Chapter 46
[Frozen Evil]
There are many people in Saint Celia who knows about me .
Yoiyami . This name, which popularized by the organization, was not easily forgotten even after retirement .
Therefore, a guy who had been snooping around came to me with a killing request .
I hated working with mask on, so people who were familiar with underworld should recognized my face .
That makes life inside Saint Celia suffocating .
But that’s only the beginning . The SDF found out that I had retired and I didn’t showed any suspicious movement, so it seems they decided to leave me alone .
They must thought that dealing with me will only make their side suffer more damages .
Those guys aren’t so free to deal with every single person who left Anonymous like me .
Of course, I wouldn’t kill people without purpose .
I also know some people inside SDF, and there are a lot of troublesome guys there .
I’ve been left alone, but of course I wouldn’t be free if I caused a problem in Saint Celia .
The chance of winning alone is 0 .
Now, it’s the story about a request that visit me .
The request came about a year after I left Anonymous .
The name of the client is Hitsugiya Banri . A famous hitman in the underworld .
There are hitman who passed their request to their trusted colleague .
Those who can’t kill women and children will pass their request to those who can, and if their ability compatibility with the target is poor, they will pass the job to those who have good compatibility .
There are quite a few organization that specialize in killing people .
Hitsugiya is a solo hitman .
I had been opposing him and I’ve also been working together with him .
That Hitsugiya had accidentally took a double booked request, and approached me .
The request was the assassination of a girl protected by SDF .
Difficulty level is SS .
The girl’s escort was a man named Midou Ryuusui . And that man was troublesome .
There’s almost no one who didn’t know about Midou Ryuusui . The figure of him talking about justice could be often seen on tv .
One of the seven generals of the SDF, Midou Ryuusui .
The man who is said to be the strongest wind ability user in history……
We have been squaring of against each other for several times, but we had never reached a conclusion .
一一Even if you look at the reward, it wasn’t a profitable request .
Probably Hitsugiya also thought so and sent it to me . Double booking is probably a lie .
Originally I wouldn’t accept such request, but because I owe Hitsugiya a favor, I decided to accept it .
My compatibility with wind ability user is not bad . Besides, assassination is my specialty .
Just right, the messenger from organization (Anonymous) is about to come . After completing this request, let’s leave Saint Celia .
I thought so, after a year I decided to take a killing job .
In the end, I couldn’t kill the girl who was escorted by Midou Ryuusui .
There were several times when I was able to get rid of Midou Ryuusui and surely kill the girl .
However, I couldn’t kill her . There is no particular reason .
It’s just, I couldn’t swung down my raised hand anymore .
Until now, I was able to kill women, children, babies, and the elderly without hesitation if necessary .
Without any hesitation .
However, I couldn’t kill that girl .
I immediately thought . I can’t kill people .
The fact is that killing is no longer necessary .
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At that time, the thing that came to my mind was sympathy for a strange girl who had nothing to do with me .
No, I used to have sympathy for the person I killed .
I’m not sympathetic .
At that time, I was thinking about the girl .
Because there is a request to assassinate her, she shouldn’t be an ordinary girl .
But, I wonder if there are people who will be sad if she dies?
There must be someone who will be angry and comes to kill me .
Until now, the guys who came to me for revenge are rotten . But I thought that’s just how it is .
I looked at the scared girl and thought .
If this girl has no relative and live only to die, what was she born for?
一一 The blank space of only one year weakened my heart .
A weak life without killing changed me .
It doesn’t mean I can’t kill people from the start .
At that time, I just realized I couldn’t kill .
I didn’t know what people called peace, but now I knew it .
With that alone, my heart, which I thought was strong, was so weak it was about to collapse .
I can’t kill people anymore .
But I won’t atone .
I killed many people, but I don’t think that atonement is necessary .
I don’t regret the past or want to start over .
Yes, never .
I won’t kill people anymore……, that’s it .
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Yoiyami-san said that there was no clear reason why he won’t kill people anymore .
It made me think .
After all, I thought that Yoiyami-san had experienced something tragic .
That’s why he won’t kill people anymore .
But actually it was different . I wonder if people who constantly killing people, like Yoiyami-san, who had killed a lot of people, could become unwilling to kill people because they lived the same life as ordinary people for only one year .
Or it’s only Yoiyami-san who was like that .
I can’t understand .
It’s just, sometimes we may have to reconsider the significance of killing .
Yoiyami-san said that killing is only a job .
Yoiyami-san is in a sense broken . I thought it felt likes Yoiyami-san suggest us to not follow the same road, but in my case, the rail was different from the start .
From the window, I gazed at the passing night view .
Roll is driving . Desuko-san is playing with her mobile terminal in the passenger seat .
It seems that everyone has their own thoughts about Yoiyami-san’s story .
In Desuko-san’s case, it looks like she isn’t very convinced .
Yoiyami-san’s story is difficult to understand after all, and unlike usual, she had a sullen look all the time .
“So mission failed?”
Suddenly closing the terminal and opened a bag of potato chips bought at the convenience store, Desuko-san said that .
“This mission wouldn’t be issued anymore, right . ”
“Hmm, maybe it’s because it’ll be meaningless if Yoiyami comes back like that . For now, we have to report to Hyde . ”
“Boss may be shocked . ”
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“I may have been a little disillusioned about Yoiyami . No, it’s not disillusionment .
It’s a sense of loneliness I felt when I see a bad fellow suddenly change their minds and live seriously . I wonder if I feel betrayed . Totally off the shelf emotion . ”
“It’s a concrete example . ”
“Well, it’s because Desuko knew the old Yoiyami-san, so it can’t be helped that you feel that way .
Yoiyami-san was really scary after all . ”
“Oh really?”
Certainly, I was scared at first, but after Desuko-san’s revelation, I didn’t get scared at all .
So that was Yoiyami-san?
How will that person live from now on?
I wanted to see him again .
“Aaah, mission failed anyway, how about we have a drink when we returned to hideout? In Roll’s room . ”
Desuko-san said from the passenger seat while looking back .
“There’s school tomorrow y’know . ”
“That’s right . Impossible . ”
“Eeeh, it’s okay to skip for a day! You both have good grades, right?
Hey! Hey!”
Desuko-san pulled Roll’s arm who was driving .
She has returned to the usual annoying Desuko-san, rather than the serious Desuko-san from before .
“It’s impossible . Anyway you’re nuisance!”
Roll holds Desuko-san’s head and push it away .
“Eeeh”
“……”
You wouldn’t think the two who were having such exchange are murderers . Even though they looked like ordinary people…… No, that includes me .
I feel that the number of my worries has increased again .