Editing The Unexplored Summon Blood Sign:Volume5 Chapter3 (section)

===Part 8===

“Ah…”

Something broke inside Kyousuke.

That could no longer be called a person. Even calling it someone’s remains seemed suspect. It was only a dark red paste staining the walls, the floor, and the ceiling.

“Kh…ah.”

The Queen had done that.

She had crossed a line.

There was no going back now. It had only been a feeble hope, but he had been planning a different path that threw out the impossible task of killing the Queen and talked it out with everyone instead. But that possibility was snuffed out before his eyes.

“Gwooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!”

He found himself screaming.

As if to reject anything and everything, he tore at his hair and ran aimlessly. Again and again, he tripped or ran into walls, but he did not have it in him to complain about the pain.

Another voice rang in his mind.

The icy core was laughing.

———''Isn’t that great? It went just the way you wanted.

———''Aren’t you glad she chose the real one over the fake?

“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!”

———''Now the White Queen’s power belongs only to you. You alone are special.

———''No, there are still plenty more fools borrowing your voice to steal away your honeymoon.

“Stop, dammit, stop! That’s not what I wanted!! It’s not!! What calculations are you talking about!? I didn’t want this! I never asked for this!! I wanted everyone to smile together!! I wanted to end it without anyone getting hurt!! So what is this!? What the hell is thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis!?”

———''What is it? Why, this is Shiroyama Kyousuke as the “Greatest Common Divisor” just like everyone wanted.

———''Or to use your favorite phrase, perhaps we should call it a precision guided missile.

He could not stop screaming.

He could not trust himself.

Shigara Masami had said everyone had the strength that came from kindness. But didn’t that lead to another conclusion as well? Everyone also had something other than that. Humans had always had as much wickedness as they did kindness.

What was the identity of the kindness that had budded inside him?

The precision guided missile.

To approach the target inputted into his brain, he had repeatedly made minor course corrections. It had all been exactly as the truly powerful wanted. And all towards their goal of killing the Queen.

Is that why this had happened?

As time had passed without any results, had his core chosen the “optimal answer”?

Had he simply been disguising it as justice when he whispered of saving everyone?

Had he never changed from beginning to end?

Had it only been a temporary show of good meant to take him along the shortest route?

“Owwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!”

———''Yell and yell. Then everyone will notice something is wrong and gather here.

———''I wonder what will happen when the multiple Queens meet.

Kyousuke frantically shut his mouth, but it was too late.

He heard pounding footsteps. Identical footsteps were approaching from multiple directions.

''It’s over,'' he thought.

He could not stop it. Once they met, it was obvious just how the White Queens would pay the others back for deceiving and manipulating them.

Could he really say it?

And even if he shouted for them to stay away, would any of them really stop?

“…”

Unable to do anything, Kyousuke simply waited for the final moment to arrive.

But he once again made a mistake. Or had he been too clever for his own good?

When the multiple White Queens met, he was mysteriously able to tell one apart from the others.

It was the one that had been with him all this time.

And without even thinking – truly without thinking – he shouted to her.

“Stop, ''Mary''!! Stay away!!!!!”

Mary Ann was the new name that Alice was given when the Guide Rabbit mistook her for his maidservant. And as long as she used that name, everyone around her treated her like she really was that maidservant.

That name gave the eternal girl another role.

And it had been given to her by the rabbit.

''“What about Alice (with) Rabbit? Now we’ll never be separated again!!”

When she had innocently made that suggestion, Kyousuke had actually expressed some slight disapproval.

''“That would just be using the names the Miniature Garden gave us.”

So…

So…

So…

''“I’ve been calling you something ever since you arrived, haven’t I? Mary. Mary Ann. That is both Alice and not Alice. It is another role given to her by the rabbit. Now you can be free of all bonds.”

That was back when Kyousuke had still been trapped by the plan to kill the Queen and had been approaching her to deceive her. But that silly lie had supported him in the very, very end.

Or it should have.

But why did he overlook it?

The other Alices had not been given that name. They were the “others” who had not been made special. Why did he overlook just how much maddening damage those words would do to them?

It told them they were nothing but fakes and that only another could receive his love.

And that fact brought a chain reaction of pure white explosions into the world.

Even one White Queen wielded unbelievable power and now that fury boiled over and whipped up a storm of destruction.