Pioneering the Apocalyptic World - Chapter 22
Chapter 16: The unforgivable things
“Regulus, Lieze. There is something I must tell to you two.”
At the dining room at the base, before starting various preparations, I urged them to take a seat at the table so that we could face each other.
without even being told anything, Uru sits quietly next to me.
“Ooh?”
“…What it is?”
Perhaps they understand that it was a serious matter from the firmness of my my tone, they straightened their backs to listen.
“Regulus, you said that you wanted me to save your father, but…I’m sorry, It’s impossible for me to do it.”
“…!”
Hearing my sentence, Regulus gasped.
After seeing “that state” he was mentally prepared, so he wasn’t as upset as I had imagined. However, it seems that he was not able to give up completely, so…
“… Rion is the miko of The Creator God, isn’t is…? Like, you can’t do anything with the power of the gods to save him…?”
As if to squeeze it out of himhe appealed to me, but I had no choice but to shake my head.
I thought there might be some survivors, so I headed there right away, but about his father, maybe I should have properly told him that it was impossible to save him when I heard the he became a chimera.
“For example, there is flour, milk and eggs with me.”
Furthermore, I took out a wooden bowl and in front of Regulus and Liese who seemed to say “What on earth?” I began to stir it.
“Once you bake it, it will become a pancake, Create(making).”
Together with a light effect, a warm pancake is completed. As an aside, I don’t have a frying pan, so I’m making it in a clay pot.
I don’t know if I can call it baked because I made it with my skill, but putting that aside.
“This is how I make items, however…It is impossible to return the mixed ingredients to the original flour, milk and eggs.”
“…”
Although it is possible to turn pieces of stone and wood into blocks and make them into a reusable state, once they have changed they cannot be restored back.
…Perhaps there might be some kind of medicine that can tear apart the bodies that have been stuck together and return them to a normal state, but… At least to me, it’s impossible.
“If I didn’t say it first and gave you hope… I’m sorry about that. It was my mistake.”
It is impossible to see the expression of Regulus, who was looking down and shaking his body slightly.
Lieze with a sorrowful expression, doesn’t even try to look at me.
From now on, I have to tell these two people something that will drive them to the bottom even more.
That is.
“On top of that, as a miko of the Creator God… No, even without my circumstances about the Creator God, I per my own ideology, can’t allow that thing to exist.”
Yes, I can’t allow that. That can’t be allowed to continue.
There is absolutely no way I can allow that “creation that produces nothing” continue to exist.
“So… I’ll defeat it. No matter what you two say.”
“”??!!””
Regulus kicked the chair up and stood up and Lieze suddenly raised her head and stared at me.
Lieze still seems to be in okay state, but there are signs that Regulus is not good. His eyes were wide open, his teeth were clenched and he is showing his fangs, his breathing was getting rougher.
The sound of his heavy breathing started to felt like a threat and I became nervous that he might jump at me at any moment.
However, before he explodes, he was suppressed by Uru’s words.
“Regulus. Does you want your father to fall any further?”
“What……?”
“Naturally. That Chimera will just increase the number of victims if left alone. Do you want more create more victims? Do you want make him shoulder more crimes?”
It’s not like he didn’t notice. However, he was slammed head-on by the fact that he had been averting his eyes from, and he lost his composure at it.
“In the first place, if you got angry because you asked someone else to do something you can’t do and were refused, until that anger disappears, until you cry and apologize, I’ll be your opponent, okay?
“No, no, no, wait, wait, Uru I’m happy that you’re covering me, but the last part is scary!”
When I was thinking that you are trying to calm down him with words, in the end it’s just brute force!
“Is that so?” she asks strangely, but with your power, if you make even a little mistake Regulus will probably die!
Was our exchange without tension a good thing? It seems that Regulus’s rage has been calmed down.
He started to look up at the sky and after taking a long sigh, he started to calm down his breath. By the time he put his head back on, the grimness was gone from his eyes.
And just like that, he bowed down his head towards me.
“… I’m sorry.”
“Yeah, that’s fine.”
“However, I still have one favor to ask of you.”
“… what is it?”
I kind of already know the question, though.
“Let me participate in exterminating the Chimera. I may not be able to save my father and the warriors lives… but at least I want to free their souls.”
He clenched his fists tightly and declared that, in his eyes was pure determination.
Grabbing Regulus’s arm, Lieze corrected him from his side.
“Come on, Regulus-nii, you need to properly say ‘we’ there.”
“… Do you really understand? This… is a comrade-killing, you know?”
At Regulus words my heart beated violently.
Even while holding my hand tightly on my knee and suppressing a certain emotion that seems to boil up, the conversation between the two continues.
“What do you mean when asking if I understand, Regulus-nii didn’t say it yourself. I want to set them free.”
“No, but that thing looked really strong…”
“What are you talking about? Even though you’re weaker than me.”
“Hey, you, that is…!”
Huh, is that so?
No matter how I look at them, It’s who Regulus looks stronger? No, even Uru with her cute appearance is insanely strong… It’s not good to judge people by appearance.
While I saw Regulus panicking, the strength in my shoulders suddenly disappeared, and I couldn’t help but smile.
“And that is settled, I will be going together with you.”
“Well… that’s right, it would will be fine if you promised me that you would never do anything unreasonable.”
“Oh!” “Yes!”
To be frank, maybe I have the lowest fighting power here…! I can’t even have a boost from my items!
“Now that the story is settled, Rion.”
“Hmm? What?”
When I turned around at the voice, this time Uru’s eyes were serious. Was there a problem?
As I held my breath and waited for her the next words.
“Can I eat those pancakes?”
“… Ahhh, go ahead.”
You’re right, you’re hungry.
So I prepared a portion for everyone… No, everyone except me eats a lot, so I prepared a lot of extra pancakes and had an early dinner.
We decided to discuss the details tomorrow, Regulus and Lieze spoke that they will rest first and went to the guest room. Only I and Uru are left in the dining room.
I was drinking tea while listing various things to do tomorrow in my head, but……No matter what, there is still something hanging on a corner of my mind.
……Yes, the Chimera is indeed a monster, but……most of it are based on beastman.
In other words, for the first time, I will be killing something other than monsters (and food).
My hand holding the cup trembled.
“Rion.”
“……What?”
While staring at the cup, I respond to Uru with just my voice.
I haven’t shown her my face and I haven’t told her my inner thoughts.
And yet.
“Is it okay to leave it to me?”
……Why are you talking to me as if you read my mind?
Honestly, I want to nod with a “yes”. I want to be spoiled by you.
But… if I do that, it won’t be okay to me.
This is a thing that i decided by myself and i will have to do it with my own hands.
I turned my whole body toward Uru and firmly carrying my will on it, I declared it clearly.
“Uru…I’m could even ask you to do something I can’t do, but I have no intention of throwing something that I don’t want to do to you.”
“… I see, Rion is a serious person.”
Her voice was teasing, but she smiled softly.
I also smiled at the words continued.
“Well then, together.”
“…Yeah. Together, right?”