Volume 2
Chapter 9
I was Made to Understand
Translator : PolterGlast
【In's POV】
"Because of
love...?"
I was momentarily at a
loss for words upon hearing this unexpected statement.
"That's right!
Because of love! I kill because I love! I truly want to have a continuous and mutual
love... but if the other person doesn't feel that way... if they say they can't
love me, doesn't that mean they have feelings other than love? Maybe they feel
hatred or anger! It's sad for the one I love to have such feelings... that
shouldn't happen! So! I kill them! With my greatest expression of affection───accompanied by the
words, 'I love you so much I want to kill you'───I kill them all."
"T-That’s───"
"That's the
greatest love I can give to them! The greatest love that surpasses everything
else!! But it's only for a fleeting moment. And it ends there. Isn't it sad
that it ends like that? So... if possible, I want you to love me before I kill
you. I want everyone to love me. That's my wish."
"───!!!"
I was speechless.
I was mistaken. Even
though I had called the person in front of me a lunatic, somewhere along the
way I had thought she had the same heart.
I had unconsciously
ingrained in my mind that basic logic would work───that she would
"understand that."
I was wrong───fundamentally, the person
in front of me was something that shouldn't be treated as human, something that
shouldn't be spoken to with the same logic.
Ah... this is not
good. I can't be so naive as to say that I can stall for time.
This person───this thing, if I leave
it alone, it will surely harm Lady Akana. No, not just Lady Akana───it might even swallow
up this country, and eventually, this world.
I can't let that
happen, I absolutely cannot. Someone has to kill it here───I, who understands the
situation, must kill it here!!
"Ah~ but I'm
glad. To think I would find someone who loves me so quickly... I'm so happy///
But please wait a little longer. I have to go find someone else. Because no one
else besides you will love me───they might have other cruel feelings───so I have to kill
them."
The thing (Natūra) in
front of me turns its back on me.
For some reason, its
guard against me is down. Now's my chance to kill it───!!
I stand up silently.
I take out the knife I
had hidden at my waist and go behind Natūra.
And then───
" ───!"
I pressed my hand over
its mouth and slashed its neck.
I feel a solid feeling
as the blade passes through. Okay, with this───
───Crack?
Usually, when you cut
someone's neck, you don't hear much noise. At most, you can hear the sound of
blood spurting out.
But now───there was a loud
noise. The feeling was more like cutting through a hard solid than skin, and
the sound was more like the sound of crushing a tree trunk.
"───"
Natūra turns to face
me, ignoring the range of motion of its neck. It's like an owl.
Her expression───her smile was
distorted beyond belief and terrifying.
I let go of her in
surprise and fell on my butt.
"Oh~ I see, I
see. So In-san is that type, huh? I'm sorry for imposing my own expression of
love on you without realizing it."
Natūra approaches me,
who is sitting on my butt. Her smile is simply scary.
"In-san likes to
kill people they love, huh? Because you love them, you kill them───I understand
perfectly! Because you love them, instead of accepting each other for a long
time, you pour everything into a single moment───indeed, that's a way
of loving too."
Natūra adjusts the
position of her head to meet my gaze.
Ah... everything was
wrong. I was wrong from the very beginning.
This person───no, this thing, isn't
even the same life form. I doubt it even has a life.
We───we were finished from
the moment we met Natūra (this thing).
"I respect
In-san's opinion. After all, I love everything about you. So───farewell."
Natūra turns away from
me and raises her left hand. As if responding to it, one of the nearby trees
moves, and its trunk bends and extends towards me.
"I love you,
In-san. And I loved you───In-san."
Countless branches
were launched from the approaching tree trunk, pointing their tips at me.
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