Chapter 83
83 . THE SIN FOR PUTTING YOUR HAND ON SOMEONE´S TOY
“Riku…Ane?”
Rook couldn´t believe the scene that was happening before his eyes .
A hair red like a ripen apple was fluttering in front of him . This had happened right before the attack reached Rook . Getting in front of Keity, the red haired girl had pushed aside the blow Keity had used all her strength at .
Because of that, the direction of Keity´s attack had changed, hitting the paved ground . Because of the dust that had risen, it wasn´t possible to see the surroundings well .
“Riku-ane? It is Riku-ane, right!?”
But Rook knew .
Rook knew the name of the girl holding the halberd .
“Why did you save me?”
With a trembling voice, Rook called for Riku Barusak .
As far as he was concerned, Riku hated him . No, it went beyond hating him . Riku hated Rook very much for how he had betrayed her at their childhood, and certainly resented that . In fact, it had been only a few months since he had been completely rejected by Riku .
“Riku-ane, tell me . Why did you save me?””
Did any changes happened to Riku´s heart in these few months?
Had she become willing to forgive Rook, who had betrayed her? With a gaze full of expectation, Rook looked at Riku´s small back .
“That´s obvious . ”
Riku didn´t turn back to him .
Even more now that the white smoke had cleared away, Riku´s eyes were looking straight at Keity Fostar .
“There is no way I can let you die here . ”
“Riku-ane!”
A smile appeared at Rook´s face .
Rook´s sincere feelings had finally reached Riku . Rook felt he was safe now . He had the feeling that the stained part of his heart was gradually being cleansed . However… .
“If you die here, I won´t be able to have fun later, right?”
Even looking at Riku from her back, Rook was able clearly feel it .
A feeling of killing intent filled with insanity came from Riku´s back .
“It will be inconvenient to carry you, so let´s have your arms and legs cut off later, okay? It´s alright, I won´t kill you right away . I have many things I want to tell you after all . ”
With the tone of voice of a innocent child that was playing with her favorite toy, Riku spoke . Rook wasn´t able to tell what expression Riku had in her face, but she was surely showing an smile so broad to the point that her mouth would tear apart .
Taking back everything he had thought just now, the feeling of comfort had vanished in an instant .
“The sin of putting your hand onto one of my toys is heavier than prison breaking, you know… Keity Fostar . ”
Riku moved her halberd next to Keity´s throat . It was possible to hear the sound of Keity clenching her teeth . Clenching her fists, Keity was intensely glaring at Riku .
“Riku Barusak, why are you here!? Could it be… that you had been working with the humans?”
Keity´s ferocious eyes were even more intense than moments ago . The killing intent that couldn´t be compared to the one that had been directed to Rook was now being aimed at Riku . Because of the density of killing intent, even the air started to tremble .
“Haven´t you heard what I´ve just said now? This guy is someone I want to have revenge on . It is a toy I had let escape before, you know? It is impossible for me to join forces with this thing even if the sky and the earth were overturned . … . That is, differently from your previous lord . ”
The instant Riku said those last words, Keity kicked the ground . The strength of her legs gorged into the ground and made a cloud of dust rise up .
“I won´t forgive your insult to Charlotte-sama!!”
Keity rushed at Riku like a bullet .
“What a pain . ”
Clicking her tongue, Riku rotated her halberd at the palm of her hand . And then, she pointed the axe shaped point to Rook . In that manner, Rook´s collar was caught by the axe-shaped blade . (TL note: I guess she used the hook of the halberd?)
“Dwaah!?”( どわっ！？)
Rook´s body was many times more robust than Riku´s . Rook´s height was more than a head higher than Riku, and the amount of muscles and weight were also close to the double of hers . (TL note: Is Riku a semi loli or something? It seems she is much smaller than I thought she was 0 . 0 Remember Rook is fourteen or something right now)
“Roppu, look after that luggage . ”
Riku vigorously swung her halberd .
Rook was sent flying to the air and fell down at Roppu´s arms .
“Until I am done here, don´t let it run away . ”
“Y-yes!”
Tying Rook with a rope, Roppu hurriedly retreated to the rear .
Rook didn´t resist . Maybe because of Keity´s beating, it became hard for him to move, or perhaps, everything that was suddenly happening now still didn´t get to his head .
Most likely, it was both .
Grabbing Rook, Roppu ran into the crowd of people and vanished from Riku and Keity´s view .
“Are you protecting that spiritualist? Even though you´ve denounced Charlotte-sama at that time!!”
Keity roared .
With bloodshot eyes, she was pulling out her hair, with it falling everywhere . No matter from what angle one was look at Keity, she had lost her sanity . Lightly doing a swing with her halberd, Riku sighed .
“I am capturing it for the sake of extracting information . Differently from that promiscuous girl, Keity Fostar . ”
“This mouth of yours that is talking bad about Charlotte-sama… I will smash it up!!”
Moving her hand inside her clothes, she took out a sword .
The sword was of a size that was convenient to carry around, but despite that, it seemed very heavy . Just by touching it, it was possible to feel a dangerous sensation that made one imagine it could very well bring down an arm . (TL note: ;-; I hate words that don´t really have english translations in the meaning they are being used . Do anyone have better ways to translate ->武骨重厚感
“Die!!”
Keity attacked . Her speed was many times more than before . With her speed, it became difficult to confirm her position by sight . While Riku was preparing her stance, an horizontal attack came at Riku faster than she could think about it .
The whirlwind made her red hair rise up .
Indeed, it had been just by a hairs breath . Riku had barely avoided the sword that had come at her in a blink of an eye . With her attack missing her target, Keity´s went . Normally, this would be the time when Riku would get behind the opponent and attack him while he was distracted, but unfortunately, she couldn´t follow Keity´s speed . Before Riku could attack, Keity had already crashed at the group of humans .
“Kyah!!”
“Uwah, run away! Run away!!”
The bystanders were caught into a whirlpool of agony .
The sword that was overpowering to the point that seemed it would cut arms just by touching them and the lump of meat that had a speed to the point that it was difficult to follow with the eyes had hit the group of defenseless people . Cras.h.i.+ng into the people that were wearing festive costumes, an amount of blood that could be to be paint flowed off .
At that time, the people of Derufoi had finally noticed . The fight that was happening in front of their eyes wasn´t something like a cute [lover´s quarrel], but a fight of a [demon and a spiritualist] .
“Where is that brat? That guy was a spiritualist, right? Hey, why won´t he protect us? It´s his job, isn´t it?”
“He is not here! He vanished together with that rabbit boy! He abandoned us!!”
“What!? A spiritualist had abandoned us humans!?”
Since it became a battle against a demon, as if it was the obvious thing to do, they sought for the help of the spiritualists .
Keity was clearly a ferocious demon, and on the other hand, the red haired was someone they wanted to avoid . Their only hope had been taken by Roppu and had already left the place .
The existence the people of Derufoi sought help from was nowhere to be seen .
In the end, something as trivial as the humans being troubled didn´t matter to Riku and Keity . Without thinking about anything else, Keity only continued her murderous attacks without thinking about anything else and Riku would keep avoiding them at a hairs breath . And every time it happened, the people behind Riku would get torn to pieces and run over by Keity .
“Tch, annoying! Get out of my way, stupid humans!!”
Trampling over the acc.u.mulated corpses, Keity started swearing .
“What is it? Why won´t you attack!? Didn´t you want to punish me for breaking up your toy!?”
“…”
Riku had only been avoiding Keity´s attacks and didn´t attack back .
Keity´s irritation was increasing . Rook Barusak hadn´t attacked her back, and Riku Barusak wasn´t fighting her seriously . Keity Fostar was extremely angered, feeling she was being looked down upon .
“You keep moving around! I´ve misjudged you, Riku Barusak! I´ve thought you would have given me a better fight, but this is what you have!! Die at once and beg for forgiveness to Charlotte-sama in the other world!!”
“…”
Riku didn´t answer anything .
Of course, she had no intention of dying and apologizing to Charlotte, and moreover, she didn´t remember doing anything she had to apologize for . The reason why Charlotte had been judged was for the crimes she had done herself . Riku only had partic.i.p.ation in helping disclosing them; there was nothing to apologize about . But that said, it didn´t seem like Keity wasn´t in a condition she would listen to Riku if she was to tell her that . While waiting for a gap in Keity´s attacks, Riku continued to avoid them .
Riku was supposed to be able to block Keity´s attacks, but unfortunately, she had only one arm now . If Riku had both of her arms, she would be able to muster more strength for fighting her directly, but with one arm, she didn´t have the confidence of being able to fight perfectly .
Riku was waiting for the instant a gap would appear in Keity´s attacks, aiming to reverse the situation when it happened .
But while Riku was thinking of that, something happened .
“Sob, daddy . My foot hurts . ”(TL note: How is the onomatopoeia for sobbing? - . -)
Someone´s sobbing voice reached Riku´s ears . Turning her eyes for only a moment, she saw a little girl crouched at the ground . Apparently, the girl had sprained her foot . While sobbing, she was grabbing the hem of the clothes of the man she had thought to be her father .
“Eei, how annoying! Let it go!”
The girl´s father kicked her away and vanished to the direction of the crowd of people .
It was the figure of a miserable and insignificant human . However, for some reason, even though Riku was supposed to not have even a fragment of interest about something like this, she ended up getting distracted by that .
“Don´t look away, Riku Barusak!!”
Still being controlled by her anger, Keity swung her sword .
Even though Keity only had swung down her sword, a roaring blow of the wind was created . Riku tried to jump to the right and avoid the attack, but right when she did that, she noticed something .
Riku noticed that the little girl that had been abandoned by her father was right in front of Keity´s attack path .
“Tch . ”
Before she could notice, Riku was already jumping in front of that girl .
Stopping Keity´s sword with her halberd, Riku barely held it out . Keity´s attack was heavy and her left arm started to make a sound of creaking . Perhaps it would have been better for her to let it go, but if she was to do that, the girl behind her would end up hurt .
“A contest of strength? How long can you hold it out!?”
“…!”
Keity was showing a cruel smile . While clenching her teeth, Riku was desperately trying to withstand the attack . Sweat was flowing from her forehead and falling down from her cheek . Without being able to completely resist Keity´s strength, her feet started to sink into the ground .
In the end, was it really not possible with only one hand? When Riku thought about pulling back, it happened .
“Riku-dono!! I will a.s.sist you-de gozaru!!”
A voice came from above .
Keity looked at the sky, saying “What!?” . At that instant, her death was decided .
Riku forced Keity´s sword away and aimed her left foot at Keity´s stomach . Staggering by the unexpected attack, she gave one… two step backs .
“Thank you . ”
Muttering her grat.i.tude to the reinforcement, she kicked the ground . After slipping into Keity´s flank, Riku swung her halberd . Keity had ended up letting Riku get too close and couldn´t avoid the attack Riku had done with all her might . (TL note: Can´t find it anywhere->懐に潜り込む
In a flash, Keity Fostar´s head was sent flying and soared high up in the sky . She was showing an expression that didn´t know what had happened until her last moments . While looking at the severed head lying at the ground, Riku spoke her parting words .
“Goodbye, Keity Fostar . ”