Of course.
I've come here for that purpose.
I will definitely succeed.
The magic in my brain completes.
Jolting my brain matter,
【Deceiving the night ♪
Beguiling the world ♪
The darkness that saves the girl of the endless night ♪】
"Holy Sword switch ---"
I say.
A silver sword appears in my right hand. Shrouded by light, a shining sword. A sword of hypocrisy that resembles a sword that a hero carries.
A sword that might be able to sever the disease away from a diseased girl.
Kujaku looks at me and smiles. She waves her fingers, manipulating her 《Headphone Fuzz》 ---
"........."
But she didn't.
She is not using her magic. After looking hard at the sword I conjured, she then turns her eyes to what's behind me. That shift in her gaze is so natural that I almost believe it without thinking. That someone is attacking me from behind. That's the effect that it has on me.
But I don't turn around. Since there's nothing I can do even if I turn around.
As long as I'm holding this papier-mâché Holy Sword that can be used to save labyrinth diseased girls, I can't do anything else.
So I don't turn around.
I trust that my back is protected by my comrades, and don't turn around.
I then brandish my sword.
I brandish my sword at Gunjou.
Gunjou does not dodge it. As if she's preparing to die, as if she's leaving herself to me, she stares at me, not moving.
"...... I'll save you now, Gunjou!"
Just as I am about to raise my Holy Sword overhead, at that moment.
"Hurry up and do it, Kiri."
Kujaku says.
Another lie. A lie to confuse me. Thus, without concerning myself with it, I raise my sword ---
"............"
But, tohn, a sound comes from my own chest.
Initially, I don't know what happen. Because my body has been cleanly, skillfully pierced.
Something pierces me from behind, goes through my body and exits from my chest.
What came flying out from my chest is a sword.
A Japanese sword.
The Japanese sword that Kiri uses.
That's what has impaled me. I cant move. Maybe I have been affected by some kind of magic.
From behind me, a voice sounds.
The voice of a comrade.
The voice of Kiryuu Kiri.
"...... see, I told you right? This labyrinth isn't something you should be entering...... you have Escaped......"
"............"
"That's what you get for trying to save a comrade. The world is this dark."
Beside me, Gunjou looks at my chest immediately.
She looks at my chest from which blood is pouring out.
I can tell that she's wavering.
She's trembling.
She's quivering, trembling.
Then,
"Ah, ah, ah, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh!?"
She hollers.
She tries to extend her hand to what's behind me, but, several students of the 『Valor Team』 uses a number of magics and force Gunjou down to the floor.
Pressed against the floor covered in a sea of blood, Gunjou is once again unable to move.
Because her weakness is blood.
Because she's afraid of blood.
And the 『Valor Team』 is maximizing the use of that.
Kujaku slowly stands before Gunjou. She takes a pocket watch from her pocket and says.
"There are just 2 minutes remaining. It's almost time, I guess."
I look at the time displayed in my head.
The time limit remaining is 2 minutes and 12 seconds.
2 minutes and 12 seconds remain.
Kujaku has plenty of time to kill Gunjou.
I say.
"...... Kiri...... pull out your sword."
"............"
"Kiri."
"............"
"Kiri!?"
I turn around. Kiri is smiling. She's smirking with her sword inside me.
"Sorry, Shinnosuke-kun."
Behind Kiri, Shiro, Himi, and Yousuke have all fallen.
It seems like everyone has a sword pierced through them, pinning them to the floor. Probably Kiri's magic. Kiri's swords. No one would have thought that Kiri would turn traitorous and in an unsightly manner, they were readily rendered helpless ---
I glare at Kiri and say.
"...... Kiri...... pull out sword."
"No way."
"No, you'd pull out your sword. I believe in you......"
"Ah-haha. You can't do that. You can't trust someone like me."
"No way. I trust you."
"You can't."
"I trust you."
"I said you can't."
"Shut up! Didn't you talk about being comrades earlier! Therefore, you are our comrade!"
I bellow.
On hearing that, Kiri's smiling face...... suddenly contorts. She contorts in pain, in suffering; and even as she tries to hold them back, in the end, tears flow from her eyes.
"...... I, I really...... I thought I saw a dream in which I could really become your comrade......"
"Kiri! Forget that and just pull out the sword!"
"I can't. I...... I......"
"I don't know what kind of a hold they have for you but, but I, we'll protect you so please, pull out your sword!"
I yell.
But, even as her tears continue to flow, Kiri does not pull out her sword.
"...... I'm sorry, Shinnosuke-kun."
"Don't screw with me!"
"Sorry...... sorry."
Kiri says in a trembling voice.
There's no more time.
There's already no more time.
15 seconds remain.
But in the end.
In the end, the world is terribly dark.
There is no miracle.
There is no god.
You are finished if you are weak; I have forgotten that.
Kujaku says.
"Then, I'll use this knife to......"
"Stop!"
I turn around.
"Stop please! I...... I have a magic that can save Gunjou......"
But it's too late.
Kujaku thrusts the knife into Gunjou's chest.
"Ka-hah."
Gunjou coughs out blood.
But she does not die.
She won't die with just this.
And then, the time limit is reached.
What's displayed in my 《Headphone Fuzz》 is 0 ---
"............"
Mizuiro Gunjou starts turning into an eternal labyrinth right before our very eyes.
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Afterword
All right, this is the second volume!
I must first announce what must be announced.
Apocalypse Alice!
Fast as it is, it's getting a comic serialization!
Its serialization will start in the April issue of Mediafactory's 「Gekkan Comic Gene」 which will be sold on 15 March 2014!
Everyone, please support iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitttt!
An amazing person called Youko-san who got the MF Comic grand award will be the artist for the manga!
Do give us your feedback through the survey!!
And that's the announcement.
How do you find this volume?
Well, I myself also find that things have become quite incredible in just the second volume.
Right from the beginning, I have wanted it to be something like this in the second volume, but still, as I wrote it, I found it really quite outrageous as well.
Those who have finished reading it. How was it?
Erhm, since I'm going into spoilers, those who haven't read it yet, go away go away!
But then, for those who read it.
Looking at the cover page and the first illustration, can you see the twist???
In 『Apocalypse Alice』, I have prepared plenty of hidden twists where characters who have been developed get toppled over but will come back with a bang, and even things that have been established in a single volume is just a preface; actually, among all my works, this really has the most crazy developments so everyone, please look forward to them!
And in this volume, Shiro is peerless right!
Thanks to Shiro, Shinnosuke's no-life situation becomes boisterous, and I wrote that with a self-satisfied smirk. Now now, you have seen the backbones of all the characters, so what will the 「Hero Team」 do from now on!
And for this, please look forward to finding out in volume 3!
And also, the 4th volume of 『Seraph of the End』, the manga in which I'm in charge of the manuscript and published in Jump SQ, is released!
It has an ad for 『Apocalypse Alice』, you know!
In exchange for advertising 『Seraph of the End』 in my 『The Legend of the Legendary Heroes』, they are also advertising for 『Apocalypse Alice』!
If possible, please take a look at it. The ad is a pretty big one,
『We will kill the girls to save the world ---』
Is written on it!!! (LOL)
And with this and that, we've come to the end of this volume.
And thus, everyone, let's meet again in the next volume!
For those who are reading 『Denyuuden』, let's meet in 『Denyuuden』!
For those who are reading 『Seraph of the End』, let's meet in 『Seraph of the End』.
Let's meet again!
Thank you for your support!
Kagami Takaya
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Translator's Notes and References
↑ Headphone Fuzz: Always written as Intra-Cerebral Magic Activator (脳内魔導起機), and read as Headphone Fuzz (ヘッドフォンファズ). Subsequently in the rest of the volume, I will only use the reading in the translations.
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