Sion Note:Vol 8

Then Sion’s sword pierced through, destroying the eye where the equations were continuously appearing, entering the brain.

Then.

"..."

Ryner stopped talking.

It was his left eye that had been pierced through.

Where the eye ball had been lost, several holes opened and fresh red blood flowed out.

Red blood.

Red blood.

A completely differently coloured blood that was different from Sion’s golden blood.

Sion looked at the blood flowing out.

Then Ryner looked at him.

He used that remaining right eye.

He used that black eye that continuously produced equations and words to look at him.

"...Aren’t you going to kill me?"

He asked.

Then Sion looked at the sword in his hand.

As long as he used power, killing this person would be an easy job.

As long as he injected power into this sword, destroying Ryner’s brain and killing him should be an easy job.

But Sion looked at Ryner and said.

"Why didn’t you dodge?"

So Ryner replied.

"Then why didn’t you kill me?"

"The one who is asking the questions is me."

"Ah ha, then I’m being interrogated. I have always been here by myself, but now you’re asking..."

"Alright, reply me quickly, why didn’t you dodge?"

Sion asked.

He asked Ryner whose left eye was still bleeding.

So Ryner replied.

"Because you wanted to kill me, right?"

"That’s right."

"If you kill me, you’ll be happy right?"

"That’s right."

"Then, I thought, even if I’m killed by you, it’s fine. If I’m able to make my first friend happy, I felt that was fine..."

"Is that so. Then die."

"Ei."

But Sion didn’t let him speak.

Sion wanted to make the swords surround Ryner. In order to destroy Ryner’s brain, he filled his sword with power.

But,

"..."

The sword didn’t move.

It was as if it was stuck in Ryner’s eye, it couldn’t move. No, even if it didn’t move it was fine, but the equations and words that had been appearing on Ryner’s eyeball earlier, were now moving up the sword from the destroyed eyeball.

Sion released the sword and moved back. Then he pulled a sword out from his hand and settled into a fighting posture.

"...What do you want? Didn’t you want to die?"

He said.

Then Ryner touched the sword that was pierced through his eyeball and said.

"...Actually, I had thought to do so... but after analyzing you for a short while, I changed my mind."

Then he pulled the sword out.

And blood spurted out again.

Ryner’s blood spurted out.

Red blood.

Red blood.

It was different from Sion’s blood, it was red-coloured blood.

That red blood flew in the air, but it seemed to gather on the black sword as if it had a mind of its own.

It stirred.

It eroded.

Then Ryner spoke.

He looked towards Sion and said.

"...I have analyzed the reason for your existence."

At this moment, Ryner’s left eye had healed, even his eye ball had regenerated. Ryner moved. He moved close to Sion at a speed that Sion could not respond to. Then he grabbed his throat and looked at his eyes.

He looked deep into Sion’s eyes.

Ryner’s eyes still continued to produce the numbers, words, and symbols.

So Sion said,

"Sword."

Swords appeared in his surroundings, about to stab through Ryner.

But Ryner,

"I don’t need this."

He said this softly.

Before the swords could materialize, they disappeared.

There was a stark difference in their power levels.

If that power earlier.

If that power that had destroyed the swords had been aimed at Sion, then Sion would have disappeared.

So,

"..."

Sion gave up resisting.

He understood that he could not destroy the monster in front of him, he gave up resisting.

But Ryner seemed to be very interested as he continued to look deeply into Sion’s eyes. He used his eyes that stirred with words and pictures to look at him.

Then,

"Wu~ You, your structure—seems more and more interesting."

Ryner said.

But Sion,

"..."

Didn’t reply.

There was no need to reply.

If it was why, then it was because his mission had ended.

Destroy everything in front of him.

Destroy, destroy, destroy everything.

He had been born for this, so when he met something that could not be destroyed, he had no meaning to his life.

So,

"Kill me."

Sion said.

Ryner seemed to smile foolishly and happily.

"I knew you would say that. Because you have been created for that."

"Kill me."

"From the structure, the one who created you was—the Worshipper. But who is the Worshipper? They can draw such a pretty formation... But, I haven’t seen them before..."

"Kill me."

"You were created to cut down the high numbers of the Goddesses. Then, if there were a Goddess that were much stronger than you, you would lose your meaning to live, that is what was written..."

"Kill me!"

Sion said.

He didn’t want to listen to something meaningless. Because his mission had ended, his meaning to life was gone.

If that was so, then disappear.

According to what Ryner had said, he had been created for that.

But Ryner still smiled warmly then said.

"But I won’t let you die. Because you are my friend. Because you are my first friend. Although I do not know what is the Worshipper..."

Saying this, he widened his eyes.

He opened his mouth happily, smiling as if he was the devil.

Then a voice emerged from his mouth.

A different, miraculous voice emerged from his mouth.

But he didn’t know what that was.

He didn’t know what that voice meant.

But he knew that was a curse.

He knew that that was a very very unlucky curse that had been created to curse something in this world.

Then Ryner opened his mouth.

He used a warm, sad, lonely expression but happily said.

"I’ll give you a new life. I’ll give you a new life that will allow you to escape from that structure. So let the two of us continue living in this world. So that we are not lonely. So that there will be no more despair. I’ll give you half of my life."

He said.

Then he raised his right hand.

The sword that had been created to stab Ryner was controlled by Ryner. Then it fell in a straight line and *bang* cut Ryner into half.

But that person still smiled.

His body had been cut into two, but he didn’t die and smiled foolishly.

Then that half of that body said.

The half of the body that grabbed onto Sion spoke. It happily, very happily...

No, it tenderly looked at Sion.

"Sa, eat me. This way, you will be able to continue."

"..."

"If you gain my power, you can continue to destroy. You can find the meaning to your existence again."

"..."

"It’s a pity I can’t rewrite your programme, but I can give you a meaning to life."

"..."

"So, eat me. I will become your sword. I will become the shield that protects you."

Ryner said.

Then Sion raised his head.

"Why do you do this?"

He asked.

Then Ryner laughed and replied,

"Because I want to be with you."

Sion asked in surprise.

"Why do you want to be with me?"

"Because I like you."

"Why do you like me? I don’t even know about your situation. I don’t like you. But why do you...why do you like me?"

Sion said.

But Ryner continued smiling.

"Because I have always been alone. I have always been here by myself, I wanted to disappear like that. But you appeared. You cut open the space of my grey prison and gave me a meaning."

"Meaning?"

"That’s right. The meaning to live. The reason to continue living. The reason to continue existing. So I want to give you this. Sa, eat me. This way, your path will continue, at least within the range where I can destroy things, it will give you a reason to continue living. So..."

"Eat you?"

"Yes."

"Devour your power."

"Yes."

"What will happen to the part of you that is eaten?"

Hearing him ask that, Ryner laughed.

He happily laughed.

He joyfully laughed.

Then he pressed a hand to his chest and said.

"This is the first time someone is concerned for me. I didn’t think that it would be such a joyous matter."

"Answer my question."

"Because you are my very very important friend. You don’t have to mind. It doesn’t matter what I become. If it is able to benefit you, if it is able to help those who need it, I will be happy."

"I can’t understand."

"Is it?"

"Yes."

"But, it’s like that."

"Is that so."

"Yes."

"In that case."

Sion reached out his hand.

He slowly reached out his hand.

He reached out his hand to Ryner, who was looking at him happily.

Then,

"I’m going to eat you."

"Yes."

"You will become my power."

"Yes. Do it."

"You are."

"Yes."

"You are mine."

Saying this, Sion opened his mouth.

Then Ryner happily laughed.

"From today onwards, we can be together."

"Yeah."

"I won’t be lonely."

"Yeah."

"Until...until the both of us disintegrate, I will always...be with you...together..."

Then Ryner stopped talking.

Because Sion had eaten his body.

Because Sion had devoured his power.

Then he immediately understood that Ryner’s power had entered his body.

He knew that Ryner’s feelings had entered his body.

Then he knew how lonely Ryner had been. He knew the feeling of his soul being covered with grey and being unable to find any meaning.

But this ended too.

Ryner who was devoured, was integrated.

"..."

Sion raised his head.

The he looked at this grey world. He looked at the world where Ryner had been locked up in.

But in this world, Ryner was no longer alone.

Because he was here.

Because he who had ripped an entrance to this world was here.

So Sion took out his sword.

He focused on his right hand and grew a sword. That feeling was different from the past. The nature of the sword and the power in the sword was different from the past.

Just like that, when Sion pulled out a sword that was different from his usual sword.

"..."

He felt it.

In this grey space, there was something else, another existence.

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