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Unlimited Fafnir Vol 14 Chapter 4
🕑 Added 2021-03-05 14:40:03 +0000 UTCChapter 4 – Rainbow Colored Piece
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Part 1
「……I don’t feel like sleeping in the same room with Okaa-sama though.」
Kili in her comfortable clothing muttered her grumbling while laying out the futon that she brought from the neighboring room between the two bunk beds.
The cabin had two bunk beds, but the space was insufficient even if each bed was used by two people.
「But, you are still preparing properly despite your grumbling.」
「I’m surprised. Her bed making is unexpectedly tidy.」
Firill and Mitsuki teased from above a bunk bed. Kili frowned sullenly at them.
「I just don’t want you all to monopolize Yuu. Good grief……why can’t I be in the same bed with Yuu.」
Kili glared resentfully at me who was at the lower part of a bunk bed. Beside me Ren who had changed into her pajama was already slipping under the blanket.
「Onii-chan’s side, is mine. Kili lost the game.」
Ren talked back to Kili with only the upper half of her face peeking out from under the blanket.
Then Ariella who ended up sleeping beside Kili backed up Ren.
「That’s right. Kili had also gotten a turn with the game, so don’t complain anymore.」
It was just as Ariella said, both Kili and Vritra had also challenged me with the game before this.
But this mother and daughter hadn’t reconciled at all with each other, so naturally their teamwork was bad and I survived with them practically self-destructing by themselves.
「……We would have won if only thou didn’t act unnecessarily.」
Vritra who was preparing to sleep on the upper part of bunk bed with Iris whispered a criticism.
「What did you say? It was Okaa-sama who got on my way──」
Kili glared back at Vritra. A disquieting atmosphere was starting to fill the room, but Iris hugged Vritra from behind to cut it off.
「Vritra-chan, don’t fight anymore. Let’s rest together with me okay~」
「O-oi, stop it. Besides, there is no reason for thee to bother with me. Rather it’s only natural for thee to feel angrier at me than my daughter──」
Vritra kicked around, but Iris paid it no mind and dragged her under the blanket.
「I’m not angry at all you know~. Or rather Vritra-chan is my life savior who has saved me……I need to thank you a lot for that. That’s why let me hug you!」
「It’s stuffy! Don’t cling on me!」
The two made a ruckus above.
Lisa looked up at the two of them from the bed below and smiled wryly.
「Iris-san never changed. Somehow it makes me think that my worry for her is unfounded.」
Then Tia who was on the same bed with Lisa also nodded deeply.
「It surely will be fine. If we can borrow the strength of the people all over the world, there will be enough “light source” to illuminate Angolmois!」
There was weight in those words seeing that they came from Tia who possessed Yggdrasil’s calculation ability. I also nodded.
「Yeah──we absolutely will make it work somehow.」
I muttered that to ascertain our objective.
There the cabin’s door opened and Jeanne entered wearing white pajama.
「Jeanne, how is Shion doing?」
Jeanne smiled softly when I asked her that.
「Shinomiya-sensei is sleeping together with her. The two of them are sound asleep. Tomorrow──I’ll do my best……so that Shion can wake up healthily.」
Jeanne replied with a determined voice. I also smiled back at her.
「I see, then there is no worry. Tomorrow let’s defeat Angolmois and say good morning to Shion.」
「──Yes.」
Jeanne replied with a strong tone.
「Nii-san, everyone……let’s save Shion-san and Miyako, no matter what.」
Everyone nodded at Mitsuki’s declaration.
Because the futon that was laid out between the beds had bigger space, Jeanne slept together with Kili and Ariella there.
Mitsuki confirmed that everyone had entered the bed and reached out to the lamp’s switch from her bed.
「Then I’ll turn off the light──sleep well.」
*Click* There was the button’s sound and the room turned dark.
The room was being illuminated only by the faint light of the stars from the window.
──Unexpectedly everyone fell asleep immediately.
There were this many people here, so I had readied myself for another commotion to rise, but if it was like this then I felt like I’d be able to sleep immediately.
Everyone too must be feeling the weight of the battle tomorrow.
「Then, Ren. Let’s sleep.」
「……Nn」
Ren nodded a bit shyly when I entered under the blanket.
And then she hesitatingly grasped my arm under the blanket. When I looked at Ren, she was staring still at me without closing her eyes.
「Thanks──for before this. It was a great help how you stopped Kili and Vritra’s quarrel.」
She seemed a bit nervous, so I tried talking to her with a low voice.
「Nn……I just, said what I want to say.」
「Even so, I think that what you did is amazing. Surely those two are also thankful to you.」
I whispered into Ren’s ear so Kili and Vritra couldn’t hear. I gently caressed her fluffy red hair.
「Nnu……」
Ren’s cheeks reddened. Even so she also closed her eyes with a look of comfort.
「Onii-chan’s scent……a lot.」
Ren rubbed her forehead on my forehead like what she did in the game before this.
「Ah, perhaps I should take shower again before sleeping?」
Perhaps I had gotten a little sweaty again from playing the game and intermediating the mother-daughter quarrel.
That was what I thought, but Ren shook her head.
「Nn. It’s fine like this……this is, better.」
「Well, if Ren say that……」
I felt a bit relieved. Ren whispered with a very small voice.
「……Nn. I like, Onii-chan’s smell. Onii-chan’s hand too……I love it.」
Ren’s words that sounded like a confession made my heart skipped a beat.
「That’s why, pet me……more.」
「──Got it.」
I continued combing her hair with my fingers. Strength left Ren’s body and she smiled with a comforted look.
「…………Onii-chan, good night.」
「Yeah, good night.」
I responded with a smile and slowed my caressing on her hair.
After that Ren’s breathing quickly turned peaceful.
I also closed my eyes to sleep and yielded my consciousness to my sleepiness.
Perhaps because I used Ether Wind a lot at Atlantis continent, it felt like fatigue had accumulated in my mind. Also, the damage from getting shot with Noa Replica by Major Loki also still affected me.
My body sought rest and I was sure that I could fall asleep right away.
However just as my consciousness was about to fall into the abyss of sleep, the bed above made a creaking sound.
──What?
It felt bothersome to open my eyes, so I followed the action of that person with my hearing.
The bed above Ren and me should be used by Mitsuki and Firill. And so it must be one of them making this sound.
I was worried whether Kili and others who were sleeping on the floor would get stepped on, but that person was going out of the room quietly.
I thought that she might be going to toilet, so I prepared myself to fall asleep once more.
However I heard the sound of the cabin’s door opened again faster than I thought.
──She is already back?
I could hear faint footstep stepping on futon before it stopped beside the bed.
I thought that the person would climb the ladder and returned to her bed above, but an unexpected situation occurred there.
The bed creaked from a weight getting on it. My blanket was slightly pulled away. And then someone’s presence came to my left side──the opposite side of where Ren was sleeping.
I could hear the sound of stifled breathing. Body warmth was transmitted through the blanket.
「Tsu──」
As expected I couldn’t possibly just fall asleep in this situation. I opened my eyes.
Then surprisingly nearby……there was Firill’s bashful face there. She was at a distance where our nose tip almost touched.
「O-oi, Firill──just what are you doing here?」
「……Eh? Huh? Mononobe-kun? This is strangee……looks like I got into the wrong bed because I was half asleep.」
When I asked her anxiously, Firill lowered her voice and made a fake excuse.
「Liar, you did it on purpose.」
「Ehe」
「Don’t just dodge the matter.」
Firill smiled mischievously. I poked her forehead with my finger, but for some reason she narrowed her eyes happily.
「Fufu, somehow the exchange just now sounded like married couple’s lines.」
Her expression made my heart skipped a beat, but I pulled myself together and said to her.
「Get back to your own bed quickly. It will cause a ruckus if we are found out in this position.」
「Eee……I want to stay here for a bit more. It wasn’t the situation for that yesterday because of Mitsuki’s matter so……tonight, umm……I want to do that.」
Firill’s face reddened for some reason. She fidgeted while staring at me with an upward gaze.
「That?」
When I asked her what she meant, Firill put her hands around her mouth and whispered with even smaller voice.
「──Wedding night.」
「Wha-……」
I almost talked loudly and covered my own mouth.
Firill brought her face closer to me and pouted.
「It’s an agreement that is limited to within Erlia Principality only,m but I still have married with Mononobe-kun you know? You……haven’t forgotten about that right?」
「Something like that……there is no way I can forget it. But, I didn’t know that it was a wedding ceremony──」
I nodded while also objecting.
When we were on the way toward the decisive battle against Bahamut, as we entered the territorial airspace of Erlia Principality, Firill demanded to me to kiss the back of her hand.
I was also in the wrong because I didn’t think too deeply about that demand and responded to it because I wanted to grant Firill’s wish but──it seemed to be the royalty’s marriage ritual in Erlia Principality.
「But, it doesn’t change the fact that you have done it right?」
「Uu……」
「Ufufu, it’s fait accompli~」
「D-don’t use strange way to describe it.」
I panicked, but Firill put her finger on my lips and smiled.
「Mononobe-kun, you’re loud. If you aren’t quiet……we will be seen. As expected……I’ll be embarrassed if everyone see me in this outfit.」
There I noticed that Firill wasn’t in her pajama.
She was wearing a negligee with thinner fabric that looked transparent. It looked very high class but with very bold design despite that.
「Mononobe-kun……do you want to see more?」
Seeing my reaction, Firill said that while slightly rolling up the blanket.
「Wha──」
Because the negligee was really thin, the bra covering her voluptuous twin hills was clearly visible.
So she went out of the cabin just now to change into this negligee. The calm part of my head thought that but──my eyes couldn’t look away from the valley of her breasts.
「Usually I’m not wearing underwear when sleeping but……tonight is special. It’s victory underwear to use against Mononobe-kun──no, it’s sure win instant kill underwear.」
Firill used her breasts to appeal at me even while she was turning bright red. She grasped my hand under the blanket.
My fingertips that got touched──felt hot.
Firill’s hands were damp with sweat. Our skins stuck on each other when she strongly held my hand. I hallucinated that the boundary of our bodies was melting to each other.
「F-Firill?」
When I called out her name with a shrill voice, her body trembled slightly.
She must be nervous.
However she didn’t avert her gaze and repeatedly inhaled and exhaled with heat in her breathing.
Her breath that was mixed with her warmth and moisture caressed my nose tip and lips.
Even though our lips didn’t touch directly, it made me felt like I was getting kissed.
*Thump, thump* The sound of my own heartbeat reverberated inside my ears.
Our hands that held each other under the blanket couldn’t let go of each other anymore as though they had been fused together.
Our fingers entangled together in the wish of obtaining a more solid connection.
「You can……touch if you want. Tonight……is an exception. Because……it’s the wedding night, of Mononobe-kun and me.」
She stared at me with moist eyes. The center of my brain heated up and my mind felt hazy.
My free arm──my hand that still wasn’t connected with Firill followed the push of my instinct to reach out toward her.
「Yes, just like that……it’s fine, even if you do it roughly.」
Guided by Firill’s sweet words, my hand approached her twin hills.
Her breasts slightly moved up and down from her breathing.
My fingertip touched the luscious white bulges that pushed up the thin fabric. That softness washed away any unnecessary thought from inside my brain──.
──*Creak*…….
However I heard a faint creaking sound of the bed at that timing.
……Hm?
Next I saw something moving at the corner of my eye.
I instantly returned to my senses as though cold water had been poured on me.
I got a terribly bad premonition.
When I fearfully turned my gaze over there, there was something black dangling down from the bed above──.
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「Nii-san, Firill-san──what is the meaning of this wedding night thing?」
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And then a low threatening voice entered our ears.
I realized. Dangling down from above the bed was a long black hair.
Mitsuki was leaning forward from the bed above and peeking at us upside down with a twitching smile.
Even Firill who had her back turned on that sight jerked. Her shoulders shook and she looked back with a tense expression.
「E-err……eh? Mitsuki? How strange~……it looks like I entered the wrong bed.」
Firill made the same excuse like before, but Mitsuki glared at Firill with half-opened eyes.
「It’s pointless even if you play stupid. You have been talking with Nii-san since some time ago. I couldn’t hear everything that was said but……I definitely heard the words wedding night uttered without a doubt.」
「That’s, it’s, I didn’t say wedding night, it’s wedding……welding……ni, knight……y-yes, welding knight, we talked about a knight who has welding job.」
Firill made an explanation that was too forced, but this time another voice came from the bed below──Kili who should be sleeping on the futon that was laid on the floor showed her face.
「No, I definitely heard it too. I realized from the start that you sneaked into Yuu’s bed so I wanted to drag you out right away but……I got curious and listened in. After that I even heard some words like──did it, or fait accompli.」
Next Lisa who was sleeping at the opposite bed sprang up.
「W-what do you mean did it!?」
In addition even Tia got up while rubbing her eyes.
「Yuu……what is fait accompli?」
It seemed that Ren was the only one who was completely asleep. Everyone got up one after another.
「Mononobe-kun──I hope you can tell us about it in full detail.」
Ariella was staring at me with a reproachful gaze.
「C-captain is already married!?」
Jeanne pressed me with that question while hugging her pillow. Then Iris also asked me anxiously from the opposite upper bed.
「Mononobe……is Firill-chan actually your number one?」
「……Thou all, so noisy. I’m sleepy here so shut up.」
Vritra’s grumbling could also be heard, but nobody paid her any mind and they demanded explanation from Firill and me.
「Onii-chan……? What’s the matter?」
Even Ren woke up from the alarming atmosphere. I was surrounded on all sides. Firill looked toward me with a gaze that asked for help. I put my hand on her shoulder and opened my mouth.
「Firill asked me to keep it as a secret between the two of us, but it can’t be helped if it’s like this. I’ll explain it truthfully okay?」
「Uu……as I thought, perhaps I should wait until late at night. I got too impatient and blundered……it’s my fault, so it’s fine if you stop keeping it a secret.」
Firill hung her head down in dejection. With her agreement, I explained the situation to everyone.
Everyone was dumbfounded hearing that we held a marriage ritual at the sky above Erlia Principality.
However Mitsuki who turned around and came down from above the bed gazed at me in exasperation.
「Good grief──you are too simple Nii-san. There is no way something like that can become an official marriage process. You were completely played by Firill-san.」
Mitsuki said that and moved her gaze to Firill.
「Firill-san, I think that normally such important ceremony will need a witness to attend it though.」
「C-certainly it needs a royalty to witness the proceeding but……I’m a princess so──」
Firill replied with a slightly anxious look. Mitsuki pressed her further.
「I never heard any precedent of the person doing the marrying also doubling as the witness. That’s why your marriage with Nii-san is also invalid! Isn’t that right?」
「Uu……」
Firill was cornered, but there was a strong light of willpower in her eyes.
「……It’s not invalid. That was my wedding ceremony with Mononobe-kun. Mononobe-kun is already my prince now!」
Firill childishly said that and hugged my arm.
Her thin negligee transmitted her breast’s softness and warmth directly to me. It made my heartbeat rose regardless of my will.
「O-oi, Firill──」
Firill tightened her hold on my arm. She wouldn’t let go of the flustered me and looked around at everyone.
「I’m serious with what I said before okay.」
「Before?」
Mitsuki frowned. Firill nodded and continued speaking.
「Same sex marriage is recognized in Erlia Principality, in addition there is an old system where royalty can practice polygamy. I’ll use that to marry everyone. With that everyone will be able to become Mononobe-kun’s family. I think that this is the only way where everyone can become happy with the “correct proceedings”.」
From her voice we could clearly feel that she wasn’t joking, but genuinely serious.
Everyone was overwhelmed by her drive, even so Mitsuki spoke back.
「You mean that talk……we also said before, with that way Firill-san will become the only one who is married with Nii-san isn’t it?」
Firill yielded against this argument before, but this time she didn’t back down.
「So what? I’m serious, and I won’t give up. I swear that after Mononobe-kun, I’ll capture Mitsuki and others too and add everyone into my harem! That’s my future design!」
Firill got completely defiant and smiled brazenly at everyone.
「Wha……y-you’re going to capture us……」
Mitsuki’s face turned red from that unexpected words and drew back.
Lisa also blushed and asked Firill.
「Wait a second Firill-san! Do you realize the meaning of what you are saying?」
Firill calmly nodded and made a grabby motion with her fingers.
「Of course. I’ll also make Lisa’s big and soft breasts into mine.」
Firill grinned obscenely. I sighed seeing that.
「──Firill, you’re forcing yourself too much. It seems that you’re serious you’re your harem plan, even so you are unable to look at your friend in that light right?」
I put my hand on Firill’s head consolingly and shook her shoulder a little.
I knew. Firill was acting boldly, but she was surprisingly a timid person at heart. Because of that she always ran wild like this when cornered.
「M-Mononobe-kun……don’t do that. I have to push on with the momentum right now……」
Firill looked up at me in protest because I weakened her vigor.
「No, you will just complicate things needlessly if you rush on things like this.」
I said that to calm down Firill.
It was then, Kili seemed to think of something and raised her voice.
「Ah────I just realize, about her plan……if it’s only until the middle then perhaps it’s quite a good plan.」
「Kili-chan?」
Kili smiled wryly after the gazes of Iris and others were gathered on her.
「To be honest, I don’t care at all with something like the formal proceedings. As long as Yuu doesn’t reject me with a reason like because “he has all of you”, I’ll tolerate the existences of his other “mates”. But all of you want something──a proof to display your deep relationship with Yuu right?」
Everyone went red from Kili’s question. Firill and Mitsuki hesitatingly nodded at her.
「Then, Yuu can just marry with that princess. If he does that then Yuu will be a prince, a part of the royal family. At that point, won’t Yuu also get the right to do polygamy?」
「Ah」
Firill let out a stupid voice when she heard Kili’s suggestion.
「All of you will be satisfied if you can marry with Yuu himself right? With this then everyone will all live happily ever after.」
Kili clapped her hands with an indifferent expression.
It seemed that she genuinely didn’t feel any worth from marriage system.
「Marriage with Mononobe……」
Iris muttered with a reddening expression. Everyone also fell silent.
「Kuu……」
I heard the sound of someone sleeping alone. This must be Vritra’s voice.
But Mitsuki came back to her senses earlier than anyone and yelled loudly.
「A-as expected that’s no good! In that case Nii-san will marry with Firill-san first and they will have their we, w-we, wedding night……or rather I have my own situation and dream……if possible, I want Nii-san and me together in my house──」
Mitsuki went bright red and shut her mouth. Lisa also raised her voice next after her.
「I too have various future designs of my own. If I inherited my parents’ company, then……I’ll be troubled if Mononobe Yuu doesn’t help me out.」
Lisa sent glances at me. Kili shrugged her shoulders at her.
「You two are also really selfish huh. Well, just arrange everything for that as you please. But──I won’t just stay quiet if you try to take away Yuu before my eyes.」
Kili gave that warning before she yawned widely and crawled under her blanket.
Jeanne made an exasperated look seeing that.
「Which one is being selfish here……ah, as for me, I’ll follow captain anywhere anytime no matter what, so I’m fine no matter where captain goes to!」
Jeanne also returned to sleep after announcing that. Ariella smiled wryly while turning a serious gaze toward me.
「You’ll completely ignore Mononobe-kun’s circumstance if you do that, so perhaps Jeanne is the most selfish one here……well but, I’m also planning to have Mononobe-kun take responsibility for me properly so I won’t compromise you know? Ren is also the same right?」
Ren who was addressed by Ariella rubbed her eyes sleepily while nodding.
「Nn……Onii-chan is, my Onii-chan forever.」
And then she collapsed on the bed and began to breathe rhythmically. It seemed that she was at her limit already.
Mitsuki sighed seeing that and put her foot on the bed’s ladder.
「I think this matter cannot be concluded in just a single day, so let’s go to sleep already for tonight. Firill-san──please separate from Nii-san already.」
Firill hurriedly nodded when Mitsuki glared fiercely at her. She then followed Mitsuki to return to the bed above.
「……Mononobe-kun, let’s redo our wedding night again after we defeat Angolmois.」
However she whispered that to me at the end. Her bashful expression was seared into my mind.
「Wait a second Firill-san! I can hear you!」
Lisa raised her voice chidingly, but Firill only replied 「Good night~」 and went to sleep.
「Good grief, Firill-san is always……oh, Tia-san, what’s the matter?」
Lisa folded her arms angrily, but then she noticed Tia strangely fidgeting.
「……Umm, Tia want to go to toilet. But the corridor is dark, so can Lisa also──」
「Ah, in that case I’ll go with you.」
I immediately volunteered when hearing Tia’s words.
Somehow the matter of marriage with Firill ended up unsettled, but the room’s atmosphere was still a bit tense.
That was why I wanted to go outside and calmed myself. Surely it would also be easier for Mitsuki and others to fall asleep if I left for a moment.
「Tia will feel safe if Yuu also come together!」
Tia rejoiced. Lisa smiled seeing that.
「Then, I’ll leave Tia-san in your care.」
「Yeah, roger.」
I took responsibility for Tia and got out to Naglfar’s dark corridor.
「It’s a bit cold……」
Tia in her pajama grabbed my hand and leaned on me.
The toilet of this sector was at the end of the corridor. I pulled Tia’s hand and started walking in small stride.
Our footsteps echoed in the corridor.
I could hear heavy bass sound faintly from afar. It must be coming from the resupply and maintenance of Naglfar.
When I turned my attention there, I felt Tia putting a bit more strength into her grasp on my hand.
I turned down my gaze. I found Tia’s large eyes looking up to me there.
「What’s wrong?」
She looked like she wanted to say something. I tried asking her with a casual tone.
「……Umm, Yuu.」
Tia opened her mouth after staying silent for a bit.
「Yeah.」
I responded shortly to urge her to continue.
「Err, you see, Tia……isn’t worried at all, about this future matter thing.」
Then Tia expressed her opinion at me with a very serious expression.
──Future.
Most likely this was about the conversation in the cabin just now.
「Tia’s number one is Yuu, but Tia also love everyone. Firill too──and everyone else too……surely even Kili is feeling the same. That’s why everyone will do their best to make their dream come true……and with that everyone should be able to become happy.」
Tia said that and stared still at me.
「Yeah──I also want to make everyone happy. Due to becoming my mate or betraying the army……because they got involved with me, everyone had to walk a difficult path. But, that’s exactly why……at the end of their path──I absolutely won’t let them find unhappiness waiting for them.」
I spoke of my feeling to ascertain my resolve once more.
But……I was really anxious, because the result of me trying to do just that was Mitsuki running away.
Something like that was just a fairy tale, an idealistic thought. There was no way a happiness that everyone could agree with and accept existed. A weak part inside my heart was whispering that to me.
I was also thinking that even if everyone compromised to find a common ground that all of them could accept to some degree, wouldn’t that be the result of all of them abandoning their greatest wish?
I imagined the scene of everyone holding back and enduring something while putting on a smile on the surface.
In that scene, there were everyone and me──trying to convince ourselves that this compromise was right, that this was our happiness.
Such scene, I found it extremely revolting. That scene was also really pitiful and sad.
If that was the kind of future that was waiting for us ahead of this……that would mean that I was walking through the wrong path.
But──.
「Yes, Tia believe in Yuu. When Tia grow up and can marry, Yuu will surely make Tia your wife properly!」
Tia’s innocent voice entered my ear. Her words were filled with trust and deep affection.
I gulped when I saw Tia’s eyes sparkling bright in expectation.
Tia had been like this the whole time since we were reunited at Midgard.
She never wavered at the slightest.
This radiance never dulled even once.
This was the dream that Tia held, her biggest wish.
The shape of her happiness that she kept showing and demanded from me over and over.
Tia would never discard her greatest wish no matter what happened. I was convinced that she absolutely wouldn’t give up on it.
──I understood. That this wish was something that I absolutely had to make come true.
No, it wasn’t that I had to. I wanted to……I myself wished to make Tia happy.
And then I remembered. Just now both Mitsuki and Lisa also objected at Firill’s plan.
The others were also not the type of people who would give up on their greatest wish no matter what.
Surely it would be impossible for them to compromise.
Because of that the path ahead from here would be hopelessly severe. In the future there would definitely be clashes between everyone.
But most likely all of them wouldn’t give up.
They wouldn’t give up in making their greatest wish came true──in everyone becoming happy.
──Then, perhaps things would work out somehow.
「Yeah……it might take time but, wait for me.」
I nodded and used my empty hand that wasn’t holding Tia’s hand to caress her head.
I patted her gently and thoroughly with my gratitude for her in this gesture.
Because I could notice something important thanks to Tia.
「Ehehe……it’s ticklish.」
Tia squinted happily and clung on me.
It made it a bit hard to walk, but the path was narrow anyway, so we continued walking like that slowly.
I sent off Tia after we arrived at the toilet and waited at a slight distance away from the entrance.
「Yuu~……Tia is finished」
Tia returned after a while. She was blinking sleepily.
It seemed that her sleepiness returned after she finished her business.
It was dangerous the way she walked unsteadily, so I crouched and offered her my back.
「Come on, hold on.」
「……Thank you.」
Tia put her hands around my neck and placed herself on my back.
「I’ll bring you until the room, so you can sleep already.」
I carried her on my back and said that while returning to the cabin.
「Yep……good night.」
Tia said that and strength left her body. She fell asleep immediately. I carried her while doing my best to walk in a way that didn’t shake her body.
Then I felt someone approaching from the front.
There were footsteps with slightly different rhythm. They belonged to two people──.
I stopped walking and focused my eyes.
It was Mitsuki and Iris in their pajama who appeared from the dark corridor ahead.
「Eh, are you two going to toilet too?」
Mitsuki made a sullen expression when I asked.
「Nii-san──it’s a breach of manner asking a girl something like that. Please guess it yourself without asking anything. Well, this time we aren’t going to toilet so I shall give you a pass.」
「If you aren’t going to toilet……then what are you doing?」
I tilted my head because I didn’t understand their reason for going out of the room. Then Mitsuki grabbed Iris’s arm and pulled her to in front of me.
「Geez Mitsuki-chan──I’m telling you I’m fine you know」
Iris looked slightly bewildered. However Mitsuki paid her no mind and pushed her back.
「I had talked a bit with Firill-san after that, about why she took such bold action even though everyone is inside the same room. And then Firill-san said this──because she might regret it if she doesn’t do it now.」
Mitsuki’s eyes were serious.
I fixed Tia’s position on my back while listening to her words seriously.
「When I heard that I thought. Right now it’s Iris-san and Nii-san who really should take such action……even if Iris-san’s burden will be reduced thanks to headmaster, it doesn’t change the fact that the risk for Iris-san is the biggest. Nii-san’s role to directly confront Angolmois is also really dangerous. That’s why──」
「Wait, Mitsuki-chan! I’m really fine! I believe that tomorrow everything will go well. Mononobe absolutely won’t lose against the like of Angolmois!」
Iris waved her hand while cutting off Mitsuki.
However Mitsuki shook her head with a stiff expression.
「I too naturally believe that we will win. However despite that, not thinking the worst case is simply being lazy and running away from reality. There is nothing absolute in this world──perhaps something outside our expectation will occur. That’s why, so that we won’t regret it later……I think that Iris-san has to talk properly with Nii-san.」
「Mitsuki-chan……」
Iris looked toward me with a troubled look. She was puzzled of what to say to convince Mitsuki.
「Nii-san, I’ll take Tia-san back, so please spend time with Iris-san alone. That’s……it might not be my place to say this after I got in the way of Firill-san’s night visit but……I won’t be angry no matter what you do with Iris-san just for tonight.」
Mitsuki clenched her fist tightly and looked down to hide her agonized expression.
It was clear that she was really forcing herself. I felt that this wasn’t a compromise for Mitsuki, but something that came from her sense of responsibility.
Surely her guilt from running away alone and troubling everyone was pushing her to do this.
That was why……she couldn’t see the important thing.
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「──Mitsuki, look over here.」
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「Nii-san……?」
I sighed and made Mitsuki looked up.
I was already leaning forward because I was carrying Tia on my back, so I brought my face closer to her from there.
「Eh──」
Mitsuki blushed and her eyes opened wide.
But most likely my action was outside of Mitsuki’s expectation.
They touched──or rather they collided, our foreheads.
My hands were full because I was carrying Tia. My only option was this.
「Auh」
Mitsuki pressed her hands on her forehead due to that light headbutt. She glared at me. It was a clash between two fellow hardheaded people, so it should be really hurt.
「N-Nii-san, what are you doing!?」
「That’s because Mitsuki said something stupid.」
I stared down fixedly on Mitsuki from real close. She puffed up her cheeks in dissatisfaction.
「I’m stupid──t-that’s cruel. I just want Nii-san and Iris-san to spend an important time together……」
Apparently Mitsuki still misunderstood something. She hadn’t gotten it yet. I sighed exaggeratedly.
「I’m saying, why are you only doing this for Iris and me.」
「Eh? Because both of you will shoulder the most dangerous roles……」
I smiled wryly at Mitsuki’s answer.
「Certainly──at the battle tomorrow, the fate of Iris and me will be the most uncertain. Spending time right now so that we will leave no regret is also a correct choice.」
「Then──」
「But, what Iris and I want ahead of this battle isn’t a future for just both of us.」
I cut off Mitsuki’s argument and declared that.
When I turned my gaze at Iris beside Mitsuki, she responded with a strong nod.
「Yep, it’s just as Mononobe say. You see, I have tried imagining a lot……about what will happen after this, about the future……and then, I see everyone in there. Mononobe is there, and Mitsuki-chan too, and Tia-chan……everyone in Brunhilde class is all there. That’s why, I think that will be the happiest future for me. I’m going to fight with my all because I want to arrive there!」
Iris puffed out her chest and stared straight into Mitsuki’s eyes while expressing her feeling toward the battle tomorrow.
「Iris-san……」
Mitsuki was dumbfounded. I kindly talked to her.
「Mitsuki, this is already right. Getting together with everyone, playing, spending the night together──there is no better way to use our time than this. No matter what happen tomorrow……I won’t regret of what we are doing tonight.」
「Nii-san……」
Mitsuki stared alternately at Iris and me before her shoulders slumped down.
「In other words──I was being a misunderstanding busybody then.」
「So you finally get it.」
When I said that teasingly, Mitsuki glared at me──before she hung her head down immediately.
「……I kept running wild by myself. I haven’t learned my lesson at all.」
「You have been like this from the start, you would rush in a straight line when you get obsessed with something. It won’t be fixed that easily.」
「Uu……I think it will be better if Nii-san console me a bit more there.」
Mitsuki looked resentfully at me. I returned a wry smile at her.
「I’m always at the scolded side usually, so it make me want to get a bit of payback at this kind of time.」
「……Nii-san you meanie.」
Mitsuki puffed out her cheek.
Then a laughter came from the side.
「Fufu, Mononobe and Mitsuki-chan’s talk is always funny! It’s really refreshing to watch because both of you will show faces that you usually never show.」
Iris laughed in delight while hugging Mitsuki.
「You know, I──love Mitsuki-chan when you are together with Mononobe. What’s more, I also love Mononobe when he is together with Mitsuki-chan!」
「W-wait a second, Iris-san?」
Iris rubbed her cheek on the flustered Mitsuki and continued her words.
「I can’t say it well but, looking at you two makes me think that this is what it means to have fun by being together! That’s why, let’s go back to our room quickly!」
「……I get it already so please don’t pull me like that!」
Mitsuki nodded in resignation and looked at me.
「Nii-san, this is fine isn’t it?」
「Yeah.」
I nodded back strongly. Mitsuki smiled in relieve seeing that and returned to the cabin with Iris.
I also carried the sleeping Tia on my back and followed the two.
In order to spend the same might with my important people.
Everyone didn’t have the same dream in their mind by any means……everyone’s wish was all over the place and they might clash with each other, but──.
But, each one’s──colorful wish, the fragments of them should interlace with each other and formed a future where everyone could smile.
I couldn’t even imagine what kind of color would be formed from that.
No, surely it wouldn’t have just one color. I think that there would be many colors included in it.
That was why──perhaps, the color would be rainbow.
I was convinced when I returned to the cabin.
That what was here right now, was a fragment of the rainbow color that would be depicted one day.
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Part 2
That siren──it rang out earlier than the alarm that I set in my phone. It woke up all of us who slept in the same room.
*Uuuuuuuuuuuuu────!*
「Tsu……what is──」
I was instantly conscious and moved aside my blanket while getting up. I checked the situation.
「It’s……an alarm?」
Lisa was making a confused look at the other bed.
「Sleepy……」
Tia was rubbing her eyes while still looking sleepy.
「Nnu……」
Ren who was sleeping beside me was also still looking half asleep.
「Captain, there is no abnormality from what is visible outside the window.」
Jeanne quickly ran toward the cabin’s window and checked outside. Kili who got stepped on during her rush raised her voice 「What are you doing!」 angrily.
「This doesn’t seem like a summon for briefing……we should have two more hours for that.」
Ariella checked the time and muttered in puzzlement.
「Everyone, please calm down. For now let’s go to where Shinomiya-sensei──」
Mitsuki’s voice came from the bed above, but the ship’s internal broadcast interrupted her.
『──Emergency. A giant object is confirmed heading toward this island. The object is apparently moving inside the sea. Contact will happen in one more hour.』
Major Loki’s voice explained the situation concisely. Next Atla’s voice also came out.
『There will be a briefing in the bridge at ten more minutes! Brunhilde class’s members are to dress themselves and gather there!』
The broadcast cut off with a sound *pshew* after telling us the message.
「I wonder what is this giant object……」
Firill spoke uneasily. Vritra jumped down from the other upper bed.
Kili got stepped on again. She shouted 「What are you doing!」 again, but Vritra paid her no mind and spoke.
「It must be Angolmois’s work. Looks like it’s not so easy of an opponent that things can progress as we expected.」
Hearing that, Iris looked down from the bed above at Vritra who was standing on Kili and asked with a stiff voice.
「Then, the battle is going to start already after this?」
「That’s how it will be.」
Vritra nodded.
The cabin fell silent instantly, but Mitsuki immediately raised her voice.
「Everyone, quickly return to your own room and prepare!」
Everyone returned to their senses from the order of the dragon extermination team’s leader and hurriedly ran out of my room.
I also took off my shirt to prepare myself but──I suddenly realized that Vritra was still staying behind alone in my room.
「You should quickly go change too Vritra, otherwise you will be late.」
It was Vritra, so I guess I didn’t really need to feel bothered. I continued changing my clothes while urging her to do the same.
However Vritra didn’t start moving and approached me who was putting in my arm through my shirt’s sleeve.
「There is something that I have to do before that. About what I mentioned yesterday──the method for thee to become the same kind like Angolmois.」
「Come to think of it, you said something about making use of a function of“D”. Will it take time to prepare that?」
It seemed to be an important talk, so I stopped tying my uniform’s necktie and turned toward Vritra.
「That was what I said at that time, but that description isn’t accurate. My daughter would get noisy if I said the truth after all, so I lied a little.」
「Lie……that doesn’t sound good.」
I frowned and asked Vritra to continue with my gaze.
「In the first place a transformation to the same kind isn’t something that can be caused intentionally. Before this I failed when I tried to offer my daughter to Hraesvelgr. Thou also know about that.」
The incident that happened at Erlia Principality flashed in my mind.
Kili got her dragon crest forcefully rewritten by Vritra and entered a state where Hraesvelgr imprinted on her. She then asked us for help.
However when Hraesvelgr attacked, she didn’t choose Kili but imprinted at Firill instead.
The figure of Kili standing dumbfounded when the color change of her dragon crest vanished had been seared in my memory.
「Yeah──I saw it happened right before my eyes. Then, is it impossible for me to become the same thing like Angolmois?」
Then we would have to rethink the strategy from zero.
However Vritra shook her head at the flustered me.
「Don’t jump to the wrong conclusion. If we can ascertain the true body of Angolmois, creating a vessel that imitate its shape will be easy. Code Lost can activate its effect as long as the opponent has “human shape”. Then it will be enough to simply change thy outer appearance. Thou can just use biological conversion to expand thy biological function and clad thyself in a veil of flesh.」
「Eh? Wait a second. The way you said it, it sounds like I’ll be the one doing the biological conversion myself instead of Vritra.」
Not only I was unable to do biological conversion, the amount of Dark Matter I could produce was also considerably fewer than other “D”. A feat that Vritra described was impossible for me.
「Until the completion of the operation, I have a role to assist Iris Freya as much as possible. I can’t accompany thee in charging to Angolmois’s true body. Therefore──I shall lend thee a part of the true seventh authority. Now, get on your knee.」
Vritra declared solemnly and ordered me.
「……What are you going to do?」
I got on my knee even while feeling suspicious. The height of my gaze became almost the same with Vritra.
Then her face reddened for some reason and she pressed her hand on her left chest in pain.
「I spent the night adjusting this vessel but……to think that it would be this painful.」
「Vritra, are you alright?」
I called at her because her state seemed abnormal.
「I’m fine. This is the proof that my adjustment went well. Then the rest depend on thee──」
Vritra said that and put her hands around my neck awkwardly. Her childish face that was similar to Kili approached me.
「──Eh?」
Small and soft lips touched my mouth while I was bewildered.
──*Thump*
A small pain ran through my left hand in that moment. Then it was followed by a heat slightly later.
「W-what are──」
I returned to my senses and tear off Vritra from me. She was staring at me with a flushed face with a vacant expression.
「So this is……an exchange that is done between people with flesh body. It’s my first experience but……it might become a habit.」
Vritra’s red tongue licked her lips. That gesture was filled with a captivating charm that I never felt from her until now──such gesture was too unbalanced with her young appearance that it made my heartbeat quickened.
「No, that’s why I’m asking you why are you doing something like that……」
「Look at thy left hand.」
I asked her reason without hiding my puzzlement. In respond Vritra told me that briefly.
The pain that I felt just now had gone, but I could feel the heat on the back of my left hand. And then what was there was──my dragon crest.
「…………」
I hesitantly lifted up my left arm and dropped my gaze on the back of my hand.
There the edge of my small dragon crest was dyed black.
「There are two conditions that has to be fulfilled in order for a dragon to be able to imprint on “D”. First is a strong impulse from the dragon to desire a “mate”. Second is that there is someone with corresponding psychic waves among the “D” who are in sexually excited state. When these conditions are fulfilled, a mental link will be formed through the dragon crest.」
Vritra dispassionately explained, but I still couldn’t comprehend the situation.
「The color of the dragon crest will start to change together with the construction of the link. As time passed, the characteristic wavelength of the body will also be synchronized. Because thee and those girls already has the same form and nature as “human” from the start, this process was unnecessary and it was also easy for thy mind to synchronize.」
It was a complicated talk that my head couldn’t understand at all.
But, there was one thing that I had to ascertain no matter what. I asked my question.
「Don’t tell me……did you just imprint of me Vritra?」
I asked her with a hoarse voice. Vritra nodded to me.
「Exactly──it was difficult to fulfill the conditions I spoke to thee just now just so thee know. I adjusted my vessel to match my wavelength with thee but……in other words it means me entering a state of “getting along” with thee, of me instinctually seeking for thee……I never thought that it would make my heart to throb like this.」
Vritra pressed her chest with both her hands and sighed anxiously.
「In the shoujo manga that I borrowed from Firill Crest previously, this state was described as “love at first sight” wasn’t it?」
「L-love at first sight!?」
I raised my voice shrilly because of the extremely unexpected wording.
「In other words, the current me is desiring thee sexually. Thou too are getting sexually excited from the kiss with me. And so the conditions are fulfilled. Therefore that dragon crest is starting to change color.」
「Wha──sexually excited……」
My face heated up unconsciously.
「Well, originally the link won’t form just from temporary desire though. I forcefully managed that somehow by kissing thee directly. Normally──according to the shoujo manga too, to say it romantically, “D” cannot be imprinted on unless they are in love.」
After saying that, Vritra looked down on the hand that she pressed on her left chest and let out a heated sigh.
「Female “D” will be in a sexually excited state constantly by falling in love and fulfill the condition to be imprinted on. In other words──it’s not a coincidence that it was only the “D” around thee who got targeted. It’s only natural for them to easily get excited because there is an opposite sex beside them.」
「Don’t tell me……」
My mind hit upon the meaning of Vritra’s words and I turned pale.
「Yes……it’s something that has passed but, thy was also responsible for why Iris Freya and the others got imprinted on. After all those girls most likely fell in love with thee.」
「Tsu……」
I was at a loss for words after that unexpected fact was thrust at me.
──Iris, Tia, and also Firill, they were targeted by dragon……because I was there……?
Vritra slightly panicked and grabbed my shoulders seeing me shaken like this.
「O-oi, if thou make that kind of face──it makes my chest tighten in my current state. Forgive me, I made fun of thee too much.」
「No, it’s true that it was all my fault……」
When I shook my head, Vritra shook my body anxiously.
「What are thou saying! I am the cause of everything! I didn’t even know that love can be this intense……this maddening, this precious. I made use of it without realizing that such feeling could exist! Even though the love of those “D” wasn’t directed toward dragon……I thought of that as mere triviality!」
I was surprised seeing Vritra giving me such follow up so desperately.
I realized that right now Vritra was really harboring affection toward me and a feeling of unable to leave her alone rose inside me.
「Yeah──I’ll stop regretting something that has come to pass. That’s why Vritra too, don’t brood too much over it. I’m already happy enough that you can understand human’s feeling.」
Vritra made a relieved expression when I smiled at her.
What she did as “Black” Vritra surpassed the category of what could be judged by human rule.
It wasn’t something that she could be responsible for or make up for.
That was why, I didn’t want to make use of her “love in first sight” state toward me to drag her to stand on the same stage as human.
Perhaps many people who had experienced dragon disaster would desire to condemn Vritra.
But I couldn’t think of that as something right.
「Thou……doesn’t hate me now?」
「Yeah.」
Vritra uneasily asked me. I answered her with a strong nod.
「Than that’s good. Good grief……this is my first time feeling a pain like this in my chest. Is this the feeling called love……I never imagined that I would be toyed around by my feeling to this degree. No──right now isn’t the time to feel shaken. Let’s return to the topic.」
Vritra coughed and observed my expression while continuing.
「Let me say this first, I’m not really becoming thy mate. Right now I have this unbearable feeling to make thou mine but……I’m holding it back. To begin with, thou are Neun. With thy authority to determine the way something ought to be, thou will definitely reject transforming to the same kind as me. The change in color of thy dragon crest also won’t progress any further than this.」
「Then, why did you do this?」
I also pulled myself together and asked Vritra back to learn her true intention.
「I already told thee at the start. I’m lending thee my seventh authority. It become possible to share authority with someone linked through the dragon crest. But if the dragon doesn’t actively share the ability, the imprinted “D” won’t be able to use it.」
Vritra said that and looked up at the bed above my bed.
They had returned to their own cabin, but previously that spot was used by Mitsuki and Firill.
「I received a report from my daughter in the past, that Mononobe Mitsuki used Anti Matter before she annihilated Kraken. That was likely because the “D” who was transformed into Kraken imprinted on Mononobe Mitsuki and transferred the authority to her by her own will. That’s what I think.」
「Then, Shinomiya Miyako was──」
If Vritra’s conjecture was right, Shinomiya Miyako was in love──she sought Mitsuki after she turned into Kraken……however she lent her authority to Mitsuki and made her annihilated her.
In other words…….
I was able to imagine it from the words and action of Shinomiya Miyako who I encountered at Atlantis’s city but……her fate was just too sad that it hurt my chest.
「I-I’m telling thee don’t show me that kind of sorrowful face! Thou are making me want to cry too! In other words, what I’m saying is that I’m allowing thee to use the true seventh authority too in a limited fashion!!」
Vritra hit my chest repeatedly and looked at me tearfully.
The humane expression that she had never showed until now made intimacy to also rise inside me. I put my hand on her head.
「Sorry, right now I have to properly think about what’s ahead instead of the past. And──does that mean right now I can create Dark Matter without any limitation and do biological conversion?」
However Vritra shook her head.
「No, thou are permitted to use my seventh authority only for biological conversion to take the same form like Angolmois. I can’t permit thee to something like unlimited use of Dark Matter──naturally, I also won’t allow thee to supply Iris Freya with it.」
She stared still into my eyes with a gaze that was filled with her will to not yield this point no matter what. Like that Vritra told me solemnly.
However her small shoulders were trembling.
For the current Vritra, getting scolded or criticized by me over this matter would definitely give her a great shock.
That was why I sighed once and sorted out my feeling before smiling at her.
「Got it. It’s already a great help to be able to have the method to take the same appearance like Angolmois──I’m thankful. But if there is a limitation placed in its use, I’ll have to ask you Vritra for help in constructing Marduk.」
「──Of course. Thou can leave that to me!」
Vritra puffed out her chest with a relieved look.
「Then you should also go back to your room and change into your uniform quickly Vritra. The briefing is going to start soon.」
We were deep in talk, so the designated time was almost here.
I tightened my necktie and tidied up my clothes.
「Hmph, there is no need for me to go through such trouble.」
Vritra formed Dark Matter around her without moving. And then Vritra had changed into her uniform when I blinked.
「……You already have uniform in your room, don’t be lazy like that.」
「H,? Do thou think that this is a pointless usage of Dark Matter? Thou have a bad memory. I already said that there won’t be any effect to the total amount of Dark Matter for creating lifeless object.」
「No, what I want to say that before long you will get scolded by Mitsuki if you keep taking shortcut like that but──we can’t keep talking idly like this here.」
I headed toward the door with a sigh. Vritra followed me with a small jog and grabbed my left hand from the side.
「It will be troublesome if the change in color of thy dragon crest is noticed. I shall hide it like this.」
「…………Roger, I’m counting on you.」
I felt that this was making us stood out further instead, but Vritra looked strangely happy so I didn’t shake off her hand.
And then naturally the matter of the change in color of my dragon crest got found out when I was on the way to the bridge with everyone but──Vritra didn’t let go of my hand even then.
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Part 3
「About the approaching giant object──from its shape, the possibility that it’s one of Angolmois’s neck is big according to Atla’s analysis.」
We the members of Brunhilde class gathered inside the bridge. There Major Loki reported the situation with a businesslike tone.
The monitor projected the image of sea from the sky. It was displaying the overlapping outlines of the giant object that was detected by various radars.
The machine intelligence Atla was flying around in the screen. She spoke after Major Loki.
『The movement of Angolmois’s main body is sealed, so I believe that it cut off one of its necks that was in a relatively loose binding and made it to chase after us.』
Charlotte sighed heavily inside another screen that projected the image of Midgard.
『To think the enemy would play that kind of hand……at least we have finished the minimum preparation but──the separated neck and the spreading End Matter──which one we should deal with first……』
Major Loki also nodded hearing that.
「The resupply and maintenance of Naglfar are also completed. We can move anytime, but the command of the current mission is entrusted to all of you members of Brunhilde class. Therefore I shall move as one of the pawns. Also the currently approaching neck shall be called Angolmois One while the other necks will also have number assigned to them. After all there is a possibility of each one of them acting independently.」
Major Loki said that and looked around at us.
Then Vritra opened her mouth.
「I believe that we should destroy Angolmois One first physically.」
「Fumu……but if we do that, won’t the target return to be End Matter when it lose its form?」
Major Loki asked the obvious question. Vritra nodded back to him.
「Yes, so we will illuminate that darkness once more with Neun’s light. With the even mor powerful “Shamash” using the Apocalypse factor from the whole mankind as “light source”.」
Vritra paused for a moment there and strongly gripped my hand that was still holding her hand.
「If Angolmois’s true body is within the neck, its core, the skull will be exposed. But conversely if it isn’t, the darkness that is nothing more than outer shell should vanish. And then──if the neck return to its original form, then the amount of light will be insufficient and our plan will be at impasse.」
Vritra talked about the important of the battle that we would enter after this with a grave tone.
Mitsuki who was standing beside me tightened her expression and opened her mouth.
「We don’t know where is the “true body” Vritra mentioned is located inside Angolmois, so either way we don’t have a choice to run away from this.」
And then Mitsuki turned her gaze to entrust the final decision to me.
Everyone else also stared straight at me. Even Major Loki and Charlotte were waiting for my words.
I wasn’t a commander, but as the one who would directly face Angolmois──the responsibility hanging on my shoulder was greater than anyone.
That was why, I had to speak up here.
I took a deep breath and made the declaration to start everything.
「We will immediately construct Marduk and intercept Angolmois One together with Naglfar. After crushing it and confirming that its true body isn’t there, we will immediately head toward its main body to attack.」
「Yes──Nii-san, let’s go.」
Mitsuki nodded.
「Mononobe, let’s do our best!!」
Iris raised both her hands and yelled energetically.
We couldn’t stop anymore.
The night to dream about the future had entered the dawn and the battle that gambled the fate of the planet had begun.
However among everyone who started moving, Kili was the only one who stared at Iris with a gaze that was filled with grief──.
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Eat, eat, eat, eat──.
Eat the countless lives filling the sea and advanced.
The End Matter that was defined into a shape couldn’t absorb life and possibility into the darkness.
Therefore, eat.
Bit, chew, swallow, and digest the life that contained endless possibility.
Trampling on those who was raised by mother Gaia and rejoiced in their life felt very pleasant.
Because “I” hate Gaia.
The giant skull that was dragging the corpses of the rabbles with it to invade the inside of the sea was filled with rage and hatred.
Gaia made use of me.
Gaia isolated me.
Those living in Gaia pushed an authority that I didn’t know what to do with into me.
It was a power that I obtained not because I wished it. It wasn’t my role.
Don’t screw with me, don’t screw with me, don’t screw with me──.
The voice of resentment flooded out.
The bottom of the sea that originally should be quiet was stirred up by scream of despair.
I was showed a dream where my solitude ended.
The mate that I imprinted on was taken away from right before my eyes.
Hate, hate, hate, hate, hate──.
I hated the black dragon who dangled unreachable hope before my eyes.
I hated the human who obstructed my path to my mate and killed me.
I’ll kill him, kill him, kill him──.
Even though I was already a corpse that lost my authority, this revenge had to be carried out no matter what.
All the dead pushed on my back.
They affirmed that this anger and hatred were justified.
Then I shall run as my impulse drove me.
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My bitter enemy, remember my name.
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I was──we were once a protector of Gaia.
We were cut off from the main body to chase after the bitter enemy. We were the neck that shall administer the death and the end of Gaia.
And leading that neck was three skulls.
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My name is, Leviathan.
My name is, Basilisk.
My name is, Hraesvelgr.
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O you who stole our mates and brought despair and demise to us.
O all the people who lived on Gaia.
We deny──your existence.
