Editing Kami-sama no Inai Nichiyoubi:Volume4 Chapter4 (section)

===Part III===

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<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Gogogogogo,</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the tower was about to collapse. The tremors were so violent, and the walls started to collapse, the ceilings were starting to be caught by the weak gravity, and collapsed one after another.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Wawawawawawawah!!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Hurry hurry hurry hurry~hurry[[User:Teh Ping|Teh Ping]] ([[User talk:Teh Ping|talk]])!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The group hastily dashed down the stairs. Ai and Alice jumped down the stairs two steps at a time, while Julie jumped down in three steps. Scar hugged Celica tightly in her arms, while Julie held Scar tightly so that she would not fall.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"I-I-It’s impossible! We’ll never make it!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"You idiot! Don't say it's impossible! If you think you can, you can! If you think you can't, you can't!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"T-that's right!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Yeah! You get it? Keep it to heart once you understand! Keep repeating it!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Yes!…If you think you can't, you can't. If you think you can't, you can't. If you think you can't, you can't. If you think you can't…"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Don't repeat that part[[User:Teh Ping|Teh Ping]] ([[User talk:Teh Ping|talk]])!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The tower seemed to be collapsing faster than before.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"It-it’s really impossible!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Ai burst into tears. The stairs were no longer in the shape of stairs, and they did not feel like stone steps at all.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Tch! No choice here…"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Alice came to an abrupt stop on the place which appeared to be either falling or landed.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"D-Do you have a plan?"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Yeah. It's a last resort. Old man! Take care of that!"</span>

<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">What is he going to do?</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> The moment Ai stopped in her tracks.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Alice gently carried Ai.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Alright!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Huh?"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">He approached the window.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Ai had a bad feeling about this.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"LET’S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"WHHHHHHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYY!!!?"</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Oh?"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Dee puts her hands over her eyelids and stares at the tower.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Looks like a critical hit. Is it gone?"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The tower, which had simply withstood the attacks of her friends with its own mass, began to collapse. The overly huge chiseled stone blocks appeared to be falling really slowly.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Did Ai and the others make it in time…"</span>

<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Haa…</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dee let out a sigh. She looked up at the tower, thinking of offering a silent prayer.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Hmm?"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">And at the far end of her sight, she saw something.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Noooooooooooooooooooo!!!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Woaaaarrrggghhh!!"</span>

<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’re falling! We’re falling!</span></i>

<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wind! Cold! Rocks! Windows! Rocks! Scary! Scary Scary Scary!</span></i>

<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">There's nothing under my feet! There's nowhere to put my hands! Nothing but thin air to hold me up, and I don't feel like doing much about that!</span></i>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The wreckage of the tower fell in a very helpful manner. There was rubble, tables, tea sets, a bunch of colorful magazines, a private car with its parking lights flashing, a house they would like for themselves in the future…and there were three neighboring houses falling opposite!</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">They were definitely falling really fast, but the ground in the distance did not seem to be getting any closer.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">There were beautiful stars shining green before them.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Wow, so pretty."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Ai beamed.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"This is no time to be escaping reality!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Of course I’d want to escape reality now!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">She twisted her body dexterously, and escaped from Alice's armpit.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"You idiot, Mr. Alice! You’re the worst! You don’t think at all! You stupid! How can we possibly survive from such a high place!?"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Woargh, it hurts! Stop it, you idiot!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Ai quickly learned how to glide. She spread her limbs wide and adjusted her angles accordingly to control her descent, and then began to tangle with Alice in the air.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Idiot! Idiot idiot idiot! Mr. Alice's an idiot!</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Hey! Idiot! Listen to me! Come here!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Don’t wanna!…I'm at least going to crash in peace where this idiot doesn't exist…"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Enough already! Just get over here!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Alice waved over in a breaststroke, and ignored Ai's flailing as he took her hands.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">They held hands and spun in a circle as they fell. Ai was relentless as her face remained blank as ice.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"I~diot i~diot, Mr Alice you i~idiot. Fool, Dumbo, you mother anteater"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA………you're really the worst."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"…So that’s how you are when you’re so stressed out?"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Ai looked at the stars below her.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"…The only thing better is the view."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Sure is one hell of a final view."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">A karate Chop.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"…Well, it's a good last view, isn't it…?"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">It was windy, and they were talking with their faces upside down.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"…I’ll probably die, right?"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Ai chuckled weakly.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"I’ll, probably, die~♪"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Alice, who heard the "I’ll, probably, die~ song’, asked,</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"What will you do after you die?"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"……That’s a weird question."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"No, no, isn’t it a normal question nowadays? It’s almost no different from ‘what are your future plans’."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Ai looked at the ground that was still far away though inevitable, and said what was on her mind,</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"…Well, I don’t know what’ll happen to me…?"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Oh? That’s surprising. Someone like you didn’t think of this before? "</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Because…"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Ai looked at the distant ground in the distance. It felt so surreal.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"I'm half Gravekeeper, half human."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"So?"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Do you think there's any afterlife for me?"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"—Ah."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Alice looked away awkwardly once the possibility occurred to him.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">There was no ‘afterlife’ for the Gravekeepers. Once broken, they would never wake up again. They would just return to the earth.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"I used to think, ‘That's better’. I thought it’d be better to return to the earth without struggling to live."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"……"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"But now…I have a dream."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Surprisingly, she was actually not scared at all.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"I don't want…to die."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">It however did not mean that she wanted to live that badly.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">She just did not want to die at this moment.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Ai inhaled a breath of air high up in the air.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Wooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">She shouted.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"…I really wish to live a little longer…."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">But they were at an altitude of 1,000 meters, where the temperature was eight degrees Celsius, the wind was blowing from the east at a speed of 20 meters per second.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">There was no way she could survive.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"…All the more reason to think of what you want to do after death."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"…Haa, there’s not much time for that…it’s coming."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Nope."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Then Alice chuckled.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Not necessarily!"</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Ohhhh[[User:Teh Ping|Teh Ping]] ([[User talk:Teh Ping|talk]])!?! Ohhhhh[[User:Teh Ping|Teh Ping]] ([[User talk:Teh Ping|talk]]) 15:08, 21 December 2021 (CET)!!!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"What's the matter, Ghost?"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Hey hey! Look at that!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Dee spun around and pointed in the air, and everyone around her looked up into the sky.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"What is it?" ""A bird?" "A plane?" "No, I don't hear any propellers."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Dee pointed.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"It’s Alice and Ai!"</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">First, Alice found a torn rope in the junk floating around him—something that was part of the tower’s structure, and tied himself tightly to Ai (Ai resisted, of course). He dug his hands into the junk again, and pulled out the item he wanted with great ease.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Yes! This is it! This is what I wanted! "</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"What's with the ragged cloth…?"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Don’t call it ragged! It’s more valuable than any silk right now! It's an angel's wing!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">With that, Alice put the bag on his back and immediately pulled on the cord that extended from his side.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">"It’s a parachute!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Dee shouted, jumping up and down and waving her hands. The wings of yellow cloth fell softly through the mist, and she could see Alice and Ai beneath. Not too far behind them was another blue parachute, where Julie, Scar, and Celica were attached to it like a monkey carrying its family.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Oi~! Ai~!  Alice~! It's me!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Dee waved her hand, then realized that she should just fly over, and tried to go.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">But before that.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Whoa, whoa, whoa!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Gyaah!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Rakra! Kura Kura!!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Kuwaa!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The wreckage of the tower rained down on the comrades in the area.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Hey, Ghost! Where are you! Find shelter...for us..."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Ahhh, that’s so troublesome! Figure it out for yourself!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">She said as she circled the tower, and it so happened that there were no fallen rocks near where Ai and the others were planning to land.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Okay. Just right. Everyone, let's go!"</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Alice stumbled at the last moment.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Ai, unable to move, sneered,</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"You're horrible! And I had a different opinion of you just now! Correction! You're the worst!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Like, what can I do? I've only used a parachute once before!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Woahhh~~! Another thing I don’t want to hear! You risked our lives for that!?"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"It's fine, right!? I saved you anyway! What the hell! You should be a little more grateful!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Thank you very much!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"You're welcome!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">While the two of them bickered away, Julie landed on the ground without any trouble. He ran gently across the ground to kill the inertia, cut the rope before the sail got tangled, and stood on the ground.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Are you okay?"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Y-Yes."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">And then he lowered Scar, who was in a princess carry.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"…Huh? Why’s Mr. Julie being so cool…"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Enough already, just stay where you are! Ahh goodness! It’s all tangled together!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The two of them continued to bicker and argue until Julie cut their ropes.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">When Ai was finally released, she badmouthed Alice and stood up, looking around.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Dust was flying in the air.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">There was a smell of gunpowder.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">And the world was spilling out of the tower.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Every possible item that made up the tower was being thrown out like a cracker. Stone, bricks, water, food, creatures, buildings, furniture, guns, and corpses.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">One could see the ruffians who had caused this phenomenon In the distance, crying out as they were pelted by the rubble. On the other hand, no debris was falling upon them. It was no wonder, for they were of different status. The tower would never hurt those involved with it.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">But that was only the beginning.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The mist was about to clear.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Oiii~! Aii[[User:Teh Ping|Teh Ping]] ([[User talk:Teh Ping|talk]])! Alice[[User:Teh Ping|Teh Ping]] ([[User talk:Teh Ping|talk]]) 15:08, 21 December 2021 (CET)!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The hordes of ruffians charged towards them, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">pew, </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">and Dee, leading the way, was the first to drift over, circling them happily.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"I was so worried! You guys didn't come out for a long time. I thought you were doomed, but—"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Please don't come near."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The angry glare was fixed on the ghost. Dee stopped four meters away.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Oh my…Ai, are you still mad at me?"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Of course I am!</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"I'm sorry…but what else can I do? My priorities are different. My first priority is to ‘end the world’. And you're my ‘enemy’."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Dee smiled, and simply surmized.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The result left Ai speechless.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"You're useful enemies, but your importance can’t be compared to my dreams."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Dee laughed, whistled, and looked up at the tower.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"….Phew. I guess we managed to save the world today."</span>

<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">I've done my job,</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that was the face shown.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Dee was immediately hit by debris. But this ghost remained unconcerned, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">tch, </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">and clicked her tongue.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">She looked at the debris of the tower with hatred in her eyes.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The once magnificent murals were reduced to garbage. All the gourmet food were soaked in mud. Beams that were perfectly balanced were in flames. Revolutionary design structures fell apart.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">And there were corpses.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">It was raining corpses.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The Living corpses, the Dead corpses, the Gravekeeper corpses.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">All of them fall to the earth.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Dee let the entire tower shine through her body, and mocked it with an icy expression.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"…What World Tower? What miracle? Aren’t you like this inside after your belly got cut up? It’s all just filthy rotten guts, a pile of wreckage. a pile of garbage, a waste of time, a waste of bones."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Dee Ensy Stratmitos sneered.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Suck it up. There is no heaven."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"—!"</span>

<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pak!</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> A slap echoed in the wilderness.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Everyone heard such an auditory hallucination.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">In reality, it was just a small hand flailing through a white porcelain cheek.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"I dare you to say that again."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Her green eyes blazed.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Tell me where those people have gone. Tell me! Tell me what this tower is! Tell me!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"They're not going anywhere."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Dee said.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"And this is just a bunch of junk."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">She stared into the eyes of the ghost, hoping for a single trace of lie within them.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">But she could not find any.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"This place was heaven…a heaven they created, a heaven they built with their own hands…can't you just believe in that…?""</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"If that's what you want to believe, sure. Don’t force it on me."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Dee said with a disgusted look and floated about fifty meters away. Her comrades too had caught up with her.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Miss Dee!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"I’m not listening."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Alone in this hell, Dee drifted, unaffected.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Now then, what shall I do next? How about a fight? It does seem to be trending this way."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Miss Dee…"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Say, Ai, you know what I mean…"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Dee Ensy Stratmitos sneered.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"I'm such an existence, you know? I can't help it. I'm your enemy. …"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Dee laughed with sadness, contempt, and a little bit of pity.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Just give up on me…"</span>

<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Maybe,</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Ai thought. Even if it might seem ridiculous, she wondered if Dee put so much effort planning this for this moment.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Perhaps Dee had planned all of this just to break Ai’s heart.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">If that was the case, all the more she could not succumb.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Miss Dee…"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Begging for your life? Okay, I'm listening."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"No, that’s not it. I’m just declaring something.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"?" Dee prompted with a glance.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Miss Dee, I will still save you."</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Ai carried the shovel and took a bow with her hand on her chest.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"No matter how much you hate the world, no matter how much you try to destroy me, no matter how much you try to be my enemy. I will stand by you."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Dee froze on the spot.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"I refuse…"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">She shuddered.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Don't be silly. What do you mean 'save'? It's none of your business. …"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"I know."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Huh, like hell you do!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The Ghost approached. She smiled and leaned towards Ai like an intimate friend.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Ahh, deary me, you’re so cute, Ai. So cute it’s infuriating. You’re smart, straightforward, and you’ll climb up even after falling. How cute. But it’s so infuriating."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The Ghost's face winced in agitation.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Ahh, I've decided now. Let's fight after all. Let's kill each other. No, our side here is already dead, so I don’t think it’s a fight till death? Should this be called Dead killing Living? Revenge? Vengeance? I don't know. Anyway, it’s just to maintain balance."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The Ghost's hand caressed her cheek.my cheek. There was neither feeling nor warmth.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"I'll kill you, Ai-Astin. I’ll gouge out your heart and cut off your head. Then I'll listen to you again. Do you still want to save the world after all that? </span><b>I'll ask the head </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">after I cut it off."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"…I’ll refuse that."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Aha, you're not sure? If you're not sure, then your dream is a fake."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">In fact, Ai was not worried about whether she could harbor such dreams, but whether she could move after she died.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Dee softly floated back about fifteen meters. Just then, the deformed caught up with her.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Everyone, that’s the enemy."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Enemy? Enemy, you say? Where’s the enemy? Is that the enemy?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The ghost whispered, telling them the way to save the world was to defeat that enemy.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Do it."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Uooooooooooahhhhh!! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!! Gyagyagyagya!!!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Bullets flew, blades, flames, explosions, attacks loomed like a maelstrom.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Ai braced herself, grabbed her shovel as she readied herself to intercept. She shouted and stomped her foot.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">But before then, someone jumped before her.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang! And thus echoed the sound of an explosion akin to firecrackers.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">All the bullets lost their power and fell to the earth.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Alice?"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Dee asked incredulously.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"What are you doing?"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"What am I doing, you ask? When you're shot at, you fight back."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"They’re not even aiming at you. Don’t get in the way"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"No can do."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">He ejected the casing. He reloaded.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"I’ve decided on this one."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">When Dee heard those words, she froze.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"You’re lying …"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"It's true. So I guess you'll have to let me off the hook here."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"I don't believe you …."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Dee whispered.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">" I don't believe it! Do it, everyone!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The murderous will loomed ago, and Alice met it with his will to live. With that will to save, he shot down the murderous will.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang!</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Equal numbers of bullets were fired from both camps. They collided at the center point and formed a mountain. The flaming skeleton tried a sneak attack, but was shot precisely at its sacrum and was blasted away. The tendons of the groaning Dead were severed and they fell to the ground. The bloodied fists collided with the bullets, and were immobilized.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">But the stalemate lasted only a moment.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">He ran out of ammo.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Alice finished reloading almost instantaneously and began firing again, but this one moment of delay was enough to cause the colliding bullets to loom towards him. It was miniscule, but certainly starting to tilt.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The second time.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The third time, and each time he reloaded, the killzone loomed towards the two of them.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"That’s too little bullets! Pomson! Are you saving ammo!? Focus on them!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">In addition, Dee knew Alice's abilities well, and gave appropriate instructions.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Alice's ability can't hold them off for long! her mass! Use your anti-material weapons!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Woah. That’s bad."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Boom! A cannon-like gunshot sounded, and a bullet was fired like a cannonball.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Alice aligned the firing lines of his right and left hands, redirecting the trajectory of the shell just a little bit.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">But even that was too late.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Ai tackled him in the side.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Mr Alice!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Shocking, even though he was out of position, Alice was still firing. He took advantage of the gap created by the blow to push the killzone further away..</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">However,</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Okay~ everyone, don’t panic. Just focus on what's in front of you. They’re almost out of ammo. Ten, nine…"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Dee was not talking about the gun, but the total ammunition Alice had. He was able to run out of bullets.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Five, four…"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Probably! Not! Though!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Hmmm, some tough talk from you…. Two, one…"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The count reached zero.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The hammer of the revolver In Alice's hand hit a blank. The slide of the automatic gun slid and di not retract..</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">There was a pile of empty shell casings at their feet, and a group of warriors licking their tongues out of the corner of their eyes. The Ghost saw that their demise was near, and showed a tragic face. Scar hugged Celica to protect her, while Julie protected Scar.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The surroundings contained a mixture of the remaining mist and dust. There was tower debris that fell slowly, along with debris of dreams, and Vinyl sheets flying like a kite.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Alice's hands released his beloved guns. The overheated guns fell onto the casing as though they were dead.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Kill them."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Woooooooohhhh!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">And then, his hand plunged into the wreckage of the tower that was still raining down around him. There was a mug full of fluid, a blizzard of thousand bandages. He weaved his hands through the scattered junk.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The warriors fired in unison.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The bullets were closing in. There was no place to escape, the barrage was like a wall.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">There was no place to escape.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Alrrriiiigggghhhhtttt!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">At the same time, his hands burst into flames, knocking all the bullets out of the air.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">In his right hand was an assault rifle with thirty-two rounds of ammunition.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">And in his left hand was a submachine gun with sixty-four rounds of ammunition.</span>

<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">"Huh?"</span></i>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Everyone present was stunned.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">There was no way Alice was going to miss that opportunity. He finally broke through the wall of bullets and shot down the firearms of the enemies.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Wh-What the hell is that? I've never heard of Alice having such an ability!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Of course! I just! So happened! To pick them! Up!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Once the guns ran out of bullets, Alice immediately discarded them, swung his hands in the air again, and guns fell into his grasp again.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Th-that’s a foul! That's cheating! It's just a coincidence! There's no such thing as coincidence!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"There is! That's what this place is for!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The panicking Dead resumed shooting, and fired double the bullets they did.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"You guys~! I knew you guys were saving your bullets! You should have done so from the beginning15:08, 21 December 2021 (CET)!!!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Alice did not bother to grab the gun anymore. He merely reached his hands into the storm of guns raining down of him, and stroked the trigger. The bullets fired in such a way all reach their intended targets however.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">‘Buzzer Beater’ and "The Tower".</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Their powers were truly on display</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">A pile of guns began to build up at his feet. The empty machine guns fell to the ground, and the automatic ones unable to escape the recoil were jammed and flew away after just one shot.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Alice gritted his teeth and let his arms flail like two snakes. His muscles stretched and contracted incessantly, heating up and causing steam to rise from his back.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">He fired.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">He kept firing.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">And after a while.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The gunfire ceased.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Wh- Why are you stopping? You're one step away!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The Ghost whispered hurriedly to her comrades.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"It’s impossible."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"It's not impossible. Look!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">At where she pointed, Alice was completely battered. The fingernails of his hands were completely cracked, and his fingertips were peeling and dripping blood. His eyes were hollow, and he had probably passed out.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">But he just would not let go of the guns.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"It’s impossible. Ghost."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The Dead packed up their gear. The Purple Soldiers started their roll call. The fists were sheathed in the bandages again, the flames were extinguished and the bones were covered in clothes.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"That's a war god."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"So what!?"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Actually, we really wanted to seize this chance to slaughter such a guy, but,"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">One of the Dead raised and showed his gun.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">It was out of ammo.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"I didn't think </span><b>we’d be the ones out of ammo</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">…"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"You still do! There’s more there!!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">That’s the minimum for dealing with Gravekeepers. I can pay you the toll down the river Styx, but not these bullets."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">At that moment, the sky turned white.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Silent thunder struck the tower.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Many, many strikes.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Hiii, the Gravekeepers!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Damn it. What the hell is this place? Is this reality?"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Dear Ghost! I'm sorry, but we're going to have to leave you here! Kuraba!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Ah! Hey, come on! You guys!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The Dead began to escape. Dee looked at both sides, twice,</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Ah goodness!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Eventually, she left the tower.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">She did not bother to insult.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Lightning struck the tower. Many Gravekeepers emerge from the pile of rubble and begin to bury the corpses scattered around as naturally as attending someone’s deathbed.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">But Ai did not bother to look at them.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Mr. Alice, Mr. Alice!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">She kept yelling the entire time, but Alice continued to grab the guns and did not let go. Ai tried to wrestle them away from him, but they were stuck to him, as though they were ingrained as part of him.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Mr Alice! "</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"…………Ah?"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Finally, there was a reply. A weak fire lit up in his hazy eyes.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"It's over! You can let go now!"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"…Heh? What………wait, ahhhoh …?"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Alice looked around, looking completely dehydrated, and seemingly realized his predicament as he immediately let go of the guns in his hands.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">And then he collapsed.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Mr Ali—"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"I'm exhausted———————"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">He pointed his bloody hands to the sky "I'm dying—" and yelled.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"……I want to drink beer……"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"You can't do that. You're underage."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Just kidding. I don't want to drink it. It's too bitter."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Alice seemed to be really agitated, laughing and making jokes that were not funny at all.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Ai sat down next to him, relieved.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">She was really worried that Alice had died.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Where's Dee?"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"She ran away with her tail between her legs."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Hahaha, serves her right—what about old man and the others?"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"They went to find the car."</span>

<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Buh buh!</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> I a horn could be heard in the distance. They looked over and saw that the blue car was running with all its parts intact.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Wow! Amazing! How did you find us?"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Oh, you're good, old man. You're surprisingly soft-headed. "</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"? What does a soft head or a hard head have to do with finding a car?"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"It does now."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Then Alice thrust his hand into the air and grabbed a leaf that had fallen into the air, bringing it to his mouth.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The sound of a grass flute echoed in the area.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">It was a somehow sad song.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Ai stared at the tower as she listened to it.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">There, the tower was collapsing. The thunder of the Gravekeeper danced wildly.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">And it was about to end.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">And then,</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Ah."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"…— ♪.."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Petals.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Thousands and thousands of various of petals began to fly out of nowhere.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Indigo cherry blossoms, jet-black hazel, steel roses, caramel tulips, flesh poppies, twin Rafflesias.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">They were all blooming and falling.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"So pretty…"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Yeah…"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">All kinds of flowers were in bloom.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">But Ai was a little dissatisfied.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"…There’s no mountain lilies…"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Do you like them?"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Yes."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"I see—no water lilies either."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Do you like them?"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Yeah."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Besides those flowers mentioned, there were all kinds of other petals dancing together.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">And at the end of it all, softly.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">A twin-cornered cherry blossom flower gently fell.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The two of them were lying on top of those petals.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">They looked at the tower.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">It had almost collapsed, and lost its power.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"When we were on the tower…."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Alice pointed at the tower with his fingertip that was stained reddish-black with blood.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"I said that when we get down here, there’s something I want you to help with, right?"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Alice said, blowing his bloody grass flute.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Do you remember?"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Ai just nodded her head.</span>

<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">I see,</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Alice confirmed, but did not say further, and remained silent for a while.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Ai sat down and waited without prompting.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Say, Ai—can you help us?"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Alice said.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Us?"</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Yeah."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Alice said. There was an ashamed look on his face.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"Please save our class 3-4."</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Saying that, Alice Color smiled bitterly.</span>


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