There’s still a little more before the chapter ends, but I’m out of power for today. Let’s do that tomorrow. Yes, Tomorrow. Good night!
Episode 40 — Want to Be One
～ Part 2 ～
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«That» made a resounding sound that made one felt its weight and settled down on the heavy cruiser branch school. The burly forelegs reminiscent of tiger or bear gouged deeply on the deck. Its face was that of lion and goat, its tail was a snake. Kyousuke instantly understood that it was a synthetic beast. From its big frame reaching to 5 meters in length, an eerie intimidating atmosphere was drifting about.
The place it settled down was exactly behind Sakuma. It was a form of pincher attack together with Suou, completely blocking her path of retreat. In front of Sakuma and Kyousuke was Suou, behind them was the chimera.
When looking at the chimera, Kyousuke felt exceedingly difficult to continue keeping his calm.
The face of lion and goat, and then the snake tail was fine. However, what grew on the chimera’s back was bird of prey’s wings. Just, it wasn’t any ordinary wings. In its back seemed to buried an eagle head. That thing that was looking to the void with its vacant eyes, Kyousuke understood.
Sakuma opened her eyes wides and muttered in a hoarse voice. Rin’s voice was also trembling.
“Such wicked hobby…!”
The one who shouted that was Kensaki. Her words as well was oozing out enough anger that could be obviously understood just from hearing.
Not just Kensaki, the students who witnessed the chimera’s figure that obviously seemed to be recycling Washio’s remains, was burning with fighting spirit. The brunt of their anger was naturally aimed at Suou. ∗Fun∗, Suou snorted, and then muttered with feeling of self-derision.
“Since it’s like this, there is no more room for «negotiation» anymore.”
Kyousuke tightly clenched his fists and glared at Suou.
“Now I have no choice but to make everyone obedient with «blood». You guys as well Kogane.”
Before those words finished until the end, Kyousuke started running, raised his clenched fists and struck. But that was easily caught by Suou with one hand.
“……!!”
Kyousuke tried to bashed him with the free left hand, but that too was caught. Rin shouted.
“Utsurogi-kun, such unreasonable is…!”
“That’s right, I understand your feelings but you cannot defeat me even if you get this enthusiastic.”
Suou said with a cold tone, slapped Kyousuke’s body down on the deck with just physical strength alone.
“Gaa…!”
“In that condition, even Phase 2 ability will be dead. You got weaker than before, what do you come out for.”
Saying that much, Suou kicked Kyousuke away. Immediately afterward, he caught Kensaki’s sword that came flying in from behind, and drove a yakuza kick into her abdomen. Kensaki also screamed, and again rolled on the deck.
“There’s no difficulty. Chimera, clean up quickly.”
“GUOOOOUU!!”
Responding to Suou’s order, the chimera roared. It spread Washio’s wing and flapped them once, then each feathers were shot like missile. This was also Washio’s technique. At the moment when Sakuma tried to chant a spell to intercept the approaching feathers, he nape was grabbed from behind by Suou.
“Ah…!”
Sakuma whose magic chanting was interrupted, was stabbed by the feathers. Her eyes noticeably opened wide strongly, and as Suou released his hands, her body collapsed on the deck.
“Saa-chan…!”
“Sa, kuma…!”
Rin screamed, Kyousuke also tried to stand up and reached out his hand.
Sakuma collapsed, her white skin like snowflake crystal turned even paler and she floated a painful looking expression. Weak hands movement reached out to the feathers stabbed from her collarbone to her right upper arm.
“No way, poison…?”
“Good insight.”
Suou answered to Kagoi’s mutter. The chimera made a low groan, and this time it broke into a run aiming at that Kagoi and others. Kagoi, Okumura, Zeku etc took that rush. Uozumi older brother launched his scales, Uozumi little sister intercepted with attack magic of water attribute.
Meanwhile, Suou dropped his gaze back to Sakuma who collapsed on the floor.
Sakuma pulled out the feather lodged in the area of her collarbone. From the stab wound, bead of blood welled up.
“For now, I should take just the succubus home. And then I would like to destroy this ship…”
While saying so, Suou grab Sakuma’s arm and forcibly forced her to stand. Sakuma desperately struggled to resist but perhaps it was the fault of the poison, she couldn’t put strength into her body at all. As for the other students, they were being hindered by the chimera and couldn’t go to her rescue.
“S, top…!”
Kyousuke stood up and glared at Suou.
“Himemizu, can you go…!”
“I’m ready at anytime.”
Rin’s calm heart echoed inside his heart. But her body had yet to become familiar to him. Kyousuke clenched his fist and ran on the deck. Suou, still grabbed Sakuma’s arm and raised her up, directed a chilling gaze at Kyousuke and lightly caught his fist as before.
“It’s useless no matter how many time you come.”
He lightly declared and kicked Kyousuke.
“Ga…!”
“Kyaa…!”
“I thought I told you Utsurogi, you’re empty, no matter how much you do it’s the same thing.”
Suou looking down at Kyousuke. Suou, with all his strength, trample down on Kyousuke who rolled on the deck and was trying to stand up.
“Utsu, rogi-kun … Himemizu, san…”
Sakuma whose face was turning blue, while repeating rough breathing, looked at Kyousuke.
Kyousuke was trying to stand up but he couldn’t resist Suou’s strength pressing down on top of him. At this rate, Sakuma was going to be kidnapped. It wouldn’t be Sakuma alone. Even the students who had to do their utmost just to fight back the chimera’s power from the front as well, eventually, they would be exhausted, had the freedom of their body snatched away by the poisonous feathers and be kidnapped. And then, what was carrying that out was Washio’s power.
Against that, Kyousuke could only look.
No matter how much he tried to put power into his body, Kyousuke was powerless. As Suou had said, it was the same no matter what he did.
“That, but…!”
“Ohh…?”
Kyousuke who was trying to stand up felt a sense that Rin’s body got a little accustomed to his body.
Immediately afterwards, Rin’s consciousness flowed into Kyousuke just a little bit. The syrupy gelatinous leaking stopped, power filled his body. It was a sense like the bypass had connected.
Suou looked at Kyousuke who tried to stand up, however, his cold attitude remained unchanged.
“It’s pointless.”
Those words seemed to contain some irritation.
Suou removed his legs, then immediately gave a strong kick to Kyousuke’s stomach. That kick was stronger than any blow that Suou had ever released before. Kyousuke was blown off and crashed into the handrail on the deck. Rin’s syrupy body flowed out from his body. She fainted. She had continued to «» to combine with Kyousuke all the way until then, so it was unavoidable that she reached her limit.
Is this how it is in the end?
At the last of the last moment, he regained a little of his power, his confidence or possibly hope. But even that was like garbage before this overwhelming different in power. Kogane, Sakuma, Washio, other classmates, and finally himself,
“You, can save, no one.”
While hearing those words from Suou, Kyousuke let go of his consciousness to darkness.
Utsurogi’s consciousness was sinking in darkness. He was sinking in darkness that he didn’t know its bottom, didn’t know how far it stretched.
I couldn’t help even a single person.
In the end, I guess it is this stupid and unsightly fate appropriate for a wooden doll that didn’t try to look at his own inside.
Because of a stupid play the house was set on fire, his parents were killed, so at least, he made an effort to become a splendid human that could do something for the sake of others as his parents had told him. The result was this. Continuing to avert his eyes from his ugly inner self, keeping on painting mud only on the outside and strengthen it, he made a splendid building purely in appearance. A container without contents. That was him.
He wanted to help Sakuma. He didn’t want students like Kogane or Washio to appear ever again. For that reason, he was reckless and tried to summon his power, but even then it was only power on the outside. It wasn’t accompanied by any substance.
He made Himemizu Rin go along with that.
She was a good girl. She was gentle, bright, and could do something for the sake of others much more than someone like him, a splendid girl. That Rin too, Kyousuke had made her go along with him, but in the end, he couldn’t respond to her expectation.
Will I die like this?
Will Rin also decay in the same way?
Sakuma, Kensaki, and other students as well. Even if he shouted that he hated it, he already had no power to do anything anymore.
«Utsurogi-kun»
Suddenly, he heard a voice called out to him. A voice that made him feel relieved when hearing, a voice that he had grown very familiar with in the past 1 and a half month.
«Utsurogi-kun. Utsurogi Kyousuke-kun»
«Hime, mizu»
Himemizu Rin’s figure hazily emerged in front of him. Rather than emerged, it was an image like she was submerging to Kyousuke’s place who was sinking deeper. It seemed that she was in her human form but whether it was an image based on Kyousuke’s memory, her details was vague.
Just before fainting, Kyousuke and Rin’s bodies were in contact. This was probably a telepathic link using Kyousuke’s ability. During combine, they could exchange their mutual consciousness even without words, this was an extension of that. Or possibly because Kyousuke’s body’s function had mostly stopped that it became an exchange in darkness like this.
«It’s okay, Utsurogi-kun. We can still fight, we will manage somehow.»
He somehow understood that Rin in front of him was smiling.
«Manage? I couldn’t do anything in the end. I’m just an empty guy without anything that I really want to do and just want to others to praise me.»
«Isn’t it fine? So then.»
∗Pon∗, Rin put her hand on Kyousuke’s head.
«It’s fine if you don’t have anything you want to do, it’s also fine even if you just want other’s praises, it’s also fine to be empty. If that’s the person called Utsurogi Kyousuke-kun, there’s not really any problem like this. There is no need to be something else, is there?»
This was the first time he was told something like this. Kyousuke was confused.
Kyousuke had continuously averting his eyes from his contents. There’s no way that my true nature is like that. It was because he didn’t want to admit it no matter how empty and vague his contents were.
However, Himemizu easily said «it’s fine like this». What Kyousuke had desperately denying so far, Rin affirmed it without any hesitation.
But, I am,
«Even if Himemizu is fine with it, I hate it…»
I’m a troublesome guy, he thought, and diverted his gaze.
Despite having been given that much gentle words, Kyousuke couldn’t reward it.
«Well then, Kyousuke-kun. If you cannot come to like yourself, come to like me.»
Without being able to understand those words, Kyousuke tilted his head.
«I or Hino-kun, Saa-chan, everyone in the class, come to like us more and more. Because everyone doesn’t hate Kyousuke-kun as much as Kyousuke-kun do»
«That is…»
«I won’t let you say you can’t do it. Because Kyousuke likes everyone. You want to help, wanted to help Kogane-kun, Washio-kun, Saa-chan, don’t you think so? It’s okay. Because everyone surely likes Kyousuke-kun.»
Little by little, little by little, the poison going inside came out from his body.
His inner face that he could never look directly at, he was going to look at it through the mirrors call other people. Himself that was reflected in the eyes of the girl of him, in Himemizu Rin’s eyes wasn’t as ugly as he was thinking? Or was she saying that she like him including that ugliness?
«Kyousuke-kun, do you still think you’re empty?»
Rin asked. Kyousuke nodded.
«There are a lot of things missing, a lot of chippings, do you dislike yourself being like that?»
Rin continued. Kyousuke nodded again.
«Understood. It’s fine, Kyousuke-kun. Because I will fill in all those missing parts as well as those chipping parts.»
«Himemizu…”*
«If Kyousuke-kun’s heart is missing, I will become your heart. If you say that you have no contents, I will become that contents. If there’s no flesh, I will become your flesh, if there’s no organs, I will become your organs, if there’s no skin, I will become your skin.»
In consciousness of Utsurogi Kyousuke, the consciousness of Himemizu Rin flowed in. The connected bypass was becoming thicker and stronger. Rin’s appearance in front of him, accompanied by her memory, was changing to more clear and vivid. At the same time, Rin tightly hugged Kyousuke.
«When you want to get angry, I will give you eyes, mouth, and heart. When you want to cry, I will give you cheeks, throat and tears. Even when you want to delight, when you want to laugh, I will give you every parts is missing. I won’t let anyone say Kyousuke-kun is empty anymore.»
I want to become water to fill you.
Rin’s consciousness strongly told him.
«Let’s combine. Kyousuke-kun. We have to go help Saa-chan.»
Rin’s words had a slight trace of tension. Let’s go help Sakuma and everyone. It was what he wanted.
But was that really possible?
«We can. If together with you, we can go anywhere. Let’s combine, Kyousuke-kun. Both mind and body, let’s them become one.»
«Ahh…»
Kyousuke nodded. The heart that felt empty to that extent, he had a feeling that it seemed to be filled up with something. A sense of satisfaction that the empty container was satisfied at once. Kyousuke gradually became unable to control the power of the emotion that was boiling up. Words like a curse that had bound his body, everything were rinsed off by Himemizu Rin.
There were many missing pieces. But even that was being compensated, and Rin’s power filled up his entire body.
«Ah, that’s right.»
Rin image suddenly raised her face and said.
«What’s wrong?»
«No well, since I can only do such a thing in the image world anyway.»
Rin’s lips softly overlapped with Kyousuke’s.
To be continued…
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