Seiju no Kuni no Kinju Tsukai

Episode 113: After the Curtain

"Now it's time to finally take a breath, huh?

Mr. Makina, who finished instructing the instructors, called out.

There is also Mr. Shanna next door.

"You have once again tried to save your loved ones brilliantly. Heh, all I can say is brilliant."

"Exactly, I'm a little tired though"

Smiling gently at me smiling, Mr. Machina looked somewhere far away.

"But starting with the reading of the curse of the curse, the anomaly of the sacred ruins, the arrival of the giants, the onslaught of the Four Wesen, prepared by Noise Death, the causal play... in the end, you let them all survive."

"As a schoolmaster, you're a proud student, aren't you?

"Hehe, yeah"

Shana, um, shakes her head vertically.

"It's full, Crohiko."

"Shanna was a disaster, too."

"Mm-hmm? Just the Four Homicides, huh?

"No, I wasn't trying to say anything good"

Hands on his hips, Mr. Shanna switched the subject.

"The prosthetic eye thing in my left eye, if I had a chance."

Mr. Shanna said that before that he would prepare prosthetic eyes if he took a leg to Louvel Argan.

"Thank you. When you get a chance, please."

Mm-hmm, and Shanna nods contentedly as she rocks the twin tails.

"If you want it, I'll do it."

"... Shana"

Mr. Makina's low tone voice, like sounding from the bottom of the earth.

"Oh, don't look so scared! It's not like we're gonna take Crohiko away from you!? I was just wondering if, uh... if I wanted to find out if there would be any effect on the child born if I lived with the curse master?

"No need!

"Wow, I don't have a problem with it because I'm going to have it myself!?

Ugh, hmm.

In Shanna's case, first of all, externally… well, if I go to the stage where I don't have a baby, I feel out for some reason.

How old is Shana in the first place?

Like Mr. Makina, I can't guess his age.

"Hey, Crohiko. You got a minute?

It was Lokia who brought his people in to talk to me.

"I have to thank you again, too, Lokia. Thank you for helping Mr. Currier even in the fight against noise."

"I've told you many times, but you're not thankful, are you? In other words, I helped Teme to tell him."

Naturally, I kind of laugh bitterly.

"You know, you're just like that. Could it be a kind of lightning mask?

"Kuk, maybe? You should remember that. It's important to hide it. What is hidden is inhabited by what is called mystery. The important thing is to always leave room for imagination."

"Sometimes it's hard to talk about Lokia, I don't know."

"I don't know, but it's a better attitude than pretending to understand."

"You're a twister, you."

"Absolutely. Unless you're a twister. Oh, you can't live in the End of Life. Well..."

Lokia looked around once.

"Is it time for me to slip?"

Lokia is now weaving a jacket she received from her buddies.

From the pocket of that jacket he removed the black and white pattern.

Love sword retrieved from noise, Larface and Falvety.

"If I take these guys back from the noise, there's no use for this country anymore. However, I'm still interested in Sagara Krohiko personally... in time, I might just drop by to see her."

"You're welcome then."

"Kuk, there is, but what about him?

From earlier on, Mr. Currier was staring at Lokia and glaring at her.

"I am grateful that you helped me in the fight against the Four Wesen and the Noise. But to be honest, I don't want Crohiko to get too close to you."

"And well, Currier is this. I don't really feel comfortable stepping foot in the king's capital. And..."

Lokia sees the direction of the center of the king's capital.

"If you go to Wang Du, you're in danger of going into a bowl with him. I thought there was a man who looked familiar in the cinematographic ceremony of the noise earlier... no, he was a Knights of the Holy Trees person."

Does that mean Mr. Dearless, who seems to have something to do with it?

"Damn it, but how could he be obsessed with me?" I don't know what bothered you. "

Yes, I said to myself in a questioning mood, and Lokia rattled her neck bones.

"That's why the Knights of the Holy Tree will all be here. Then that man might come, too. That's why I'm gonna have to disappear on one toe. Oh, and... the school director"

"I?"

Mr. Makina's eyebrows rise as he watched.

"What could it be?

"Thank you for missing out on our behavior in school. From what I can tell, you're a pretty 'capable' person. Reasonable judgment, flexibility, decisiveness… It's valuable to be able to maintain it while you have status, power and ambiguity. That's the one, somewhat different kind, but you're one of my kind. I wonder if Crohiko is what you are now."

"It's an honor to compliment you. You've done a great job searching for noise."

"In the end, it was Crohiko's idea to end up haunting me. I'll take care of this as a loan."

"I think it might be a good idea to make a loan to the heads of the top three organizations in the end-of-life town, even though it's a job to save your Currier."

Lokia turned to me.

"Crohiko."

Lokia continued with her hand stuck in her trouser pocket.

"If Temehe ever comes to the end of life, you're welcome. Oh, don't get me wrong, okay? I'm not putting you in The Kingdom of the Fools. If you're coming to the end-of-life town, come visit me first. I'll provide you with a guide and an inn."

"I get it. Say hello then."

"Hey, Lokia -"

"Mr. Currier will come with you then, won't he?

"Mm... oh, of course. I'm somewhat familiar with end-of-life geography."

Mr. Currier, who stuck with Lokia, pulled me off with it.

Thus the fools, led by the Demon King, disappeared from the trail of the stage at one toe.

After I dropped off the Lokias, I turned to the front and looked up.

"So, what are you gonna do - hibigami?

The Lokias came to me walking over to replace me... I was fishing for some sort of gossip on Noise's body, it was hibigami.

Cecily, who has a healing ceremony, swallows her anxiety.

Behind that man standing in front of us - he's got Rivergate, Mr. Currier.

"Don't be dramatic, Currier. I don't want to set you up here."

Stand up as you learn to weigh in your body.

"... you took care of me too, Hibigami"

Hibigami snapped his nose, like a kick.

"I told you not to get bought, Sagara. Out of the question, if Noise hadn't used up that pill, he might have given it to himself and applied for a match on this occasion, wouldn't he?

You might do it.

"On the contrary, you might have used the people you care about on Dashi and burned yourself. Either way, I missed the most 'delicious' opponent of the Four Wesen disaster, and I couldn't even do it with the noise that changed my life for power... even Sagara showed me that battle. Besides, those seven sinners. It was there that I half-eated and scattered it, and it was my enemy."

Hibigami giggles unconsciously.

"The light on your body doesn't subside."

I put my strength into my left arm.

"I mean, right now, you want me to do it with you here?

But the war from Hibigami did not release fine dust either.

"Well, you can tell at a glance that you can't fight properly if you look at your current condition. Even if we can't force him to fight in that state, we'll have no choice. Even though Larface and Falvety were back, Lokia was badly tired. I didn't have to, but he wasn't going to make a good motive to fight me. Even to Currier, he was hurting his fingers in the fight against noise. Above all, we both suffered too much depletion in the fight against the Four Terrorists"

If that medicine for noise stays, maybe we've been talking a little differently, Hibigami said.

Mr. Cecily did something to protect me.

"If you tried to get Crohiko to take that pill, I was probably doing everything in my power to stop it. Take every hand."

Hibigami taking Mr. Cecily's word for mockery crossing.

"Admittedly, Cecily Arklite... you should think carefully about what you're saying. I promised not to touch myself or Currier, but I wasn't so gentle as to silently wear the firepowder that would come down. If you're going to set me up from that side, I won't forgive you. Instead, if it comes from me or Currier, it's where I want it. That's more hostile to me than Sagara."

You don't have to worry, Hibigami.

What Hibigami wanted to say was understandable.

"You mean you want to impress me hard again that you're the enemy, don't you?

"Kakaka... he's a sensible man to make. Exactly. So it's the opposite of Lokia. If I don't recognize myself as an enemy, I'm in trouble. I was a little cooperative, and they made me a good friend."

"Don't worry about that. If we don't defeat you, Mr. Currier or Mr. Cecily's life will be in danger. So..."

Stare at the hibigami.

"You must, I'll take you down."

My proclamation and my front-facing hibigami leak a creepy low laugh.

"As an 'enemy' again, I wanted to confirm that to myself. But if it looks like it... I don't even need to hit a little play. Kaka, it's coming through - comfortable, willing to kill."

Laughs happily, hibigami passing beside me.

"If you're on fire, let's put up with it somehow. Right...... some of it will calm down with the hidden strong guys that were in the information we got from the noise. And those of you with the curse of the curse will continue to attempt to collect it. But unfortunately, only the first curse seems impossible."

Hibigami's footsteps, a few steps forward, stop.

"I am growing faster than I expected"

Finally, over his back, he left behind this.

"I look forward to further growth of myself, Sagara Krohiko"

…………

With the footsteps, I found signs of hibigami going away.

No one stops Hibigami from walking.

His strength is known by everyone here, directly and indirectly.

Hibigami is also pursued in this king's capital.

But there was no such thing as a man standing before him now.

Lokia left, and Hibigami disappeared from the stage, too.

When I lost sight of Hibigami, I took one breath and touched my left arm with my right hand.

Since the fifth curse only used about the degree of defense of the multiple-stage variation formula of noise and about a short accelerated movement, it did not take much load to lift it.

So the fifth curse had been lifted before the healing ceremony was imposed.

And as expected, that didn't load me up enough to lose my mind.

But the eighth curse exercised its power many times in the battle against noise.

The load is inferred from the feedback after the Four Homicides War.

Therefore, it could not be disarmed at the time Lokia or Hibigami were present.

Those two aren't the kind of people you can totally forgive yet.

But now that the two of them have left, we can finally break the eighth curse.

I told Mr. Currier, Mr. Cecily, and Mr. Machina that from now on, we would break the Eighth Curse and possibly lose consciousness.

And dying... well, there won't be.

At least, it should be less loaded than it was when you fought Veshgam and Masso in a row.

The effect of the medicine seems to be running out.

As physical freedom became less favorable, the intensity and frequency of pain running on his head decreased, as did the amount of blood dripping from his nose.

If you look up, the brightness of the sky is also being lost at times.

Apparently, the effects of the unique technique of noise are also running out.

I said, holding my left arm.

"Then I may lose consciousness... sorry then, thank you for later"

Either way, if the medicine expires, my body will probably stop moving.

So even if you don't lose consciousness with the lifting of the curse, it doesn't make any difference which way you put everyone to work.

"It's okay, Crohiko. You don't care about anything anymore, leave the rest to us."

"Rest now, Crohiko"

"... good job, Krohiko"

Everyone put in words that cared for me.

…………

I just heard this word and I think it was desperately worth the effort.