[The Origin] Chapter 33: “Alice’s Scream, and Then”
"You guys... what are you doing?"
The emotions she reveals are bewilderment and fear.
And clear anger.
I am startled by that expression. It felt like my heart was grabbed.
The emotions I should have suppressed for the battle. The heart I should have closed.
Suddenly begin to move.
Alice, though her shoulders were trembling, shouted resolutely with a sorrowful voice.
"I'm asking what you are doing! The town... is like this...! Isn't everything messed up!"
I come back to my senses.
Even though I was prepared for that much.
The lock on my heart crumbled. Suddenly, I became afraid of myself.
If I look around a little. It's obvious at a glance.
The town called Sacris was... no longer there.
What I wanted to protect was no longer there.
Fighting so hard. Scattering death and destruction in all directions.
All of this is what we did. And I accepted this calmly.
"Everyone, everyone died! Friends from school, Aln, Auntie... Milia too! Ugh...!"
It was an impact like being hit hard on the head.
Milia...
My chest tightens.
Why. Even though I told her to run. Did she not make it in time?
Couldn't even exchange last words. So abruptly.
Can such a thing be allowed?
Alice gathered tears in her eyes and glared at Vitterweitz.
"What do you want to do! Give them back to me! Give everyone back! Give them back!"
And she turns to me.
I was thoroughly flustered by her sad expression that seemed about to overflow at any moment.
"A... Alice..."
Only a completely dry voice comes out.
Alice rebukes me with a weak voice.
"Hey. Why. Why did it come to this? Why did it have to be like this?"
"U, a..."
"Tell me. Tell me, Yu...!"
Finally unable to bear it, I suppose.
She started shedding large tears poro poro.
Ah. Why do you shake my heart so much?
Because you always. Enter straight into my heart.
No good. If you make such a face at me.
I...
Contrary to my wavering heart, my mouth was spinning the necessary words.
"Alice. You can't stay in a place like this."
"Uugh...!"
"Alice! Run!"
There was no way he would miss the opening where I was completely distracted.
"Wavering with emotion—that is your fatal weakness."
Before I knew it, right in front of me—.
The fist unleashed with a triumphant face.
Was buried in the wound opened in my body.
At the excessive pain, I couldn't help but scream.
"Guaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!"
"Yu...!"
Alice, noticing the situation a moment later, couldn't stand still and tried to run towards me.
Vitterweitz was sneering.
No good. At this rate.
There is only you left.
I was shouting with all my voice.
"Aliiiiice! Don't come! Don't come heeeeere!"
I don't care about the pain in this body. Alice is!
"Vitterweitz! Stooooooooooooop!"
"I told you many times. Do you think I'll listen?"
"Uooooooooooooooooooooh!"
I reach out desperately. Vitterweitz holds out his hand.
Even though I want to save her so much. Why.
It doesn't reach.
In front of my eyes.
Alice's body began to transform rapidly.
"Eh, what...? Suddenly my body is...?"
"Ah... ah..."
"Kukkukku. Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!"
Vitterweitz raises a high laughter.
Alice, who began to emit light faintly from her body surface, was surprised and bewildered by the rapid expansion of energy.
"Something is strange. My body is hot...!"
"A, li, ce..."
No way.
Ah, ah.
She can't be saved anymore.
Alice.
"Yu...!"
"It takes a little time, though. Not just Magic Power. I'll convert 'all elements' of this woman into energy. The scale is incomparable to a Human Bomb."
Everyone. You.
"What does that... mean!?"
"Energy sufficient to wipe out this continent without a trace."
I...
No one left anymore.
"I see, you might have beaten me eventually. But this is the result! You can't protect anything you wanted to protect! Not this woman! Not this world! Everything!"
"Nooooo! My body feels weird! It's hot! I'm scared! Help me!"
—How dare you.
"I wanted to see that face. I enjoyed myself for the first time in a while. Yu."
How dare you.
"U, uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh!"
"Ah?"
How dare you. How dare you. How dare you. How dare you. How dare you. How dare you. How dare you. How dare you. How dare you. How dare you. How dare you. How dare you. How dare you. How dare you. How dare you. How dare you. How dare you. How dare you. How dare you. How dare you. How dare you. How dare you. How dare you. How dare you. How dare you. How dare you. How dare you. How dare you. How dare you. How dare you. How dare you. How dare you. How dare you. How dare you. How dare you. How dare you.
Everyone.
—Ah. I see.
I finally understood.
Was it such—a simple thing?
If I surrender myself to this emotion.
"Y, u...?"
—It felt like the fog in my head was clearing up completely.
"What. That change."
The smile disappeared from Vitterweitz's face.
Standing up swayingly, I glare at him.
"Black aura, you say...!?"
Black.
The power wrapping my whole body. Filled with the same darkness as the 'World of Heart'.
The color of loneliness. The color of despair. The color of hatred. And.
Right. The darkest and strongest emotion in this world.
Killing Intent.