Vol 1 Chapter 62 (1/2)
Putting Lily behindinto one of the doors in the penthouse, was a guest roo me
The first thing that greetedat my way
Grasped in his hand was a leash that was connected to Dorothy lying on the bed
It really is a nauseating sight, I thought subconsciously
“I’m here to take you back, Dorothy”
“!”
“Let’s go back ho for us”
Throb
As I mentioned Maria’s name, I didn’t fail to notice Dorothy’s short flinch, as if she’d felt soe from her heart
No, I couldn’t have failed to notice so like that
“Hh”
Even despite all that, Dorothy shot backher disapproval
“You stoleback’ now? ‘Home’, you say…?”
Her words sounded like a desperatein the world
“You took everything I had away from me! Where I was supposed to be and uts to co back hoht!”
Hei sorrowfully, joins in the conversation
“I’irl is mine now! There’s no place for someone like you to butt in between now”
“Shut up, you”
“What?”
“Gone deaf? Just sit there like a good boy and shut up”
“Haa, look at this littlearound…”
Perhaps Heimlich was disturbed that he couldn’t casually watch the quarrel between e, in response to my taunts
“W-Wait a second! He’s nothing but air! Swaggering around shooting off his eo back like this!”
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“Wait”
Towards Dorothy hiding behind her façade, telling , I supress my emotions to the very minimum and flatly continue on my words
“Are you really sure you won’t coret this decision you’ve made?”
“Yeah”
「But that’s not the place I should be at anymore」
“I regret nothing”
「That is why this is my ‘punishment’」
“I see Is that so?”
Gazing into Dorothy’s teeth-clenched face of determination face to face, I think back on the unfinished question I’ve asked from back then
“If that’s what you really think, then letWhy?”
“W-What do you mean?”
I’ for the ‘reason’ as to why there can’t by any other way
Yes
“I’m just curious”
「I’, why you-」
“I’m just curious as to why soret in hertears before me – I want to hear a proper answer to that! Dorothy Ivalice Blackhazel!”
Ah
“Ahhh…!”
At those words
At that moment, the lock located deep within Dorothy’s heart opens widely
The sealed letter inside her heart rips open
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That stupid brother, the sa, smiles and extends his hands this way
Because he wanted to “take me back”
“Ha-hauu…!”
The so down The sorrow I’ve welled up insideout of a collapsed dam
“Stupid…! Stupid, stupid, you stupid idiot Onii-san…!Why, for some like me, why did you…!”
“Why did I come to save you?”
“Everything turned out like this, because of you!”
“Of course, it is my fault”
I’ve no thought of denying that
It’s my fault It’s because it’s my fault
“And, you’re talking about ‘taking me back’ now?! Then what happens to the decision I’veto happen to my resolve?”
“It’s because of that I’ve come to take you back, isn’t it?”
“If you’re acting like that, then who am I supposed to hate…!”
Looking at the sobbing Dorothy, I confirm inside my heart
She’s not isolating herself
She’s not giving up
Right nohen she needs an answer The answer that will fill the void inside her heart The answer that will save her from this despair
“If you’re just looking for souy’ tattooed on his forehead will do, so that’s not a problem”
“Wh-what?!”
“Next is about your determination and resolve… Well, to be frank, I don’t think I’ive you the answer to that”
I couldn’t understand fro
Why are you wasting your effort trying pin down people here and there for every little thing?
I knew
I knew fro the answer to that stupid question
What you truly needed was not some justification to the decision you’ve made for yourself
“But”
No, it’s exactly because of that I can say this right now I can answer you
“Aren’t we a family?”
It’s because we’re a family
This isn’t the place you’re supposed to be at right now
Yes, the place for Dorothy Ivalice Blackhazel is still there
That’s why I’ve come here to take you back to where you’re really supposed to be
“What else could you possibly need then?”
“Stop acting like you’re so-shot, you little shi+t!”
And it was then
-Bang!
All of a sudden, a gunshot reverberated throughout
Not towards bottoht sky, but towards my chest instead
“Eh…h?”
The one responsible for the gunshot is none other than Hei but stand by and listen to our conversation
“You retarded bitch, it’s like all this pointless dra”
He spits out incoherent profanity and insults, huffing and puffing with rage
“Wh-what did you…?”
“What do you think I did? I gave your dah!”
Unable to contain his anger, he violently pulls on the leash in a contorted expression
“Kuh, ahuu…!”
“What? Family? Where you’re supposed to be? What a load of bullshi+t!”
Heier and stomps down furiously on my fallen body like he was possessed It’s as if he transfor himself in the moment
“S-Stop!”
“You shut up!”
Wham!
Did he not realize he was up against a girl? With no hesitation, he slaer
“I think you’reyourself as some hero from Marvel here? Whatever hero illusion you have, there’s no Superman in this world! Nor is there Batman! Same with Spiderman! Do you finally understand now, you rubbish loser?
In the end, he gets tired froht in front offor breath
“What, you’re still alive?”
Hei as if he’s exasperated at me
“If you have any last words, you better tell me them now”
“You’re… correct”
“There’s no Superman in this world… Nor is there Batman You’re correct Absolutely correct “
“Ahhh, so you finally got so”
“But… you’re forgetting one thing”
“Eh?”
“Everything you’ve said is definitely correct However, that doesn’t et this, Heimlich”
Yes
Even if I’m in a hellhole world where justice and whatever
Even if I’nificant world with no Marvel or DC superheroes to be found
“Even if I’m in a world where this is all I have left”
But, even then, I still have this
This flickering candlelight, blazing to the end of time, until the very end
How much trouble this black-colored orchid caused
That’s why I have a responsibility to tell her the reason
That’s why I can tell her That’s why I must
“Even in this world, exists someone that doesn’tto sacrifice everything she had just to save her precious fa to tell you about the fact that this world’s best older slash younger sister is still alive and well!”
「Ka-boooom!」
And so, there was the second miracle
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“That is – the way of the Blackhazel”
In response to my question, the《Princess of Pure Darkness》emotionlessly replies back, colder and more merciless than she have ever sounded
“The way of the Blackhazel, you say”
“You’re leaving your one-and-only sister like that alone, and you’re talking about this disgusting act of deserting someone in need because of a duty or whatnot – And you say it’s because of the ‘way of the Blackhazel’?”
“Alright, fine You can preach about this ‘way of the Blackhazel’ all you want”
“What do you mean?”
“I’m too dumb to know about duties, family structures and all that complicated stuff”
Just the act of knowledge is a si even a five-year-old would with a clap of their hand if they heard about this
“My sister’s in danger So I’o out and save her by myself That’s all”
“What could you possibly do away from this place?”
“Who knows? I’ll think about that on the way”
I really can’t take this anymore
I know that this state I’ht now can’t really be considered rational That must I understand myself
Not that I can think of some any other way that than this
“I cannot approve that, Onii-sama”
Maria replies coldly, in a tone that makes it clear of her disapproval
“If onii-sa up his childish stubbornness up, then I will have to resort to force”
Maria snaps her finger
And, what’s blocking my path is none other than Lily
“Move aside”
“…”
Lily clenches her fist and grits her teeth, and refuses tothe deter the decision herself
“I’ll go on my own if I have to”
When I was about slide past Lily’s side, as expected, an incredible force that a 12-year-old could hardly believe to exert stops me in my tracks
“Let go, Lily!”
“Master’s command, …absolute”
“Dammit!”
Her overwhel my shallow resistance couldn’t even think to escape
“Let go of ree with this ridiculous idea Maria has in ht now, and you’re just going sit here and watch what happens?
“…I won’t just, watch”
“Then why?! Why are you just standing there silently with your head dohile Maria’s talking about her grand ‘way of the Blackhazel’ or whatever?!”
Gazing into ain opens her mouth
“Why would you think like that?”
“What?”
“Why would Onii-sama think that I would obviously force myself to this ‘way of the Blackhazel?”
And at that moment
I feel the illusion that the air inside the ed back
“Whaa…?”
“Yes If I was the Maria before ht so”
Wondering about what Maria is talking about, I once again gaze into Maria’s face, scratching my head
Lily’s grip that allowed not even a single step foras already released, without my awareness
“W-What are you”
“But, it’s soht me”
“I – taught?”
“What the real is are”
Sel, Maria calmly continues on her sentence
“Yes, I won’t resort toup Dorothy for Onii-sairl, both Dorothy and Onii-sama are precious persons in myfamily”
Maria softly holds my hands and speaks on
“It is you who taught me all this”
She’s not the《Princess of Pure Darkness》she was just a o
“That’s why I ask of you, who taught me the importance of all this”
“You…”
I don’t think the name ‘Pure Darkness' suits you
“Let us go take back Dorothy together”
This girl, wreathed in the gentlest pure-white s else in the world…
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「Ka-boooom!」
The explosion reverberates throughout
It’s a sound no one was expecting to hear
Yes, no one but one
Even before they realized what had happened, ‘they’ were already finishi+ng up with their actual breachHaving rappelled inside in the darkness, the shadoereabout