Vol 2 Chapter 4 (1/2)
Night 4: I Can't Hear the Bells
It was over quickly
The Long-Arainst Mina; she was not even good enough to be the other woman's opponent
Her legs were broken, her shoulders were crushed, and her heart was filled with fear Thatresistance! No, she wasn't allowed to
Since Rinne couldn't understand everything, she began thinking about what had just happened
Long-Arainst Mina as preparing to speak to the Meat Doll; she probably planned to use those strong, invisible fists to beat Mina down
But her movements were easily foiled
Mina's expressions were graceful as she turned slightly and dodged the fist and pressed the spray can in her hand -- a silver mist was released with a sound of ”Shhhh”
Long-Ared in that instant
She showed shock and, as if putting all her effort into one single action, screamed
But there was still no movement
Mina leisurely walked in front of her and fiercely stoht on her body That was it, probably That was it
Her abdo-Armed Demon flipped over and fell on the bumpy road where she rolled a few ti and possibly unconscious
Long-Ar-Armed Demon who killed ten people She was a monstrous existence with superhuman abilities
But she was silenced effortlessly by Mina, who didn't so much as bat an eyelid
”Seeing invisible things is soood at” Only Saibara Mina's eyes were s-Arer a threat Actually, I wanted to leave you be for a while while I investigate a few things, but it seems I can't do that anyway”
Mina once again turned toward the Meat Doll after she finished saying so incomprehensible
The fragender, which was destroyed by the Long-Armed Demon, had already completely recovered Mina's expression was inored Rinne, as lying by her feet and shi+vering with fear, and spoke to the Meat Doll: ”Alright, Meat Doll, let ard awa Rinne? Based on your response, I will -- no, haha, you should know even if don't say it, right?”
Her words brought immeasurable fear to the Meat Doll The Meat Doll startled with fright, and surprisingly responded with human speech
”My reason was, since the Long-Arht be taken away if I do not first eli-Armed Demon”
”Oh?” Mina showed a look of surprise ”She was after the Frags? It seeain -- ments' function?”
Mina seemed to accept the Meat Doll's words Perhaps fro to herself
”I thought the Meat Doll malfunctioned, but it see's just a pile of flesh How could it possibly have thoughts of protecting others?”
””
The Meat Doll was silent Was she being too suspicious? Its features see as pain wrecked Rinne's train of thought She wanted to puke This inco over her body
And fear
The extreme fear she held toward the woman before her made her nauseous
”So,” Mina ended her pondering and sneered at Rinne, ”why hello Thanks for lendingyou, but I couldn't see any phones nearby At the end, I couldn't just watch and showed myself However, since I ensured you can be eliood outcome”
”Fshuu--” The sound of breathing could be heard from Mina's mouth every time she took a breath
She's like an alien species, Rinne thought Her body, her thought processes, they were all coer than the Meat Doll beside her
Why didn't Rinne notice this abnorht?
She was -- extreerous
More dangerous than Snake, erous than just about anybody
Saibara Mina asked Rinne with a s If you answer honestly, you'll live a bit longer”
She was definitely not lying She should able to kill Rinne without batting an eye Even with i an Apple, Rinne would be easily disposed of
Mina ithout doubt, that type of being
”What is it?”
”Tell ered and asked with a calo?”
Sakaki Guriko
The faces of these important people flashed before Rinne's mind
Ah She would never see theo back
I just had to meet her
Aizawa Uirl whose hands weren't skilled
When she cooked, she would scorch the bottoer When she tried arts and crafts, she could never finish properly, ht blow
What were these fingers doing?!
She was always miserable
To eliiven her--
”In--the--clear--night--”
With the singing voice came a robber with an abnormal expression Just a robber Even if it otten within a week; it was a normal case the likes of which occurred all the tiotten addicted to killing, he decided to slowly torture the surviving girl to death He pushed her down and lifted his bloody kitchen knife He cut, starting froertips, and Ume lost consciousness numerous times
She was not forgiven no matter how she cried and screamed No one came to save her
In quick succession, her fingers, then hands, then arround
Her arms were cut off from the shoulder
Ah--
She couldn't remember what happened afterward
When she caained those omnipotent arms
She ecstatically tore the robber into pieces, then fell unconscious
Upon wakening, an unfamiliar man said: ”Welcome to our world!”
At that moment, she understood beyond doubt
She could not go back
”Ah”
When she was fully awake, the sunlight was slanted and a cri-Ar if she was defeated yet again As she started to get up --
”Huh?”
She couldn't get up
How strange She wanted to use her arms to pull herself back up
She felt nothing
Coain
”Hey, hey, I need to stand up, I can't keep lying down like this Ooh, if I don't get up I can't go back”
She felt nothing
She felt nothing
She felt nothing
”Hey, ho back”
Her arms
”Back to Zeki-kun”
Her arone
Long-Ar
”Waahh”
Tears flooded from her eyes and dripped from her cheeks
”My arms, my arms, my arms”
No, I really don't want this Ar and powerful ar the weak and clumsy Aizawa Ume
And then she would be abandoned by Zekiguchi
”No! No no no!”
With desperation filling her, Long-Ar
”No”
Zekiguchi, who gave her a haven despite her transformation into a monster, who accepted and praised her, who said said ”Let's keep living on together” Zekiguchi Nashi+nori
I wanna go back to him
Go back and be praised by him
Until now it had always been like this; it was Long-Arreatest joy
However --
These ar quietly rejected her
-- Arms
”My arone”
Long-Arround And somewhere on the uneven road in the direction of her head
”Thump”, a footstep
”Zeki-kun?”
Long-Armed Deht
No
No no no no
If she were to be abandoned by Zekiguchi now She would rather just die Her greatest fear was for him to say, ”I don't need you”
Long-Ar, catastrophic fear
”I'm sorry, I”m sorry, don't abandon me, please don't abandon me”
”This world --”
Suddenly
Because the voice was not one she had heard before, Long-Armed Demon opened her eyes
”Huh?”
Looking at the person, it seemed to be soe made his face see
”-- Really has too s”
”You --”
Even though she called out to hi his na-Armed Demon, can you really not use your arms now?”
”Ah”
Struck at her weak point, Long-Arritted her teeth and pushed back tears But she couldn't hold the
Seeing her like this, theand spoke formally into his phone ”Ah -- hello, sorry to trouble you I'ht, I'll tell you the place now, so please coh it's probably already too late”
Long-Armed Demon understood
He seehtest fear toward any policemen and never paid any attention to them But she would definitely be arrested under the current circumstances
So it will end like this, Long-Arht
Zekiguchi would never save her now that she had lost her ability
Just as she began to lose spirit, Nageki said so as if it were natural
”Ah, right, dead, one little girl”
”Eh?” Dead? She wasn't dead yet, so who died?
”Right, it looks like -- her arms were snapped off, and her shoulders were crushed”
Who was --
”She washer heart torn out”
-- That?
The night was filled with night asleep was impossible
Ever since she started living separately frohtmares Sometimes it was the faces of those she had killed, so about Though there were no definite ies, it was still so painful
It was during a night like this, a night when sleep was impossible
Gankyū Eguriko woke up in her dark rooether with the Itsuwara couple Her bed was soft, and she used a sky-patterned quilt She glanced at the clock with spoons as its hands; it pointed at 2:00am
””
Covered in cold sweat and feeling nauseous, Guriko decided to bathe Thinking that she shouldn't wake Hino and Kio, she quietly walked toward the door
Those two are seriously naive They're so innocent that I loweredthem my parents Now that I think about it, even now I don't really understand what parents are
If I ask theh and say it's easy
”-- These ”parents”, that's us”
They were truly idiots without common sense Since it was too ridiculous, Guriko decided to stop thinking about it and just learn, bit by bit Living with them wouldn't be unpleasant
It was a night when she was prepared to accept the current situation
She noticed the room
The voices were filled with sorrow, completely unlike the frenzied excitement from before They seemed to be sad
”-- I can't do it, I can't stand it anymore”
That was Hino's voice Was taking care of Guriko, a child as both huht it over, and an e that even she could not understand assaulted her heart
”-- But
”-- I can't kill her”
Hino murmured, and Kio replied
”-- Hino, that won't do If we refuse to kill her, ill be killed by that person”
”-- Being killed is fine; either way, Kio, you definitely can't kill Guriko-chan either You obviously care about her more than I do”
Hino's voice sounded al
”-- Besides, you say we'll be killed, but for a long time we've already --”
Then, she woke up
It seemed like a scene concocted in a dreahthts kept floating in her mind and she felt terrible Like in her dream, Guriko woke in the darkness
Her mind was heavy
That conversation -- that night, what did that couple's conversationkilled -- I don't understand it In short, feeling an indescribable nausea, Guriko unhappily stared at the ceiling
She didn't go to school and even refused to pick up the phone when Rinne called
She merely shut herself in her room like a recluse
Ignoring Hino or Kio's concern, she did not leave even when called for meals
”Ah, what's the proble”
There was a choice before her
That choice was between the options that the uchi Nashi+nori outlined
Keep on living as a human like this?
Or to live as a monster?
Rinne, Hino, Sakaki, Kio if she wanted to protect those important to her
”My being near theer?”
I kno cruel I a-Armed Demon who killed ten people In fact, I am worse than her I have a twisted heart that wants to hurt others' bodies My true identity is that of an eyeball-gouging monster
There's no way I can talk about this with people like Rinne; if they knew these things, they would despise ed out is probably even greater than what they ever iined
Rinne
”I am a monster”
Guriko crawled out of her bed and leaned her head against the wall As if groaning, she rew tired of living, abandoned my human restraint and went on a wild e, infants eren't old enough to speak, and couples who loved each other I gouged out thatmonster”
A single tear flew from Guriko's eye
”How could I deserve any sort of happiness”
Someone had decided to be ”the person o But I don't deserve to be with them I have taken so much on o berserk again and target Rinne's eyeballs
”Rinne, Sakaki”
I will travel
”I like you”
Go so here is too painful This happy world is suffocating me School, home, all this happiness of a normal life --It's too painful for a monster like me
I can't depend on them
Go somewhere far away
Sakaki will definitely protect Rinne He doesn't needthem misfortune
”If only I depart, it'll be fine”
Huether
She was a monster
The sa-Armed Demon
””
Upon that resolution, she calmed down
At this moment, Guriko's heart made the decision
Therefore, Gankyū Eguriko would choose that option
Her only necessities would be spoons She would once again walk that old path Wandering fro them far away from Mushi+ --
Drunk with self-satisfaction, she would gradually cease to think
That would be good Only that would be acceptable, I'ain
Opening the door, she found no one in the darkness Perfect Though she felt sorry toward Hino and Kio, she took this opportunity to leave An ending like this would be a bit cold or perhaps hurt the was impossible from the start
Guriko apologized in her heart Thinking that ”I'll at least leave a note so they won't worry”, she reached out to the notepad next to the telephone
It was then that she finally noticed Hino collapsed on the floor
”Hino?”
No response Guriko approached and shook the woman in an apron She was still alive, but what happened? Last tiazed toward the ceiling
What do I do? What do I do? Aahh, I can't think straight
”Right, call an ambulance”
When soency, just call an ambulance and they'll take the person to the hospital for free Hino taught me that
Guriko nodded and headed for the phone
She punched the keys harshly, telling herself that this was the last tioodbye after this
The ambulance arrived a while later and she went in with Hino
Guriko would face the worst possible truth soon in the hospital
Sakaki had e this news He destroyed the phone that delivered the news and rushed out of the school at a speed above hu his extraordinary skill to beat up the educational director who tried to stop hi before his as done, he forcibly waved over a car that was passing by Since his gun was eun itself to knock down the driver and hijacked the car before speeding to the hospital that contacted him
Everything that happened afteras gone from his memory
His mind was blank and the whole world turned white Uncontrollable anger emanated from his entire body If he didn't control himself, he would have indiscri all traffic laws, he arrived at the hospital and pushed his way to the hospital room he was directed to
Total darkness
It was a completely black room
Sakaki didn't need to think He could understand just by looking at the scene in front of hi hospital bed, an absence of medical equip wo on the bed with a deathly pallor This was a true death
”Sakaki”
A small voice came from behind him
As if frozen in place, Sakaki turned around expressionlessly
There stood a person In the background, the fullthe person's appearance But he kneas not God Since it was not God, then that person could not save Usagawa Rinne
”Move”
The shadow spoke curtly
Sakaki stayed standing by the prone Rinne's feet, un, unable to respond