2-21: The Three Who Met 2 (1/3)

2-21: The Three Who Met 2 (1/3)

At Nobuhikos plea, she returned to the department store.

She sneaked inside without anyone noticing and ran through the first floor.

As for why Shinichi was in the first floor and not the third floor, she couldnt have possibly known since she was outside.

Which is why when she reached her destination and saw the mountain of rubble that fell from the upper floors, she froze.

A lone boy was lying face down.

She tilted her head and asked.

Why are you sulking there, Master?Updated from novelb(i)n.c(o)m

To untrained eyes, it looked as if the boy had fallen along with the rubble and was unconscious, but to Youkos eyes, she knew that he was conscious and depressed.

Why did you come?

But Shinichi didnt answer and instead said that as if in reproach.

Although he hadnt directly given her the order, he had still asked her to watch over his family.

So why was she here? That was the reason why he reproached her.

Although curious why her master was laying face down, she honestly answered.

Why? Theres no way I could have just stayed outside when the divine ki was leaking. Your dad asked me to check up on you too.

What, did you say? The divine ki leaked outside?

Yes. It even reached the refugee shelter they built across the road. Did something happen? Something that could make you release divine ki that could get that far Master?

Midway through her words, a parched laughter resounded while Shinichi was still lying face down. Clearly, he was not acting normal.

What in the world happened? She climbed up the mountain of rubble and approached him when he mumbled tearfully.

Thats it. Im done. Im going back to Falandia.

Youko blinked at that abrupt statement, but from that, she could more or less infer what had occurred.

After all, he had a tendency to become like this whenever he dealt with a situation.

A state of reckless self-abandon where he would say nonsensical things.

Much emphasis was put over explanations concerning abilities, but she was still able to infer what happened and what kind of wounds he incurred.

Divine Words were literally the words of a god. And humans were beings that at the fundamental level could not disobey the words of a god.

There simply existed an absolute gap between humans and gods.

But of course, there were still exceptions. One such exception would be Shinichi, who by coincidence have become an existence beyond the logic of gods.

Another would be someone possessing a strong will or someone with an object with a powerful blessing.

Or someone that had nothing to do with the contents of the divine words uttered.

Thats why the effects of the divine words couldnt be seen on the main culprits..

Perhaps they never had a dream or an ideal that they chased after in the first place.

Or maybe they were satisfied pretending to be mercenaries.

Regardless, Shinichi was the vessel of the Evil God and has even been assimilated by him.

Although he has already returned to being a human, and although it was only to the same extent as dipping ones toe in a pool, in the end, he still encroached into the domain of a god.

A normal human would obey him just from hearing his words.

Normally, he would mutter words in his mouth that would cancel out the effects of the divine words, so usually there werent any problems.

But for some reason, in just that moment alone, he couldnt do that.

That was a first. This has never happened before!

Of the abilities he gained from the evil god, the ability he hated the most was the Divine Words.

Because it was a power ignored others wills, and allowed him to twist those will however he pleased.

Used incorrectly, it could alter even the destiny of a person.

Thats why he avoided using it as much as possible.

At most, he would use it for experiments or for when he fought the other bodies of the evil god.

Because of that the number he has used the divine words in his two years of travels could be counted on one hand.

Not once had he lost control of it.

Tl Note: These series of chapters are all 02-21.