Editing Hagure Yuusha no Aesthetica:Volume 8 Chapter 4 (section)

===Part 10===
 
"------!......?"
 
Onizuka couldn't understand what just happened in front his eyes, because there was no sense of reality.
 
He stood there completely frozen. However, ignoring the lost Onizuka,
 
"Ah, found it... ... Yoisho!!!"
 
Tiana nonchalantly pulled something out from Phils's chest.
 
Ripped out -- would probably be the correct way to put it.
 
Although the instant that she punched through he didn't hear any sounds from bones breaking, Onizuka clearly heard the noises from muscle fibers and blood vessels tearing. It was a true to life bloody scene that Onizuka couldn't help but want to cover his ears from.
 
"Just now......"
 
A groan spilled out from Onizuka. But that voice didn't reached the girl in front of him.
 
Tiana's was waving her clenched fist back and forth in an attempt to shake off the fresh blood.
 
"So this is a phoenix cell......"
 
Soon after, she had opened her fist, and stared intently at the vermilion glow in the palm of her hand. It was a red crystal about five centimeters in diameter.
 
"It's smaller than you would think. Ah well, but since this thing can turn a person into such an undead monster it's no wonder why Japan's Government felt the need to engage in such unlawful activity......"
 
And after Tiana took out a cylindrical tubed shaped container from her pocket,
 
"Nonetheless, this is something that cannot fall into COCOON's hands. It's better if I take it here."
 
She opened the container and put the crystal in. Then at the same time, there was an abrupt change in Phils's body.
 
The surface of his skin began to dry up and wither, as if rapidly aging.
 
"Wh-what was that.....?"
 
"This is probably because he was originally dead from the start."
 
To the startle Onizuka, Tiana spoke without hesitation and,
 
"Living human beings by nature posses the ability to heal themselves. With the phoenix cell that vitality is unlimited with an infinite amount of cell recovery, and may cause the body to react, probably with the same potential problems of organ transplantation...... rejection. That is because there is a function in the body to eliminate any foreign substances. Therefore, a dead person rather than living would make for much better Phoenix cell transplant candidates.
 
A breath.
 
"Ah well -- I don't know if he was dead from the beginning, or he was murdered before the transplant. The Phoenix cell's recovery is quite strong, a small group of cells reconstructing the original body would not be impossible. Having undergone something like mummification just now was probably because the cells died rapidly after losing the phoenix cell."
 
After saying so, Tiana turned around and walked back a little.
 
To the other young man that had attacked Onizuka earlier she had left on the ground.
 
It was Tanaka whom Tiana had carried here.
 
So......
 
"Hey...... wait a minute!"
 
Onizuka panicked, as he grabbed Tiana's shoulder.
 
"Huh? What's the matter, Ken-chan?"
 
"What is "what," ah...... -- You!"
 
To having Tiana looked back confused, Onizuka couldn't help but raise his voice and,
 
"Killing nonchalantly, and you actually asked me what!"
 
Tiana blinked with surprise then,
 
"No, no, what you're saying. Before you were being tormented by your guilty conscience, and now are you beginning some ridiculous sympathy for them? You cannot forget Ken-chan they are enemies that were trying to kill you and myself. It is only retribution for what they have done themselves. Additionally, my mission is the Phoenix cells within them. Defeating them, and obtaining the cells is what's integral."
 
Tiana exposed a helpless smile, as if scolding a disobedient child and,
 
"Please bare with it... ... This is no place to mess around."
 
"I know that your objective is the Phoenix cells, and that I even came here on a whim -- But, losing the Phoenix cells means that he is going to die!"
 
Onizuka looked down at Tanaka on the ground. After the Phoenix cell was removed Tanaka would share Phil's same fate.
 
-- After the incident with the out of control training program.
 
Onizuka didn't know whether Tanaka had been caught alive or dead.
 
However, the transplantation of Phoenix cells would not of been what Tanaka wanted.
 
And for that he had already died once, and revived to be used as a chess piece.
 
Now to also let him be killed again would be -- too cruel.
 
However,
 
"I explained before...... they seemed to have died a long time ago."
 
Tiana somewhat sighed. And in amazed tone of voice,
 
"If only moving and speaking is what it is meant to be alive, then even robots posses life. Do you still not understand? They are only corpses moving around because of the Phoenix cells. There is no need for you feel that way over a moving mannequin."
 
Tiana's manner of speaking enraged Onizuka. Tiana's shoulder, he had a tight grip on, started shaking intensely before he roared almost out of control,
 
 
 
"Still -- that fellow is still a human being same as us!"
 
 
 
Onizuka's passionate cry spread widely all around, echoing throughout the wide open space.
 
Before long it fade away, and space again settled down.
 
"...... Good grief."
 
A chilly low sigh without emotion came from Tiana.
 
"-!"
 
Onizuka involuntarily harden himself, despite that she brushed off his hand that had been placed on her shoulder.
 
And,
 
"...... I shouldn't have brought you after all."
 
Afterwords he saw in Tiana's eyes -- a cold stare different from her usual self.
 
"You followed me here on your own... ... furthermore, you want to impose your selfish sentimentality on me. Aren't you getting overly carried away with yourself? Moreover, all the trouble I've been though to this point, you think I would let go the prey in front of me, and quietly turn away?"
 
"......!"
 
Although faced with the overwhelming pressure from Tiana, Onizuka lost the mental battle for a moment,
 
"You've obtained one Phoenix cell...... that should be enough, right? There's no longer any need to kill another person."
 
"Killing a person? Ken-chan, are you really still treating them as human beings?"
 
Never mind, Tiana shook her head.
 
"Even if...... I overlook him here, then what? Surely, you don't intend to just leave him here like this? Forget that he tried to kill you, Ken-chan and myself for a moment. But suppose after waking up he goes out to kill another person this time?"
 
"...... Afterwords, I'll report him to the public security (Changed from -- Peace preservation corps)...... "
 
"Public security? And where do you think here is? This is the lower levels of JPN-Babel! We had to break through a security vulnerability to get here. Do you think JPN-Babel will authorize public security to enter and investigate?"
 
Tiana laughed and,
 
"Let's assume that public security was able to come here, then what would happen? Arrest him and put him on trial? Stop joking. This cannot be opened to the public. Babel will surely use their influence to demand they return him, and then finish things in private."
 
"This......!"
 
Onizuka face became bitter.
 
Everything that Tiana mentioned was indeed what might really happen.
 
Onizuka's idea for asking for Public security to arrest him was absolutely unrealistic. And to not leave him with any room for rebuttal Tiana pressed even further,
 
"Ken-chan, please carefully consider the meaning of them being at the lowermost levels of JPN-Babel. And, who transplanted the Phoenix cells into their bodies, and arranged for them to be here?"
 
"............"
 
To Tiana's word, Onizuka fell silent.
 
Only one person had that kind of power.
 
That was the person sent from COCOON to manage Babel -- Hikami Kyouya.
 
And if this really was Kyouya's doing then handing him over to Public security, or placing him in a hospital for treatment would be useless like Tiana said.
 
Hikami Kyouya holds full authority over all the special autonomous region.
 
Any kind of inconvenient truth would be very easily crushed.
 
To begin with, Tanaka was a terrorist who planned the destruction of JPN-Babel, but handing him over to Public security was purposely not done.
 
"And......"
 
And Tiana sighed,
 
"Most likely if we let him go he is going to be disposed of for failing his mission. At that time, the Phoenix cell from his body will be removed and re-transplanted to better "source material." Now do you understand? There is no route which he survives."
 
"...... But."
 
Still, Onizuka refused to give up.
 
"It's unsightly. Reporting it to Public security, and leaving it all to others. Is that what you want so you can fulfill your minimum obligation? Yes yes, you can stop me here, and indeed Ken-chan you will be a good person. But. that is just looking away from the reality in front of you, that no matter what he is going to be killed by some else's hands."
 
Tiana's words were sharp, but were indisputable facts.
 
"Or are you saying you're going to protect him? From Babel and COCOON, and Public security for all of eternity ... ... Do you have that much resolution? Your descendants will have to continue protecting him, who has became ageless and deathless because of the Phoenix cell, generation after generation... ... That sort of sacrifice won't just be you Ken-chan, or are you saying that there is even the resolution to involve someone other than yourself?"
 
"I ......"
 
"Impossible is not it? No power, lack of resolution, and even unwilling to shoulder the most basic of responsibilities. Speaking of life or human rights, and respect just for argument sake... ... Do you know what kind of standpoint that is, Ken-chan?"
 
A breath.
 
"That is called hypocrisy."
 
So......
 
".................."
 
Onizuka fell silent. and then finally shot Tiana a glance.
 
"...... So you understand, please don't obstruct me any further."
 
After saying that, she began to walk towards Tanaka.
 
"--------"
 
Onizuka could only silently stare at Tiana's petite back. His gaze was like one of an audience member looking at the stage.
 
Tiana's existence felt so far away.
 
So -- the Phoenix cell will be extracted from Tanaka, and he will instantly wither away the same as Phil.
 
That was what was going to happen.
 
-- But, in reality that did not.
 
On account of Tiana being forced to stopped.
 
And then she turned her head back towards him,
 
"Ken-chan, what do mean by this?"
 
She looked at the large hand resting on her shoulder, and then at face of its owner -- Onizuka Kenya.
 
"I've told you not to obstruct me any further."
 
"Ah...... I heard."
 
He said with his face looking down, however then he raised his head.
 
And said.
 
"Still, I can't let you kill that guy."
 
Onizuka understood that Tanaka's death was inevitable.
 
And that this was Tanaka's own fault, and no one else's.
 
But -- even so, this did not constitute a reason for Tiana to kill him.
 
...... Yea, that is right.
 
Perhaps Tanaka and Phil couldn't be considered a human beings the same as Onizuka anymore.
 
But, to be so easily decisive about cutting open Phil's chest then Tanaka's.
 
Watching her do that felt like she was becoming entirely different from a human being like himself.
 
If only this reason Onizuka wanted to stop her.
 
-- Onizuka did not know what Tiana had done in the past.
 
But at least he knows that Tiana was definitely a normal human the same as him.
 
Even if it was a temporary moment of sentimentality, or hypocrisy --
 
Onizuka Kenya didn't want Tiana's hands in front of him to be stained with blood any further.
 
Then Tiana,
 
"............ Ken-chan."
 
The moment she called his name with the sigh,
 
"Gaa -------!?"
 
Onizuka suddenly felt a strong impact to his body, as if he had been hit by a car.
 
The force sent him flying, crashing into the wall behind him.
 
"Gu...... ah......!"
 
He helplessly fell down to the ground, and right before his consciousness was gave out,
 
"If you obstruct me any further, I will consider you as an enemy."
 
Tiana said in ruthless voice.
 
"Your flimsy sense of justice and your cheap pretend hero antics should only be done in a dream."
 
"...... Ku......!"
 
Withstanding the severe pain throughout his body, Onizuka clenched his teeth in chagrin.
 
Likewise, he could not stop Tiana.
 
The outcome was easy to visualize.
 
Onizuka's power was limited, many times weaker than hers.
 
Even summoned to a different world he wasn't able to do anything of significance.
 
So he had quit on himself, and also on others.
 
And to escape from that reality Onizuka started to beat up on those weaker than himself.
 
...... It is so.
 
Like Tiana said, he did not have power or the resolution.
 
But still......
 
"...... Gu...... ah....... AHH!"
 
If there was only one thing left, there was obstinacy in Onizuka Kenya.
 
The obstinacy of a loser dog.
 
And even in such of himself, he learned a little while ago that there were things he could accomplish.
 
That was a force to make the impossible possible.
 
Therefore, he desperately stood up,
 
"Tiana Randohauzen...... Stop!"
 
Onizuka shouted towards the small back that was moving away.
 
So......
 
"........."
 
Tiana slowly turned back.
 
Her face no longer showed any emotions. Her eyes were turned towards an enemy.
 
Cold unfeeling eyes. However, Onizuka Kenya did not mind at all.[[File:HYnA vol 08 013.jpg|thumbnail]]
 
He knew now that he had finally become an obstacle to Tiana.
 
...... That's just fine......!
 
Come on let's go. Sitting in the audience and watching the performance time was over.
 
From here out, it was time for the cheap pretend hero to take the stage.
 
Onizuka's weapon was a flimsy sense of justice that swayed when the wind blew.
 
But, there was the determination to not back down serving as support.
 
Onizuka Kenya resigned himself to fight Tiana Randohauzen.
 
"Let's go... ... I'll obstruct you, even if it's only for a second!"