“First, undo the brainwashing you’ve inflicted on everyone.”
“Wh-who would…”
Kaine intimidates Tect, who tries to argue back. Despite just standing there and glaring, Tect felt something akin to bloodlust and fainted, foaming at the mouth.
Kaine repeatedly punched him, forcibly waking him up.
“I-I understand… I’ll undo the brainwashing…”
As he said that, Tect flashed for a moment.
“It’s undone now. Now hurry up and return m—”
“Then quietly watch from over there.”
I noticed a sharp rock nearby, so I impaled Tect’s head on it.
“GYAAAAAAAH!”
“Well then… that settles that… !?”
Or so I thought, but Kuuga-san attacked me.
I took a direct hit, and my chest feels tight.
It’s hard to breathe…
Fortunately, I recovered quickly, but that’s not the problem.
“Tect… to think you’d still lie at this point…”
“N-no, that wasn’t me…”
Tect, who had started to say something, was punched by Kuuga-san.
Part of his head is gone.
I had no choice but to retrieve it.
“Hey, what do you think you’re doing? Do you really want to die?”
“It’s a misunderstanding! Please listen!”
“What kind of misunderstanding? Depending on the content, I might forgive you with a rather harsh death…”
“Hiii, please don’t kill me~! It’s probably because I lost my mind due to burning my life force~! Until now, I was controlling it from above, so it was fine, but now that the control is gone, it started rampaging~!”
“Tch! Troublesome… How can I stop it?”
“There’s no way to stop it~! Just like you can’t forcibly stop a runaway train with external interference~! You can’t return someone like that to normal~!”
“Whether I can do it or not is for me to decide. You just keep suffering there!”
With that, I skewered Tect’s head again.
“Now then… what to do?”
I hate to take Tect’s words as reference, but I can’t afford to be picky.
If it’s difficult to stop it with external interference, then Kuuga-san himself has to stop that rampage.
“Kuuga-san! Can you hear me?”
“GUgaaaaaaah!”
Kuuga-san doesn’t respond to my calls and just keeps repeating his attacks.
“Kuuga-san! Please wake up!”
The sword is heavy.
I’m starting to lose ground…
But all I can do is believe in Kuuga-san and keep calling out to him.
I call out again and again.
To the sleepyhead.
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I feel like I can hear a voice from far away.
Is it Kaine’s voice?
When I strain my eyes, I see me and Kaine fighting.
However, I, the person in question, am pushing Kaine with tremendous power that I’ve never shown before.
…Stop it. Please don’t make me kill someone…
I somehow open my mouth and speak.
“So…rry… I…kill…me.”
I’m glad you were the first opponent I fought, Kaine.
Please, kill me, you should be able to do it, right?
However, Kaine hesitates.
He never uses his sword for attack, only for defense.
Ah… I failed.
Because he is kind… sometimes kindness becomes an enemy.
I mutter my last words again in my fading consciousness.
“I… don’t care anymore.”
And when he heard those words, his expression suddenly changed.
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