Sion Note:Vol 12
And that was what happened in the past world.
Coincidentally, it was what happened in the previous incarnation of the world.
It was the matters that occurred exactly one thousand years ago.
This was what occurred in the last cycle in this world that would reset itself after one thousand years.
This was a plain.
It was desolate plain where there was nothing here.
In the center of the land, there was a black-haired man sitting there. He had his usual sad face, a pair of unmotivated eyes, tired and a little depressed.
Someone called his name.
"Ryner."
Someone called his name in that manner.
So Ryner turned around and looked in that direction and said.
"Ah, it’s Sion."
Sion looked at Ryner’s expression and asked,
"Are you alright?"
Ryner laughed. He laughed as if amused.
"What is it?"
He asked in return.
Sion looked at the empty land and muttered,
"Asking me what..."
He looked at the Central Continent that was void of everything and said,
"...Everything here"
He turned to the person sitting in the middle of the desolate plain with an expression of sadness and said that.
Ryner only looked at him steadily,
"..."
He didn’t say anything.
He only laughed like that.
He laughed as if it were forced.
So Sion spoke again.
He spoke to this Demon that was scared of Loneliness.
He wanted to ask this Demon that was scared of Loneliness that was smiling like a clown.
"...Are you blaming me."
And Ryner replied.
"Why should I blame you?"
"Then, do you regret it?"
"..."
"Do you regret it?"
Ryner shrugged, not replying.
He was now sitting on a desolate piece of land with no life growing from it.
Aside from him, there was no one else.
He who had lost everything, was very lonely. It had always been like that. Everything around him had been filled with loneliness, covered with the darkness. So he had carried an expression of sadness, allowing himself to sink in that loneliness.
Sion asked.
He asked Ryner who was sitting by himself in the wilderness.
"...Where’s Ferris?"
Ryner narrowed his eyes, pointing his finger in front of him. He pointed to a girl’s figure that was lying some distance in front of him.
Sion looked at her and asked again.
"...Is she dead?"
Ryner only nodded his head.
"...Did you kill her for me?"
"..."
"All of this is my fault, right?"
"...It’s not your fault."
"But."
"Alright, shut up. It’s not your fault."
"..."
Sion was silent.
Ryner clearly had an expression as if he was about to cry, but he still put forth that foolish smile.
There was nothing in this plain.
No, actually there was nothing in this world.
So Sion was looking at the face of the only friend left here—
He looked at Ryner.
"..."
Then he looked in the other direction of the plain.
On that side, there was a broad desert. On the other side of the plain, there was a large desert that seemed to be limitless.
That was the place where all this had arose from.
That was the ending point of all of this.
Sion looked at the land of beginning and ending, and spoke to the only one who remained in this world.
"What do you think?"
"What is it?"
"Do you think there is something that can be done on the other side."
"You obviously know that."
"...Ah, you’re right. I do know."
Definitely, there could be nothing done. To reach here, there had been many sacrifices made.
All of his friends and family were used as offerings, so that he could reach here.
No, Ryner even had to kill his own wife.
Sion looked at Ferris who was lying on the land. Even after death, she was still beautiful, as if she were only sleeping.
But she was dead.
Ryner had devoured her power.
That was the power he had devoured so that he could present it to Sion. Only, even if Sion received this power, he probably couldn’t do anything.
With Sion’s power, there was no way to stop the overwhelming despair that was swelling in front of his eyes.
Their decision was wrong.
The decision they had made to reach here was wrong.
"So it’s really all my fault."
So Sion said the words that blamed him.
Ryner raised his head to look at him, using that face that was slightly sleepy.
"I already said it’s not your fault. You have worked hard."
"Haha."
"It’s just that we did not have enough power."
"Hahaha."
"End this. We have lost."
"Haha...ha, I can’t laugh anymore."
Sion frowned. His tears of laughter were about to flow out, but even so that had lost its meaning.
The end of the world was approaching.
Darkness was already by his side.
Twilight was approaching.
Sion looked at the surrounding darkness and said,
"...Ryner"
"Eh?"
"I want to eat you."
Hearing this, Ryner shrugged as if it were expected,
"I killed Ferris because of this."
"Yeah."
"Then, do it. I’m tired."
"Yeah."
"But I think you should know it, even if you eat me, you don’t have any chances of winning? This world is about to disappear."
"I know."
"Then, why do you still work hard?"
He lowered his head to look at Ryner, look at this friend who always looked sleepy but had always fought on his side from the beginning, Sion smiled slightly.
"I’m not going to fight. I want to make a curse."
"Curse?"
"Yes. A curse that will mark the signs of our existence. A curse that will mark down all the love and hate that we experience when we are born on this world. I don’t want to follow the orders of those mad Gods. I want to make a curse that will make them regret making us, manipulating and imprisoning us."
Sion said.
Hearing his words, Ryner still smiled. He seemed to happily smile, like an idiot.
"...Your personality is truly wicked."
"Haha."
"Even if you do that, will anything change?"
"Who knows. But I don’t want to die so meaninglessly."
Hearing this, Ryner laughed again.
"Like a spoiled child."
"We have been together since youths, it’s not like it started now?"
"That’s true."
At this moment, Sion reached out to Ryner. Ryner grabbed his hand and stood up. The two of them stood together and looked at the tall sky together.
But the sky was no longer that far away.
Because everything was starting to collapse.
The two of them raised their heads and talked.
"Then, do it."
"Yeah."
"Sion."
"Eh?"
"I’m very happy that I was able to be with you."
Sion turned to look at him. Ryner was still smiling, like expected. Although they had sacrificed everything to reach this stage, he was still smiling.
Even though there was nothing happy that he could smile at.
There was nothing worth being happy, but Ryner still smiled at him and said that he was very happy to be here.
So Sion nodded his head and replied.
"Me too."
"Then, I’ll go first."
"Yeah."
"Devour me."
"...I understand."
Then everything ended.
Ryner collapsed on the ground.
He was dead.
There was only him left on this world.
But Sion didn’t care about this anymore. Because his friend was with him. His friend’s power was in his body.
So he maintained a mourning expression and moved his hands.
He started to construct a magical equation without looking back.
A magical equation made of light.
He used the knowledge he had just gained from Ryner to desperately construct the magical equation.
Within it, he weaved a curse.
Within it, he weaved anger, hate, and love.
It was a curse that seemed to show Humans itself.
It was a curse that seemed to be made by a Human to make Humans.
Finally, this curse was completed.
Just as the darkness that was creeping over from the desert was about to devour everything, it was completed.
Sion looked at the curse and muttered,
"...I’m really the worst."
The curse that he had made needed him as a sacrifice so that it would activate.
After this curse was activated, he would be released from this Human container and become a different curse. If he became that, he would never die.
He would suffer forever, he would forever, forever be wailing.
Even though he wanted to shout that he did not want to die, it was too late now. Because that Death, his body was already transferred to a different place.
For this curse, he had gathered all the souls of his comrades’, no, it should be his comrades’ strength and finally managed to complete such a huge curse.
But even so,
"... I want to curse. I want to curse to world. Or else, there would be no meaning to our lives!"
He yelled, alone.
"We have clearly struggled, cried, and shouted to reach this step... But they have to disappear as if they were a gear made by someone, I will not allow this. I will not allow this ending where everyone is treated like trash, made to be used."
He laughed. He laughed with a mourning face, alone.
"I will leave my claw marks. I will leave a wound in the middle of you bastards’ perfect plans with our dirty, cursed souls."
The darkness neared.
The darkness was nearing.
Actually, it was already time for even Sion’s existence to be erased as scheduled, and for the next world to begin its rebirth.
"I won’t let all matters progress according to what you want... I won’t be killed."
Sion used the magic.
Sion activated the curse.
The curse mixed his own soul in it, at the same time, he could feel that his comrades’ souls were taken in as well.
In that moment.
A wail sounded.
His comrades’ wails.
The feelings of the Humans trapped in his body, all this was rewritten by the curse. The souls wailed together.
This wail would never vanish.
Even though the darkness from the desert had reached them and surrounded them, it would definitely not fade away.
It couldn’t fade away. Because this curse had been made so that it would not fade away. According to this eternal pain, it would never disappear, so it had been made to be.
So in this desolate plain, only this wail continued to spread.
"Ha, hahaha."
Sion laughed.
"Hahahahahahahaha."
Sion cried.
"Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha."
He laughed madly. Finally, he himself had turned into the curse.
But the wail did not vanish.
Pain, despair, love, hate, all of them did not disappear.
He would forever pace in this prison, struggling to survive.
But the world had disappeared.
The next cycle was about to begin.
The next cycle started.
But the curse actually remained.
It was different from the present one.
His.
Sion’s.
No, all of their wails, had left some scars in this scheduled world.
Sion Astal woke up.
He was in the bedroom beside his office.
It was only that, although he had opened his eyes, he didn’t feel a sense of reality. In the period of time he had lost his consciousness recently, there was always someone’s consciousness mixing up his mind continuously, so even now he was not sure of which world he was in.
He lifted himself up and studied his surroundings.
It was only a narrow room with a bed.
It wasn’t a plain where the darkness was expanding.
At this moment,
"...Plain?"
He mumbled softly.
Why had he compared his room with a plain, he couldn’t understand.
His memory of the dream was very messy, his current self was unable to remember all of them clearly. The only one he remembered was that he had seemed to see the dreams of trillions of humans from unknown origins.
As if hearing that, those innumerable humans wailed.
"...What I saw, should have been the memories of the Fallen Dark Hero, Asruld Roland, right?"
He softly said.
No matter what, he didn’t have much of an impression of the content of those dreams.
He only remembered that he had seen those dreams.
And there were some other matters that he had understood.
Like, about this world, it was following a schedule to proceed.
Like, about the reason of the rising of that darkness in this world.
And why Roland was a country like this?
Why did the world become something like this?
Why was the world this dirty.
About this, there were several leads. No, actually, during these two years with Lucile, they had conducted a detailed research.
Ryner’s report.
The Heroes’ Relics.
The research left from Lieral Lieutolu.
The secret of the demon hidden in the Eris family.
And the memories of Asruld Roland stirring in his own body.
Lately, all of this matters had been mixed up. But with the progress of the investigation, some matters that were unknown slowly linked these matters up together.
"..."
Sion raised his head. He looked at the darkness in this room that was slightly dark because there was no light.
In here.
In this darkness, it was filled with a curse that a person had cast in the past because he had to.
Although this curse had a slight effect, but it actually twisted the structure of this world.
And because of this.
"...Because of this, I don’t want to devour Ryner."
Sion mumbled.
If he devoured Ryner, then Ryner would forever be trapped in this darkness.
Then, what should he do?
Kill him?
If he killed him, then another Ryner would be born. If that happened, then there was no need to devour Ryner, he would just need to devour that newborn fellow. If it was an opponent who would not let him feel any love or friendship, then devouring him would be an easy matter.
Because, wasn’t he accustomed to the matter of stepping on others in order to progress?
But before he reached here, before he reached this step where he was now.
"—I."
He did not know how many times he had stepped on others in order to walk to this stage.
If it was the reason, then that was too obvious.
The reason was because there was no choice but to progress.
Stepping on others and making them collapse, the justifiable reason of having no choice but to proceed, whatever was needed would be given.
Even though it was only like that, it was something that could not be forgiven.
He thought of the words in Ryner’s report.
Towards a world where everyone will not lose anything. Towards a world where everyone can laugh happily and have afternoon naps.
"...It doesn’t exist."
Sion muttered weakly,
"That world cannot be created..."
At least, he himself had no right to create that world.
That was what he thought.
But Ryner still believed in him. He said that he was the Hero King. He said that he was an excellent king, he said he wanted to help him.
But he himself did not deserve to be a Human that was loved so. No, actually he was no longer Human.
"...I am going to devour you, Ryner."
He said softly.
"You will become my stepping stone, falling into the endless pain, whereas I will continue moving."
He said softly.
"I clearly devoured comrades and betrayed them, but I’m still highly regarded. Isn’t this ridiculous?"
He said this, but he didn’t laugh.
He only steadily looked into the empty air.
"..."
At this moment, voices started talking from the office beside him.
"Are~, that fellow Sion is not here."
It was Ryner’s voice.
Then a woman’s voice replied,
"Wuwu. Then, in the time before he returns to prepare, let’s play a prank?"
"Hey, aren’t you saying this too early? He might be in the bedroom beside the office?"
"Mu? Then should we be softer?"
"Too late."
The two of them conversed.
Sion paid attention to the voices beyond the door. Then he frowned. He really didn’t know how he should face them. Those two had always been so bright-eyed, they had always always believed in him.
Towards their feelings, as a traitor himself how should he face them—
But at this moment.
"Hey Sion! Are you here!"
As Sion was mentally preparing himself, the door burst open with a bang. Ferris appeared in front of him. She looked at him with clear blue eyes, then she closed the door with a bang.
"Hey Ryner."
"What is it."
"Like what you said, that person was really there."
"Yes."
"We should have been quieter."
"So I told you it was too late."
"Idiot. There is nothing too late in this world. First, let’s apply glue to the door and make it stick so that he wouldn’t be able to open it?"
"Oh, that sounds interesting... But Ferris."
"Say it."
"Your voice is not soft at all."
"Oh no! Alright, then let’s glue it well before Sion comes out!"
Ferris said loudly.
Because it was too amusing, Sion couldn’t resist and laughed. The gloomy and depressing atmosphere from earlier had been dissipated by these two amazing people.
"...If they don’t do something like that, then I might as well give up everything, ne."
He sighed.
At this moment, he saw a liquid substance flow in between the crack of the bed and door.
"Hey, your actions are really cruel."
Sion jumped up from the bed and reached out to grab the door handle and said,
"I going to open the door!"
Ferris replied,
"Try it!"
Then, lastly, Ryner...
"Nonononono, wait, I’m at the door, if you open it you’ll hit my head... Hey Ferris! Why did you push me..."
"If you can open it, then open it!"
"Waaaaaiiiiiiitt, I told you if you open it, you’ll hit my head..."
He only spoke until half-way, anyway Sion had already simply opened the door. So Ryner’s head was immediately struck by the door with a bang.
"Yyyyyyyyyyyeeeaaaaaaa."
He let out a cry and collapsed on the ground. Ferris and Sion looked at him and said together.
"What are you doing."
"I’ve had enough of the two of yooooouuu."
Hearing Ryner’s loud shout, Sion turned and walked to the office desk. Like usual, the work that needed to be completed had piled up.
But this wasn’t about the interior affairs of the country. The notices in the country about the conquering of Estabul and the redistribution of the authority of the nobles had been almost completed. Although it wasn’t a complete ending, but this world had nothing called perfect.
And the world where the time spent with Ryner and Ferris laughing was already...
"...Hey Ferris."
"Eh?"
"Let’s go and eat dangos, what do you think? I’ll pay."
Towards Sion’s offer, Ferris turned her head around. She would definitely happily say let’s go... Although that was what he had thought, but in reality Ferris looked at him in suspicion.
"Is this a trap again!?"
She shouted.
"That again. You said that there was something urgent to do or else the Wynnit Dango store would be demolished!"
She had actually said that. And Ryner who was on the floor beside them was secretly escaping from the room. He felt that after those words, the work would definitely be pushed to him.
So Sion laughed.
"What is this, you don’t trust me~"
Hearing this, Ryner looked at him and said,
"Have you done anything that is worth believing in up till today?"
Ferris too,
"You dango enemy. Enemy of the world."
So Sion laughed. They actually did not believe in him, if he really allowed them to eat dango and did not give them work, these two would really be grateful, it seemed.
But he himself wanted to express his gratitude by doing this at the end. He wanted to sincerely thank them for being by his side all this time. He wanted to say thank them for accompanying scum like him.
"..."
But, forget it.
Anyway when they left, he would treat them to a large favour like usual. If he wanted to warmly praise them at the end of the end, that thinking was too despicable.
So he laughed.
"Well, then according to what the two of you said, I will arrange work for you."
"I kneeeewww iiitttt"
"But there’s no choice since I’ve been exposed. Come and work."
As he said that, Sion reached out and pulled a large pile of work over.
Ryner looked at him with an expression of annoyance.
Ferris thought for a while and said,
"Ah, that. Sion said he wanted to eat dango, I also suddenly want to eat dango—which is a uncommon thing."
Ryner who was sprawled on the floor, preparing to sleep said,
"Hey, aren’t you the one who always talks about eating dango all the time."
"Wuwu. Almost eighty, ninety percent of my time is spent on that."
"Over-eating."
Sion spoke,
"Then, if Ryner and I start now, we would have no choice but to work for five days and five nights."
"Heeeeeeeyy I didn’t hear of that!!"
"Go buy some dango that can make people work hard and energetically even though they are working overnight~"
"Wuwu. Leave that to me."
"So I said I didn’t hear anything like that! And how can there be dangos that make people feel fine even though they are working overnight!"
"What did you say? You bastard, you are looking down on dangos, huh!"
"Huh? Why did this turn to that- Don’t unsheathe your sword aaaaaahhh!"
Ryner was sent flying. Lowering her head to look at him, Ferris said, satisfied,
"Then, I’m going."
"Alright, take your time~"
She left the office like this. Only Sion and Ryner were left.
Ryner collapsed on the floor, pretending to be knocked out. Sion flipped his documents and said,
"Hey, Ryner."
"..."
"The place you’re sleeping on now seems to be the place where the two of you were messing around with the glue earlier?"
"Ai?!"
"Ah, as I thought, you didn’t faint."
"Oh no! I was tricked!"
"No no, the part about the glue was true."
"Ai..."
Ryner looked at the floor beneath him. His clothes were indeed covered with glue and they were stuck to the floor. Ryner struggled,
"Eh, wu, mu...ei, Sion."
"What is it?"
"I can’t move."
"Really."
Sion laughed as he stood up from his chair and reached out to help Ryner who had been glued to the floor, helping him stand up.
Then he smiled at Ryner.
"So the Ryner Lute who has been saved by Sion-sama said 'Leave the matter of working for five days and five nights to me!'"
"I didn’t say that."
"Even if you didn’t say that, I’ll make you work."
"You’re annnoooooooyyyyiiiinng"
Ryner sat on the table as he said that. He looked at his dirtied clothes and said,
"What do I do, I think I should go back and change my clothes."
"No. If you return, you wouldn’t come back, right?"
"I’ll come back after sleeping for ten days."
"Eh, then you’re not doing that. Ask someone outside the room to help you prepare some clothes."
"Ai, what if they’re not to my tastes."
"Alright, ask them to help you prepare the clothes."
Ryner shrugged and walked out of the room. Sion watched him leave.
Only he was left.
"...Working for five days and nights..."
He said softly.
Actually, there was no need for them to work for that long. The work that this country needed was basically almost completed.
What was left was to proceed to the next step. Start the plans for the next stage. But he still said he needed to work for five days. Although he could go and change everything today.
Although he had to progress today, but he still wanted to remain here for five days.
Because Ryner and Ferris were here.
He wanted to stay with them for a longer time.
"But, five more days. Only five days... And then, this will end. After that, I will proceed..."
Ryner returned.
Sion smiled.
Ferris returned too.
Sion smiled.
Like usual, there would be no change.
Although this was the last time.
This was the last five days, but everything was still the same.
Working hard.
Ryner was grumbling.
Ferris was eating dangos.
Looking at this, Sion laughed.
Then he thought.
This must be a dream too.
Such a perfect world could not exist.
So looking at this dream, he himself had no courage to proceed.
So he couldn’t continue dreaming.
He couldn’t obsess with these wishes.
If he was absorbed in this happy bliss for too long, he would be unable to move.
These times slipped away in a moment.
Five days passed, the dawn was welcomed by the night.
The location was the roof of the Roland Palace.
Ryner had said that his head was aching from overworking and he wanted to breathe a breath of fresh air, and then it had become like this.
Ryner looked at the streets below the city. Those streets were starting to be stained with red.
The sun rose, the dawn was approaching.
Looking at the rising sun, Ryner he.
Ryner Lute said.
"...It looks like... Everything looks like it’s from a dream."
Then he turned around.
Ryner looked at Sion, using those usual sleepy eyes. Tired eyes. But those eyes looked at Sion trustingly.
Sion looked at him.
He looked at Ryner.
Then.
"..."
He was determined to progress.
The story after this, will be continued in Densetsu no Yuusha no Densetsu Volume 11—
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