Vol 3 Chapter 5 (2/2)
Mitaka dragged Nageki and moved towards the factory as quickly as he could
“IWhat about you guys?”
“Of course I’”
“Alright alright, I’ too”
Sakaki replied fireki lifted up his hand and chimed in Mitaka looked at the his brows: “Do you really understand what’s going on? An uniround facility by now You can’t just step in there carelessly due to curiosity or interest”
Sakaki ignored hieki also ran forhile leaning on Mitaka’s shoulder and s
“Hehe, it seeoals If I were to turn back here due to fear, then I wouldn’t have even co us noould work You are a very considerate young man”
“I’m older than you”
Mitaka replied with a slightly twisted expression and kept dragging Nageki forward Mitaka washi to tire Mitaka out But this wasn’t the time to care about this They needed as much manpower on their side as possible
Mitaka wanted to save Tatsue and everyone else Sakaki also wanted to save theate within this Institute to find sooal, it appeared simply to be the destruction of the Institute He also
Everything was tangled together in co it impossible to be understood
So Mitaka decided not to think about this anymore
Now he oal
I don’t knohat three lone weak huether, but I can’t leave behind my important friends
I can’t leave behind Mitsuki, as crying alone in her dark cell; Tatsue, the first person to give ; Mina, the person who listened to my uncertainties
I won’t live as the remnant of the house of Snakes that betrayed God and tricked huo
Nor will I live as the human Takamikado Mitaka, who held a twisted love towards Tatsue
I will live and act as myself
“Half a year ago, Gankyū Eguriko asked oal was I couldn’t answer that then, but I can answer it now!”
Following behind Sakaki, who kicked down the door of the factory, Mitaka ran alongside Nageki A fewwithin the building, round
“This is – my answer!”
Mitaka’s actions spoke louder than words He did not stop even for a second and kept running as if he hipping this appallingly weak human body to its limit
There were suddenly crisp gunshot sounds
One was fro ahead of theeki, as beside Mitaka
Blood spurted out in beautiful patterns froony and roared, but the two men quickly riddled every monster that approached them with bullets
The incredible detective smiled as he looked at Sakaki with a joyous expression: “Ohoho, this is the first tiood aim”
Sakaki frowned out of distaste and looked away: “And this is the first ti duel pistols”
They soon arrived at the stairs, but Mitaka was strangely feeling very tired
– Mom Mom, who is it? Is it a visitor?
– Ume-chan, don’t come out! Quickly, run…
– Why, Mom?
– Ume-chan, run!
– Why… why is there a knife co out of Dad’s mouth?
“What-a-beautiful-night-“
Aizawa U in this dark place with innu hope
Her expression was e with soe emotion
Her song reverberated against the walls and the ground, falling upon the silver monster – the incredulous existence that Melodia NoiseTear Song called ‘Berobōchō’ – who spun down from above
In its ue was organic And as if ether and sang after Ume’s voice
“The-Moon-is-beautiful-“ Hearing that abnor-Armed Demon’s face fell
“Hu-”
U so on the spot, and asked with a ti was – called?”
“What? Oh, I’m not very clear on the details!”
Guriko ht about how to escape fro either of her arms
“Its name should be Berobōchō He was a human, and was modified by someone called Ulti herself Melodia NoiseTear Song said”
“Berobōchō – Ulti-Aronized expression and she looked down on her feet,to herself
“What’s wrong? What’s wrong – Zeki-kun, Long-Armed Demon doesn’t understand!”
“Uwahhhh!”
Berobōchō was not kind enough to allow her to maintain her confusion It rushed towards theht ar-Armed Demon without hesitation
“Ahh –” Long-Armed Demon opened her eyes wide and jumped aside quickly Her eyes were two balls of flame
“You, you!”
Berobōchō’s face was sreat body shook That ability which gave Guriko so much trouble – that invisible arm akin to a psychic power – seemed still to be around
However –
“shi+ng shi+ng shi+ng”
It was cohted sound and stood its ground again Its head, reflecting a dull light, was not even dented
Long-Arrily at the silver monster and moaned in a low voice
“I reet it, how can I forget it You destroyed everything in my life! You destroyed my life, destroyed Aizawa Ume, -Armed Demon…”
Long-Arot up, and she kept releasing her ‘arms’
“So you’re still alive, Berobōchō! But I dismembered you! You are the robber who killed my parents and cut off azines called you, no? You are the robber who stabbed knives into the back of the victim’s head so it would coue Benimaru!”
She roared like an animal and attacked Berobōchō with the fury of an assault rifle
“Fine! Cohtmare, my nemesis, my sworn enemy! I will send you to hell no matter how many times you come to me, you bastard robberrrrrrrrrrrr!”
Her power exploded with a bam and Berobōchō’s body tilted under the shockwaves
However
“Clang, shi+ng!”
That was only -Arht towards her
“No way – it didn’t work?”
Long-Armed Demon opened her eyes wide and her face beca-Arh to smash tombstones and dismember human bodies, and its power can be coht to the face and didn’t even receive a wound, let alone falling down This est Guriko had ever seen in terms of defensive abilities
Guriko didn’t know the relationshi+p between Long-Armed Demon and the monster
All she kneas that Berobōchō was attracted towards attacking Long-Armed Demon like a bee drawn to flowers It moved over, moved closer to her – andboth its arms above its head
“Long-Armed Demon, run!”
Before Long-Ar at it in shock, Berobōchō turned into a silver spintop Obeying centrifugal force, it twirled all its limbs – those sharp knives – horizontally Anyone would be killed instantly if they were caught in there
Long-Arround with her ‘arms’ at the last ainst the ceiling and ju behind Berobōchō and escaped
“Ha, ha – ha”
Long-Ar faster and faster and tears were even swelling out of her eyes, whether because of terror or tiredness She definitely didn’t have enough experience with battles, and she didn’t seem to kno to deal with an enemy her ‘arms’ could not handle
Guriko and the Long-Armed Demon stood with Berobōchō between them
But this -Ar between them that Guriko didn’t know about?
“You… hy won’t you die?”
Berobōchō was pushed down by the invisible fists together with so sounds A s-Ar in the saue! Berobōchō’s entire body is hard as arue!”
Long-Ar Guriko’s suggestion, and she smiled cutely
“Hehe, Guriko-san is as cunning as ever!”
“Shut it” Guriko didn’t like the other’s bluntness and frowned
“That aside, hurry up and finish it off! I’ve got a bad feeling about this I want to escape from here for no reason”
“M-Armed Demon took a deep breath and looked at Berobōchō with deter like the personification of knives, rushed towards her fearlessly like a beast!”
“Hya!”
Long-Armed Deet as Berobōchō’s tongue, the only organ it has exposed
Instantly
Berobōchō’s two arms crossed over each other
It detected Long-Arue, so it ht on its face with the invisible fists, Berobōchō didn’t seehed as it cut a X-shaped pattern in the air
What did that mean?
It was as if Long-Armed Demon’s untouchable and invisible arms were cut
“Huh, no!”
Long-Armed Demon’s entire body bend backwards and screa closer to her, with an agonizing expression
“No, no way… Long-Ary – were all cut up”
“Long-Armed Demon!”
Guriko yelled and rushed forward She ju kick on Berobōchō’s back She already knew Berobōchō only has blades on its ars based on their previous encounters
Berobōchō lifted up its leg and waved its arms about in an annoyed manner to keep Guriko occupied
So its target was Long-Armed Demon after all?
For just a irl behind as bait and run away, but she shook her head and got rid of that thought She saved me It would be cold to leave her here and run away
Guriko laughed at herself
– Look atback to a monster
I can’t even be completely merciless and cold How am I like a monster at all?
I can’ta monster – Guriko smiled and took hold of the spoon in the chest pocket of her shi+rt with her mouth, then blew it out
“Clang”
As she expected, this strike bounded off Berobōchō’s hard skin and landed on the ground However brief it was, that did -Ar that time
“Long-Armed Demon – listen, I have a plan”
“What? Huh, yep!”
It see a hu-Armed Demon appeared to know it
That’s got nothing to do with h Berobōchō had almost lost all its ability to talk, it could still understand our speech
Just then, Berobōchō defended when it heard ue’ So what should I do? That’s easy I’ll have to use a roundabout way, oal even if he can hear us
It would be a ga-Armed Demon can understand my words – but I see no other options
“Long-Armed Demon, Berobōchō’s defences are too powerful! You can’t defeat it with your attacks!”
“Mmm – I hate to admit it, but it seems to be the case… And?”
Long-Ar her ‘ar to Guriko’s words She seehtforward personality Did she forget that her eyeballs were gorged out by this woo?
This kind of honest personality can be fatal on the battlefield, where each party seeks to kill each other However, Guriko didn’t dislike this version of her
She called out to Long-Armed Demon, her face full of seriousness
“There was a story like this in Greek y”
All her opponents, starting from Snake and Sterilization Disinfection, loved to talk about ht be so ti books concerning y This was one of the topics that somewhat interested her
“Herakles, as told to perforht the Nemean Lion as his first trial The Nemean Lion had a hide that cannot be scratched by any sword or spear, and claws that could tear everything apart”
Guriko evenly laid out the outline of the story Herakle’s Eleventh Labor was to fetch the Golden Apples and even though she thought thisout of it after reading the story thoroughly The story of the Ne up the Golden Apples
“The king ordered Herakles to skin the hide fro it back Herakles discovered he could strangle the lion instead of using any weapon to wound it So he held the lion and strangled it However, he was troubled with skinning the Lion, since the hide was too tough to be torn off”
Does she get tired fro and her breathing became faster, and her expression became strained Guriko prayed she could understand the story and continued: “What do you think Herakles did?”
Berobōchō’s right aretting harder and harder for Long-Armed Demon to block her enemy’s attacks –
“He suddenly had an idea and tried to use the teeth of the lion, which could tear anything apart, to da, he finally reet that?”
Seeing Long-Armed Demon had a puzzled expression, Guriko yelled out of worry: “Ahhh, leain! Do you kno to polish a diamond? The hardest mineral in the world?”
“Mmm, hah, I know this one! I saw this on TV in Kurukiyo’s house It’s that, you get a bunch of sether like a file – Ahh!”
Long-Ar to say and stared with round open eyes Guriko smiled as she saw the other’s hopeful eyes
“Now, do you get it?”
“OK” Long-Arht smile: “Come on That was all? Easy”
“Hwahhhh!”
Berobōchō e Its two arrabbed her invisible fingers However, its ar away those arravestones
“And now – Hehehehe!”
Long-Arhed evilly
At the saan to unfold Berobōchō’s two aran to be pulled towards its own neck by those invisible arms
“Creak creak!”
“Eeee – eeeeeaaaaa?”
A piercing and heavy sound of grinding echoed throughout the area like the sound of so operated
Berobōchō’s two ar back and forth in order to severe its own neck
Since they should have the same hardness, the arainst it with a high frequency
If they can cut it open, then they can cut it off If its neck can be cut off – then it can be killed
“Eeee, eeeeerr, aaaa” Its neck was instantly cut open by the two rapidly cutting knives approaching from both sides And then – Berobōchō’s head bounced off like a toy
“Woah – ahahahaha!”
Long-Arhter like the Devil himself She stared at Berobōchō’s headless corpse, which was spurting blood and slowly falling to the ground A plain huh skin
“Hoas that? Even a robber is only a huainst a demon! Ahaha, hahahaha!”
As if she was discarding so-Aro She looked just like Guriko a fewa ht this as she looked at the bloodstained Long-Armed Demon
“Hehe” Long-Arhed and ranoff her good grades to her parents
“How did I do? Was Long-Arestion!”
“Wait! Wait, wait! Don’t jump on me! I don’t have arms – I can’t catch…”
“Bang” The two girls without arether
Dullahan
It was not Long-Ar for their lives, that stopped the Eternity Institute fro when it approached destruction, no, bordered annihilation fro out of control – nor was it Sakaki and his friends invading the building, nor was it Ganhō as busily escaping, nor was it the powerless researchers
Dullahan
It had no consciousness, no eiven to it This strange st the achievements of the Eternity Institute
Either fortunately or unfortunately, not even one of those researchers ould have praised Dullahan’s wondrous reaction were left
An existence consisting of only a head was looking at that ht in Celtic ust and shame
“What bad taste”
The lowest level of the Eternity Institute was separated into four sections
The north side had a row of laboratories, nuht Laboratory number one was all but destroyed due to the black corrosive torrents that Mitsuki gorged out
The eastern side were prison cells
The western side contained elevators and stairs, and other public facilities
The south side had a small room that allowed one to review the entire Institute
That was the room covered with monitors where Ganhō and Tatsue had their conversation Ganhō had already run away, leaving only Tatsue lying unconscious on the ground
A glass container with Mina’s head inside was placed near the entrance of the room, close to the open door Mina looked worriedly at Tatsue, who had fainted on the ground But she could not move, and therefore could not save Tatsue
Mina had been shut up inside the glass container ever since her arrival and was carried about by Ganhō
She therefore obtained a lot of infor the Institute from Ganhō
He seements or the Kobito from Mina, but either fortunately or unfortunately, he left Mina behind and ran away as soon as the eency was declared
Eency
Mitsuki turned into a Fallen Angel, and lost control of the Unpleasant Counter-Current
This was Mina’s greatest fear
The being that told Mina this inforel, Unpleasant Counter-Current would ultiy depletion
Mitsuki will deplete the power of her soul – her Fragment – to release this black corrosive torrent that can dissolve and consume all
How ment becomes completely depleted?
Mina could not bear being ier
“Dullahan, that’s what Ganhō called it, right? The headless knight froht”
She was looking at the central hall that connected the four quarters of the lowest level So the white mist sprayed out of spray cans, and stopped the black corrosive current fro out of the north side –
“Keep going, stop it there!”
As Mina waited for backup, whether any was coe of Dullahan on the screen with irony
“It is your ‘role’ to destroy all ‘malevolence’ – my body”
Dullahan, the creature fighting against the black tsunami with a spray can each in its hand, was none other than Mina’s – Sterilization Disinfection’s – body
The darkness of Unpleasant Counter-Current that wished to dissolve and devour all was battling against the whiteness of Sterilization Disinfection that stopped it midway in the lowest level
“What’s that strange sound?”
“Don’t relax just yet, Long-Armed Demon”
From the eastern side –
– Two girls without ar kicked down the door to the ith the prison cells
Gankyū Eguriko – the iorging out eye balls – and Long-Armed Demon, souchi Nashi+nori’s servant in order to survive
At the same time –
“Oh? This is quite a big space Where are we?”
“Sakaki… I trusted you because I saw you kept walking while looking very confident in yourself, but you actually had no idea where you were going?”
Under the leadershi+p of Sakaki Guryū, the next CEO of the Sakaki Organization, Takamikado Mitaka walked down the stairs froeki Kurukiyo on his back
They had looked for Tatsue and Guriko as they fought thetheeki had fainted halfway and Mitaka had to carry him
Everyone stood still out of fear for a split second, but instantly shouted out the names of those they knew
“Guriko?”
“Nageki!”
“Sakaki – what are you doing here?”
“What’s with that headless monster –”
Mitaka mur against the black corrosive torrent with spray cans in its hands It seemed it was thanks to this headless monster’s resistance that the black substance did not flow out But he didn’t kno long that was going to last He must find Tatsue and Mina quickly
He looked around and paused when he looked towards the southern side – a hu lost, was placed near the open door She was solass jar, as if she was a specimen
“Mina!”
“Oho, Mitaka… we’re saved Your little princess is right behindsmile even in this situation
Mitaka looked in and saw Tatsue lying unconscious in an incredulous room full of monitors
Mina and Tatsue were both alive – no, perhaps Tatsue was still in danger Mina, on the other hand, was definitely still alive
Mitaka felt relieved as he cursed his knees, which ith worry, and stepped forward
However, an unfaht up as if she was a rabbit
“Excuse me, that person –”
“Hmm?”
Judging froeki with a worried expression, Mitaka guessed she eki’s relative
Would she be the girl he was looking for? Mitaka has the ability to sense supernatural powers, and he knew she was a monster –
No, she was so at her face, which was on the verge of crying, he could not contemplate that any further
Then soirl did not touch Nageki, but he started to float in mid-air and slid smoothly to float next to her
“I’ll carry Kurukiyo” The girlto herself
“This feels like – our last farewell You’re so stupid You’re so weak, and you’re already wounded, but you still came to such a place…”
The girl started to sob Mitaka couldn’t help but pat her head, then he opened the glass door and walked towards Mina
Behind Mitaka, Guriko and Sakaki stared at each other and conversed as if they were lovers who parted o
“How is Rinne?”
“Saet any useful information?”
“No I’m sorry I’m really useless… and I always leave you to suffer on your own”
That was the first ti so much like a human It was so helpless, so emotional – did she realize that herself?
Mitaka decided not to dwell on it and slass jar that housed Mina’s head Mina coerness in his heart didn’t allow him to wait
He apologized to Mina, but hisof her at all
It had only been a little while, but it felt like they had nota dress, she looked like a slender little doll He walked towards her
“Tatsue”
He shook her shoulders and called firmly to her
“Tatsue, Tatsue!”
“Mmmm, errrr…” She moaned painfully and blinked: “Mi… Taka…”
Mitaka took hold of her shoulders and helped her sit up She suely, as if still in the land of dreams
“Is this a dream? Or is this… reality?”
Then he hugged her gently She felt so warm
She returned the hug tightly as if confirh and said softly: “Ahh, looks like this isn’t a dream after all”
She stood up with hiht at Mitaka
Different from the forced impression she usually donned, an inner nobility see
“I’ve – I’ve always believed in you I believed you’d come to me I believe in you, the person ould appear like the wind every time I cried in the past and help me to eliminate the root of my worries”
“Tatsue… I…”
Mitaka’s expression became serious I am not Takamikado Mitaka I am a monster who ate the corpse of that person, as so iether with humans
Just as Mitaka lowered his head and was going to tell her this –
“Mitaka-chan, you’re such an idiot”
She addressed Mitaka as she used to do and pressed her lips to his
She stayed there for about a second before separating She smiled shyly as her entire face blushed
“You didn’t stick to our pro worse and worse, more and more stupid – so I fell in love with Mister Snake, who borrowed your body”
“Tatsue?”
Mitaka called out to her, but she blushed to the tips of her ears and turned around, walking out of the small roo together
“Oh dear? Why would Guryu onii-san come to a place like this?”
“Tatsue”
Sakaki looked at Mitaka, as still standing dazed, and Tatsue, and said softly with a defeated expression: “Say, don’t act so intimately in front of other people It’s shameful”
“Look who’s talking! I know all about you, and the daily life of Guryū onii-san with Usagawa Rinne: for example, the two of you would sweetly eat her homemade lunch in front of other people – at school of all places That is unacceptable! I am so hurt! My love is pure!”
Tatsue said this with a loud voice as if she were getting a heavy burden off her chest, and she had on an uncertain expression
Yet Mitaka – who held Mina in his hands – and Sakaki, Guriko, the young girl, and Sakaki and even Tatsue herself –
– They all ignored this and turned to Dullahan, who tirelessly fought against the darkness