Chapter 60: Retribution (1/2)
Chapter 60: Retribution
Warning this chapter contains violent expressions. Proceed at your own discretion.
If you can’t handle this kind of things, just skim through it.
Btw, I am in exams, so expect chapters a bit late.
“This is… Tsige? Did I… return?”
A woman’s voice.
“A… A ha! I was saved! This air, this scent, there is no doubt! It’s Tsige!”
At that moment, I found the girl.
At the place where I was following, I found her.
In a narrow back alley with no presence of other people.
That was the place where that girl just woke up in. I was surprised. That was truly one of the three people. The girl that acted like she was the leader.
She had terrible injuries in all her body.
They were serious injuries, to the point that it would be impossible for her to return alive if she were in the wasteland.
But well, this is the town. If she exits to the streets and calls out, she would be saved.
No matter how late in the night it is, the Tsige who has a lot of alleys in the brothels should have someone passing by.
The chance to meet a bad person is there. But if it’s her, I feel like she would be splendidly saved by a good willed person.
That’s right, if only she is able to exit the alley and call out.
The girl could have been saved.
If only it were a bit later in time, at a time where I didn’t know such a thing happened.
Not even I know what happened to my body.
It was at the time when I was pondering about how to ask the collapsed girl about what happened while walking closer to her.
My magic power that was clinging to her body and the reason for her wounds were because of the disaster in Asora.
I wanted to know. That’s for certain.
“… Tailing, ambrosia, hostile demi-humans, kill, ＃＄％＆, objective, hunt them down, mist town, Raidou, the enemy <>? Town, danger, conspirator, doubts, why did those two? （）＝～｜～＝, escape, success, Tsige, smash, kill, steal, snatch, right, fortune, Ando? Trash, foolish demi-human, night, treasure mountain, ！”＃ ravine, a tracker, strongest weapon, trump card, good-for-nothing ring RTGH, exploding light”
Suddenly, a big amount of something began to flow into me.
I was being forcefully shown a high amount of images with high volume and speed, reading aloud sentences that didn’t follow any logical connection, and the sudden letters continued like subtitles that didn’t have any sense. Sometimes, I caught on a wave of sounds that were like noise which I couldn’t catch their meaning and a richly colored stain-like pattern was mixed in.
Anyways, it made me want to puke. My head felt heavy, it stirred me heavily and even made me feel pain. To casually pour so much fragmented information without rearranging them, it made my head feel agony.
What in the world is this? The experience of someone else? Or maybe, memories?
The feeling of having a person’s memories pouring inside of me is just terrible.
But…
This was not the first time I felt like wanting to puke. Her thoughts, and the contents of the latest memories I could read. Obviously, I couldn’t remember all the memories’ information that was poured. The last thought that flowed into me. That definitely remained in my head.
I was planning to heal her first when I was getting close to her.
Just how much time did it pass? The bodily sensation of time certainly felt long, but it may not have been that long.
But well, I had already deactivated [Sakai]. The intention to heal was lost entirely.
This is not all the hyumans right? This is only her way of thinking and experiences after all.
However, they may have a lot of common points between them. Thinking like that, when I saw beautiful people, I felt a strange sensation from this world, or more like a distortion.
The view of hyumans on the demi-humans, no, the way they view anything that’s different from them. It may be an extreme case but I have seen one example of it here after all.
Anyways, this one is no good.
Wanting to vomit, disgust, and also anger. I felt a hatred that was close to being anger, on a level I haven’t felt before.
Those kind of things were revolving inside my head. The want of shouting, screaming, was filling up in my throat.
The moment she understood this was Tsige and was letting out a voice of joy…
I dragged her inside the mist. Along with all in the circumference.
For her, it must have been like all was enveloped by mist suddenly.
The sudden change of the situation made her shake her head left and right in order to confirm her surroundings.
Inside the dense mist, I approach the girl that hasn’t understood that she is in a different space.
“Who is it?!”
She must have confirmed that there was someone else from my silhouette, she shouts at the place where I was.
“You are… Raidou?!”
I didn’t answer. Because there was no need to exchange our intentions.
“I see, so you chased after me. But it is already too late. This is Tsige. You, who are cooperating with demi-humans that attack hyumans, won’t have comrades!”
“Cooperating? Ah~, in your memories that is the case huh. I don’t have any intention of explaining it, so just think whatever you want” (Makoto)
It was not definite, but I feel like I saw an image of her comrades’ circumstances and a conversation saying that the demi-humans were responsible.
I use the most fitting words in Japanese to tell her what I feel.
“What? What are you saying? Did you go crazy?”
Of course, she didn’t have the blessing of the Goddess as an intermediary, so she couldn’t understand Japanese. She must have felt uncomfortable by me who was saying words she couldn’t get.
“I am seriously disgusted by myself. I now think from the bottom my heart that I should have killed you guys when I could. But since I was at my limit with just handling myself, somewhere inside me still measured the hyumans of this world as the ones in my own” (Makoto)