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Izure Shinwa no Ragnarok - Volume 3 - Chapter 1.3




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Chapter 1.3

After school .





I was on the way to the second-year class by myself .

As expected, she’s not here……

『——I guess . 』

Both me and Balor look into the classroom, only to sigh out a disappointed voice .

This is the class belonged to Emily Van Brad before her body got took over by Osiris .

I notice some people peeking through from the classroom .

It piqued my interest, however since it’s too much trouble for its worth, I decided to leave the place quickly .

I suspected there is a possibility that Osiris is going to school but turn out it’s nothing more than a fool errand .

Well, I never really place my hope from the beginning .

I only drop by at this place by occasion .

This time, I bring my foot towards the third-year classroom .

“Leon . ”

After I found the person that I’m looking for, I called out for him .

Leon heard my voices and steered his face this way .

When he saw my face, he quickly took out his notepad .

Perhaps, he might be wondering “who” this person is .

“……Shinzen Raika!”

Leon raised his face after a while and waved his hand with a smile .

I entered the third-year classroom after heeding his permission .

Our exchange gathered the surrounding gaze .

“Leon . Do you mind?”

“Yeah . Sure . ”

Leon nods and stand up .

We avoided the stares and head to the roof .

 

 

The wind is blowing strongly on the rooftop after school .

I combed through my bang with my fingers, and then looked back at Leon who was following from behind .

“First, let me thank you for yesterday’s case . Thanks to Leon, I was able to save Maria . Thank you . ”

“Yesterday……?”

Leon’s limbs jolted, and he proceeds to open his notebook .

“……Yeah . Yesterday, both you and I were fighting together . ”

Retrograde Amnesia .

Leon’s cannot retain his memory for longer than a day .

Hence, he does not remember, the events that happened last night .

Even the word of gratitude that I said just now would’ve sound like congratulating someone else’s work .

I should’ve conveyed it to him yesterday……so, I regretted .

“Is that all?”

“No……as for the matter of chasing after Osiris, I’d like to have a meeting hereafter . ”

I switch my feelings and get into the main subject .

“Osiris……the adversary God!”

Leon nodded after looking into his notepad .

Our enemy is Osiris . Her ability is as what was reported during yesterday incident .

He became furious after hearing that the enemy is a God .

Perhaps, it was due to his deep hatred towards God that enable him to remember his memories from the Myth War ten years ago .

Honestly, I don’t know whether this is something that we should be happy about or an unfortunate thing .

The only problem is, just how far should I explain the summary for the mythical representative war?

Especially, regarding the power of God that he currently held .

To be honest, Leon personality is striking too close to home——as if a look alike——a coincidence so close it’s a miracle .

It is impossible to shorten the explanation regarding what happened .

In an event that I explained it too intricately, there is a possibility that he might get confused in turn .





Not only that, the divine spirit has been residing inside his body for 8 years now .

For his sake,

“The power that you hold right now originated from the abominable God . ”

Frankly speaking, will he be able to honestly accept the truth?

Sometimes, even I feel nauseated about it .

Knowing a God is residing inside my own body……instantly made me chest hurt, and I’m filled with the urge to let go of everything inside .

For that reason, I omitted the detailed explanation .

As for Leon, he misjudged his own power as the “power of justice” . I helped to clear his misunderstanding and tell him that we are the chosen person to wield the power of God .

In a way, I did lie to him, but I’m left with no choice . I had to obfuscate the information .

“……”

I blinked once and resumed thinking .

We have to make consensus as soon as possible regarding Leon and his future policy .

First, I’ve decided to start with confirmation of important matters .

“It seems like Leon always discover Osiris by intuition . Do you still able to right now?”

“Now?”

“Now . Just like yesterday, just a rough direction is sufficient . ”

“……”

Leon closes his eyes and tries to concentrate .

After a few moments .

“I’m sorry . Right now, I don’t know . ”

“……is that so . ”

I give a little thought .

“In order to know Osiris whereabouts, is there any requirement that need to be fulfilled?”

“Sorry . I don’t know about that either . ”

Leon answered dejectedly .

Right now, his abilities are our only clues left to search for Osiris .

Yet, due to the influence of his Retrograde Amnesia, he couldn’t remember the details of his own ability .

But, even without firm understanding, we can guess based on his past explanation .

I already heard about when he was using his power a little too often .

We can draw the information based on that and by combining the fragments, we might find out the method .

The fact that Leon intuition doesn’t work this time means that it is not an active skill . We should regard it as a trigger-activated skill which will only happen when the conditions are fulfilled .

『——triggering means, there must be a switch that will activate the skill . 』

Correct . The switch is most likely correlated to Osiris behaviors .

『——was it a skill that allows him to sense and find out the location, whenever Osiris took an action? 』

Correct .

Leon has encountered multiple scenes of Osiris murdering the students .

However, even though it should be difficult to find Osiris on this broad island, to think that he encountered the same scene so many times shouldn’t be a coincidence?

With that said, there must be something that’s required to be met first .

And that, will be the condition to trigger Leon’s ability .

Now, what is the “action” from Osiris that could act as the switch?

『——he~y, how long are you going to keep silent . Don’t you need to answer? 』

……yeah .

『——huh? Then let me know . 』

Most likely, Leon said when Osiris intended to kill the other students, he perceived her malicious intents, or her evil, and his ability is activated .

『——are you sure about that? 』

I can’t say it for sure, but the possibility is the highest .

This is an inference derived from the conditions and the situations and the probability is 9 out of 10 .

What Leon said last night .

When he was facing off against Osiris, he called her “the evil that I must purge” .

At that time, I thought it was a weird thing to say given the situation . There is a good possibility that it is a speech influenced by his ability that was activated unconsciously .

『——why is the condition to activate his ability is “when the person intended to kill”, instead of “the time the person killed”? 』





Yesterday, that time when I asked Leon regarding Osiris whereabouts, Maria was not killed yet .

Unless the ability is triggered “before” the deed, rescuing Maria would be impossible .

“Raika san?”

“Ah, my bad . I was lost in thought . ”

When Leon reached out to me, my train of thought stopped .

“For the time being, we’re relying on Leon’s intuition to search for Osiris . That’s why starting from now, let’s keep in touch and act together as much as possible . Is that okay?”

“Right . Let’s do that . ”

Leon accepted my proposal and jab it on his memo .

This operation warrants no hesitation .

Just like last night, I guess he will fight Osiris together with us .

“……”

I have a little suspicion on him being too obedient .

Suspicion, or to be more accurate, an uncomfortable feeling .

Why is he……

“Why did Leon want to kill Osiris that much?”

“Eh?”

“……Fuh”

Just when I’m trying to restraint my mouth from saying unnecessary thing, Leon caught what I said, and thus I’m unable to hide it any longer .

“Earlier, I heard that you were looking for a classmate who has disappeared . Were you familiar with that classmate?”

“Why are you asking such a thing?”

“Osiris is a kind of person who wouldn’t think twice before killing other human . Any ordinary people will never get involved directly with such a person . ”

It’s human nature to try to avoid getting dragged with bad situation unrelated to them as much as possible .

And for those who dare to fight against it must mean that they have good reason for it .

I, myself, have a strong reason .

Was he in the same boat?


He cannot accumulate new memories .

That means, he will always continue to have “first encounter” with any person that he met on this island .

Was he in good term with that said classmate?

Wrong .

It is impossible for Leon to become a close friend with other people .

A friendly relationship, this person cannot even retain the thing about himself .

He might be calling me his friend……but that’s too only for the sake of convenience .

So, where does his motives lies?

At first, he was looking for his classmate .

But that classmate is dead .

However, he continues looking for Osiris and keep on fighting with her again and again .

To destroy his foe?

Stopping the murders?

Objectively, there is no need for him to do so .

Then, was it for justice?

Or was it due to “the ability to become a hero of justices” that he got?

But it was when he first met Osiris that he realized his own power .

It is not as if his power was activated since the beginning .

But he still chooses to fight .

Personally, taking an action to look for his disappearing classmate .

Fighting against the murderer .

Cooperate with us to help recover back Maria .

Each and every one of those incidents are something that is unrelated to him .

Nevertheless, he keeps thrusting his neck forward each time he intervenes .

Why?

……

……





……

No, that’s wrong .

Why am I so curious about his motives?

As a matter of fact, his motive is not that important .

The important thing is that he is aperson of virtue, a human and is willing to cooperate with me .

There is no point taking a risk and spoiling his mood just for some mundane questions .

Then why did I run my mouth so……

“I……”

“!”

Leon who kept his mouth silent until now spoke, and I can sense that he is nervous .

His voice has sunken a little bit .

His facial expression too, the smile that he kept until now wavered .

Again, I have said something unnecessary .

However, he is not angry .

Just a little sad .

“Because I have problems with my head . If I don’t have people to help me, then I couldn’t survive . ”

And he was not wrong, so I thought .

The influence from his retrograde amnesia on his life is too great .

“But Leon, you rather, it appears to me as if you are actively trying to help people . Moreover, at the price of your life too . And it happens pretty often . Why……”

“Of course, it’s to get help from other people . ”

“……?”

When I tilt my head, Leon looks a bit troubled, and turn over his memo pad .

Then, he opened the first page and showed it to me .

What was written inside is a polite proverb .

“…Compassion for the sake of others…?”

I felt my stomach slightly churning .

Why was there a Japanese proverb in Leon’s memo pad, a person who are supposed to be from foreign country?

“My father was a Japanese . ”

“Is that so . ”

Knowing that Leon is a half, I am now convinced .

“This Japanese saying is something my father always said . ”

As he says so, Leon looks over the letters “Compassion for the sake of others” .

“When I woke up that morning, this memo pad, this diary is the first thing that I noticed and read in that room . At that time, there is a page that I always read . It’s the diary of the day my father dead . ”

“……”

I silently listen to Leon .

“My dad told me before he died——[Leon . From now on, you are going to live by the help of the others . That’s why, always thanks the other and smiles . And, in order to get help from the other, you must first become a person who can help people on your own . ]”

Leon has probably just recited the line that was written inside the diary .

It would have been his father’s will .

Compassion for the sake of others .

The proverb emphasizes on each the compassion that we have shown, the same compassion will go around and come back to us from the other .

It is a teaching that emphasizes on compassion for oneself and the other through self-interest and devotion at the same time .

It may be a word left by the father who thought about his son’s future, whose life is supported by the people around him .

“That’s why, I will always help when there is someone in trouble . Like a hero of justice . ”

“A hero of justice, huh?”

His father’s teaching, combined with his childlike idea, give birth to an answer which is “the hero of justice” .

I guess, that’s the force driving behind Leon’s “justice” .

『——Uhihihi . 』

What’s so funny, Balor .

『——well, I just had a thought about how that guy is in no way less distorted than you . Though, can’t say that I disliked that type . 』

……?

I raised my eyebrows in a frown after listening to the way he speaks .

How can Leon, who is trying to protect his father will, having a distorted thought?

Despite it being unpleasant, I’m all aware how it is Balor nature to try to get in others nerve .

I ignored the devil’s nonsense and discussed with Leon about our future plan .

Everyone will gather in my room at night . We are all in standby for Osiris attack .

In case someone detected Osiris presence during the day, I had made sure they will contact me first .

I finished talking about everything important after I gave them a detailed explanation on what actions they need to take in case anything happened .

“Then, see you tonight . ”

After our meeting is concluded, Leon tries to leave the rooftop .

“……Leon!”

I called and stopped him .

“Hm?”

He stops and looks back .

A smile is plastered on his face .

Always with a smile .

Just like how it’s according to his father’s will .

The cheerful expressions that made him look as if he’s trying to reassure himself .

Those who saw his smiles must have think how he is a good guy .

However, now that I knew his circumstances more in depth, the smile looked a bit hollow .

He cannot preserve his relationship with others .

A relationship is to say, an emotion .

You can record the facts about what happened between you and others .

However, whatever come across the mind at a time can only be saved in one’s mind .

In order to like or dislike others, it is necessary to accumulate those feeling in their hearts .

Leon is not capable of doing that .

So, he cannot think of someone as his favorite or someone he hates .

His smile, was it really directed to me?

“Fu……”

Thinking about that, I, a feeling of sadness envelops my mind naturally .

Why is it that, a good person will always lead this kind of live?

Knowing that the divine being is the reason why he was put in the situation makes my hatred gathered .

At the same time, I finally understand why I wanted to know his motive .

I, was disgusted .

I’m using his good wills, without diving deeply into his circumstances and motives .

Well, what should I do?

Leon’s cooperation is essential .

We cannot stop Osiris unless we borrow his free good will and take him directly to the point of death .

At the very least, I should make sure that he can return back alive……

“Raika-kun?”

Leon inclined his head to his side, looking at me who called and stopped him, then remained silent .

And I, somehow managed to squeeze out my voice .

“The day after tomorrow, on Sunday, I’m going swimming with everyone . Is Leon interested to go as well?”

So, I invited Leon .

Then, he was so happy that he was going to jump .

“Really!? Is that okay!?”

“Yeah . ”

“Wow……that makes me so happy . ”

Leon was genuinely happy, his cheeks reddened .

Even this emotion that he is feeling now, will be forgotten by tomorrow morning……

For the very least, I shall remember .

For his sake, too .

As his “friend” .

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