27 Episode 27: They'Re Sisters And Brothers
"Define, Start"
Words spoken switch my thoughts to those in battle.
(Objective Definition, "Destruction of Al Kun" and "Recovery of Raini's Demon Stone")
Draw out equations to attract the desired answers. However, there is too little information to get to the desired answers.
I have not accurately weighed Al-Kun's threat. So I'm going to do a little research first and attack to gather information.
What will Al do and how fast will he react to the attack? How precise and how diverse is magic? What can be accommodated and what will be the decisive hit?
As thoughts run glaringly, my body moves apart from thoughts and compels me to tap into a flash by Mana Blade. In contrast, al-kun spins powerful wording to wave his hands down.
"" Water cutter "!"
After the light-emitting phenomenon just before the magical activation, the blade of water approaches me as the orbit of the hand I waved down. Shake through Mana Blade to match the flow of the body that walks through it and fog the blade of water. Adjust the stride to get forward without killing the speed and take steps.
Of course, that's not the end of Al's attack. He waves his arms like a conductor, one blade of water after another is created, drawing various loneliness and approaching.
(I can't do this while moving. Stop your legs and intercept)
My legs stop and stay on the spot. Step on the spot so that you dance, and slap down without leaving a single blade with many impending sword flashes swinging together.
Keep going one step, another step and try to pack the distance as you dance. But Al Kun's movement, which sensed my movement, shows a change.
"" Isicle "-"
Al knocks his fingers out. I felt the temperature drop all at once mediating the water I cut off and scattered. Almost at the same time as I perceive it, the cold air comes at once as the water that was icy and attached to my body envelops me.
"-" Prison. "Huh!
Ice Hell, if you say so. The water stretched to cover my body becomes ice and freezes rapidly. If this freezes my body, I kick the ground in momentum and retreat.
If you magically stroke the surface of the arm that was starting to freeze, the ice falls to peel off the scales. Make sure you haven't lost your arm sensation and then get back on your feet.
As he lowered his posture as he crawled through the earth and tried to start walking, he saw Al-Kun raise his hand to heaven. Huge water polo balloons are starting to gather up ahead of me with my hands up, and that compresses.
"" Waterhammer "!!"
They come at me like compressed water beats a hammer. He drew in his brain an orbit drawn by a hammer in the back of his brain and jumped from a crawling position to a strong force on his feet.
Accelerated at the same time as the hammer struck the earth, I earn flying distance and rotate my body so as not to kill momentum at the moment of landing. Mana Blade, held in both hands, turns like a windmill feather, drawing a sword flash and slamming it into Alkun.
"Ha-ha!?"
"Chih!!"
Al stepping on a dance, but I only finished drawing a scratch that would pull a letter on my arm. Unexpectedly tongue-beating the result, he slips past Al Kun's side without killing his body's momentum.
My body jumps to slip through the ground, although I took passivity. Momentum was able to kill speed by protruding Mana Blade. As soon as I landed, I turned back to Al Kun, and I saw the blood that Al Kun had shed twitching oddly and going back to my arm so that I could unwind it.
(healing...... no, regenerating? The combination of Al Kun's magic and vampire traits. Is Al Kun's aptitude for water and ice? So it's compatible to use blood as a medium?
Observe calmly and try to gather information. On the other hand, Al is staring at me with burning emotions in his eyes. If you wave, a magically activated emission phenomenon accompanies the orbit of that hand before an ice column is formed.
"" Icicle lance. "Huh!
One, the ice-column spear released again at a deviation from the other, is released to block my exit path.
(Can you beat it all off? Can you go? - Hypothesis, established. Run Now!!)
I fly one step back and knock it off with a blade stretched out with magic on Mana Blade.
The moment I kick the ground and fly, Al also comes forward. The hand overflows from the wound, and the blood that was covered with a sore lid reshapes in the hand, forming a red spear.
"Anisfiaaaaaaa!!"
Place the spear in both hands on the upper stage, and al-kun swings it down so as to slap it. The stretched blade of Mana Blade is restored to normal selfishness by spreading magic.
Recirculate the blow of the red blood spear and take the side steps as you go. Fly beside Alkun and jump right into Algard's belly with the iterative instructions to kick in.
"Gu......!
"Or... Huh!
Al Kun's stomach was just hard to say if something was being planted, and he could have hurt his leg without physical strengthening. Though slightly surprised by that fact, we distance ourselves again.
Al Kun's face was full of bitterness. I couldn't breathe knowing it didn't affect me at all. It's already a complete demon, like this. He said it wasn't human endurance.
"Don't lick...... ugh!
"Huh!?"
It was a flash of relief. Al was starting to have a flat face when he wondered if there was any flow of magic moving.
"... amazingly tough. That's the power of vampires?
Al-Kun answered my query with nothing and came with his hands turned. A magical precursor to the light emitting into the air again, now it was the bullet of water that approached me.
"" Water Barrett ""
I tried to cut off the impending bullet...... I had a bad feeling. A sense of crisis runs all the way through my back like thunder.
Follow your instincts and avoid twisting your face on the verge of landing. The bullet of water flowing backwards sank into the earth, sounding unwillingly heavy.
"I know about your weakness."
Pale Al Kun unfolds his magic. One, two, three and a bullet of water floated, and I could see the debris mixed in there.
Look at that. I accidentally zero my tongue. My weakness, the endurance of demonic props. An attack with heavy mass is something I need to avoid. If you do poorly, Mana Blade could be destroyed.
"I can't use magic. So rely on demon props. But demon props can't be used if they break. It's already a well-known fact that your magic tools are vulnerable to physical shocks."
"If you think only demonic props are my hand tag, drop one hand."
"Then let me prove it!
"Even if you don't tell me."
A bullet of rubbled water approaches me as I begin to walk. It's like rain.
(Preventing rain with a sword will not come true. Mana Shields is no more useful under this circumstance than there is a mixture of debris. Avoidable with increased speed? - Not executable)
You can't avoid a bullet pouring out of time so as to block the way.
(- So here's the deal)
The next moment Al opened his eyes. Perhaps you sensed my magical movement.
But it's late. - I sucked my breath out loud and "I could yell."
"" - - Huh!! "
Normal people had throats crushed, no, it was a growl that couldn't be structurally put out.
Yes, that's like a dragon roar. It sounds like a shockwave that shivers the air and knocks out the rain.
(There was a hint. If vampire fangs, demon stone body changes are possible, even I can theoretically do it)
Dragon's lung vitality and screaming by his throat. That is equal to the intimidating roar of the dragon itself. That's where I shock by putting magic on it.
Al was distracted by an attack he didn't expect. And a gap was created into that nostalgia. Mana Blade's sword flashes to make sure she doesn't miss this opportunity, slashing and ripping Alkun to shreds.
"Guh!
"Mana Blade, Limit Release!
Mana Blade, the opposite of the swinging out Mana Blade, receives my speech recognition and unwraps herself and takes another form.
The blade of magic unfolds like a nail. The nail length is not as long as the blade, each thin. There he forcefully taps into his magic and turns his three nails into something tough.
I don't mind the excess magic leaking out like purple electricity, and I slammed that blow into al-kun.
"Overedge...... ugh!" Dragon Crow "Huh!!"
A claw sword blow rips Al off his body as he chooses through the wound that was cut into slashes first. And Al-Kun turned to the shock, and his feet departed from the earth.
But the shock of a full blow strikes me as a recoil, too. Distance yourself from Al to mislead that recoil.
The light disappears from Mana Blade, who unfolded the nail sword, and there is no response. Confirm it before inserting it back into the holder of the thick crotch.
(… it is difficult to use it again)
Time must be set aside for reuse to be used to prevent breakage with excessive output on boulders. Besides, I don't even know when it will break if I don't take care of it once I use it. Literal swords of all blades, but their power is immense.
A good amount of blood flows from Al's body. I can see the damage taken from the area where the blood is throwing up from my mouth is deep.
Still, Al won't fall again. Blood becomes a red sore lid to block the wound again, stopping the flowing blood from weighing.
"Ha... ha... ha!
I guess it just drains your strength and magic. Al's breathing is rough and his eyes remain bloody running.
"What's up... I'm not down yet...! You're not calling!!"
……
"Not really......! You want to say you don't have to deal with them, but you do!! You said you'd help Raini! If so, you want this demon stone!?"
The demonic stone embedded in Al Kun's body was about to be buried in the back so that it could be further rooted. So much so that it's going to bury in your body as it is.
"-... I'm bored"
"... what?
Al raised an eyebrow. A kind of inquiry that asks what the hell it means.
Asked, I was - I was just vain enough to stop hanging up. I know perfectly well that my mind is going to be empty. So it was an enquiry that came out of my mouth.
"I hear it's boring, Al."
"... what are you talking about?
"You've got the power, and you've taken my blow. Al doesn't seem to have a lot of fun."
"So what are you saying?
Al Kun hits his emotions with a pointy voice at me as he seems irritated. Plus my empty heart started to regain heat like it caught fire.
That was something I've been sequestering ever since this battle began.... Ugh, it's a lie. This is an emotion that has been going on for a long, long time.
- It's the emotion I've always had with Al.
"Look forward to it, Al."
I'm not sure myself that made me cry. I don't think I wanted to cry. Anger has passed, neither hateful. It's just an empty heart burning. I thought there was nothing to burn.
"This is what you wanted, isn't it? Yet Al, you seem bored. I don't even laugh, I'm just angry and screaming that I don't like it. That's crazy. Al, aren't you doing what you wanted to do right now?
If this battle has always been what Al wanted.
How can I only feel Al's empty anger?
That makes me sad. So sad that I feel that nothingness is created in my heart.
"Laugh more, you're angrier, you're sadder, you're looking forward to it.... Otherwise, you can't even fly this way. You've always wanted to do this, haven't you? You wanted to compete with me and try to win, didn't you? If you're doing what you wanted, you have to laugh."
"... what, the rationale. Oh, I am! Yes! I wanted to cross you! I wanted to prove I had something better than you! That's why I keep trying!
"I can't do that. It's a consultation, 'cause I can tell you I'm better. I'm not even willing to lose to you."
Buy words for sale. My heart is about to burn in anger, but my fever doesn't last.
Sad, vain, painful, hard. All those emotions get ahead of me and the back of my eyes get hot.
"... hey? Now, Al, you live the way you wanted from the bottom of your heart? I don't think I can breathe."
"... what?
"It looks spicy, Al. Hey, Al. If you can't laugh here, you can't laugh even if you beat me..."
"Funny! I laugh! I thought I had a better place than you! He said he could protect what I wanted to protect!!"
"Isn't that just reassuring? Can you say that you've fulfilled your wish? - It's not, Al. That's not what I'm talking about."
- It's painful, Al. Watching you is so hard. [M]
"Enjoy your life."
"... Enjoy,"
Al opened his eyes to my spitting words. I don't know if I'm surprised, angry, or just being taken aback. I don't know anything about Al anymore.
"If you can't enjoy it, it doesn't make sense, it doesn't make sense. In the end, Al, you just become king. I'll be a boring tyrant no different than a king of decorations, just wielding my powers. Or do you want to enjoy the killing? Is abuse the happiness for you?
"Why bother asking such a thing!? Have pity!?"
"- If you don't want to be pitied, behave yourself!
The fever of the heart that I finally regained, the color of that emotion is not anger. It's a void that can't be helped. It's so empty that you can't even color it. That's why I have to scream. I can't do anything to Al-Kun anymore without burning this void.
"If it's not fun, think about living happily ever after! If you don't want to be tied up, think about living free! Isn't that why you chose? Trying to cross me! Don't enjoy it, what's left over me? After all, it's just the cold crown, I don't know!?"
Al distorted his expression so that he could be poked in the void by my cry. My legs step back, as if pushed by my momentum.
I took a step forward to pack that remote distance. My legs are so heavy. If you don't want to put it forward, it's like your nerves are screaming.
analogy, still. I take a strong step forward. Even if it is a completely missing step to fill this distance of disconnection.
"Don't you feel anything right now? You just regret it? Are you just scared? Really? Well, I'm sure you were scared of me. That was scary. You're making me mean it, aren't you? You don't think anything of yourself? I got it for sinning or throwing it all away, but what I've got is so empty!?"
Grab your chest with one hand. It's too heavy and it's a painful emotion to spit out. When would I have tasted such carelessness?
- Yes, it's enough to compare it to despair when you know you can't use magic. That was the worst, worst fact of my life.
I had another taste of despair that I thought for a moment that I would turn down my life. Then there's no way your heart won't die.
It's the same world with magic, but it can't breathe how magic can't be used. That's all I was desperate for. Yet Al is! You've given me the same amount of despair!
"Look forward to it! You've grown stronger! Any history, any reason! I'm going out with you! I'm still... your sister!! Your only sister!!"
You can hate me. You can hate me. Because that's all I could give you anymore. That's what I've been fooling myself about.
But the truth is. - I've never forgotten the day Al took your hand.
He was an important brother. He was a cute little brother. I was the one who had to protect you. He's the one who realized I couldn't protect him and let go of his hand.
Please, at least be healthy. Even such prayers were betrayed. I ended up ruining Al's life because of me. You have to. I can't live!
"I've enjoyed my life and lived it! To shape the magic I've always dreamed of! I don't care how much magic you can't use, no matter how desperate they poke at you! It was fun, ever!!"
If you wish no more to come true, let's burn everything down. This nothingness, despair, everything that was prayer.
Now I leave nothing to think about. This may be the last time. I have no reason to hold my thoughts. The royal wall is an unnecessary title for us anymore.
"In such a boring battle! Beat me! So Al is satisfied!? Come and ask for more, slap him as much as your emotions think! You've always regretted it! You've been asking for it! Here and now! Don't enjoy this fight! Don't be happy! Don't be sad! When do you say you think anything but anger!?"
If you're saying I'm the one who emptied your life... I'll burn it all.
"If you say there's only anger, I'll remind you. I remember that you didn't want to remember. - Because I'm your sister. This is the only way I can be your sister!!"
I just screamed to my heart. I don't think about the feelings of the recipient, just the ego itself.
To my cry like that, Al was just like not knowing what to look like. Good, that's good, Al. You're on your own, I know.
- Still, you can only live on your own. Curse me. That's fine.
"... what, that. Are you trying to tell me you'll forgive me?
"You can't forgive me, idiot! Now that Al is gone, I'm the next one to have the right to inherit the throne!? I'm not playing witch mountain games, I'm not doing anything stupid to you that won't even beat me!! Baka! Idiot! Idiot at last!!"
"Huh..."
"You always wanted to do this!? Did you ever know about royalty, determination, destiny or anything like that! Just talk as you wish! Just be free to hope! Do what you want! Don't be patient! Isn't that what you wanted!?"
"... that was unforgivable"
Bite your teeth off by the time you're about to hear a toothpick, and Al squeals like a groan. You don't know that!
"You can't forgive me! But it's too late! That's how you know!? Then you'll have to laugh already! Then laugh! Laugh at all the nasty things you're about to push on me! Happy to! You should do that!
"No, that would be too rampant!?"
"Ugh, baka!!"
"What was that earlier!? Kids!?"
"That's right! It's a child! I'm just a kid! Kids are good!! That's why you fight!! You're doing it now!!"
"... fight...?
What are you talking about? and al-kun blinked his eyes. Oh, I really couldn't even do this to you. I wonder how we could only be like this.
"It's a fight, it's just a fight. This."
"... fights," he said. There's no reason to fight! This is, this is - revenge...! Me! I wanted revenge on you...!
Revenge, huh? Oh, yeah. This is revenge for Al. I kept taking everything away from myself, if I didn't have to be anything, it's just revenge against the royal family that gave me the curse of being king.
"- But know it or not!
"... hey, what the hell are you! Why don't you always think about the reaction from around you? That's why you're called Kiteretsu! Yet they say I'm good except for magic, they compare me and you know how I felt!?"
"I just found out! And I don't care!! It was Al who would be king!!"
"I didn't want to be king of decorations!!"
"Then you should have been the king you wanted to be!!"
"My sister was the one who should have been king! You're better than me, and you have to inherit just to say I'm a boy! Isn't that irrational!!"
"That's right, that's good! Al!"
"Yes, no!... No, you're the one who's different!? What are you talking about!?"
"It's weirder for Al to deny it even though he admitted he wanted to, you idiot!
"Oh what the hell are you...!! What do you want!?"
"That's why I'm telling you. It's a fight. It's just a fight!
"Isn't that a fight problem?"
Al-kun looked at me with an incredible look on his face. Besides, I think I accidentally got a crying look on my face.
Because the reaction... seems too "normal." I guess Al couldn't float all this time.
One day, memories come back to my brain when I was pulling my reluctant al-kun hand. We were still sisters and brothers today.
"Oh, it doesn't matter anymore! Details!
"Doesn't matter!?"
"- Where is the problem more than accepting the grievances of a suffering family member!?"
- Hey, Al. I wish I could still pull your hand.
"I won't tell you because I'm royal! There's no point in saying it anymore! If you throw it away, I'll throw it away! That's why I'm telling you to face me! If you want to fight, say so!! If you say you are unhappy, say my best to show it!!"
- I can hear that guy (sister) scolding me.
I got it so I could slap the words. I clog the words. Emotions twist up and spread to every corner of your body.
I don't know if I want to cry or if I'm mad anymore.... and lost power all at once. I couldn't help it, I wanted to laugh.
"... now you are."
"Yeah, now it is."
That guy (sister) has a crying look on his face. You must have been angry the whole time. My anger is still not gone. But that wasn't pure anger anymore.
"... if I could have heard that word sooner, I would have"
"If I had conveyed this word quickly, I would have"
Oh... it's like a mirrored word.
"You can't leave now."
"You can't back off."
"I wanted to be a bastard."
"No one." Apologize to Raini, fool. "
"My sister is the one. If we keep this up, Raini's gonna die, okay? Can you apologize then?
"I promised I wouldn't let you die! If you break it, Raini will be the same! If you're guilty of the same crime, both succeed and lose! Later, I am royal!! My orders should take precedence!!"
"... terrible reason. Really, terrible reason... makes me cry"
I laughed as I shed my floating tears. I was laughing.
At the earliest, I was too sad, too angry, but the laughter came in and I couldn't help but... I thought it was fun.
You're an idiot, I thought. I do fools from what to what. Both myself and the person in front of me (my sister). That's not the case, but still... we're trying to have a "fight".
"Hey, sister."
"What?"
"Will you die?"
"I don't like it."
"Right."
"That's right."
"Well, there's no choice."
"I don't have a choice."
"Have a fight!
"Shall we continue!
- Oh. I'm sure there's nothing left, and it'll be a fight that won't benefit.
Let go of everything you had and just slap your emotions as you wish. I wanted you dead, I thought. From the bottom of my heart, I wanted to beat this irrational incarnation to pieces.
Still good. I guess this irrational sister says. This guy is too prodigious, incomprehensible, and yet oddly sharp to pierce his mind.
"I hate you!! Sister!!"
I've always hated it.
I hated you more than anything and couldn't help but notice you.
You lived your days to the point where you didn't care about anything else, you were hateful, jealous, and envious from the bottom of your heart.
I remember one day smiling. When would it have been a smile? That's the face my sister is laughing at. Really, this guy hasn't changed anything or anything for a long time.
I couldn't wait to hate it, but it seemed to spit out without starving.
This guy says he hates you. He always wanted to beat this guy up. This awareness lightens my mind above all else, and I am reminded that there is nothing ahead of me.
I just couldn't stop laughing from slipping down my throat.