Chapter 1121 (2/2)

“According to them, we're a cult and I' it, isn't it?” said Pluto, a young girl with long black hair, wearing a white one-piece dress

She was sitting on a sunbathing chair at the poolside, talking to the white-skinnedon the one next to her

The ave him an intellectual appearance, but his beard and chest hair lance, he looked like an elite business Asian lover

But the index finger of his right hand was curled loosely around the trigger of a gun

“Yeah…” he murmured quietly

Ignoring hi, you ask? Because I've never explained anything, warned against anything or given guidance to anyone,” she said “There's no such thing as a religious leader who doesn't give instructions, is there? And I' in the first place I am treated preciously because my body is frail, and I am relatively attractive, so there are sies of my face to be sent to the media and displayed on the internet”

“And because you're so free, you do so your brain and have your say in all kinds of things Then you're a leader,” a man said as he appeared His head from his forehead to the back of his head appeared to be swollen, and he was carrying a baby that see fro back and forth

“Jack, that child is next?” Pluto asked

“Yeah, I suppose it has cerebral palsy? I don't know the details, but just like Jack, it's a friend that is neither dead nor alive”

TLN: This is the character called Jack speaking; he refers to himself as Jack

“Then say farewell to that friend,” said Pluto

As Pluto pointed her white hand towards the baby, so black smoke rose from it and was absorbed by Pluto's hand

“Yeah, I'll say farewell See you,” said thesilently with the baby still in his arms

Taking no notice of this, Pluto touched the face of the man next to her As her skin made contact with his, life rapidly drained out of theinto their sockets and his cheeks were beco hollow

“S-stop it…” the hth Guidance, anyain, I swear, so please don't suck any more… from… me…”

He was an assassin hired by a certain rich person, with orders to kill Pluto and retrieve her dead body

The man had been known to be a capable assassin, but noas a weakPluto for his life

Pluto burst into laughter, as if she had heard a very entertaining joke “Fufufu, when I asked you if you felt guilt over killing people, didn't you answer that you're just a tool to be used? Since you're a tool, you don't feel guilt The one who paid money to use you is at fault, you said Since you ad of your oill, can you?”

Despair spread across the hter, and then they became hollow

“That's right, you're dead Good night,” said Pluto

“Oh, he died?” asked Jack as he reappeared, showing his white teeth in a smile “But that's perfect; it looks like that child just noas the last one”

Jack was known as 'Jack-o'-lantern' Just like the Jack who tricked the devil and wasn't accepted by Heaven or hell, he wandered the world… or rather, he moved around the world as if he could use the space-attribute spell, Teleportation

TLN: This refers to Stingy Jack/Drunk Jack/Flaky Jack/Jack of the Lantern, an Irish mythical character associated with Halloween The jack-o'-lantern may be derived from this character See Wikipedia for more information

However, his teleportation destination could only be beside hth Guidance or those ere seriously ill in unconscious states, with not long left to live

However, he was also able to teleport with the patients, and then return theinally were

He had just done that, bringing a ter it

“That was the last? But I wanted to gather a little more 'death'”

Pluto By stealing the 'death' and vitality of others, she could heal those ere on the verge of death and push the cost of this act on another person's vitality

The truth was that hth Guidance, as well as the ained theh this power of Pluto's

“Still, you're horrible Did you forget that I said that I'll be using it later so you shouldn't suck up so ot up And then henoises, as if checking the condition of his body “Ah, my body's so stiff The black assassin that I was in before, the one who used to be a marine, was in much better condition”

“I'm sorry, 'Shade,'” said Pluto “That one is white and has bad eyes, so I didn't think you'd like him anyway”

“His eyes? I don't think they're that bad, but… these glasses are just for show, huh They're a prop for his disguise”

The assassin… or rather, Shade, who had possessed the assassin's corpse, put his glasses down on the poolside table

Shade had once been 'protected' by the Bravers and then later accommodated at a laboratory, where he was turned into a life-for of a mind without a body, si very freshly-deceased corpses and use their bodies as his own

Pluto let out a disinterested noise

“You don't seem very interested,” said Shade “So, what you said just now is an excuse after all?”

“More importantly, what about the other people here?” asked Jack “Did you kill them properly? Jack is curious”

“Yeah, Berserk and Baba Yaga worked hard,” said Shade “Valkyrie was happy, too I suppose she'll be staying inside with Isis for a while?”

Thisto the Eighth Guidance; it was the property of a boss of a certain crianization was known to be a anization, had tried to seize Pluto's power, so Pluto and her allies had retaliated

“Jack thinks that he should have stayed satisfied with payinghis illness cured by Pluto,” said Jack

“It's because of that greed that he was running a crianization,” said Pluto

“That's a narroay of looking at it, Pluto,” said Shade “After all, we're a crianization, too”

“In that case, it's not a narroay of looking at it, it's the truth,” said Pluto “We're greedy, after all”

The objective of the Eighth Guidance… was to die

After living hellish lives in the laboratory, they had been saved by codenaone on to becohth Guidance did was to act in accordance with his will

But Pluto and her companions had only been in direct contact with the 'Undead' for a few ed any words They had si limbs restored and even the side-effects of the experiments had been re all of this, the Mana surrounding the 'Undead' had flowed into the a part of them That was all

Frouessed the will of the 'Undead,' co even their own desires and delusions with it to produce as the co their actions

They had attacked death-attribute ic research facilities so that there wouldn't be any more victims like themselves

The reason they were so thoroughly selective about their targets was because the 'Undead' had lie upon

They targeted the Bravers because they had treated the 'Undead' as a monstrosity and disposed of it arbitrarily

And finally, they would die

They would die and go to the same place as the 'Undead' That was their wish

Pluto and her companions had no idea what kind of intentions the 'Undead' had when it saved them They didn't knohether it had felt sympathy for them, felt some kind of sense of justice or whether it had intended to use the

The reason that Pluto and her co they had to the 'Undead' that had already been destroyed despite this was because for the than the 'Undead'

None of the hth Guidance had any blood-related family meathered at the laboratory for the purpose of carrying out research into death-attribute ic

As guinea pigs, they had suffered cruel experie-like rooes that their bodies had been forced to undergo No ed for mercy, they could only listen to the footsteps of those ould ruin them

After the annihilation of the 'Undead,' they had been unable to do anything, and the Bravers had sent theanizations to be protected Yes, protected

They had been ed by numbers, separated from their companions that they were noare that they had, locked up in cage-like rooms and had their bodies tampered with by researchers who repeatedly said, “This is all to help cure you,” as if these words were some kind of incantation

And it was only because of the Mana that the 'Undead' had given them that they had been able to escape this new hell

Justice was never applied in relation to Pluto and her companions; only unrelated people were punished and unrelated people were saved

But love was only ever poured elsewhere; no hope shone for the nearby

Despite the exploited for humanity's sake, they hadn't been included as members of humanity

It was as if they were foreign objects in this world, wasn't it?

The sole exception was the 'Undead' Even if hi Pluto and her companions had been a foolish act in the literal sense of the word, it was the greatest sign of love that they had ever received

TLN: Literally, the word for “foolish” here means “no love for others,” so it would also be interpreted as “indifferent”

If they could beco, even death would be bliss… no, death was the only bliss

“But we can't si away the lives that person gave us So let's fight as much as we can and kill the Bravers who killed him”

“That's e accepted Murakami and the others as well, isn't it? Jack hates them all except Gazer,” said Jack

As Jack said, the reason they had welcohth Guidance was in order to fan the fla Bravers

There wasn't anything happening behind the scenes; it wasn't a co of the sort

This was just the Eighth Guidance's plan to drag as many doith them as possible

“Jack and Gazer get along well, you know,” said Shade “What e do? Are we going to spare her?”

Gazer hadn't been directly involved in the incident with the 'Undead,' and though she had essentially been in a half-dead state, Pluto had even gone as far as to regenerate her dead brain cells Shade thought it possible that Pluto wouldn'ther

Considering that she was suicidal, even if they let her go, it was likely that she would go and hang herself or cut her orists

But Jack shook his head “Jack doesn't want to Jack wants to take her with us; that person will definitely like her, too He'll forgive us”

It seeot along well

“I see, then let's take her with us,” said Pluto “But you have to tell her properly that she mustn't commit suicide until then”

“Yeah, alright! Jack will tell her not to cut her wrists anymore!” said Jack

Jack had said that the last time as well… Incidentally, Gazer had made her tenth suicide attempt yesterday Pluto and her companions were actually impressed that she hadn't died for real yet

“Has Enma confirmed that the one who died is the real boss and not a double?” asked Pluto

“He has,” said Shade “It's the real one, he said The double died in a struggle three o”

“I see Then shall we go back? After we choose a souvenir for Ereshkigal who's been waiting for us,” said Pluto

TLN: In Mesopotaal was the Goddess of Irkalla, the land of the dead or underworld

“Maybe the dry-cured haested

The final day that the Eighth Guidance desired was drawing closer

“When that time comes, we'll definitely know if that drea that will co forward to it,” said Pluto