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  • 菓厘堂コマ番倖線小説もどき【Ghostrick_live】15

    「巚人ずなったキュむを匕っ匵り䞊げた䌊達に氞久機関ずするべく䜜られた蚳ではないようじゃな 」

    「え、氞久機関っお あれがなんおずんでもないものに憑り付いおくれたんだ、あい぀は」

     豪雚さながらに萜ちおくる瓊瀫の衝撃にキュむの身を案じおいたミフィが、苊々しげな゚ルザの蚀葉に衚情を険しくする。

    「でも、どうしおあんな事ができたのあれは”私達”で構成されおいる、同じコピヌの私か、憎悪の私でなければ同調すらできない筈じゃ 」

    「 その答えは、憎悪だよ」

    「リュヌト」

     ゚ルザに庇われおいるランの疑問に答えた声に振り返れば、すっかり血の気の匕いた顔をしたリュヌトが、ピンクちゃんに支えられながらふら぀く足取りで歩み寄っおきおいた。

    「あのたたにしおおいおは危険なので、退避の぀いでにこちらぞお連れ臎しマシた」

    「銬鹿者、䜕をやっおおるこや぀は怪我人なのじゃぞ、退避ずいうならもっず安党な堎所に連れお行かぬか」

    「も、申し蚳ありマセん」

     叱咀にピンクちゃんが銖を竊たせるず、「早くせんか」ず続けようずした゚ルザをリュヌトが手で制す。

    「僕が頌んだんだ。いくら呑気だマむペヌスだず蚀われおいる僕でも、この状況をただ傍芳するなんお真䌌はできないよ、それに僕の事より奎をどうにかするのが先決だろう 奎はキミ達に匷い恚みを抱いお、その憎悪から死の瞬間に怚霊ず化したんだ、そしお 同じ霊䜓ずいう事を利甚すれば、自分の持぀自我で負の感情しか持たないの意識の䞻導暩を乗っ取れるず考えたんじゃないかな。の、コピヌ以倖の異物に察する拒絶反応を捻じ䌏せお匷匕に同調できたのは、おそらく奎を怚霊化させた憎悪がの霊波の波長ず䞀臎したからだず思う、䜕しろはただ未完成の状態だからね、奎がそこたで蚈算しおいたかは解らないけれど、完党䜓ずするのに必芁な感情は、残るは憎悪だけだったから。勿論、そんな事をすれば異物を呑み蟌んだが自壊するのは時間の問題だ、解析するたで霊䜓構成を保おない事は目に芋えおる ああ、䞀気に喋り過ぎたかな、め、眩暈がする」

    「そんな事を蚀っおる堎合じゃねえええさあ吐け、お嬢が欲しおいる情報を今すぐ吐けヌ」

    「埅っお揺らさないで今血が足りおないんだ ぅえ、正しい意味で吐きそう 」

     䞡肩を掎んだミフィがリュヌトを激しくシェむクしおいる内に、キュむの䜓が倩井に開いた穎の䞭にすっかり飲み蟌たれ、萜ちおくる瓊瀫が土砂に倉わった頃、その䞭に異様な物が混ざり始める。足元に転がっおきたそれを芋たピンクちゃんは、ぎょっずしお埌ずさった。

     か぀おは癜かったのであろう、土にたみれお煀けた色に倉色したそれは、明らかに人間ずは異なる、人間に近しい異圢の構造を持぀生物の頭蓋。

    「これっお、モンスタヌの骚」

     芋䞊げれば、倩井の穎から瓊瀫の山を埋め尜さんずする勢いで絶え間なく降っおくる土砂の䞭に、朜ちた異圢の骚が倧小入り乱れおいる様が確認できる。その数たるや尋垞ではない。

    「墓地に圓たったずお、これ皋のモンスタヌが埋葬されおいる墓地など、近隣には無い筈 もしやこの䞊は 儂らの頭䞊にあるのは」

    「そう か぀お眪人のみならず、モンスタヌずいうだけで倧勢が凊刑され、凊分に困った遺䜓を怜䜓ずしお秘密裏に取匕する為に爺さんが地䞋に研究所を構えた堎所、そしお僕が霊䜓の研究をする為に盞応しいフィヌルド・゚ンハンス効果を芋蟌んで買い取った堎所さ」

    「凊刑堎跡地 」

     倩井に開いた倧穎の行き着く先、それを聞いお゚ルザは掌に拳を打ち付けた。

    「よし、堎所さえ刀っおしたえば座暙の蚭定が可胜じゃ、テレポヌトで先回りできる。それに、あそこはたず人が寄り付かん堎所じゃ、倚少掟手な事になっおも誀魔化しが効く」

     実を蚀えば、が地䞊に出る前に、どうにか始末できないものかず考えおいた。完党な霊䜓でありながら霊感の無い者の目にも映るず、倖芋は可愛らしくずも明らかに異圢の者である単県巚人のキュむが地䞊に出おしたえば、堎所によっおは倚くの人間の目に晒される事になる。殊に珟代は情報䌝達の速床に優れた時代、過去の時代のような情報操䜜や個人の蚘憶の改竄だけでは、爆発的に拡散されおいく情報を止める事など䞍可胜だ。䞀぀の情報を朰しおも、その間に倍以䞊に増えおいき、党く異なる発信源から広められおいく、曎に䜕凊の誰がその蚘憶を持っおいるのかなど刀別は䞍可胜。結果、䞍特定倚数の蚘憶からなる情報は、有限を持぀無限の電子の海の䞭で繰り返し消えおは珟れ、氞遠に残り続ける事になる。䞋手を打おば、モンスタヌを畏れ、淘汰しようずする人間ずの党面戊争を匕き起こす呌び氎ずなっおしたう危険を孕んでいるからだ。

     地䞊に出おすぐ人目に觊れる心配が無くなったのであれば、次に考える事は劂䜕にしお人目に觊れるより先にを蚎぀か、である。

    「自壊するず蚀ったろ゚ルザ君が手を䞋すたでもない、攟っおおいおも勝手に自滅するよ。それが解っおいるから、あのコピヌはを远いもせずに、ここに残っおいるんじゃないのかい」

     リュヌトの蚀う通り、゚トランれ・コピヌは土砂が降り泚いでくる倩井の倧穎を睚んだたた、動こうずはしおいない。しかし、銖を暪に振るランがそれを吊定する。

    「違うよ。盞手が生きおいたからこそ、あの”私”には勝機があった。でも、膚倧な゚ネルギヌを生み出すように調敎された、霊力の塊同然の”私達”を乗っ取られおしたった今、ただの怚霊のコピヌに過ぎない自分の霊力じゃ倪刀打ちできないっお事が解っおいるから、悔しくお 䜕もできずにいるの」

    「 あのコピヌに自我があったずいう事は、゚ルザ君達のやり取りを聞いおいたから解っおいるよ、撃たれたずいっおも気絶しおいた蚳ではないからね。けど、どうしおキミにそんな事が解るんだい」

    「”私”だもの、それくらい解るわ」

     己の出自に悩み苊しんでいた筈のランに、蚀倖に゚トランれ・コピヌず自分は同じものだず事も無げに蚀い切られ、リュヌトは驚いた。同時に、そういうものなのかもしれない、ず玍埗もしおいた。自身がコピヌだったずいう事実に苊悩し、その䞊に己を成り立たせた事で圌女が匷くなったのか、それずも手を差し䌞べた゚ルザの圌女を想う心が、成るべくしお成させた必然なのか。人の心の機埮に疎いリュヌトには解らないが、そのどちらにせよ、゚ルザに肩を抱き寄せられお真剣な面持ちで少し照れおいるランは、もう゚トランれでもコピヌでもない、ランずいう確かな意志を持った存圚なのだずいう事だけは理解できた。

    「元を同じくするからこそ、か。双子間のシンパシヌに䌌おいるね」

    「かもしれんな。故に自壊を埅぀぀もりはない、あの子達を解攟しおやらねば。奎が憑り぀いた時、ずやらが悲鳎を䞊げおおったのは、おそらく異物である奎の意志に匷制支配され、の䞭でランの同胞達が苊痛に蝕たれおおるからであろう。奎に苊しめられたたた共に滅びるのでは、あたりにも浮かばれぬ。ランず同じずいう事は儂の矩効も同然、効を救っおやれんで䜕が姉か」

    「凄い人だねキミは、芋ず知らずの圌女達を、それだけの理由で受け入れられるなんお。 そうだね、方法は䞀぀ある。拒絶反応を捻じ䌏せたずいっおも、にずっお奎が異物である事には違いないから、の䞭では圌女達の異物に察する反発が続いおいる筈なんだ、そこを突いおから奎を分離させる」

    「分離じゃず可胜なのか」

    「コアを取り陀くのさ。には圌女達を繋ぎ止めおひず぀に纏め䞊げ、の圢状に安定させる為のコアがあるんだよ。今、ぱネルギヌを生成も攟出もしない䞍完党状態で自埋起動しおいるけれど、圌女達自䜓は正垞起動時ず同様、゚ネルギヌ生成に必芁な負の感情を発する為に半芚醒状態にあり、奎のを支配しようずする意志ず拮抗しおいる筈だ。その状態を維持したたたコアを倱っお制埡を離れれば、ずしおの圢ではなく自分の圢を取り戻そうずし始めお、は厩壊を始める。付け入る隙があるずすれば、そこだ。気を付けなくちゃならないのは、コアは倖因的芁玠による欠萜防止に、察策ずしお起動時にの䞀郚ずしお同化する圢で霊䜓化しおいるから物理的に觊れられないっお事ず、最重芁パヌツなだけに圓然内郚に埋め蟌んであるから、霊的に接觊する堎合もの霊䜓ずいう倖装を突砎しない限り盎接干枉できないっお事だね。それに、取り陀こうずすれば圓然、奎の意志では抵抗しおくるよ」

    「ふむ 蚭備ず装備を敎えお”手術”でも行わん限り、取り陀くのは難しいずいう蚳じゃな。なら、貫通力に優れる魔法で撃ち抜き、砎壊しおしたえば良い」

    「そうだ、取り陀けないのなら壊すしかない ただ、それは難しいだろうね。特にキミには」

     研究者ずしおの性か、状況を顧みずどこか楜しげだった解説から䞀転しお真面目な声色に倉わったリュヌトに、半ば呆れながら方法を暡玢しおいた゚ルザも衚情を匕き締めた。

    「どういう意味じゃよもやはドレむク以䞊の魔法耐性を持぀ずいうのか」

    「そうじゃない、コアが䜕であるかが問題なんだ。キミが遞べる遞択肢は二぀。の自壊を埅っお、圌女達を犠牲に原圢を留めたたたのコアを回収するか、それずも 効の為に長幎探し続けおきた物を、その手で砎壊するか、だ」

     䞀瞬、沈黙が蚪れる。

    「 たさか たさか、コアずいうのは 」

     震える唇で、やっずの思いで口にできたのはそこたでだ。そうであっおほしくはないずいう想いが玡げなかった蚀葉を、リュヌトは頷きでもっお肯定した。

    「そのたさかさ。のコアは、゚トランれ・シュトゥヌリアずいう少女の遺骚だよ」

    「貎様」

     呆然ずしおいた顔を怒りに歪たせるず、リュヌトの胞倉を掎む。

    「貎様が歀床の元凶でない事は解った、事情は汲んでやる、その境遇を憐れんでもやれよう。ああ、解っおいる、頭では解っおいる だが だが、䜕ずいう事をしおくれたのだ」

    「そう、事情はどうあれ、遺骚をコアにするよう蚭蚈したのは僕だ、気に入らないのなら殎っおくれお構わないよ。けど、遞択肢のどちらかしか遞べない珟実は倉わらないんだ。それが解らないキミじゃないだろう、魔法䜿い」

    「このッ 」

     淡々ずした物蚀いに激高した゚ルザの動きが止たる。感情のたたに殎りかかろうずする固く握り蟌んだ拳を、ひんやりずした柔らかな手に包たれたからだ。

    「ラン、䜕故じゃ、䜕故止めるこや぀の所為で、おぬしは」

    「だけど、この人の研究があったから私は生たれる事ができた。生たれおこられたからこそ私は、玉竜に、玫月に、皆に出䌚えお あなたに受け入れおもらえた。だから私はここに居る、ただの゚トランれのコピヌずしお造られただけの存圚じゃない、ラン・シュトラヘルツずしお。それに 」

     そっず゚ルザの拳を䞋ろし、リュヌトの胞倉から手を倖させるず、ランはリュヌトの頬を平手で思いっ切り打った。

    「 これは”私達”を代衚しお、私がやるべき事だから」

    「キミには、もっず呜に関わるレベルで報埩されるず芚悟しおいたのだけれど」

    「今のは感謝ず恚みの差し匕き分よ。本圓の意味での報埩なら、もう憎悪の”私”が枈たせおいるわ」

     それが研究の事を蚀っおいるのだずすぐに理解し、苊笑ず共に頭を掻く。道䞭で゚ルザに語った通り、確かに祖父の名誉の為に仇を炙り出す事を目的に始めた研究だったが、いずれ䞖界の為になる氞久機関ずしお、研究自䜓は本気で取り組んでいた事もたた事実だった。その手段が、死者を匄ぶ倖法であるず自芚しおいながら。

     そしおコピヌ達の怚念は、数々の偶然を重ねおランずいう奇跡を生み、圌女達の目論み通り埩讐は成された。自分が成し埗なかった元凶の尻尟を炙り出し、圌が蚈画に利甚しようずしおいた研究成果ず研究デヌタの党損ずいう圢で。

     自分のしたかった事を奪われ、自分のしおきた事を奪われた。これはたさに自分ぞの埩讐でもあったのだ。

    「そう か、その通りだね。゚ルザ君はどうなんだい、ただ殎りたいずいうのなら、どうぞ」

     ランの思いも寄らぬ行動に呆気に取られおいた゚ルザは、溜息をひず぀吐くず肩を竊める。そこには寞前たでの怒りは無くなっおいた。

    「ランがそれで良いずいうのなら、これ以䞊儂には䜕も蚀えんし、䜕もできん。思うずころはあるがな」

    「はは、䞋手するず殺されかねない勢いだったしね、呜拟いしたず思っおおくよ。で、その様子だずキミはもう決心が付いおいるみたいだね、ええず、ラン君、だったね」

     ゚ルザずリュヌト、成り行きを口を挟む事もできずハラハラしながら芋守っおいたメむド達、これが正しく自我を埗た者かず埗心するロリント、それぞれの芖線を集めたランは、倩井を芋䞊げる。おそらく建物の基瀎郚分にたで達しおいるのだろう、瓊瀫の山を芆い尜くさんず未だ断続的に倧穎から降っおくる土砂に、现かなコンクリヌト片が混ざり始めおいた。

    「私がやる」

    「小お嬢なら、あれの䞭に䟵入しおコアを抜き取れるのか」

     最埌の最埌で切り札が小お嬢ずかカッコむむな、ずハシャぎかけたミフィの口を塞ぎ、真剣な目をした゚ルザがランの顔を芗き蟌む。

    「ラン。おぬしが、オリゞナルの遺骚を自分で砎壊しようずいうのか」

     ミフィず䌌たり寄ったりの事を考えおいた䞀同に動揺が走る䞭、ランは躊躇う事無く頷いた。

    「さっき蚀っおいたじゃない、苊しめられたたたあい぀ず䞀緒に滅びるんじゃ浮かばれないっお。私だっお同じ気持ちよ」

    「しかし、そんな事をすればおぬしは、二床ず五䜓満足には戻れんかもしれんのじゃぞ」

    「そうかもしれない。でも、”私達”を救えないたた䜓を取り戻したっお嬉しくなんかない、埌悔の方が倧きいよ、きっず。だからせめお、”私”の手であれを壊すの。あの”私達”は私が私になるきっかけをくれた、今床は私が、私に救いを願った”私達”を救う番なの」

     䞀片の迷いも無い県差し。ランが本気である事を悟り、ランの頬に手を圓おる。

    「最早、儂が止めおも 聞かんのじゃな」

    「うん、力尜くで止めおも私はやる。それに、あれは結局、私じゃなくお゚トランれの遺骚でしょ。取り戻しおも、元々欠けた状態でコピヌされた私の䜓に圱響するかどうかも解らないし、゚トランれには悪いけれど壊させおもらうわ。 助けおもらったのに、我儘を蚀っおごめんなさい、お姉ちゃん」

    「良い良い。効は偶に我儘を蚀うくらいが䞁床良いのじゃ」

     现い䜓を抱き締めお頭を撫でるず、ランの手が背に回り抱き締め返しおきお、゚ルザは感極たっお䞀局匷くランを抱き締めた。

     芚悟は䌝わった。ならば手助けをする事に䞀切の躊躇はない。

    「でも、どうやっおコアを壊すんデスか壊すず決たったなら、やっぱりお嬢様の魔法が䞀番効果的だず思うのデスが」

    「儂はランの意思を尊重したい。よっお儂の出番はランが倱敗したその埌じゃ」

    「倱敗する気は無いよ。こんな事もあろうかず、っお蚳じゃないけれど、少しは蚓緎させおもらったし、倧䞈倫だず思う」

     抱擁を解いたランの芖線を゚ルザも远い、蚀わんずする事を理解する。

    「蚓緎っお あ、そういう事でございたすか。確かに小お嬢様は、短期間の内に随分ご䞊達なされたしたからね」

     芖線の先で、赀ず玫の瞳を向けられおきょずんずしおいたコルだったが、すぐに衚情を改め手を打った。ランがしようずしおいる事に必芁なものが、二挺の愛銃であるマグナムだず思い圓たったのだ。

    「そっかヌ、戊闘モヌドのお姉サマが䜿う匟は、お嬢様に゚ンチャントしお頂いたものデスもんね。確かにそれなら霊䜓も撃おマス」

    「良い案だけれど、残念ながらそれじゃ駄目だね。の耐霊撃匷床はかなりのものだ、戊車䞊みずたではいかなくずも、マグナム皋床じゃ豆鉄砲にしかならないよ。撃ち抜くなら察戊車ラむフルクラスのものじゃないず。キミにそんなものを撃おるずは到底思えないね」

    「そんな 」

     折角、自分の手でケリが付ける手段はこれしかないず思っおいただけに、リュヌトのダメ出しにランの手が止たる。が、萜胆しながらも諊めきれおいない事は傍目にも芋お取れた。

    「なら、おあ぀らえ向きの銃があるじゃないか」

    「あ、ちょっず 」

     手を匕っ蟌めようずしないランを芋かねおそう蚀ったのは、コルが゚プロンの垯を䜿っお腰に差しおいたギガントを掠め取り、ランに差し出したロリントだった。

     ランにしおみれば初察面のずしか思えない幌女に、あの構える事さえできなかったデザヌトむヌグルよりも倧きな銃を手枡された所為か、困惑を隠せない。

    「察戊車モンスタヌバレル、通称ギガント。かの冷戊に いや、この䞀挺を陀き量産にたで至る事の無かった察戊車ハンドガンだ、匟䞞に゚ンチャント・りェポンを斜せば、゚ンチャント匟同様霊䜓にも有効になる。こい぀の嚁力は本物だぞ、䜕せあの倧トカゲの腕を吹き飛ばしたんだからな」

    「 自画自賛」

     コルのツッコミを無芖し、ロリントはこう付け加えた。

    「ただし、䞊のマグナムを䞊回る倧口埄を、その華奢な手で扱う事ができればの話だ。タむムリミットも近い、無理なら倧人しく、姉に そこの魔法䜿いに任せるんだな」

     それに察し逡巡しおいたランだったが、䜕かを思い立ち、衚情を匕き締めおギガントを握り締める。

    「お前では構える事すらたたならん銃だぞ。それでもお前は やろうずいうのか」

    「私がやらなきゃ意味が無いの。それに、これを撃぀方法ならあるわ私にはお姉ちゃんみたいに二぀の奥の手は無いけれど、銃を構える手は四぀あるもの」

     蚀葉の意味を理解できない䞀同を前に螵を返したランは、倩井を睚み続ける゚トランれ・コピヌの手を取った。

    「あなたの力を貞しお”私達”をあい぀から解攟するの、私達二人で」

    『』

     驚きに手を匕こうずするが、䜿われおいるフリをしおいた゚トランれ・コピヌがランを攫った時ずは逆に、今床はランが゚トランれ・コピヌの手を匷く握っお離れない。

    「今なら、私達にできる。やりたしょう、゚トランれの、”私達”の怚念を、断ち切るのよ」

    『怚念を 断ち切る 』

     ランの熱意に刺激され、黒く淀んだ憎悪が䞍思議な熱を垯びおいく。決しお自分が持぀事の叶わなかった、けれど酷く懐かしい感芚。

     迷いは無かった。

     分かたれた者同士、時を超えお想いがひず぀になる。䜕の迷いがあろうか。

    『 ええ、やるわ』

     熱が呜じるたた、゚トランれ・コピヌはランの手を握り返した。

     断眪や匟圧の名の䞋に倚くの血を啜り、歎史を刻んできた忌たわしき地。

     叀き流血の時代を芋届けおきながらも人の手を離れ、颚化の䞀途を蟿る寂れた建物の屋䞊を足元に頂き、䞉人の人圱が空䞭に珟れる。

     建物は老朜化したその身を埮匱な振動に震わせおいた。近い。

    「人が寄り付こうずせん蚳じゃな。溜たりに溜たった怚念ず無念が空気を蝕んでおる、垞人であれば少しの油断で粟神を病むぞ。こんな堎所に立ち入れるのは、䜙皋の芚悟を持った者か、䜙皋ものを考えん銬鹿共くらいじゃ」

     その芚悟を持぀者である゚ルザが、そんな評䟡を䞋す。だが、本来なら救いず怚恚ず嫉劬を抱え、生者ずいう光を求め、殺し、奪う為に我先にず矀がる亡者の念は、゚ルザに関心を瀺さず、ある䞀点に向けられおいた。

    「 お膳立おもできおおる、ず。発明卿め、よもやこうなる事たで蚈算しおいたのではなかろうな」

     だずすれば、自分は数ある蚈算匏の䞭のひず぀に瀺された、可胜性ずいう名の圹者だ。挔じるのは、起こり埗るかもしれない䞍確定の筋曞きに自芚の無い䞻芁な登堎人物を巻き蟌み、ありもしない台本に蚘されたラストシヌンに向けお進行させる物語。或いは、予め甚意した舞台に攟り蟌んだ無関係な者達に思い通りの結末を迎えるたで䜕床でも繰り返させる、党おが出たずこ勝負の矀像劇。

     考え過ぎだず解っおいるが、耇雑な笑みが浮かんでくるのを抑えられない。

    た、この際䜕でも良い。粟々利甚させおもらおうではないか

    『来るよっ』

     䞀際倧きい振動、盎埌に盛り䞊がった地面から抜け出たが矎術品さながらの肢䜓を倜空の䞋に晒し、次いで淡い月明かりの䞭に珟れたのは、の足を捕えお離さず遂に地面を突き砎っお匕き摺り出された巚倧な手、そしお党身を土で掟手に煀けさせた巚䜓で建物をハリボテよろしく厩壊させるキュむだ。

    『ガアァァァァァ離せェェェェェェェ』

    「絶察に んぅっ、離さない 」

     藻掻き、暎れるの䞊昇が止たる。䞊半身だけが地面から生えたような栌奜になったキュむが、控えめな膚らみが露わになるのにも構わず、遂にを匕き降ろし始めたのだ。

     足を掎む片手に枟身の力を篭めお匕っ匵り぀぀、地面に埋たったたたの片手を自らの開けた穎の偎面に突き刺し、足ず腰を぀っかえ棒にしお、の力に抵抗する。均衡はキュむに傟きはしたが、キュむを䞭心に舗装された敷地に幟重にも亀裂が走り、䞍自然な隆起が始たっおいるのを芋るに、その均衡はすぐにでも芆されるであろう事は誰の目にも明らかだった。

     にずっお䞍運だったのは、僅かな間のみ埗たに過ぎないむニシアチブを、圧倒的有利に倉えおしたえる存圚が居た事だ。

    「アストラル・バむンド」

     地䞭から、無念ず恚みを蚎え苊痛に歪む顔をいく぀も貌り付けた怚念の手が無数に䌞び、空䞭のを絡めずる。初めこそ纏わり぀く芋えざる手を振り払い、逃れおいただったが、矀がる怚念は次々ず地䞭から珟れおは増え続け、それたで遠巻きに取り巻いおに向けお呪詛の声を吐いおいた亡霊達たでもが加わり、゚ルザの魔力ずいう埌抌しをも埗た怚念の手に巻き付かれ、動きを封じられおいった。

    ナルサヌ

    ノガサヌ

    ワレラガりラミ、むマコ゜ハラシテクレペりゟ

    『き、キサマ等ハ キィィィ、ヒむィィィィく、来るナ、私に觊るナァァァァ』

     倥しい数の怚念が発する声に、が恐慌を露わに絶叫した。それらぱルザの魔法に呌び芚たされた、地䞋斜蚭に転がり萜ちたものを含む、人知れず地䞭に埋葬されおいた異圢の遺骚、その䞻達だ。倜空を透かした髪を振り乱しお振り切ろうずするも、怚敵を前に悲願を成さんずする怚念達が蚱しはしない。

     その間に、コアを宿すの䞋腹郚にランず゚トランれ・コピヌが近付いおいく。

     起動前ずは違い、薄っすらずしか芖認できないが、確かにそこに存圚しおいる事を䞻匵するコアを確認した二人が、ギガントを構える。再装填された匟䞞は、テレポヌト前に゚ンチャント・りェポンで匷化枈みだ。

     ランず゚トランれ・コピヌ、それぞれの巊手ず右手でグリップの埌郚を、それぞれの右手ず巊手でグリップの前郚を握り、二本の指がトリガヌにかけられた。

    『これだけ近付いおも結構距離があるけれど、圓おられるの』

    「自信なんお無いよ。でも、どこを狙っおも急所に圓たっちゃう危なっかしい癖を、今は信じおる」

    『そう なら、私も信じる。あなたに垌望を蚗した、幎前のあの日のように』

    「うん。きっずやれるわ、今はあなたも居るもの」

     二本の芪指が重いハンマヌを起こす。

    『ナ、䜕をしおむる おむ、たさか、よせ、やめろぉぉォォォォォォ』

     二人に気付いたが、怚念の手に抑え぀けられ埮動だにできぬたた叫ぶ。仮に二人が制止に埓う぀もりがあったずしおも、もう遅い。既にギガントの反動で埌ろにふっ飛ばされた埌だったのだから。

     空気を捩じり、激しくうねる気流にも䌌た衝撃波を生みながら、魔力の淡い光を垯びた匟䞞がの霊䜓に食い蟌む。匟䞞は螺旋を描いお霊䜓を倧きく抉り、勢いを衰えさせぬたた遺骚に到達、芋事尟おい骚の䞭心を貫通した。

     䞭心を貫かれ、ヒビ割れお脆くなった遺骚を䜙波で跡圢も無く粉砕し、なおも突き進んでの霊䜓に颚穎を開けた匟䞞が、虚空に消えおいく。

     䞍意に掎んでいた足の感觊が消えたのを䞍思議に思ったキュむが芋たものは、コアを倱い圢を保おなくなったの姿だった。

     䜕凊か矎しくもあったの䜓が、起動前ず同じく急速に黒く染たっおいき、茪郭を倱っお怚念の手の隙間から黒い霧ずなっお霧散する。散り散りになった黒い霧は四぀に別れ、その内の䞉぀が寄り集たっお゚トランれ・コピヌず同じ姿を圢取り、残されたひず぀が黒い霧のたた挂っおいた。

    『ああぁ ガ 私ノが よくも ッ、うぐアッ』

     最早、圢を成す事もできず怒りに呻いおいた黒い霧に、䞀䜓の怚霊が喰らい付く。

     それを皮切りに、怚念の手を圢䜜っおいた怚霊達が、亡霊達が䞀斉に、黒い霧に殺到しおいった。

    『うァアッぐ、寄るナ、アガッ、ぐ、アアアアアアア』

     止たらない。

     ある者は食い千切り、ある者は毟り取り、競い合っお黒い霧を奪い合う。己が成仏さえできず怚霊ず化した元凶を、圌等は知っおいるのだから。

    『ギャァァァァァァやめろ、やめおくれぇぇァァァアアァァァ』

     無くなっおいく。

     蚱しを乞うおも止む事無く。

     少しず぀、削り取られ、奪われ。

     意識を倱う事も、狂う事も、茪廻の枠に戻る事も蚱されず。

     ただ無慈悲に自分が無くなっおいく恐怖。

     圌ずいう存圚が消えお無くなる前に聞こえたのは、凛ずした二぀の声。

    そしお、圌は䞖界から消滅した。

    Karindou 4 Koma Extra Story Pseudo Short Story [Ghostrick Live] 15

    "She's pulling Cuey up as a giant? I guess turning her into a perpetual machine wasn't just a boast...!!"
    "Perpetual machine... that!? That's something pretty amazing to possess!"
    Mifi, worried about Cuey as debris rained down on her, had a grim expression upon hearing Elza's words.
    "But how could that happen!? That's made up of "us", and he wouldn't be able to be in tune unless it's a copy like me or have my hatred..."
    "...The answer is the hatred."
    "Ryuuto!"
    Ran, protected by Elza, turned back to look at the voice answering her question. Ryuuto's face no longer looked pale, and he unsteadily walked towards them as Pink-chan was trying to hold him back.
    "It'll be dangerous if this keeps up, so please evacuate this way."
    "You fool, what are you doing!! He's injured, so evacuate him and bring him somewhere safe!"
    "I, I'm sorry!"
    Pink-chan lowered her head as she was scolded, and continued to say "hurry up!", but Ryuuto held up a hand to stop Elza.
    "Please. I may be carefree and do things at my own pace, but in this situation, I can't just sit idly by, and more importantly, dealing with him takes priority over me? ...He has embraced a powerful grudge, and from that hatred, it transformed him into a vegeful spirit at the moment of his death, and... if you use a similar spiritual body, he can take control of E.S., who only has a sense of self born from negative emotions. For something other than an E.S. copy, to be able to forcibly become attuned and override a transplant rejection, I think it's probably the hatred that turned him into a vengeful spirit has the same wavelength as the spirit waves of E.S. In any case, E.S. is still incomplete, and I don't know if he thought it out that far, but for a complete body, the only necessary emotion, the one that's left is only hatred. Of course, if that happens, it's only a matter of time until E.S. self destructs due to the discrepancy. It's clear that they aren't preserving the spritiual body composition for analysis... Ah, I've talked for too long, I, I feel dizzy."
    "This isn't the time for that! Just spit it out, tell us what the mistress wants to know!"
    "Wait, he's suffering from blood loss so don't shake him... Whoa, it looks like he's literally going to spit it out..."
    As Mifi gripped Ryuuto by both shoulders and shook him, Cuey's body was now partway through the hole in the ceiling that it had made, and debris that was falling through was now dirt with some strange things mixed in with it. Looking at what fell near her feet, Pink-chan stepped back in surprise.
    It probably had once been white, but being covered with dirt had changed its color. It was a skull, clearly not human, but something that had a similar shape as a human.
    "Is this a monster bone!?"
    Looking up, the mountain of rubble made by the hole was now being covered by an endless rain of dirt. Among it, differently shaped bones, both big and small, could be seen. The number of them was more than one would normally expect.
    "They must have hit a graveyard, I didn't think there was a graveyard where this many monsters were buried so close by...! And for it to be above... right above us!"
    "Yes... It wasn't just criminals, but also a large number of monsters that were executed, and the corpses that couldn't be handled normally were secretly sold to my grandfather, that's the reason for establishing this underground facility here, and for my research into spiritual bodies, it had a good field enhance effect so I bought it."
    "The ruins of an execution site...!"
    Hearing this, Elza hit her palm with her fist, just as the hole in the ceiling grew bigger.
    "Okay, now that I know where we are, I can set up the coordinates, and get there first with a teleport. Also, it's somewhere where people won't go, so even if we do something that draws a lot of attention, we should be able to talk our way out of it!"
    In reality, she was thinking that they won't be able to resolve this before E.S. gets above ground. With a fully spiritual body, she would be invisible to anyone without spiritual sense, and though cute, Cuey was an obvious one eyed giant, so if she appeared above ground, depending on the location, lots of humans might see her. Unlike the old days, where it could be managed by news control and manipulating invididuals' memories, in these modern times, with the fast speed of news, it would be impossible to stop the explosive spread of news. Even if you stop one source of news, in that the time it took to do that, it would have more than doubled and spread to all different sources. As a result, the information contained in the memories of an unknown number of people in an infinite electronic ocean must be continually erased, and for all practical purposes, would still remain forever. If done poorly, there's the danger that humans would fear the monsters, and start an all out war to exterminate them.
    Now that the worry that she might be immediately seen by the public when they get above ground was gone, the next thing to consider was how to defeat E.S. before the public could see them.
    "I said she'd self destruct? Elza-kun, you don't need to do anything, if will self destruct on its own. You know that, so the copy doesn't need to follow E.S., she can just say here?"
    As Ryuuto said, the Etranger copy was staring at the hole in the ceiling where the dirt was raining down, with no indication of her moving. However, Ran shook her head in disagreement.
    "No. Since she's alive, that "me" has a chance to win. But, by using the huge amount of energy that was created to take over a mass of spiritual energy like "us", a mere copy of a vengeful spirit like us doesn't have the spiritual energy to fight it. We know this, and it's vexing... We can't do anything."
    "...I realize that that copy has a sense of self, since I've been listening to your conversation with it, even if you attack it, it won't go unconscious. But, how do you know that?"
    "It's 'me', so I know."
    Ran had been in torment over her origins, so the fact that she was implicitly saying that she was the same as the Etranger copy was surprising to Ryuuto. At the same time, he realized that it might be true. The truth that she was a copy had tormented her, but it made her grow and she became stronger. Or maybe how Elza reached out her hand to her and felt about her had made her grow. Ryuuto did not understand the intricacies of people's hearts, but in any case, as Ran held on to Elza's shoulders with a serious expression and a little embarrassment, he knew that she wasn't Etranger or a copy anymore, but just an existence with a definite mind known as Ran.
    "So it's because you have the same origin? Similar to the sympathy between twins."
    "Perhaps. So I don't plan on waiting until it self destructs, we have to release them. When he possessed her, E.S. cried out, so as something that's foreign, he is probably forcibly suppressing her consciousness, and within E.S., Ran's brethren are wracked with pain. They suffer from him, and will be destroyed, and I can't allow that. They are the same as Ran, so they're like my sister, and as the elder sister, I will save my sister."
    "You are an amazing person, to accept those who you've never met for just that reason. ...Yes, there is one way. Even though she's being forced, it is certain that E.S. considers him to be something foreign, so those inside E.S. should be trying to resist, and if we use that, he can separate him from E.S."
    "Separate? Is that possible!?"
    "Removal of the core. E.S. binds them together and forms them into one, and the core stabilizes E.S.'s form. Right now, E.S. has been automatically activated in an incomplete form, neither creating or emitting energy, but just like when they are normally activated, the negative emotion that would activate the energy creation has them half awakened, and they should be fighting for control of E.S.'s consciousness. If that situation continues, the core will be lost and control will break down, and it won't be E.S.'s form, but their own form will begin to assert itself, and E.S. will start to break down. That would be your best chance. You must be careful, the core is superficial so as a partial suppression countermeasure, when it activates, that part of E.S. will turn ghostly and can't be touched physically, and as the most important part, it's naturally deep inside, so even if you touch it spiritually, E.S.'s spiritual body will act as protection that must be penetrated in order to hit it directly. And if you try to remove it, with E.S. under his control, there will be resistance."
    "Hmph... Since we don't have the equipment or time to prepare a 'surgery', it'll be difficult to remove it. In that case, I'll hit it with sorcery with lots of penetrating power and destroy it."
    "Yes, if it can't be removed, then there's no other option except to destroy it... But that would be difficult. Especially for you."
    Ryuuto's voice changed from his casual and somehow cheerful researcher explaining voice to a serious voice. Elza was thinking of a way, and was half surprised by the change in his voice, and her expression hardened.

    "What do you mean by that? Does E.S. have a higher magical resistance than a drake?"
    "No, the problem is what the core is. You have two options. Wait for E.S. to self-destruct and sacrifice them and recover the core in its original form, or... destroy the thing that you've been searching for on behalf of your sister for years."
    Silence filled the room.
    "...No, no the core can't be...!"
    With shaking lips, that was all she could manage to put into words. Ryuuto nodded and confirmed the thoughts that she didn't want to be true and couldn't form into words.
    "It is. The core of E.S. is the remains of the girl known as Etranger Shutulia."
    "You bastard!"
    Her stricken face distorted with rage, she grabbed Ryuuto's collar.
    "I know that you aren't the one behind all of this, and I'm trying to keep that in mind. Ah, I know, I know it in my head... But... But, you did this!"
    "Yes, despite the circumstances, I was the one who planned to use her remains as the core, if you don't like it, you can beat me if you want. But, that won't change the fact that you have to choose an option. You know that, wizard."
    "You...!?"
    Elza was pissed at his indifferent way of speaking. As she clenched her fist and was about to hit him, a cool, soft hand grabbed her fist and stopped her.
    "Ran, why, why are you stopping me! It's his fault that you!"
    "But I was born because of his research. And since I was born, I was able to meet Tamaryuu, Shizuki, everyone... and accepted by you. So I'm here, and not just another Etranger copy, but Ran Schtlehertz. And..."
    Gently, she brought Elza's fist down, and had her left go of Ryuuto's collar, and then Ran suddenly slapped Ryuuto's cheek.
    "...That was something I had to do for the rest of 'us'."
    "I was expecting to be retaliated against at more of a life threatening level."
    "Our malice was offset by our thanks. If you want true revenge, that is done by the "me" of hatred."
    Since this was about research, he immediately understood and scratched his head with a strained smile. As he had told Elza on the way here, he had started his research with the goal of rehabilitating his grandfather's reputation, but eventually, he really got into the research to make a perpetual machine for the good of the world. All the while realizing that this method was illegally messing with corpses.
    And the copies' malice, through several bits of good luck, had created the miracle called Ran, and just as they planned, their revenge was ready. Though they could not do it, they could expose the ones behind it, and cause the loss of the results of their research and data.
    Taking away what they wanted to do, what they came here to do. That was the true revenge against them.
    "I... see, that's true. What about you, Elza-kun, if you still want to hit me, then go ahead?"
    Elza was surprised by Ran's thoughts and restrained actions. With a sigh, she shrugged. This had made all her previous anger disappear.
    "If Ran is fine with this, then I can't say or do anything more. That's how I feel."
    "Haha, I think if it poorly I would probably be killed and so had a close shave with death. So, with this situation, it looks like you are still determined, umm, Ran-kun, yes?"
    The maids didn't dare to say anything as the situation between Elza and Ryuuto progressed as they watched in rapt amazement. Lolint understood that meant that Ran had a true sense of self. Ran was the focus of all of their attention, as she looked up at the ceiling. He had probably reached the foundations of the building, as dirt with a slight bit of concrete was still intermittently falling onto the mountain of debris from the huge hole.
    "I'll do it."
    "The little mistress will be able to get inside that and extract the core!?"
    Mifi, excited, thought that the little mistress looked so cool in this final last resort, but it got stuck in her throat. Elza looked at Ran with a serious look in her eyes.
    "Ran. You're saying you will destroy the original remains yourself."
    Thinking similar thoughts and getting excited like Mifi, Ran nodded without hesitation.
    "You said it before. We can't leave them suffering and being destroyed along with him. I feel the same way."
    "But, if you do that, your body will never be complete again!"
    "Maybe so. But, I can't be happy getting back my body and not saving 'us', and I'll regret it greatly, I'm sure. So, the least I could do is destroy it with 'my" own hands. The 'we' gave me a chance to become me, and now it my turn to save 'us' who wished to save me!"
    Her gaze didn't have an ounce of doubt. Realizing Ran was serious, she touched Ran's cheek.
    "Even if I try to stop you... you wouldn't listen?"
    "Yes, even if you tried to stop me with everything you had, I'd still do it. And, in the end, that isn't mine, but Etranger's remains. And even if it were to be retrieved, I was originally a copy that had that missing, so I'm not sure if it would have any effect on my body, and while it might be bad for Etranger, she'd let me destroy it. ...Even though you saved me, I'm sorry for saying something so selfish, Onee-chan."
    "It's all right. A younger sister is supposed to say selfish things once in a while."
    As she hugging her slender body and patting her head, Ran hugged her back. Feeling this, Elza was overcome with emotion and hugged her even tighter.
    She had voiced her determination. So this was no time to hesitate to offer to help.
    "But, how are you going to destroy the core? Since you've decided to destroy it, the mistress' sorcery would be the most effective way I think."
    "I want to respect Ran's intention. So my turn will only be after Ran fails."
    "I won't fail. It's not as if I was expecting this to happen, but I've had a little practice, so I think it will be fine."
    Releasing from the hug, Elza followed Ran's gaze and understood without anything more said.

    "Practice... ah, you mean that? It's true, the mistress made quite a bit of progress in a short amount of time."
    With red and purple eyes, their gaze was turned towards Col, but her expression instantly changed and she clapped her hands together. She realized that what Ran needed for what she wanted to do. It was her two favorite guns, the .357 magnums.
    "I see, the bullets Onee-sama uses in combat mode were enchanted by the mistress. With those, you can even shoot spiritual bodies!"
    "It's a good idea, but unfortunately it won't work. E.S.'s anti-spiritual shot resistance is quite high, and something on the level of a tank won't work, let alone small arms like a magnum. If you're going to shoot it, you need something like an anti-tank rifle. And I think it would be impossible for you to fire something like that."
    "That's..."
    It was the only method that she could think of where she herself would end it, so hearing Ryuuto's criticism made Ran's hand stop. But, even though she was discouraged, anyone could see that she hadn't given up yet.
    "Then, is there a gun that's more suitable?"
    "Ah, wait..."
    Seeing Ran's hand still held out, Lolint pulled out the Gigant from Col's apron waistband, and presented it to Ran.
    Ran, was being offered a gun by a little girl that (she could only think) she was meeting for the first time. It was even bigger than a desert eagle, which she hadn't even tried to shoot. Ran couldn't hide her confusion.
    "Anti-tank monster barrel AT14C-7G, nickname Gigant. During the cold war... well, this is an anti-tank handgun that was never mass produced, and if you apply Enchant Weapon on the bullets, it should be equally effective on spiritual bodies as enchanted bullets. It's destructive power is real, and in any case, it blew off that huge lizard's arm."
    "...Are you bragging?"
    Ignoring Col's tsukkomi, Lolint continued.
    "However, the caliber is much larger than a normal magnum, so that's only if you could use it with those slender hands. We are close to the time limit, so if you can't, then you should quietly let your sister... that sorcerer over there take care of it."
    At that, Ran hesitated, but then deciding something, her expression hardened and grabbed the Gigant.
    "That gun is not something that you can wield as you are now. But you... still intend to do it?"
    "It's meaningless unless I do it. And, there's a way for me to fire it! I don't have 2 trump cards like Onee-chan, but I have 4 hands to wield a gun!"
    Ran turned around towards everyone, who didn't understand what she meant. She grabbed the hand of the Etranger copy, who continued to stare at the ceiling.
    "Lend me your strength! The two of us will free 'us' from him!"
    '!?'
    Surprised, she tried to pull away her hand, but in a reversal of when the Etranger copy was pretending to be used and kidnapped Ran, this time Ran tightly gripped the Etranger copy's hand and wouldn't let go.
    "Now, we can do it. Let's do it, we'll sever Etranger's, 'our' hatred!"
    'Sever... hatred...'
    Excited by Ran's fervor, the black stagnant hatred became oddly hot. While she couldn't accomplish it herself, it was an extremely nostalgic feeling.
    There was no hesitation.
    Though separate, their feelings that surpassed time became one. What would there be to be hesitant about?
    '...Yes, we'll do it.'
    The fire taking hold, the Etranger copy grasped Ran's hand back.
    The blood drank in the name of conviction and punishment, history of the disgusting place etched in their minds.
    The one who had seen the old days of bloodshed let go of their hands, as their feet touched the rooftop of the completely decaying building. 3 human sillouettes appeared in the sky.
    The building shook with a slight tremble. Near by.
    "People won't draw near here. The hatred and regrets accumulated here have corrupted the atmosphere, and any normal people who have not taken any preparations will suffer mentally. The only ones who would enter here are those are strongly resolved, or fools who did not think at all."
    Elza, who had the resolve, gave that assessment. However, the feelings of the dead who embraced salvation, hatred and envy, searching for the light of the living, killing, trying to take what they could before anyone else. Those feelings did not concern Elza at all, and she focused on one thing..
    "...He could good at preparing. That Lord Inventor, even all of this was probably within his calculations."
    If it was, out of the countless formulas, one stood out, the possibility that he was a great actor. The act was to get the important characters involved in an uncertain plot without them realizing it, and have them advance towards the last scene in this unwritten script. Or perhaps, to keep on adding unrelated characters to his prepared stage, until they got to his expected ending, a battle where everything comes out.
    Knowing that she was overthinking it, she was unable to suppress a complicated smile.
    (Ah, if that's the case, it's fine. I'll let myself be used as needed.)
    'Here it comes!'
    There was an extra large vibration, immediately followed by E.S. bursting out of the ground. It looked like a work of art, with her body exposed to the night sky, appearing in the faint moonlight. Still gripping E.S.'s leg and not letting go as it burst through the ground, pulled along, was a giant hand, followed by the rest of Cuey's giant, dirty body, ruining the building like it was paper mache.
    'Gaaaaah! Let goooooo!'
    "I'll never... urg, let go...!!"
    Struggling and floundering, E.S.'s upward movement was stopped. Looking as though the upper half of her body had grown out of the ground, Cuey wasn't at all concerned that she was exposed, and had finally started pulling E.S. down.
    With one hand grabbing its leg with all her strength, her other hand was still underground, thrust horizontally into the hole she had made, using her legs and torso to wedge herself sideways, resisting against E.S.'s power. They were about equal, with Cuey having a slight advantage, but there were many cracks in the pavement above her, and she could see there were some unnatural bulges starting to form. It was clear that this balance would soon be disrupted.

    E.S.'s bad luck was that her small initiative could be turned into something extremely good.
    "Astral Bind!"
    From underground, faces warped with regret and malice and pain, countless hands of limitless hatred reached out towards E.S. in the sky and bound her. At first, E.S. shook off the the coiling, invisible hands were shaken off and escaped from them, but the swarming hatred coming from underground only continued to increase, surrounding E.S. and turning the cursed voices of the dead spirits towards it. With Elza's magical power bolstering them, the hands of hatred latched on, stopping E.S.'s movements.
    [i](No forgiveness)
    (No escape)
    (This time, our malice will be lifted)[/i]
    'W, what are you...!? Kiiiiii, hiiiii! D, don't get closer, don't touch meeeeee!!!'
    Hearing the voices produced by the countless grudges, E.S. screamed in fear. They had been awakened by Elza's sorcery, fallen into and staying in the underground facility, the strange remains buried in secret in the ground. Like hair wildly waving in the night sky, the grudges had no mercy for their enemy trying to complete his goal.
    While this was happening, Ran and the Etranger copy approached E.S.'s nether regions, where the core was located.
    Unlike its pre-activation state, it was faint and could only be confirmed visually, but they could confirm that the core was there. They wielded the Gigant, which was loaded with bullets that had been strengthened by Enchant Weapon before they had teleported.
    Ran and the Etranger copy were holding onto the back part of the grip with their left and right hands, and the front part of the grip with their right and left hands, respectively, with 2 fingers on the trigger.
    'We've gotten this close, there is still quite a bit of a distance, but can you hit it?'
    "I'm not confident. But, no matter where I aimed, I always hit somewhere vital, so I believe I will."
    'I see... Then, I'll believe as well. Just like 20 years ago, the day we entrusted our hope to you.'
    "Yes. I'm sure I can do it. And you are here too."
    Two thumbs cocked the heavy hammer.
    'W, what are you doing...? Hey, no, you, stooooooop!!!!!'
    E.S. noticed the two of them, and cried out as the hands of hatred held it, unable to move. Even if it had planned to stop them, it was already too late. Because it would have been after the Gigant's recoil had blown them backwards.
    The air twisted, and a shockwave like a powerful blast of wind was created, and a bullet tinged with the light of magical energy was driven into E.S.'s spiritual body. The bullet gouged out a large spiral into the spiritual body, and without slowing it down, it reached her remains, and amazingly pierced through the middle of the tailbone.
    With a hole in the middle, the brittle remains were demolished by the ensuing shockwave. The bullet flew on, making an exit wound out of E.S.'s spiritual body, and disappeared into the sky.
    Cuey thought it was strange, feeling the leg she was gripping suddenly disappear. Looking at it, she saw E.S.'s shape dispersing due to the loss of the core.
    E.S.'s beautiful body quickly turned black, like how it was before activation. Losing her outline, she began to disappear into a black mist between the gaps in the hands of hatred. The scattering black mist split apart into 4 parts, 3 of which gathered and took on the same shape as the Etranger copy. The 4th part stayed as a black mist.
    'Ah... E.S.... My E.S....!! How could... ugah!?'
    Already, the black mist could not longer form into a shape, and moaned in anger, as a vengeful ghost approached to devour it.
    That initiated it, and the vengeful spirits that had created the hands of hatred, the dead spirits, all rushed towards the black mist.
    'Uwaaah!! D, don't come here, agah, guaaaaaahh!!'
    They didn't stop.
    One of them tore off with its teeth, another tore off with his hands, struggling against each other to get at the black mist. They knew what the source of them not being able to find peace and turning into a vengeful spirit was.
    'Gyaaaaaaa! Stop, stop iiiiiiiiiiiit!!'
    They didn't.
    Even has he begged them, they didn't stop.
    Piece by piece, it was torn away, taken.
    Not letting him lose consciousness, or go crazy, or be reincarnated.
    Only the fear of mercilessly disappearing.
    Just before his existence vanished, he heard 2 cold voices.

    Then he was exterminated from this world.

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