Chapter 93
Like Family (4)
She was the one who protected
in the Dark Matter.
To explain why such a relationship was ford, I had to go back to our first encounter.
When I first saw Virgo, I couldn’t think of her as a villain at the ti.
The only parts that could be judged as villain were her eyes filled completely black without whites, and her wings as black as the area around her pupils. Apart from those two, her appearance was exactly the sa as a human’s.
I just thought she was a peculiar magical girl.
It wasn’t the first ti a magical girl took on a sowhat peculiar appearance while using magic.
Rather, I thought she was mysterious.
Her slightly non-human appearance added a sense of extraordinary sorrow rather than revulsion.
The fact that she was reportedly a deceased magical girl, and that she was in the Dark Matter, doubled that mysteriousness.
Until then, she was Red Spica to , not Virgo.
Looking at her appearance alone, it hadn’t changed much from her last known photos. Her eye and wing colors didn’t quite fall into the ‘much’ category – those were things that could be artificially attached as a disguise.
More than anything, it was her personality that had changed.
I can’t say what her private side was like since I never had a personal interaction with her.
But it was clear she wasn’t the type to grab a civilian by the neck and slam them to the ground right away. If she was, there would have been an even bigger controversy about her attitude than during the myth.
Her restraint skills were quite clean.
Her personality of not hesitating for even a few seconds after facing soone before pinning them down was truly as impressive as her mysterious appearance.
“Who are you…”
“Huh…what?”
“Who, who are you? Are you, are you here to…kill ? Or maybe to take sothing? What’s your goal? What’s your goal to co for , for …”
She was quite hysterical. Her words were slurred, her teeth chattering, and the hand grabbing my neck was weak and trembling. But by magical girl standards, it still had enough force to twist my neck.
“Your self-consciousness is quite sothing…”
Having co prepared to lose anyway, I let my tongue loose without restraint. I had nothing to fear. Whether I lost to a villain or a ntally unstable missing magical girl, it was all the sa.
No one would know of my death once I died in the Dark Matter. The cause of death didn’t matter.
“Who would… Co here to see you…! You were reported to have passed away… I didn’t co to see you…”
“Then! Then what!”
“Because I hate humans…”
Speaking it out loud, it was quite a la reason. Fundantal reasons tend to be embarrassing. There is no decorum in blatantly revealed likes and dislikes, so those who value decorum and appearances would naturally find it embarrassing.
I did too. Even in this situation, I felt a sense of sha imdiately after blurting it out. It was the typical remark of soone lacking in social skills and being anti-social. But the words were already out, and I couldn’t take them back. So I continued speaking.
“After experiencing so shitty things in society…I developed a hatred for humans…so I ca here…”
“That…shitty…ah really. But what kind of shitty things…”
So she would grab soone’s neck while cursing? An interesting person indeed.
“Cyber bullying, stalking, incidents with weapons.”
“…Oh.”
“Not just , but my girlfriend at the ti also went through a lot…”
“Girlfriend…? Eek…you, you ca to deceive …?!”
“We broke up.”
“Aha.”
Her anger seed to subside a little, as Red Spica’s grip on my neck weakened.
“So you beca pessimistic from being dumped by your girlfriend and ca here to kill yourself? Huhu, how childish. The world is so beautiful! You shouldn’t impulsively try to end your life! Whap!”
She lectured
while flicking my forehead with her fingertip. The slight tap produced a booming sound. Was she unaware of her own strength? I rolled on the ground in agony, feeling like my skull had split open.
“Oh..oh no…what do I do? I’m, I’m sorry! Did that hurt a lot? Oh, what should I…ah, ah! Just a mont…. Uhm. Well, a mother’s hands are gentle hands~”
She gently placed her hand on my forehead and began singing an ancient spell song passed down orally since long ago.
Pure or childish, the latter was more fitting for this situation.
“Stop it! I’m not a child or anything!”
“Child? But my mother did this for
often… Ah, no! How’s that! Did, did it trigger mories of your mother? How’s that? Do you feel like going ho now?”
“Suddenly?”
She wasn’t just childish, but extrely childish.
“Yes! That’s what I was aiming for! Absolutely! I didn’t just panic and give weird first-aid treatnt!”
“I see…that was first-aid treatnt…”
“Huh? You’ll go back?”
“No? I’m going to keep going?”
“Oh whyyyy! It’s dangerous here! Go back quickly! Don’t you miss your mother’s face?”
Red Spica seed quite unhappy about
staying here. Was it a sense of duty as a heroine? Even thinking back now, there was still much I didn’t know about her.
“I can’t see her even if I go back, since she was killed by a villain.”
I still didn’t have any mories of my parents. The mories I could retrieve were relatively recent ones. Most of my childhood mories were lost. Still, I knew one thing.
In the past, I harbored considerable displeasure and anger towards the fact that my parents were taken from
by a villain.
It was only natural for soone to feel that way if their parents’ killer, wasn’t it. Who could love their parents’ enemy?
“Ah… I see.”
Red Spica beca visibly gloomy.
“So you ca here instead of committing suicide. No one here knows who you are, and they won’t care even if you die. There are a lot of villains around too…”
As Red Spica assaulted , I picked up the iron pipe that had fallen to the ground.
“I want to kill at least one villain before I die.”
Looking back, I had never heard such crazy words. The remarks of a childish brat. To claim to be able to kill a villain with an ordinary person’s physical abilities. She, who had killed villains many tis as a magical girl, must have found it absurd.
She probably thought it was ridiculous, pathetic, and disgusting.
At that ti, I was also skeptical. I didn’t think for a mont that I could truly kill a villain.
I ca here with the intention of dying. I ca here to die without anyone knowing. I ca so that no one would rember that I had died. But I would rember myself, so I thought it would be comforting to at least do sothing before I died.
That’s why I spouted such nonsense about killing a villain.
“Interesting.”
Pewing.
Red Spica raised her finger. A crimson beam ca out of her fingertip, and the iron pipe in my hand easily lted away like ice cream.
“Ugh…!”
“How?”
She smiled thinly and asked a question.
“How are you going to kill it?”
“Diligently.”
I answered seriously. That was my serious answer.
“Then you’ll have to work hard. You’ll die if you slack off even a little.”
Shvek. She approached . Just one step was enough to get so close that we could exchange breaths.
“Hey, aren’t you curious? Why I’m here, why I ended up like this. What I am…”
“I don’t know for sure, but I can tell you’re a psycho.”
Red Spica burst out laughing, apparently quite pleased with my answer.
“Ahha! Uhuh! Ahahahahha!”
“Wow, is it really that funny?”
“I’m laughing because it’s so absurd… so you really did co here to die? You’re not even trying to read the situation?”
She waved her finger with the beam concentrated at the tip, signaling
to stop entertaining pointless thoughts.
“Do you even realize how ridiculous it is to say you’ll kill a villain with an ordinary human body? It’s the sa as saying you’ll pluck a star from the sky. It’s utter nonsense!”
Red Spica, who had let out a deep sigh, looked
up and down. I showed a slight displeasure at her evaluative gaze, but she ignored my reaction and continued doing what she was doing.
“Your face is quite plain, but your head must have tasted really good… You’re quite pitiful too!”
“You have a plain face too while you’re here doing who knows what.”
“? Well, of course… Ah. I only listened to your story and didn’t tell you mine at all, did I? Sorry, sorry.”
She laughed dryly and poked
with her finger near my heart.
“I’m similar to you. I ca here to rest too. I don’t like people either.”
It was an inappropriate remark for a magical girl. Co to think of it, she was no longer a magical girl, so it didn’t matter if it was inappropriate or not.
“Unlike you, I didn’t co here on my own. I don’t even rember when exactly I ended up here or why I ended up like this.”
She must have been suffering from the blessing of oblivion by then.
“I miss my mom and there are things I want to eat, but… I just don’t want to leave here for such trivial reasons. For so reason, I don’t want to leave. This place is just the most comfortable for .”
Her statents were clearly contradictory. If this place was truly comfortable for her, she wouldn’t have huddled up crying, wishing her mom would take her away.
“Maybe it’s because you don’t like people?”
I said it lightly, as if it wasn’t a big deal, but it was an imnsely weighty statent. For a magical girl who obtained starlight for the sake of people to harbor hatred towards them ant it was no light hatred.
It must have been an extrely strong hatred, powerful enough to completely change her life.
“So that’s why it’s troubleso that you’re here… I understand your circumstances are difficult, but who knows if that’s really the truth? Most people who co here are just trashy criminals, people whose lives have hit rock bottom… There’s a high chance they’ll cause a disturbance!”
Heat gradually started rising from near my heart. There was no excitent, only fear. The heat concentrated in her finger that was touching my body.
“Are you going to kill ?”
“Um… Should I? But, I’ve changed my mind a little.”
Red Spica smiled at .
“You’re not the kind of person I dislike. There are no bad people among the people who dislike people!”
An enemy of an enemy is a friend.
Soone who disliked people felt goodwill towards soone from the sa ilk. That’s what she felt, and what I felt.
However, this statent of hers was also contradictory.
“But you said earlier that you couldn’t trust .”
“Did I say that? Sorry! Anyway, what I’m saying is….”
The beam she had gathered near my heart shot upwards, and…
“I’ll give you one-on-one lessons until you can kill a villain. How about it?”
The nearby villains gathered around us. This was her excuse to herd the villains towards
and repeatedly watch over
while I practiced killing them.
It was the start of a strange relationship.
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Ippotranslation
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And now, she continues to watch over
without changing.
The feeling of a murderer protecting
was quite cozy.
Ha fuck, be happy, seriously.
Virgo’s gaze was still inscrutable.
“Good morning! Did you sleep well?”
“Thanks to you, very well.”
I definitely didn’t sleep well with my neck strained like that. I looked around the surroundings.
Was this Virgo’s hideout? For ruins, it was oddly well-organized.
“Is that so? Then let’s sleep again!”
Oh fuck this.
“Let’s have a little chat…”
As I moved my feet to approach her.
Took. Sothing got caught on my foot.
I lowered my gaze to see what it was.
It was a chanical lump.
A rather sophisticated looking chanical lump that did not seem to belong here.
I instinctively realized it was an item that attaches to a belt.
And I also realized why I was told to let Virgo live.
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