……I can"t reach you, is that what you"re saying……"
The cut armor broke and fell.
At the same time, Kagerou fell on his knees.
His knees on the ground, he looked up in the sky.
"Kill me."
It was a voice that gave up everything.
"If I could get rid of you here then…… it would have be fine though."
"You"re too greedy, you idiot."
If you want to kill me, bring along 50 Kagerous.
I don"t feel like losing though.
"Well, you probably know this, but I don"t kill."
Even I didn"t think blood would rush into my head this much just then.
To think……that I would go as far as thinking about killing him.
There"s still anger, not so much right now though.
For now I want to quickly head to the two. It"s about those two, they may still be breathing.
Worst case……they"ll be saved by me.
"I"m in a hurry, but I"m the one being troubled if you die like this. I"mma treat you so stay still."
Even so, I"ll be troubled even if Kagerou dies.
If it"s this level of injury then I shall do it quickly.
It doesn"t look like this guy"s putting a resistance either so it should be fine if I heal him and tie him up.
"……You, why won"t you take someone"s life?"
"Ah?"
When I was applying recovery magic while thinking of the future, Kagerou"s voice put me back to reality.
"I"ve heard from my liege that you don"t take a person"s life. From the beginning when you came to this world all the way until now……if that is so, then why won"t you kill someone?"
……now that he mentioned it, what was the reason again?
It"s true that I thought I don"t want to take responsibility of a person"s life anymore at the time I killed Touma.
But, I haven"t killed a person before that either.
In this cruel world, I stubbornly refused giving and taking life.
How heinous of a guy he is, I won"t kill him.
How much I couldn"t stomach the guy, I haven"t killed any.
Why……if I"m asked, why though?
If my previous life in j.a.pan was the cause, then I won"t be able to recall it anymore.
But suppose that was the case, then I think I would"ve talked about it with somebody.
Something like this happened, that"s why I won"t take away life……or something.
I don"t have any such memories.
I feel that this reason……the reason I don"t kill people is carved in a much deeper place……a place deeper than my heart or memories.
Well…… I guess it"s not something I can recall at this place now.
"Even I don"t know it myself."
I say while binding the treated Kagerou with a rope knead of magic power.
And while I"m at it I take out a magic stone out of the magic bag and put it into the rope that has become a roll wrapping around him.
This is a magic sealing stone, he shouldn"t be able to use any magic for a while.
"Well, aren"t you glad I was your opponent? If it were someone else you would"ve died."
"……There is no merit in living for me who has been defeated."
Kagerou hid his face.
"We are people that are created. As weapons to destroy various tribes, as tools of war…… If we"re defeated then we lose whatever value we had."
What"s with this guy, it suddenly got so heavy.
These sort of stories are basically what I don"t want to hear.
It"s useless and I"ll be left unable to say anything.
It"s because I won"t be able to sympathise no matter how much he kept at it.
It"s because this monster(me) can"t feel any sympathy towards anybody.
"……I don"t know your situation, but…… Well, living is better than ending up dying I think."
Death is accompanied with horror you can"t do anything about.
I have already died once so I get that.
The time I was lured into a trap and was forcibly sent back to j.a.pan, I felt my own body dissolving inside the main current of an enormous magic power.
Eventually everything completely dissolved and my consciousness vanished.
That time was scary in any case.
I, who became the strongest and had no scary things, harbored terror.
Excuse me if I"m going to taste that again.
"For now, we"ll start with you apologizing to the demons and having them forgive you. If it"s just a bit then I can plead with you so there. And then I"d say go out and eat some meal. A full stomach is the root of happiness you know?"
"…"
Kagerou said nothing.
He must have various things to think about.
"Oops…… I have to find them soon and heal them……"
"…… They"re dead you know."
"Who cares. They"re alive, those guys."
My intuition is saying so.
Those guys are tougher than humans and the like.
"Tell me the place where they fell right away. You don"t have any rights to veto any――――――――"
"――――――――――This isn"t good, you know Kagerou? You have to fight until you die."
I responded to the voice I heard right behind me…… And reflexively, swung Kuromaru.
It was a single, unadjusted swing.
That guy grinned broadly.
"Look――――――――Your liege"s in a pinch you know."
But, who I killed was……
"…… Thanks Kagerou. Thanks to you I was saved and I was able to make Setsu take away "a person"s" life."
Sprays of blood scattered around.
Kagerou crumbled down while looking at his own chest. I, completely cut his heart and lungs and he who lost his life…… slowly…… began losing body temperature.
"Now Setsu――――――――――show it to me?"
Touma looked at me and laughed.
Without looking at Kagerou who moved himself and acted as a wall, he looked at me.
Kagerou is dead.
I killed him.
Touma use him as a wall, no that"s not it.
My blade, my blade murdered him.
I killed him――――――――――with these hands of mine.
I took a life, with these hands, I, I, I――――――――――――――
"Ah…… Aah…… AAAaaaaaaAAAAAaaaaaah!"
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