“You were born as monsters. Why do you want to disappear?”
“Chiharu? What are you saying?”
Grudo asked her. You could not hear the monsters. There was no way to know what they were feeling.
However, the monsters shook when Chiharu talked. It was as if they were happy.
“Hey, are those big eyes not for seeing the outside world? You have bodies that offer freedom of movement instead of just floating around as miasma. But you disappear without seeing anything.”
Maki also spoke.
“Are those legs not for stepping on the earth and traveling far?”
It’s fine. The monsters seemed to say as they shook. We saw enough. And then they disappeared into the air, leaving only a magic stone. They would return to the shadow world and then come here again.
Why? Grudo wondered. He had been feeling something for a while now. But he shouldn’t. Were these the emotions of the monsters? Grudo looked at his hand that supported the backs of Maki and Chiharu. The Saintesses. It was coming through them.
If our lives are to fade away again, it should be by your hands, beloved children.
Chiharu and Maki could not stop crying. These were the monsters that Kaider, Nyran, and Grudo claimed were dangerous. These sweet, precious creatures. The monsters were asking to be erased and returned to magic stones.
Maki looked at Chiharu. Her face was a mess. Chiharu wiped her face with her sleeve.
“You don’t look so good either, Maki.”
Maki wiped her own face.
“Yes.”
“Can you do it?”
“I think we have no choice.”
Both of them removed the handkerchiefs from their foreheads and took off the wigs. Their hair spread out around their faces.
“Hah, that feels better.”
“It really does.”
Their foreheads had throbbed painfully ever since they came to this area.
“Grudo, hold me up.”
“What are you going to do!?”
“We have no choice. They want us to do it. These adorable creatures.”
“Maki, Chiharu…”
Grudo called their names and pleaded. The two of them stretched out their arms. It was as if they were hugging someone.
Grudo’s hands were at their backs, and he could feel the shock every time a monster vanished. Maki and Chiharu looked at each one before touching it. The monsters shrank as if time were going backward. Then they vanished, leaving a magic stone. Let’s meet again. Maki said. Goodbye. Said Chiharu.
Clink. Clank. The stones fell to the ground along with the sounds of something else falling. It was the magic stones of the Saintesses that fell from Maki and Chiharu’s foreheads. How many had fallen already? It wasn’t just one a day now, but Maki and Chiharu were making a stone every few minutes, and the burden was great.
Still, Grudo could do nothing but support their backs.
Thanks for the new chapter! That was an interesting development that the monsters asked to be erased.
omg this is so sad! TT_TT
=( omg this is so sad! those poor creatures! TT_TT thank you for the chapter!
Well that’s depressing
My head feels like splitting in sadness too…