Tatakau Shisho Volume 7, 6: Everything is Told on the Roof – Part 1

Volu 7, Chapter 6: Everything is Told on the Roof – Part?1

Present – December 29, 1926

A short ti after the date has changed, the long party was over.

A single man observed the small groups of Ard Librarians who were returning ho.

Mattalast, Bonbo, Yukizona and Yuri, followed by Kyasariro, were all walking with satisfied faces. Only Yanku went back with a sowhat long face.

The man intently observed all of the Ard Librarians as if he didn’t want to miss any of their expressions. No one there noticed his gaze. No one there could see his true intentions.

Who was he? Where was he looking at the Ard Librarians from? The ti to speak of that has yet to co.

“…”

The only ones left were Hamyuts seta atop the roof, as well as Olivia Littolet who ca out late. The man watched those two.

“…So nothing’s happened.”

The party was over and Hamyuts swung around her empty glass of champagne while muttering this.

She had been watching Olivia for seven months. She had developed many thoughts and expectations as to what Olivia was planning and how she was going to destroy the Ard Librarians.

So were my expectations betrayed again? Olivia claiming that she would destroy the Ard Librarian was just a bluff. Although Lascall had conveyed the Violet Wish to her, it vanished along with her mories.

Looking at the present situation, Hamyuts could only think this.

However, she simply couldn’t accept it. There was no way she would be done with Olivia so easily.

Was this her premonition or just her desire? Even she wasn’t able to tell.

Suddenly, she looked down the roof. She found Olivia coming out of the party hall.

Olivia left the party hall. She had enjoyed her ti there. She had her reservations about coming there when she had received invitation from Kyasariro, but she hadn’t imagined it would end up being so enjoyable.

Even the Ard Librarians, who she thought were all scary, turned out to be good people when she tried speaking with them. There were also so that she t for the first ti today and got along just fine with. It would probably be fun again starting tomorrow.

“Lately I’ve been feeling bad for so reason.”

Olivia muttered. For the last two or three days her head felt fuzzy. She felt as if she was forgetting sothing.

But that discomfort disappeared the more she spoke with the Ard Librarians today. It was probably not a big deal.

Olivia set on her way ho while humming to herself.

Three days ago, Kyasariro had deprived her of her mories and Mattalast planted new ones inside of her. That also made Olivia’s personality change. The Olivia who was extrely doubtful, cautious, and possessed a persistent will to fight was nowhere to be found.

She now turned into a woman who was cheerful, sociable, liked to make fun of people, a bit lonely, but an ordinary woman. Perhaps this was her original personality.

“…Hmm?”

At that ti, Olivia noticed soone’s gaze on her. She looked around.

“Here.”

She heard a voice coming from above. She was quite surprised to find Hamyuts overhead.

“Olivia. Are you going ho?”

Hamyuts asked. Olivia answered without thinking.

“What’re you doing?”

“Well, just so thinking.”

Thinking of it, Olivia realized she hadn’t seen her this whole ti. She thought that she just went back, but was she there all along?

“Why there?”

“Idiots and smoke like high places.”

Saying this, Hamyuts threw sothing off the roof.

“Co here for a bit. You don’t have any other plans, right?”

Olivia looked at the thrown object. It was the string of a sling. Even if she told her to co there, what should she do?

She grasped the string for now. It then wrapped around Olivia’s wrist as if it was a snake.

Olivia’s body was gently lifted. She was placed on the roof.

“You’ve surprised , but it felt sowhat good.”

“Well, sit sowhere around.”

Walking fearfully on the roof, she sat at the most high place.

“So what did you want to talk about?”

“There’s a case that I just can’t seem to crack. I’m so interested in it that I can’t concentrate on anything else. There’s sothing that I just can’t seem to understand no matter how much I think about it.

I thought that I may not have any other choice but to ask so great detective.”

“Wouldn’t soone like Mattalast be enough? He looks the part.”

“Nah, he’s no good. He’s simply useless.”

Hamyuts promptly denied. It seed that she wanted to consult with Olivia.

However, would she really be able to understand sothing that eludes even Hamyuts and Mattalast? Olivia was puzzled.

“Oh well. So, what is it?”

“Ah, so will you listen to , miss great detective?”

“An impromptu detective though. Well, spit it out.”

“I’ll be counting on you.”

Olivia and Hamyuts smiled at each other and Hamyuts began speaking.

“So, I have so enemy right now. Let’s keep the identity of that person a secret. But it seems like they want to defeat no matter what.”

“Have you done anything bad?”

Olivia asked just in case. She didn’t know Hamyuts well, but she didn’t look like a good person.

“…It’s complicated. I mainly did so bad stuff, but they’re not really a good person either.”

“So it’s like that, huh. So, what about that person?”

“That person knows of a way to defeat . It would be hard to put in practice, but they know of it.”

“And?”

“They said that they’ve already defeated . This is the important part. They didn’t say they will definitely defeat . They didn’t say they can beat , either. They said that my loss was already determined.”

“Hmm. So that ans you’re in a big pinch.”

Hamyuts nodded.

“Supposedly. But that person hasn’t done anything. Here I am lounging on the roof. What does this an, I wonder.”

Olivia started thinking.

“Aren’t they preparing for your defeat?”

“They should be, but they’re not doing anything. To the extent that I’m truly surprised. What the heck is going on?”

Olivia crossed her arms and thought. She never even considered the possibility this was talking about her.

Hamyuts was asking for the reasoning of the great detective and trying to make the culprit confess at the sa ti. It was a strange situation, but Olivia knew nothing about it.

Hamyuts and Olivia were conversing on top of the roof. Even the man, while observing them, could not completely hear them.

That’s bad, he beca stressed. Was Olivia’s plan exposed? Or was it about to be exposed?

He was sure she had completely deceived Mattalast. But it seed like Hamyuts has yet to throw away her doubts. As they thought, Hamyuts was the most frightening one of the lot.

The man’s body stiffened with tension. Until now Olivia’s plan was perfect. Will there be a setback at the very end?

He observed them, still tense.

Only Olivia could understand her own plan. Hamyuts spoke to Olivia because she thought this way. However, Olivia showed her hand as if saying she had given up.

“It’s useless. I have too little information. No matter what I think I just have no idea.”

Hamyuts was slightly disappointed.

“So try thinking like this. If you were in their position, what would you have done? You wanted to defeat and knew a way of doing so. At that ti, what would Olivia Littolet have done?”

“If I were in their shoes, huh. And if knew of a way to beat you…”

It was a strange sight: Olivia tried thinking in Olivia’s shoes.

“Anyway, if it were I would tell it to soone. To soone who wants to beat you. They probably have a grudge against you. Is there anyone like that?”

Hamyuts had also thought this far. Olivia had no way to fight, so she should have passed the Violet Wish to soone else.

In fact, she had tried instigating Yanku and Kyasariro to rebel against the Ard Librarians.

“I see. And, other than that, what would you have done?”

She wanted to ask Olivia about what ca afterwards. The culprit-detective crossed her arms and thought.

“Other than that… But I think that would be about everything I can do…”

After thinking for a while, Olivia clapped her hands.

“I know. I would’ve concealed the identity of the person I’d told your weakness to. No, that’s wrong… I would’ve concealed the very fact that I’d done so.”

“…What do you an?”

“Well, it’s more advantageous this way. You wouldn’t know who you were being targeted by. You wouldn’t even know soone was targeting you in the first place.

Wouldn’t even soone like you be in danger if that happens?”

Hamyuts realized her own carelessness. She should have understood this by thinking a little. Hamyuts was too strong, so she couldn’t even imagine how a powerless person would fight.

She started thinking based on the hints given to her by Olivia.

Her aim was to tell soone of the Violet Wish. That person was neither Yanku nor Kyasariro.

Then when and where had she done it? Hamyuts thought back on Olivia’s behavior ever since she ca to Past God Bantorra’s Island. She shouldn’t have had such a chance.

“…No.”

Hamyuts was an idiot. Olivia’s goal was to tell soone about the Violet Wish in a place Hamyuts wouldn’t know of. She wouldn’t have done it in the Past God Island which was under her supervision.

She had a chance. It was before coming to the Past God Island. Before she had been caught by Mattalast.

“…I see, I think I got it.”

Olivia curiously looked at Hamyuts who suddenly changed her expression as she started thinking.

Seven months ago, just before Olivia was caught by Mattalast, he had t her in the Ismo Republic.

He aid to fight against the Indulging God Cult and destroy Heaven. For him, eting up with Olivia was the kind of luck that would co only once in a lifeti.

He ca to know of the sole thod to destroy Heaven, the Violet Wish. His fight, that seed hopeless, now had a sliver of hope.

However, at the sa ti, a serious crisis had also arrived.

At the ti, no one knew of his existence. Neither Hamyuts, Mattalast, nor the dead Kachua. He was able to continue living since no one knew of his rebellion.

However, after he had t with Olivia he lost that advantage. She was being chased by the Ard Librarians, and would probably not be able to avoid being caught by them for long. If that happens, Hamyuts and the rest would also co to know of that man’s existence.

As he was deep in thought, Olivia suggested a plan to him.