episode_0042

Watch carefully.

It’s all your fault.

From afar, it seemed as if I heard a voice like that.

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Everywhere you look, it’s a disaster.

If only I could save these children. If only I could save them.

With that in mind, Noctilla looked back.

“… Wow, why didn’t I know this before?”

“I, it hurts so much… Stop… .”

The children are happy today, too. They are busy chatting and enjoying the new game they have discovered.

I figured it out.

“That’s right, that’s right, why didn’t I know? If you cut it, it screams just like a person!”

“Stop, stop it… . Onee-chan, I was wrong, aaa… . I was wrong. I’ll be a good, little sister, aaa!!”

Collapse, enthusiasm, madness.

It was contagious.

The world was falling apart. Everything was falling apart. As if an ordinary dream had suddenly become a nightmare.

It was like a nightmare, where suddenly, without any reason, logic, or plausibility, everyone on the street was trying to kill me.

“Wahahahahahahahahaha!!”

Happy children cheering while tearing, cutting, and breaking each other, covered in blood and entrails.

Any unrealistic thing, like a dream setting that becomes ‘that’s how it was originally’.

Children change so easily.

“No… .”

No, it’s different, thought Noctilla.

It’s the opposite.

This is their true form, this is reality. They are friendly sister demons who run around and play together, laugh together, hug each other tightly and sleep soundly. Wouldn’t they go crazy if they don’t come into contact with humans?

That is nonsense.

But. And yet.

I just took it for granted. Like a dream where the strange setting is taken for granted. Like a dream where nothing is that strange after waking up.

If you look closely, the tragedy before your eyes is just the real thing.

These kids are just like this. There was no such thing as a good kid from the beginning.

It was a decided ending before it even started.

Still.

Those kids, covered in red paint and leaving handprints all over the place. Bright smiles.

Still, why does it seem so infinitely innocent? Why does it still seem pure and beautiful?

“Hehehe, let’s do Noctilla too!”

“Yeah yeah! Come quickly!”

“Ah, ah, oh, it hurts, it hurts, sis, it hurts …. Ah, ahaa■■■ー”

Pure, black. I.

Why can’t I not love you?

“So let’s finish it.”

A sword forms at the tip of one’s finger.

Within, I was gripping it so tightly that my hand almost broke.

Swinged.

No power. No speed. No technique.

Just, with endless affection.

Sarak.

First, the sleepy Juri’s neck fell to the floor and rolled around. Then the gluttonous Hartrinne, the hide-and-seek-skilled Cabiria, and the short-tongued Munasseri also ended up likewise.

He swung it again and again. Swing. Swing. Swing. Swing.

The bodies of Padona, Befran, Ruri, Ariel, Teima, Kalariyara, and Avirin were shattered into pieces.

As the sword draws a gentle curve, the children break down into parts and are reduced to smaller and smaller pieces. Eventually, they turn into particles and fly away like pollen on a spring day.

Everyone died equally, without discrimination. The children who could no longer laugh or speak were silent. Silence spread from the tip of the sword, like waves spreading across the water.

Thud, thud… .

In between, all that could be heard was the sound of blood splattering and flowing. In a kind of reverent silence, like a chapel, where even breathing was impossible. The blood was baptism, and the children were finally being saved.

The waves spread all the way to the end of the village, and soon, all the children fell into a quiet sleep.

To the dreamland from which there is no return. This time, to find true happiness, not this bloody, twisted smile.

I hope the flowerpot becomes a white flower next time.

And here was only one left. Noctilla took heavy steps.

“… Sister Naheshi.”

“No, don’t… . No, that’s a lie. Noctilla, you, youuuu… . You, my, sisters.”

The puddle of blood soaking her bare feet with every step she takes is hot. Naheshi is tearing out her pretty silver hair.

“Oh. No way. Have you forgotten what you were doing just now?”

“You killed your younger sisters. Your precious sisters…? Noctilla, why…? Why? Why? Why?!! Why!!!!!!!”

ah.

“How messed up is it, sis.”

“I can’t forgive you. My brothers. Give them back. Give them back… . I won’t forgive you. … I’ll kill you. I’ll kill you so painfully.”

iced coffee.

-Oh my, our youngest sibling. Let’s change clothes~.

-Huh?

– Ta-da, a white dress just like ours! Now, cheer, cheer!

-Hey, even by yourself… .

“You can do it by yourself.”

How old are you?

I can do things like dying alone, shivering in pain. I can change my clothes. I am confident that I will die more painfully than other children.

“But you, can’t do it, right? You’re still ignoring me. Huh? Sister, sister. Sister… . Cute Naheshi sister. Trustworthy Naheshi sister… . So I’ll help you.”

I’ll help you, sis.

“Let’s die without any pain?”

Noctilla smiled.

A few tears were added to the puddle of blood on the floor.

“Ugh, ah, euaaa …

Naheshi raised his claws and ran towards Noctilla, screaming wildly.

Of course, Nahesh is still far stronger than Noctilla.

Thousands of years, tens of thousands of years? For countless years, Naheshi had been the eldest sister of the girls here. Over time, the resentment had built up, matured, and grown. It was like excess.

Sisterhood.

Three times the amount of magic that Noctilla could use when she first fell here.

Even with that, Noctilla is now being torn apart like this. In the trajectory drawn by Naheshi’s ten claws. Her entire body is being torn apart into small pieces.

“… I said, Sister first.”

But the sea, no matter how much you scoop it out, fills up again. It’s still there.

A healthy body. Lightly place your hand on your head and relax your neck.

Again, Noctilla’s body is torn apart again and again.

As it rips and tears, it flows back through the passage and fills rapidly. The hydraulic pressure causes the passage to open up and become wider and wider.

More and more, the sheep are being called. The magic is increasing. It is becoming stronger.

Right now, I could kill Naheshi.

But even though she had gained that much power, Noctilla failed to do so. Instead.

“Ahaha.”

He sat still and smiled.

Impulses, desires, needs, self-destruction. Like broken love. Piles and piles and fester.

With the accumulation of twisted minds, the devil becomes stronger.

So what does it mean, on the contrary, that it suddenly becomes stronger?

“AHA …

It means that the mind is distorted.

Emotions.

“It hurts. I’m hurt. It hurts, it hurts, it hurts. I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry… . I didn’t want to be like this. I didn’t like it. I didn’t like it.”

Crouching and convulsing.

“Noctil, La.”

“I don’t want to break up. I wanted to stay like this. I don’t want to do that either. With my own hands, with my own hands… . I don’t like this. Really, I don’t like it. Still. But… .”

I hate it, I like it.

“Oh, ah, oh my. Haaah… . Sister… . Sister… .”

“You… .”

A burst of tears came. Noctilla approached Nahesh and hugged him tightly.

Noctilla was a sword. A bloody hedgehog curled up and moaning as it was stabbed and pierced again and again, inside and out.

“… I love you, sis.”

The hand that could tear Noctilla apart at any moment stopped. Naheshi was dumbfounded. Unable to shake off Noctilla who was holding him, he remained still.

Soft skin is pierced. The dozens and hundreds of blades sprouting from Noctilla’s entire body slash at the girl’s slender body.

Noctila hugs him tightly, holding him tightly. She hugs him so tightly that his body almost breaks. Now, it really does seem like it will break. Nahesh, full of holes, looks like it will shatter into pieces.

In the midst of the pain that somehow clears my mind.

“Ahh… .”

Now we finally look around us properly. We face what we have done. We realize what we have done and how distorted we have been.

As the candle is blown out, the anger and madness that had been burning up also subsides.

Naheshi soon realized that the blades weren’t just sticking outward.

Same. Or even deeper.

It was embedded deep inside Noctilla. It was stabbing Noctilla herself.

so.

“I love you too.”

Naheshi smiled faintly and patted Noctilla’s head.

I could tell.

The same pain. From sharing pain to sharing emotion. What kind of heart is it? A feeling that even Noctila herself doesn’t know. The reason she swung her sword. The fact that she still loves.

“What is it? That’s what it was. Our youngest. It’s okay. It’s okay… .”

Even though I can’t understand it myself, I understand it.

“I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sick. I’m sick, but I like being sick. I want to be with everyone. I want to save everyone. But there’s no way… .”

“Yeah. Yeah… But thanks to Noctilla, we ended up not getting ruined any more, right? I’m sure all my siblings thought it was a relief. Hehe.”

Naheshi closed his eyes in satisfaction. He understood everything. The bloody fantasy was complete. It was the end of the dream. It was the conclusion. The wind blew, carrying the sweet smell of blood and sugar.

That wasn’t too bad.

“You are like that because you love too much.”

That was the reason after all.

“The reason you parted with us like this, that you had no choice but to kill us… . Yeah. Because you loved us too much. Yes, even hurting yourself is definitely because you loved yourself too much. ”

“Can I die now? I’m done.”

“I want to die because I love living, living. So let’s try a little harder. My cute little sister.”

Jeongdong, Jeongdong.

“There’s something I have to do. I’m not the owner of this broken dream. You noticed that, right?”

“Sister, I… . If only I wasn’t here… ”

“Ah, I’m glad you’re Noctilla’s older sister.”

A real smile.

“I’ll speak for everyone. We were saved by you. Thank you for saving us.”

A round touch that I have never felt before in my life. And then it disappears.

“I love you, my sweet little sister. Really.”

“Yeah.”

“Hey, everything here was fake. But this one isn’t a lie.”

“Yeah.”

“Was the dream fun?”

“Yeah.”

“Then that’s it. Now, let’s really go and finish it. I’ll watch over our happy ending that you created until the very end.”

It’s all thanks to you!