Vol 3 Epilogue (1/2)

You and Chocolate Parfait

It has been over teeks since the events at the Institute

”Phew”

This feeling fro to as soo

She had anization than confusion, and made quite a few silly mistakes Saibara Mina stood there in the pristine white uniforhed, but it was not from irritation at her own carelessness or from tiredness

This was the municipal hospital at the outskirts of Kannonsakazaki

An enigmatic event where doctors, nurses, and patients had all o here, stirring up a fervor where the public threatened to abandon the hospital However, there was no money to build a new hospital under the current economic conditions, and so the hospital reopened for business after some simple repairs and renovations As this was the only hospital in town, the ly opposed this move despite their horror towards the incident

Mina used her ability to twist cause and effect, the ment, to obtain a job in this hospital, and worked busily everyday as a nurse As an immortal, Mina did not need food and she was not desperate for money, but she really wanted to work

Previously, she had becoues, difficult patients, and her strict but useless superiors Due to that, she had stopped going to work, locked herself in her room - and starved herself to death

Saibara Mina ardently hoped she could live everything over again

She had lived as Sterilization Disinfection, an inhuman existence that held no doubts and dutifully fulfilled the 'role' of God Mina couldn't help but be upset at this She rebelled against God, and decided to keep living as a human - as Saibara Mina

Mina also had drea froet that brilliant drea around her?

She wanted to be proud of herself as a nurse, as the person Mitsuki looked up to, and keep living like this

Co God, the perfect existence, it was harder to live as an ordinary human

However, Mina was enjoying a full life, sootten, as much as she could

Even Mina herself was surprised about how she was not only alive, but living as a human She found this to be wonderful

”Oh?”

Mina was changing in front of her locker in the nurses' changing roo shi+ft, which lasted till 4p in front of the door

This girl had an unique wolf-like hair cut and her eyes were cold as gun-barrels As opposed to her left arenerated itself when she recovered into that divine forht upon it by Mina

Mina ignored her and sighed as she kept changing her clothes

”You don't kno to knock, do you? You really startledthere so quietly”

”Speaking of being startled, I a Mina's coainst the door ”Sterilization Disinfection, you're working like a normal person”

Mina was somewhat repulsed towards the term Sterilization Disinfection, but it was such a bother to warn and correct the other over souely: ”What's the ot an appointment now Please be quick”

Guriko nodded and said with a serious expression: ”Tell me how to return Rinne to how she was before”

She glared at Mina with serious eyes: ”You made a promise don't tell me you don't know”

Mina quickly finished changing her clothes and looked into the distance: ”Well -”

She put her unifor and stared at Guriko when she finished preparing: ”There is no existence on Earth that knows the truth about this world”

Guriko furrowed her brows in confusion Mina spoke nonchalantly: ”You should be aware of this after the previous incident, no? This world is full of incoments, monsters, the Seven Kobitos, God as a part of this, even we perhaps do not clearly cos”

Mina, as originally a hue person after she was given the 'role' of Sterilization Disinfection However, she had only grasped a small part of the mystery that filled this world

”To be frank, even I cannot return a Meat Doll to hoas before”

”What did you say?”

Mina waved her hand and stopped Guriko, whose killing intent had started to rise: ”Indeed - it is far more difficult to remedy than to destroy However, there are still ways to repair things that have been destroyed”

She spoke that name quietly

”Find Single Room!”

Guriko had never heard of that name before, and she put on a puzzled expression Mina nodded and said cal the world It was arguably the ultist us, the one as the closest to God”

Mina walked towards Guriko, who narrowed her eyes, and asked: “Do you know about the Mushi+?”

Guriko looked incredulous when she suddenly heard this name mentioned

Mina said: “Mushi+ are rument named God Mushi+ Emperor I’m not quite sure what their true fore to fulfill the ‘role’ of Sterilization Disinfection from the Mushi+ That was definitely God Mushi+ Emperor’s ‘role’”

Mina remembered the horde of red-eyed Mushi+ that had suddenly showed up soon after Mitsuki and her were given Greater Fragments

“I was told of the existence of ‘Single Room’ back then, as one who holds the power of Genesis”

She talked sedately as she recalled those le Roo resurrecting the dead, stopping ti di these special powers He should have a chance at returning a Meat Doll to its former state”

“He? This one is male?”

A sparkle of hope lit in Guriko’s eyes

Mina narrowed her eyes and walked to stand beside Guriko She put her hand on the door, then turned to Guriko and shook her head

“I don’t know Single Room, who created the world, and PoisonCatastrophe, who created the Tower of Babel, are the st the Seven Kobitos… we don’t know their age, appearances, gender, or their current locations Single Roo for hundreds of years”

“You want er in Guriko’s voice, but Mina did not mind

“It’s le Roole Room may know the method to wake up Ki-chan, whose future only consists of despair, from her frozen sleep”

Mina looked up and walked into the silent hospital corridor

“Therefore, Gankyū Eguriko – I, Sterilization Disinfection, Saibara Mina, will help you the best I can in order to find Single Roo I find”

A spoon round next to Mina’s feet

“I actually hate you so very much You killed Rinne, killed ht arm and my ordinary life I really really want to kill you, Sterilization Disinfection” A tenderness was suddenlyin agony co killed here and now, no? Therefore I won’t kill you I will never kill you – I will keep giving you the punisho mad”

Mina sned malevolence but ords of kindness in truth She turned to look at Guriko, who stood where she was and looked lost

“Thank you”

“Squeak –”

This world was full of the terrible fates, deaths, and riots that came after God's demise

There was no hope and no ained, happiness would still slip away between one's fingers

She originally thought of life as an unending darkness, filled with ceaseless agony, without even the hope of salvation

”What”

I ht this, she stood where she was in shock

Her soul had left her Her consciousness had floay She kept blinking in incomprehension

This was an ordinary shopping street in a h School In a corner of the street was an un-fashi+onable traditional cafe, and a girl was sitting in the seat in the middle of the cafe

She wore large gloves and her dark brown hair were tied into pony tails She also had a round-eared hat and a tail decoration, exactly as how she had looked before she entered that underground institute

Her expression was innocent and her movements naive

I recognize this girl

Is this a dream?

An illusion?

Or have I gone mad?

Or perhaps an attack uponthat time?

”Ah, it's big sis”