Vol 4: Chapter 11: Conditions for Becoming a Family
Demon City Aquarius
Conditions for Becoming a Family
Reno suggested to Aleph that we kill Karma together.
To be honest, I had no idea what she was talking about...
No matter how much of a kind-hearted girl like Reno-chan feels towards this trash ...
To actively wanting to kill someone.
"Re.. Reno-chan? Are you serious...?"
I'll check with Reno again.
I thought she might be going crazy because of the trauma she'd felt when she killed someone for the first time in the bar.
"I'm serious about this, Aria-san. You can't forgive someone like that, right?"
"Well... that's true, but..."
"Well then, why not? Let's kill him."
Speaking in a tone that was too casual to be about killing, Reno-chan picked up the knife and approached Karma.
"Ah! Reno-chan! No, even in that state, it's dangerous."
Because of what happened earlier, I tried to warn Reno-chan, but...
"Hey, could you...cooperate with me a bit...?"
Karma, who had no arms or legs, had already caught sight of Reno-chan. Their eyes met.
No! Don't make eye contact with him!
"Cooperation?"
"That's right, be my hostage so I can escape! Charm!"
He cast the mind magic that had changed me on Reno-chan... but it was too late.
"…………"
"Hehehe... It looks like it worked, everyone! If you get too close, I can't guarantee what will happen to this child, you know?"
Even though he has no arms or legs, Karma once again smiles fearlessly, and there's nothing we can do about it.
"Release Reno-chan!"
"That's not going to work...Come on, Reno...Come here."
Karma gave an order to Reno, and Reno walked right over to Karma.
We should have left it to Aleph after all... I should have stopped him even if I had to do it by force...
Regret hits me. The only way to remove the charm is to use a dispelling spell or to fend it off with strong willpower. Reno-chan is mentally immature and just killed someone, leaving her traumatized.
"Good girl, Reno. Now, can you tell Aleph that if he doesn't let me go, you will cut your own throat with that knife and die."
Karma grins as he says something outrageous. You want to make such a young child commit suicide?!
How far...how far can he go, how despicable and disgusting?
Chris and Aleph looked at Reno in silence. They were both
I have to save Reno here... even if I have to become a hostage in her place!
"Wait! Please replace Reno-chan with me--"
I was about to ask to be taken as a hostage in her place, but...
"...There's no way I'd let you get away, right Karma?"
"Huh...impossible!"
The words that Reno-chan spoke were not words of submission.
"So, first of all... I'll make it pitch black so you can't escape."
Reno-chan had a dark smile on her face, held the knife in reverse grip, and then...
--With a nasty *buchuri* sound, the sword pierced Karma's left eye.
"Ah ...."
Karma thrashed about, shaking his limbless body violently.
But that wasn't the end for Reno.
"One more to go... let's go."
This time the knife is plunged into his right eye... and again, a nasty crash echoes through his eyes.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh! Ahh... my eyes are aaaahhhh..."
"Now that damn charm...cannot be used."
Reno-chan smiled brightly and turned towards me.
"Well then, Aria...go ahead and do it♪"
"...Eh? You're not going to do it...?"
"I'm not saying I'll do it! I'm saying we're going to kill him! Come on, just kill him already! Come on!"
Reno-chan puffed out her cheeks and spoke cutely, but...I was so confused that my brain wasn't working normally.
Normal... What on earth is normal? This is insane.
"...Aria-san, aren't you going to kill him? He was manipulating your mind... and trying to make you do terrible things to Onee-chan, you know?"
Suddenly, Reno-chan spoke to me in a cold voice.
Her eyes were wide open as if she was checking something.
"That's why, Aria-san... you have to make amends to Onee-chan. Kill the scum who manipulated your mind... with all your might. Cause him a complete mess, cause him pain, and stab him over and over and over and over AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN."
"Re ...Reno-chan...?"
"If you can't do that... that means you have no intention of making amends to Onee-chan, right...? I can't forgive that... Hey, what do you think? Can't you make amends, Aria-san?"
It was scary. Reno-chan... looked like some kind of mysterious monster.
"Uh, I..."
"Kill him quickly? Kill him please? Kill him, kill him... KILL HIM!!"
With a look of despair on her face, Reno-chan yelled at me...
"I, I get it...! I'll kill him..."
I had no choice but to obey. I looked to my side and... it looked like Aleph was laughing.
I drew my sword from my waist and approached Karma.
As expected, when I see it in front of me, the murderous intent for what he did to me comes back to me.
That's right, I'm not doing it just because Reno told me to.
I want to kill this guy of my own free will. I definitely want to kill him!
"Ugh... Who is it? I can't see anymore... Stop it..."
Karma is now begging for his life. Have you ever helped people like that before?
No, absolutely not. You're not doing anything like that, are you? This guy's existence... will only increase the number of unhappy people.
"Foul trash like you... Die!"
I yelled, stabbing Karma in the chest with my sword.
"Guh! S-stop it! It hurtssssssss... it hurtsssssssss."
Perhaps because various parts of his body had been removed, his pain had been numbed... I thought his reaction was a little weak, but I continued to stab him again and again.
"Die! Die! Die quickly!! Aaaaaaah!!"
I screamed, and stabbed him until he was dead. Until I could no longer hear his moans.
I don't know how long I continued stabbing him... By the time I was done, the pitiful former Four Heavenly Kings was lying on the ground, covered in holes and in a terrible state.
"Haa haa..."
I'm tired from stabbing and my breath is heavy.
Then, a small shadow... Reno-chan came over to me.
"Hehe! Thank you for your hard work, Aria-san. That was a great stab!"
Reno-chan came and took my bloody hand with a big smile on her face.
I understand now that something is terribly broken about this child.
However――
"Now, Aria-san, it looks like you can become part of Onee-chan's family again."
I've already been recognized by that child.
Maybe I'm also broken....
With this, the Four Heavenly Kings have all been annihilated...
The stock was also completely destroyed...
Author's Note
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