He himself did not want to force them to return
He had already become something else but the root of this thoughts was still that boy named Fujita Mutsuki
He did not like forcibly controlling what other people did
If he wanted it Schwarze or Micha could have easily caught up to that jet plane fleeing at a subsonic speed He wanted to change the world but he did not want to do it by force That was their last hope for breaking free of this situation Although it was not much of an opening because a perfect being like him did not need to do anything by force
I am counting on you Machinaas well as Jiyuuni Ange and Satowa Lucia
Alice had kept the hope alive
There was nothing more for her to do so she breathed a deep sigh
Alice called the young man
Her heart leapt in her chest and she looked up with red in her cheeks
It seemed she had already fallen for him She loved this young man She smiled bitterly at how she arrived at that conclusion in an oddly detached way due to the machine that had partially taken over her brain Call the three of them back That way we can all get along
He was making a request
She rejoiced at that simple fact but her mechanized brain rationally analyzed the situation
How should she respond Her mechanical brain crunched the numbers and predicted a few different futures
The instant she agreed she would be enveloped in the greatest bliss imaginable and she would offer him the love she had supposedly cast out 600 years ago
But what if she refused She could calculate that out as well
She looked up at him
Her cheeks grew warm when she viewed his face Her heart pounded in a happy way
This was love Love of a man Of the opposite sex
How many centuries had it been since she felt that At the very least she did not recall feeling it for the past 500 years
(No)
That was not entirely true There was that moment this very summer
When she had shared a table with a certain boy drank some delicious tea and eaten some less delicious cookies she may have felt a similar feeling
I refuse she bluntly stated
He shut his eyes regretfully
In that instant Miss Alice Arc’s skin peeled away
Her flesh bones and hair fell to the ground and vanished like no more than sand
She had known this would happen Refusing a perfect being meant turning her back on her understanding as a living creature It meant to reject her life itself
She had known refusing him would cause her body to give up on living
But those words had still been worth saying The 600-year-old witch maintained her cynical smile to the end as all that was Alice Arc turned to dust and blew away
The young man breathed a quiet sigh
Let’s give up on Ange’s group We can change the world first
He turned his back on her
With that Micha Schwarze Lavriel Makoto and all the others lost interest too As if they had never known that girl named Alice
As if anyone who defied a perfect being might as well have never existed
I want to rid the world of discord You will all help me won’t you
When he called to them
They all replied while experiencing ecstasy at being commanded by him
They all left the golf course
The remaining pile of sand was soon scattered by the wind
Only a cheap bear print ribbon remained there caught on some grass
Adolescent Adam 8 Fragment
I will be leaving then
Thank you Shibaki Kurosaki is finished so I would recommend not returning there
After driving them to Kobe Harbor Shibaki watched Shuntarou and Riselle boarding a cruiser they must have arranged for and then he began smoking one of the cigarettes he so loved
He could tell the cruiser was stuffed with gold bars He shrugged at how well prepared that man was He kind of wanted to attack the pig and steal it but he doubted he could manage it with Riselle and that redhead as his bodyguards He quickly abandoned the idea That redhead looked somehow familiar He tilted his head at the odd sensation
The cruiser finally began to move He snuffed out his cigarette and returned to his car
He did not know what had happened to the Kurosaki Family but he had been receiving constant calls from his subordinates They were asking for help or saying they had been imprisoned by a giant woman so he wanted nothing to do with any of it Shuntarou was probably right about never returning there (I did like my life there though)
But whatever He climbed into the car
Where would he go now It was not quite on the level of gold bars but he had enough saved up to wash his hands of that business and live a comfortable life Or he could search out another patron while dreaming of once more training as fine as specimen as Koishi He silently laughed at himself when he arrived at an oddly philosophical answer
Would he even enjoy living a life after this
He had long since gotten a vasectomy for his training work so he could not have any children
He had not even hesitated to make that decision Because it had been for his job
But now he started to question if that had been the right decision
What was he even living for anymore
Are you sad
He heard a sudden voice