The Raven Dark Hero 107

Chapter 107 : Denied Feelings

TL:SummerPeanut

Fuuka walked towards Seven with a carefree and expressionless face. Her outfit was tattered from the impact of the explosion but there she suffered no definitive damage. Standing there, Fuuka exuded the aura of an absolute powerhouse.

With Fuuka in front of him, Seven was trying desperately to sort out the events that had just occurred.

(No way? I can't believe my great luck has been activated and she’s still alive. No, don't tell me that this young lady…… not dying here is a stroke of great luck for me?)

“What's the matter? If you don't come, I'll attack first, okay?”

Fuuka's face was expressionless. She showed no expression but Seven knew that her anger meter was completely off the charts.

“W-well, hold on a moment. If you keep this up, you will be throwing your life away in vain, you know? Princess.”

“I will die in vain, you say? Don't worry, I'll make sure to take you down first.”

(She’s not gonna listen to reason anymore!? ……hmm? That’s…… I-I’m saved!)

In desperation, Seven was relieved to find that someone had come to his aid.

“You seem to have a lot of composure to spare. Then I will…………eh?”

Fuuka was about to launch an attack but her gaze was caught by a figure that appeared behind Seven.

“Kou………… Br-Bright?”

It was the jet-black demon Bright, the number one of the Kuroyume Numbers that appeared.

“Wh…… why? I was informed that he is not yet back from Germany……”

“……It has been a long time, General Mizutani.”

Fuuka had always recognized Bright as an enemy. Or at least she had tried to. Ever since that day when Kouki said goodbye to her and left.

Even so, she was shocked to hear Bright's voice that sounded like a stranger calling out to her.

“……To cause such an indiscriminate terrorist attack, were the words you said that day, about having things to do, is actually referring to this outrageous action?”

Fuuka also criticized Bright in an upset but calm tone.

“I don't care how you look at it. It's just that…… Now that we're here, I'm not going to show any mercy even if it's for someone I once loved.”

Bright's figure disappeared. However, Fuuka immediately created a tornado around her and caused Bright to stop right in front of the tornado and become visible again.

“What do you think? With this, you won’t be able to get near me!”

Fuuka had always simulated it. For the time when she would fight Bright.

Bright is fast. He is so fast that she can't follow him with her eyes. So, first of all, she needs to wrap her whole body with a tornado barrier that can damage him if he does touch it.

“Then, how about this?”

Bright braced himself. The Invisible Slash ignores the tornado and generates a slash directly underneath Fuuka, making the barrier a meaningless move, but…….

“I won’t let you! Water Arrow!”

The more Bright try to increase the power of Invisible Slash, the more obvious the preliminary movement is when he releases it. That is why she repeatedly attacked so that he would not have a chance to release the Invisible Slash.

Water arrows with the power to easily pierce a steel pillar with a single blow were fired at a rate of 100 shots in 10 seconds. In this case, Bright could not fire the invisible slash that required a preliminary movement.

The machine gun-like water arrows would be fatal if it struck any normal opponent but Bright's quick movements did not allow a direct hit.

“Got you! Wind Cutter!”

Fuuka had trained bloody hard in anticipation of a fight with Bright. She had a firm grasp of Bright's movements. She read his movements and deployed her wind blade over a wide area…… That blade struck Bright's body and tore his body in half.

“AH-!?”

The one who was surprised by this was Fuuka, the one who had attacked him.

She had confidence in her attack. She thought that she might be able to hit Bright. However, she did not expect that she would be able to kill Bright so easily.

Bright, whose upper and lower bodies were torn apart, collapsed to the ground.

Then Fuuka found herself running to Bright's side…….

“WHY!? Why didn't you avoid it? That kind of attack. If it’s you, you should be able to avoid that!?”

With tears in her eyes, Fuuka picked Bright up in her arms. But Bright was already dead…….

“……It’s a lie, right? It's a lie, isn’t it? This……This easily, you're not going to die this easily, are you?”

Bright did not reply. He no longer twitched.

Fuuka had been muttering to herself that one day, without fail, she would defeat Bright. However, there was a part of her that truly felt that no matter how much she trained, she would never be able to defeat Bright.

And now that she had finally achieved that, her heart was filled with sadness and regret.

It was also proof that, somewhere in her heart, she still hadn't been able to let go of her feelings for Bright or Kouki.

“This is……no, not yet……please, don’t leave me……”

Fuuka buried her face in Bright's chest, tears streaming down her face. Her appearance was no longer that of the powerful general she had been just a moment ago, but simply a girl drown in sorrow.

“……how’s that? How does it feel to kill the one you once loved with your own hands?”

Then Bright, who was supposed to be dead, opened his mouth.

“……Eh? You’re alive……”

She looked up and saw Bright's face. There, indeed, was Bright, breathing again, eyes firmly open.

“How could you do this to me……. But now I know. You're a ruthless woman who can kill a shred of hesitation even if the target is someone you once loved.”

As a general in the NDF, what Bright said to her is something matter of course. There is nothing to be ashamed of.

However, the current Fuuka had already forgotten her role as a general and was stunned by the words that were spoken.

“Hmm? No? ……or maybe you didn't have much affection for me in the past? If you have, you wouldn't have killed me so brutally, would you?"

Bright then placed his hand on his half-cut stomach and flaunted his bloodied hand to Fuuka.

“Ahh……I-I’m……”

“It hurts…… It hurts so much…… Fuuka…… I, I don’t want to die……”

Bright suddenly became weak and growled in pain.

“Ah…… ahh…… th- the hospital, we need……”

“It’s too late now! GYAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!”

This time, Bright started to laugh exaggeratedly. Fuuka could not comprehend the situation and could only felt dumbfounded.

Then…… Bright, whose lower body had somehow returned to normal, stood up and placed his hardened arms along Fuuka's neck.

“Well then, let’s stop playing around now. You tried to kill me. So that means you were ready to be killed by me too, right?”

“I’m…… I’m……”

Her face was pale. Fuuka was mentally trapped to the point where she could no longer speak properly.

Determination to kill……. Now that she thought about it, there was no such thing.

And being prepared to be killed by others……. In hindsight, she wasn't either.

Also……

“As a woman, you don’t deserve my love and you're no good as a general if you're so easily swayed like this. Do you even have any value in living anymore? That is why I'm going to kill you in one fell swoop.”

Her everything had been denied. By the man she had been in love with for so long.

“I…… I’m……”

Fuuka no longer had the ability to think about anything.

“Now, drown in your own sins……forever!”

Bright's arms swung down to Fuuka's neck………….

Author’s Note:

Fuuka’s weakness is exposed in front of Bright. And ‘he’ watched the scene with a complicated expression where Fuuka drowned in the mixture of sadness and anger.[1]

Next chapter:『A Sprouting Suspicion』

※Apologies. This time Takahiko had diarrhea, so we are canceling the interview.

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TL’s Note:

1. 'He' here is gender-neutral.