Chapter 107 : Wisteria Flowers

Swoosh―

The stems covered in lavender flowers swayed with the summer breeze.

When the lavender waves spreading over the hundreds of meters of wall rippled, an intense fragrance rose from within.

The wisteria garden.

Since wisteria was a vine plant and poisonous, it could only be grown on specially constructed walls, but Sumire especially liked the quiet wisteria garden in the corner.

Swoosh―

When the flower fragrance tickled her nose, carried by the gentle breeze.

She could feel free like a 9-year-old girl, escaping from the etiquette lessons and manners education she had to receive 24 hours a day as a lady of the Fujimoto family.

“Sister Sumire!!”

“Anna.”

Pitter-patter

Fujimoto Anna approaching with unladylike steps while wearing an elegant kimono.

Sumire was happy to see Anna, her only close younger relative.

Except for her deceased mother and grandmother, she was the only female family member she was close to, and her pure younger cousin who wasn’t much younger was so adorable.

Somehow walking so skillfully in a narrow kimono, Anna instantly approached from the garden entrance to the corner where Sumire was walking.

Sumire tidied Anna’s disheveled hair with her small hand.

“Did Uncle come?”

“Yes!”

“…A lady shouldn’t run so recklessly.”

“Yes!”

“Oh my.”

Hop hop

The sister who seemed to barely listen to her words hopped around the garden like a rabbit with very unladylike behavior.

Sumire let out a small laugh at her sister’s appearance but quietly watched over her from behind to make sure she didn’t fall.

‘Uncle said he wanted Anna to grow up freely.’

Father, whose only purpose was to continue and prosper the Fujimoto family tradition, did not tolerate behavior unbefitting the Fujimoto family’s status.

Father’s younger brother, who claimed Fujimoto was just an ordinary family and advocated coexistence with others while living freely.

The two brothers, only a year apart like herself and Anna, had extremely different ideologies but got along well because the younger brother quickly conceded the succession rights to his older brother.

“Sister! Sister!”

“Yes?”

“Mother said she wants to go on a trip to Hawaii with Sister Sumire this time! Let’s go together! What color swimsuit do you like? Red? Bikini?”

“Anna, that’s too immodest a color.”

One-sided notification

Sumire couldn’t help but smile at Anna’s purity in unhesitatingly including her in the family trip, showing she truly considered her family, and deciding without waiting for her choice.

“Pfft.”

“Ah~ Why! Sister! Let’s go together~”

“Hehehe, please be quiet in the garden, Anna.”

“Hehehe!”

“And I can’t go because I have many lessons to take. I have to become a perfect lady to be the guardian of the Fujimoto family.”

“Guardian? Why do you have to do that?”

“Hmm… So Anna can live comfortably like now?”

“Wow! Thank you!”

“Hehehe, what’s that.”

The two sisters held hands and walked through the garden, talking like that.

Such a nostalgic memory.

“Sister, why do they grow so many of these lavender trees?”

“It’s the tree symbolizing the Fujimoto family, it can bloom flowers even in barren places and make delicious honey.”

“Ba-barren?”

“Land where it’s difficult for flowers to grow.”

“Aha!”

Anna, who had run off, broke off a wisteria flower stem and tapped Sumire’s shoulder.

‘She must have seen it in a manga or something.’

Did her sister, who made her kneel with a solemn expression like a medieval knighting ceremony, know?

If someone caught the Fujimoto family heir kneeling, it would cause quite a commotion.

“I ap-appoint Sister as the guardian of Fujimoto!”

“Appoint.”

“…Appoint!”

“Yes, I will protect all precious things including Anna forever.”

“Hehe.”

“Hehehe.”

Anna looked at Sumire and smiled brightly.

Stab―!!

While stabbing a dagger into Sumire’s chest several times.

“Aaaaah!!”

“Haha, Sister. Nice to see you!”

“Kugh…!”

Sumire looked at Anna, who had somehow defeated all her comrades and was now straddling her, digging into her stomach with a sharp dagger.

She had approached wondering if it could be, since the last obelisk appeared where the Fujimoto Building was located.

Sumire, who had returned to where the Fujimoto Building was after several months, shuddered.

Because her sister’s face, with the red sky behind her, looked too mature compared to her memory.

But the face of her pure sister from that time still remained.

Because her sister casually killing people while smiling was so chilling.

Because it was so sad that she killed people insensitively, just like Father.

Sumire cried out, forgetting even the pain she felt in her cold hands, feet, and stomach from the blood loss.

“An-Anna…!”

“Yes! Nice to see you!”

“Why!!”

Pain

In the pain like being stabbed with a red-hot poker, Sumire cried out miserably. Seeing Sumire like that, Anna instead widened her blood-red eyes in surprise.

“Why are you doing this!!”

“Hm? Wow, I didn’t know you could get angry like that too. That’s unexpected. I thought you were emotionless like Uncle.”

“Why… why…”

“Why, you ask. Well.”

Terribly collapsed building

Fujimoto headquarters

Tens of thousands of blades scattered on the ground

On the ground soaked with blood flowing from between the debris, Anna smiled and completely removed her leather mask, and as her black hair fell swaying, a girl’s face chillingly similar to Sumire’s appeared.

“I.”

Rolling Fujimoto Eiji’s head with her foot in black boots.

Wearing a necklace of fingers threaded from those with the Fujimoto name.

Creating a river of blood on the ground from those accidentally involved.

“Have returned here.”

A face with large scars remaining.

Wounds that refused self-healing.

“To take [Revenge].”

“Why… why even uninvolved people…!”

“When did I ever care about such things? That’s ridiculous.”

“Ridiculous…? Killing people is…?”

“Yes! You have no right to say such things!”

Because you’re the eldest daughter of Fujimoto.

Because you’re the heir to a family stained with blood.

Anna stroked Sumire’s face while slowly turning the dagger stuck in her stomach.

“Hehehe…”

“Aaaah!!”

Squelch

Red blood spurted from the wound, wetting the pale scars on Anna’s face.

Sumire got goosebumps as Anna’s face, gradually turning red with blood, looked like a flush rising from ecstasy.

Reddish-brown energy swirled in Anna’s blood-red eyes, which were emitting an increasingly thick killing intent.

“Beloved sister.”

“Kugh…!”

Stab

A thin skewer-like knife stabbed into Sumire’s arm, drawing blood.

The skewer, gleaming with oil and blood from stabbing people countless times, was disgusting just to look at.

“Sister who loved me.”

“Aah!!”

Stab

A jagged knife like a saw stabbed into Sumire’s white leg, spurting blood like a fountain.

It mercilessly tore the skin under her tattered clothes, causing pain that made her head go white.

“Now for the final revenge.”

“Ugh…!”

“It’s too perfect. As expected, rather than an arrogant old man who’s just a weak human…”

Anna, with the ominously red-dyed sky behind her, spoke in an ecstatic voice while holding her face with both hands covered in black gloves.

“…I wanted to kill the beautiful and perfect sister last. After destroying everything Uncle treasured, at the very end.”

“Ugh…”

“Do you know I’ve been dreaming of this moment for 7 years?”

“…”

“Did you think I didn’t know how that old man doted on you while only looking at you?”

“…”

“Now I’ll really kill you. Sticking out your tongue uglily like our mom and dad!”

Choke

“Ugh… kuh…!”

Tightening windpipe

The slippery feel of black leather gloves was felt on her neck.

Perhaps it was slippery not because of the leather, but because of blood.

“Ah, what a shame. I can only see this for a few minutes.”

“Kuk…!”

“Hehehe, don’t even dream of coming back to life, because I’ll take your Glass Star and corpse.”

Let’s wander in hell together forever, Sister.

This world is destined for destruction anyway.

‘Anna…’

In her gradually darkening consciousness, Sumire apologized in her heart to the girl she followed. And also to everyone who had trusted and followed her, the Council, and Kaede.

‘I’m… sorry.’

“I can’t let that happen!!”

Ratatatatatatata!!

Anna turned around at the baptism of machine gun fire cutting through the darkness. There, a mixed-race girl wearing a flight jacket was running urgently, panting and deploying a machine gun.

“Who are you? Did you already come back to life after having your neck cut?”

“No.”

Rena pointed at her own neck with her thumb.

Slightly misaligned skin.

As Rena said, it looked like her completely severed head had been forcibly reattached using healing.

“Kohane reattached it before I completely died.”

“You’re completely crazy.”

“More than you?”

Baaaang!!

Armor dropping from the silver ship floating in the sky.

[Quick revival!! Get your hands off the boss!!]

Vroom―

A neon orange bike approaching rapidly from far away.

“Bo-Boss!! It’s dangerous!!”

When Anna narrowed her eyes at the girls who had come back from death and turned back to Sumire.

“Ninja art, substitution technique.”

Instead of Sumire, there was a girl lying down wearing a black sailor uniform with a dark green muffler.

“Damn it! Nameless? I killed everyone!”

“I am no longer Nameless.”

“Stop talking nonsense and die!!”

Thud!

The dagger Anna swung down hit a hard log instead of the girl’s soft skin.

The girl who disappeared with dark green mist declared from far away while supporting Sumire:

“I am the magical girl of [Envy], an ugly magical girl who envies freedom. Now that I look at you, you seem quite free too, so I’m envious.”

“What did you just say?”

Anna frowned at the ridiculous words, but Kaede paid no attention.

It was meant to be annoying from the start anyway.

“Ka…ede, thank you.”

“It’s nothing, Miss.”

Anna didn’t like the minions who had come running to interfere with her revenge.

[Revenge] Magical Girl’s Unique Skill

Mountains of Corpses, Seas of Blood

Revenge is only completed through death.

She desires the death of all who stand in its way.

Swish―!!

Blood-red energy rose from all the land where Anna, strengthened as a guardian, stood, becoming a huge river.

“I’ll kill you all.”