was just acting out the type of girl I like
”Because, you know, you can't trust others!”
She said, strongly, and laughed With strength and cal that innocent smile, but all she could muster, was a horribly twisted and warped one
”They immediately betray, trick, h they know it hurts when you're hit, because they know it hurts when you're hit, they hit others so easily In other words, everyone, --everyone is fake”
” is being alone lonely?”
”It's lonely,” she immediately answered ”It's lonely -- but I'll live alone I'll betray, trick, make excuses, and live alone”
”I see I see”
”If I talk to you any longer I s for you, so let's just end this”
And then Hioosebu Ahh, this, is because s I see, in other words, all the way at the beginning, that felling when I first met Hime-chan at Grade 2 Class A -- what is there to be said? I had already almost been killed by Hiht I saw the locker shake, that was not seeing things, and feeling clumsy onI coulg not see, too
I had been killed
That ti met the first time
And this time, because I knew too much
”I'll tell Jun-san that Master went home already So, bye bye Farewell, Master”
”----- develop feelings, it is too late for me”
The fingers that were drawing down -- stopped
” did you, say, so?”
”I wonder if this is the first tiirl that I broke ere kids That girl was very friendly, and never suspected people or grew angry at people, and always sood person, and no , came to like me”
” that's, not similar at all,” Hime-chan mumbled, and looked at the floor Looked at the floor, and ood person like that Hi people, always irritated at people, and, liking so, is a lie I was just acting along for you And you know,there's no such thing as a person like that”
Not si similar
Because, such a person does not exist
”Yeah, I thought so, too A person like this cannot exist That hy I -- broke that thing The fraud that is like, the powder that is trust, I completely stomped on it”
””
”It was satisfying It was the greatest feeling It cheersabout it Happiness probably feels like t hat -- and then, that hy it becaret I destroyed the irreplaceable real one And then that girl beca, like Aikawa-san When she was demolished by the person she liked, there was no choice but to end there Even though I understood that--”
Why a
To, speak about my own sin?
Confession? Don't kid
Right -- I was just redoing things
Hi after me may have been a lie, but the conversation that folloas not a lie Even if those words were not directed toward me, but rather toward Hime-chan herself
Hi was a lie
I agree, that must be the truth
But -- really Really, Really, you know
If this world were like what Hime-chan said, if this world were like what I think
We would not be suffering like this
Do you get it?
If that trei-chan was an act -- if that, too was a lie, then this world would only be left with lies If everything is a lie and there is not one ounce of truth -- if there is nothing of co the truth, too
”Why did you kill the dean?”
”Is it not enough that that person was the dean of this garden? Would you be satisfied if that person did so cruel to Hi precious was taken froratulations? Don'tsomeone isn't like that, Master”
I was receiving a lecture about irl What is sin, what is punishirl eloquently spoke It was an abnorh School, this was an unacceptable situation
”Then let e my question Did you kill the dean because you wanted to leave this school? Or did you decide to leave the school as part of your plan for killing the dean?”
”Both Neither” Hih School Everything without leaving a trace, without leaving a blade of grass, without leaving a shadow or shape or anything, I wanted to uproot it completely”
” at the beginning, ere seen by those two girls, because you said nothing to me, was on purpose”
”Yes If ere able to escape, then I would not be able to go to the dean's rooured Jun-san would make the decision she made”
”And ere running, and I was carrying you, you grabbed the map from my pocket”
”If you have a et lost”
”You did not use Zig Zag to disure it out”
”Yes I ht”
”So instead, by using a chainsaw as the ht”
”It's al”
”And then you acted like the dean to drawn in shi+ogi-chan and others, and manipulated them”
”Exactly I wouldn't say it went perfectly, though”
”Other than that -- well, mysteries that needed to be solved are probably covered by that, so that is a good start Now then, Hiet serious Let us think about the future”
” what?”
Hime-chan looked at ativity, and i killed, but even if it is a useless, pointless thing
I will fulfill my duty
That is -- my job
Everything aroundnever goes well, as expected
Hime-chan
I will destroy your goal Your line of thought, I will slice it apart Thoughts and wishes and wants and prayers, I shall shatter everything at once
”Future?”
”Yes I feel bad when the future is vague I feel bad when there are unknown factorsIndeed, while we are at it, ht future”
”Y-- you,”
”You know, Hio, right? Then you should come to my place It is a pretty run-down apartht now The rent is, surprise, just a hundred There is no bath but a public bath is nearby I cannot call it a splendid apartment, but it is a fun place The people who live there o Houses are affected so uarantee that much The first person I would introduce would be Asano Miiko-san, a swords sister who takes care of you She will take care of Hime-chan, for sure”
” what, are,”
On the floor above that is grandpa Bateren I do not know his real name, but he is quite funky, a rapper He exudes fun just by looking at hiet too close and then Ishi+nagi Moeta and Ya brother is a dangerous type, but the little sister is an innocent and pure type When they are sidling up to you, it is the best”
”What are you saying--”
”A high school girl that just moved into the area lives on the first floor She would be Hihbor She is a junior at Roushi+sha University, and her nairl is the worst I would like Hime-chan to beat her doith your carefreeness”
”What, are you saying--”
”And then I live on the second floor, so coh you should go anyways Young people should not be living a life where every day is Sunday You would not be able to find a job with your personality as it is, anyways, so ould have to transfer you soht have trouble keeping up at first, but ill take care of you Ho”
”-- I sa”
And then with everyone -- lets have a good time”
”What are you, saying!” Hi! What're you talking about -- I don't want to, hear about the future? Hime-chan -- Hime-chan! Doesn't have, a future!”
Being able to think about the future is proof of co the now to its fullest, you have no tis
Right now -- I a it
Because no matter what I do, I will definitely, die
”So is that why you want to do a double-suicide with this school? Then that is but a child's selfishness To be dragged into a girl's rotten emotion like that, sucks to be me”
”Girl's, rotten -- you said?”
”A? Yourelse, you are a cute girl You are soaway the future that hy -- you did not want to be despised by the saht? You did not want Aikawa-san to think of you as a murderer You did not care about anyone other than Aikawa-san, after all and you know, if this is the end, you wanted to be with Aikawa-san at the end, or so? Sentiardless, it is quite different from the stoicism I like Truth be told, I am a bit disappointed In you”
”What -- what do you know!” Hi Not a lie, but real tears Without hiding her tears, she yelled at me With a voice so loud I wondered if her throat would break, as if accusing me ”Don't talk about others like you know! What do you know about so is normal!”
”At the very least, I know you are just a little girl who is crying up a storm In the end, you are just afraid, are you not? You are afraid, because you do not know if Aikawa-san will accept you You are suspicious of Aikawa-san's trust in you That is why, you are doing such a, testing thing”
I could understand her feelings as if they were my own
Because I know my own
Even though I know my own
”What if Aikawa Jun dislikes me -- and then, even if she does not dislike me, if I am such a small existence that she does not dislike me even if I do such a deed --”
”-- ahahah”
Hime-chan suddenly, abruptly eliative, life and death, eli in the darkness, she turned everything over -- into emotionlessness
”Thank you, Master”
She said, with the clearness of emptiness
”I was able to see a good dream, in the end”
And then, like the conductor of an orchestra
” Cool That is good”
Did not work
Well of course, for a person like myself who cannot take care of even myself, for a person like me, to take care of the soul of someone else It meant I failed So it was truly useless
Even if I showed her a good dream--
If it is a sha
An aimless equation for no use
”Ah, by the way I never asked for your name”
””
At the end, I once again wavered Despite having tried to save this girl,this ti if I should shove this girl off the cliff she was straddling If I can break her, can anyone faulther?
It reat
To break a fantastic girl
”As things have come to this, I can't call you Master anymore so I'll call you by your name Please tell me”
Please tell le letter And then cut this Zig Zag apart and leave no trace
” Well”
But, I did not do such a thing
It did not see would be needed
” I guess I was able to buy you enough tie?”
”? What? Is that, your name?”
Said Hime-chan, carelessly
Ahh, gosh -- such a good person
Everyone and everyone, such good people
Now it looks like I am the villain
”I a to myself not to you And, you're the one who said it”
” huh?” she see one eye ”You know, Hi for your name--”
”I said it and shi+ogi-chan said it -- but the first person to say it was you Aikawa-san is soft on friends”
”?”
”Indeed, I left the dean's rooht h School in the first place to not come to help me -- is a lonely story, don't you think?”
”!”
And Hime-chan spun around as fast as she could
And in front of her --
Red as the flames and crimson as the ruby Scarlet as hell itself and red while strea blood
The contractor smiled a cynical smile
And simply existed
Juh, Nishi+o uses the kanji 喰 here, which is read ”ku(u),” while flick is written くい (kui) It's a pun but also a s Can't really translate this directly into English, but there you go
Jump up↑ Pun! 意図 (ito, which )
Ju ”berserker” Nishi+o ” (this is a reference to earlier hter), so it ends up being a pun about how a ”Saku” can't beat ”Zigu Zagu” this probably makes more sense if you understand the japanese alphabet