TEASER
Volume 4 Chapter 8.2
Risking One's Life Till One Burns Up Part 2
In the darkness, Ken
stood silently before the childhood friend he had captured. Seeing the
anguished expression on her face, his thoughts, which had been hazy just
moments before, quickly became clear.
(Ah......)
He felt a sense of
loneliness in his heart.
Then, he finally
realized. What he desired was something else.
[Let me go, let me out
of here!]
In his head, the Mefi
he had absorbed was desperately pleading with him, but he ignored the voice and
suppressed it, saying that he did not care. The voice of one who no human
should ever be able to resist was easily hushed.
[Kill. Devour. Their
...... source of life.]
Instead, this time,
the beast's voice echoed. The existence that kept him alive. The will of the
heretical demonic beast.
He was forced to
understand, whether he wanted to or not. Without the power of this demonic
beast, he would not be able to live, and eventually, this demonic beast will
crush his soul and devour everything that lives in this land.
(In the end,
this is no different from when I was being used by Mefi......)
"Lisa......"
Once again, he called
out the name of his childhood friend. A scene from his childhood flashed back
into his mind. The first friends he made after being neglected by his family.
The one he had been longing for.
[In the end, neither
you nor I could support Lisa. We both gave up our right to do so.]
The voice of his other
childhood friend came back to him. He felt his gut churn with anger upon
hearing those words, but at the same time, he also felt a sense of
understanding.
"......It's too
late now."
Yes. Everything is
already too late.
Then there is only one
thing he could ...... hope for.
"You've
come......."
His heightened senses
detected that man's presence.
The cold sensation
from before has disappeared, and in its place is a feeling of elation.
This is the
last. Knowing that naive guy, he might be a little indecisive. But if I use
this extra thing I've captured as bait, I'll be able to fire him up.
There is no
hope. And that's fine. The future doesn't matter anymore.
I'll kill
him....... I'm willing to sacrifice anything for it.
And so, he turned his
back on his beloved childhood friend and muttered "good-bye" in his
heart.
†
Nozomu ran out of the
medical facility, ignoring the staff members who were flustered by the sudden
appearance of the hemisphere.
A sticky humidity
began to entangle his entire body.
Shaking off the air
that clung to his skin, he ran ahead to see a huge shining wall and a huge
black hemisphere.
Perhaps the erosion
had progressed further than before, the wall of light flickered erratically and
seemed to be gradually fading away.
And about 30 meters
away from the wall of light, a large number of city personnel had gathered, who
had rushed to the site after learning of the situation. Among them were people
Nozomu knew well.
"Nozomu-kun!?"
"You woke
up!?"
Jihad and others were
surprised to see Nozomu rushing toward them.
Among them, Irisdina
was the only one who seemed somewhat absent-minded.
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