At the end of the east part of the continent.
At the peak of a mountain that’s covered by a blizzard, stod a llittle cottage.
At a place where no human could enter, a single witch lived there.
Without anyone knowing, without associating with anyone.
She just slowly, passed through her time.
[ Hee~y , it's been quite a long time, huh ~ ]
From her tone, it sounded like she already knew everything that will happen.
Smoke came out from the pipe that she smoked, as she laid sprawled beside the fireplace.
While looking troublesome, she opened half of her eyes looking at Takahina who came out from the crack in the space as he entered the room.
[ You're the first one you know, who came twice to this hard to reach place. ]
[ Shut up. ]
Takahina's tone of voice was a calm one.
But deep inside that voice, one could certainly have felt irritation.
His voice coiled with intimidating air that it felt like he was pointing his sword of ice right of one's throat.
Briskly, Takahina walked toward the witch.
Then, he grabbed the witch’s loose collar and raise her up.
[ No ~ sto~ p, don't rape me nyaa ~ ]
[ Stop with your jest. You should know at least the reason why I came to this place. ]
An expressionless face like a French doll.
A voice that felt like it was covered with a cold aura.
A pair of sapphire eyes, that looked with a piercing gaze toward the witch that he held with one of his hands.
The little girl who stood behind Takahina, come and grab onto his cuff.
He can't read any expression from that hollow eyes of hers.
No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't read her expressions, but it felt like she tried to find fault in what he done.
[ ... I understand. ]
His eyebrows dropped a bit looked troubled.
He then released the collar that he grabbed.
[ Oou, don't do anything violent to me ~ ]
[ Shut up, you damn witch. How dare you speak nonsense to me ]
[ Waoo, that’s unexpected. ]
Without even fixing her disheveled collar, the witch once again laid sprawled on the floor.
While swinging her feet up and down, she blew some smoke that she sucked from her pipe.
Thought that witch without a doubt have the appearance as a little girl, but she didn't look out of place doing what she just did.
She really gave an aura of an old person.
[ You known that I am ~ indeed a lazy person ri~ght ? whimsica~l, irresponsiblee, people hater, slouch, a shut a~nd, on the top of that, I am supeeer beautiful, you know? ]
[ Enough with that unimportant preface! I have already done just as you've told me to! The saint of the west, the southern swordsman, too! I made a country itself went into disorder, and kill all of them! ]
His angry voice, that sounded almost like screaming.
However, his expression didn't break one bit.
Like a doll, just like usual.
[ I scattered despair, brought around curses, I've killed people like they were trash! All of those lives felt too cheap! ]
[ hoho~ u? ]
[ ... Even so, I don't feel anything! Even though, there's someone who died in front of me, even if there will be a person that'll die because something that I've done! I don't felt anything, anything! Fear, challenge, anger, nothing! It's ... scary! ]
A sound of Takahina gritting his teeth resounded in the room.
Thus, the witch looked at Takahina's face, with so much of interest.
[ I don't want this anymore! accepting the fact that I am a monster so easily just like that! If I kept continuing on like this, I will become crazy, just tell me where's Kerurion ---- ]
As he kept rattling on and on nonstop.
Finally, he stopped.
[ You're so naive, doll-san. ]
Listlessly, looking as if it was bothersome.
The witch said so, and interrupted Takahina.
[ Saying that you didn't want to do it right now, are you even awake? You're a monster? That's right, that's not wrong at a~ll. The moment since you became an undead ~ , you're always a monster, y'know ]
[---- Ukh!? ]
[ I wasn't something like a saint or even a God yanno ~ I am witch yanno ~ . I don't want you to look down on me awright ~ saying that you want something without doing any risk to get it , awright? Ya say that ya would risk anything and didn't matter what happen to get ya hand on that item , thus I, told it ya to do so, no? That’s why I told ya the highest percentage to getting that item, you understand? ]
the witch rolled over on her sleep, and then she laughed.
Kukuku, she looked like she was having so much fun.
[ The Kareion will appear in the midst of the despair. That why, I told you, a person who is fitted to become the center of despair, and created the situation where Kareion could easily appear, yanno ~ ]
[ ... That's ]
[ But well, the one who will doing the thing is you, no? If you want to stop, I wouldn't stop ya, yanno. ]
[ .... .... .... ]
Takahina's expression, crumbled.
He looked grief, in pain.
Looking at Takahina.
The witch squinted her eyes, and made an alluring smile.
[ You won't stop, righ ~? after all, you can't stand the fact that by doing so you'll make all of the sacrifice that you've done until now become meaningless, ri~ght ~ ? also, you, want the Kareion, no matter what the price is, am , I, right ?]
Smoothly.
With a snake like movement, she entwined herself onto Takahina's body .
The little girl that was holding onto Sakahina's scuff, felt somewhat repulsive by that act, backed down with a start.
Right by Takahina ears, she whispered.
[ Also , the truth is~ , just a little bit more, a tad bit more, and you could get that thing into your possession, yanno ~ ? After all, the Keruion already smelled the despair that you scattered around. Do your best, just a little bit more~ ]
[ ... ]
Closing his eyes, Takahina desperately suppressed his messed-up mind.
She said it. Just a little bit more.
Though, she was a person that cannot be completely read by proffesor, but somehow, he can still sense whenever she's lying or not.
She wasn't lie.
Though, this was only the second time that he met her, he knew about it.
In the first place, he never thought that this witch will ever spout out a lie.
His act from before, half of it was just him venting out his anger.
Then, it's just a bit more.
If he bore with it just a little bit more, he could get Keruion in his hand.
He could revive her.
For that.
No matter what happened.
[ ... Aah, I understand. I'll not back off after this, what should I do next? ]
[ Yosh, alright ~ . The diva in the small country in the east might be good, she is in the right time to become the center of the curse, you know ~ ]
[ Is that so? ]
There're no more excessive emotion anymore in Takahina's eyes.
He turned around, and then grasped the hand of little girl that timidly extended her hands to him.
[ Much oblige. ]
[ Ay ay. ]
One phrase.
Thus, the space split up, and his figure disappeared.
The witch that's left alone, laughed.
[ It's so fyuun ~ ]
She played with her pipe, then blew a smoke.
The witch looked up, and then laughed.
[ Just a little bit more ~ ]
That girl, was a witch.
Mashanoizas's prided Miko, her twin elder sister.
The eyes of thousands miles, the little sister.
The eyes that knows all, the older sister.
It's long since she forgot her name.
She spectate over the world, desiring the stimulus which called chaos and disorder.
[ My lil sis, should start moving by now, no?]
What she's looking forward the most
Was the meeting between that broken doll.
And the [ heroes ] that her little sister brought under her care.
She looked forward to it that it can't be helped.
[ Well then, the brother and sister that lost both of their memories, now is the climax of the story ~ ]
Inside the small shaft where no one else beside her, the witch laughed.
The blizzard that day, became even more intense than any other day.