Chapter 79: Sin and Curse. (4)

Garnet created a somewhat tense atmosphere, but it didn’t take long for that atmosphere to break.

[Ah, Akari! Wouldn’t it be foul play if you intervened there!]

“…”

“…”

Garnet looked at me at my sudden change in speech.

No, it wasn’t because of the speech, but rather because the voice on the other end of the speaker was calling my name.

I didn’t expect her to suddenly call my name.

“The voice is so distorted that I can’t tell who it is.”

[What…!]

“If she showed herself, I think I’d know…”

I wouldn’t stop her if she ran away, but I also thought she would abandon the monster girl she had made and run away. She must have scraped all the materials she had already made.

[Ah, I get it! Just go out, if you go out!]

“Come quickly. Before I go looking for her.”

[Ah, I get it!]

Judging from the thud, she must have really come running in a hurry.

Haa, really. At this point, I don’t know who her guardian is.

“Huk, ugh, phew…”

“This is…”

“It’s been a while, Doctor.”

Did it take about 10 minutes?

I raised the corners of my lips slightly as I watched the Doctor breathing heavily.

When I needed him so much, he never showed up, but when I don’t, he causes trouble and wanders around like this.

As I was briefly wondering what to do with the Doctor, the Doctor slowly approached me.

“Ah, Akari…”

“You abandoned me and went to make something else?”

“T, that’s..!”

“Since you abandoned me once, it’ll be easy the second time, right? Am I done with teasing Curse?”

“Ah, no!!”

The doctor who shouted “Ouch!” soon started to look at me.

Anyone could tell that he was worried that I was upset. If someone else saw me, they might have thought I was bullying an innocent child. I was the one who was actually bullied.

“T-T… This may sound random, but I caught that Curse guy.”

“What?!”

“Whoa?! What, what a surprise… You’re a magical girl! Don’t yell so suddenly! Huh, I thought my heart was going to fall out…”

What do you mean your heart would fall out when you made me with your own heart?

Oh, are you telling me to fall out? If that’s what you mean, then tell me.

“What are you talking about? You caught that Curse guy!”

“Oh, Akari…”

“Garnet, if you approach a monster recklessly, you’ll get attacked, right? Especially if it’s a monster with a bad personality like this one.”

“…”

The doctor must have hated Garnet’s hope so much because he clung to me tightly and started to tremble.

What the hell is he pretending to be scared of? The gentleman who created Apocalypse and tried to kill all the magical girls.

“Anyway, let’s talk. What do you mean by capturing Curse?”

“That’s…”

The doctor began to stutter at my words.

I wasn’t particularly curious, but I guess it was a consideration for Garnet who might be curious.

I was also curious about her reaction after hearing what happened to Curse.

“Capturing that Curse guy who got beat up by you wasn’t a big deal. Ripping out Curse’s despair core and creating this child wasn’t a big deal either.”

“Doctor…”

Aya called the doctor in a loving voice, perhaps because she liked the doctor who created her.

So, he used Aya’s body as a base and created Curse’s despair core as his heart?

Looking at it this way, it really did seem like Apocalypse Mk. 2.

Even though there was no halo above his head.

“The problem was the quality of the despair core.”

“Why are you looking at me like that?”

“That means that Curse’s core wasn’t worth as much as mine.”

The doctor pursed his lips.

Sure, it felt similar to mine, but it wasn’t particularly overwhelming. Maybe it was because I was using a normal human child instead of a magical girl.

Still, since I called her a monster girl, I thought,

“That’s not like you, doctor.”

“Not like me, what do you mean?”

“I thought you’d go on and on about how I was a failure or something.”

There must be someone who can replace me, right? That’s possible, right?

That’s what kind of monster I was to begin with.

However, the doctor’s expression as he looked at me was unusual.

It was as if he was looking at something he cherished.

“There’s no way I’d say that to a child I created.”

“Ugh.”

“What?! Even if you’re telling a touching story! Heh, ugh..!”

I wondered what he was talking about, but the doctor was just talking nonsense.

A child I created? Who? Me?

No, of course the doctor made it in a physical sense…

‘And yet he treated it like that…’

“It may not have been like that at first, but I know now! That I need you!”

“Of course you do.”

The doctor’s face was filled with inexplicable earnestness.

An innocent face that would have fooled any human.

But what was his true intention inside?

“Really! I really need it! I really need it!”

“How much do you need?”

“This much!”

The doctor said, spreading out both arms.

…Hmm, that doesn’t seem like much.

As I looked at him with a frown, the doctor began to sweat profusely.

Why,

It seems like he also realized that this is a bit too much?

“Ieeeeemaaaaankeuuuum!!!!”

“Stop acting stupid and give me a concrete reason.”

Garnet, Aya, and I turned our gazes to the doctor.

See, there are three of us who are curious?

Even for a doctor, it seemed like it would be difficult to shake off the attention of three people.

“That… all the despair I had in my hand has fallen.”

“Humans have despair, right? Just eat that.”

“I can’t stand such petty despair!”

Was that it?

Certainly, I’ve never seen the doctor eat human despair…

There must have been a reason why he told me not to eat human despair last time.

Well, who did he resemble in that characteristic of not being full from human despair?

“You’ve managed to survive without dying until now.”

“T-That’s right? I—”

“Aya.”

“There’s a reason I created Aya!”

What followed were some lame excuses.

The despair created from the despair circuit, not the despair core, was similar to the despair of a magical girl, so he created it to live off of it, and he tried making it, but it wasn’t as pure as the despair he created, so it didn’t fill his stomach well, and so on and so forth.

Can’t you see the kid next to him listening?

“So in the end, you created Aya to make a living.”

“…Trash.”

“K-That’s not necessarily true… Ugh, even if you hadn’t run away, this wouldn’t have happened!”

“You were the one who tried to force me to work without even feeding me, right?”

The doctor tried to refute her somehow, but I had a good reason.

To go fight a magical girl right after she was created, without even feeding her.

This was something that even another monster—no, even the grandfather of another monster—wouldn’t tolerate.

Making her do things is one thing, but you still have to feed her and make her work.

Oh, that’s right.

“T-But I like you, Doctor…”

“That’s right. You wouldn’t abandon someone you like, would you?”

“There’s no way you’d throw that away! You put so much effort into making that child!”

I giggled at the doctor, who raised his voice as if it was ridiculous.

Well, if you made it using Curse’s Despair Core, then it’s probably more accurate to say that you put a lot of effort into making it.

“Then what about me?”

“…What.”

“How much effort did you put into making me?”

But the teasing of the Doctor wasn’t over yet.

I could have asked the Creator-Mother if it wasn’t too much, but I thought it would be okay to tease the mother who abandoned her child.

To be honest, I was curious.

Since he was a genius, did he make it in an instant?

If not, did he make it after much suffering and trial and error?

“…Of course, I put my whole life into making it.”

“Is that so?”

“Yes.”

This time, he was serious.

Even if he was serious, he was too serious.

To the point where I couldn’t believe that he was always noisy.

‘Of course, I won’t be moved by something like this…’

My heart had been as cold and hard as a monster’s for a long time, so I didn’t feel much emotion from the Doctor’s words.

Oh, I see.

“You really don’t plan on coming back to me? I’m really, really sorry…”

The Doctor’s apology was sincere.

It was a completely different tone of voice from the words he used when teasing magical girls in the original.

However, there was no way that a positive word would come out of my mouth.

If I went to the doctor’s side and caused a misunderstanding with Emerald, there was a high possibility that I would get into trouble in many ways.

“No.”

“Z-answer immediately…”

I shook my head while looking at the gloomy doctor.

A parent who is already trying to cling to their child…

Honestly, if only the despair circuit was activated, I wouldn’t have cared even if ten thousand doctors were by my side.

However, my goal as a monster was to cling to Emerald and live a long and thin life.

There was no need to live while receiving a lot of attention from humans.

“But still, I don’t mind coming to you whenever I need despair.”

“Ah, Akari…!”

The doctor came running towards me, as if he was touched by my words.

His gaze was sharp, as if he was looking at Garnet’s lost personality.