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Chapter 35: Utopia for everyone

“If that’s the case, then just laugh.”

In response to my question, the monster just continued trembling without saying anything.

“…You can’t laugh, huh?”

I let out a sigh that seemed to mix with both exasperation and disappointment.

Facing the monster trembling in front of me, I didn’t feel like talking to it anymore, nor did I feel like making it apologize to Nina-chan.

So, I thought I should just do what I need to do.

“Where is everyone from school?”

“They, they!” “Aren’t you worried too!?” “Your classmates,” “Where did they go!?”

Everyone from school—students, teachers—none of them could be found. Until I knew that, I couldn’t exorcise this creature, so I asked, and the monster, which looked like a caterpillar, shouted with wriggling movements.

It resembled the footage of a caterpillar on NHK that I had seen in a recent science class.

“We will disappear if you kill us! Everyone will be left behind!”

The monster shouted, making a wailing-like voice, and I found it somewhat mysterious.

“You mean in this world?”

“Yeah, that’s right!” “You’re really smart after all!”

The monster, showing a slight brightness in its voice, continued by rotating its mask.

“This is my world! A superior sixth-rank Queen can create a small world! So, if this disappears, everyone will be left in this world!”

After waiting for the monster to finish, I nodded.

“In that case, no problem.”

“Eh!?”

The monster-created world, a theme park that appeared on the school rooftop, was probably created using the application of ‘Trait Change,’ although I didn’t know how it was made.

If you have enough magic power, you can create anything.

If so, using that magic power to create a ‘world’ should also be possible.

However, creating it would require an enormous amount of magic power.

I don’t understand what a ‘superior sixth-rank is, but there probably are variations in magical power even within the same tier.

The tier won’t increase until it exceeds thirty times.

However, conversely, this means that there can be a several-fold difference in magical power even within the same tier.

I don’t quite understand what the superior sixth rank is, but when it comes to the sixth rank, there are likely variations in the amount of magic power even within the same rank.

The rank increases only after exceeding thirty times.

However, this means that within the same rank, there can be differences of several times when you look at it from the other side.

I think that’s what a superior sixth rank is all about.

But well, no matter how far you go, ‘Trait Change’ is still magic.

With magic like ‘Oboro Tsuki,’ this world will be erased.

This world will disappear.

Because it disappears, there is no possibility of being confined.

Even if we were in this world, everyone will be liberated.

So, there’s no problem.

“I-Itsuki-kun!” “Wait a minute!” “If you have our knowledge,” “You can become the king of the world!”

Okay.

Now I know everyone is coming back.

“Seventh-rank Kings,” “can create a perfect world!” “If you team up with us,” “it won’t be a dream” “to create an ideal Wonderland!”

Ignoring the noisy monster’s words, I confirmed what needed to be done.

Is there anything else to check?

No, there isn’t any more.

“Not just that!” “If we team up,” “we can also kill” “other Seventh-rank Kings” “who are holed up in another world!”

“Nah, it’s okay.”

If that’s the case, I can exorcise this creature without any reservations.

“I’m not interested in that kind of thing.”

“…Don’t joke!” “We were just about” “to become the king!”

I manipulated magic power in my hand. Turned it into a thread. Released five of them. Combined attributes.

“Oborozuki.”

At the moment they intersected, a black moon was born.

“S-Spare us!” “How much we’ve struggled!” “All our efforts” “will go to waste…!”

“Efforts?”

I unintentionally got caught in the words left by the monster being swallowed by ‘Oborozuki.’

I don’t know if the words heard by the monster turning into black mist reached, but there was no response. Instead, I could tell that the amusement park we were standing in was gradually disappearing.

Ah, it’s as I thought.

This mysterious world is created by magic.

So now that the magic of the monster has been sealed by the power of ‘Oborozuki,’ there’s no choice but for this mysterious world to disappear.

And at the same time as the monster turned into black mist, the amusement park completely disappeared.

As it disappeared, we were thrown into the sky.

“…W-Why!?”

Right below me is the schoolyard.

The distance to the ground is about a hundred meters.

I reached out towards Nina-chan, who was close by. In front of us were all the other students from the school who were thrown into the sky in the same way, numbering a few hundred.

“…!”

I knitted magic power at my fingertips and spread ‘Guiding Thread Silvate’ like a net. I created a pulley in the sky with the spread net. Then, I pulled the thread connected to the pulley to decelerate.

“Alright…!”

While confirming if there were any others who were missed, I saw something slipping through the net and falling. Wondering what it was, I pulled it in with ‘Guiding Thread Silvate.’ It was a small ball mixed with white, red, and green.

After seeing it, I immediately understood. It was a treasure.

I put it in my pocket, landed softly in the schoolyard using ‘Guiding Thread Silvate,’ and untied the net created with it. Everyone thrown into the air in the net, without exception, fell asleep… No, that’s not it. They were unconscious.

It’s an unusual sight from a bystander’s point of view, as everyone was lying on the schoolyard.

“I need to contact Akane-san…”

The words leaked out of my mouth unintentionally.

Now that the situation has become so outrageous, it’s beyond the level where we can do anything.

The power of the Kamirazuki family… Akane-san and the others’ power is needed.

So when I was about to go to the telephone in the school, I was firmly grabbed from behind.

“Nina-chan?”

When I turned around, Nina-chan was tightly gripping my clothes.

Since Nina-chan kept looking down, her face was hidden by her blond hair, and I couldn’t see her expression.

But I could feel her gripping hand trembling, so I took hold of that hand.

“Are you… okay?”

Not knowing how to address her, I asked softly. After asking, I wondered if that way of asking was inappropriate… I broke out in a slight cold sweat.

I’ve only seen a little bit of Nina-chan’s past. But even with that, I understood what Irena-san had said.

Nina-chan’s heart had been broken. She witnessed her father being killed right in front of her, forced to laugh at it, and her heart shattered. That’s why Irena-san sealed Nina-chan’s memories to protect her.

Now I knew why Irena-san kept Nina-chan away from exorcists.

And now, everything had been unearthed. It had been brought to the surface because of the monsters.

“Itsuki…”

Softly, Nina-chan called my name.

One year ago, Nina-chan, who had lost her memories, suffered from such trauma that she would hyperventilate just by seeing a monster.

“I remember… everything.”

Nina-chan’s voice was hoarse, as if crying.

“I laughed. I laughed when I saw Dad die. When the monsters killed everyone, I laughed.”

“No, it’s different. That monster—!”

It seemed so unreasonable to blame Nina-chan for that. When I said that, Nina-chan raised her face.

“But, you know, Itsuki came. Because Itsuki came, it was okay.”

Her eyes had completely lost their light, and she stared at me with those eyes.

“I… I can’t become an exorcist. I laughed when everyone died, so I can’t become one.”

“Nina-chan.”

“Do you understand…? I have nothing left. I can’t be anything anymore.”

I wondered if saying it’s different would get through to her. What she’s seeking is surely expressed in different words.

“So, I don’t need anything. Magic, talent, fairies. I don’t need any of it.”

Nina-chan continued to grip my hand with a force that felt like it would break my bones.

It hurt so much. I felt like I might unintentionally shake off her hand. But if I did that, Nina-chan might break. So, trying not to let her break, I squeezed her hand back, and Nina-chan uttered a strained voice.

“I only need Itsuki.”

In Nina-chan’s eyes, only I was reflected.

“Just Itsuki is enough.”

She was only looking at me.

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