Chapter 173 Sin

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Chapter 173 Sin

 

The sun is setting, wrapping the world into darkness, making the garbage island to project an ominous and eerie atmosphere.

The smell has become lessen, was it because of so many powers are mingling together here or was it simply because of my nose has already gotten used to it or maybe it’s because my sense of smell has been broken instead, I don’t know, it’s just the only thing I can feel right now is about the mountains of garbage reflected in my field of view.

I landed ontop of the not-actually-land wreckage fragments on the island but as I expect it’s not stable.

Here and there wood and iron fragments scattered around and becoming mountains, making me quite unable to see the whole of the island.

Are living creatures actually live here?

“So grand! Majestic!”

“Hei hei!

“Rairairairai! Rairairairai!”

“Hey hey!

“Life is remembrance!” (Milco)

“Hey hey hey hey! Hehey heey!”

And yet, no, rather than that what’s with these carefree guys that doesn’t fit the atmosphere at all!

“Eei, shut up! Milco, Biyama, Kagami, and even you Jackpot, don’t just go and follow along!” (Velt)

Maybe they got powered up because of Biyama joining in, they’re singing a hit song from our previous life and getting fired up by themselves.

Somehow they seem don’t really interested with the mountains of trash.

“No, Ryuuma! Singing is indispensable for Adventure! It’s exactly because it’s a hopeless world that we should sing a song of hope! Rock will change the world!” (Milco)

“Uwaaaah, Asakura, you just can’t pick the mood, you’re totes unbelievable, look even Yuzu-cchi is dancing, so don’t totes ruin the mood!” (Althea)

“Ain’t it fine Asakura-kun. We’re now got to meet Miyamo-cchan and Biyama-cchan after all, we need to celebrate the reunion~!” (Kagami)

“Haha, I don’t really understand it but rather than the bein’ all gloomy sodden I prefer it to be fired up instead.~.” (Jackpot)

This is bad, things are getting out of hand. I mean, aren’t these guys not getting along that much in the previous life?

“Alriiiight, then, umm Murata? I mean, I don’t know who you are but, whatever! Play a cute song next! Play Lemon Colored Kiss please!” (Althea)

 “OK! Burning heart is spirit! Hot love is justice! Verse with you is fruity! Well then, Are you ready?” (Milco)

“Hihahahahaha! Lessgo!” (Kagami)

“Hei hei he~iya! Hey, Yuzuriha don’t get flustered, don’t just carelessly do it!” (Jackpot)

“Uh, ah, hm.” (Yuzuriha)

I mean, have they hang out together before? Nope right?

“Say, Ayase. Why are those guys hit it off after dying and reborn instead?” (Velt)

“Haha, I guess so. But it’s just because they didn’t have the opportunity before, had they known each other I’m sure they’d get along well in the previous life.” (Arusha)

“Is it something like that?” (Velt)

“It is. That’s why from now on, even if it’s someone you don’t particularly got involved with in the previous life, girl that’s fit to a tee with you is here and able to understand you nicely, therefore I think that it would be a big mistake if you think that you don’t need to like the girl that you don’t really like in the previous life in this world as well, it is precisely because you and I didn’t have the opportunity for it in the previous life that it ended up like this, so long as we have the chance then of course you will definitely be able to feel it, be it friends, or even a relationship even further than that. And, you and I especially wil------------------------“ (Arusha)

“Hey, let’s stop it at that. Because of you giving a show of your playhouse now I can guess a bit of what makes me feel unpleasant.” (Velt)

Look, Kaa-kun is looking at us with amazingly warm look as he smile.

“Geez, I don’t know whether we’ll live or die in this garbage place, we’ll just gonna look for that pessimistic hero. Once that done we can get our asses out of here right away, so let’s just start from that now.” (Velt)

“Asakura-kun made a valid judgement. Well, he is visibly hiding his feeling of wanting to get out of here right away because it’s a bother but as I expect, I’m also of same opinion.” (Arusha)

“Hmh, it is-dazou. Furthermore, we don’t know what may come out in this place, it is of necessity for us to raise our vigilance. Well, I think it’s an unneeded worry for this group though.” (Kaizer)

Honestly, if it’s not because of Mama’s words I’d gonna leave this place right away.

But, well, we’ve already come here after all, besides there’s something I’m interested in.

“Wait, Asakura-kun, everyone!” (Barnando)

This guy who also got reunited with us here might be hiding something after all.

“Like I said, Miyamoto, if you do it like that then I’d get unnecessarily more interested. Just what is it that you’re hiding here?” (Velt)

“N, no, but, but still......” (Barnando)

“Miyamoto-kun, as I expect that bothers me too. I don’t want to think about what kind of important thing you do in this kind of place but well, for a personage like you to be that obstinate about it, I don’t think I can just let it pass.” (Arusha)

“Even Ayase-san too, ...... well, what exists here isn’t something important to the world but...... well.....” (Barnando)

TL note: Miyamoto talks with some –noja –janou slipped in here and there. The only character I can think of is Senko but well can’t really think an old man speaking with the cute girl voice lmao

“Barnando-dono, with you not even telling Isamu about this situation, is it fine in thinking that it isn’t something that concerned the world but something that concerned you instead?” (Kaizer)

But, no matter how we asked Miyamoto still just speak ambiguously.

Even if he were to pull out his sword and force his way through, with these members as his opponent no matter how strong he is it won’t be possible.

In the end, even with Miyamoto muddled his words and tried stop us, he failed to do that still.

“Hmm.”

“Oh my?”

At that moment, we sensed some presences.

It’s not one or two people. When we realized it, left and right, from on top of the rubbles, they surrounded us.

“.......................................................................”

“.......................................................................”

“.......................................................................”

“.......................................................................”

“.......................................................................”

But, no one launched anything to us. No, they seem indifferent.

Humans, demihumans, and among them there are even demons as if completing their group. Ten, twenty, is it fifty people? Among them there are maybe dead bodies got mixed in too but I don’t know how many.

Despite seeing us who are from outside world in front of their eyes, they don’t react or anything, they just have those living but dead eyes on them.

They just, gathered around and stand or sit, lying around as they stare off the space, or muttering something as drool dripping over with broken eyes.

They’re adults who are like completely wasted vagrants. All of them only wear worn-out rags, with beard and hair all extending out.

It’s like when I met with Kagami at the prison but he didn’t have those dead eyes on him.

However, these guys are different. They’re just still breathing.

That made me got drawn a bit.

“There are also races I haven’t seen before. Also, it’s not only adults....... there are, also children......” (Arusha)

“Oi oi oi, isn’t it too early for them to drop out of life?” (Velt)

And then, what surprised us more than anything is isn’t because there’s not only humans here nor because adults are the only ones here.

“That baby....... is a mixed blood of......... vampire of the demons and human, a dhampir. That woman there...... a head of snake!  She’s the survivor of the already perished race, the medusas-zou. Hmmmh, and over there, a race that has been designated as foreign race and been exterminated, the crow-man.” (Kaizer)

The more we see the more there is, from the kind of guys that’s rarely seen even among the demihumans and demons, to the general populace that comprise those races, all sorts of people are here.

But still, the commonality from children to adults here is that all of them have those same kinds of eyes huh.

And then, at that moment, a voice with no intonation as if actually from the dead was heard.

“..................old man............... you’re, here again............”

Not expecting that someone would called over, we got flustered then turned our head, what appeared before our sight is, with whole body pitch black, flesh so thin as if a dried branch, scalp bare of hair, and in it’s place something like a horn exists, a man is standing before us with that thing jutting out of his head already broken. That man too, has his whole body being covered by a worn out rag but there’s one thing that I clearly know.

I don’t know his race but he’s most probably a demon.

“Ah, so it’s you. Seems you haven’t change.” (Barnando)

“There’s nothing change here.  ...............despite so you keep going in and out........ you’re doing as you please huh.”

He looked at Miyamoto and exchanged some light conversation, just who is that demon? Miyamoto then muttered to us in a small voice.

“This demon’s name is Nanashi. For some reason he lost all of his memories around two years ago, then seemed to have been drifting around the world and ended up washed ashore here.” (Barnando)

TL note: Nanashi means nameless

Lost his memories? Seems he’s an opposite case of what we experienced huh.

“Hm, nevermind about me....... no matter what I do my memories won’t return, it’s better to just be at ease here and die comfortably...... rather than that, those guys that’s been singing from a while ago are so noisy, please do something about it.” (Nanashi)

I don’t know what happened to this guy in the past. I don’t know what kind of life he has lived since he already lost his memories.

But, with eyes as if already given up on everything, he’s having the air as if already resolved to spend the rest of his life here.

Well, it’s just someone that came to talk, he might be a shallow person among these people, he’s certainly giving off a completely despondent air around him.

“Hm...............?” (Velt)

At that moment, in a corner, using a half broken tilted small boat as a roof, a lone kid crouching in silent entered my eyes.

The age maybe one or two years below me? The extending down white hair makes me unable to see any expression.

But, he seemed to be a bit different from other guys. That’s because while the other guys are wearing worn out rags as clothes, what the young boy is wearing is indeed worn out and dirty but it is of slightly high quality with clothing that has something like a coat of arms being embroidered over, he’s also wearing a red cape.

Most probably he was a kid of quite the high status.

“Hey, who’s that white haired kid?” (Velt)

“..................................aah, he is the kid that came here last year. I don’t know anything else other than that eh........... he doesn’t speak to anyone after all, just all silent and sitting around........... everyone’s like that.” (Nanashi)

Maybe so. But, I’m interested somehow. I don’t know what meaning my interest has though.

“Apart than that, Asakura-kun....., just what in the world you all have come here for? You guys did say something about looking for someone......” (Barnando)

“Hm, yeah. We’re....... looking for a guy who’s called the [Glass Hero – Auriga]. Do you know him?” (Velt)

Regardless of what Miyamoto is trying to hide, I merely stated what our purpose here in one sentence.

And then in the next instant, Miyamoto’s expression stiffened.

“.........................From where.................. did you hear of that person.....................?” (Barnando)

At that moment, me, Ayase, and Kaa-kun intuitively understood.

Despite not knowing the reason

We don’t know why Miyamoto is becoming more distant to us.

But, it’s clear as day with this reaction, that person called [Auriga], he is the reason why Miyamoto is taking his distance from us.

“Oi oi oi. I just know him as someone who once aimed to conquer the world but then got his heart broken, he then went and disappeared without even leaving his name......... like, is he really here?” (Velt)

“Despite me not knowing anything other than him being a former member of the Great Human Alliance Army, so why Miyamoto-kun knows about him?” (Arusha)

He is the hero that disappeared before getting his name known to the world, so why Miyamoto who is a demihuman knows him?

And, why is that? Why is he making that kind of expression as if suffering so much?

“....................Asakura-kun and Ayase-san............. is what you know only that much?” (Barnando)

That question is a question that’s only directed at me and Ayase, Kaa-kun didn’t included in it.

“Biyama-san too doesn’t seem to know, she does have that personality after all...... but, Kagami-kun do you only also know that much?” (Barnando)

A question that’s only asked to us. It is something that’s only being connected with us.

So what’s the only thing common between us? There’s only one thing for it.

“Hee~i, Miyamo-cchan, you’re friggin’ dark you know~, what’s wrong what’s wrong?” (Kagami)

“Mister Kendo, you too tell me your favorite song!” (Kishin)

Despite Kagami and Milco poke fun at him, Miyamoto still have that pained expression as he casts his eyes down.

That’s because there’s something he can’t say to any other people, he is holding in a certain something, that’s what I’m able to guess.

“Hmm, everyone........” (Barnando)

At that moment, Miyamoto opened his mouth as he is in doubts.

“I wasn’t awake when it happened, I also didn’t think it about it, I might even have forgotten about it........ but still, we are the victims, and he himself was the wrong-doer, and to be standing in front of the convict himself...... what should I do?” (Barnando)

I completely unable to understand the meaning of that question, but mysteriously we all became silent upon it.

Even Kagami and Milco who were messing around guessed the unusual atmosphere and stopped the concert.

What’s this all about? Before any one of us able to ask about that Miyamoto continues.

“I wasn’t able to come up with an answer. But when my true nature became apparent to him without me noticing, he asked me to kill him for, so many many times, he kept saying I’m sorry, I’m sorry in apology, and seeing how cornered he had been, it made me unable to come up with any answer. And more than that, now his own life and thoughts are swinging so disorderly instead. That’s why......... that’s why I don’t want to tell this to anyone. If he just could have spent his life with eagerness and completion unlike now, then maybe it would have been better for him to not remember anything....... therefore I thought that since I’m the only one who have come to know about it then I have no choice but to understand him......” (Barnando)

Kaa-kun, Yuzuriha, and Jackpot are making expressions as if not understanding the talk at all.

And of course, we also have no idea.

It’s just, we can still understand something.

That it is something important that involves us, it is something that Miyamoto always holds in his mind.

“Even after living all this life I still don’t know of what to do. Despite me not having any grudge about it I still don’t know if I should so easily forgive him.  And...... without being able to leave him behind as he is, I keep coming to see his conditions for so many times...... In the end, I can do nothing but hesitating and unable to leave....... I just........ I don’t understand! I don’t understand, and still unable to understand, yet I understand, I just can’t do anything at all you know.” (Barnando)

There’s only one thing that I understood.

Right now, the one who talked and narrated out his feelings isn’t the master swordsman Barnando Gabbarna.

But he is our fellow classmate instead, the man called Miyamoto has been revived as if in a flashback.

And then, it was at that moment.

“..........................................................................Miyamoto-kun......................”

It wasn’t us. Someone other than us called out Miyamoto’s name.

“Eh!”

“What, the, who!”

Impossible. People who know of that name and the meaning of it is limited.

Then who?

And right there, a lone man is standing above the rubbles.

Rusted armor. A torn in half and already changed in color cape. Damaged pieces of steel and limping leg. And also, a torn arm.

He is different from other cripples who only wear a piece of worn rag.

But, he too also has those broken eyes.

“Ah, Miya, Moto-kun.............. a, aah, ...........Miya, moto-kun.”

The moment that man saw Miyamoto, with broken eyes he drags his feet over the mountains of rubbles and eagerly fell over.

And then, from his broken eyes tears came spilling out.

“Just kill me...... please....... kill..... me.”

He clings to Miyamoto’s feet as he begs, a disordered man. But, his torn out cape, even though it’s already a rag there’s still an insignia drawn on it, and it makes our eyes opened wide.

“Th, this is! The Sun of Hope! The symbol of the Great Human Alliance Army!” (Arusha)

“H, hey hey, it can’t be, it can’t be that this guy is......!” (Velt)

This is the someone that Mama and Tyler has recognized, a man who was supposed to become a [hero].

“Please, kill me, ......I, can’t kill myself......... This body has received the divine protection of the Holy Knight Caire-sama..... so I can’t do suicide! I beg you, please kill me with your hands. Please finish your revenge!” [Auriga]

I’ve expected this to some degree but he’s really already has his heart broken and no longer sane.

Despite his age seems still in the latter part of twenties or early part of thirties, he already looks so unbearable.

“Are you perhaps the [Glass Hero – Auriga]?” (Arusha)

Despite also still in doubts Ayase asked the man.

And then the man suddenly, hugs his head as if in confusion.

“No! No no no no no no no no no no no noooooooooooooooooo! I’m not a hero! I’m not a hero, not, not!  I’m not! I’m not a heeeeroooooooo! I’m noooooooooooooot!” (Auriga)

Wha, what the!

But we hesitated to do anything to the screaming man, we can only look at him in daze.

And then....... We ended up knowing it.

“I, I, I, IIiii, I’m, i’m just a murderer. A murderer! Murderer! Meeeee!” (Auriga)

He killed someone. That’s also something that can be said to the most of the guys here.

War has spread and for the sake of surviving in this world everyone will have to smear their hands with blood one way or another.

As for Kagami......

But, the word [murderer] the man said, it’s meaning isn’t something that points to war.

“I..................... still, still, the future.............., to those sinless children, .............still, .........despite they’re still just highschoolers!” (Auriga)

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“That....... that kind of passing car......... if I could just, handle it better............... drive better......... You Miyamoto-kun too..... and all others too........ they wouldn’t have died!” (Auriga)

The princess of the Empire lost her words.

The world’s worst mad criminal doesn’t laugh.

The Demon King of Rock doesn’t play his song.

Even the charismatic gyaru got into stupor.

“Why..................”

Why?

We can’t say anything other than those words, only, the sun has already completely set and night has arrived to the garbage island.

But even so, we could do nothing.

 

 

 

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